Sentences with phrase «time screenwriter»

Madden personally delivered the script, by first time screenwriter Jonathan Perera, to Chastain himself, she was the only choice.

The project — which is hugely topical, given President Barack Obama's new push to curb gun violence — has been penned by first time screenwriter Jonathan Perera and is being produced by FilmNation and EuropaCorp.

The genius of first - time screenwriter Liz Hannah's script is that she makes the story about Graham's evolution as much as it is about the Pentagon Papers.

Director David Fincher («Alien3») and first - time screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker generally handle the material quite well, but so much of the film is so distasteful that it is difficult to recommend.

Lucky Number Slevin can't boast of a single interesting or novel idea, but it did hold my attention throughout, thanks to brisk pacing, a smattering of sharp one - liners (first - time screenwriter Jason Smilovic lifts shamelessly from Tarantino, but with more flair than most), and a twinkling ensemble more than happy to roll with the script's churning preposterousness.

Big time screenwriter David (James Marsden) and his wife Amy (Kate Bosworth) ditch Los Angeles so he can take some time to write at Amy's remote childhood home in the Deep South.

Directed by Doug Liman (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, «The Bourne Ultimatum,» «Edge of Tomorrow»), «The Wall» stars Aaron Taylor Johnson («Nocturnal Animals,» Kick - Ass,» «Savages» «Godzilla,» «Avengers: Age of Ultron») and WWE star John Cena («Trainwreck,» «Daddy's Home»), Written by first - time screenwriter Dwain Worrell, «The Wall,» was produced by Amazon Studios.

First - time screenwriters Michael Finch and Alex Litvak assembled a premise that's less a story than it is a fanboy fantasy.

That may well have been what first - time screenwriter Taylor Sheridan — an actor best known for playing Deputy Chief David Hale on Sons Of Anarchy — had in mind, but the final product turned out bigger and more resonant than that.

First time screenwriter Paul Webb's original screenplay for Selma doesn't use the text book bullet points one might assume a film about Dr. King might encompass.

With a script from first time screenwriter Zoe Kazan (granddaughter of legendary director Elia Kazan), we get an odd mash - up of would - be Woody Allen, Charlie Kaufman, Stranger Than Fiction, and a «Twilight Zone» episode.

A long time screenwriter, including work on his brother Tony's film The Bourne Legacy, this is Gilroy's directorial debut, bringing with it intensity and intelligence that's all too rare for films these days.

Written by first - time screenwriter Peter O'Brien, Unlocked could and should have been much better than this.

This, of course, is combined with a very smart script from the first - time screenwriter Bert V Royal, which never once reverts to American Pie - style crudity and even brings a touch of class with references to the classic novel The Scarlet Letter throughout.

Canadian playwright and television writer (Slings and Arrows, Mozart in the Jungle), the first - time screenwriter creates a heartwarming (family - friendly) historical drama which likely will get viewers in the holiday spirit.

It's the classic dysfunctional family gathering setup, with a script by first - time screenwriter Jenny Lumet (daughter of director Sidney Lumet) that hits the expected conflicts and collisions, right about where you expect them to show up.

No doubt it's the Oscar - nominated script by first - time screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) that makes this film succeed so brilliantly, but kudos should also go out to first - time (and also Oscar - nominated) director Spike Jonze for some impressive work, and a cast of actors who are perfect in their respective roles.

Directed by Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote), the film is written by first time screenwriter Matt Whiteley.

He was given first time screenwriter Bob Nelson's script over a decade ago.

The script is from first time screenwriter Jack Paglen and apparently sat on a «black list» of unproduced screenplays for years.

For good measure, a couple more crafty machinations are tacked on after these scenes, but by this time, you wish director McGuigan (Wicker Park, The Reckoning) and first - time screenwriter Smilovic would know to leave well enough alone.

(First - time screenwriters Logan Sparks and Drago Sumonja reportedly conceived it with him in mind; it's hard to imagine who else they might have turned to had he said no.)

Cheers, too, for first - time screenwriter Rebecca Blunt for keeping the surprises coming (let's assume she's real); ditto Seth MacFarlane and Hilary Swank in supporting roles too good to spoil.

