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San Francisco About Blog The ongoing saga of a screenwriter who also works in radio and really, really likes pie Frequency about 2 posts per week.

Puh - lease, I would laugh out loud at the poor screenwriter who wrote this dialogue — but it's true!

He is survived by his sons, Lem, a screenwriter who publishes under the name Lem Dobbs, and Max, both of Los Angeles; a daughter, Dominie, of San Diego, and three grandsons.

The screenwriter who's adapting SCOTT FREE sent me a copy of his latest draft.

If you're unusual (say a professional screenwriter who is now turning to novel writing) then you can get away with publishing your first novel.

James Vanderbilt is a screenwriter who in recent years has written, among other things, Andrew Garfield's The Amazing Spider - Man, White House Down, and The Amazing Spider - Man 2.

Michael Cacoyannis, the Cyprus - born filmmaker and screenwriter who directed the 1964 film classic Zorba the Greek, starring Anthony Quinn, has died at an Athens hospital.

We're predicting big things in general for Manchester on January 7, so we'll call this for Kenneth Lonergan, a lauded screenwriter who only makes a movie every 5 or 10 years — his work is warmly welcomed when it finally does come out.

Tumbeldown's script was written by Desi Van Til, a first for the screenwriter who has previously produced several films, Open Heart and 13 Going on 30 ′.

Either way, this is another big get for Robertson - Dworet - a screenwriter who has been on the receiving end of some very high - profile jobs as of late.

His friend Jack (Jeff Bridges), an even more successful screenwriter who has been inspired by her, recommends her, but to clinch the deal Steven has to messenger over some of his scripts, ply her with gifts, book her into the Four Seasons, and buy her groceries.

WALON GREEN By Nat Segaloff The inside, straight from a working screenwriter who's been there; an interview

Martian Child reunites John Cusack with Menno Meyjes, the Dutch screenwriter who made his directing debut on 2002's Max.

Instead, it's primarily about an alcoholic screenwriter who's Billy's best friend.

The Infiltrator is adapted from the memoir by Robert Mazur, a federal agent who went undercover among Colombian druglords associated with Pablo Escobar and helped bring down his crooked banking infrastructure; the screenwriter who adapted Mazur's book is the director's mother: Ellen Brown Furman.

So, what that mostly leaves are the jokes, the majority of which could use some serious punching - up from a screenwriter who's a lot less inclined toward delivering the most obvious gags in any given situation; if, in a movie, you've ever seen the wrong person get zapped with a taser, a poisonous snake biting someone's naughty bits, or a rich, out - of - touch character humorously failing to relate to the working class, well, you've probably seen it executed better than it is here.

That's fine for a director or screenwriter who are involved with a whole production, and a lead actor who's in most parts of a movie would be good as well.

An opportunity for just such a thing falls into his lap when Miles and Louis seek out a wannabe screenwriter who owes Amara money.

The film's about one thing; it's about Owen Wilson's Hollywood screenwriter who wants to be a novelist learning to take an active role in his life.

Marty (Farrell) is a struggling screenwriter who thinks a bit of alcohol will take the edge off and let the ideas flow like wine.

Cheap gags about his Irish rampant alcoholism aside, Farrell's job is the straight man here, a fading screenwriter who is moments from a deadline and desperate for inspiration.

The details: Bryan Cranston leads a character - actor - heavy cast as Dalton Trumbo, the popular novelist - turned - screenwriter who was blacklisted from Hollywood for his Communist ties and imprisoned for contempt of Congress.

Written by Chris Sparling, the same screenwriter who penned the underrated Buried a couple of years ago, ATM is just flat out sloppy.

In anticipation of our second Live Director Series event this weekend, here is a video of a conversation - filled sit with Paul Schrader — the filmmaker / screenwriter who will be joining us for the screening and Q&A on Sunday — from The Modern School of Film.

Marnie Minervini (Susan Sarandon) is a well - off New Jersey widow who's moved to Los Angeles to be near her 30 - something daughter, Lori (Rose Byrne), an unmarried screenwriter who chafes at her mother's constant advice.

