Sentences with phrase «with screenplay writer»

Oliva is able to take his long time directing and storyboard artist experience along with screenplay writer J.M. DeMatteis and craft a highly entertaining and gripping piece of Batman fiction.

Not exact matches

Groups like the Muslim Public Affairs Council consult on screenplays, train Muslim writers and connect network honchos with budding talent.

In defending his interpretation the screenplay writer erroneously argued that the Gospel writers, after all, were writing «200 years» after the event, and then proceeded to confuse the virginal conception with the «immaculate conception».

The fault falls with the screenplay, penned by no less than three writers — Sean Anders (co - writer / director of «Sex Drive,» a long way from home), John Morris (who co-wrote «Sex Drive,» «Hot Tub Time Machine» and «She's Out of My League» with Anders), and Jared Stern (who contributed «additional script materials» to «Bolt» and «The Princess and the Frog «-RRB-.

Over the next 16 years, until Biró's death in 1948, he shared with Korda the intellectual control of the company that they'd both founded and, in conjunction with such writers as Arthur Wimperis and Miles Malleson, wrote the screenplays to a string of notable movies.

But as is often the case in Ron Howard's movies, the morals, the messages, and the barely - hidden subtext are beaten home with a leaden hammer, plus the screenplay (by Space Cowboys writer Ken Kaufman) leaves little to no room for subtlety or nuance.

After winning the Grand Prix for The Wonders at the 2014 festival, writer - director Alice Rohrwacher returned to Cannes this year and tied for the festival's best screenplay honors with a «fully formed expression of her virtuosic talents,» according to Rory O'Connor of The Film Stage.

The screenplay, by TV writers Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember, clings to the romantic - comedy formula at all costs, and sometimes with ridiculous results.

Working from a screenplay by writer John Collee, director Jon Amiel delivers a waterlogged look at Charles Darwin with Creation, a muttenchop enthusiast's delight that's part historical drama, part hysterical drama.

As the story and screen writer, he came up first with a good structure, then with good dialogue to back it up (Jeremy Pikser co-wrote the screenplay).

Finnish - born Hollywood filmmaker Renny Harlin directs the suspense thriller Mindhunters with a screenplay by writer / director Wayne Kramer.

Liam (Leung) is an aspiring Hollywood star who spends the majority of time picking up bar girls with his best friend Joe — a starving writer who has yet to pen a proper screenplay.

There's a trailer out there that people seem to like, it has pedigree (writer - director Bill Condon adapted the screenplay for Chicago, another musical turned undeserved Best Picture winner), and it's been promoted with a certain amount of swagger.

Breaking In review: James McTeigue directs this thriller with Gabrielle Union from a screenplay from the writer of The Commuter.

From the Oscar - award winning writers of The Descendants (Best Adapted Screenplay, 2012) comes a feel good summer movie, with plenty of sensitive emotional punch.

The BAFTAs have always been an important bellwether for predicting Oscar, but they may be even more in tune with the Academy this year as a rule change allowed the entire BAFTA voting body to vote on every award (like the Oscars), instead of writers only voting for screenplay, actors only voting for acting, etc..

From his inspired collaborations with the prolific writer Charlie kaufman in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, to his adapted screenplay of Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze continues to prove himself as not only an important film - maker of his time but also a wonderful screenwriter, and his latest feature Her starring Joaquin Phoenix might just be his magnum opus.

Four writers are credited with the screenplay, which provides Burke with at least half a dozen opportunities to perform full stand - up routines at comedy clubs, a wedding, a retirement community, the courtroom and even a roast at The Friars Club honoring 95 year old actress, May Conner (played by Cloris Leachman).

Somehow, director / writer Brian Fee, with help from writer Ben Queen, put together a screenplay that is a worthy send - off for Owen Wilson's Lightning McQueen and brought with it a sincerity not seen in prior Cars films.

Beauvois's film (the French Oscar submission, which surprised many by failing to make the Academy's shortlist) took the top prize, but it was «The Ghost Writer» that netted the most wins, with four — including two for Polanski himself (Best Director and Adapted Screenplay), plus honors for editing and Alexandre Desplat's score.

In a way, «The Spectacular Now,» based on the novel by Tim Tharp with a screenplay by» (500) Days of Summer» writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, has given a maligned genre a shot of freshness and emotion.

The Kite Runner sails onto DVD with audio commentaries (by director Marc Foster, novel author Khaled Hosseini and screenplay writer David Benioff), three featurettes (Words From The Kite Runner, Images From The Kite Runner and a Public Service Announcement With Khaled Hosseini) and theatrical trailwith audio commentaries (by director Marc Foster, novel author Khaled Hosseini and screenplay writer David Benioff), three featurettes (Words From The Kite Runner, Images From The Kite Runner and a Public Service Announcement With Khaled Hosseini) and theatrical trailWith Khaled Hosseini) and theatrical trailers.

As they've shown in the past with nominations for the likes of «Mon Oncle d'Amerique» and «The Barbarian Invasions,» the writers» branch can be quite accommodating towards more esoteric and / or eggheady foreign - language screenplays.

The film's credits do recognize Whedon for his contributions to the screenplay, along with writer Chris Terrio, who previously co-wrote «Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.»

