| 单词 | screenwriter |
| 例句 | In the late 1960s, the screenwriter Norman Lear produced a television sitcom pilot for a show called All in the Family. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The ten directors and screenwriters were thrown in prison for contempt of Congress. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He had changed hands as often as a dollar bill and was now running under the colors of a Hollywood screenwriter. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned its attention on Hollywood, where it ordered famous actors, actresses, screenwriters, producers, and directors to testify and to declare under oath whether they were or had ever been members of the Communist Party. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She did her graduate work at NYU, and for three weeks the four of us stayed in the city and socialized with her former teachers and classmates—novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, poets. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Amelia is the director and lead vocal talent, Serenity is the screenwriter and side vocals, and I’m the animator. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The committee sent subpoenas to dozens of well-known actors, directors, screenwriters, and other professionals suspected of being affiliated with communism. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “That most of the people around Rufus know more about real violence than the screenwriters of today will ever know.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Midnight in Paris, starring Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams, told of a screenwriter who finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every night. Woody Allen latest set in France 2013-05-01T09:51:20Z Also this week, prolific novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan brings new understanding to the difficult question of who gets to decide life and death in complicated medical cases: God or man? Live on SalonTV This Week: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ian McEwan, Nicole Holofcener and more 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a has-been English screenwriter takes a job teaching at a so-so state school in upstate New York in The Rewrite. From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The actress is ensconced in a “gleaming brownstone” with her screenwriter husband and a cherubic brood of three. In Laura Sims’s “Looker,” a Sad Voyeur Mistakes Her Own Life for a Poem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z “The idea that Jews were going to fight I found exciting,” says Harold Livingston, one of the pilots, who later became a novelist and screenwriter. ‘Above and Beyond,’ Jewish American Pilots Fighting for Israel 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z “There were really two different stories in the book,” said Melissa Rosenberg, the screenwriter of all five “Twilight” films. ‘The Hunger Games,’ Like Other Series, Splits Its Finale 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z The stage musical will feature a score made up of Diamond’s songs, with a book by Anthony McCarten, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind “The Two Popes” and “The Theory of Everything.” A Neil Diamond Musical Is Coming to Broadway, After a Stop in Boston 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Her father, Henry, and her mother, the former Phoebe Wolkind, were Hollywood screenwriters who wrote, among other films, “Carousel,” “There’s No Business Like Show Business” and “Captain Newman, M.D.” | 1941-2012: Nora Ephron, Essayist, Screenwriter and Director, Dies at 71 2012-06-27T02:01:02Z The French film-making maniac lent his talents as a screenwriter to Camille Delamarre’s thriller, laying out a twice-wormed- over shell of the Motor City in which abandoned palatial estates house deadly crooks. Moon Nazis and sex in space: what can we learn from movies set in 2018? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z She met Mr. Feldman, an aspiring novelist and screenwriter, through mutual friends, and tried to help him get a foothold in Hollywood as a writer’s assistant. ‘This Close’ Is by and About Deaf People, but That’s Only the Beginning 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z With Gyllenhaal, the link is less clear: the son of a successful director and screenwriter, he grew up in LA, acting as a child. Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘I’m fascinated by my own anger’ 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Preston became one of Hollywood’s top screenwriters in the 1930s, but he wanted to direct as well as write. 'Truth is funnier than anything': the life of Preston Sturges told by his son 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z As a child, the screenwriter Joe Robert Cole loved making up stories about his movie heroes, and he would always change them from white to black characters. 'This is the movie I wish I’d had to look up to': Joe Robert Cole on co-writing Black Panther 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z You have to love a writer whose website describes her as an “author, editor, playwright, screenwriter, monstermaker.” Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for September 2018 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z For his debut, Sandberg and the screenwriter Henry Gayden were graced with low expectations and a wallop of tenderness and wit. ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ Review: Yells Like Teen Spirit 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Told that it’s the screenwriter Cam Cannon, Hopkins beams. ‘Zero Contact’ Review: A Token of the Times 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The comedy, which revolved around a panic that ensued in Los Angeles after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, was written by up-and-coming young screenwriters Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis. A second look at Steven Spielberg's '1941' 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Once recast as L’Hotel in the 1960s, it became watering hole de choix for glitterati, including the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau, the French poet, dramatist, screenwriter and novelist. Chasing Balzac: Uncovering the Intimate Belle Epoque Hotels of Paris 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z She notes film director Alma Har’el’s criticism of the Golden Globes for failing to nominate a single female director or screenwriter last year. How Waves unpicks the pressures of ‘black excellence’ 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Gone are "Divergent's" pair of screenwriters, who stuck closely to the original book. 'Insurgent' smartly gives the Divergent Tris room to run 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z His screenwriter of choice is Jane Goldman, who prior to becoming one of the most sought-after names in Hollywood was best known as the wife of Jonathan Ross. Matthew Vaughn set to film Jonathan Ross comic 2011-02-17T11:03:10Z There is something intriguing and yet exasperating about this strange, muted film, adapted by screenwriter Alex Garland from the novel, and directed by Mark Romanek. Never Let Me Go - review 2011-02-10T22:46:01Z The screenwriter told the story that Schneider had infuriated his daughter by openly doing drugs in front of his own grandchild. True Hollywood story: The producer and the Black Panther 2012-06-09T19:00:00Z Now it’s a new movie by rookie screenwriters, born more than a decade after Chappaquiddick, who first heard the name in their mid-20s. What really happened at Chappaquiddick? A new movie explores the truth we’ll never know. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z That department had several boxes of materials by Bernard Zimmer, the screenwriter who furnished the text of “Chant de Libération.” Unlocking the Mystery of Honegger 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z The film’s composers and screenwriter are adapting their work for the stage, while a holiday special is also in the works for a 2017 debut on ABC. 'Frozen' Musical Selects City for World Premiere 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Wright also happened to be the screenwriter for the unproduced Spielberg film about Gershwin, who for a time was a close collaborator with Levant. Sean Hayes to Star in Broadway Play About Oscar Levant 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z “He was probably the greatest genius of his generation, and I’m a screenwriter from Chicago, so it’s very strange to be standing on this stage now when he should be,” Moore said. WGA Awards 2015: 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' and 'The Imitation Game' take top honors 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Of course, it doesn’t make Strayed a bad mother for leaving them—but Vallée and the screenwriter, Nick Hornby, seem to worry about losing a certain element of the viewing demographic. “Wild”: Mild 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Dead 7 marks Carter’s first project as a screenwriter. Backstreet Boys and *N Sync members saddle up for zombie western 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Bridgett M. Davis is a novelist, screenwriter and creative writing professor. Mama Was a Numbers Runner 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Abbi Jacobson, who not only stars in the show but co-creates it along with producer, director and screenwriter, Will Graham, plays Carson as insecure, because she sees a lot of the character in herself. Let me be something every minute: How "A League of Their Own" mirrors "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z “Well, I hoped the movie would reignite the debate,” said the film’s screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy. A ‘Battle of the Sexes’ Rages On, More Than 4 Decades Later 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z But, with Spartacus, Douglas played a part in bringing an end to the Hollywood anti-communist blacklist in insisting to Universal pictures that blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo be named as screenwriter. Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas wanted Doctor Zhivago movie rights 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Fortunately, “The Identical” keeps its proselytizing to a minimum, instead trafficking in a familiar screenwriter’s brand of mystical contrivance. ‘The Identical,’ a Movie Musical About Separated Twins 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z “My grave will be called ‘Mount Cleese,’” says the actor, comedian and screenwriter, whose new book is “Creativity.” John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z In the missive, which was published in Vanity Fair, the screenwriter, producer, and playwright urged his 15-year-old daughter to remember first that she, and others who mourn Donald Trump’s election, are not alone. 'West Wing' creator's letter to daughter about Trump urges action, hope 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Minhaj and Youssef were among several Muslim screenwriters who told me that they roundly rejected the defensive posture earlier Muslim storytellers felt compelled to assume for the sake of public relations. ‘Ramy’ and the New American Muslims of TV 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The honorees run the gamut: There are actors, of course, but also directors, screenwriters and musicians, as well as artists skilled in animation, costume design and makeup. ‘I Don’t Take a Single Second for Granted’: Asian and Asian American Nominees on the Oscars 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The screenwriters supply Momoa with material that allows him to do this, and he rises to the occasion. "Aquaman" saves the DC Extended Universe, proving "Wonder Woman" wasn't a fluke 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The bride, 35, is a television screenwriter in Los Angeles. Jeanne Leitenberg, Jordan Newman 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Amid an ongoing strike by Hollywood screenwriters and actors, a play with the nifty title “Pay the Writer” courts applause before anyone has uttered a word. Review: In ‘Pay the Writer,’ a Portrait of the Artist Young and Old 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Mamet, 64, is a prolific playwright and screenwriter best known for such plays as American Buffalo, Oleanna and Glengarry Glen Ross. Winger lands role in Mamet play 2012-06-06T09:08:55Z Mr. Fortier works in New York as a screenwriter for television and film. Eleanor Seavey, Gregory Fortier 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Amazon Studios recently turned "Blackburn Burrow," a movie script by screenwriter Jay Levy, into a digital comic to get more consumer input. Crowdsourcing goes to Hollywood as Amazon makes movies 2012-10-10T11:04:09Z Ben Joseph, a screenwriter at the Walt Disney Company When I was a child, I only wanted to watch cartoons. Your First Crush 2013-07-10T15:42:09Z However, this streaming version of the movie has a special attraction: an audio commentary recorded in 1986 by the director Martin Scorsese and the screenwriter Paul Schrader. A Robot Romance on Amazon, American Indies and a ‘Taxi Driver’ Commentary 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Owen Wilson, a tall, laid-back iteration of the familiar Allen persona, is Gil, a perpetually dissatisfied Hollywood screenwriter trying to reinvigorate his youthful dreams of literary glory. | 'Midnight in Paris': Kicking the Old Ennui With the Lost Generation 2011-05-19T14:22:17Z A skilled playwright or screenwriter might kill for the chance to explore the drama in such a high-intensity confrontation. A political convention as improv farce 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Needless to say, it was a remarkable experience for the screenwriters. A second look at Steven Spielberg's '1941' 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z His script did, after all, get nominated by the screenwriters branch of Academy. Oscars 2014: Why 12 Years a Slave Will Win Best Adapted Screenplay 2014-02-27T16:35:05Z "I'm looking to become well-rounded as a producer, director, screenwriter and actor," he said. Michael Jackson's teenage son lands U.S. television gig 2013-02-19T20:26:20Z This is the screenwriters showing a little swagger. Die Hard at 30: how it remains the quintessential American action movie 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z LeParmentier appeared frequently in British television roles throughout his career and was working as a screenwriter when he died. Actor who played choked Death Star commander dies 2013-04-17T03:18:09Z Inspired, in fact, by a 2003 matricide in his native Palatine, Ill., screenwriter Frederick Mensch leverages in fiction the inevitable question: What could lead to such a crime? David Oyelowo mesmerizes in 'Nightingale' on HBO, but that only goes so far 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Bear in mind, Five Easy Pieces was made by Hollywood royalty, not some penniless upstarts: Rafelson was the son of a hat manufacturer, and nephew of screenwriter Samson Raphaelson. Five Easy Pieces was oddly conservative for a 1970s Jack Nicholson film 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z McKay joins a long line of Hollywood screenwriters paying lip service to feminism by writing these “behind every powerful man” women, without showing much interest in what lies behind the women in question. Best supportive wife: how female characters fare at the Oscars 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z After Army service stateside, Mr. Fresco began his career as a screenwriter on B pictures in Hollywood. Robert M. Fresco, Filmmaker and Writer, Dies at 83 2014-02-21T00:46:14Z In the early 1970s, Paul Schrader, a critic at the time and soon to be a screenwriter and director, took a stab at a survey, arguing that noir was primarily a matter of tone. Want to Be an Instant Expert on Film Noir? Watch This Drama 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Nick Cave is famous for his particular mastery of words, which he puts to use most notably as a songwriter, but also as a screenwriter and novelist. Nick Cave looks into his dark mind with ‘20,000 Days on Earth’ documentary In fact, the screenwriter appears to have stirred up the media storm with off-the-cuff comments. George Takei on Doctor Strange controversy: 'Marvel must think we're all idiots' 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z He began as a screenwriter: he wrote Innocent Sorcerers for Andrzej Wajda, and collaborated with Roman Polanski on the script for Knife in the Water. David Thomson on Jerzy Skolimowski 2011-03-24T22:17:00Z It’s nearly as far fetched as a screenwriter, assigned to do a sequel to “Fatal Attraction,” starting off the new script with the Michael Douglas and Glenn Close characters back together again. Books of The Times: Scott Turow?s ?Innocent? Catches Up With Rusty Sabich 2010-04-29T20:51:00Z Several years later, after becoming one of Hollywood’s most in-demand screenwriters, Sheridan reached out with a pilot script about “the ultimate fish out of water: gangster goes west,” Stallone said. In ‘Tulsa King,’ Sylvester Stallone Tries Something New: Being Himself 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The screenwriter Young Il Kim's drama, which was included on the 2012 Black List of the best unproduced screenplays, centres on the early life of the future first lady and US secretary of state. Carey Mulligan turns down lead role in Hillary Clinton biopic Rodham 2013-06-12T09:37:49Z Mr. Winter was previously the show runner of HBO’s gangster drama “Boardwalk Empire” and had been a producer on “The Sopranos,” as well as the screenwriter of Mr. Scorsese’s film “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Terence Winter Out as ‘Vinyl’ Showrunner 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Howard and screenwriter Vanessa Taylor certainly took liberties in condensing and dramatizing decades of Vance family dysfunction, but we shouldn't pretend that families like these don't exist. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z Steven Spielberg and his screenwriters find drama in the bureaucratic intrigue. Films once were an escape from work. Now, they celebrate it. What gives? 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Its 6,000 members are proposed by colleagues in various branches, from screenwriters to makeup artists, and voted in once a year. Why the Oscars still matter 2013-01-09T19:03:24Z The screenwriter and director Richard Curtis called the film “a complete masterpiece” in a conversation hosted by Neon, the film’s distributor, and Judd Apatow took to Twitter to say it was “stunning.” Renate Reinsve Steps, Reluctantly, Into the Spotlight 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z I'm no screenwriter, but if Courteney were replaced by a real hungry cougar that would make the narrative arc clearer. TV review: The Chinese are Coming, Fame in the Frame, Cougar Town, Chimps of the Lost Gorge, The Big C 2011-02-09T08:00:06Z A posthumous collection from the novelist and screenwriter best known for her precise accounts of individuals caught between different societies, seeking to find an elusive sense of home. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z I thought the question was a quirk of the place—a city where most writers are screenwriters and lots of people are paid to read novels instrumentally, with an eye to adaptation. The Unadaptable Me 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The Imitation Game screenwriter Graham Moore, who revealed he had attempted suicide at 16, advised insecure teens to be proud and “Stay weird.” Birdman Soared, But Selma Stole the Show at the Oscars 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Before he became a screenwriter and director, he spent his teen years writing for music magazines, including Rolling Stone. Cameron Crowe, Winnie Holzman, J.J. Abrams team for comedy pilot 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Friends like Mr. Allen and Marshall Brickman, the screenwriter, are still around, but the man who knew seemingly everyone finds it haunting that so many notables he was once close to “are no longer there.” Dick Cavett in the Digital Age 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z The film, inspired by the screenwriter Will Reiser’s real-life story of being given a cancer diagnosis in his mid-20s, treats its subject matter as he did in real life: as dreadfully serious and dreadfully funny. The Carpetbagger: For '50/50's' Writer, the Hardest Part Was the Drama 2012-01-13T19:56:38Z A deep dive into what makes screenwriter Paul Haggis tick. 'Think Like a Man Too' cleans up. Stephen King on 'Under the Dome.' 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Cage earned a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for playing suicidal alcoholic screenwriter Ben Sanderson in this sombre drama by director Mike Figgis Sing Hallelujah! Nicolas Cage: five best moments 2013-03-22T17:09:00Z "Tony threw you into the movie," said Jack Epps, screenwriter of "Top Gun" and an associate professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. Director Tony Scott may have been ill 2012-08-21T04:29:03Z The star Viggo Mortensen issued a statement after he used a racial epithet at a Q. and A., while Nick Vallelonga, a screenwriter, deleted his Twitter account after an old tweet surfaced that disparaged Muslims. The Oscars Finds Its Way Through an Identity Crisis — for Now 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Fischer, 37, who is married to screenwriter Lee Kirk, welcomed son Weston Lee, the first child for the couple, People Magazine reported. Jenna Fischer gives birth to baby boy 2011-10-03T19:28:23Z Waters, a Hollywood veteran both in front of and behind the camera, narrates the Emmy-winning screenwriter’s epic story of an alien takeover of Planet Earth, set in present-day Los Angeles. New & Noteworthy 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Neither Taylor-Johnson nor screenwriter Kelly Marcel is returning for the sequels. CinemaCon: 'Fifty Shades Darker' set for 2017, 'Fifty Shades Freed' for 2018 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Because the conflicts are prewritten into the script, screenwriters don’t have to delve too deeply into their characters’ psychology or think about what really makes them tick. Let the Beautiful Sick Girl genre die: Why “Everything Everything” should be the end of a tired trope 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Dora is still a fictional character, of course, and the screenwriters took creative liberties. Dora the Explorer and the Quest for Authentic Indigenous Representations 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z After several failed attempts to have the book adapted, Seth personally chose the Welsh screenwriter Andrew Davies for the job, fresh off a successful 2016 BBC adaptation of another historical epic, Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” ‘A Suitable Boy’ Finally Finds Its Perfect Match: Mira Nair 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z The film is especially sharp around identity and assimilation, and the screenwriters Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao have fun with the expectations and stereotypes placed on Asians and Asian Americans — including those that are self-imposed. ‘Joy Ride’ Review: A Raunch-Com Roller Coaster 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z The director and screenwriter last collaborated on the feature “Corpus Christi,” which was nominated for an Oscar last year, about a criminal who tries to become a priest. ‘The Hater’ Review: Resentments and Revenge via Digital Disinformation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z “Dumb Money,” an energetic, ingratiating dramatization of the GameStop stock craze of 2021, presents an interesting challenge for its screenwriters, who have to juggle two forms of jargon in fast-paced dialogue. ‘Dumb Money’ Review: Revenge of the Amateur Stock Traders 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Set in east London in the 1950s, screenwriter and executive producer Heidi Thomas used a trilogy of accounts by the late midwife and writer Jennifer Worth for the first two series. Call the Midwife watched by 9.1m 2014-01-20T15:11:53Z Streep previously collaborated with Suffragette screenwriter Abi Morgan on The Iron Lady, which won the actor her third Oscar. Meryl Streep in Telluride: 'There isn’t a man here who could out-lift Serena Williams' 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z After leaving the Navy, he was working in construction for some screenwriters when he got the notion to start writing himself. 'Fury' director David Ayer's rugged style was a hit with Brad Pitt 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z In 1945 the critic and screenwriter Frank Nugent wrote in Liberty magazine that Miss Horne was "the nation's top Negro entertainer." Lena Horne helped integrate Hollywood 2010-05-10T05:06:00Z Based on an unpublished manuscript by the late screenwriter Donald Stewart, it is written, produced and directed by Scott Cooper, who previously directed Black Mass, Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace. Christian Bale: 'I was asked to do a romantic comedy. I thought they’d lost their minds' 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Towards the end of Parks he got talking to Alan Yang, one of the show’s main screenwriters, about developing a show of his own. Aziz Ansari: ‘Being funny is like having a superpower’ 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z "I screamed like a baby and turned the lights on," recalled Wan, sitting alongside "Saw" and "Insidious" actor and screenwriter Leigh Whannell at their downtown Chicago hotel on Tuesday. 'Saw' creators move on, get 'Insidious' 2011-03-14T21:54:04Z Translators, similarly to screenwriters and filmmakers, need to make sure they provide good, engaging storytelling; sometimes that implies compromises. "Squid Game": Why you shouldn’t be too hard on translators 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z It’s a common complaint among female actors, directors and screenwriters: Studios always want ingénues. In Praise of This Summer's 'Complicated Women' 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z That was when screenwriter Chris Morgan responded to an open call and pitched studio executives on moving the series to Tokyo. 'Fast and Furious' strives to be more than a fast-cars, hot-people flick 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z "Now that the world knows that Margaret is the painter, it gives the art more integrity," screenwriter Alexander says. A 'real' portrait of 'Big Eyes' artist Margaret Keane 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The Hollywood screenwriter is familiar to many as the creator of the television series “The West Wing,” and he won an Oscar for writing the movie “The Social Network.” ‘Camelot,’ Beloved but Befuddling, Gets the Aaron Sorkin Treatment 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The script isn’t quite in English, either—rather, it’s in the distinctly cinematic language of Histor-ese, the constrained and stilted tongue with which screenwriters conjure the remoteness of past times. “Mary Magdalene,” Reviewed: A Sludgy, Trivial Attempt at Revisionist Christian History 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Walt Disney Co was sued on Tuesday by a longtime Hollywood screenwriter and producer who accused the studio of copying its blockbuster, Oscar-winning animated film "Zootopia" from his work without permission. Disney stole 'Zootopia,' writer claims in U.S. lawsuit 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Gaydos, the screenwriter of “Road to Nowhere,” has known Mr. Hellman since writing him a fan letter 40 years ago, and created the story for him. Arts & Leisure Preview: Monte Hellman to Release a New Film, ?Road to Nowhere? 2010-05-15T02:25:00Z To the screenwriter, Katy Brand, who acted opposite Thompson in the second “Nanny McPhee” movie and who imagined Thompson as Nancy while writing the first draft, that look is the point of the whole movie. Emma Thompson and the Challenge of Baring All Onscreen at 63 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z But "Reality Bites" is being developed, again, into a TV show for NBC's streaming service Peacock, written by the original screenwriter Helen Childress. Reality bites, so of course Generation X was always going to sell out and vote Republican 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z If you're going to set your film in Asia hire local artists as screenwriters, set design, cinematographers etc. Dear Movie Industry, We Have Thoughts 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z After his first stint in California he wrote the pitiless story, "Crazy Sunday", about an alcoholic screenwriter. The Great Gatsby – review 2013-05-18T23:07:04Z This is the crystal ball that the director Jake Schreier and the screenwriter Christopher D. Ford are trying to peer into with their first feature, “Robot & Frank,” due Aug. 17 from Samuel Goldwyn Films. In ‘Robot & Frank,’ Technology of the Not-So-Distant Future on Display 2012-08-12T02:53:01Z The screenwriter, Wes Jones, doesn’t necessarily invite us to compare these sins to each other, but to understand how these men think about themselves. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 8: The Miseducation of Bryan Connerty 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Expansion of the film industry brought hundreds of new film artists – screenwriters, camera and sound operators, designers as well as directors – into Soviet studios. 'There are no different truths': the last years of Soviet cinema 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z It was screenwriter Rod Serling who came up with the stunning ending to the original “Planet of the Apes” movie, which opened in 1968. The transformation of 'Planet of the Apes,' from book to movie legend 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z She and screenwriter Eric Pearson take swipes at the action genre's silly indulgences while telling an admirably spun story about women taking a fist to the face of patriarchy. "Black Widow" is a triumph for Marvel fans, yet that's what makes it so infuriating 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Cook, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who will teach two of the four sessions. Muslims seek change in their Hollywood story 2011-02-02T11:02:10Z Larry is both a veterinarian and a former psychiatrist, a combination that allows Lilly to economize on office visits and the screenwriter, Matt Harris, to dispense unrelated bromides from one character. ‘The Starling’ Review: For the Birds 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Exhibit B: Liman commissioned screenwriter Kinberg to draft 40 or 50 different endings for the "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" script only to end up filming the original version. Doug Liman hopes his wild loop means a hit with 'Edge of Tomorrow' 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z In this smart, sparkling modern-day Cinderella tale, an aspiring screenwriter who works as a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty realizes that her own dreams and ambitions are worth putting first in her own life. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Last year he returned to the London stage in "Trumbo," about the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. British actor Corin Redgrave dies aged 70 2010-04-06T18:01:00Z "I'm drawn to stories about polarizing, difficult men," said screenwriter Robert Siegel, who also wrote "The Wrestler." Behind the Big Mac: McDonald's gets movie and literary spotlight 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 91-year-old screenwriter Robert Bassing has said that he plans legal action against the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for age discrimination. Academy member, 91, threatens to sue if Oscar voting privileges withdrawn 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z I won't spoil the surprise; suffice it to say that when the ape talks, his "liberty" is crushed by the simultaneous revelation of another all-too-familiar set of prison bars: he has wretched screenwriters. Andy Serkis 2011-08-11T22:00:01Z While James herself exerted almost unprecedented control over the first movie, she was joined in the effort by two women: the screenwriter and the director. Women almost never direct big movies. ‘Fifty Shades’ shows why that matters. