Sentences with phrase «writer turned director»

Horror cinema subversiveness need not preclude actual horror, a fact that's unfortunately lost on The Cabin in the Woods, a brainchild of writer turned director Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, Lost) and co-writer Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) that sets aside actual scares for what's - going - on suspense and diminishing - returns cleverness.

Not exact matches

«This was the first time we saw self - publishing turn into an audition for commercial prime time,» says Nathan Maharaj, director of merchandise at Kobo, which recently launched Kobo Writing Life, a self - publishing e-book service for aspiring writers that Maharaj's team closely monitors for «opportunities that are worth mainstream attention.»

That Stanford / Cornell study came to a similar conclusion, suggesting that companies turn managers, directors and associates, into «writers in charge of advertising copy» or «co-ordinators of sustainability activities.»

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

In addition to Guillem Balagué, the line - up of speakers slotted for SMWW's London Sports Career Conference includes sports executive Adrian Bevington, talkSPORT's Jim White, Daily Mirror Chief Football Writer John Cross, ESPN's Alison Bender, WorldSoccer broadcaster Keir Radnedge, former professional footballer turned Vega Swiss Asset Management CEO Ramon Vega, Newcastle FC Data Analyst Lee Fraser, Newcastle Falcons Managing Director Mick Hogan, Miami Dolphins Quarterback Matt Moore, FIFA Agent Sky Andrew and many more.

«Basically, we want to turn data into insight,» said Joel Dunn, executive director of the Chesapeake Conservancy, which is teaming with Intel to hold a «hackathon» that will pit software code writers against each other to develop climate apps.

Critics Consensus: By turns intoxicating and confounding, El Topo contains the creative multitudes that made writer - director Alejandro Jodorowsky such a singular talent.

Big - budget special effects, swiftly paced action, and a distinct feminist subtext from writer / director James Cameron turned what should have been a by - the - numbers sci - fi sequel into both a blockbuster and a seven - time Oscar nominee.

Upon all these folks, writer - director David O. Russell turns a bland, almost anthropological eye.

Actress («Arranged,» TV's «New Girl») turned actress - writer Zoe Lister - Jones becomes an actress - writer / director with «Band Aid,» a frothy romantic comedy about marriage and miscarriage.

Dax Shepard, who serves as co-director, one of the several producers, writer, and star of Hit and Run, appears to be heading in the right direction for actors - turned - directors with his off - kilter debut film.

Stories beginning «once upon a time» seldom turn as convoluted as quickly or irredeemably as Once Upon A Time In Mexico, writer - director - editor - cinematographer - composer Robert Rodriguez's final installment in the trilogy that began his career.

Writer / director Peter Landesman has turned out a film that nonetheless remains desperately conventional and never communicates that sense of inspiration.

In his second turn as director and third as writer, S.Craig Zahler again hits us with a sharp script.

Loosely inspired by the true story of the heavy metal band Judas Priest, this music industry fable from director Stephen Herek is based on a script by actor - turned - writer / director John Stockwell.

Writer / director Welles does not appear on camera, but his voiceover narration superbly sets the stage for the movie's action, which fades in valentine fashion on Amberson Mansion, the most ostentatious dwelling in all of turn - of - century Indianapolis.

It all sounds like a recipe for the most noxious liberal jerk - off movie since «Crash,» but in the hands of writer - director Richard LaGravenese, Freedom Writers turns out to be a superb piece of mainstream entertainment — not an agonized debate over the principles of modern education à la «The History Boys,» but a simple, straightforward and surprisingly affecting story of one woman who managed to make a difference.

Director / writer john Huston surely turns in a exemplary work of drama, lust, greed, corruption, backstabbing, and all the usual standbys of life on planet earth, with a sure hand and eye.

The evidence suggests that Derbez and sitcom writer - turned - director Rob Greenberg (who co-wrote with Wedding Crashers writer Bob Fisher) wanted to keep this all as light and inoffensive as possible.

Under the fastidious guidance of writer - director Johnson, The Last Jedi turns the commercial restrictions of this behemoth into a Trojan horse for rapid - fire filmmaking trickery and narrative finesse.

As for the substance behind this series, no matter how much the final product both bloats and hurries itself along, it's hard as all get - out to deny the value within Alex Haley's «factional» tale, which is rich with the potential for compellingness and thematic depth that, more often than not, recieves justice from teleplay writer and source material book completer David Stevens, who draws lively characterization and depth, which in turn recieves its own bit of justice from director John Erman.

Arranged and photographed in largely static but never dull fixed shots, the movie comes from Anna Muylaert, a former film critic turned writer - director.

Occasionally wandering to the other side of the cameras, Vint has functioned as writer, producer and director, often under the auspices of another «good ole boy» actor - turned - producer, Max Baer.

Born in 1937 in West Cliff - on - Sea, England, screenwriter - turned - director Dick Clement cut his teeth on the small screen in his mid - to late twenties, as a BBC television writer and director, including such now - classic programs as the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964), the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook series Not Only... But Also (1965), and the brief Steptoe and Son successor Mr. Aitch (1967), starring Harry H. Corbett.Clement segued into big - screen comedy in 1966, co-scripting (with Ian La Frenais) the Michael Winner - directed picture The Jokers.

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.

As the protagonist / antagonist of writer Diablo Cody (Juno) and director Jason Reitman's (Juno, Up In the Air) deliciously vinegar sophomore collaboration, Theron turns in a career best performance.

