Sentences with phrase «well as screenwriter»

New Jersey native Bill Mesce, Jr. is an author of fiction and non-fiction, as well as a screenwriter and playwright.

The director, as well as screenwriter Frank Deasy, editor James Lyons, and production designer Clay A. Griffith deconstruct the finished film and examine everything from framing and angles to the film's color palette.

John Horn, the former Los Angeles Times film writer, moderated a Q&A session with actor Ben Mendelsohn (who plays King George XI) as well as screenwriter Anthony McCarten and producer Lisa Bruce (Oscar nominees for «The Theory of Everything»).

Sorkin, a playwright as well as a screenwriter, organizes «Steve Jobs» as a three - act backstage drama, beginning in 1984.

The 35 - year - old actor was joined at the panel by his co-stars Amy Adams and Aaron Taylor - Johnson, as well as screenwriter - director Tom Ford.

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The director was joined on stage at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica by the movie's stars Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer, as well as screenwriter Vanessa Taylor, as he picked up the award.

A director as well as a screenwriter, Ivory doesn't yet have an Academy Award.

Filled with silly caricatures of the fame - worshipping underclass, it's clear that the director Prynoski as well as the screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker hate just about every person in this world.

It's that conventionality that others find fault with, as Variety claims «the vitality seems to have been largely drained from this rote retelling,» while The Guardian blames Newell as well as screenwriter David Nicholls, noting, «It takes a special type of talent to turn Great Expectations into a film quite this flat.»

The picture co-stars filmmakers Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha) and Todd Rohal (The Guatemalan Handshake) as well as screenwriter Kent Osborne (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie).

He's been a web video producer at National Geographic as well as a screenwriter and an all - around video guru, and he'll be evaluating the video questions from a film - guy's point of view.

Though most of the cast returns, as well as the screenwriters of the first film, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, with Ryan Reynolds also snagging a writing credit, Deadpool 2 recruited David Leitch (one half of John Wick's directorial team) to replace Tim Miller, and the change works.

Members of MWA include most major writers of crime fiction and non-fiction, as well as screenwriters, dramatists, editors, publishers, and other professionals in the field.

Not exact matches

Goldman's got a history of coming up with good ideas, as the screenwriter for both All the President's Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but the idea for Princess Bride 2 just won't come.

She has also been identified, perhaps more by modern novelists and screenwriters than by the ancients, as the woman at the well (John 4:4.29).

To be fair to the screenwriters, we can also see that the Mad Men were, compared to us, pretty classy and creative, weren't afraid to let themselves go and have those multiple kids, and generally knew how to handle themselves as ladies and gentlemen better than we do.

Visionaries have long dreamed of leaving the road for the skies, and the idea of a flying car has fascinated pilots as well as Hollywood screenwriters (think Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Back to the Future, and The Jetsons).

Tony Jr.'s credits include TV host, screenwriter, songwriter and sports reporter, as well as having acted in several movies.

Bill is a comedian and actor and probably best known for his work on SNL (Saturday Night Live), while Maggie is a behind the scenes girl as a director and screenwriter.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan: «He is best known as a novelist, but he's also an historian, a journalist, a critic, an essayist, a poet, a philosopher, a screenwriter, a playwright and a treasured friend and colleague to many.

Screenwriter, director, producer, actress — and as of this year, second woman ever to win Best Director at Cannes — Sofia Coppola is a force to be reckoned with.

DC comic book writers and artists such as DC Entertainment's Jim Lee, Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, Shea Fontana, Agnes Garbowska, Tom King, Steve Orlando, Alice Randall, Oscar ® - winning screenwriter John Ridley, Mark Russell, Mariko Tamaki and DC Entertainment's Geoff Johns, the best - selling author of Rebirth and Doomsday Clock.

We're meant to care about her job, but everything is so vague that the screenwriter might as well replace the dialogue with each character mumbling «Real estate.

Scotland About Blog This is the Official Website of Joanne Rowling, who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, film and television producer, screenwriter and philanthropist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.

There is also a bit of what screenwriters call «sexposition»: that is, if you have a couple of sleazy male characters discussing something important to the plot, they might as well do it in a topless bar for the added frisson.

The best compliment I can give Stone as a screenwriter and director of Snowden is that he took a thoroughly challenging scenario with few cut - and - dry answers and made an accessible movie experience that effectively conveys moral outrage and dismay.

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.