This was especially true with the writers branch in the original screenplay category.

Stone had already attracted notice as a writer; his script for Midnight Express won him the adapted screenplay Oscar and he followed that up with the commercially strong Conan the Barbarian and Scarface.

He also voiced his appreciation to «Birdman» writer - director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (the night's screenplay winner), calling him a «true artist,» someone everyone in the room would work with at a moment's notice.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

Four years ago, writer Alex Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a critical smash that surprised with two Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Visual Effects and further surprised by winning the Visual Effects prize.

The evolution of the movie «The Post» (2017)-- a story about The Washington Post's 1970s battles with government over its publication of classified information relating to the Vietnam War and Pentagon Papers — reportedly goes something like this: It was a screenplay authored by Jewish writers Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, who presented it to Jewish film producer Amy Pascal, who decided it would «be a great story to tell.»

Both screenplays are competing in Original Screenplay with the Writers Guild of America and Moonlight has already won a few screenplay awards (although, incidentally, with groups who combine adapted and Screenplay with the Writers Guild of America and Moonlight has already won a few screenplay awards (although, incidentally, with groups who combine adapted and screenplay awards (although, incidentally, with groups who combine adapted and original).

The Writers Guild of America honored Spike Jonze for his future - set love story «Her» with its award for original screenplay and Billy Ray for «Captain Phillips,» the true story of a hijacking at sea, for adapted screenplay on Saturday night.

if you didn't know, there's already a screenplay by writer / director Jeff Wadlow, which features the «merc with a mouth» appearing alongside the mutant Cable and his team of mutants.

Screenplay predictions can be a bit tricky this early on as we saw with this year's Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner Moonlight, which won multiple Original Screenplay citations from critics as well as the Writers Guild of America but was deemed Adapted by the Academy deep into the Oscar season.

With the screenplay written by Sylvester Stallone, who first established worldwide recognition as a writer when his screenplay Rocky, won the Academy Award ® in 1976 for Best Picture, Homefront is based on the book by Chuck Logan.

It sounds like a change of pace, though NASA's tireless efforts to get the Apollo 11 mission off the ground, which is reportedly the subject of Spotlight writer Josh Singer's screenplay, could align well with Chazelle's interest in obsession and single - minded pursuit of a goal.

Gary Whitta originally embarked on the screenplay, with the next draft changing hands to About A Boy writer Chris Weitz.

Maybe a screenplay that has been poured over by so many creative eyes just, in the minds of the AMPAS, isn't as good as scripts with fewer writers.

He is also one of four attributed with the screenplay, sharing credit with seasoned scribe Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King, The Mirror Has Two Faces), stand - up comic and roast dais staple Jeff Ross, and event comedy writer Lewis Friedman (who has been scarce in film since his 1998 debut BASEketball).

Last year, Amazon had a huge breakthrough success in their film division, with Manchester by the Sea becoming an indie hit, followed by a bunch of Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and wins for star Casey Affleck and writer / director Kenneth Lonergan's screenplay.

But to then see Sam Rockwell's racist - with - a-heart-of-gold character rewarded, and writer - director Martin McDonagh's seriously spotty screenplay win, and then the whole thing take best drama?

One of writer / director Noah Baumbach's many smart career moves was to collaborate with actor Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the screenplays for both Frances Ha and Mistress America.

Stavier Films have announced that Anthony Renwick McGill, a writer living in Dublin and co-founder, along with Savio Sequeira, of Stavier Films and The Da Vinci Theatre Company, has won the 2016 FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY AWARD in the New York Short Film and Screenplay Competition for his screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970'SCREENPLAY AWARD in the New York Short Film and Screenplay Competition for his screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970'SCREENPLAY AWARD in the New York Short Film and Screenplay Competition for his screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970'Screenplay Competition for his screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970'Screenplay Competition for his screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970'screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970'screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970's Ireland.

Cole is currently at work on the Black Panther film screenplay with co - writer / director Ryan Coogler.

In addition to working in front of the camera (Ben & Kate for Faxon, Community for Rash), they shared the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with writer - director Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt, Election) for The Descendants.

For Original Screenplay, writer Emily V. Gordon is nominated with her husband, co-writer Kumail Nanjiani for The Big Sick, the based - on - a-true-story of how Kumail (as himself) met and fell in love with Emily (Zoe Kazan) while performing stand - up in Chicago.

The Oscars already snubbed Martin McDonagh once with the Best Director nominations, but the Irish writer - director was at least expected to earn a Best Original Screenplay win for his awards favorite Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Deadline reports executives at the studio are pushing the project forward with a script written by William Monahan, the writer behind the 73 - year - old director's 2006 gangster thriller The Departed, which picked up four Academy Awards, including a Best Director title for Scorsese and a Best Adapted Screenplay honour for Monahan.

It's the first big directorial gig for writer - director Dan Harris, who has spent the last couple of years penning the screenplays for some other types of «imaginary heroes» with X2, and the upcoming Superman Returns.

Directed by a former assistant to Hong Sang - soo, Romance Joe begins with a writer recounting the plot of his latest screenplay to the parents of a depressed director who's disappeared following the death of his leading lady.