Sentences with phrase «serve as the screenwriter»

In 1996, he served as the screenwriter and executive producer for the George Clooney schlock-fest From Dusk Till Dawn, and the following year renewed some of his earlier acclaim as the director and screenwriter of Jackie Brown.

But what makes their latest collaboration so unique is that Stallone's involvement is a strictly behind - the - scenes affair, serving as both screenwriter and producer.

Since Sorkin served as screenwriter, it has the fast - pacing and quick, almost too clever dialogue that are trademarks in his scripts.

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

Not exact matches

All three films in the American Pie series were penned by screenwriter Adam Herz and produced by Paul and Chris Weitz — who also served as directors on the original — but they have all gone through different directors; the J B Rogers - directed American Pie 2 and now American Wedding helmed by Jesse Dylan (How High).

Fabled is the first feature film from Ari Kirschenbaum, who served as director, screenwriter, and editor.

A middle - class Danish drama detailing the crumbling marriage of a one - time library assistant and a downbeat factory worker, Honeymoon served as an ideal showcase not only for August's abilities as a director, but his talents as a screenwriter as well.

1988: Screenwriter and novelist William Goldman devoted an entire book, «Hype and Glory,» to the year in which he served as a Cannes juror and a judge at the Miss America pageant.

Screenwriter John Romano served time as writer - producer on Hills Street Blues, L.A. Law and Monk, while director Brad Furman turned to crime in his first feature, The Take.

Danny Morgan, who also serves as the films screenwriter, is brilliant as the down on his luck Jim, who just can't seem to catch a break.

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

The belly laughs come as deep as the pathos, and she's served fully by the never - better talents of director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody.

The short story «Story of Your Life» by Ted Chiang serves as the basis for the film, which has been expanded by screenwriter Eric Heisserer (The Thing, Lights Out).

Steven Spielberg has said that Lucas will serve as executive producer on Indiana Jones 5, while screenwriter David Koepp has said that he doesn't believe Lucas is involved in any capacity.

Director Roger Michell and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi previously collaborated to turn Kureishi's novel «The Buddha of Suburbia» into a successful serial for British television, which is exactly where «The Mother» also belongs, as periodic breaks for advertisements might well serve to cover up its somewhat plodding pace and occasionally aimless repetitions.

Screenwriter Massoumeh Lahidji seems to specialize in serving as «midwife» (her word) to male directors who make me nuts.

I think that Nathanson's only task as screenwriter was to serve up a main plot, a few staple gags, and to allow plenty of room for riffing by the main stars throughout.

During the bizarre (and embarrassing) courtroom melodrama that serves as the film's framing story, her hockey star attorney Bill (Woody Harrelson) will object to an exhumation of her sexual history — but by the time people have finished standing up in the gallery in a show of Dead Poets Society moral support, it's evident that for director Niki Caro and screenwriter Michael Seitzman, that Josie's sexual history be clean as the driven snow means absolutely everything.

His more recent films include «Dr. Dolittle 2,» «Daddy Day Care,» «The Haunted Mansion» and the romantic comedy «Norbit,» in which he played three characters as well as serving as the film's producer and screenwriter.

A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance was presented to: Joe Seo for Spa Night (Director & Screenwriter: Andrew Ahn)-- Los Angeles's Korean spas serve not only as meeting places but also as a bridge between past and future for generations of immigrant families.

Screenwriters Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley clearly fall into the «old - school» magician's club and even work in a cameo for David Copperfield, who served as a consultant.

The evening also served as a tribute, led by Variety's Peter Debruge, to honor revered screenwriter Sorkin.

But whatever happens to it, the film certainly seems to have served as something of a calling card for screenwriter Michael Starrbury.

Matt Damon (Rounders, Dogma) and Ben Affleck (Forces of Nature, Armageddon) would serve as executive producers thanks to a deal they signed to develop films with Miramax, and would also have small bit roles themselves, and would give a co-starring nod to the relatively unknown Jay Lacopo, who is also the screenwriter, and previous star of Ben Affleck's first directorial gig, a short entitled, I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three - picture Deal at Disney.

Creator Henson, serving as producer and lead performer, and screenwriters Jack Burns and Jerry Juhl did not lose sight of their characters» considerable appeal.

Lawrence and his screenwriters, Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt, have done a fine job of calibrating the film's many moving parts, action serving as a ballast for heaps of exposition, flashes of mordant humor darting through all the despair and destruction.

Bill Wheeler has served as a Creative Advisor at numerous Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Labs, and most recently mentored at the January Screenwriters Lab at Sundance Resort.

«What director Brian Percival and screenwriter Michael Petroni serve up is just another tasteful, staid Hollywoodization of terribleness, in which a catastrophic time acts as a convenient backdrop for a wishful narrative rather than the springboard for an honest one,» Abele wrote.

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