Sentences with phrase «writing screenplays for films»

Film screenwriter Bill Dubuque used his knowledge that he amassed while writing the screenplays for films such as The Accountant and A Family Man to co-create Ozark, a TV series starring Jason Bateman about a financial planner who launders money for a Mexican cartel in the Missouri Ozarks.

Trumbo wrote the screenplay for a film about the meeting of Cortes and the Aztecs, originally titled Montezuma, in the 1960s.

John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, and Johnny Knoxville wrote the screenplay for the film, which is about a daredevil who designs and operates his own theme park with his friends.

Tina Gordon Chism (Drumline) builds her script on the original story by Antwone Fisher (yes, the same one that wrote the screenplay for the film that bears his name), with a good ear for the lingo and attitudes that represent the area.

Based on the novel by Edward Bunker, Matthew Wilder writes the screenplay for the film.

Tim Burton hand - picked Caroline Thompson to write the screenplay for this film after he read one of her short stories.

J.K. Rowling teases fans about her progress writing the screenplay for the film sequel, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2.

Wilson also writes the screenplay for the film.

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade wrote the screenplay for the film, which is being billed as an action film.

Unsurprisingly, Clowes is going to write the screenplay for the film himself, as he did with Ghost World, Art School Confidential, and the upcoming Wilson.

We went on to talk about his long term relationship with Danny Boyle, who directed SUNSHINE from Garland's script, and THE BEACH, from Garland's novel of the same name, though it was not Garland who wrote the screenplay for that film, and I asked him why that was.

A decade later, that film's writer and director, James Toback («Bugsy»), saw Downey on television after one of his drug arrests, and something about the actor's appearance inspired him to write the screenplay for this film in the space of a single week.

Not exact matches

Chambliss, an aspiring film writer working on his second screenplay, acknowledges that life has written a script for him: He's No Chris Chambliss.

Graham wrote the screenplay for a pilot episode but it was not picked up for filming.

Stir of Echoes was based on a novel by Richard Matheson, whose work inspired such disparate films as Somewhere in Time and The Incredible Shrinking Man; it was written and directed by David Koepp, who wrote the screenplays for Jurassic Park and Mission: Impossible.

Rhimes has also written the screenplays for several teen oriented films.

It's not that Garland isn't allowed to write films divorced of his usual themes — he did pen the screenplay for 2012's mindlessly enjoyable Dredd reboot, after all.

And as for Jackson's novel being an allegorical criticism of society, I'll refer you to Nelson Gidding who wrote the screenplay adaptation for the original Robert Wise film.

In addition to starring in the football exposé North Dallas Forty (1979), Nolte contributed to its screenplay, written by Peter Gent.Showing a marked preference for unusual and difficult films, it was not long before Nolte became known as a well - rounded actor who brought realism, depth, and spirit to even his most offbeat or even unsympathetic roles.

Raymond Chandler wrote the screenplay for this moody, hard - boiled film noir.

Pellington is working from an uncharacteristically sentimental screenplay from Alex Ross Perry, known for his biting, incisive and often merciless portrayals of human nature in the independent films he's written and directed himself, including «The Color Wheel» and «Queen of Earth.»

Kushner first encountered the challenge of fact - based drama when he wrote the screenplay for Spielberg's 2005 film «Munich,» which recounted the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Olympics and their aftermath.

Written by Etan Cohen (with creative input from David Koepp, Jeff Nathanson, and Michael Soccio), the screenplay for Men in Black III has some outdated jokes and slang which, given the film's premise, might've worked had they not been so distracting.

Sanchez previously wrote the screenplays for acclaimed horror films The Orphanage and The Impossible.

Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for Martin Scorsese's «Taxi Driver,» «Raging Bull,» and «The Last Temptation of Christ» and has directed 18 feature films, including «American Gigolo,» «Affliction,» «Auto Focus,» and «The Canyons.»

First, an almost flawless first time original screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, whose only other writing credit was for his adaptation of the Icelandic film that became the Mark Wahlberg hit «Contraband.»

Variety has reported that Paul Schrader - best known for writing the screenplays for such films as TAXI DRIVER and RAGING BULL - has...

Gareth Edwards, who directed Godzilla, will direct the film, with the script coming from Chris Weitz, who wrote the screenplay for About A Boy.