Joined by a fairly new screenwriter in terms of feature films, Liz Hannah definitely proves herself as a worthy writer as well.

Peploe, her husband Bernardo Bertolucci and screenwriter Marilyn Goldin (Camille Claudel) adapted the play by Marivaux, and in translating it from the French, they've made it sound wonderfully current as well as poetic and flowery.

Biography: Sarah is a Canadian actress, singer, film director and screenwriter, better known for her role as Sarah Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea.

A big saving factor of this film involves the generous use of physical humor, both from Johnson and George, as well some funny lines written by the four screenwriters.

Sarah is a Canadian actress, singer, film director and screenwriter, better known for her role as Sarah Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea.

Inspired by a popular video game that was released in 1986, screenwriters Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal and Adam Sztykiel assemble a scenario that enables Dwayne Johnson to be heroic as he endeavors to save his best friend George, with the help of Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), who formerly worked at the evil company run by Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman), and Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a mercenary who begins working for the evil company and then is tempted to the side of the good guys.

In «A Perfect Getaway», the screenwriter and his wife, unlike the four men in the 1972 film starring Burt Reynolds, get their deliverance not just from the primitive setting, but from each other, as well.

Screenwriter William Monahan knows that arrogance and a deprecating sense of humor matter just as much as the size of your gun in the macho world of cops and the mafia, and the characters are well - armed.

Debuting screenwriter David Self has altered a few plot devices as well, but the final product remains more or less faithful to Jackson's storyline.

Bay and screenwriter Ehren Kruger must have noticed that amphetamine - fueled mugging tested well in Revenge of the Fallen, so the third film is graced with the brilliantly hyperactive Ken Jeong — perhaps the one actor in Bay's 17 - year directing career who perfectly embodies his outsized, everything - plus - half - again - as - much style — and John Malkovich.

I can imagine a lot of good movies developing from this premise, but as fictionalized by screenwriter Dan Fogelman, it becomes yet another soggy tale of father - son healing.

Of course, this still might be somewhat forgivable if De Bont and first - time screenwriter David Self didn't openly acknowledge their inspirations for the film — the wonderfully creepy 1963 movie of the same name, as well as its source, the novel «The Haunting of Hill House.»

Written by debut screenwriter Amy Fox and actress / writer Sarah Megan Thomas (Backwards), the narrative is ruthless in its revelation that women can be as ambitious and money - hungry as men, as evidenced by early allusions to Michael Douglas» iconic Gordon Gekko «Greed Is Good» mantra.

Tim Lucas is a critic, screenwriter, and novelist, as well as the editor and copublisher of the award - winning Video Watchdog, a bimonthly consumer guide to cult and genre cinema on DVD.

The honor makes the 39 - year - old star the first black screenwriter to ever win the award as he gave one of the best speeches of the night as he admitted he thought writing the film was «impossible.»

Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist (C --RRB-: A fascinating story, but as reimagined by screenwriter by screenwriter Nick Hornsby and director Jean - Marc Vallée («Dallas Buyers Club»), «Wild» starring Reese Witherspoon is a well - intentioned, but misguided and occasionally even garish adaptation of spiritual redemption that never connects or finds itself.

And considering screenwriter Selznick was also the man behind the story for Oscar juggernaut «Hugo» a few years ago, we expect this one to be a wondrous spectacle as well.

John Logan, screenwriter for Gladiator, provides some good moments of dramatic tension, even if Shinzon looks and acts a bit too much like Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus to think he wasn't borrowing ideas from himself.

Charting the fortunes and (mostly) misfortunes of Paul Giamatti's eponymous anti-hero, principally his three failed marriages, Lewis and novice screenwriter Michael Konyves have fashioned a busy, baggy flashback structure that races through some key plot points as it leaves others dangling, and never makes good on its literary opening gambit to tell the story as Barney's autobiography.

A director and screenwriter as well as an Oscar - nominated actor (and former «30 Rock» co-star of TODAY guest host Jane Krakowski), James Franco has a new project: a film adaptation of William Faulkner's classic «The Sound and the Fury.»

Actress Blake Lively and actor Jason Clarke lead the way from a script by Forster and screenwriter Sean Conway with a story of intrigue, mystery and chilling uncertainty for a woman whose second chance to see for the first time since childhood brings both happiness, as well as striking new questions about her relationship.

As a screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman has crafted some of the best and weirdest cinematic mind trips imaginable.