Sentences with phrase «screenwriter for»

McCarten knows his way around biopics, having won two academy awards for his role as a producer and screenwriter for The Theory of Everything, including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.

The screenwriter for «Exit Speed,» as it happens, is Helppie's husband, Michael Stokes, an award - winning professional writer.

Recently, he has also worked as a screenwriter for a full - length feature documentary, Project Cancer, Ulay's journal from November to November.

Last year it was revealed that Canadian comedian Aaron Berg will serve as the screenwriter for the Borderlands movie.

First of all, Bob Gale — the screenwriter for all three Back to the Future films — is the penning all five of the videogames that will first appear this winter for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and Mac.

-- Joss Whedon replaced by Christina Hodson as screenwriter for Batgirl — God of War giveaway winner announced!

It's set in a strangely beautiful post-apocalyptic world, and it features talent such as Andy Serkis of Lord of the Rings, and Alex Garland, the screenwriter for 28 Days Later.

David Nicholls is the internationally bestselling and award - winning author of four novels including One Day which was a huge hit in the U.K. and the film around the world as well as a BAFTA - nominated screenwriter for film and TV.

Make the ultimate marketing push into Hollywood, and get a production - ready screenplay created by a professional screenwriter for your book.

And realistically, they will hire a professional screenwriter for that, not an indie author.

I fictionalized the story because I have been a screenwriter for some time, and after the restrictiveness of writing screenplays, I wanted to be free to discover things and let the story lead me.

She has also written screenplays and worked as additional screenwriter for films which have been nominated for AFI awards and screened nationally and internationally.

In 1980 Gao became a screenwriter for the Beijing People's Art Theatre.

In the 1980s he turned to television and editing, and was a screenwriter for feature films and television and was the producer of the TV series Beauty and the Beast as well as a story editor for The Twilight Zone.

He is the author of the play Squabbles and the screenwriter for the 2000 film Just Looking.

He has also worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and Michael Douglas Productions.

I have worked as a television screenwriter for most of my adult life, and currently I'm working as a video game writer.

Maya Forbes has been a screenwriter for years, with co-credits for MONSTERS AND ALIENS and DIARY OF A WIMPY KID to her credit.

These letters form the basis of «Trumbo,» a documentary about the writer's life based on the play «Trumbo» by his son Christopher and featuring powerful staged readings of the letters by such performers as Brian Dennehy, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, and Michael Douglas — whose father, Kirk, interviewed in the film, helped break the blacklist in 1960 by insisting that Trumbo be credited as the screenwriter for «Spartacus.»

The THR report did not announce any screenwriter for the film but one should be lined up sometime soon.

Ted Tally, screenwriter for The Silence of the Lambs, returns as well for more good writing and plotting in a comfortable vein.

Gregory Poirier, screenwriter for the also bad films See Spot Run and Gossip, takes his first turn filming one of his screenplays with Tomcats, another in a series of gross - out comedies to come down the pike since the success of American Pie and Scary Movie.

This is middlebrow Pacino, heartwarming but not especially emotional, written and directed by Dan Fogelman in his debut as a director — though Fogelman is well known as a screenwriter for such works as «Crazy Stupid Love,» also starring a middle - aged man, but that one trying to recover from his wife's asking for a divorce by picking up girls in bars.

The script by Eric Wald (how good it feels to be able to cite one screenwriter for a bad screenplay) has a limited number of jokes.

Marvel Studios have hired Stephany Folsom as the new screenwriter for 2017's Thor: Ragnarok, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

In other news, the film's co-scribe Michael Goldenberg (Contact, Harry Potter) has been hired as screenwriter for Green Lantern 2.

Although Hotel Rwanda is an emotional story about one man's bravery in the face of chaos, Terry George's (screenwriter for Hart's War and The Boxer) film hits more right notes on an intellectual level.

