Sentences with phrase «screenwriting team»

Filmmaker Reginald Hudlin («House Party,» «Boomerang») adapts a script by the father - son screenwriting team of Michael and Jacob Koskoff that jumps off from a real case.

It's no secret around these parts that I'm a big fan of screenwriting team Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber.

With Miller out, replaced by David Leitch (Atomic Blonde, John Wick), Reynolds drafted onto the original screenwriting team of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and box - office expectations sky - high from studio 20th Century Fox, the enterprise doubles down to the point of gluttony.

There's a terrific ensemble cast - dynamic and an effortless channelling of the spirit of Episodes IV to VI from father - and - son screenwriting team Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan who should really be allowed to get their teeth into the stories» daddy issues and Freudian anxieties.»

Husband and wife screenwriting team Donna and Wayne Powers have taken Troy Kennedy Martin's original script and deconstructed it in a bid to create a broader international caper that would appeal across the board.

Screenwriting team Laurie Craig and Nick Pustay expertly adapt from Beverly Cleary's children's novels to render a perfectly pitched G - rated family movie.

Director Stephen Hopkins (best known for directing episodes of 24 and House of Lies) and married screenwriting team Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse chose to focus on a few key years in Olympic runner Jesse Owens» (Stephan James) life, starting with his first day of school at Ohio State University in late 1933, up to his astounding four - gold - medal triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

Scripted by the same screenwriting team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat and featuring leading Lady Margaret Lockwood, this thriller once again sets ordinary Brits (and in this case, a couple of Brits playing Austrian refugees) against the Nazis in the days just before Britain declares war on the Third Reich.

And on the other end of the age spectrum, I didn't expect to be as touched as I was by Jane Fonda in Our Souls at Night, in a role tailored to her by the expert screenwriting team of Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter, who also wrote The Disaster Artist.

Screenwriting team John Huston and W. R. Burnett based their work on Burnett's hard - boiled novel.

Another horror - ish film that played Sundance this past week was Hell Baby, which come from uber - prolific screenwriting team of Robert Ben...

For screenwriting team Reese and Paul Wernick, who also wrote the first Deadpool, it was a way of finally doing Juggernaut «right,» after many fans were disappointed in the classic villain's portrayal in 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, where he was played by Vinnie Jones.

And the extensive screenwriting team includes Matthew Michael Carnahan («The Kingdom»), Tony Gilroy («Michael Clayton»), Billy Ray («Shattered Glass») and some uncredited revisions by Macdonald friend Peter Morgan («Frost / Nixon»).

Yet somehow screenwriting team Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber have done so with THE DISASTER ARTIST — their adaptation of the behind the scenes madness of director - star Tommy Wiseau's THE ROOM.

The usually underwhelming screenwriting team Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (The Island, Transformers, etc.) have come up with a terrific idea for the 11th film, though it's better if I reserve certain details for viewers to discover.

The Italian Job isn't exactly blessed with the most proven of screenwriting teams in Donna and Wayne Powers (Deep Blue Sea, Valentine), but in all fairness, points aren't scored in a heist flick from sparkling conversation.

, we meet the film's original screenwriting team — one is a surgeon, one a lawyer — as well as fix - up man Allison Burnett (he adapted Feast of Love for the screen last year).

«The Descendants» screenwriting team of Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (both skilled comic actors to boot) make their directorial debut, starring Sam Rockwell as a water - park manager who helps a depressed, lonely teenager (Liam James) survive a summer vacation with his indifferent mother (Toni Collette) and her jerky boyfriend (Steve Carell).

I would like to nominate the screenwriting team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller («21 Jump Street,» «Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs») for the Nobel Peace Prize, even though very little about «The Lego Movie» is peaceful.

The screenwriting team of Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John - Henry Butterworth add in some unexpected humor to showcase this character flaw.

Could the screenwriting team entice their «Philomena» director Stephen Frears for a reunion?

to the screenwriting team of Josh Campbell, Matt Stuecken and Damien Chazelle for keeping it real.

The screenwriting team show a deep and thoughtful appreciation for the character and his rivalries.

Their Academy Awards gave the screenwriting team the power to work on their own film and direct it themselves, which resulted in their passion project, The Way, Way Back.

Certainly any film that cast James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as a screenwriting team, as Boy Meets Girl did, was not going to be confused with a daring exposé.

We shouldn't expect anything of any depth, nuance, or complexity from an adaptation of a pulpy action - thriller, especially a pulpy action - thriller written by an openly conservative writer, but that doesn't absolve either director Michael Cuesta or his screenwriting team from responsibility for American Assassin's simplistic, reductive, ultimately repulsive subtext.

Instead of building on the previous four features, Taylor — along with a screenwriting team of Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier — has reshaped the entire narrative of John and Sarah Connor.

The screenwriting team of Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (The Fighter) draws parameters quickly, and for obvious purposes.

The screenwriting team of Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (Small Soldiers, The Mask of Zorro) actually get some decent one - liners and character bits in the movie, and remarkably, not all of them belong to Depp.

Such heady concepts get lost under what director Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3, U-571) and the screenwriting team of Ferris and Brancato (Terminator Salvation, Catwoman) really want to do with the somber Blade Runner - ish premise, and that's to make a sci fi / action / thriller.

If Ritchie and his screenwriting team of Joby Harold and Lionel Wigram were going to go the prequel wrote, why did they make the plot so generic?

The comedy comes from the screenwriting team that wrote both Neighbors, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, and Mike and Dave Need Wedding...

Patty Jenkins and the screenwriting team that included Zack Snyder fill in most of the blanks in the backstory.

The screenwriting team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have been crafting screenplays together for 14 years.

However, her screenwriting team, Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, possess a mediocre track record.

Both gags ended up on the cutting room floor, so the screenwriting team behind the sequel tried to bring them back.

The screenwriting teams of Tom Patchett & Jay Tarses (The Bob Newhart Show) and Jerry Juhl & Jack Rose deliver punchline after ticklish punchline and a full complement of masterful running gags (like the absurd notion that Kermit and Fozzie are twins).

First - time feature director Ron Underwood (The Adventures of Pluto Nash, In the Mix) keeps the pace brisk, while the screenwriting team of Wilson and Maddock (Wild Wild West, * batteries not included) serve up an always interesting array of situations and confrontations with which to engage us with some good laughs and good scares, sometimes simultaneously.

Director J Blakeson (The Descent: Part 2) and his screenwriting team seem more interested in just feeding the YA beast.

The feature could've taken a more typical path but the screenwriting team have a lot of fun with it.

If there's anything worse than suffering through a film written by the screenwriting team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, it's one that they've also chosen to direct.

Blame the screenwriting team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, together responsible for some of the most godawful, howlingly boring material to ever glance off the big screen.

For a film that is nearly two and a half hours, the screenwriting team of Alex Kurtzman, Robert Orci, and Jeff Pinkner got far too excited when mapping out this story and forgot to keep an eye on focus and editing.

These supporting characters all had potential but the screenwriting team of Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein, and Dana Fox seemingly aren't interested in these characters.

Even while building a new story, the screenwriting team of Nicholas Wright, James A. Woods, Dean Devlin, James Vanderbilt and Emmerich include dozens of references to the original.