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Joss Whedon was the screenwriter and producer on The Cabin in the Woods and screenwriter and director on Avengers. The Mighty Chris Hemsworth on Snow White, Joss Whedon and Thor 2 2012-05-31T14:15:20Z Eventually, he sold some stories, was hired part time by a magazine called the Hollywood Spectator, and finally landed work as a script reader for Warner Bros., though he soon advanced to B-movie screenwriter. ‘Trumbo,’ soon to be a film, tells the tale of one of the Hollywood Ten 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Locke, a screenwriter named after the 1971 upstate New York prison riot, is one of three American writers shortlisted. Orange prize shortlist revealed 2010-04-20T08:49:00Z "Mystery" also took home the award for best newcomer, Qi Xi, and best screenwriters. China's 'Mystery' honored at Asian Film Awards 2013-03-19T03:23:08Z Leigh’s father, Vic Morrow, was an actor; her mother, Barbara Turner, to whom Leigh is still very close, is a screenwriter. Jennifer Jason Leigh: ‘I've been at this precipice so many times' 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z His 1973 film adaptation starred Ms. Streisand as a Jewish political activist and Mr. Redford as the smoothly ambitious screenwriter she marries. Arthur Laurents, Playwright and Director on Broadway, Dies at 93 2011-05-06T04:27:34Z "In my mind, I'm going to become a director and a screenwriter, I'm going to see every movie ever made. It really appealed to the whole OCD, completist aspect to my personality." Patton Oswalt has a thing for the movies 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z In the movie: No IMing that we see, which makes sense, considering the Fault and Paper Towns screenwriters took out most of the video game playing in Fault. These Are the Biggest Differences Between The "Paper Towns" Movie and Book 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Spielberg told an audience at the Comic-Con fan convention Friday that he has a story and a screenwriter for the next installment of his blockbuster franchise about prehistoric reptiles brought into modern times through cloning. Spielberg says new 'Jurassic Park' is coming soon 2011-07-22T19:52:12Z Mexican actor and screenwriter Roberto Gomez Bolanos, one of Latin America's most beloved comedians, whose slapstick acts charmed fans from Spain to Argentina for over four decades, died on Friday at the age 85. Titan of Latin American comedy, Mexico's beloved 'Chespirito' dead at 85 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Over the ensuing decades, presidents have been reliable go-tos for screenwriters looking for compelling protagonists facing high-stakes conflicts against the photogenic backdrop of the White House. Perspective | Trump’s exit may be too late to save the presidential movie 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z But it’s the job of director and screenwriter of “The Lost Daughter,” an adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel of the same title, that may be her riskiest role yet. Maggie Gyllenhaal Has Dangerous Ideas About Directing 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z There is also a chance that Odum is himself a legend, one of those psychologically manipulated super-agents screenwriters love so much. TV Picks: 'Outlander,' 'Legends,' 'Dick Cavett's Watergate' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z If it's true, as the screenwriter William Goldman claimed, that in Hollywood nobody knows anything, then surely it's a case of wilful ignorance. Cleopatra and Heaven's Gate: the last of the great Hollywood stinkers? 2013-07-19T13:00:00Z Subsequently his popularity as a screenwriter began to diminish; as a result Goldman had the time to produce Adventures in the Screen Trade, which was one of the first in-depth insider accounts of 1970s Hollywood. Butch Cassidy and Princess Bride scriptwriter William Goldman dies aged 87 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z To screenwriters and dramatists, it’s a city dominated either by virtue or venality, a place where the political classes operate out of a sense of the greater good — or are just plain operators. In Washington, the drama never ends So she wasn’t about to climb into a fat suit for “Tully,” her second collaboration, after “Young Adult,” with the director Jason Reitman and the screenwriter Diablo Cody. For Charlize Theron, Motherhood Is Messy Business 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Considered one of most influential women in Hollywood, Ephron was a director, screenwriter and producer who also wrote books including Heartburn and Crazy Salad. Nora Ephron dies aged 71 2012-06-27T00:59:34Z Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images The Stone Roses "have at least three or four new tracks recorded", according to a screenwriter who has collaborated with the reunited band. The Stone Roses have 'three or four' new songs recorded 2012-05-22T10:48:06Z Though the shenanigans tend to get the press, the hotel’s more impressive legacy is its role as muse for generations of artists, photographers, novelists and screenwriters, of which Ms. Coppola is only the latest. The Chateau Marmont Is Ready for Its Close-Up 2010-12-03T23:28:00Z The screenwriter said in 2013 he shot down the “Taxi Driver” sequel idea the minute De Niro pitched it to him. Robert De Niro’s long-wanted “Taxi Driver” sequel remains dead, even after “The Irishman” 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Enter the director Victor Fleming, whom Selznick pulls from the set of “The Wizard of Oz,” and the screenwriter Ben Hecht to remedy that problem while the entire cast and crew waits. ‘Billy & Ray’ and Other Plays Laugh at Hollywood 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z The top of the film’s poster said something like “From the acclaimed screenwriter of ‘Let the Right One In . I Accidentally Walked Into “Border,” and It Kind of Changed My Life 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The darkly comic crime story, adapted by screenwriter Noah Hawley, featured different characters and plotlines to the film but retained its flavour. Fargo withheld from US awards race 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z "Fifty Shades of Grey" screenwriter Kelly Marcel is not expected to reprise her duties. Sam Taylor-Johnson won't direct 'Fifty Shades of Grey' sequel 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The truth is, as a screenwriter, you were going to emerge from that era either absolutely incandescent with fury at the way you’d been treated, or humbled by the process. The Crown writer Peter Morgan on William Goldman: 'He was just a sublime storyteller' 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z But a screenwriter can at least make him a likable rake. Netflix's "Dracula": Put a stake in it – it's not well done 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z So a screenwriter, a photographer, the district attorney of Clinton County, N.Y., and Ben Stiller drop by a small-town street corner together to see a manhole. Ben Stiller Goes Darker for a Real-Life Prison Break 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z She is an award winning documentary filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. "You needed the Negro Motorist Green Book more in the North and the West" 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z This “riotously funny” debut novel by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter takes us inside an absurdly neurotic film critic’s hallucinogenic mind. New in Paperback: ‘Antkind’ and ‘Looking for Miss America’ 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Michaeux was a director, screenwriter, producer and distributor who was involved in more than 40 films chronicling the experience of African Americans. New stamp honors pioneering black filmmaker 2010-06-22T23:30:00Z Sir Tom Stoppard, the screenwriter who adapted the books, completed the haul by winning won the writer's prize at the ceremony at 1 Whitehall Place in central London. Parade's End marches away with four Broadcasting Press Guild awards 2013-03-14T13:40:28Z While she is an actress, screenwriter and author, Schumer remains a comic at heart, always hustling for a laugh, writing notes for jokes in restaurants and processing the world from the stage. Amy Schumer Doesn’t Care What You Think (That Much) 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Bhatt has an openness and emotional transparency that help make her character something more than a screenwriter’s bad idea, even if you never quite believe that she’s attracted to Mahabir. Movie Review: In ‘Highway,’ a Bride Falls for Her Kidnapper 2014-02-20T23:40:13Z You try to put a little bit of what you think you can add to the ingredients that others are cooking — screenwriters, directors, lighting, wardrobe, sound. Javier Bardem on "The Good Boss" humor: Humans love "seeing people suffer when we see they are safe" 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z But he soon became better known as a screenwriter and director. Bryan Forbes, acclaimed film director, dies aged 86 2013-05-08T22:04:26Z Remnants of rejected scripts from the bottom drawers of dead screenwriters have been reconstructed and recorded. JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner by Richard Marson – review 2013-03-22T16:30:04Z The pell-mell plotting of “Interceptor” recalls the Onion parody interview with the excitable, 5-year-old screenwriter of “Fast Five.” ‘Interceptor’ Review: Failure to Launch 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Rich, a screenwriter, novelist and former writer for “Saturday Night Live,” among other things, is the author of two novels and five previous volumes of short stories. A Toddler Detective, Pirate Parents and Other Witty Treats in Simon Rich’s ‘New Teeth’ 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Ms. Taylor-Johnson and the screenwriter, Kelly Marcel, probably will not be involved in the next chapter, according to reports. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z That an accessible third course of action — an abortion — goes essentially ignored by both Natalie and the screenwriter, April Prosser, is a mind-boggling factor in this otherwise predictable movie. ‘Look Both Ways’ Review: To Be and Not to Be 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Humphrey Bogart stars as a volatile screenwriter suspected of murder; Mr. Ray’s wife Gloria Grahame, estranged from him at the time, plays the even tougher and more vulnerable dame who lives next door. On DVD: Rock ’n’ Roll High Schools in Taiwan and America 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Photograph: Underwood & Underwood/Corbis When F Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940, he was, in the words of his biographer Matthew J Bruccoli, "an unemployed screenwriter", whose fiction was largely ignored, if not entirely forgotten. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-29T08:00:35Z Second, screenwriters are on strike, and that strike initially threatened to disrupt the Tonys as it has disrupted other televised awards shows. How to Watch the Tony Awards 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Reluctantly — groups can sometimes be challenging now — I went to a gathering and had the fortune to be seated across from screenwriter Pete Chiarelli. I was a hostage at the 2018 Trader Joe's shooting. Here's what I know now about trauma 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Their three children, Gary, a suburban banker, Chip, a failed academic and screenwriter, and Denise, a gourmet chef who is having an affair with her married boss, are battling their own frustrations and disappointments. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 2010-08-27T11:00:00Z The role was created by her husband, Dan Gilroy — the film's screenwriter and director — and has given her a pack of crackerjack reviews after nearly six years away from the big screen. For Rene Russo, it took time to understand 'Nightcrawler' character 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z “Liberation was caused by our dramatists and our screenwriters, washing these things out in our literature and hanging them up so people get used to them.” Every day we’re hustling: Why we love “hustlers” — but not “whores” 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z The Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter did joke that she was "so modern" to be working with Jay-Z and the Smith family. Thompson confirms Annie script 2012-05-17T06:01:09Z I enjoyed breaking down the book with the screenwriter Kelly Marcel and deciding what should and should not be in the movie. Then and Now: Two Interviews With Fifty Shades of Grey Author E.L. James 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Disney are being sued by a Hollywood screenwriter, who claims the studio stole his idea for Zootopia. Zootopia: Total Recall screenwriter alleges Disney stole idea for film 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The screenwriter, with a thick New Jersey accent and a gregarious personality, began working for McKay just as he and Will Ferrell were starting their comedic shorts website, Funny or Die. In These Women’s Hands, Dating Is Truly the Stuff of Horror 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Yes, he, Derrickson, and their fellow screenwriters are all white men. White isn’t a neutral color: “Doctor Strange,” Tilda Swinton and the “unwinnable” diversity argument 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z The screenwriters, Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, both much influenced by Hitchcock, had radically reworked the plot and the characters and most significantly had invented the insouciant cricket-loving Englishmen, Charters and Caldicott. My favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes 2012-07-24T09:23:46Z In June 1992, the screenwriter Jonathan R Reynolds published a letter in the New York Times complaining of Hollywood’s liberal bias. The Giver: conservative parable or a Hollywood film like any other? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z And she's the director and screenwriter of the wry, sad, surprising feature "The Land of Steady Habits," which recently debuted on Netflix and in select theaters across the country. Filmmaker Nicole Holofcener: “I’m a director, not a ‘female director'” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Ellis, while not generally praised as a screenwriter, is the celebrated author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero. SXSW follows Sundance in rejecting Lindsay Lohan's The Canyons 2013-01-24T12:28:27Z Some people would be positively thrilled at the prospect of a naked Rupert Graves: his devoted fans, the GravesDiggers, for example, or Mark Gatiss, screenwriter and star of Sherlock, in which Graves plays Inspector Lestrade. Rupert Graves: 'Genuinely, it helps in this business being called Rupert' 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Funnily enough, Ellis himself recently moved back to LA after 20 years in New York, has become a Hollywood screenwriter, and lives in a minimalist apartment on Doheny Drive identical to Clay's in Imperial Bedrooms. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z Mr. Granet — a tall, broad, poker-faced man unknown outside the home industry and polarizing within it — has become to decorators what Swifty Lazar was to screenwriters and starlets. Up Close: An Interior Design Deal-Maker Leaves His Mark 2011-08-08T21:29:47Z No one at the Republic of Pie is losing it — the screenwriters keep pecking at their keyboards, the waitresses keep slinging slices of apple and blueberry. Daniel Radcliffe hopes the magic is gone and he'll be taken seriously 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The current decree for the jobbing screenwriter is fitting franchise movies into the universes of inter-connected movies springing up left, right and centre. Mission impenetrable: are Hollywood blockbusters losing the plot? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z If "Dying of the Light" becomes veteran writer-director Paul Schrader's last film — the "Taxi Driver" screenwriter recently announced he's devoting his energies to Web series — there will always be an asterisk next to it. 'Dying of the Light': Prosaic, not poetic 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z As much as possible, too, he structures his book around the screenwriter’s own words and those of people who knew him. ‘Trumbo,’ soon to be a film, tells the tale of one of the Hollywood Ten 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z According to novelist and screenwriter Irvine Welsh, violence is "so interwoven into the fabric of Scottish social life as to be almost mundane". The Eagle bears the standard Scottish stereotype 2011-03-28T09:55:28Z Mr. Garland, a novelist turned screenwriter making his directing debut, sets an eerily, cleverly unsettled stage. Review: In ‘Ex Machina,’ a Mogul Fashions the Droid of His Dreams 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The book sold more than eight million copies worldwide in 42 languages, turning Roy, who was then a 37-year-old screenwriter, into a literary sensation. After a 20-Year Hiatus, the Booker Prize-Winning Novelist Arundhati Roy Returns to Fiction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z When searching for big ideas, a Hollywood screenwriter can't dig much deeper than "The Epic of Gilgamesh." God, destiny, good, evil ... and Matt Damon 2011-03-03T06:25:51Z As The Mary Sue pointed out, Shapiro is a "failed screenwriter" who couldn't cut it in real Hollywood. The right loves to say "politics is downstream from culture," but on the right the opposite is true 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The screenwriters of "Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas," "Left Behind," "Sex Tape," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Transformers" earned worst screenplay nominations. Golden Raspberry Awards: 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' earns 7 nominations 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z In the documentary, screenwriter Tom Stoppard calls it “the end of the innocence of Spielberg.” Steven Spielberg’s 3 Biggest Failures, According to Steven Spielberg 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z His father, Harry, had trained as a rabbi before rebelling and becoming a Hollywood screenwriter, penning episodes of “Gunsmoke,” “The Untouchables,” and “The Fugitive.” The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The show’s regular Three Page Challenge segment, in which Mazin and August critique a sample of a reader-submitted screenplay, is invaluable whether you’re an aspiring screenwriter or a curious film fan. 7 Podcasts for the Movie Buff 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The company’s house screenwriter Jimmy Sangster’s memoir was tellingly called “Do You Want It Good or Tuesday?” Hammer Makes ?The Woman in Black? With Daniel Radcliffe 2012-01-27T23:30:09Z What we said: “Where screenwriter Susie Farrell and director Julian Jarrold succeed is in constantly refusing an easy moment of empathy or relatability for David, even at the moment of crisis that starts the drama.” The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The screenwriter, a Northwest native and veteran of TV’s “Almost Live!,” was on the phone Thursday morning, not long after learning that his first produced screenplay, “Nebraska,” was nominated for an Academy Award. NW screenwriter surprised and delighted by Oscar nod 2014-01-16T18:09:41Z It was Jason Hall’s story, a one-time actor in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and screenwriter for “American Sniper,” who called his film a “character study.” I’m a U.S. veteran, “American Sniper” is rife with lies 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z This state of affairs troubled Calame, a screenwriter originally from New York's Long Island, who grew up loving to read. How do you get teen boys to read? Girls, of course 2011-04-27T20:16:06Z The husband is Scott Neustadter, a screenwriter whose credits include the 2009 movie “500 Days of Summer,” which he wrote with Michael H. Weber. ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ and the Ballad of Making Rock ’n’ Roll TV 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z This absence of interstitial inconveniences lets Stahelski and the screenwriters avoid any hint of contemplation or introspection, whether on their own part or that of their characters. “John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum,” Reviewed: Empty Fight Scenes with a Paranoiac Chill 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z In other words, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter's pandemic is going a lot like yours and mine. Julie Delpy on breaking motherhood taboos in "My Zoe" & seeing the last of the "Before" franchise 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z We think that actually nature is a very, very strong screenwriter. Are animals in Hollywood films too human? 2013-04-25T18:30:01Z In adapting the novel, screenwriter Sarah Phelps chose to focus on the youth, often to the detriment of the elders. Provocative 'The Casual Vacancy' no ordinary jaunt to countryside 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Enjoying the Hollywood analogy, Thomas says Daft Punk were the album's screenwriters and directors while the guest performers were the actors, but actors who were given licence to write their own lines. Daft Punk: the midas touch 2013-05-18T23:05:39Z Takei, a regular critic of Hollywood’s habit of sidelining actors of east Asian extraction in favour of white performers, took to Facebook to lambast comments made by Doctor Strange screenwriter C Robert Cargill in April. George Takei on Doctor Strange controversy: 'Marvel must think we're all idiots' 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Firth also took advice from the screenwriter, David Seidler, who suffered from a profound stammer as a child. Tongue-tied 2011-01-06T08:18:39Z It’s important to note that this early diversity was entirely due to the presence of women and did not extend to minority screenwriters. Writing Their Way Into a Diverse Oscars 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The 'meet cute' is Hollywood screenwriters' name for a standard plot device in which a couple meet in a way that's charming, ironic, or just generally amusing. Clip joint: The top five 'meet cutes' 2013-01-23T17:36:53Z It's a very major disappointment to announce that I've somehow been taken off the list of possible screenwriters for Fifty Shades of Grey... Fifty Shades of Grey movie leaves Bret Easton Ellis off writers shortlist 2012-08-08T11:28:44Z This is one of those situations in which familiarity with an actor directs the narrative more than the screenwriter does. Brooklyn's Finest: Training Day in Overdrive 2010-03-06T00:20:00Z As a screenwriter you have that sense of responsibility but not the power because others – directors, producers, actors – come in and override the vision. Morris Gleitzman's 'friendship books' 2010-10-01T12:04:00Z Sossamon, however, retreated to television work, and it was a decade before Helgeland, an accomplished screenwriter, was allowed to direct again. When big-screen reunions work … and when they don't 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Salerno is a Hollywood screenwriter whose credits include "Armageddon," the Oliver Stone film "Savages" and a planned sequel to James Cameron's blockbuster "Avatar." New biography claims more Salinger books due out 2013-08-25T17:08:53Z Things started to grow troublesome for the press association in 2008, when striking screenwriters forced the cancellation of the Globes ceremony. Golden Globe Awards Have New Stature 2013-01-11T23:58:31Z Until then, the hard-working Australian screenwriter had been known as the co-creator, with director James Wan, of the wildly popular Saw and Insidious franchises. Co-creator of ‘Saw’ and ‘Insidious’ looks forward — and backward — with sci-fi thriller ‘Upgrade.’ 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Encouraged to get a foot in the door as a screenwriter, she sold some scripts, but few were produced. Juleen Compton, a Director and Actor Whose Career Was Tragically Overlooked 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Perhaps a career as a screenwriter, but you heard about age discrimination. Too old for Hollywood? Try film directing 2010-03-02T22:16:00Z When Stern interviewed the elusive actor Bill Murray last year, producer and screenwriter Judd Apatow tweeted that it was “the Bill Murray we all have waited our entire lives for.” Is Howard Stern going soft or just getting sharper? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Clearly the screenwriters were told to think outside the box in an effort to reinvigorate a dog-tired franchise. Jurassic Park IV: something has survived (and it seems to be half human) 2012-10-12T16:01:56Z But for the screenwriter Andrew Davies, who is transforming Austen’s final, incomplete novel, Sanditon, into a TV series, it would be a shame not to add them in. Jane Austen's Sanditon 'sexed up' in Andrew Davies adaptation 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Over 10 short episodes, the pretensions, delusions and disappointments of fringe-dwelling screenwriters are brilliantly skewered by the two young leads. TV streaming: six of the best shows 2013-02-16T16:00:00Z “I got this fire lit in me a couple of years ago to make understanding the job of a screenwriter as visible as possible,” Mr. Landis said. Max Landis Is a Hollywood Disrupter With an Attitude 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s as if screenwriters, in their attempts to reframe history, have chosen the loudest, most neon frame they can find. Perspective | American history seems way more feminist on shows like ‘The First Lady’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z While the book-is-always-better mindset persists, a new dawn is near: as Hollywood continues to look to books tied to a preexisting fan base, screenwriters continue expressing a desire to stay true to the original work. This is the screenwriting secret to adapting "The Fault in Our Stars" 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z It had a giant studio behind it, a $40 million budget, and the highest paid Hollywood screenwriter. Was "Showgirls" actually a failure? "You Don't Nomi" revisits the craptastic cult film we can't quit 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z “White Noise,” the latest project from the director and screenwriter Noah Baumbach, will be the opening-night film of the 60th New York Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday. ‘White Noise’ to Open the New York Film Festival 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z A more plausible analogy for the architect is with the screenwriter, whose work is rewritten until everything that made it distinctive has dissolved under layer upon layer of mush. Building an audience for architecture 2011-01-20T21:45:01Z I could see myself in these African cities: a designer in the vibrant clothes, a screenwriter in the desert scenes, a poet in the rhythms. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z If a screenwriter bumps into a producer on a street corner in London, they don't immediately decide to work together; when it happens in Stutton, it's got to be fate. My inspiration for The Liability: Cohen and Tate and its brilliant screenwriter 2013-05-14T10:23:00Z "I call upon him to apologise for his own antisemitic remarks," the screenwriter said in his latest statement. Joe Eszterhas claims to have received death threats over Mel Gibson race row 2012-06-07T09:07:22Z He is someone, the novelist and screenwriter Julian Fellowes said, who “can play and suggest many different truths and emotions at once.” Tom Hollander Is Starring on Broadway, Poor Guy 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z So Pitt and his never-ending platoon of screenwriters confronted a familiar Hollywood dilemma: How can we take an original, borderline-unique idea and change it so it resembles a bunch of other popular movies? World War Z: Brad Pitt vs. the Zombies 2013-06-18T17:42:00Z To my relief, the directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, working with the screenwriter Julia Cox, trace Diana’s mythic roots not just to the naiads, but to zealots like Captain Ahab. ‘Nyad’ Review: Neptune’s (Estranged) Daughter 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z One of the original screenwriters of the movie, Jeff Arch, is writing the book for the stage adaptation. ArtsBeat: 'Sleepless in Seattle' Musical To Awaken at Pasadena Playhouse 2011-05-19T19:04:26Z As a screenwriter, Hodge has to smile, nod and pull out his laptop. British writer John Hodge on theater vs. film, and ‘Trainspotting’ sequel 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z These movies established Mr. Hughes, the screenwriter and director, as an empathetic observer of a teenage generation and Ms. Ringwald as a paragon of 1980s film and fashion. Molly Ringwald Recalls John Hughes 2010-09-17T15:46:00Z “For some people, she is a divisive person,” said the nephew and screenwriter, Daniel Stiepleman. Biopic tells Justice Ginsburg's story long before 'Notorious R.B.G' 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z It would seem Academy voters punished her and not her screenwriter Mark Boal, the movie itself, Chastain or the editor, all of whom earned nominations. Zero Dark Thirty and Silver Linings Playbook back on top for awards season 2013-01-14T16:42:13Z After directing television commercials in New York, he moved to Los Angeles to work as a screenwriter. Michael Cimino, Director of ‘The Deer Hunter’ and ‘Heaven’s Gate,’ Dies at 77 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z Corliss, who was open to their points but declined to use them to draw blood, wrote his book to bring the best screenwriters back into the picture. An Appreciation: The Endlessly Curious Richard Corliss 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Hutchinson, who was born in Northern Ireland, is an Emmy award-winning screenwriter, Olivier-nominated playwright and was writer-in-residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company before making the move to work in Hollywood. ‘Marlon Brando was my idol but he turned into a monster. He sabotaged my film’ 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Video director Erik White's debut film is an awkward one as he is unable to blend broad comedy with the uncomfortable ghetto realities in a story he dreamed up with screenwriter Abdul Williams. "Lottery Ticket" has no winners 2010-08-16T03:01:00Z Dalton Trumbo was too soft on dictators like Stalin and Hitler, or so said CNSnews.com in its vetting of “Trumbo,” an admiring look at that screenwriter’s battle with the Hollywood blacklist. Before the Oscars, Some Films Face the Truth Test 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “Don’t ask about the whys and wherefores; I doubt whether even the screenwriter could tell you,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in September. DVD: A Version of Gogol?s Short Story ?The Overcoat? on DVD 2012-01-13T18:02:55Z When Barton Fink, the neurotic screenwriter cooked up by the Coen brothers, scrambles to write a wrestling picture, his peers prescribe the basics. ‘Cassandro’ Review: Love and Lucha Libre 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Now he is at the helm of a heist comedy caper from first-time screenwriter Rebecca Blunt. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Smith became his wife’s manager and occasional screenwriter or co-star as she grew into a multifaceted actress. Roger Smith, ‘77 Sunset Strip’ Actor and Manager of Ann-Margret, Dies at 84 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z A screenwriter usually leaves those meetings bloodied and beaten down. “What we talked about was the work”: The nourishing intimacy of the writer-mentor relationship 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The brainchild of two anonymous screenwriters, the site's concocted stories have rained mockery on an industry famous for self-regard and pushed boundaries of humour and taste. Site's satirical take on Hollywood pushes boundaries – and earns raves 2012-10-02T12:19:43Z Another Brit, TV screenwriter Kelly Marcel, is in charge of the script. 50 Shades of Grey: Joe Wright set for director's chair 2013-05-10T11:21:10Z Mastai’s work as a screenwriter shows through the twists and turns and the relentless drive of the story. Review | ‘All Our Wrong Todays,’ by Elan Mastai 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z They betray the heavy hand of a screenwriter who has created composites and streamlined events to fit a three-act structure or the familiar arc of rise-fall-rise. film: Anti-Biopics Series at Anthology Film Archives 2010-07-09T07:25:00Z “I was the highest-paid screenwriter in town when I went to that meeting,” Mr. Trustman says, “and after that meeting, the phone never rang again.” Review: ‘Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans,’ a Documentary 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Both men are good-looking in completely different ways: At 33, the screenwriter is far less bulky than his partner but has a good 5 inches on him. Channing Tatum buffs his body of work in 'Magic Mike XXL' 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z There are weapons and blood, there is a riposte that no screenwriter or script doctor could improve. A Novel of 1918 New Orleans, With Murder and All That Jazz 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z In retrospect, it’s remarkable that Snyder, who serves as his own producer and chief screenwriter, remained on the job for this long. Zack Snyder steps away from “Justice League,” Joss Whedon steps in 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z “I want to marry up screenwriters with reporters,” he said in 2012 while promoting “Zero Dark Thirty,” which examined the killing of Osama bin Laden. New Venture Envisions Films Based on Gritty Journalism 2014-05-06T19:05:34Z Ephron's mother, Phoebe, also a screenwriter, had famously instilled in her daughter a belief that "everything is copy" and Pileggi has long taken that maxim to heart himself. Nicholas Pileggi: the mob, Nora Epron's death and Vegas 2013-02-03T07:02:31Z Salles and his screenwriter José Rivera give shape to what many have seen – wrongly I think – as a rambling, incoherent narrative. On the Road – review 2012-10-13T23:06:07Z Director and screenwriter Paul Mazursky, best known for the films An Unmarried Woman and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, has died at the age of 84. Director Paul Mazursky dies at 84 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z I found work as a screenwriter, married and had kids. Lives: The Secret Life of a Rock Dad 2011-08-21T05:30:07Z The adaptation is fairly faithful, with one key alteration: the screenwriter James Ashmore Creelman changed its villainous mastermind from a Cossack general to a Russian count. When Humans Are the Prey: A Plot Made for Every Era 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Two weeks later, on June 24, “True Blood” will be joined by “The Newsroom” from Mr. Sorkin, the creator of “The West Wing” and the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of “The Social Network.” ArtsBeat: HBO Announces Debut Dates for 'The Newsroom' and 'True Blood' 2012-04-04T18:55:55Z One of his superior officers was Eric Ambler, the novelist and screenwriter, and after the war they collaborated on “The October Man,” which was based on Ambler’s novel of the same name. Roy Ward Baker, Prolific British Filmmaker, Dies at 93 2010-10-08T05:43:00Z A profound misfire, this biopic is a dramatically inert attempt to pay tribute to the blacklisted screenwriters caught up in the Red Scare. It’s Time to Take a Serious Look at Michael Stuhlbarg 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Every other year, at a botanical garden in the Chelsea neighborhood of London, the playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard throws a lavish, all-day party for his many friends and their families. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Still, enclosed spaces force screenwriters to get creative — and that can pay dividends. Perspective | The best movies about isolation that speak to our moment, from ‘Rear Window’ to ‘Cast Away’ 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Scruggs didn’t need to publicly atone for her reporting, a judge decided this, and it’s not up to a screenwriter to decide that she should. Stop defending an irresponsible movie and start apologising | Benjamin Lee 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Every acting nominee is white for the first time since 1998, while no women were nominated for their work as directors, screenwriters and cinematographers. #OscarsSoWhite perfectly encapsulates our rage 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Films are nominated for the registry by the public and chosen by the Librarian of Congress in consultation with a board of experts including critics, academics, directors, screenwriters and other industry insiders. Big data tops humans at picking 'significant' films: study 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z If those names aren’t familiar, they’re the screenwriters of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” and Chance is a damaged, obsessional sap along the lines of James Stewart’s Scottie in that classic film. Review: In ‘Chance,’ Hugh Laurie Returns as a Tormented Doctor 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z A savvy producer, he also helped to break the Communist blacklist in Hollywood when he insisted that blacklisted "Spartacus" screenwriter Dalton Trumbo receive screen credit. Kirk Douglas proves a sublime master of rhyme on page and in person 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Friedman, also a playwright and screenwriter, called one of his plays “a tense comedy,” and that phrase describes his best fiction. Books of The Times: ?Lucky Bruce,? a Memoir by Bruce Jay Friedman - Review 2011-10-10T22:35:49Z In the time before, he was a screenwriter in Los Angeles, but when the Arrest struck, he was visiting his sister in Maine. Review | Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Arrest’ imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Wrote the screenwriter and author James McBride: "It's the same old story: Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens." For blacks, mix of 'Help' emotions on Oscar night 2012-02-27T22:18:08Z "I think that it could discourage other screenwriters or writers of any kind from making topical movies – it could discourage studios from releasing them," Boal said. Michael Moore launches defence of Zero Dark Thirty 2013-01-28T18:13:42Z Tony Awards administrators held an emergency meeting on Monday to try to salvage this year’s ceremony in the face of a strike by screenwriters that is imperiling the broadcasting of the event. Tony Awards Officials Ask Striking Writers to Reconsider Broadcast 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Now there is a film version of the musical, directed — as no other adaptation has been — by a Black filmmaker, Blitz Bazawule, from a script by a Black screenwriter, Marcus Gardley. First Look: ‘The Color Purple’ Finds New Hues in Film Adaptation of Stage Musical 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin provide enough information to push the story along while leaving imaginative space for viewers to roam around in. "The Social Network": A modern horror film 2010-10-04T18:01:00Z It’s the screenwriter and the author of the novel on which the movie is based, Seth Grahame-Smith. Spoiler Alert: Who is the 'Vampire Hunter' at the End of Abraham Lincoln? 2012-06-25T10:45:19Z According to the rules laid down in some screenwriters’ bible somewhere, when you make a buddy comedy, one of them has to be uptight and one of them has to be freewheeling. Summer just got funnier with ‘The Heat’ 2013-06-27T04:02:31Z I ask if she was ever intimidated by her lineage as she made her own name, first as a fiction writer and then as a screenwriter and director. Rebecca Miller on the Mother of All Subjects: Her Father 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z “Run would be the smart thing … stop and gawk is probably what I would do,” said screenwriter Max Borenstein. 'Godzilla' stars discuss remake, monster escape plan on black carpet 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Perelman is talking about some of the top screenwriters from Hollywood's golden era. S.J. Perelman was a master of comedy. Nearly a century later, his work still delivers laughs. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z And every episode is filled with little details so odd that you just know they must have been taken from a cop's life rather than invented by screenwriters. "Southland": TV's best cop show survives -- and thrives 2011-03-01T15:02:00Z Polley, who has won accolades as an actress, director and screenwriter, is a great choice to adapt Looking for Alaska. Sarah Polley will adapt John Green's "Looking For Alaska" for the big screen 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The drama, set in 1813, will reunite Hardy with screenwriter Steven Knight, with whom he worked on the forthcoming film Locke. Ridley Scott to direct BBC TV drama 2014-04-04T10:52:41Z The screenwriter Marcus Hinchey, with whom Jonathan collaborated on a film that never came to fruition called “Come Sunday,” described Jonathan to me as “a force of nature.” Jonathan Demme: The mentor, the maestro, the model 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z While the minions provide most of the obvious laughs—the flatulence humor is plentiful—returning screenwriters Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul slip in choice lines like this for the parents in the audience. Despicable Me 2: It’s Gru Love 2013-07-03T19:14:37Z Instead, the playwright, illustrator, screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist went back to the drawing board — literally — to tackle a whole new art form: the graphic novel. Jules Feiffer dances with noir in his graphic novel 'Kill My Mother' 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps this is just one of those cases where a screenwriter, with the best of intentions, left the magic on the page. ‘Winter’s Tale’: An echo of ‘Downton,’ minus the fun 2014-02-12T23:51:51Z A clever and entertaining tale starring Owen Wilson as a Hollywood screenwriter who pines for the Paris of the 1920s, the movie is also a cinematic homage to the City of Light. Cannes believes in Woody Allen, even if he doesn't 2011-05-11T14:52:08Z Over the past 30 years team after team of directors, screenwriters and comedians has tackled a vexing task: turning a successful sketch into a successful feature film. Film: Will Forte?s ?SNL? Action Hero Explodes on Screen 2010-05-14T17:50:00Z New York director and screenwriter Amos Poe said the funeral "was beautiful, just like Phil." Family, actors mourn Philip Seymour Hoffman at private funeral 2014-02-08T00:27:11Z Audry, whose sister and sometime screenwriter Colette Audry was a friend of Simone de Beauvoir, might also be termed a feminist. ‘Olivia’ Explores Love and Tragedy in a French Finishing School 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z It was a thrilling start to a night that almost didn’t happen because of the ongoing screenwriters’ strike. Best and Worst Moments of the 76th Tony Awards 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Whether this is because he has become a bit lazy or screenwriters have started writing with him rather than the character in mind, I can't say. TV review: The Girl; Doors Open 2012-12-26T23:00:01Z The film was written by Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Milk,” who went into it with a lot of consideration. The Carpetbagger: A Word From the 'J. Edgar' Contingent 2012-01-20T20:15:37Z This hallucinogenic debut novel by the noted director and screenwriter features the madcap effort to reconstruct a masterpiece of outsider cinema. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z His parents – director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner – encouraged him to take regular summer jobs to grit up his minted beginnings. Jake Gyllenhaal: 'End of Watch changed my life' 2012-11-08T17:01:46Z Your perspective as a an actor, screenwriter and author, with your creative focus on making fiction come alive with real people in the physical word, provides a unique perspective. Jason Segel: By the Book 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Your story in this week’s issue, “The Starlet Apartments,” opens as two recent graduates move from the East Coast to a Burbank apartment complex in the hope of making it as screenwriters in Hollywood. Jonathan Lethem on Hollywood Collaborations 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z He’s also a family man, raising twin sons, Harry and Jasper, with screenwriter Merritt Johnson, who garnered a Writers Guild Award for his work on the HBO series In Treatment. A Modern Manhattan Home for a Hollywood Power Couple 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The complaint claims that the guild’s contract with producers says that two years after a movie’s general release the right to adapt it into a stage play reverts to the screenwriter. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Bring It On' Screenwriter Alleges Musical Shenanigans 2011-08-15T19:38:27Z After speaking about the difficulties of filming various emotional, physically painful — a process that required extensive care and back-and-forth with her director, producer and screenwriter — Kidman turned to the final episode. After that “Big Little Lies” abuse scene, Nicole Kidman got violent herself 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z That fillip was apparently the whole-cloth invention of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. ‘The Risen,’ an absorbing new historical novel about Spartacus 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z “She wrote that like a man” — this was the gruff praise that the director Howard Hawks bestowed on the screenwriter Leigh Brackett’s work on “The Big Sleep.” You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z "I often describe it as sort of a lost story, really," says "Pride" screenwriter Stephen Beresford. A 'lost story' of 'Pride' touches on bonds, support and so much more 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Instead, in curiously excruciating fashion, the director, screenwriters, and star imply their discomfort with Georgian-era social norms from within the novel’s period setting. ‘Persuasion’ Review: The Present Intrudes Into the Past 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The self I'd become in 30 years: the author, photographer, screenwriter, traveller, designer, thinker. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z Playwrights, unlike screenwriters, have enormous power over the use of their work, sometimes by virtue of their contracts, and sometimes by virtue of the nature of their relationships with regional theaters. Why Some Black Playwrights Are Saying Their Shows Must Not Go On 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z In Hollywood, the screenwriter William Goldman once observed, “nobody knows anything”. Oscars on edge: in a strange year for Hollywood, anything is up for grabs 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z And judging by the rat-a-tat dialogue, screenwriter Drew Goddard spent one too many days in an Aaron Sorkin boot camp. The Martian Celebrates the Gutsy Ambition That We’ve Denied the Real NASA 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In the 80s, he once again found success with another of his sprightly and yet pointed ensemble comedies, this time based on an original script by the actor and screenwriter Zdeněk Svěrák. Jiří Menzel: a daring, defiant beacon of European cinema 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z The film was a showcase for the director and screenwriter Joss Whedon’s flair for dialogue and keen sense of comic timing. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z I’m an opinionated person by nature, but I quickly learned that women — and especially, female screenwriters — do best by getting their opinions across in other ways. How ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ and My Work Friends Made Me an Honorary Millennial 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z "The passing of our two-time Academy Award winning screenwriter is a significant loss to the global film community." Oscar winner, author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dies 2013-04-03T20:47:12Z A screenwriter friend said that "The Batman" reminded him, not in a positive way, of "Se7en." It’s hard to be Catwoman: a beloved, problematic character 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Universal Studios is at work finding a screenwriter for the upcoming movie version of E.L. '50 Shades of Grey' meets 'The Killing'? 2012-08-08T16:29:25Z Once, Ms. Crosley forwarded Mr. Shah, a screenwriter, an email from a man she was dating because she had taken the message as a sign that the relationship was about to get more serious. Sloane Crosley Unclasps Cloak of Secrecy About Authorship 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “A critical mass of critical praise had been established just in time for the series to be released as a DVD box set,” says Alvarez, who is now a novelist and screenwriter. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Even so, he recalled in 2001, the screenwriter’s lot is ultimately one of helplessness. Buck Henry, Who Helped Create ‘Get Smart’ and Adapt ‘The Graduate,’ Dies at 89 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z After fan site SnitchSeeker.com reported Sunday that the upcoming sequel would be set days after the events of the first film, the screenwriter took to Twitter to debunk this information. J.K. Rowling Just Shut Down a 'Fantastic Beasts' Sequel Rumor 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Frost is best known for his work with David Lynch on the Twin Peaks TV series, though he is also credited as a screenwriter on both critically derided Fantastic Four films. Jennifer Garner chief suspect in hunt for new Miss Marple 2011-03-29T11:29:02Z “A screenwriter is always desperate for that kind of great premise.” In a New Series, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Gets More Worldly 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Actress and screenwriter Jaime Bird, 32, from West London, started the petition for the bench's return just days after Mayall's death. Bottoms return to Rik Mayall TV bench 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Based on the police interview transcripts and records from the case, Director and screenwriter Vincent Lambe's 30 minute film is an unflinching recreation of the investigation, with standout performances from its young stars. Making Ted Bundy a "rock star": Are we creeps for loving true crime? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Yes, he is a gifted screenwriter who draws my wife and me away from the printed word to our television, but he also loves the novel. Review | George Pelecanos has helped make TV great again. His new book reminds us why. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z “He was very open about it,” said one screenwriter who had collaborated with Schneider. True Hollywood story: The producer and the Black Panther 2012-06-09T19:00:00Z Besides an actor and screenwriter, he's a bestselling author, playwright, producer, magician and fierce banjo player. Steve Martin on eve of his AFI award: 'I never had a vision for my career' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z This is a harmful trope, and in the last few years, screenwriters have finally started to realize women have other traumas. From “Evil Dead Rise” to “Clock,” motherhood is horror, but how we talk about it is worse 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z “This is a deeply human movie,” said Jay Carson, one of the screenwriters. Sex, politics, media converge in 'The Front Runner' 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z The film went through nearly a dozen different screenwriters before finally being released and spawning a successful franchise. Kenneth Lonergan’s Thwarted Masterpiece 2012-06-19T19:43:37Z Surviving correspondence, photos and other documents identify her life partner as the screenwriter Ruth Allen. Antiques: New Study of Marie Zimmermann, Metalsmith 2011-11-17T22:32:18Z Jury president and film producer and screenwriter James Schamus said Hoffman would still be there in spirit. Berlin Film Festival opens with late actor Hoffman a noted absence 2014-02-06T16:45:36Z But Mr. Beresford and the screenwriter, Jan Sardi, also appear to be stuck in an earlier era of heavy-handed clichés about Chinese innocence and American experience. | 'Mao?s Last Dancer': Bruce Beresford on Li Cunxin?s Immersion in America 2010-08-19T23:20:00Z "Given that Anthony is as brilliant a screenwriter as he is a novelist, we thought it would be exciting to see what he would do with one of them." Horowitz to write new Bond novel 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Baker and his screenwriter, Ted Willis, upend the standard assumptions of the liberal do-good film. DVD: Titanic Film ?A Night to Remember? From Criterion 2012-04-01T03:45:43Z The screenwriter of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” Kelly Marcel, will also not return. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Sequels Get Release Dates 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z How much do we really understand about the CIA, even after all the attention paid by novelists and screenwriters and journalists to its myths and legends? Oh, the suffering of the CIA: In Showtime’s “The Spymasters,” America’s chief spooks bare their souls on the pain of the terror war 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Photograph: Artificial Eye The spare, stylish dialogue of Terence Rattigan, at one time the highest-paid screenwriter in the world, will soon be heard in Britain's cinemas once more. Film of The Deep Blue Sea returns playwright Terence Rattigan to the spotlight 2011-08-20T23:06:28Z And the remake is directed by Neil LaBute, a white director and screenwriter best known for making misanthropic and, in the view of some critics, misogynistic indie films and plays. Film: Chris Rock Gives New Life to ?Death at a Funeral? 2010-04-09T15:31:00Z It was also during this period in time that Fitzgerald strove to make a new start as a Hollywood screenwriter. Stewart O'Nan chats about F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'West of Sunset' 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z He was living a bohemian life in Southern California when the producer and screenwriter Rod Serling chose to develop one of his short stories for his new series, “The Twilight Zone.” George Clayton Johnson, Science Fiction Writer Known for ‘Logan’s Run,’ Dies at 86 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z George Clooney is an actor, director, producer and screenwriter with two Academy Awards, three Golden Globes and a Bafta to his name. How a fake George Clooney sparked a caffeinated legal row 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z As a bilingual screenwriter with projects in the U.S. and China, I see “Shang-Chi” as yet another example of an exciting trend in Hollywood. The international movie market is transforming Hollywood 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Johnson and the screenwriters, giving free rein to their own imagination, honor and reflect Presley’s own mighty creative freedom. Nina Simone and the Clichés of the Musical Bio-Pic 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Rich in self-deprecating juvenile shtick, these personal essays by the actor and screenwriter amount to an autobiography of sorts. New & Noteworthy, From Seth Rogen to an Elephant in Belfast 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z A new official James Bond novel will be written by bestselling British author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz. New official James Bond novel to be written by Anthony Horowitz 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z However, this is the kind of movie that will linger due to positive word of mouth and for that, much credit must go to Webb and screenwriters James Vanderbilt, Steve Kloves and Alan Sargent. The Amazing Spider-Man: how much sticking power does it have? 2012-07-11T16:57:17Z After a team of Navy SEALs killed bin Laden in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2 last year, the director Bigelow and Boal, a journalist turned screenwriter, set about remaking their film. Hunting bin Laden and history in 'Zero Dark 30' 2012-12-11T16:04:13Z Voters don’t trust elected officials, but Hollywood doesn’t trust itself to do politicians justice; screenwriters keep piling operatic misdeeds onto characters whose strength lies in their huge capacity for pettiness. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z “My parents are Fox people,” screenwriter Charles Randolph shared at a recent Washington screening of “Bombshell.” Perspective | Can ‘Bombshell’ be a feminist movie if the characters hate being called feminists? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z It’s not that the good stuff was left on the cutting-room floor; it was never filmed, or mentioned in the script, or imagined by the director and screenwriter. The Accurate Erotics of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Politician, lawyer, doctor, mechanic, hairdresser – it doesn't really matter which a screenwriter picks, it ends up unrecognisable to anyone who actually does said job. New film, old media 2011-01-13T14:58:31Z A certain studiousness afflicts even his most accomplished work as a screenwriter and director, a tendency to put his erudition ahead of his instincts. Review: ‘First Reformed’ Is an Epiphany. Ethan Hawke Is, Too. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z In an effort to answer these questions I recently spoke with actor, screenwriter, producer, and director Bill Duke. "Passion and anger without a strategy is called frustration": Bill Duke on positive systemic change 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Black was also a screenwriter and a playwright whose credits included the musical "Missouri Waltz" and "A View of the Heart," a one-woman show in which she starred. 'Five Easy Pieces' star Karen Black dead at 74 2013-08-08T22:32:41Z "Fast Six," already being written by screenwriter Chris Morgan, is about a robbery. "Fast Five": A franchise changes genres 2011-04-26T17:21:13Z Zero Dark Thirty sticks solemnly and submissively to the CIA's official version of events, as received by screenwriter Mark Boal from his anonymous sources. Zero Dark Thirty – review 2013-01-24T21:01:01Z "There are some good gags, but having lit upon something that tickles them, screenwriters Adam McKay and Chris Henchy don't so much milk their jokes as desperately wring them dry," she writes. The Other Guys: star stand-ins or subs-standard? 2010-09-20T15:01:00Z The screenwriter's assurances are unlikely to quiet Obama critics. Writer says bin Laden film, trailer not politically motivated 2012-08-08T21:07:43Z An unashamed communist who had served honorably in the second world war and played an active role in movie politics afterwards, he was one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood. ‘Every country has its fearmongers’ – Bryan Cranston on Trumbo and Hollywood’s blacklist 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z She was won over by the trajectory for the new season presented by the show’s creator and screenwriter, Adam Price, and her affection for her character. A Darker ‘Borgen’ Returns, and Heads to Greenland 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z As translated by the director and screenwriter Billy Ray, this is instead a slo-mo horror story, in which the worst lack all inhibition while the best are full of fatuous integrity. Review: ‘The Comey Rule’ and What a Fool Believes 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Another signatory is the screenwriter Billy Ivory, who has adapted Lawrence's Women in Love for a BBC series this autumn. Campaign to save DH Lawrence legacy unites arts elite 2010-10-16T23:08:00Z According to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, the most important qualification for the Jobs role was sheer acting talent. Aaron Sorkin Says Denzel Washington Could Have Played Steve Jobs 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z “I’m a child of the 80s; I grew up with ‘We Are the World’ and Live Aid,” said Marc Andreyko, a comic book writer and screenwriter who organized the project. Comic Book Artists Create Publication to Honor Orlando Victims 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Perhaps the screenwriters felt that a hero who wusses out of the wars on the pretext of a hairdo wasn't quite going to cut the mustard. Beau Brummell: friends without benefits 2012-10-05T13:12:00Z Mr. Logan is one of the few veterans in the screenplay categories this year; many of the other hopefuls are first-time screenwriters. The Carpetbagger: Oscars for Screenwriters Are a Cliffhanger 2012-02-01T22:42:55Z Landis, an American film director, screenwriter, actor and producer, jumped at the idea of converting “Thriller” into 3D, because “I really wanted you to experience it the way Michael wanted you to experience it”. 'Thriller' was made because Michael Jackson wanted to be a monster 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z After they presented the song to the screenwriters, Elsa became the movie’s protagonist. How to Follow Your Dreams and Burst Into Song 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The film expands to become a story that includes the crew, producers, screenwriters, directors and even the cooks. ‘The Tsugua Diaries’ Review: Finding Togetherness in a Pandemic 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Yet Lee and screenwriter David Magee find rich and clever ways to translate even Pi's stillest moments, the film unfolding through intricate flashbacks, whimsical voice-overs, harrowing sea hazards and exquisite flashes of fantasy and hallucination. Review: Lee's 'Life of Pi' is inspiring 3-D art 2012-11-19T15:14:09Z Quarrington, also an accomplished guitarist and screenwriter, died at his Toronto home, from lung cancer. 2010-01-22T12:09:00Z Well, what if I told you that the original screenwriters on Jurassic Park IV felt exactly the same way? Jurassic Park IV: something has survived (and it seems to be half human) 2012-10-12T16:01:56Z "His contributions as a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and director are legendary and we mourn the loss of a great artist," said Laurents agent Jonathan Lomma in a statement. "West Side Story" playwright dies in New York City 2011-05-06T16:04:05Z Landis, an American film director, screenwriter, actor and producer, jumped at the idea of converting “Thriller” into 3D, because “I really wanted you to experience it the way Michael wanted you to experience it”. 'Thriller' was made because Michael Jackson wanted to be a monster 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Wise has also been talking to a Hollywood screenwriter who wants to make a fictional story based on him, he says. Jurassic World and Ted 2: an evolutionary leap for animal rights? 