Between them, first - time screenwriter Carl Ellsworth and director Wes Craven don't come up with a single clever way to generate suspense, and the movie's onboard atmosphere is so phony.

Maybe next time the screenwriters shouldn't set the difficulty mode to «easy.»

Stranger Than Fiction, though the work of first time screenwriter Zach Helms, is clearly a child of Kaufman.

Co-writing the screenplay with first time screenwriter Aaron Covington, Coogler's perspective concerns the abandoned offspring of Rocky Balboa's frenemy Apollo Creed (played by Carl Weathers) and his rise to fame.

A first - time screenwriter named Rebecca Blunt is...

Also included are An Inside Perspective (interviews with cast and crew), Plotting an Assassination (interview with first - time screenwriter Barry Levy), deleted scenes and commentary with director Pete Travis.

Set during Hell Week, when aspiring inductees are put through the wringer by their superiors to earn the right to join the fraternity at (fictional) all - black Frederick Douglass University, the script by first - time screenwriters Christine Berg and director Gerard McMurray dives right in to demonstrate how the brutal drill instructors rough up the candidates.

Other films receiving more than one award were «Capote» (best actor to Philip Seymour Hoffman and best adapted screenplay to first - time screenwriter Dan Futterman) and «Crash» (best original screenplay to Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco and best ensemble acting).

As written by its trio of writers (with Jessica Goldberg joined by first time screenwriters Katie Nehara and Justin Shilton), its dramatic possibilities are severely downplayed, instead attempting to reflect meaning off intertextual echoes borrowed from Chekov's The Cherry Orchard (the play being staged within the film).

The writing by first - time screenwriter Guggenheim is adequate, as is the direction by Gavin O'Conner (Tumbleweeds)-- neither are stellar, but they get the job done in workmanlike fashion.

The performances are huge but not good; the script by first - time screenwriter Robert Harling, adapting his own autobiographical stage play, isn't good; and all of it plods along on a melodramatic metronome, humming in time to the episodic dictates of female ritual and ritual births.

Soderbergh and first - time screenwriter Coleman Hough weave the movie's manifold narrative strata into one another in ways reminiscent of Frederico Fellini's «8 1/2,» while feeling like off - the - wall, old school Soderbergh at the same time.

What It Could Win: Ang Lee, who took home the Best Director Academy Award in 2013 for Life of Pi, is a frontrunner once again, seemingly providing the movie Best Picture heft, while the rest of the categories — first - time screenwriter Jean - Christophe Castelli for Best Adapted Screenplay?

The film, written by first - time screenwriter Pat Rushin, centers on Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), a nervous, very bald man who lives in a church, has spent his life waiting for a mysterious phone call, and works as an «esoteric data» cruncher for the Mancorp corporation.

But first - time screenwriter J.K. Rowling could get some attention in the Best Adapted Screenplay field.

For his sophomore feature Alan Rickman has fashioned a spritely period romp, demonstrating a confident feel for the material — an original script from first - time screenwriter Alison Deegan.

First time screenwriter George Gatins» script is overloaded and doesn't provide enough time to breathe.

If the screenplay by first - time screenwriter Jeff Lau could have at least injected the drama with something that could be modestly interesting, So Close could have been one of the better Hong Kong action vehicles of the new millennium.

First - time screenwriter Geoff LaTulippe gives us characters who are flesh - and - blood, decent, sympathetic people.

Much like the experience of many returning soldiers who've fought in wars, Winkler and first - time screenwriter Friedman have many things to say and experiences to share, and yet they suffer from being unable to express them adequately.

Hitchcock took a chance with first - time screenwriter Joseph Stefano who worked from Robert Bloch's novel «Psycho.»

The script by first - time screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan (Lions for Lambs), brother of director Joe Carnahan, is topical, absorbing, and believable, even if the main thrust of the US sending in an FBI taskforce, especially one which is more formidable in battle than Marines, into Saudi Arabia seems implausible.

First time screenwriter Megan Holley got her bright idea for this film when she heard a story on the radio about a new growth industry: the crime scene clean - up business.

It's hard no matter who you are, but if you're a big - time screenwriter like, say, Paul Haggis, you get to work through your feelings on the screen.