Sentences with phrase «written screenplays for movies»

Edgar Wright is a great writer / director, having directed «Shaun of the Dead» and written screenplays for movies like «Ant - Man.»

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 books.

Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope wrote the screenplay for this movie, which is based on book «The Lost Child of Philomena Lee» by Martin Sixsmith.

As he goes through the motions of success, he constantly finds himself dissatisfied with his life of cavorting with the rich and famous, living in a swanky modern apartment, receiving an envelope filled with cash to write the screenplay for a movie star, and having flings with a series of beautiful women.

The project has just added another key role: according to The Wrap, Christina Hodson has signed on to write the screenplay for the movie.

She has written the screenplay for the movie so there is a level of trust in place that the movie version will be faithful to the book.

It should be known that author Gillian Flynn wrote the screenplay for the movie.

Not exact matches

Michael also created and wrote every episode of The Tudors and wrote the screenplays for the Cate Blanchett Elizabeth movies.

And now the movie adaptation comes out tomorrow, for which she also wrote the screenplay.

In my time off i love writing horror screenplays and being on set for indi movies i've done two so far, What in the Sam Hill and Spilt Blood I have a profile on IMDB.

But unlike so many other recent (or upcoming) Hollywood products, it was made from an original screenplay (Faber and Fisher previously wrote for TV sitcoms); it didn't come from a source that audiences are already familiar with, like an old television show or a previous movie.

After writing for The Wire and Boardwalk Empire and having three of his novels made into a trio of well - reviewed movies (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island), Dennis Lehane has finally written his first screenplay.

Pearce has also written a well - carpentered screenplay; there are some very big scenes and big moments here — sometimes too big — but he gives us a carefully crafted dramatic setup, an intriguingly curated selection of suspects for the crime and all of it building to a fascinating, finely balanced ambiguity in the movie's climactic stages.

Beatty, who, along with directing and starring in the movie, wrote the original story, co-wrote the screenplay, and co-produced it (he probably worked as a Foley walker when no one was looking), plays the likeable but maddening Bulworth as though he had prepared for this part all his acting life.

The screenplay is written by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant, the screenwriting duo responsible for one of the worst movies of last year, Taxi.

The Film Stage has been sharing the screenplays for this award season's top contender movies, and the official one for Lady Bird, written by Greta Gerwig, is now available!

Tracy Letts, whose August: Osage County play is written into the screenplay for Killer Joe, works with director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) once again, both having worked on the 2006 ultra paranoia movie Bug.

In fact, it's becoming a family affair as her Irish husband Niall Leonard, is reportedly set to write the screenplay for the sequel to the movie adaption of her erotic novel series.

Among his previous credits before becoming a director, Vizcarra wrote the screenplay for 2002's Django: La Otra Cara, a crime movie about a notorious bank robber which also doubled as an erotic thriller.

McDonagh was recognized for producing the movie and for writing its screenplay.

According to an article on Variety, there's not one but two writers who are currently in negotiations to write the screenplay for the Pikachu movie and if all goes well, it sounds like the two could be working together.

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.

Just as history is written by the victors, screenplays for Hollywood movies about inspirational, real - life stories set against the backdrop of seemingly unbearable adversity are almost exclusively written about the survivors.

With a screenplay by Sylvester Stallone — who once received an Oscar nomination for writing a certain screenplay — Homefront had the potential to be a solid, unpretentious, backwoods «B» movie entertainment.

Writer and director Stephen Chboskey wrote both the novel and the screenplay for this movie.

The fourth movie was only made for TV and was the only one John Hughes did not write the screenplay for.

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).

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.

Also, if the title itself doesn't give it away, then certainly the opening credits — which inform us that LeMarque is one of the movie's producers and that the screenplay is based on a book that he wrote (with Davin Seay) about his experience — do the rest of the job for us.

Or, Dana, to take your example, Elle, the screenplay for which was originally written as a planned Americanization of French novelist Philippe Djian's Oh... (I haven't read it so I don't know if the movie's dopey climax originates there) and for which Verhoeven hoped to sign Nicole Kidman.