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The super-secret lefty cabal that holds Clooney’s superstar hostage is made up of disillusioned Hollywood screenwriters who aim to secretly implant their ideological messages in movie scripts. Review: The Coen Brothers Pack Hail, Caesar! with Fanciful Hollywood Curlicues 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z A history professor at Lafayette College, Miller is also a screenwriter, currently collaborating with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg on an HBO series based on his previous book “Masters of the Air.” ‘Supreme City,’ by Donald L. Miller 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Academy Award® winning screenwriter Diablo Cody is currently doing revisions on the draft. Remaking "The Evil Dead": A conversation 2011-07-14T17:15:00Z He wrote movie criticism for the Observer and star profiles for the New Yorker, and was also, at various times, a script adviser and screenwriter. Kenneth Tynan off stage: the theatre critic's life in film 2010-05-20T20:45:00Z In creating “Ben and Kate,” a new Fox series, the screenwriter Dana Fox was inspired by her older brother, Ben, now a title character. The New Season 2012-09-07T21:04:55Z Williams collaborated with the film’s director and screenwriter on the screenplay. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Snowfall’ and the N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Letters From Rosemary will be based on a screenplay by first-time screenwriter Nick Yarborough which deals with events leading up to the lobotomy and its aftermath, according to Variety. Emma Stone to play JFK's eldest sister in tale of enforced lobotomy 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z I sat in on a meeting with Mr. Scott and several other principals, including one of the uncredited screenwriters, Henry Bean. An Appraisal: Tony Scott Made Movies as a Maximalist 2012-08-20T21:30:32Z The Tony Awards went off with out a hitch despite a screenwriters’ strike. ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Wins Best Musical Tony and ‘Leopoldstadt’ Best Play 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Thomas Leveritt, the novelist credited as screenwriter for this largely improvised, fitfully ingratiating film, might say that, in virtually every movie romance, the lovers-to-be are metaphorically chained together. Tonight You're Mine: A Ball-and-Chain, Rock-'n'-Roll Romance 2012-05-10T15:39:58Z Gondry discussed this with screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and they decided to make a film about a relationship that had gone sour. The simple question that inspired "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z To hear screenwriter and producer Heisserer describe it, Arrival‘s journey to the screen was a “long, invisible war.” In Arrival, Amy Adams Takes a Listening Tour of the Universe 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z "Spread" screenwriter Jason Hall wrote the script based on the autobiography of Kyle, who was killed along with a friend earlier this year while at a North Texas gun range. Steven Spielberg to direct 'American Sniper' 2013-05-02T22:37:12Z Stephen Frears, the director, and Nicholas Martin, the screenwriter, leave you chewing on those questions on your way home. Review: ‘Florence Foster Jenkins,’ Singing So Wretched It’s Legendary 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The “Magical Negro” and the “Black Best Friend” should have died out decades ago, yet they continue to persist, driven by laziness and lack of imagination on the part of Hollywood directors and screenwriters. Failing the “DuVernay Test”: 6 signs your on-screen black character is a tired trope 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z If a screenwriter had invented Robert Evans, the script would have been tossed on the rejection pile as too tall a tale. Robert Evans, a Maverick Producer of Hollywood Classics, Dies at 89 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z It is Rowling’s debut as a screenwriter, the first instalment of five, and the budget is somewhere in the region of £180m. Eddie Redmayne: ‘I loved Harry Potter, so I don’t want to screw up’ 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Money doesn’t flow as freely as it did in the 1980s and ’90s, when Mr. Price made a living as a screenwriter. Arts & Leisure: Richard Price and CBS?s Harlem Crime Drama ?NYC-22? 2012-04-05T16:11:57Z I went back to my original love, the adventure strip, and decided to bring to it what I had learned as a playwright and a screenwriter. Eyeball Kicks: Jules Feiffer’s Glory Years 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z On the set I’m on there’s a female director, screenwriter, two female producers, a female stunt coordinator, female costume designer, female hair and makeup, female camera operator. Jessica Chastain on How Crimson Peak Will Change the Way We View Women in Movies 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z When we go back to the beginning, however, a great screenwriter's careful game of intrigue and reveal is blown. Television re-runs: only 235 episodes to go 2011-03-06T22:46:00Z For now, the big screen remains the medium of choice for French directors and screenwriters. Mishap on the Med 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Vanderbilt largely raised herself, a kind of emotional orphan careening from marriage to marriage before finding happiness with Wyatt Cooper, Mr. Cooper’s father, a screenwriter and actor from Mississippi. Gloria Vanderbilt’s Story (Reprised) 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z As a screenwriter, he is often on the receiving end of conflicting studio feedback. Save My Blockbuster! 2013-06-28T16:14:07Z The story has been told often: Douglas hired the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo for Spartacus. Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z “My frustration is with the thing that keeps network television alive: the advertisements,” said Kevin Williamson, an executive producer of “The Following,” which he created, and “The Vampire Diaries,” and the screenwriter of “Scream.” ‘Do No Harm,’ ‘The Walking Dead’ and Other TV Horror 2013-01-18T23:36:30Z This world premiere by Lucy Alibar, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” promises a wildly imaginative ride through the author’s Southern childhood. Amélie, Big Daddy, Hedwig: Familiar names hit SoCal stages this fall 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps the foreign press corps is to blame for disabusing 's screenwriter, Mark Boal. Zero Dark Thirty: the view from Pakistan 2013-01-27T19:00:00Z Christina Hodson—a screenwriter and producer in Los Angeles, who got to know Hillary through a friend—was writing on her behalf, to let me know that Hillary was planning a trip to Outer Mongolia. The Latest Dreams of Barbara Hillary, the First African-American Woman to Travel to the North Pole 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z I was the producer for Italian TV of 30 episodes of Inspector Maigret and worked closely with Diego Fabbri, the screenwriter. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z Sorkin, therefore, had an interesting challenge for a screenwriter: three different versions of the story, all sworn under oath to be true. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin makes friends with Facebook for 'The Social Network' 2010-09-24T23:23:00Z Related: Heading Homer: Hugh Jackman embarks on The Odyssey A script by a somewhat concerning multitude of screenwriters is in place for the first movie. Hunger Games studio plans trilogy on life of Julius Caesar 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z But the screenwriter, Bert V. Royal, does possess a charming voice and an inside knowledge of the trials besetting bright young people. Easy A: We Heart Emma Stone 2010-09-17T17:35:00Z "What we're trying to do is bridge the geographical industry divide," said Powell, a playwright and award-winning screenwriter. Global artist group LoNyLA hones work via webcasts 2011-06-28T18:41:33Z Near the end, the forest department makes a wrenching demand that “The Elephant Whisperers” never adequately explains, even if it provides the sort of heart-tugging finale a screenwriter would love. ‘The 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Bite-Size Global Tales 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z WGA members are concerned that studios may use AI to replace human screenwriters, dwindling job opportunities and decreasing compensation as the demand for content escalates. The best new "Black Mirror" episode is a Netflix self-own that plays out our current AI nightmare 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z I don’t know if we can call “The Guest” a good movie, since Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett have a lot invested in seeming disreputable. “The Guest”: “Downton Abbey” heartthrob wreaks havoc on America 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Vidal spent the 1950s working as a screenwriter for television and the movies, writing over 30 original scripts and notching up two Broadway hits: Visit to a Small Planet and The Best Man. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z A rare author and screenwriter whose works appealed to highbrow readers and mainstream moviegoers, Ephron wrote fiction that was distinguished by characters who seemed simultaneously normal and extraordinary. 'Sleepless in Seattle' writer Nora Ephron dies at 71 2012-06-27T01:41:54Z Little Women screenwriter Olivia Milch has reportedly handed in her first version of the script for the all-female remake, whose links to the most recent trilogy remain nebulous. Sandra Bullock 'to lead new all-female Ocean's Eleven movie' 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z For a screenwriter, that always used to be seen as a failure. Secrets of the TV writers’ room: inside Narcos, Transparent and Silicon Valley 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z Ali presents Shirley with physical flair, and the screenwriters put Shirley’s words verbatim in Ali’s mouth, including a riff about jazz piano players demeaning themselves. Green Book: the true story behind the Oscar-buzzed road trip drama 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Close, who is also a producer and screenwriter on “Albert Nobbs,” said she first began nurturing the film in earnest more than 15 years ago. Arts & Leisure: Glenn Close as a Man in ?Albert Nobbs? 2011-12-09T13:00:00Z Zak Penn, the screenwriter and creator of sci-fi series Alphas, is said to be in talks to write an initial treatment. Matrix rebooted: update of dystopian sci-fi franchise in the works 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The bride, 30, is a screenwriter and playwright. Amanda Glassman, Claudio Emma 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Goldman was married to the playwright and screenwriter James Goldman who won an Oscar for “The Lion in Winter.” Dating 6 Men at 68: The Woman Behind the Musical ‘Curvy Widow’ 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Directors and screenwriters devise what a film should be, but producers are the ones who make those dreams happen. Seattle-area film producers head to Sundance 2012-01-12T19:47:25Z Although corruption was one of the main themes of “Baron Noir’s” first season, the screenwriters chose to avoid it in the latest one. On TV, France’s New President Is Young, Centrist and Female 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z The novelist and screenwriter had originally written the role for a Londoner, but the young actor had convinced him it should be played by a northerner – and that northerner should be her. Jodie Whittaker: the 'force of nature' taking on Doctor Who 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Collider reports that Paramount Players is producing a new version of the film, and has hired Girl on the Train and Secretary screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson to write the script. Indecent Proposal: remake of hit erotic thriller in the works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z “We spent a lot of time and money trying to reproduce the voice, but we never got it,” screenwriter Anthony McCarten told Variety. Stephen Hawking teared up after seeing biopic “The Theory of Everything” 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z His restless mind has led him into becoming a stand-up giant, a movie star, a screenwriter, a producer, a novelist, a songwriter, a banjoist, an art curator — and, increasingly these days, a playwright. What follows 'Bright Star'? For Steve Martin, it's 'Meteor Shower' 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The show’s Kenya is a successful, cynical screenwriter living an extravagant Los Angeles life and raising children with his wife, played by Rashida Jones. What’s on TV Friday: ‘#blackAF’ and ‘Selah and the Spades’ 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z There are other compelling character arcs too, such as Sam’s relationship with his daughter, who is also yearning to be a screenwriter. Fight and flight: how Glow continues to show women at their best and worst 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “It’s not a musical with a capital M,” observed Chbosky, a best-selling novelist and veteran screenwriter. Perspective | Ben Platt’s seven-year journey with ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ has taken him from Arena Stage to Hollywood 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z In this video, the reporter Ginger Thompson talks with Stephen Gaghan, the screenwriter who won an Academy Award for “Traffic,” about the ways in which the movie verged on real life. ArtsBeat: Video: A Conversation With ‘Traffic’ Screenwriter Stephen Gaghan 2013-04-29T13:43:35Z In the end I worked with a Chinese screenwriter because everything is different there, every gesture, the psychology. China Submits an Unexpected Contender and Surprises Even the Director 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Now, after a decade-long absence from theaters, a new “Scream” — with no numerals or subtitles, from new directors and new screenwriters — will be released on Jan. 14. They Screamed, We Screamed. Now They’re in ‘Scream’ Again. 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z According to the rules of the Academy, which will mint some of these screenwriters as Oscar nominees next month, sequels count as adaptations, since they are based on previously published material. The Carpetbagger: Adapting Big Questions for the Screen 2013-12-18T22:44:56Z The screenwriter, Justin Theroux, would sometimes be asked to rewrite a scene over and over – often 10 times or more – to nail the plot and character development. Jon Favreau: the swinger who struck gold 2010-04-29T21:00:00Z Other tributes came from screenwriters and fans from across the world. Friends and Fans Mourn 'Star Trek' Actor Anton Yelchin 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z The director William Wyler hired her and the screenwriter Ennio Flaiano to introduce some badly needed Italian atmosphere into Ben Hecht’s script for “Roman Holiday.” Suso Cecchi D?Amico, Writer of Literate Screenplays, Dies at 96 2010-08-03T23:18:00Z And while screenwriters sometimes flatten their female characters, often in real life, girls are taught to flatten themselves. The most authentic part of "Happiest Season" is Jane, who conquers the "quirky woman" trope 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z "Top Gun 2" has its sights set on screenwriter Justin Marks. 'Top Gun 2' targets 'Jungle Book' writer Justin Marks 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z While Green, Smith and the screenwriter, Zach Baylin, acknowledge some of Williams’s imperfections, their work absorbs and reflects his positive, practical, ferociously self-confident spirit. At the Telluride Film Festival, Both Magic and Normalcy 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z One event to note: on June 9, selected works from the estate of Jacques Prévert, the French songwriter, screenwriter, author and poet, will be on auction. Bidding for Treasures in Paris 2010-04-27T10:02:00Z She and Tracy co-starred as married lawyers who spar in the case of a woman who has shot her husband, and the witty script was supplied by screenwriters Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. Marvin Kaplan, character actor who won laughs in ‘Adam’s Rib’ and ‘Alice,’ dies at 89 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Over time, though, Trumbo’s moral authority, a growing sense of injustice and, not least, his financial usefulness to the industry finally led director Otto Preminger to identify him as the screenwriter for the blockbuster “Exodus.” ‘Trumbo,’ soon to be a film, tells the tale of one of the Hollywood Ten 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Burton, a rich-boy screenwriter, and Anna speak of creating work that wrests them from the rut of what they’ve always done. Review: Adam Driver Heats Up a Wobbly ‘Burn This’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Just as the stopped clock is correct twice a day, so the Hollywood screenwriter trying to find a non-Islamic bad guy might occasionally stumble into the middle of the nightly news. Olympus Has Fallen – review 2013-04-18T14:29:02Z In last Sunday's Film of the Week, the protagonist, a Hollywood screenwriter played by Colin Farrell, had a title for his , "Seven Psychopaths", but no plot. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – review 2012-12-16T00:05:40Z And so, it’s overstating it and a bit of self-pitying to think that the poor screenwriter or television writer doesn’t get what they wrote to the screen because their dialogue gets paraphrased. Screenwriting guru tells all 2010-04-21T15:06:00Z Its narrative construction depicts extraordinary tensions and conflicts with a clarity and coherence that a screenwriter might dream of. “Honeyland,” Reviewed: A Gripping, Frustrating Documentary About a Beekeeper’s Fragile Isolation 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z A painting of the novelist and screenwriter Richard Price and his loved ones in and out of a swimming pool exudes a curiously strained, noirish feeling, like a scene from a movie about high-rolling gangsters. Art Review: ?Eric Fischl: Portraits? at Mary Boone Gallery 2012-03-01T23:52:35Z Actually, there is so much Gatiss looming on TV, especially on BBC4, that by November viewers may well be sick of the Sedgefield-born novelist, actor, screenwriter and League of Gentlemen star. Mark Gatiss: Rocket man 2010-10-11T20:30:00Z As a screenwriter, I have a laptop that I rely on. Co-creator of ‘Saw’ and ‘Insidious’ looks forward — and backward — with sci-fi thriller ‘Upgrade.’ 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “She was a very successful screenwriter before then becoming a Broadway playwright before then becoming one of the best-selling novelists of a generation. And this is all in her second language.” Summer Is the Time for Stretching 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Blatty went on to sell vacuum cleaners, drive a beer truck and serve in the Air Force before becoming a comic novelist and a screenwriter in Hollywood. William Peter Blatty, author of ‘The Exorcist,’ dies at 89 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Given the difficulties in quantifying their contributions, screenwriters seldom get the recognition they deserve. Frank Pierson obituary 2012-07-26T15:28:43Z In April the Hollywood screenwriter accused his one-time collaborator of sabotaging a planned film about the Jewish hero Judah Maccabee for racist reasons in an explosive open letter. Joe Eszterhas claims to have received death threats over Mel Gibson race row 2012-06-07T09:07:22Z Fresh screenwriters are often advised to write what they know, which is how slush piles get clogged with teen dramas. How a writer defied ‘one in a million’ odds to get her first movie made by Steven Spielberg 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z I was a freelance playwright, director and screenwriter. A Thousand Goodbyes for McCarter Theater’s Emily Mann 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Here, Mr. Brown doesn’t need a director and screenwriter to build sympathy for him. Whitney Houston’s Story in a Lifetime Film 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Did or didn’t Frost betray his country is the question that the screenwriter David Guggenheim and Daniel Espinosa, the young, up-and-coming Swedish director, put into nimble play almost as soon as “Safe House” takes off. Movie Review: ?Safe House,? With Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds 2012-02-09T16:48:43Z It’s no coincidence that all the craft books on the subject are for screenwriters. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z While films about the filmmaking process are abundant, most make directors, actors or screenwriters their central characters. ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ and Movies About Audio Men 2013-06-07T20:04:45Z To that end, this spring Streep funded a mentoring program for female screenwriters over the age of 40. Women Flip the Script on Hollywood 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Nolan was already a professional screenwriter, but he was still quite young, and had blown through much of his early earnings. On the Ranch with the Creators of “Westworld” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Consider Cobb’s advice to Ariadne about drawing from life without replicating it, which could double as a warning to a budding screenwriter too literally wed to "write what you know." Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z Britni West, the screenwriter and director, resists opportunities to over explain desires and motivations. Review: ‘Tired Moonlight’ Quietly Paints a Picture of Small-Town Life 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Pensotti, whose “The Past Is a Grotesque Animal” was a hit for Under the Radar three years ago, was a screenwriter before becoming one of Argentina’s leading theater auteurs. ‘Cineastas’ and ‘O Jardim’ at Under the Radar 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z “Starred Up,” based partly on the screenwriter Jonathan Asser’s experiences as a prison volunteer, puts the setting in front of the characters and the plot. 'Starred Up,' a Father-and-Son Prison Drama 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The W.G.A. said on Friday that it would not grant a waiver that would allow screenwriters to work on a script for the broadcast. Tony Awards Officials Ask Striking Writers to Reconsider Broadcast 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z In an interview with Empire, the screenwriter described Man of Steel as "ground zero for a greater DC universe". Man of Steel: ground zero for the DC Comics universe 2013-06-21T15:26:18Z I recently spoke at the Austin film festival writer’s conference and met dozens of black aspiring screenwriters. Only 4.8% of TV writers are black. As one of them, I know the system is broken | Stefani Robinson 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z That said, there is still a place where screenwriters can find a welcome home for that kind of spandex- and CGI-free storytelling. TV is viewed as holding more promise for screenwriters than movies 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z It was not really a script but more what a contemporary screenwriter would call a treatment. How a Lost Marx Brothers Musical Found Its Way Back Onstage 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Left: He's a broke, struggling screenwriter emerging from a pitch lunch at a Beverly Hills restaurant, just in time to see a landscaper's pickup back into his borrowed Lamborghini. Oscars 2011: Melissa Leo takes the low road to success 2011-02-25T21:00:01Z It isn’t only his words that are better than those of the screenwriters; his persona, his character, is greater than those that are scripted. Just Let Marlon Brando Talk 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Ridley, who is the screenwriter of “12 Years a Slave,” also has a Batman comic arriving in January that he has strongly suggested will feature a nonwhite Caped Crusader. 10 New Comic Books for the Fall 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z For American Beauty – her most lauded role – she praises screenwriter Alan Ball’s “knife edge” writing over her own improvisation. Annette Bening: ‘Women don’t have to do everything’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Most of its characters are verifiably real figures — including famous and half-forgotten directors, screenwriters, stars and studio bosses — but they are embedded in a spectacle that shimmers with knowing artificiality. ‘Mank’ Review: A Rosebud by Any Other Name 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Messick said that he first joined the project in 2005 and helped to develop the picture, renew Paramount's options for the film rights, and search for a screenwriter. Producers on Tom Cruise film sued for breach of contract 2012-02-06T05:33:40Z His work ethic comes from his father, who trained as a lawyer but for a while was also a screenwriter, signed at some point to the Gersch agency, in LA. Finn Wolfhard: ‘I have so much crazy energy’ 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z Some years ago I found myself at a dinner with a veteran screenwriter in LA. Does the world need a dark Netflix reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch? 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z He has also agreed to play the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in another film and is shopping a script of his own that he hopes to direct. Bryan Cranston Is Playing Lyndon Johnson on Broadway 2014-02-05T20:10:11Z But sometimes, she said it was a struggle to find the voice of their female characters with an all-male screenwriter team. Linda Hamilton makes return count in new ‘Terminator’ film 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z It’s reasonable to assume that Fraser and screenwriter Glenn Standring paid attention to Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto” – one of the weirdest works in movie history, made by one of the weirdest people in movie history. A Maori action movie? Hell yes: It’s the crazy, gory, gleeful martial-arts movie you didn’t know you needed 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z For decades, she was a part-time screenwriter who also did various day jobs, from advertising to translating annual reports. Heady Days for Hong Kong Women 2010-03-30T12:18:00Z After Descent of Woman, she continued her flourishing career as a television screenwriter and seemed content to leave well enough alone. Elaine Morgan 2013-07-29T14:32:27Z You live in Los Angeles, which most of us think of as a city of screenwriters rather than novelists. Rachel Kushner: 'I know what it feels like to crash a motorcycle at 140mph' 2013-06-08T23:05:01Z The director of the gripping Belfast-set thriller , James Marsh, and its screenwriter, Tom Bradby, both have one foot in fact and the other in fiction. Shadow Dancer – review 2012-08-25T23:08:02Z Because Carrère — celebrated in France as a journalist, screenwriter and novelist — possesses such an intimately engaging narrative voice, “Limonov” feels almost nonchalant yet is, in fact, quite artfully orchestrated and completely riveting. Michael Dirda reviews ‘Limonov’ by Emmanuel Carrère “I kept seeing female characters in movies today not being sassy and dynamic the way they were in, say, the 1940s,” says the screenwriter Jennifer Lee, who also wrote the 2013 animated hit Frozen. ‘You are not expecting this’: Oprah on A Wrinkle in Time 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Separately, a caption, also using information from Getty Images, misstated the title of the film that the screenwriter Frances Marion and Ms. Pickford were working on. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Culturally we come from very different places but he was the reason I wanted to be a screenwriter. The Crown writer Peter Morgan on William Goldman: 'He was just a sublime storyteller' 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z In time, screenwriter Carl Foreman emerges as the story’s hero, but everyone enjoys sensitive handling, while helping to build unusual suspense. Review | ‘High Noon,’ the classic American film that almost got shot down 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z That anxiety of influence was palpable, too, for collaborators like Steven Zaillian, the “Irishman” screenwriter, who strove not to duplicate other Scorsese films. Martin Scorsese Is Letting Go 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Last year, screenwriter Brian Godawa obtained a version of the Noah script and posted his summary online, deeming the film "Environmentalist Wacko". Epic row over final cut of Noah film 2013-10-16T11:06:09Z It was only at a briefing ahead of The Force Awakens entering production that Lucas discovered Abrams and screenwriter Michael Arndt would in fact be working from their own treatment. Will Kevin Feige's Star Wars film spell the end for the George Lucas era? 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z George Pelecanos has spent the past 30 years becoming a successful novelist and screenwriter. George Pelecanos unwraps ‘The Deuce,’ his HBO show about the ’70s porn scene 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z "I'm trying not to sound nauseatingly self-deprecating, but I don't think of myself as being a terrific screenwriter or even a natural screenwriter." 'Parade's End' keeps British TV invasion going 2013-02-22T19:09:13Z There are many things wrong with the film – the story, the directing, the fact that the screenwriter forgot to include Merlin – but the biggest problem is the casting. Jude Law is one but Tom Hardy isn't: what makes a movie star? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z With the right screenwriter and director, this could be a total hoot. In ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad,’ a Fantastical Manifestation of War’s Cruelties 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z It’s not hard to see the metaphor that Spielberg and his screenwriter Melissa Mathison are sketching out here: the dreams are like the movies. The Screenwriter of “E.T.” and “The BFG” Says Goodbye 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z His week is largely taken up with his new job: screenwriter for Marvel Studios. How Mom and Dad Met, With Ninjas 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Sarah Montana, a screenwriter and a strike and picket captain, estimated that union members have been picketing the dwindling number of shows and movies in production at least once a week since the strike began. As Strike Continues, Writers Turn Focus to Ryan Murphy’s Productions 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z The idea was then developed by screenwriter Jon Croker – it is also due to be made into a film by Hammer films – with Waites approached by the publisher to turn it into a novel. The Woman in Black makes horrifying return 2013-02-12T13:16:59Z Goldwyn and his screenwriters turned Eleanor into a spunky but bland ingenue and toned down the conflicts between her and Lou’s domineering mother. The truth behind the legend of Lou Gehrig 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z DuVernay displays more originality and audacity as a producer and screenwriter than she does as a director. The Crucial Lessons of Democracy in “Selma” 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z But also, in the way screenwriters and songwriters alike have chased that very particular attitude of the show — that “New Age mysticism” and wry wit. The “X-Files” echo effect: Here’s proof that the legendary series never actually left us 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z We are freelance journalists and aspiring screenwriters with big ideas and big ambitions who are trying to figure it out one day at a time. Beyond brown shame: Refreshing "India Sweets and Spices" moves past struggles of hyphenated identity 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z These ballots are filled out by 6,000 to 7,000 voters, ranging from visual effects experts to screenwriters to studio chiefs. Final cut: The gems and stars left off the Oscars list 2013-01-30T16:28:23Z He is without peer among screenwriters as a composer of incisive, non-punchline-driven comic dialogue, and unrivaled among directors as a choreographer of fraught social encounters. Review: In ‘While We’re Young,’ a Coupling of Gen X and Y 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images In the 1970s, there was reputedly a competition between Hollywood screenwriters to create the most expensive scene description ever written. 