Sentences with phrase «time screenwriter smilovic»

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.

«Blackhat,» written by first - time screenwriter Morgan Davis Foehl, opens with a riff on one of the corniest sequences in contemporary cinema: the zoom - in on a computer's wiring and circuits to show the movement of data.

Kissing Jessica Stein's Charles Herman - Wurmfield takes the director's chair, and does a workable job, but has a problem keeping proper cohesion to first - time screenwriter Kate Kondell's script.

First - time screenwriter Ruth Epstein is a 9 - year veteran investment banker with Wall Street's Goldman Sachs.

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.

Kelly & Cal is written by Amy Lowe Starbin (first time screenwriter), who writes these characters personally, as from experience.

The first - time screenwriter will put her powers of historic re-creation to the test once again.

The stinging wit of first - time screenwriter Tina Fey — acerbicco - host of Weekend Update on «Saturday Night Live,» and the show's headwriter — gives Mean Girls a zest and zing few high school comediesever muster.

From first - time screenwriter Lindsay Devlin and two of the directors of V / H / S, Devil's Due is a mess that drains whatever novelty remained for found footage thrillers.

In fact, the screenplay for the film had been written by first - time screenwriter Adam Cozad as a non-Jack Ryan thriller in 2007 called Dubai, but was later retooled with the help of David Koepp (Premium Rush, Angels and Demons) to conform to the Clancy series.

Eastwood hired first - time screenwriter Dorothy Blystak to adapt the book by the train's heroes.

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

Kudos to first - time screenwriter Bert V. Royal for taking a staid genre and making it wholly fresh.

First - time screenwriter Jason Filardi (Drum, 17 Again) does provide for an interesting premise for a movie, but the situations are far too contrived to be believable, so we are forced to go along with more than a fair share of implausibility to eke out whatever laughs the film has to provide.

Jeff's subplot with his long lost love Liz is more promising and works out exactly how it would in real life, so here is a big kudos for first time screenwriter Derek Connolly for that.

Alison Pill («The Newsroom») will co-star in the movie, which John Madden is directing from a script by first - time screenwriter Jonathan Perera.

First time screenwriter Jonathan Perera's much - lauded screenplay documents Elizabeth Sloane, DC super-lobbyist.

First time screenwriter Noah Haidle and character actor - turned director Fisher Stevens simply lack the chops to provide material worthy of the cast.

Both filmmakers were key contributors to the original saga — Heyman produced all eight of the «Harry Potter» films, while Yates helmed the final four installments — and now they're dedicated to bringing to life a new extension of that beloved mythology, this time set in 1920 America, with a screenplay by a first - time screenwriter, «Harry Potter» author J.K. Rowling herself.

Connecting these moments is the razor - sharp writing by first - time screenwriter Diablo Cody and one hell of a catchy soundtrack consisting mostly of indie / folk music performed by Kimya Dawson.

When first - time screenwriter Shlomit Nehama wrote The Women's Balcony, she anticipated that making a universal film would be a losing battle.

And she didn't even pen this one — credit there goes to first - time screenwriter Andrea Seigel — which may explain why it almost never feels like a movie from the woman who built a winning comedy around a game of sexual chicken between two straight friends.

Following the release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the world has gone mad yet again for British author - and first - time screenwriter - J.K. Rowling and her wildly original Wizarding World already familiar to moviegoers by way of the Harry Potter franchise; as directed by frequent collaborater David Yates.

It suffers from having a fairly inexperienced director and a first - time screenwriter.

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.

Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Billy Hope (the name courtesy of first time screenwriter Kurt Sutter, known for «Sons of Anarchy»).

Josh Singer and first - time screenwriter Liz Hannah's words to recreate the world of 1971 America, a world whose similarities to today can resonate with any viewer.

Director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer, Runner Runner) and his mother, first - time screenwriter Ellen Brown Furman, craft a competent enough thriller that is lathered with some»80s music (Rush's «Tom Sawyer», Nu Shooz's narrowly anachronistic «I Can't Wait»)

The script, by two guys who gave us «Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus» and «Secretary» and most tellingly, «Hard Candy,» between them, has a lot of first - time screenwriter clumsiness.

The likelihood of a first - time screenwriter making it to HBO are slim, and «Nightingale» is the first screenplay from the Black List website to be produced by any film company.

Besides its new setting, Fantastic Beasts marks another first for Rowling — it's her first screenplay for one of her stories, and as such the movie suffers from issues any first - time screenwriter might encounter, namely pacing and narrative structure.

Luckily, first - time screenwriter Liz Hannah and Spotlight screenwriter Josh Singer have located the film's nerve center in two overlapping areas: an examination of the relationship between the press and the executive branch of government, and a larger story about women in American workplaces.

She's doing what George Clooney did in «Michael Clayton» but backwards, in heels, and with an avalanche of snippy dialogue from first - time screenwriter Jonathan Perera.

And with an astounding performance from Benedict Cumberbatch, he also manages to find layers of nuance in first - time screenwriter Graham Moore's on - the - nose script.

Ford and Pfeiffer are excellent actors and while the script isn't up to their talents, they do the best they can with what little there is from veteran actor and first - time screenwriter Clark Gregg (Choke).

Brooklyn's Finest, penned by first - time screenwriter Michael C. Martin, takes Fuqua back to the world of tough urban cops and the fuzzy moral scale they must tread.

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

In the end, the far - too - predictable script by the first - time screenwriter and the lack of any directorial flourish by the first - time director fails to impress.

Clichéd and as subtle as a kick to the groin, the screenplay by first - time screenwriter Randy Brown doesn't so much foreshadow events as scream loudly from Hollywood playbook exactly what will occur.

Longtime television director Mark Mylod (Ali G Indahouse) and first - time screenwriter Collin Friesen get the look and feel right, and certainly have a capable cast, but the laughs just aren't there, pure and simple.

Our apologies to first - time screenwriter Jason Mosberg, who we're sure dutifully watched several latter - day Nicolas Cage and John Cusack movies to imbue his script with just the right about of...

With Being John Malkovich, Jonze has found the perfect material, provided by first - time screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, to extend the delirium to feature length.

Wahlberg's character is pretty much the same he has played a dozen times prior, but it seems the real issue is with first time screenwriter Brian Tucker.

First - time screenwriter Jack Paglen provides this high - concept story, which borrows many concepts from quite a few popular classic sci - fi works, including «Star Trek: TNG».

In between, there's a stupid thing involving a code delivered by an autistic guy (Mercury Rising) that smells a little like first - time screenwriter (s)- itis, as well as a gaggle of story twists that are completely uninteresting except that they're played out by Pearce, Peter Stormare, Lennie James, and Vincent Regan.

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.

Hartley and first - time screenwriter Justin King take the raw material and tighten it up.

Yet, for all of that, «The Wall» — penned by first - time screenwriter Dwain Worrell, whose script was well - regarded in Hollywood before it got turned into a film — feels longer than its brief 81 minutes.

«The Wall» is directed by Doug Liman and written by first - time screenwriter Dwain Worrell.

Written by one - time screenwriter John Pinkney, producer Anthony Ginnane - who also gave us the Aussie supernatural thriller «Patrick» a year earlier - recruited members of Crawford Productions, a company that played a major role in bringing many celebrated Australian film artists to the international film scene during the Seventies.