Sentences with phrase «very first screenplay»

And just a few weeks ago, Challenger, her very first screenplay that launched her career, was re-optioned by producer Joel Newton (The Kids Are All Right) and his coincidentally titled production company, Hydra Entertainment.

All of the trademarks of his work are evident in this very first screenplay — witty banter laced with profanity, reversals, reveals, a loopy plot that doesn't make much sense if you hold it up to any kind of scrutiny but it's so fun you never will, a Christmas - time setting — less tightly controlled and mannered in his later scripts, but still there.

This project goes back even further, as it was one of the very first screenplays that Shyamalan sold.

Not exact matches

From the very first scene, the rhythm is off, the staging and editing graceless, and the dialogue (the screenplay is by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Turpel) alternates between trying too hard and not hard enough.

However, in the second half of the film, Amiel and the stately screenplay (by John Collee, «Master and Commander») turn their attention to the saga of Annie, and how her catastrophic illness shattered Charles, his marriage (Charles and Emma were first cousins, a fact that kept the scientist forever paranoid about the health of his children), and the very questions posed in the book.

The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

Whannell's screenplay borrows from a lot of other movies: Sleepaway Camp immediately comes to mind with Parker's backstory, the third act is very Shining-esque and many of the scares are repeats from the first Insidious.

Throw in Jordan Peele becoming the first African - American screenwriter to win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, an open endorsement of the Time's Up movement and Frances McDormand speaking very loudly, and you have an eventful evening of progressive winners, even if they didn't win in every category.

The complexity of the screenplay by Seth Grossman really starts to build after the first thirty minutes of the film and steps out of the calm, leading into something very dramatic and emotional, which surprised me.

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.»

It's all very heavy on exposition, and the screenplay by Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor feels more like the first act to a bigger - picture tale that doesn't even start to reveal itself by the time the movie ends.

The screenplay by Gideon Defoe (based on the first two books in his series about these characters) gets far more mileage out of these characters when they are simply mucking about — getting into arguments about the best part of a pirate's life, sailing while leaving behind red dots in the water so that their progress can be seen on a map, and otherwise doing very silly things for no reason more than that they must.

This is an oppressive scenario, and The Hunger Games, based on the first book in a trilogy of young adult books by Suzanne Collins (who co-wrote the screenplay with director Gary Ross and Billy Ray), is disconnected from that reality setup, favoring the spectacle of its second act and seeming to buy into the very dangerous game it attempts to critique.

First - time filmmaker Lemmon has infused Kotch with a very slow and very gentle feel that admittedly proves an ideal complement to John Paxton's subdued screenplay, with the movie benefiting substantially from Matthau's strong work as the somewhat unlikable protagonist.