Any screenwriter who could come up with an adequate end - product — and without killing McQueen — has earned my admiration.

Koepp is the veteran screenwriter who counts Jurassic Park, Spider - Man, and Panic Room among his credits.

Frances ends up falling into a place in Washington Heights which she shares with sculptor / playboy Lev (Adam Driver) and Benji (Michael Zegen), an aspiring screenwriter who's working on a Gremlins 3 sample script while hoping to land a spot on the «Saturday Night Live» staff.

«The book, by German author Daniel Kehlmann, told of a screenwriter who holes up in a remote house in the Alps with his wife and daughter so he can work on a sequel to his big hit.

A fifth accuser, Violet Paley, told the Times she was an aspiring screenwriter who considered Franco a mentor when she said she began a romantic relationship with the star in 2016.

Soderbergh commented to Entertainment Weekly, «When people make a statement like that they should be very careful, especially when it's a woman screenwriter who is having her first screenplay produced.»

Nicolas Cage stars as a fired Hollywood screenwriter who loses all hope and moves to Las Vegas to drink himself to death.

A former French film journo at the prestigious mag Les Cahiers du Cinéma and a screenwriter who made his directorial debut with Spy (ies)

Nicholas Ray's emotionally charged adaptation of the Dorothy B. Hughes thriller In a Lonely Place is a brilliant, turbulent mix of suspenseful noir and devastating melodrama, fueled by a powerhouse performance from Humphrey Bogart, who plays a gifted but washed - up screenwriter who becomes the prime suspect in a Tinseltown murder.

The Accenture Gala is the European premiere of TRUMBO, directed by Jay Roach and starring Bryan Cranston in a cracking performance as Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947.

Brooks plays Stephen Phillips, a once successful screenwriter who gets the axe by his movie studio because he has lost his edge.

While the writing is still shallow in the character and thematic department, having the veteran screenwriter who helped with «The Avengers» was definitely beneficial for the final product.

He's joined by Japanese director Koreeda, with crime drama The Third Murder, and French director Kechiche, who presents Mektoub My Love, about a screenwriter who finds romance during a summer vacation.

Grant plays a once - famous screenwriter who's fallen on hard times and begrudgingly takes a job teaching screenwriting at a small college.

Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a screenwriter who, fresh off the success of Being John Malkovich, finds himself courted as the scribe of choice for the adaptation of a literary flavour - of - the - month.

Lucas» alter ego is Robert (Peter Sarsgaard, more Malkovichian than ever), a rising gay screenwriter who's in mourning for an older lover.

Among the panelists were Joe Robert Cole, a screenwriter who wrote pivotal episodes five and eight, chronicling the jurors» visit to the crime scene and their epic sequestration.

Colin Farrell leads the cast as a struggling screenwriter who gets caught up in his best friend's (Sam Rockwell) dog - napping scheme: take the puppy, return it to its owner, and collect the reward.

This fall sees him reuniting with his In Bruges director Martin McDonagh for Seven Psychopaths, in which Farrell plays a screenwriter who gets tangled up in a dog - kidnapping scheme gone awry.

Szifron is an Argentine film and television director and screenwriter who was set to make his American debut with the big budget Six Billion Dollar Man starring Mark Wahlberg.

He plays Marty, a drunk / Hollywood screenwriter who's been bashing his head against the wall under the stress of missed deadlines and writer's block.

The comedy from the In Bruges writer and director reunites him with actor Colin Farrell as a struggling screenwriter who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his two oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.

Chris Evans, Michelle Monaghan, Topher Grace, Aubrey Plaza, and Martin Starr are among the talented people wasted in this torturously self - reflexive rom - com about a screenwriter who finds love.

In writer - director Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths — his follow up to the strong but sometimes too clever In Bruges — Colin Farrell plays «Martin,» an alcoholic screenwriter who has an idea for a script called Seven Psychopaths, but who can't decide who the psychopaths should be, ow what should happen.

Marty (Colin Farrell) is an alcoholic, would - be screenwriter who is suffering with a case of writer's block while developing his latest project, a «pacifist» story about psychopaths.