It shouldn't come as a surprise to know that the author of the book on which The Beach is based, Alex Garland (Sunshine), would be the screenwriter for 28 Days Later, and by Boyle sticking closer to the source material, a much more effective result has been achieved.

As written and directed by Steve Kloves (screenwriter for Wonder Boys and the Harry Potter films), this has the look and feel of A-grade entertainment all of the way.

Fault could belong to the screenwriter for pounding out a script that babbles on with little sense of what it wants to say, or the director for being blind when it comes to telling a story visually, or the star for a monotonous performance that becomes increasingly grating.

Steve Kloves steps down from the writing chores, having done so for the first four films in the Harry Potter series, making way for Michael Goldenberg, screenwriter for the films Peter Pan and Contact.

«Three Billboards...» was the big winner of the ceremony, collecting best film, best actress for Frances McDormand and best screenwriter for Martin McDonagh.

The screenwriter for this film also penned the script for Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, which tells a Wild West story from a horse's perspective.

The Lookout is perhaps most notable for the directorial debut of Scott Frank, the screenwriter for the Oscar - nominated Out of Sight, as well as other notable thrillers like Minority Report and Get Shorty.

It's also less artistic than Woody's finest, but what it lacks in flourish it makes up for in energy, and we can appreciate the way writer - director Adam Brooks (screenwriter for Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason and Wimbledon) takes the time to build up the story's many fine small touches to give the larger ones the depth and interest necessary to soar when it needs.

At the Hay Festival in Wales over the weekend WillIam Nicholson, the screenwriter for «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» — the Nelson Mandela biopic that starred Idris Elba and boasted a weepy U2 song — bravely stood up and blamed his film's failure (both its mixed critical reception and its paltry stateside grosses) on the U.S. audiences being «so exhausted feeling guilty about slavery that I don't think there was much left over to be nice about our film.»

He has been announced as the screenwriter for the Lost Planet movie.

Shane Black (Robocop 3), who plays Hawkins, the bespectacled commando with a gift for raunchy jokes, would go on to greater success the same year as the screenwriter for Lethal Weapon, kicking off a long and lucrative career as a screenwriter and, later, an action director in his own right.

To Campbell's credit, the film has some impressive action sequences, but it's ultimately the flimsy and derivative story by Robert King, screenwriter for such flops as CUTTHROAT ISLAND and RED CORNER, that handcuffs Campbell with material that could never get off the ground in the first place.

Austin Film Festival annually recognizes a Distinguished Screenwriter for their collective body of work that has elevated and heavily contributed to the culture of film.

He's the screenwriter for the romantic comedy «Going the Distance» starring Justin Long and Drew Barrymore.

All that said, Ex Machina is easily one of the best films of the year so far and a remarkable directorial debut for Garland, who's made a name for himself as a novelist and screenwriter for some 15 years now.

Emma Thompson was a fantastic screenwriter for Sense and Sensibilty and Wit.

The borderline plagiarism isn't hard to spot, especially when you consider that Jeffrey Boam was called upon to create the screenplay, who was also the screenwriter for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Written and directed by Dale Launer, who had been the screenwriter for some pretty good comedies, such as My Cousin Vinny, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Ruthless People, this would be his first and last attempt at directing (also his last screenplay).

The Descendants is both written and directed by Oscar winning American filmmaker Alexander Payne, director of Election, About Schmidt and Sideways previously, plus a screenwriter for Jurassic Park III and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.

Lagravenese, the screenwriter for such fine films as The Horse Whisperer, Beloved, The Bridges of Madison County, and The Fisher King, takes his first stab at directing with varying results.

At the end of the 30s, he settled down in Hollywood, making a living as a screenwriter for hire.

He's listed as the screenwriter for the Halo (Xbox Video Game) film adaptation.

Ang also brought along the screenwriter for all of his films, James Schamus, making comic fans, even those who didn't care much for the Hulk, ecstatic that someone with serious credentials would be bringing it to life.