Sentences with phrase «screenwriter in»

Mr. Regen, 29, is a freelance journalist and screenwriter in New York.

«The cabin was built by a French screenwriter in 1919, and a few years later, this sculptor from Italy'Salvatore Cartaino Scarpitta «bought it, and he built this studio in 1927,» Curry explains.

First a reporter, he cut his teeth as a screenwriter in Berlin, notably collaborating on the screenplay for famous neo-realist precursor «People on Sunday.»

Kenneth Lonergan is a well respected playwright and screenwriter in the Hollywood circle but he's actually directed less than a handful of films — three to be exact.

The hubris that allowed them to finish is probably the same hubris that told them it wasn't necessary to hire a screenwriter in addition to the few recognizable voice talents (Saoirse Ronan, Chris O'Dowd) to justify its existence as something other than a dare gone wrong.

Farrell plays Martin Faranan, an alcoholic Irish screenwriter in Los Angeles who is struggling to get going on a screenplay titled Seven Psychopaths.

Mandy Patinkin has signed on to play an American screenwriter in Penelope Cruz's upcoming Spanish - language film, The Queen of Spain.

In 1998, Condon debuted as a screenwriter in Gods and Monsters, which won him his first Academy Award.

Blumberg's directorial debut doesn't shy away from the sensitive topics the screenwriter in him has come to embrace.

Hollywood movies always get it wrong: to a screenwriter in LA, the south is either antebellum homes bursting with greenery or blue - lit, junk - strewn yards in the bayou.

I'd bet that's never happened to any other screenwriter in the history of ever!

You have material that voters will be interested in, music they likely listened to when they were younger, a screenwriter in Oren Moverman who they've nominated before, and a pair of overdue actors playing different stages in the life of the same man.

When Shane Black wrote the screenplay for 1996's The Long Kiss Goodnight, he broke his own record as the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood.

Charlie Kaufman went from TV scribe to red - hot screenwriter in 1999 with «Being John Malkovich,» and his timing couldn't have been better: That's a year the industry looks back upon as being a flashpoint of American indie cinema, with rule - breaking, ambitious films like «Pi,» «Boys Don't Cry,» «The Blair Witch Project,» «Three Kings» and «Fight Club» in multiplexes.

Dan is a successful screenwriter in his own right, and now Nightcrawler is his directorial feature debut (he's also the sole writer credited.)

Which is all right with us, as we're big fans of the man who was not only, famously, the highest - paid screenwriter in Hollywood at one time, he has also turned out to be a genuinely terrific genre director, with a particularly bright eye for the wit and wisecrackery he writes so well.

Learn how to become a great screenwriter in this amazing video essay on the Social Network.

The movie certainly found the right screenwriter in Tom McCarthy, who previously tackled both cross-cultural relations (The Visitor) and underdog sports prodigies (Win Win) in his middlebrow independent films.

Rick (Bale) is a screenwriter in Hollywood whose life has come unraveled when his personal life begins to destroy everything he has built.

In Ry Russo - Young's ensemble drama, Nobody Walks, about a young New York artist (Olivia Thirlby) who moves to Los Angeles and becomes a catalyst for lust, denial and deception, Kirk plays a screenwriter in therapy that's used to talking his way into anything.

Joe Eszterhas was the most successful screenwriter in Hollywood at the time, selling scripts for «Jagged Edge,» «Basic Instinct,» «Sliver» and, uh, «Showgirls» for record - breaking sums.

Unfortunately for Oliver Stone, there is no magical screenwriter in the sky that can pen the perfect audience reaction to his latest film.

Huston worked as a screenwriter in the 1930s before getting his first chance to direct with The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Joined by a fairly new screenwriter in terms of feature films, Liz Hannah definitely proves herself as a worthy writer as well.

Today Levine is a novelist and screenwriter in Los Angeles, with a life - sized cardboard cutout of Paterno gazing over his shoulder as he types.

She immigrated to the U.S. in 1926 after graduating from the University of Petrograd and worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

Having spent decades working as a screenwriter in the studio system — credited on recognizable titles like «Hope Floats,» «Stepmom,» and «Kate & Leopold» — in the era where studios are through making romance movies, Rogers has reinvented himself thanks to the «I, Tonya» script.

Mr. Chow's language is hilariously profane, and makes audible the twisted logic of screenwriters in tune with the internet era of diabolically raunchy ideas.

Among screenwriters in the business, no one was more famous than Dalton Trumbo (Cranston), a top tier writer also known for his Communist viewpoints.