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay along with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney who wrote the play upon which the film is based, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.

Glancing over the back of the film I was a bit surprised I hadn't heard of the film, especially since the screenplay was written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr. — the scribe largely responsible for shaping the world of the 1960's Batman TV series.

The book was adapted for the big screen by award - winning British novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby, who wrote both the book and screenplay for 2002 film About a Boy.

He was in serious financial debt when John Krasinski and Matt Damon, producer of the film, went to him with the original idea for Manchester by the Sea, and asked him to write the screenplay.

Screen Media Films has debuted the official trailer for the horror film titled Temple, directed by Michael Barrett, from a screenplay originally written by Simon Barrett (of You're Next, The Guest, Blair Witch) along with fellow horror filmmaker JT Petty.

He wrote the script after graduating from college and it made The Black List (a list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year) back in 2013, but years went by before he found funding for the film.

On another level, the film is an overly glossy, ostensibly intellectual but deliberately trite mass - market romance (from the screenplay written by Pierce) about a reporter and a movie star falling in love while she shadows him on the set of yet another movie (in which he plays a cop along side Brad Pitt) for a magazine fluff piece profile she's writing.

Charlie Kaufman — «Synecdoche, New York «Having written some of the defining screenplays of the early noughties (ok fine, «Being John Malkovich» was 1999) Charlie Kaufman became something of a brand - name screenwriter — one whose own input rivalled that of the directors he's most associated with (Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze) for authorial ownership over the finished film.

Norwegian writer Petter Skavland, who penned the screenplay for 2012 historical drama Kon - Tiki, has written the film.

We must also give kudos to Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who share a writing nomination for «The Big Sick,» a film that hasn't gotten enough awards season love; Kazuhiro Tsuji, who is nominated, for the third time, this year for the «Darkest Hour» makeup; and Agnès Varda and James Ivory who, at 89, are our oldest nominees this year (and the oldest on record), for the documentary «Faces Places» and adapted screenplay of «Call Me by Your Name,» respectively.

The Coen brothers were inspired by the 1966 GAMBIT film with Michael Caine when writing the new screenplay for GAMBIT and the brothers then...

The association between the two films is not surprising, since «Thank You For Your Service» director Jason Hall wrote the screenplays for both movies, each based on non-fiction booFor Your Service» director Jason Hall wrote the screenplays for both movies, each based on non-fiction boofor both movies, each based on non-fiction books.

The film's best bet for a nomination is Steven Chbosky for Best Adapted Screenplay — he has the added caveat of having written both book and film — but this is also Chbosky's feature film debut.

He has just made his first venture into film — writing the screenplay for What's New Pussycat?

I personally am shocked that the film is nominated for a screenplay award and supporting actress (nothing against Melissa McCarthy because she is an awesome) but if that's all Hollywood needs from a script is a bunch of women fighting like 8 year olds and pooping in the street, please let me know and I will have my brothers write you up a screenplay in a few hours.

Think dating advice from He's Just Not That Into You in reverse, of which both screenplay writers of «Single,» Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, also have writing credit for the film.

Since then, he's been a producer on every X-Men film and wrote the screenplays for X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse.

The Salesman (or Forushande) is both written and directed by prominent Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, of many acclaimed films previously including About Elly, A Separation (which was nominated for Best Screenplay in 2011), and The Past.

If not for the fact that the same actors are playing the same characters, one really could look at this movie as its own entity (The screenplay may have been co-written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, who also wrote the script for the first film, but it often feels as if the characters have been transplanted into the screenplay for an unrelated story — perhaps one written by the other co-screenwriters Christian Gudegast and Chad St. John).

Francis Coppola's (he dropped the «Ford» in the»80s) Life Without Zoe (34:19) is the film's insignificant weak link, although it is noteworthy for being the first writing credit of Coppola's daughter Sofia, who has since blossomed into an esteemed director herself and an original screenplay Oscar winner.

By 1980, the one - time film critic and Pauline Kael protégé had already written the screenplay for two Martin Scorsese masterpieces, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, in addition to having directed three features of his own: Blue Collar, Hardcore, and American Gigolo.

The new film is written by John Hodge, who wrote the screenplay for the original movie 20 years ago, and is based on the novel Porno and its characters created by Irvine Welsh.