Condon does have previous history with Bride of Frankenstein, having including a homage to the classic Monster movie in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, as well as writing and directing Gods and Monsters, which revolved around Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein director James Whale and saw him receiving the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

«The Executioner's Song»: Norman Mailer wrote the screenplay for this TV movie based on his book about Gary Gilmore, the Utah killer who made headlines in the late»70s when he insisted that his death sentence be carried out, making him the first person to be executed in the U.S. in more than a decade.

It was indeed a really good movie, but the writing has not been solid since then (the Wachowskis were responsible for the screenplay in V for Vendetta).

Seth Rogen stars and co-writes the screenplay with his writing partner Evan Goldberg (Superbad, Pineapple Express), and together they create a buddy movie and a «bromance» for the Green Hornet and Kato.

His script for Get Out, a movie he said he stopped writing about 20 times because he thought it «wasn't going to work,» won the award for Best Original Screenplay, making Peele the first black filmmaker to receive that honor.

Schrader — who is best known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese, but has also written and directed movies like American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, and Affliction — has never made anything as minimalist and contemplative as First Reformed, a film of empty spaces framed in boxy Academy ratio.

It's difficult to believe that Israel Horovitz wrote the screenplay for the 1970 movie «The Strawberry Statement.»

This entertaining film marks the directorial debut for Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar - winning screenwriter of a number of hit movies (Social Network, Moneyball) who wrote this screenplay as well.

Best Film: A Most Violent Year Best Director: Clint Eastwood — American Sniper Best Actor (TIE): Oscar Isaac — A Most Violent Year; Michael Keaton — Birdman Best Actress: Julianne Moore — Still Alice Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton — Birdman Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain — A Most Violent Year Best Original Screenplay: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller — The Lego Movie Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson — Inherent Vice Best Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon 2 Breakthrough Performance: Jack O'Connell — Starred Up & Unbroken Best Directorial Debut: Gillian Robespierre — Obvious Child Best Foreign Language Film: Wild Tales Best Documentary: Life Itself William K. Everson Film History Award: Scott Eyman Best Ensemble: Fury Spotlight Award: Chris Rock for writing, directing, and starring in — Top Five NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Rosewater NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Selma

On the television side, The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story paced the field with nine nominations, including Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series, Outstanding Actor for both Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Courtney B. Vance, Outstanding Supporting Actor for Sterling K. Brown, Outstanding Supporting Actress for Keesha Sharp, Outstanding Director for both Anthony Hemingway and John Singleton and two Outstanding Screenplay / Writing nominations for Joe Robert Cole.

The movie also scored nominations for Paul Haggis for best direction and original screenplay (co-written with Bobby Moresco), continuing his streak after «Million Dollar Baby,» which he wrote, won as last year's best picture.

In addition to his role as director, Wright — known for bitingly funny films like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End, as well as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — cowrote the movie's script with Joe Cornish, who worked on the screenplay for The Adventures of Tintin and wrote and directed Attack the Block.

Back in Hollywood thereafter — the movie elides the two years he spent in Mexico with three other screenwriters and their families — he's obliged to support his family by writing screenplays under pseudonyms for low - rent producers such as the King brothers (played for laughs by John Goodman and Stephen Root).

The screenplay for the movie was written by Aaron Sorkin and adapted from Walter Isaacson's bestselling biography of Mr Jobs.

While details for the next Bond movie are currently thin, we do know that 007 veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have been brought on board to write the screenplay.

«Josh wrote an excellent screenplay adaptation of the book, a screenplay which I desperately loved, but there was no enthusiasm for that kind of movie at Paramount»

Scarpa is in the midst of writing the screenplay for Scott's next movie, «The Cartel,» based on Don Winslow's novel.

McKay began writing a movie centered on the former vice president shortly after winning the screenplay Oscar for «The Big Short.»

Directed by Jordan Vogt - Roberts (The Kings of Summer) from a screenplay written by Dan Gilroy and Max Borenstein and Derek Connolly with the story by John Gatins, it's not a movie that makes us wait a while for King Kong in the same way that the rebooted Godzilla made us wait for the monster.

The play was written by Oscar winner Kenneth Lonergan, who won the Best Original Screenplay award last year for his movie Manchester by the Sea.