It has a black director in Ryan «Creed» Coogler; black screenwriters in Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, and an almost entirely black cast.

And this is all the more satisfying because when you see a hefty team of screenwriters in the credits, in this case, Zack Stenz, Ashley Miller, Scott Alexander, and Larry Karaszweski, it usually doesn't bode well... Read More»

While I do think, from a story standpoint, it's a shame that Garrigan wasn't limited to being a mere witness to the events of the Amin era, as he was portrayed more in the book, instead of a constant catalyst for Amin's rage, considering he is a fictional character, we'll just chalk up his constant missteps as dramatic license taken by the screenwriters in drawing out Amin to commit some of the most heinous acts of torture shown in film this side of a Mel Gibson directorial effort.

(GEP: 5/5) This outstanding feature film follows the collaboration of British screenwriters in 1940, trying to survive the war and help others get through it the best way they know how

(GEP: 5/5) This outstanding feature film follows the collaboration of British screenwriters in 1940, trying to survive the war and help others get through it the best way they know how — through the magic of movies.

I don't think you'll find much competition if you make the claim that Charlie Kaufman is one of the two or three best screenwriters in the business.

Based on the bestseller of the same name by Michael Lewis, the film adaptation was written by two of the most dependable screenwriters in the business (Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian) and features a killer cast with some real Oscar heavyweights.

Dalton Trumbo (1905 - 1976) was one of the most successful screenwriters in the country when he was subpoenaed in 1947 to testify before the House American Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigating citizens suspected of having Communist leanings.

With Geoffrey Rush returning as Barbossa (now a privateer), plus Kevin McNally still loyal as Jack's right hand man Gibbs and the highest paid screenwriters in Hollywood, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, on scripting duties with a brand new story, Pirates of the Caribbean 4 promises, if nothing else, a high time watching cutlasses clash and flintlocks flash.

William Goldman, one of the best screenwriters in the biz, turns King's pulpy novel into an incredibly tight screenplay, where every scene, every nuance, every bit of dialogue coalesces into something remarkable.

The pair, while serviceable visual hacks, are such awful screenwriters in every facet of the game that it's kind of disheartening to see their material continually attract such wonderful cult performers as Russell and Spader, Jeff Goldblum (Independence Day), and Jean Reno (Godzilla)-- mayhaps the notion of rescuing a character from the page causes an actor's mouth to water as much as the guaranteed exposure offered by pictures as base and pandering as those on the Centropolis label (Devlin and Emmerich's now - defunct company).

Not exact matches

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, John Francis Daley, one of the «Spider - Man: Homecoming» screenwriters discussed this pivotal moment in the filIn an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, John Francis Daley, one of the «Spider - Man: Homecoming» screenwriters discussed this pivotal moment in the filin the film,

Though Fox has not officially announced a sequel to «Deadpool,» the film's screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick told Entertainment Weekly they are in the early stages of a script for a second film.

CNBC Meets» Tania Bryer meets actor, screenwriter and philanthropist Matt Damon, who discusses his big break in the film world.

In this video from our Entrepreneur Live event, Oscar - nominated screenwriter Alan Wenkus sits down with Steve Lehman from Business Rockstars to discuss the importance of taking risks, rising above failures and how to get ahead.

«We've watched this happen to director Lexi Alexander and screenwriter Julie Bush when they published their respective exposes on sexism in the film business,» they added, referring to blog posts by Alexander and Bush that risked backlash (and blacklisting) by taking the entertainment industry to task.

A program run by the National Academy of Sciences, The Exchange is a hotline (844 - NEED - SCI) that screenwriters can call when they want help with the science in a script — any script.

Director Jonathan Levine («The Wackness,» «The Night Before») and screenwriter Katie Dippold (2016's «Ghostbusters») were obviously going for an edgy «mom - com,» in which the men are idiots and a story of self - discovery is at the core (Emily helps Ecuadorian women form a human chain to take water from a well, which brings her to an aha moment).

According to the movie's screenwriter Michael Bacall, Depp was interested in filming a cameo in the remake, but wanted to make sure that his character had closure.

Anthony Bourdain, moonlighting as a screenwriter for the HBO series Treme, worked Pappy into a scene; Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad, did the same with a bottle of WhistlePig, a rye whiskey bottled in Vermont (rye is like bourbon, except that its primary grain is rye, not corn).

Across more and more of the economy, worker advocates are hoping to replicate the ways in which screenwriters, actors, and others in Hollywood have been organized since the 1920s and»30s.