Among those titles, writer - director Tamara Jenkins returned after an 11 - year absence and 2007's The Savages to unleash the well - received infertility comedy Private Life, while docmaker Jennifer Fox turned heads with her first fiction foray, The Tale, a brave dramatization of her own belated discovery of sexual abuse.

He is a unique filmmaker, holding two successful and parallel careers as writer and director, as well as representing the critic - turned - filmmaker mythology.

The director: Maïwenn (France) The talent: Actress - turned - writer - director Maïwenn Le Besco (who prefers going by her first name, and whom US viewers might remember as the blue - tentacled soprano from «The Fifth Element») takes the lead role herself, starring opposite French rapper - turned - actor Joeystarr.

Writer / Director Damien Chazelle has turned his Sundance award - winning short film into a fascinatingly brutal message movie that begs for discussion and debate.

From actress turned writer / director Marielle Heller (A Walk Among Tombstones) comes the latest new - age, post-modern, feminist movement film that doesn't accomplish much more than Aubrey Plaza did with raunchy comedy The To - Do List.

ROSS AT THE TURNING POINT Herbert Ross has a reputation as a fine director of actors (Shirley MacLaine in The Turning Point, Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl) and an agreeable director for strong writers (Arthur Laurents, Neil Simon, Woody TURNING POINT Herbert Ross has a reputation as a fine director of actors (Shirley MacLaine in The Turning Point, Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl) and an agreeable director for strong writers (Arthur Laurents, Neil Simon, Woody Turning Point, Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl) and an agreeable director for strong writers (Arthur Laurents, Neil Simon, Woody Allen).

You may recognize Kelvin Harrison Jr. for his supporting turns in «The Birth of a Nation» and on «Roots» and «StartUp,» but with A24 and writer - director Trey Edward Shults» «It Comes At Night,» he leaves his mark as a Hollywood heavyweight on - the - rise.

In 2004's The Village — the sixth film from writer / director M. Night Shyamalan — the citizens of an isolated town in turn - of - the - century Pennsylvania live in constant fear of the monsters that inhabit the surrounding woods.

Actor turned writer - director Joel Edgerton creates a vividly creepy atmosphere as he digs into the perceptions...

This is turning into quite a month, with the emergence of two young female writer / directors — Margaret Betts («Novitiate») is the other — who might very well do great work for decades.

The Midnight Madness section's strongest entries included Afflicted, the latest iteration of the found - footage horror subgenre, in which writer - directors Derek Lee and Clif Prowse play Canadian students Derek and Clif, whose video documents a not - so - excellent European vacation, and Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson's playful pastiche All Cheerleaders Die, in which the tangled intrigue around a high - school cheer squad turns lethal — call it When Witchcraft - Resurrected, Life - Force - Sucking Mean Girls Attack.

Director Jonathan Teplitzky (Getting» Square), writer Frank Cottrell Boyce (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) and producer turned co-scribe Andy Patterson (Burning Man) adapt Eric Lomax's autobiography of the same name into a consideration of closure and catharsis, as focused on the juxtaposition of the young Lomax's (Jeremy Irvine, Great Expectations) experiences in a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp, working on the Thai - Burma Railway in cruel conditions, and the elder Lomax's (Colin Firth, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) troubles when attempting to cope, particularly on the occasion of his marriage to the sympathetic Patti (Nicole Kidman, Stoker) decades later.

As the story goes around in purposeful circles, its star, Aaron Pedersen, forges a path straight through thanks to the care and calculation of his writer / director — and don't forget the impressive supporting turns from a who's who of Australian acting royalty.

The writer - director behind In Bruges turns his lens to the American heartland where an angry, grieving mother calls out the cops — via billboard — in her small Missouri town after the investigation into her daughter's rape and murder stalls.

Starring writer - director Zoe Lister - Jones, this dramedy follows a couple (Lister - Jones and Adam Pally) who, in a last resort to save their marriage, start a band and begin turning their fights into songs.

Results is a smart comedy that turns the rom - com on its face thanks to writer / director Andrew Bujalski's brilliant insights into three very strange but very realistic characters.

Screenwriter John Romano served time as writer - producer on Hills Street Blues, L.A. Law and Monk, while director Brad Furman turned to crime in his first feature, The Take.

I have large doubts that 20 years ago, following the debut of writer / director Kevin Smith's Clerks, anyone predicted that one day this man would make a film about a mysterious man turning an unknowing participant into a walrus, but here we are.

In actress - turned - writer / director Greta Gerwig's autobiographical coming - of - age drama, Ronan is Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson, a Catholic high school senior who longs to escape her stultifying lower - middle - class Sacramento environs for East Coast college life.

A disappointingly self - indulgent offering from veteran character actor - turned - writer - director Michael Biehn.

Of course, it's all turned on its head by writers - directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (the duo behind Epic Movie and Scary Movie).

It's a consistently maddening Sorkin tendency that, in the first half of his first turn as a director as well as a writer, it looked like he'd kicked.

Writer - Director (and actor) Peter Berg takes the premise of «Stag,» a small film about a bachelor party gone horribly astray, and turns it into one long macabre joke.

An Ordinary Man North American Premiere Writer / Director: Brad Silberling Starring: Ben Kingsley, Hera Hilmar, Peter Serafinowicz Logline: The life of a fugitive war criminal takes a turn for the unexpected in An Ordinary Man.