'Now cross the Andes.' In praise of the impossible stage direction 2012-06-12T11:56:16Z The directors, producers and writers employing them learned from filmmakers and screenwriters famous and unsung who came before them. Turner Classic Movies holds our cinematic past. Does it have a future under Warner Bros. Discovery? 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z The eldest of four children, Ephron was born in New York to screenwriters Harry and Phoebe Ephron, who moved to Beverly Hills, Calif., when she was 4 years old. Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71 2012-06-27T03:28:11Z You know those cute little butts even screenwriters who lay on the couch all day have in their 40s? I Was Misinformed: Sexual Myopia: If You’re My Age, Why Do You Look So Old? 2013-01-16T14:00:00Z Best screenwriter went to Ivy Ho for "Crossing Hennessy," which she also directed. Budget HK action-comedy is critical hit 2011-02-22T13:01:04Z Interestingly, the film’s writing and directing credits belong to 18 people, eight screenwriters and 10 directors, all of whom are either current graduate students or recent alumni of the University of Southern California. ‘Voodoo Macbeth’ Review: A Tiresome Curse 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z An outsize character, Earl McGrath had variously worked as a record company head, film executive, screenwriter and art dealer before he died in early 2016 at age 84. Earl McGrath Was a Character. His Closet Was Filled With Rare Recordings. 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z In "2," screenwriter Kay Cannon lets them start on a high note. 'Pitch Perfect 2' brings more lowbrow fun 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Some days you get to be the show runner of a television series like or the director and screenwriter of a superhero summer movie like “The Avengers.” ArtsBeat: 'Avengers' Director Joss Whedon on His Creative Setbacks 2012-04-12T14:00:17Z He gave a series of talks during the screenwriters strike of 2007 as a sort of ersatz course on screenwriting, which is fascinating, seemingly random and yet deeply structured, like many of Milch's shows. The future tense of joy: "Deadwood" creator David Milch recaptures memory in "Life's Work" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z She felt compelled to meet with him anyway, because as an aspiring screenwriter, she thought it could change the course of her career. Violence. Threats. Begging. Harvey Weinstein’s 30-year pattern of abuse in Hollywood. 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z The screenwriter added that the current scandal surrounding Harvey Weinstein was just part of a larger culture of abuse in Hollywood. Carrie Fisher gave predatory producer a cow's tongue in a box 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Morgan's appointment would hint at a warts-and-all approach to the biopic, the screenwriter having pulled few punches in his previous biographical efforts. Peter Morgan in talks to develop Hugh Hefner biopic 2012-07-18T11:02:54Z Universal used the screenwriters’ connection with fantasy fans in its marketing campaign. ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ and ‘The Mule’ Score at Box Office 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Of course, the connection of a critic or viewer with directors isn’t exclusive and needn’t blind a viewer to the immediate art of actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and other participants. Last Film, Best Film? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z A female screenwriter, Semi Chellas, is also attached to the project, adapting a screenplay from Lisa Klein’s novel of the same name. Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts Team Up In Shakespeare Film 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z "I grew up in the New York area," said "Source Code" screenwriter Ben Ripley. Trash our city, please! 2011-04-06T23:41:00Z The film, Jolie Pitt's third as a director and second as a screenwriter, will open Nov. 13 in the U.S., Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's drama 'By the Sea' to open in November 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z And so, there was a time back when, 50 to 60 years ago, when screenwriters were under contract to studios and they were turning out three, four or five screenplays a year. Screenwriting guru tells all 2010-04-21T15:06:00Z Key to the telling is screenwriter Sayed Kashua, who with his novels, memoirs, television show "Arab Labor" and a column in the newspaper Haaretz was for many years the main voice speaking for that community. 'A Borrowed Identity' shows life in Israel from an Arab's view 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The actor, screenwriter and film director was sharply critical of the administration of former U.S. Actor Sean Penn worked to get Americans from Iran 2011-09-23T18:35:49Z Speaking to the Guardian, the film's screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, denied his nomination in particular was a shoo-in. The King's Speech enjoys a royal flush at Oscar nominations 2011-01-25T15:31:35Z “As a horror filmmaker, I have a strong stomach for fear, but these experiences seem a little too intense even for me,” said Amanda Toye, 34, a screenwriter in Los Angeles. Business Is Boo-ing! The World of Extreme Haunts 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The day after Titanic sank the British press did not report a remarkable feat: an American screenwriter called Harriet Quimby flew her own plane across the Channel. Jeanette Winterson: 100 years after the suffragettes 2013-03-29T15:59:01Z Sandy, who used to be a Hollywood screenwriter, now lives in Maine alongside his sister in a farming collective. 16 New Books to Watch for in November 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z In fact, I cared for it so much that I eventually began a novel about an android who wanted to become a screenwriter. Empathy machines: what will happen when robots learn to write film scripts? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z It's a glorious afternoon, and I apologise for being so demonstrably English in remarking on that fact, but the legendary screenwriter – tall, with salt-and-pepper stubble and warm, alert eyes – waves away my words. Jean-Claude Carrière: 'If you want fame, don't be a screenwriter' 2012-06-28T20:00:02Z The Scripter goes to the screenwriter as well as the author of the work on which the script was based. 'The Imitation Game' wins USC Scripter Award for adapted screenplay 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Up until a few weeks ago, Stephanie, an aspiring screenwriter, thought her career in the entertainment industry was over. #PayUpHollywood: behind the fight for better treatment at the bottom 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The film, about a heroic pilot who is also an addict, played by Mr. Washington, was inspired by the screenwriter's fear of flying and own past with substance abuse. The Carpetbagger: 'Flight's' Screenwriter Is Just Thrilled His Name Was Pronounced Right 2013-01-10T20:05:58Z The screenwriter they hire is a literary Yale egghead who assigns them classic texts for prep. Review | Elaine May’s porn star play leads a pack of escapist comedies 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z They sanctioned a major rewrite from Star Trek Into Darkness screenwriter Damon Lindelof and 40 minutes of new footage. Monsters University takes World War Z to school as it wins US box office battle 2013-06-24T11:34:00Z Dan Marshall, a screenwriter, said the new climate should help women and other marginalised voices tell their stories on screen but cautioned that exploitation would endure. Hollywood after Weinstein: ‘The animals have no choice but to be civilized’ 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Finally, credit must be given to director Mike Mitchell and screenwriters Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. "The Lego Movie 2": Everything's still awesome in this franchise (for now) 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Many of her films were directed by film producer, director and screenwriter Memduh Un, who was her partner until his death in 2015. Turkish film actress and ex-mayor Fatma Girik dies aged 79 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Once again, no actors of color were nominated, and “Creed” and “Straight Outta Compton” — both directed by and starring African American artists — were nominated for the contributions of a white cast member and screenwriters, respectively. ‘Spotlight’s’ best-picture Oscar shows that big, noisy movies don’t always win 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z And now, this high school comedy originally written by Daniel Waters is being brought to television by way of the screenwriter Jason Micallef. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Heathers’ and ‘Citizen Kane’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z What screenwriter Chuck Leavitt has created is a really inspired metaphor for all of those interactions. The true-life tale that inspired ‘Moby-Dick,’ and a new movie by Ron Howard 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Crowe starred in "L.A. Confidential" and "American Gangster," Gosling appeared in "Gangster Squad" and Black lent his dark, sardonic wit to the aforementioned "Weapon" as screenwriter and "Kiss Kiss" as director. Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe's 'Nice Guys' stakes out June 2016 release 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z When her marriage to the screenwriter Julian Barry ended in divorce, leaving her with a young daughter, Julia, Ms Ziskin became a full-time producer and for a time dragged the girl from location to location. Laura Ziskin, Producer of ?Spider-Man? Films, Dies at 61 2011-06-13T22:36:08Z Madonna and the producers are now searching for a screenwriter to adapt the book, . Madonna to return to film directing 2014-03-26T12:28:09Z He moved to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter — primarily for MGM. Book review: ‘West of Sunset,’ a novel about F. Scott Fitzgerald by Stewart O’Nan 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z “Tall Girl 2,” an inessential sequel by the director Emily Ting and the returning screenwriter Sam Wolfson, picks up a semester later, in springtime, with Jodi adjusting to shocking, newfound popularity. ‘Tall Girl 2’ Review: She Stoops 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The cliché of how a director interacts with a screenwriter, stalking around the room in a smoking jacket, ripping pages from the novel, and indicating “Put this in!”–it’s not like that. How “High-Rise’s” orgy scenes got made on a budget: “‘Game of Thrones’ has pumped the per-person cost of nudity through the roof” 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s a screenwriter’s fantasy of how old-time artists ought to be. Searching for Leonardo da Vinci in ‘Leonardo’ 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Along with losing his family — a screenwriter mother, a mathematician father, a near-idolized older brother — Edward also loses the promise of continuing his childhood in California, where his mother had just gotten a job. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The novelist and screenwriter Charles Brackett reports being turned down for membership in the Bel Air Bay Club in 1934 because “we are connected with the movies.” Los Angeles Through the Centuries, Glimpsed by Kerouac, de Beauvoir, Waugh and Others 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z At the time, he already had the respect of his peers — many of his screenwriter friends, including the “Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and D.B. ‘The Last of Us’ Continues Craig Mazin’s Hollywood Ascent 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director analyzes American films from the 1970s. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z During the McCarthy era, blacklisted screenwriters, their souls strengthened on sorrow, met at Steinberg’s, scenes memorably recreated in Martin Ritt’s movie “The Front.” An Illustrated Love Song to Jewish Restaurants of Old 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z And the screenwriters, copiously sprinkling the author’s supple, genial prose into dialogue and voice-over, maintain a clear sense of her major theme. | 'Eat Pray Love': Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem in ?Eat Pray Love? 2010-08-12T17:08:00Z Both his grandfather and father were TV screenwriters, so one imagines that TV was an elevated artform in his home. Joss Whedon: 'I kept telling my mum reading comics would pay off' 2013-06-02T05:00:01Z A screenwriter for the series, Gustavo Bolivar, rejected the campaign against it as "bordering on censorship" and denied glorifying the criminals. Paramilitary soap opera stirs dispute in Colombia 2013-05-01T14:19:11Z Last season, they asked their friend Spike Jonze, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, to direct a one-act play on Opening Ceremony’s origins, which they staged at no less a site than the Metropolitan Opera House. At Opening Ceremony, the Clothes Are Only the Start 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z "I did that for myself," he said, but screenwriter David Seidler told the actor that he'd seen the actual marked copies that Logue created for the king, "and they looked just like that." Colin Firth studied stammer for royal role in 'The King's Speech' 2010-12-18T02:05:18Z Finally, the Ellisons and Paramount must find a screenwriter and director with some original vision. Terminator 5: how to reanimate the ailing sci-fi franchise 2013-06-28T16:57:15Z That’s small comfort, but for a good screenwriter, it’s all the wiggle room you need. What 'Interstellar' Got Right and Wrong About Science 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Matthew Wilder, director and screenwriter of Inferno, said on his Facebook page at the weekend that he had been forced to dismiss the actor due to her ongoing travails. Lindsay Lohan 'sacked from Linda Lovelace film' 2010-11-22T12:01:00Z "Eleanor Catton, my ingenious screenwriter, found out later that bloody noses are in Old English folklore are symbol of true love." "Emma." finds its hilarious humanity through the body's betrayals 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z That the screenwriter’s mother was changed by her empathy for people different than her is an admirable value to have. ‘Mama’s Boy’ Review: Mother and Son Pave the Way Forward 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z This programme may well affect the way fictional courtroom dramas are presented in future, not because screenwriters will see it – they presumably go to court all the time – but because we have. The Murder Trial – TV review 2013-07-09T22:05:00Z He skated through his last movie, “Seven Psychopaths,” a barely there comedy that pivots on a creatively stalled screenwriter. Review: On Violence and the Pain of Others in ‘Three Billboards’ 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z I decided to track down one peripatetic member of that community, the poet and screenwriter Luke Davies, author of the classic Sydney novel “Candy,” about two heroin addicts in love. In Sydney, Lively Culture Amid Natural Beauty 2014-04-11T18:04:18Z At least, that’s how I approached it, in accord with the screenwriter. “Batman v Superman” Is Democrats vs. Republicans 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Actually, so many genres, media and themes repeat this year that it makes me wonder if Hollywood screenwriters all get drunk in the same bar. Comics: Comics-based films to put on your calendar 2012-01-26T19:45:04Z A screenwriter told me about his experience of sitting with Arterton in a similar meeting, where they were pitching to financiers who, he said, bombarded her with sexist questions. Gemma Arterton: ‘It’s easier to conform and shut up’ 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z But I Am Number Four is not big on exposition, even though Marti Noxon, a Buffy veteran, is one of its three credited screenwriters. Movie Review: Why I'm So Glad I Am Not Number Four 2011-02-17T10:15:00Z The Evers assassination becomes a piece of historical atmosphere in "The Help" -- a means of raising the stakes, as hack screenwriters love to say, for plucky Skeeter and her interviewees. Why Hollywood keeps whitewashing the past 2011-08-12T15:20:00Z Drawings of fertility gods, in Copic markers, recall her struggle to get pregnant before she and husband Ted Griffin, a screenwriter, opted for adoption. Review | Crafting isn’t just about making cute things. For Sutton Foster, it’s lifesaving. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s not like a piece of art that you finish and there it is,” says Hampton, the playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Dangerous Liaisons,” among many other works. The war that would not end: Race relations take the opera stage 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z One day on set, screenwriter, director and producer Ryan Murphy found himself with no female directors to call on. Ryan Murphy on women-led film crews: the work is “better” 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Tarantino would take screenwriter, Spielberg said, and he should be excited because doing so was a feat for his first time at Hollywood's big awards show. Once a renegade, Tarantino turns Hollywood insider 2010-02-24T13:31:00Z No director or cast has yet been announced for the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey, though the novelist and occasional screenwriter Brett Easton Ellis has touted himself as the man to write it. Fifty Shades of Grey film ties up Social Network team 2012-07-10T12:46:00Z Ron Nyswaner, the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated screenwriter, can still recall a chance meeting on a beach more than 50 years ago. To Make ‘Fellow Travelers,’ Ron Nyswaner Had to Fall in Love 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z The screenwriters saw fresh material in a familiar genre. Ben Stiller Goes Darker for a Real-Life Prison Break 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Before he became one of TV’s most prolific creators, Sheridan was best known as a screenwriter — his screenplay for the Western feature film “Hell or High Water” was nominated for an Academy Award in 2017. ‘Yellowstone,’ TV’s Hit Western, Will End Its Run After This Season 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Aside from acting, Gene Wilder’s prolific talents extended to being a film director, screenwriter and author. See Gene Wilder's Best Acting Roles 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z He starting working in films at 16, made his way up from gopher to screenwriter, and even directed a handful of movies including “The Horror of Frankenstein.” Jimmy Sangster, Writer for British Horror Films, Dies at 83 2011-08-22T03:37:08Z Lumir, for her part, is a loving mother and wife, as well as a screenwriter and a collector of grievances. ‘The Truth’ Review: Being Catherine Deneuve 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z But, "beginning in July 2010, Granger and Levinsohn began excluding Messick from meetings with the screenwriter and the studio and withheld certain drafts of the screenplay for the picture," the complaint claims. Tom Cruise film producers sued 2012-02-07T10:59:14Z The author is a longtime Hollywood screenwriter and producer, and at times the scenes dissolve so rapidly into each other that “The Empty Bed” can feel like a reverse-engineered action movie. Four High-Octane New Thrillers 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Her work as a novelist and screenwriter helps her keep the pacing swift and the prose dynamic — the chapters on the creation of “The Threepenny Opera” are almost unbearably suspenseful. Pamela Katz’s ‘The Partnership,’ on Weill and Brecht 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z “No screenwriter has probed so deep under the pampered skin of this fascinating, maligned decade; no director has so successfully mined it for home-truth human revelations.” Paul Mazursky, Director Who Captured a Changing America, Dies at 84 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z It sometimes throws in art house gimmicks such as having the screenwriter be a character who addresses the camera directly and including “interviews” with actors playing key figures in the story. On Silver Screen, a Bit of Gold 2014-02-04T23:04:55Z But where the “Twilight” films at least culminated in a decapitation or two, this feature, from the director Arie Posin and the “Serendipity” screenwriter Marc Klein, focuses solely on its fatal romance. ‘The In Between’ Review: Love Never Dies 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z I wanted the money to be spent hiring a great screenwriter — to really adapt my book rather than to pay me some stupid option fee. ‘This Story Transcends Race’: Kevin Kwan on the Appeal of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z It’s so much more complicated than simply both being addicts, both being in AA, both being cancer survivors, astronauts, screenwriters, or heads of state. My non-addict wife 2012-09-30T13:00:00Z What's more, the professional Hollywood screenwriters themselves have failed to get in on the action. Virtual reality needs real writers 2011-02-23T13:14:31Z The work of screenwriter Richard Price is similarly a mixed bag. 'Child 44' a passable thriller set in 1953 USSR 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Not many screenwriters before or since matched his visibility or name recognition, a level of celebrity that resulted from his wit, good looks and sociability. William Goldman’s Journey From Page to Screen 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z “He kind of stuck in my mind,” Mr. Lonergan, who went on to a celebrated career as a playwright and screenwriter, said. Matthew Broderick and Kenneth Lonergan Look to the Universe, Again 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Wilder was an accomplished stage actor as well as a screenwriter, a novelist and the director of four movies in which he starred. Gene Wilder Dies at 83; Star of ‘Willy Wonka’ and ‘Young Frankenstein’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z James Dalton Trumbo, the storied screenwriter of “Spartacus” and “Roman Holiday,” would use many names. ‘Trumbo’ Recalls the Hunters and the Hunted of Hollywood 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Frankel and the screenwriter, the Hollywood veteran Howard Franklin, who adapted Mark Obmascik’s book, poke fun at the foibles of the birding tribe, but they avoid easy, mean caricatures. | 'The Big Year': ?The Big Year,? With Owen Wilson and Steve Martin - Review 2011-10-13T21:45:11Z Lee Daniels, the Hollywood director, producer and screenwriter, is shepherding the production as its lead producer; this will be Daniels’s first Broadway venture. Imagining an Exodus: ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ to Take Flight on Broadway 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z It spawned a host of spin-offs featuring the twins at, variously, university and junior high, and Elizabeth and Jessica's story is also set to be adapted into a film, with Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody attached. How the Sweet Valley girls grew up 2012-08-30T10:59:58Z In 1987, “Dirty Dancing” screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein made sure to make an illegal abortion integral to the plot as a reminder to young viewers not to take the right to choose for granted. Perspective | Abortion has always been a tough subject for Hollywood. ‘Parenthood’ got it right. 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Kay Cannon, veteran of the “30 Rock” writers’ room and screenwriter of the “Pitch Perfect” movies, agreed that getting the ending right is about crafting a proper joke from the get-go. How to best end a comedy sketch? It’s hard to go wrong with gruesome death. 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z But he's made a number of detours into film, either as a screenwriter or a behind-the-scenes script doctor. 'Parade's End' keeps British TV invasion going 2013-02-22T19:09:13Z A recent article in The New Yorker profiles a therapist who treats struggling screenwriters for hundreds of dollars an hour. | 'Limitless': A Simple Prescription for Superior Powers 2011-03-17T21:59:56Z It was a sensational affair, with all the international sophistication a screenwriter might wish to create – yet in the real world, this situation had real non-romcom pain. Nora Ephron was serious about comedy 2012-06-27T12:12:07Z These hard-working practitioners of magic want the same respect — and the same intellectual property rights — that painters and filmmakers and screenwriters enjoy, Hogue said. David Copperfield is the magic force behind a must-read congressional resolution 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z And the eminent directors she worked with hit their high points with her as a screenwriter.” Suso Cecchi D?Amico, Writer of Literate Screenplays, Dies at 96 2010-08-03T23:18:00Z The screenwriter and actor said he attributes much of his success to his willingness to try new things without being afraid of failure or mediocrity. Festival of Books: How actor Jason Segel rescued his own 'Nightmares!' 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Director and screenwriter Will Gluck's decision to rename him Will Stacks probably didn't endear the movie to purists, even ones who didn't have a problem with Wallis' casting. Bet your bottom dollar that NBC's "Annie Live!" will usher in a new inclusive era for an old classic 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z As much as anything, “My Girlfriend’s Wedding” globalizes a quotation attributed to the screenwriter Bob Schneider: Love is when two people who care for each other get confused. ‘My Girlfriend’s Wedding’: Her Life Plays Like a Movie 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Only 16.9% of film directors were from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups, and the figures on film producers and screenwriters weren’t any better. Laying out data, Netflix touts its record on inclusivity 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Now, the average screenwriter might have just had Rambo answer that question with a body count. 1985: When ‘Rambo’ Tightened His Grip on the American Psyche 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z As a screenwriter, Ephron was nominated three times for Academy Awards, for "Silkwood," "When Harry Met Sally ..." and "Sleepless in Seattle," and was the rare woman to write, direct and produce Hollywood movies. Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71 2012-06-27T03:28:11Z The screenwriter said he didn't want anyone to be rooting for either Lauda or Hunt, but rather wanted to present both as flawed and yet heroic men. 'Rush' screenwriter inspired by rivalry, not Formula One racing 2013-09-25T14:58:47Z Denying playwrights, screenwriters and directors from marginalized communities a platform for their work deprives everyone the opportunity to engage with the world in new ways. Oscars 2019: Beyond the stats, why diversity matters 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Mulligan stars as a laundry worker who is swept up into the suffragette protests, which the screenwriter Abi Morgan is careful to frame as a continuing concern. Stream These 7 Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix This Month 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z “In the novel, Paula just writes, ‘Rachel remembers,’ ” said Taylor, who worked on later drafts of the script with screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson. How ‘The Girl on the Train’ tries to go deeper than your average mystery thriller 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z And the Oscar goes to … the highest bidder for this Academy Award, which the screenwriter Robert Riskin earned for “It Happened One Night.” Up for Sale: Pop Culture Mementos 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z By the time he made his first two films, Human Nature and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, both with the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, Gondry was extending that humanising process to established stars. How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director 2010-12-09T22:30:00Z Bryan Cranston’s last few roles have had the actor bringing life to historical figures like Lyndon B. Johnson and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Bryan Cranston Explains How to Break Up a Drug Cartel 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z He also was a screenwriter, producer and actor. Blake Edwards dies 2010-12-16T18:13:00Z Both unbelievably great screenwriters who are starting this movie happen to be women. Kevin Feige on how Marvel's new Spider-Man will be different, and missing Comic-Con 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z With minimal dialogue and graceful editing, Mr. Davis and the screenwriter Luke Davies convey the Dickensian dimensions of Saroo’s situation. Review: ‘Lion’ Brings Tears for a Lost Boy, Wiped Dry by Google 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Photograph: Mark Mainz/Getty He was named one of Variety's 10 most promising screenwriters in 2006, but since then it has all gone rather quiet on the film front for Nick Cave. Nick Cave penning remake of The Crow 2010-07-27T11:02:00Z He signals his debt to the surrealists by casting Jean-Claude Carrière, a longtime screenwriter for Luis Buñuel, as an older husband who gives James advice. What Makes Kiarostami a Modern Master? Start Here 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z He proceeds to assert the crucial importance of scripts and screenwriters. A Lovingly Obsessive Tribute to Mike Nichols, by Elaine May 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Narrated by Dustin Lance Black, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "Milk" — who, like Cowan, grew up gay in the Mormon Church —"8" documents how the church marshaled its members worldwide to protect traditional marriage. Cancel Gay Pride until we have marriage equality! 2010-06-25T15:19:00Z Instead of building the plot around a tedious pursuit peppered with cutesy digital monsters — a misstep in the first two “Fantastic Beasts” films — the returning director David Yates and the screenwriters, J.K. ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ Review: The Plot Against Muggles 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z You seem like a lovely guy, the director and screenwriter told him, but you’ve got to throw your hat in the ring with everyone else. Dev Patel Tapped His Inner Alpha for ‘Lion’ 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The film was controversial both in terms of its content but also because there were accusations that screenwriter Harmony Korine and director Larry Clark were exploiting their characters and the non-professional actors playing the roles. Revisiting the ethics of cult favorite "Kids" 26 years later through a new documentary 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z That said, it's worth noting that the crew on the live-action film is perplexingly white—this includes the director, screenwriters, costume designer, cinematographer, and many, many others. Disney's disjointed "Mulan" remake is obsessed with the concept of "ch'i" but can't find its own 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The postwar revelations of the Soviet penetration of the British secret service by the Cambridge spies cast a long, baleful shadow – not least over our novelists and screenwriters. Restless – and its roots in the Cambridge spy ring 2012-12-21T22:55:09Z The film eventually introduces the executives of The Charter who all have playing card names for no real reason except maybe the screenwriters thought it was cool. "Heart of Stone" stars Gal Gadot in a lackluster Europudding action flick 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Broadbent will lead read The Chapel of Unrest, a short horror story by screenwriter Stephen Volk, at the west London theatre on 15 March. Jim Broadbent makes one-off return to the stage 2013-03-06T12:32:16Z Their draft was reworked by 14 subsequent screenwriters before the star was satisfied she had an awards contender. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z It’s a host of actors, producers, screenwriters and publicists racing to get into position for the awards season . . . which officially begins today, with the announcement of the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Film Independent Spirit Award nominees announced 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Now the and screenwriter Andrew Davies are to tackle Dylan Thomas's last days in a TV biopic to mark the centenary of his birth. Life and death of Dylan Thomas: BBC biopic to mark poet's centenary 2012-12-09T19:00:44Z Cody is the current de facto spokesperson for the new wave of female screenwriters. Bafta awards: British women vie for writing prizes 2012-02-10T19:16:05Z Like much of the Hollywood left, Humphrey Bogart supported the 19 “unfriendly” screenwriters initially called before the committee. You Must Remember This: Why We Return to ‘Casablanca’ and ‘High Noon’ 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The keynote speaker at the University of New Hampshire will be 1992 graduate Jennifer Lee, the screenwriter and director for the Disney film “Frozen.” “Frozen” director at New Hampshire graduation 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z American Sniper may be quickly stealing the title of the most politically controversial film this Oscar season, but screenwriter Jason Hall maintains he just penned a portrait of a beleaguered soldier — not a political statement. American Sniper Screenwriter Jason Hall: 'I Bled For This Thing' 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The body of British screenwriter Simon Monjack was found late Sunday night at his residence in the Hollywood Hills, police spokesman Sgt. Actress Murphy's husband found dead 2010-05-24T08:59:00Z The Australian screenwriters Dane Millerd and Ross Murray have been enlisted to find a global audience for the tale of the 60-year-old, who was jailed for life for the killing. Story of Australian woman who skinned and cooked partner to be told in film 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z It is, in places — but it’s also strangely flat, as if screenwriter Richard Nelson lost interest somewhere along the way. ‘Hyde Park’ promising but lackluster 2012-12-13T22:24:44Z "She cut off our life together, swiftly and with no mercy," is the kind of line a screenwriter thinks really deep people say. "Her Smell": Elisabeth Moss can't save this humorless, grunge-era "Spinal Tap" knockoff 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z He was a screenwriter for the 1998 movie “The Siege,” which imagined a wave of terrorist bombings in New York after the secret abduction by the United States military of a suspected Islamic terrorist. Tribeca Film Festival: 12 Days, 132 Films, 38 Countries 2010-04-16T00:04:00Z And who’s at fault — unenlightened government or overreaching screenwriter? Movie Review: ‘I Do,’ Directed by Glenn Gaylord 2013-05-30T23:46:08Z With this film, which also premiered to great acclaim at Cannes, the 83-year-old Loach and his regular screenwriter Paul Laverty are nothing if not timely. ‘It’s a form of modern slavery’: MPs on Ken Loach’s film about the human cost of the zero-hours economy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z After all, it took 10 movies in the Marvel cinematic universe even to see a woman screenwriter. Michelle MacLaren to direct 'Wonder Woman': How significant is it? 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Eszterhas and Verhoeven cheerfully reunited just before production commenced in San Francisco in April 1991, with the screenwriter reviewing the director’s alterations to his script and determining they “shared the same vision” for the film. ‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z “I didn’t think my coming out was that interesting,” the 33-year-old actor, screenwriter and producer says. Master of None's Lena Waithe: 'If you come from a poor background, TV becomes what you dream about' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z He is also a screenwriter, playwright and director. Madeline Long, Joshua Weinstein 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z After approaching screenwriters, to no avail, Stewart took the project on himself and began writing Rosewater on weekends and during dark weeks on The Daily Show. Rosewater: everything we know so far about Jon Stewart's new movie 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Disney is working its magic to create a Maleficent sequel, with screenwriter Linda Woolverton in talks to return to pen the screenplay. Disney Is Working on 'Maleficent' Sequel 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Farhadi is an excellent screenwriter and an impressive handler of actors, but the film nonetheless adds up to less than the sum of its parts. ‘Everybody Knows’ Review: Penélope Cruz’s Homecoming Turns Frantic 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Right the way through to the fence-sitter of an ending, the movie looks like it was written by committee at a screenwriters' seminar. Flying Blind – review 2013-04-11T21:00:01Z Rebello, a screenwriter, journalist and author of a book about the making of “Psycho,” takes us — as his subtitle also proudly announces — “deep inside” the making of the 1967 film. Review | ‘Valley of the Dolls’ may be the best bad movie — and novel. A new book explores Jacqueline Susann’s cult hit. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z He was quite successful, compared with most screenwriters, having written or contributed writing to about 45 scripts sold to studios. Jordan Roberts and His Comedy ‘3, 2, 1 Frankie Go Boom’ 2012-10-01T22:16:24Z Marshall and his screenwriter, JF Lawton, are preoccupied by turning Vivian into a picture of innocence – not a sex worker who hits the lottery, but a naif who discovers the proper lady she always was. Pretty Woman at 30: conservatism, materialism and glowing star power 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z For research, Shaw read books like “The Jaws Log” by Carl Gottlieb, one of the film’s screenwriters, which chronicled the production’s numerous problems. Wrestling With His Past. And an Animatronic Shark. 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z A screenwriter could be proud of the layers of meaning in that line, and maybe one is. Television Review: ?Brooklyn 11223? on Oxygen 2012-03-25T21:49:51Z It’s been a while since the dramatist and screenwriter Tom Stoppard produced a new play. Essential Arts & Culture: Stoppard's new play, L.A.'s Wrigley Field, Dudamel's best-ever L.A. Phil piece 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Images and plot twists seem to have come more easily to Hitchcock than character work, which he left largely to screenwriters. Review: In ‘Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life,’ Fear Drives a Master of Suspense 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The talking filibuster has been a useful reference for screenwriters looking for a way to crank up the narrative tension in scripts that are heavy on civics. No standing, no marathon speeches, no catheter bags: How filibustering got way too easy 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Of course, Ridley called for much the same thing, but we can stipulate that an Oscar-winning screenwriter will always get faster action than a lowly, ink-stained wretch. Perspective | HBO Max isn’t censoring ‘Gone With the Wind.’ It’s reframing it. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The genuine exploration of racial tension that distinguished some of Mr. Schrader’s prior work as both a director and screenwriter, including “Blue Collar,” is replaced here by glib nose thumbing. Review: ‘Dog Eat Dog’ Is a Pulpy Tale With Nasty, Bumbling Crooks 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Kendrick said she had relied on the director of the first movie, Jason Moore, and the screenwriter of both films, Kay Cannon, to remain grounded. Anna Kendrick on ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ and Not Trying Too Hard 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z “When we started out this process, it was a screenplay from a first-time screenwriter,” he said. Oscars 2015: First-time nominees 'elated' by best picture nominations 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Brest said that Mr. Goldman was an adept collaborator, not only with other screenwriters but also with directors and others involved in the moviemaking process. Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 90 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The curse torments those who contract it with visions of wet-haired apparitions, disembodied limbs, mute children or whatever else might strike a screenwriter’s fancy. ‘The Grudge’ Review: A Curse That Can’t Be Lifted 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z But although the general standard may have improved since then, it’s still true that in Hollywood, drugs are often no more than a prop—a lazy screenwriter’s short cut to supposed edginess. 10 most awesome drug scenes in movie history 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z It's kind of amazing no one has thought to make this mashup before, compiling every great threat some pasty screenwriter who'd never have the cojones to say to someone's face has put in a movie. The 100 best movie threats of all time 2011-06-01T18:02:00Z The "Trainwreck" screenwriter and star said her video was meant to bring women together. Amy Schumer defends her 'Formation' video, says Beyonce approved it 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z That was a smart move on the part of Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner, a Pulitzer prize-winner for the play "Angels in America" who also wrote the script for Spielberg's "Munich." Review: Day-Lewis is tremendous in safe `Lincoln' 2012-11-07T00:19:14Z It works because director David Leitch and screenwriters Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce knew exactly what it takes to make a solid action comedy and delivered the goods, plain and simple. "Hobbs & Shaw" and the standalone spin-off 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Our guide, Scott Cooper, who adapted an unpublished manuscript by the screenwriter Donald E. Stewart into this handsome oater, has updated the talking points to take account of changed sensibilities. Review: ‘Hostiles’ Grapples With the Contradictions of the Western 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z And who are the screenwriters whose name on a film's credits is a reliable sign of quality? What are the best ever screenplays? 2013-03-01T16:09:54Z “Pangs of the Messiah,” a 1986 drama by the Israeli playwright and screenwriter Motti Lerner, asks every possible permutation of this question. | 'Pangs of the Messiah': ?Pangs of the Messiah? at 14th Street Y - Review 2011-11-09T22:38:44Z His mother was the actor Templeton Fox and his father was Robert L Welch, a screenwriter and producer at Paramount Pictures. Bob Welch obituary 2012-06-08T15:21:56Z But Chandler didn't have much to do with his books being made into films -- he was a screenwriter on other projects. Raymond Chandler to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z In fact, screenwriter Josh Heald, who wrote both films, had initially come up with the idea as a kind of joke in college. Rob Corddry jumps back into the whirlpool for 'Hot Tub Time Machine 2' 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z During a period that cut into many writers’ savings, the union offered loans to some, which kept screenwriters’ homes from being taken or their medical coverage from being cancelled. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z In Hollywood, not that long ago, it was something of an insider’s tip that to achieve success as a screenwriter, you needed a working knowledge of Joseph Campbell’s “Hero With a Thousand Faces.” What About the Heroine’s Journey? 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, Variety revealed that a new script is now being written by Brian Miller, the screenwriter of 2011 found footage science fiction movie Apollo 18. Reddit thread inspires Warner Bros time travel movie 2013-01-16T12:25:43Z The film, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, won four Academy Awards, one of which went to the screenwriter William Goldman, who died last month. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Legends of the Lost With Megan Fox’ and ‘District 9’ 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z But directors and screenwriters had come and gone, and Depp took on other work. Charlie Hunnam Is a Cat Person 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Why did Cooper pick that word, “cancel”? Simple: “Your Love is Cancelled” happened to be coming out of the screenwriter’s speakers around the time he was writing the scene. The strange journey of ‘cancel,’ from a Black-culture punchline to a White-grievance watchword 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z When asked that question directly, the 56-year-old actor turned playwright turned screenwriter turned filmmaker — whose early, post-college career once included such odd jobs as delivering singing telegrams — demurs. Aaron Sorkin finds a heroine after his own heart in ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Ben Foster plays Lance Armstrong in The Program, Stephen Frears’s film about his downfall; another potential best actor contender is Bryan Cranston, who plays blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. As the Toronto film festival turns 40, directors seek to avert mid-life crisis 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z She was at the height of her popularity in 1955 when she married the screenwriter Zenzo Matsuyama, and again defied convention by continuing to work as an actress rather than withdraw into domestic life. Hideko Takamine, Lauded Japanese Actress, Dies at 86 2011-01-04T01:08:46Z Shortly before she died, the novelist had authorized a leading contemporary screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, to write the adaptation, but after her death a draft script alarmed the lawyer who represents the estate. After Dispute, ‘Mockingbird’ Blends Novel’s Spirit and Sorkin’s Voice Onstage 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Somehow, through some supernatural confluence of human thought, dozens of screenwriters working over decades have come up with the same rules for the same superhero movies without ever communicating aloud to each other. The labor laws of the superhero universe amount to disturbing propaganda 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Williamson is probably better known to American audiences as a screenwriter. A Scandal-Scalded Murdoch as a Song-and-Dance Man 2013-09-03T21:50:31Z The movie will be the first superhero film to star a black actor, be written by two black screenwriters and directed by a black director. These Are the Movies and TV Shows We Want to See at Comic-Con 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Sanditon features an ensemble cast including Rose Williams, Theo James, Anne Reid and Kris Marshall, and the screenwriter said the contents of many of the scenes were decided collectively. Jane Austen's Sanditon 'sexed up' in Andrew Davies adaptation 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z The screenwriters’ union agreed to a compromise: it said it would not picket the ceremony as long as the show does not rely on a written script. How America’s Playwrights Saved the Tony Awards 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z “This fulfilled a lifetime dream of one day becoming the oldest recipient of the first-time screenplay award,” said Bob Nelson, the 57-year-old screenwriter of “Nebraska.” The Carpetbagger: At the Indie Spirits, Oscar Warm-Ups and Also-Ran Quips 2014-03-02T14:47:13Z It's gone through a swarm of screenwriters, several key crew changes, a postponed release date and, most notably, a reshot ending. Brad Pitt tries to build a better blockbuster 2013-06-19T15:04:10Z Its libretto, by American novelist and screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer, derives from Kafka's terrifying short story of the same name. In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La boh?me/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z I do not envy screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who needs to turn the book's second half -- basically a bunch of vampires sitting around talking alertly -- into a movie. A pause for "Breaking Dawn" (ouch) 2011-06-28T17:28:11Z Yahoo asks the screenwriters about five key moments. What You Should Watch This Week: Spring Finales, ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘The Americans’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The studio has broken ground with films like “Black Panther,” its 2018 blockbuster with a black director, screenwriters and leading actors. Can ‘Captain Marvel’ Fix Marvel’s Woman Problem? 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z We were screenwriters, so we really had no training with editing, sound, shooting. Interview with Drew Daywalt: Horror's great Internet age begins 2011-04-14T14:14:00Z The background of , his latest collaboration with the leftwing Scottish lawyer turned screenwriter Paul Laverty, is the widespread, seemingly permanent youth unemployment and the despair and communal erosion it engenders. The Angels' Share – review 2012-06-02T23:05:32Z What sets “Rust Creek” apart from most of its genre predecessors, though, is that its director, screenwriter and cinematographer are all women. ‘Rust Creek’ Review: A Woman Is Stranded in the Backwoods of Kentucky. What Could Go Wrong? 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Field offered a way to achieve my needs and wants to become a screenwriter. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z "Of course not, this is just so crazy," the director and screenwriter replied. "I should be the poster boy for the #MeToo movement," Woody Allen recommends 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z In recent years, she has become an in-demand screenwriter as well as a playwright, with movies including “Jane Eyre” and “Byzantium.” Moira Buffini on ‘Dying for It’ at Atlantic Theater 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z To resurrect the franchise, Disney enlisted Jason Segel, the star of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and that movie’s director, Nicholas Stoller, as screenwriters. | 'The Muppets': ?The Muppets,? With Jason Segel and Amy Adams - Review 2011-11-22T13:00:00Z “People see the movie poster, and it’s got a guy and the American flag, and they know Clint Eastwood — the Dirty Harry guy and the Republican convention guy — directed it,” says screenwriter Jason Hall. American Sniper Screenwriter Jason Hall: 'I Bled For This Thing' 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Scott Z. Burns, a screenwriter, director and producer, met Ms. Roberts on the West Coast and hired her to “warm up” his modern home in the Venice section of Los Angeles. So You Want to Blow Out Your Brooklyn Brownstone 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z She is a beloved if still terribly underrated cultural figure, recalled fondly for her comedy routines with Mike Nichols and insufficiently recognized for her brilliance as a screenwriter and director. Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z You're playing a character who is a writer on a show headed by Emma Thompson, who is herself an Oscar winning screenwriter. Reid Scott's "Late Night" writer character "probably thinks of himself as pretty progressive" 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Once this premise is established, the movie throws up its figurative hands and crawls to a halt, as if the screenwriters had decided to go on vacation halfway through. Netflix’s 2019 Holiday Movies, Reviewed and Ranked 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Penned by actor and screenwriter Chris Coghill, who appeared in Shameless and 24 Hour Party People, it follows a gang of Mancunian teenagers who find their city in the throes of musical delirium. Spike Island: 'It's not about the Stone Roses, it's about loving the Stone Roses' 2013-06-04T19:00:01Z Separately, a caption, also using information from Getty Images, misstated the title of the film that the screenwriter Frances Marion and Ms. Pickford were working on. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Martin Scorsese's 3D family film "Hugo" centers on French film pioneer Georges Melies, and in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" Owen Wilson plays a modern screenwriter time traveling back to the 1920s. Original Oscar winner "Wings" soars again in Hollywood 2012-01-18T23:40:05Z While that film’s screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, took some liberties with the facts and drew flak for it, he also gave us one of the decade’s finest exemplars of the biopic. Hollywood needs to stop letting stars author their own biopics | Charles Bramesco 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Calder may be a typical scruffy, T-shirted screenwriter, prone to pretentious catchwords and on the cusp of selling out, but he’s also a genuinely good guy. The Silver Lake young(ish) professional, adrift in 'Icebergs' at the Geffen Playhouse 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The screenwriter remembered that kid’s words when he was writing “On the Basis of Sex” — and when he thinks about filmmaking. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already a legend. But a new movie insists there’s still more to say about her. 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z The Westminster thriller was an authored drama, with Abbott writing every word, while the Manchester black comedy was team-written, giving valuable opportunities to many young screenwriters. Shameless: when TV shows overstay their welcome 2012-10-10T11:33:37Z If an actress needed a double, a man would just throw on a wig and a skirt, according to “Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story,” a 2015 book by Mollie Gregory, a novelist and screenwriter. ‘It’s Not for Wimps’: 8 Stuntwomen Reflect on Their Careers 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z In her memoir, “Floor Sample,” published in 2006, Ms. Cameron recounts the brutality of Hollywood, of her life there as a screenwriter and a drunk. The Queen of Change 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z “Nightcrawler,” the aptly titled directing debut of veteran Hollywood screenwriter Dan Gilroy, may be a little too sleazy and knowing for its own good. “Nightcrawler”: Jake Gyllenhaal knows what you want to watch 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The screenwriter, 65, also known for The Black Stallion and Martin Scorsese’s Kundun, died on Wednesday after an illness. Melissa Mathison, ET screenwriter, dies aged 65 in Los Angeles 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Burrows is a screenwriter in Los Angeles. Marianne Eagan, Kevin Burrows 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The movie is based very loosely on the first four books of the series, but with an added heist plot of the screenwriter and the team. ‘The Bad Guys’ and the Crossroads Its Author Faced 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Now inside the cinema world, Cerami soon found work as screenwriter. Vincenzo Cerami obituary 2013-07-24T12:02:55Z “The Consultant” was created and written by the British screenwriter Tony Basgallop, based on a novel by Bentley Little, and it is in the vein of his previous American series, “Servant” on Apple TV+. ‘The Consultant’ Review: Silicon Valley Goes to the Devil 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The TV screenwriter who turned to writing children's books unfolds the bizarre plot with just the right timing. Cosmic professor 2012-06-18T18:45:01Z Green Book’s screenwriter had to apologise for an Islamophobic tweet, and the movie was criticised for being “full of lies” by relatives of its subject, Don Shirley. No such thing as bad publicity: five ways to win an Oscar in 2019 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z As a young wannabe screenwriter, I didn't have any illusions that I could write the next Citizen Kane. My inspiration for The Liability: Cohen and Tate and its brilliant screenwriter 2013-05-14T10:23:00Z His short stories, in part because they are not as widely known, giving screenwriters more license to extrapolate, have been the least problematic. Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Obsession 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z “Only he knows what’s going on inside of him,” says Scot Armstrong, the “Old School” screenwriter who created “Dice.” With old dirty nursery rhymes and a new series, Andrew Dice Clay returns 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The playwright, screenwriter, actor and drag performer has inhabited at least as many personalities as Walt Whitman. In a New Memoir, Harvey Fierstein Shares Gossip and Regrets 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The screenwriter and director Sarah Polley told me something quite fascinating when talking about this sequence from her movie. Watch Scenes From These Eight Best Picture Nominees 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z That gained the screenwriter access to the family archives, where her hunch was confirmed. ‘Belle’ and Slavery’s End in Britain 2014-04-25T18:31:59Z Lapine proposed himself to Marshall as screenwriter; other writers were attached in previous attempts. ‘Into the Woods’ aims for fairy-tale end 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The script by the “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody deliberately aimed to incorporate as many pressing concerns as it could. Review: With ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ They Finally Fixed the Jukebox 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Rand, who was also a screenwriter, had adapted her 1947 novel "The Fountainhead" herself for a 1949 movie starring Gary Cooper, and was irked by a single line cut from the final film. 'Atlas Shrugged' finally comes to the screen 2011-04-10T05:00:00Z Following two young dreamers trying their hands at cranking the mythmaking machine, Gloss chronicles the birth of a lifelong friendship between Bud, a beginning stunt rider, and fledgling screenwriter Lily Shaw. ‘Falling from Horses’: bringing the Western myth down to Earth 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Years later, after he became a director, screenwriter and author, he wrote a memoir about their love affair and the trauma of their breakup. Want to Play La Parisienne? Here’s How 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z The screenwriters chatted recently about how they won Ms. Keane’s trust without giving up creative control. 'Big Eyes' and the Pact Between Writers and Painter 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Perry is a screenwriter and performer living in Los Angeles. Modern Love Podcast: Alex Karpovsky Reads ‘Uh, Honey, That’s Not Your Line’ 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z One advantage to the long gap between chapters is that the many credited screenwriters are free to fill in or leave blank as much as they want. ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Review: Will This Stuff Still Fly? 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z On this point there was agreement from Mr. Kronish, the screenwriter of “The Kennedys.” ?The Kennedys?: After the Debate, the Debut 2011-03-28T18:18:19Z Even so, many of the fellows dream of eventually becoming directors or screenwriters. A Bronx Film School Tale 2010-09-05T22:40:00Z This week, she shifts into rare leading actor mode in the acutely observed comedy The Meddler, where she’s on top form as the overbearing mother of Rose Byrne’s beleaguered screenwriter. Susan Sarandon: five best moments 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The script was written by "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. Colin Trevorrow to direct 'Jurassic Park 4' 2013-03-14T21:52:20Z “It’s an interesting dynamic,” said the film’s screenwriter, Scott Z. Burns, a regular collaborator of Mr. Soderbergh’s who also wrote “The Informant!” Arts & Leisure: All-Star Cast for Steven Soderbergh?s ?Contagion? 2011-08-26T21:36:34Z "The Imitation Game" screenwriter Graham Moore shared the award with Andrew Hodges, who wrote the book "Alan Turing: The Enigma." 'The Imitation Game' wins USC Scripter Award for adapted screenplay 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z If I was that guy who could anticipate trends and excitement in the public, I’d be a screenwriter not a novelist. From “Star Wars” to our wars: What the Force has in common with “Thank you for your service” 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Ball, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of “American Beauty” and Emmy-winning creator of “Six Feet Under,” spoke recently from his West Hollywood office about “True Blood.” ArtsBeat: He's Created a Monster: Alan Ball Talks 'True Blood' 2011-06-17T14:49:32Z Sculley met with the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin to discuss details of his relationship with Jobs and the inside track on Apple’s history. Good Jobs: former Apple CEO says company co-founder would have liked new biopic 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z "Hitman" screenwriter Skip Woods is in negotiations with 20th Century Fox to take a crack at a new "Die Hard" script. "Die Hard" not dead yet: New script in works 2010-05-06T01:56:00Z This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: January 8, 2011 An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of a screenwriter for “Robocob.” Float Like a Franchise, Sting Like a ... 2011-01-09T02:13:01Z Frederick Mensch, the screenwriter, was breaking a lot of rules, but in a way that still felt compelling, showing a character the likes of which I personally hadn’t read and even seen. David Oyelowo on the Role That Made Him a Method Actor 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Taylor Sheridan, the screenwriter of “Hell or High Water,” “Sicario,” and “Wind River,” has recently set his merciless eyes toward the mountains and open plains of the Northwest with his new Paramount Network series “Yellowstone.” “Yellowstone,” an American purgatory: No heroes in Kevin Costner’s new Western series 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Her sister Tess, who was 13 or 14 and is now a screenwriter in Hollywood, said she remembered Sophie coming home that day and knew something had happened. Scotland Yard ‘told of Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct in 1990s’ 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Burke, a James Bond figure “before James Bond existed,” had been working as a screenwriter before being recruited by the C.I.A. When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z And now Mr. Kasdan and his son Jonathan are the screenwriters of “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” a new movie that fills in the back story of Han Solo. He’s Tried to Leave ‘Star Wars’ Before. Will This Be It? 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z But as screenwriter Colin Carberry explains, 15 or even 25 years wouldn't have been enough to provide the political perspective – not to mention the will – to make a period piece meaningful. Youth culture movies: how soon is too soon? 2011-08-18T21:00:01Z In the stories, Pat Hobby is a hack screenwriter, a relic of Hollywood’s silent era, a drunk. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood “Crack-Up” 2013-06-09T15:00:00Z His ideas, he said, were “a little too small” to follow that big novel, so he went to Hollywood to seek work as a screenwriter and to collect material for a novel. The Great American Novel Buried in Norman Mailer’s Letters 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Historically, Hollywood has denied screenwriters their proper due, which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tries to rectify with “Spotlight on Screenwriting,” a series at Film Forum and the SVA Theater. The Academy Highlights Movie Screenwriters 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Not just because he is such a brilliant screenwriter, but also because he is a constant reminder that there is someone around whose mind is more unpleasant and twisted than my own. TV review: Islam: The Untold Story; Accused 2012-08-28T21:40:01Z Lincoln Center Theater said Monday that it would stage a revival of the classic musical “Camelot” on Broadway this fall, with a new book by the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. ‘Camelot’ Is Returning to Broadway, Reimagined by Aaron Sorkin 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Rather, I see the Procrustean formatting of the three films as failures of imagination, which began before the shoot, while the three filmmakers were wearing their screenwriter hats. Nina Simone and the Clichés of the Musical Bio-Pic 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Thompson, who has won Oscars as an actress and a screenwriter, said she was "so entranced" she said "ok". Peter Rabbit 'made me write book' 2012-08-31T19:05:58Z It was a better-than-average year for intelligent American movies, and it's good to see screenwriters and directors grappling with the value of our labor. Films once were an escape from work. Now, they celebrate it. What gives? 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z For example, he writes that screenwriter Johanna Harwood’s contributions to the first two Bond movies have been “clouded by the vagaries of film history and the egos of those within.” ‘One Lucky Bastard’ by Roger Moore Now, with the sale of his debut novel, Mr. Weiner is joining a group of screenwriters who moonlight writing in other forms. Conquering TV With ‘Mad Men.’ Now Matthew Weiner Publishes a Novel. 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Levy was a screenwriter on 2008's "Vantage Point," about an attempt to assassinate the U.S. president in Spain, and 2013's "Paranoia," a corporate espionage thriller. New movie to explore bizarre hunt for the Boston Strangler 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z He took control of the stories and the production of his films over all; he became a director and screenwriter, and also edited his movies. Charlie Chaplin's Scandalous Life and Boundless Artistry 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Oscar-winning rapper Common and Jason Hall, the screenwriter of "American Sniper," are to join the Los Angeles reading of "If All the Sky Were Paper" set for this weekend at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Common, 'American Sniper' screenwriter join war-letters play reading 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: January 8, 2011 An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of a screenwriter for “Robocob.” Float Like a Franchise, Sting Like a ... 2011-01-09T02:13:01Z A teen film is not the obvious home for such deep “real world” wisdom, but it is a common thread in the work of the film’s screenwriter, Shonda Rhimes. Why I love… Shonda Rhimes 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z It is an extraordinarily speedy outcome for a film project once regarded as too risky when director and screenwriter Damien Chazelle approached producers in Los Angeles. Is hit Hollywood film La La Land about to become a stage show? 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z So yes, we should probably have some sympathy for the screenwriter when he’s simply trying to explain the nonsensical decision-making process followed by studio bigwigs when making these utterly ridiculous decisions. Why Max Landis is wrong about Scarlett Johansson's 'whitewashed' Ghost in the Shell remake 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z At Dr. Brooks’s behest, Mr. Forman and one of the screenwriters, Lawrence Hauben, lived in the hospital for weeks, interacting with patients and observing their daily routines. Dr. Dean Brooks, ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ Doctor, Dies at 96 2013-05-31T23:57:18Z So much dialogue in the books cries out for celluloid… I've sympathy for all the screenwriters who have taken a crack. 'My humour has always come from anger' 2011-03-06T00:02:01Z Projected on the wall between the mannequins dressed in the queen’s and Philip’s coronation regalia is a quote written by “The Crown’s” screenwriters. Jewels from ‘The Crown’: A costume exhibition at Delaware’s Winterthur Museum 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z One of few Black screenwriters working in Hollywood at the time, Howard said he shopped his pitch to “every single buying entity in Hollywood” and every single one rejected it. Not just a football movie: How ‘Remember the Titans’ became a hit and inspired a nation 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z But working alongside such towering entertainment figures as Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner, the acclaimed “Angels in America” playwright, Peck faced an intimidating challenge, to be sure. With ‘West Side Story,’ choreographer Justin Peck brought dance into the Spielberg universe 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Through the ages, novelists, dramatists and screenwriters have had the freedom to explore these moral questions, and to show how the law and human morality are sometimes aligned and sometimes in direct conflict. Louise Doughty: rereading the best courtroom dramas 2013-06-21T18:00:01Z The review by The Post’s fresh young movie critic, Paul Attanasio — now a prominent Hollywood screenwriter and producer — was headlined “Dune — Lost in the Dust.” Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Rich was a pen name for blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. From assassinations to 9/11: How the Oscars respond to political turmoil 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Another “mum” role for Walters, but with a seriousness and tenderness that movie screenwriters don’t often let her show. Julie Walters' best film performances – ranked! 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Were there screenwriters you talked to for advice? ArtsBeat: Rushdie on the ‘Midnight’s Children’ Script: ‘If I Want to Hack Stuff Out, I’ll Hack Stuff Out’ 2013-04-22T20:22:50Z There is the valid concern a heavy focus on remakes and reboots will devalue the original ideas of black screenwriters and directors. Less Shaft, more House Party: Hollywood revisits 90s black film boom 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Some plot devices from the novel are adopted by the screenwriter, Ring Lardner, Jr., but others, which were created from whole cloth, up the ante on the source material. What “M*A*S*H” Taught Us 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The Omen screenwriter David Seltzer, who got his break from Stuart at the age of 26, described him as "a mentor by way of drill sergeant, much-feared boss and much-loved friend". Willy Wonka director dies at 83 2012-08-10T15:12:59Z Midnight in Paris stars Owen Wilson as a screenwriter who travels back in time to meet literary greats. Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris cleared of copyright infringement 2013-07-19T13:43:23Z In her first novel, French Iranian screenwriter Djavadi delivers the story of Kimiâ Sadr, who flees Iran at age 10 with her mother and siblings to reunite with her father in France. Ten books that explain the complicated nostalgia of being a child of diaspora 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Luring women into hotel rooms and rubbing against their terrified bodies, a la the allegations facing screenwriter James Toback? Perspective | Nearly a year into #MeToo, it is time to discuss bad guys who think they are good guys 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Some of the most successful screenwriters, novelists, television producers and rock-opera librettists I know are about a hundred times lazier than I am. Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z Ms. Walsh, who was dating a screenwriter named Stephen Sinclair at the time, recalled Mr. Jackson as having “sallow” skin. Middle-Earth Wizard’s Not-So-Silent Partner 2012-11-30T13:00:00Z The screenwriter Irving Wallace considered him “a lovable scatterbrain … a man who parrots things — shallow and affable.” A New Biography of Ronald Reagan Captures His Passion for Stardom 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Jones will base his biopic on an adaptation by screenwriter Matthew Brown of Andrew Lycett's biography The Man Behind James Bond. Duncan Jones to direct Ian Fleming biopic 2012-05-21T13:42:26Z Graves and his screenwriters -- Craig Silverstein, Kelly Marcel, Brannon Braga and David Fury -- handle the narrative housekeeping efficiently but without much snap. Civilization gets a prehistoric reboot in "Terra Nova" 2011-09-27T01:45:00Z The American director and screenwriter has many in his. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Genuinely odd in its mixture of bluntness and indirection, screenwriter Angus MacLachlan's study in biblical temptation is saved from its own heavy-handedness by a fine quartet of actors. 'Stone': A vexing web of encounters between a fine quartet of actors 2010-10-14T20:39:00Z Luiza Fazio, a Brazilian screenwriter, said that it was pop culture that shaped the imaginations of most people, especially young people — for better and worse. We, the Writers? A Global Literary Congress Meets in New York. 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Steve Schmidt, a screenwriter who is Mr. Schmidt’s brother, said in an interview that a reaction like that was a testament to his brother’s acting skills. Playwright Clears His Stage and Bookcases 2010-12-09T23:25:00Z “The movie’s a sort of wish fulfillment,” said the screenwriter Shane Black, who created the “Lethal Weapon” franchise and wrote “The Last Boy Scout.” Film: Buddies Cracking Jokes and Heads 2010-02-19T23:52:00Z The sequel will be written by Blade Runner's original architect Hampton Fancher, with Michael Green, the screenwriter of the poorly received Green Lantern movie from 2011. Blade Runner 2 producers invite Harrison Ford to return for sequel 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Related: #OscarsSoWhiteAndStraight: the Academy fails at diversity yet again Meanwhile, the sole nomination for Straight Outta Compton was handed to the film’s white screenwriters. Oscars 2016: academy to review diversity of membership after stars threaten boycott 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z “Not because I think screenwriters are underappreciated — even though they are. But because the way people think about this job is fundamentally wrong.” Max Landis Is a Hollywood Disrupter With an Attitude 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z But it was Goldman, in the crowning achievement of his long, successful career as a novelist and screenwriter, who used his screenplay to forge the modern myth of the reporter as hero. William Goldman Turned Reporters into Heroes in “All the President’s Men” 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The book began more than 30 years ago as an oral history project put together by one of Newman’s closest friends, the screenwriter Stewart Stern. Paul Newman Will Tell His Own Story, 14 Years After His Death 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z I felt like these film adaptations were often even stronger than the books they came from, which is a testament to both the screenwriters and filmmakers. Authors weigh in on their favorite page-to-screen adaptations 2013-05-09T19:21:16Z Hooper also had warm praise for "The King's Speech" screenwriter, David Seidler, who overcame a stammer himself as a boy growing up in Britain around the time of World War II. Hooper earns top DGA prize for `King's Speech' 2011-01-30T11:48:09Z A film adaptation from the producers and screenwriter who made “The Martian” is underway, with Ryan Gosling signed on to play Grace. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Maybe the subjective experience of teenage girlhood is just too foreign for Hollywood’s mostly male screenwriters. Girl Power: 10 Terrific Teen Heroines in Movies 2013-07-29T09:45:59Z The joke barrage becomes hit-or-miss, as if the creators — including screenwriter Dan Stewart, working from a story by Rogen and Greenberg — don’t know or care which is which. You Can't See The Interview, But I Did 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z One of the most prolific and powerful screenwriters of her time — with a career that began in 1912 and stretched into the late ’50s — Anita Loos was in some ways bigger than Hollywood itself. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The two credited screenwriters, Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, consistently flail in most of their attempts at humor. Going for funny without sacrificing sexy “Baywatch” beaches itself 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Tim Miller’s film is likely to triumph if the screenwriters can get Wilson’s one-liners right, and so far this looks promising. Deadpool trailer is rude, crude and dangerously entertaining 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z “God Looked Away” looks into the life and career of playwright, screenwriter and novelist Tennessee Williams. The production is apt for Pasadena, as Williams premiered two works at the playhouse early in his career. Pasadena Playhouse locks in Al Pacino for new production about Tennessee Williams 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The 11th, which is being touted to potential investors at the current Cannes film festival, will be directed by Paris-based screenwriter Xavier Nemo in his first stint in charge of the cameras. Christopher Lee and Uma Thurman attached to 9/11 drama set in Denmark 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z But screenwriter Paul Schrader was in some ways the driving force behind both films. When big-screen reunions work … and when they don't 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z When he first tried to lure director M. Night Shyamalan to the TV series "Wayward Pines," screenwriter Chad Hodge decided to bring the house. M. Night Shyamalan adds to the mystery on Fox's 'Wayward Pines' 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z No word yet on a screenwriter, a cast or a release date, but the project will be overseen by the studio’s Fox 2000 division. Fox Planning Movie About Supreme Court Gay-Marriage Ruling 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z "The idea is to celebrate screenwriters as collaborative authors of films, rather than simply as adjuncts of the director's vision," he says. Trailer trash 2011-08-27T23:06:49Z Don’t ask about the whys and wherefores; I doubt whether even the screenwriter could tell you. | 'Abduction': Taylor Lautner in ?Abduction? - Review 2011-09-22T21:41:13Z That same month, her co-star Meryl Streep announced she was funding a screenwriters’ lab for women writers over 40. Geena Davis: ‘After Thelma & Louise, people said things would improve for women in film. They didn’t’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Politics aside, we hope a screenwriter will dare to consider the ultimate spy-movie twist: making the CIA top dogs heroes instead of fops and sociopaths. Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy? 2012-02-09T16:00:14Z The play, by Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, will be performed as part of a fundraiser at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre for one night only - Sept. Whitford, Lithgow in play reading on Broadway 2011-09-08T19:09:09Z The actor and director, along with writer Randall Wallace, are working on a sequel to The Passion of the Christ, the Braveheart screenwriter told The Hollywood Reporter. The Passion of the Christ Writer Hints at Sequel 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z One thing that drew my attention was the presence of a North American as the screenwriter. Inspired by Simón Bolívar and Gustavo Dudamel 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Instead, Sam and Amanda help each other find more meaningful work: Sam as a leading actor trying to capitalize on a big win, and Amanda following her dream of becoming a screenwriter. Three New Cinderella-Inspired Romance Novels 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z But the novelist is far gentler than the screenwriter, which we first see in the way Miss Havisham is rendered in the script and through Colman's interpretation. Olivia Colman on her "Great Expectations" for Miss Havisham: “There's such darkness inside her" 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z When it came to my work, however, screenwriters, male or female, learn to be careful how they communicate. How ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ and My Work Friends Made Me an Honorary Millennial 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z "Zero Dark Thirty," from director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, who won Oscars for "The Hurt Locker," is scheduled to be released in theaters at the end of the year. Film dramatizing bin Laden raid airing Nov. 4 2012-10-05T03:13:08Z The screenwriter Andrew Davies took many liberties with Jane Austen’s final, incomplete novel. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Outsider’ and ‘Sanditon’ 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The PEN literary awards celebrate many things: People who write under threat of danger, West Coast authors of outstanding books, significant screenwriters and longtime literary figures. Aisha Tyler to host PEN Awards with appearance by Amy Poehler 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z This month a television producer, a short-story writer, a film critic and a screenwriter whose first draft was her journal all deliver their debut novels. Newly Released Books 2011-01-19T21:24:02Z Web developers and screenwriters, wedding planners and wardrobe stylists. Jewish Summer Camp With Campfires, Crafts and No Lights Out 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Sorkin's representative confirmed that the comment was indeed from the screenwriter. Sorkin defends "Social Network" in blog comment 2010-10-15T03:40:00Z It was released as a graphic novel in 2018, and adapted into a hit Broadway production by the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. Gregory Peck’s Daughter and Others Keep ‘Mockingbird’ Sequel Rights 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z After a decade of hustling, first in development at Charlize Theron’s female-centric production company and then as an aspiring screenwriter, she was beginning to think, “Maybe this isn’t what I’m supposed to do.” How a writer defied ‘one in a million’ odds to get her first movie made by Steven Spielberg 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z One of his greatest achievements was to emerge as a major screenwriter with his dignity and humanity and kindness intact. The Crown writer Peter Morgan on William Goldman: 'He was just a sublime storyteller' 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Typically, French screenwriters conceive of shows, then hand their script and control to directors, she said. Exploring the Diversity, and Precariousness, of French Stand-Up 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z He discusses how the job of screenwriter – arguably the most important on any film set – came to be regarded as the bottom of the food chain. TV highlights 02/08/2012 2012-08-01T19:29:01Z In addition to his stand-up specials and regular appearances at places like UnCabaret, the Los Angeles alternative comedy theater, Mr. Negron was a playwright and screenwriter. Taylor Negron, of ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High,’ Dies at 57 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z But despair is not a strategy, and Ms. Nair and the screenwriter, William Wheeler, refuse to turn African life into a pageant of grimness and deprivation. Review: In ‘Queen of Katwe,’ a Pawn Finds Her Crown Through Chess 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The screenwriters Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof are able to leave their audience in the dark, at least in terms of specifics, because they’re drawing on a story that has become common cultural currency. When Humans Are the Prey: A Plot Made for Every Era 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z The show was created and partly written by Kay Cannon, screenwriter of the “Pitch Perfect” movies. Review: In Netflix’s ‘Girlboss,’ a Heroine Who’s a Tough Sell 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z It wasn’t just that guys like Gekko existed and became filthy rich at the expense of the American economy, as Stone and his screenwriter Stanley Weiser made clear. “The point of having f**k-you money”: We’ve seen how the economy broke down in ’08 — Showtime’s “Billions” shows us why 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z While directors and actors tend to get the lion's share of glory, film-makers would be lost without a good script written by a talented screenwriter. What are the best ever screenplays? 2013-03-01T16:09:54Z That concept formed the basis for the weapon Lin conceived with his fellow screenwriter, Daniel Casey. For ‘F9,’ Making Stunts That Stick 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z This “Anna Karenina,” scripted by British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard and set by Wright on a stylized Russian theater stage, seems a whirl of constant motion; Law’s Karenin is the still point within it. Jude Law: ‘thrilled’ to be part of ‘Anna Karenina’ 2012-11-16T23:22:13Z Huxley moved to Southern California in 1937, where he found work as a screenwriter. Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Roberts became a screenwriter and died in 2006 at 60. Tanya Roberts, a Charlie’s Angel and a Bond Girl, Is Dead at 65 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Perhaps, if I played my cards right, I could go from novelist to screenwriter, and sneak into the lot at Paramount through a side door. Did I make it? 2012-11-18T17:01:00Z An especially unusual aspect of Mr. Henry’s career was that as a screenwriter he would spend time on the set. Buck Henry, Who Helped Create ‘Get Smart’ and Adapt ‘The Graduate,’ Dies at 89 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The likelihood of a first-time screenwriter making it to HBO are slim, and “Nightingale” is the first screenplay from the Black List website to be produced by any film company. Review: David Oyelowo, Going Mad in ‘Nightingale’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z He was a favourite at Star Wars conventions and also worked as a screenwriter for TV shows such as The Bill, Boon and Love Hurts between 1988 and 1992. New Star Wars trilogy to arrive in 2015, 2017 and 2019 2013-04-18T09:43:36Z Fifty years ago, the screenwriter Robert Towne said to his girlfriend, “I want to write a movie for Jack.” My Sister, My Daughter: Behind the Scenes of a Great American Film 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z This was the story the screenwriters set out to write many years before COVID, and so it may bring folks some joy. Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter: Bill & Ted "aren't playing Van Halen riffs" anymore 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The actor was born in Pittsburgh but moved to Britain in 1974 where he was most recently working as a screenwriter, according to his biography on IMDb. Stars Wars actor Richard LeParmentier dies at 66 2013-04-17T10:42:46Z McCarthyism and fear of Communism was rampant in the United States, and the blacklist prevented screenwriters and other entertainers suspected of having ties to the Communist party from working in Hollywood. TCM Classic Film Festival celebrates Kirk Douglas 2011-03-28T15:46:04Z As Jackson's Dolmedes explains the sex strike to men in a barbershop, you can glimpse screenwriter Kevin Willmott in the background, sitting in a barber chair just to the right of Jackson. Break down of ‘Chi-Raq’ trailer: locations, stars and plot 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Payet, who is one of the film’s directors and screenwriters, is a comedy star in France, and this movie is facile with its comic rhythms and dramatic flow. ‘Relationship Status,’ a French Comedy Starring Manu Payet 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Afterward, one of the judges, screenwriter William Goldman, described her as “chunky.” It’s not just about bikinis: Inside the battle for the future of Miss America 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z “People Like Us” is the first feature directed by Alex Kurtzman, a screenwriter whose credits include work on “Cowboys & Aliens,” “Transformers,” “Star Trek” and “Mission Impossible III.” Movie Review: ‘People Like Us,’ With Chris Pine 2012-06-28T23:36:10Z Hollywood screenwriters feel differently, and have further boiled down Campbell’s formula to create a narrative template that has proved enormously successful, most famously in the “Star Wars” films. Forget the ‘Hero’s Journey’ and Consider the Heroine’s Quest Instead 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The screenwriter James L. Brooks “made it about how America treats cancer patients, which pulled things off the tracks. I focused on mothers and daughters and lovers and friends.” Plays Coming Soon From a Movie Screen Near You 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Knight is the screenwriter of "Eastern Promises," "Dirty Pretty Things" and wrote and directed "Locke," also starring Hardy. FX orders 'Taboo' series starring Tom Hardy 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Complicating that task even further, the screenwriters did not have the rights to Tolkien’s posthumously published “Silmarillion,” an early draft of which was written as a follow-up to “The Hobbit.” Middle-Earth Wizard’s Not-So-Silent Partner 2012-11-30T13:00:00Z “Novice screenwriters make mistakes,” Allen said, when asked about inflammatory aspects of the screenplay that didn’t make the final cut. What really happened at Chappaquiddick? A new movie explores the truth we’ll never know. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The elder Mr. Bologna was also a screenwriter. Joseph Bologna, Onscreen Tough Guy With a Sense of Humor, Dies at 82 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z She and Leonard, a screenwriter and novelist, met there, and married in 1987. The Evolution of E L James 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Nor even can screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh, who came to The Look of Love after years toiling in the bowels of the British TV culture that Alan bestrode and embodied. Steve Coogan: forever Partridge? 2013-04-15T15:29:00Z A comic, actor, filmmaker and singer, Mr. Sandler starred in movies that have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide, and he has stacked up dozens of credits as a producer and screenwriter. Adam Sandler Is Awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The actors walked the red carpet outside Austin's Paramount Theater on the festival's opening night, along with screenwriter Ben Ripley. Source Code sci-fi thriller premieres at SXSW 2011-03-12T02:25:10Z So it’s a bit surprising that the movie never got a sequel, but the film’s screenwriter Eric Roth explained in an interview with Yahoo Entertainment that it’s not for lack of trying. "Forrest Gump" sequel would have involved OJ car chase and Princess Diana, according to screenwriter 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z They later brought in Wright, who had been the screenwriter of the Gershwin film. To Become Oscar Levant, Sean Hayes Revisited His First Role 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Yachts glide past the window, behind the tiled pool; inside, the art collection includes paintings by the conductor’s father, a sometime screenwriter who played the piano for hours a day. Perspective | Michael Tilson Thomas was once the ‘bad boy of classical music.’ Now, at 74, he still conducts with childlike delight. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z It’s the first book from the producer and screenwriter also known for his work on “The Sopranos.” Matthew Weiner, the creator of 'Mad Men,' will publish a novel 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Given that the film-makers themselves were hardly teenagers – Nichols was 35 and screenwriter Buck Henry was 36 – this sensitivity makes sense. Here’s to you, Mrs Robinson: why The Graduate unites warring generations 50 years on 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z How do screenwriters adapt these stories so that they will appeal to a broad swath of moviegoers, readers and nonreaders alike, without alienating the fans who consider the books holy writ? ‘Divergent’ Adapters Face a Delicate Balancing Act 2014-03-19T17:52:24Z Kay Cannon: The “Pitch Perfect” screenwriter is producing an adaptation of the book “Dead Spots,” which is about a supernatural crime-scene cleaner. Quibi Is Coming. Here Are the Famous People Making Shows for It. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Taylor Sheridan, the screenwriter who is making his directorial debut here, kept that unbridgeable distance in mind when he told his casting team: Hire Native American actors for Native American roles. What’s So Hard About Casting Indian Actors in Indian Roles? 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The candor of these collaborators, who are as affectionate with one another as they are argumentative, would seem to make them ideal for “Empire,” which Mr. Daniels created with his “Butler” screenwriter, Danny Strong. The Cast and Director of ‘Empire’ Discuss Their New Show 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z As previously announced, Pride and Prejudice screenwriter Andrew Davies was awarded the Harvey Lee award for his outstanding contribution to broadcasting. Broadchurch in awards hat-trick 2014-03-28T12:01:13Z Though based on a novel, the movie turned into a veiled story of Hughes because, as its screenwriter, Arthur Laurents, claimed in his memoir, Ophuls hated Hughes. Robert Ryan?s Quiet Furies 2011-08-06T20:58:02Z The Bagger spoke with Diablo Cody, the screenwriter of “Young Adult,” at a recent Cinema Society party for the film. Carpetbagger Blog: What Happens When Mean Girls Grow Up 2011-12-13T13:30:13Z Or maybe it's just easier for screenwriters to write "A punches B" than realistic conversations and funny jokes. Why the outrage over The Killer Inside Me? Domestic violence really is brutal 2010-06-09T08:00:00Z The playwright and screenwriter on witnessing Brook “model a life as an artist” at his Paris base. ‘He Presented Another Path’: Actors and Directors on Peter Brook 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z While filming it she met the screenwriter Charles R. Marion and married him. Elena Verdugo, Who Lifted Latina Image on TV, Dies at 92 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z The intention was to reimagine the play — based on the Harper Lee classic and adapted by the Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin — for a contemporary audience. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Meets an Arena Full of Students 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The director and screenwriter, Gillian Robespierre, brings no substance to the chitchat and no complexity to the characters, the plot, the issues, the New York settings, or the images. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Star Trek actor George Takei has hit out at claims by a Marvel screenwriter that the studio “whitewashed” a traditionally Tibetan character in forthcoming superhero epic Doctor Strange to appease China. George Takei on Doctor Strange controversy: 'Marvel must think we're all idiots' 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Before he was an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter and producer, Darren Star was just a teenager from Potomac. The real Potomac is nothing like ‘Real Housewives’ — except for the money 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Born into a family of screenwriters, a top journalist in her 20s and 30s, then a best-selling author and successful director, Ephron was among the most quotable and influential writers of her generation. Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71 2012-06-27T03:28:11Z “I for one have no desire to produce any anti-Negro film,” he wrote in a memo to the screenwriter Sidney Howard. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Black had come out as gay by then and was trying to make it as a young screenwriter. How ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Took On Murder and the Mormon Church 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z "It's a huge role for someone," says his friend and screenwriter Mark Staufer, "made all the more special, or downright scary, by the fact that the director is an Oscar-winning actor like Russell." Stephen Merchant flies solo and Simon Pegg crash lands into 'sexism' row 2012-07-24T15:24:39Z Kent is quick to clarify that she wants to see Queen & Slim’s director and screenwriter succeed. ‘Make films where black characters don’t die’: Queen & Slim sparks debate over ‘trauma porn’ 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z If nothing else, Gavron and screenwriter Abi Morgan have rescued suffragist reality from antique newsreel footage of proper ladies wearing prim little hats and carrying signboards. The ladies who planted bombs: Inside the Oscar-bait drama of “Suffragette,” an urgent lesson in activist history struggles to escape 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Stephen Frears, the director, and Russell T. Davies, the screenwriter of “A Very English Scandal,” play with this confusion at the outset of the final episode. The Very English Politics of “A Very English Scandal” 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z I mean no offense, as a writer, to the screenwriters who have been on strike against film and TV studios for over two months. We Are All Background Actors 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z You can either marvel at how the film-makers planted the seed for sequels from the get-go, or applaud the ingenuity of future screenwriters for reverse-engineering plot details. Why we should learn to stop worrying and love the blockbuster franchise 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z About a decade ago, Mazin had carved out a solid career as a comedy screenwriter. ‘The Last of Us’ Continues Craig Mazin’s Hollywood Ascent 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z It’s not the sort of material you would expect to reunite the screenwriters of “Good Will Hunting,” but Damon and Ben Affleck, along with Nicole Holofcener, are credited with the adaptation. New Fall Movies 2021: Here Are More Than 125 Coming Soon 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z But the screenwriter later took to Twitter to angrily deny such a reading. Max Landis: there are ‘no A-list female Asian celebrities’ who could have taken Scarlett Johansson’s Ghost in a Shell role 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Director Sam Taylor-Johnson and screenwriter Kelly Marcel will not return for the second and third movies, the New York Times reports. Your First Look at Jamie Dornan in "Fifty Shades Darker" 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z All 20 actors nominated in the four acting categories this year are white and no women are nominated for either best director or screenwriter. Diversity out of the picture in Oscars race 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Attica Locke, Black Water Rising Locke, an HBO screenwriter, was rather splendidly named after the 1971 upstate New York prison riots. Going it alone 2010-04-20T17:35:00Z “The Minister,” from the veteran French screenwriter Pierre Schöller, is in some ways this year’s answer to “Margin Call”: a claustrophobic study of the inner workings of power at a time of crisis. Critic?s Notebook: New Directors/New Films at the Film Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-20T22:30:26Z Mr. Guerra was sometimes asked to reconcile his roles as poet and screenwriter. Tonino Guerra, Italian Screenwriter and Poet, Dies at 92 2012-03-23T04:08:37Z Collaborating again with screenwriter Mark Boal, Bigelow crafts a studiously detailed, relentlessly paced chronicle about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z Pileggi then became a notable screenwriter, with credit for another Scorsese movie, Casino, among others. Nicholas Pileggi: the mob, Nora Epron's death and Vegas 2013-02-03T07:02:31Z The screenwriter for “Bull Durham,” Ron Shelton, played for my dad in the minors. Cal Ripken’s favorite baseball movie, and 24 others on the best film about their profession 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z As with any young talent, she has a way to go, including as a screenwriter. Review: ‘Trainwreck’ Delivers the Full Amy Schumer Experience 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z It is important that women talk about pay, says Kate Muir, the former film critic, now a screenwriter. What Salma Hayek’s Weinstein story reveals about Hollywood power and pay 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Fellowes goes a bit wilder with them here, in fact, as he's channeling the cadence of Charles Lederer or other Hollywood Golden Age screenwriters into the dialogue. "The Gilded Age" is a glittery confection that's more "Dynasty" than "Downton Abbey" 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Both “Beirut” and “Michael Clayton” — whose weary, beaten-down protagonists the screenwriter considers “cousins” — are adamantly original, emblematic of another kind of business model that has emerged as an alternative to the franchise blockbusters: awards films. Perspective | Tony Gilroy and the ongoing battle for good movies for grown-ups 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z And finally, this weekend's midnight movie at the Egyptian is the wonderfully warped 2004 comedy "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," which won an Oscar for screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. At A Theater Near You: Scarecrow celebration, Earshot fest, more 2012-10-18T20:18:05Z One of the screenwriters, Tom Mankiewicz, said, “There was an old pro’s grace about him.” Sean Connery: From Tentative Secret Agent to Suave Bond 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Though billed as a show about “screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters,” “Scriptnotes” goes well beyond that remit to provide a deep dive into how the film business actually works. 7 Podcasts for the Movie Buff 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Zemeckis and the screenwriter, Steven Knight, plant almost imperceptible clues that blossom into sinister and scary possibilities in a way that is both shocking and satisfying. Review: ‘Allied’ Uncorks a Favorite Vintage, and Infuses It 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The actress and screenwriter applies medical advice she received after a concussion to all areas of her life: to retrain her mind by engaging in the very things that triggered her symptoms. 14 New Books Coming in March 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis received "troubling" emails after he referred to Scientology as a cult and confirmed he would be leaving the organisation, he has said. Paul Haggis received 'troubling' and 'angry' emails after quitting Scientology 2011-02-24T14:14:31Z So hard, in fact, that after a false start that revolved around a Romanian orphan and his evil twin, Atkinson and the screenwriter William Davies went back to the drawing board. For Rowan Atkinson, Comedy Isn’t Always a Laughing Matter 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Disney last week confirmed the Oscar-winning writer of Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3, Michael Arndt, as the screenwriter for Episode VII. Carrie Fisher likes 'idea of being Mrs Solo' in new Star Wars film 2012-11-15T10:59:01Z As a screenwriter who has written or co-written numerous films, I am in awe of Mr. Allen's singular achievement. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Chandler was a novelist and then a screenwriter, the man who created the private detective Philip Marlowe. Raymond Chandler to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z But the average screenwriter didn’t bang out “Part II.” 1985: When ‘Rambo’ Tightened His Grip on the American Psyche 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The director then hired someone not on the studio list: screenwriter Robert Kaufman, "a brilliant, vicious intellectual, total amoral comic. He could make me laugh. He was a bright, funny man." 'Getting Straight' gets a 45th anniversary screening in L.A. 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Set in Hollywood’s golden age, it revisits his tenure in one of the most reliably bitter and underappreciated Hollywood tribes, a.k.a. screenwriters. David Fincher, the Unhappiest Auteur 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z “His height is just disarming, right away,” said McKay, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker. How the ‘Succession’ Star Nicholas Braun Elevates Cousin Greg 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Renowned screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin has created a comic crime thriller based around the story of the Chicago Seven — the counterculture protesters charged with conspiracy to riot. War epics, airmen and young Sopranos: essential films for 2020 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z When word spread this month that Bollywood planned a movie called "Dear Friend Hitler," screenwriter Nalin Singh was genuinely shocked it stirred even a small controversy. Hitler film exposes India's interest in dictator 2010-06-25T11:46:00Z Here, that would be narrator Evans, billed simply as Me, playing perhaps the world's worst working screenwriter, and Michelle Monaghan as Her, the unavailable object of his affection. 'Playing It Cool' leaves you cold despite star-packed cast 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z At the National Board of Review gala this month, the screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher presented Mr. Peele with an award after saying that if “Get Out” is a horror film, “Jaws” is a “beach movie.” Why Are We Ashamed to Call ‘Get Out’ and ‘The Shape of Water’ Horror Films? 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Its hero is Ben, a down-on-his-luck screenwriter whose life is transformed when a film company options one of his scripts. Thrillers roundup – reviews 2013-07-04T09:00:00Z The film’s screenwriter, Jason Hall, weighed in late December, in a since deleted tweet. That Fake Baby and Other 'American Sniper' Issues 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z It said that James Ponsoldt would direct the film based on a script by screenwriter Young Il Kim, but that the project was still in its very early stages. Clinton mini-series scrapped by NBC 2013-10-02T11:03:27Z So it’s all the more surprising that this first novel by a screenwriter of films not renowned for their dialogue turns out to be the most exciting desert island read of the season. ‘I Am Pilgrim,’ by Terry Hayes 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z The movie conveys an earnest effort on the part of the producers, the screenwriters, and the director to reboot Tarzan on virtuous principles, but the results feel constrained to that virtue. Tarzan Cannot Be Rebooted 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z He had been due to take part in a "screenwriter's summit" in London last weekend but was too ill to attend. 'Screenwriting guru' Syd Field dies 2013-11-18T13:43:20Z An Oscar might have been a way of summarising this tendency, but also encouraging screenwriters to develop away from it. The black Oscar wins that got away | Peter Bradshaw 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z A screenwriter, Alex knows a good story in the making when she sees one. Date Lab: We set a straight woman up with a gay woman. (Not on purpose, though.) 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z After a decade as a screenwriter, it would be my first film as director. Notes from a Hollywood divorce: 'We had a primal connection. But we hung by a thread for years' 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Joining him are a motley crew of actors, directors, screenwriters and the impossible-to-categorise ball of enthusiasm known as Will Smith. Cannes 2017: Palme d'Or winner announced – live! 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Is it possible to do people good by doing them harm? Plato didn’t think so; the director David Frankel and the screenwriter Allan Loeb do. In “Collateral Beauty” and “Passengers,” Two Tales of Gaslighting 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The mysterious figure in all this is probably the film’s producer and screenwriter Collier Young, who was married to Joan Fontaine when the film was made, and before that was married to Ida Lupino. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Bigamist 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Later works, including “Hurlyburly” in 1984, brought the same coruscating moral vision to bear on other warlike ecosystems, like Hollywood, where he often worked as a screenwriter. Review: In ‘Good for Otto,’ a Case of Psychiatrist, Shrink Thyself 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z He will also attend, along with the film’s screenwriter, Cheryl West. ‘The Brother from Another Planet’ launches 10th Langston Hughes film fest 2013-04-09T14:55:52Z Hollywood’s worst screenwriter strikes again Scenes from "A Thousand Words," "A Night at the Roxbury" and "Bruce Almighty" At the request of the writer, we've made the decision to remove this story from the site. As ?SNL? season ends, signs of a coming shift 2012-05-16T04:30:00Z Producers assigned a screenwriter to work with her. Victoria Gotti Is Back in a Big Way on Your Teensy Screens 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Newman, who died in 2008, began the book in the 1980s with the help of screenwriter Stewart Stern, who in turn spoke to dozens of Newman’s friends and associates. Paul Newman memoir left unpublished to come out next year 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z The longtime screenwriter was a protégé of Mike Judge and worked on "Beavis & Butt-head"; he also penned the foul-mouthed antics of "Tropic Thunder." Etan Cohen, director of 'Get Hard,' is used to confounding expectations 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z But Rebecca Miller, the film director and screenwriter who runs her father’s estate, stepped in. Director Quits ‘All My Sons’ Amid Dispute Over Cast’s Racial Makeup 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z It is a work of great moral seriousness and yet the whispery-plangent mannerisms are unchanging, and this man’s spiritual crisis did not look obviously different from Christian Bale’s agonising screenwriter in Malick’s Knight of Cups. Cannes 2019: Peter Bradshaw's picks – and Palme d'Or predictions 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Thus it was that I became what I’d spent the better portion of a lifetime avoiding: I became a screenwriter. How to avoid writing an awful screenplay 2013-04-22T22:05:00Z But Michael R. Perry, a screenwriter who was at his 11th Austen evening, recalled at least one close encounter of the cross-cosplay kind a few years back. Dancing to Jane Austen’s Beat 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The late 1940s found Mr. Laurents in Hollywood, trying his luck as a screenwriter. Arthur Laurents, Playwright and Director on Broadway, Dies at 93 2011-05-06T04:27:34Z At 35, after I wed an older, brilliant screenwriter, I wanted to collaborate on a project I thought would be wildly successful. Ivana and me? It’s complicated: A Manhattan feminist's connection to the first Mrs. Trump 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z The film, which opens Friday, is Novak’s debut as a feature director and screenwriter, and he stars in it as Ben Manalowitz, a self-assured New York writer. B.J. Novak Went to Texas Looking for ‘Vengeance’ and Found America 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Kate Muir, the screenwriter and former critic, says that the industry’s sudden interest in female-driven blockbusters boils down to hard cash. Wonder women: how female action heroes will blast cinema screens in 2018 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z This time around, the director Harry Bradbeer and the screenwriter Jack Thorne forgo prolonged dialogue when Enola breaks the fourth wall, making more room for Brown’s intense looks and physical gestures to resonate. ‘Enola Holmes 2’ Review: A Clever Force of Nature 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Or as Bob Nelson, the Oscar- and guild-nominated screenwriter of “Nebraska,” put it: “The best thing, as a writer, is to pillage your family mercilessly. Anything short of legal action.” The Carpetbagger: Write What You Know, Especially if It’s Difficult Family 2014-01-31T13:30:24Z Still, the Writers Guild granted credit for the new script to the original’s screenwriter, Dean Craig, a decision no one seems to dispute. Film: Chris Rock Gives New Life to ?Death at a Funeral? 2010-04-09T15:31:00Z Every day brings another lawsuit from an aggrieved screenwriter. Seen it all before? The Shape of Water and claims of movie plagiarism 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Created by Taylor Sheridan, “Yellowstone” is the latest play on the western from a screenwriter and director who specializes in 21st-century twists on the genre. Analysis | How TV has brought the western into the 21st century 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z In California, the pawnshop draws in the Hollywood set with actors, producers and screenwriters looking for fast cash. A Birkin Bag in the Box Is Worth a Lifetime of Debt 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z It has a lot of Disney iconography: Mr. Moore, a first-time director and the movie’s screenwriter, filmed inside at least eight rides, and a lengthy sequence involves the line for a Buzz Lightyear attraction. ‘Escape From Tomorrow,’ at Sundance, Scrutinizes Disney 2013-01-20T19:31:24Z The previous screenwriters attached to the project had written the past four Saw films. Frequent Tim Burton Collaborator to Write 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' Screenplay 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z I seated myself between a divorcing screenwriter from LA and a world traveler who lives all around the globe but prefers New York City. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z An American private investigator representing Woods said the screenwriter was surprised that his motorcycle, which was stolen from the parking lot of his condominium in Houston, Texas, ended up half way around the world. $80K motorbike stolen in US found in Philippines 2011-05-05T11:23:15Z Among the play’s string of soliloquies, the one delivered by Mr. Pendleton in the small role of a gay screenwriter numbed by existence comes closest to the desired state of shabby grace. | 'Small Craft Warnings': Barroom Dirges of the Working Class 2011-02-22T22:02:02Z “Since she was a screenwriter and not an author — a very different craft — Sara went looking for advice.” Sharks, Torpedoes, Deadly Secrets: The U.S.S. Indianapolis Tragedy 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z He asked Tabaré Blanchard, the main screenwriter, to direct because of his vision for a film that would be true to Dominican culture while telling the story of a major figure in the country. A Dominican Wrestling Hero Gets a Biopic to Match His Star Power 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Allen's romantic fantasy "Midnight in Paris" stars Wilson as a Hollywood screenwriter and wannabe novelist who pines nostalgically for the 1920s Paris of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Allen's `Midnight,' De Niro's jury open Cannes 2011-05-11T12:21:13Z She was one of the most powerful screenwriters in early Hollywood and, for a while, the highest paid of any gender. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z It is also the subject of a TV miniseries treatment being developed by "Zero Dark Thirty" movie screenwriter Mark Boal, the Hollywood Reporter said in February. Trump-Clinton election campaign to get HBO miniseries treatment 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z It’s likely the material will become a treasured resource of novelists or screenwriters penning the next Mad Men or Downton Abbey. Green's, the Biggest Slang Dictionary Ever, Just Went Online 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z For these screenwriters, exclusion from guild honors does not hurt their chances, except when it comes to complaining about writing with their fellow writers. The Carpetbagger: Writers Guild Gives 'Flight,' 'Looper' and 'Master' a Little Help 2013-01-04T19:24:37Z They often tell screenwriters to "kill their darlings" but they can't stop them occasionally being resuscitated and printed in the Guardian. Peep Show's funniest moments - by the man who wrote them 2012-11-23T13:00:00Z American film director and screenwriter James Gray, who directed “Little Odessa,” chairs the Rome jury. US Films Dominate Rome Film Festival Lineup 2013-10-14T16:38:55Z On October 17, 2020, screenwriter and television producer Amy Berg posted headshots of the four on Twitter and captioned it, "One has to go." The origins and evolution of the ongoing “Best Chris” debate 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z So she moved to LA in 2015, originally hoping to find work as a screenwriter. Jameela Jamil: 'I won't become a double agent for the patriarchy' 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z The film tells the story of the screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, perhaps the best known of the Hollywood 10, who in 1947 were jailed and blacklisted for alleged communist sympathies. ‘Every country has its fearmongers’ – Bryan Cranston on Trumbo and Hollywood’s blacklist 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z I was assigned to the Pictorial Center, formerly Paramount Studios, in Long Island, as a screenwriter. The summer afternoon Frank Sinatra tried to beat me up 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z We used to blacklist screenwriters for being communists. Be nice to China: Hollywood risks 'artistic surrender' in effort to please 2013-05-30T14:40:50Z On a movie set, the screenwriter was someone you never see. Jeff Daniels on theater vs. film and the man who never forgave him for making "Dumb & Dumber" 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The psychological thriller is directed by English filmmaker and screenwriter Ben Wheatley, who is known for his work on the Tom Hiddleston thriller "High-Rise" and the action comedy "Free Fire." From Aaron Sorkin's "Trial of the Chicago 7" to "Emily in Paris," what's new on Netflix in October 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z He was a playwright and screenwriter whose characters did not so much skirmish as chafe. Perspective | Neil Simon was a funnyman who pleased himself by going deeper 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Ever since the movie “Wall Street” fixed the world of cutthroat stockbrokers in the popular imagination more than 30 years ago, screenwriters have returned to that setting for stories about money and power. ‘Black Monday’ Plays the Wall Street Crash for Laughs 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Hall, the British screenwriter and playwright, discovered “Network” while living in America in the 1990s and had wanted to bring it to the stage for nearly a decade. ‘Network’ in an Age of Fake News and Fury 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The studio has tapped screenwriters Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah — whose credits include "Legally Blonde," "10 Things I Hate About You" and "The House Bunny" — to script the remake, The Times has confirmed. 'Sister Act' remake in development with 'Legally Blonde' writers 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z She was forwarding a message from Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith, a producer and the screenwriter of "Legally Blonde" and "The House Bunny," who has no professional connection with "Bridesmaids" but is nonetheless agitating on its behalf. Seeing "Bridesmaids" is a social responsibility 2011-05-12T16:17:00Z I lay down and began flipping through “The Church of Baseball,” a book by the screenwriter and director Ron Shelton about the making of his 1988 movie, “Bull Durham.” One Last Chance to Be Lazy 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Two decades ago, the screenwriter Andrew Davies gave Colin Firth a skinny-dipping scene in a BBC TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Flashing the flesh – a history of TV nudity 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The screenwriter has said in several interviews that the bull riding is meant to be a metaphor representing Woodruff struggling with his disease. The True Story of Dallas Buyers Club 2013-11-08T18:24:22Z As screenwriter Aaron Sorkin — creator of such confected presidential urtexts as “The American President” and “The West Wing” — observed in Vanity Fair last year, great drama needs either a memorable hero or a complicated anti-hero. Perspective | Trump’s exit may be too late to save the presidential movie 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z One of the screenwriters of the movie also felt compelled to tweet that it was fictional. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z The 46-year-old’s screenwriter includes the films “Selma,” ”13TH” and “A Wrinkle In Time.” ‘VH1 Trailblazer Honors’ celebrates director Ava DuVernay 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z He used the secondary status of screenwriters — one of the most durable facts of Hollywood life — to his advantage, positioning himself as an indispensable craftsman and an insightful participant observer. William Goldman’s Journey From Page to Screen 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z At the same time, she was working on a script that she submitted to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, a workshop where new screenwriters are paired with seasoned writers who help them finish their manuscripts. Aida Rodriguez Wants You to Laugh at the Pain 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z But Goldwyn and screenwriter Pamela Gray don't run away from the story's less comforting realities, and cinematographer Adriano Goldman captures working-class existence in rural Massachusetts and Rhode Island without romanticism or condescension. "Conviction": Oscar bait, dosed with gloom 2010-10-14T18:15:00Z Affleck, a screenwriter on this project, initially planned to direct it and then opted not to, setting off a search for a new director. ‘The Batman’ and Matt Reeves: Emerging From the Shadow of Other Caped Crusaders 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z For the artisan, as for the screenwriter, success is easily quantifiable. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z The screenwriters found material and excerpts from interviews with those involved that were better than anything they could have made up. Ben Stiller Goes Darker for a Real-Life Prison Break 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Kushner, the screenwriter, said in a statement Thursday that the film changed two of the delegation's votes to clarify the historical reality that the 13th Amendment passed by a very narrow margin. US Rep welcomes "Lincoln" concession on accuracy 2013-02-08T19:44:09Z And Selma, from a cogent, concise script by the British screenwriter Paul Webb, is all about realpolitik in the service of social idealism. REVIEW: 'Selma': The Film of the Year — But 1965 or 2014? 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z A recent talk with screenwriter Aaron Sorkin – admittedly conducted in the dark following a power outage – fell flat. Have you been watching... The Daily Show with John Oliver? 2013-07-25T11:17:08Z He was very upfront that he was not a screenwriter, but he knew so much about how to develop a story, he was so experienced. Tony Scott private memorial to take place this weekend 2012-08-23T10:11:05Z It’s a failure of excess calculation, a movie that’s crushed by the hermetic mutual reinforcement of its screenwriters’ clever intentions. The Weird Problem with “Focus” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z It's a screenwriter's distraction that obscures the character's detachment from the heart of the narrative -- and the character's essentially decorative nature. The offensive movie cliche that won't die 2010-09-14T13:01:00Z The screenwriters Graham Moore and Alexander Dinelaris got to be friends on the road to the 2015 Academy Awards, thrown together in the crush of events where contenders plug their films. Summer Is the Time for Stretching 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Before the awards circuit and the social media discourse; before the red carpet premiere and the critical consensus; before lights or camera or action, the screenwriter and director Barry Jenkins envisions an audience of one. Barry Jenkins Is Trying Not to Think About ‘Barry Jenkins’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Wouldn’t hiring a female director – or screenwriter – on the next James Bond film send the strongest message? A female James Bond? Never, confirms executive producer 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Every storm gets a calm preceding it — “the deep breath before the plunge,” as another screenwriter adapting a different fantasy epic describes it. "Game of Thrones" recap: It's the last night in the world 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z In this harrowing account, the novelist and screenwriter describes her desperate attempts to become pregnant, undergoing many rounds of in vitro fertilization. 9 Great Books to Start Off September 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z This harrowing scene embroiled Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal in a political firestorm; they were accused of distorting the role torture played in locating Osama bin Laden. ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ ‘The Hobbit,’ ‘Les Misérables’ | New DVDs 2013-03-18T21:47:22Z Some of Scott's own views on the film's ramifications are detailed in the Screenrant piece to which we linked above, and screenwriter Damon Lindelof has also had a go at clearing a few things up. Can you solve the Prometheus puzzle? 2012-06-13T15:44:05Z “He reserved an A for people whose work he thought showed the promise of someone who could make it as a playwright or screenwriter,” Nolan wrote in an email. His class is famously tough. ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Westworld’ wouldn’t exist without it. 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z While Grant, the screenwriter, was making “Confirmation,” that issue started to shape the way she saw the world. Does HBO’s ‘Confirmation’ favor Anita Hill? Kerry Washington and others say no way. 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The unfavorable reaction to portraits with an abundance of gray area is mostly a film issue, in novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby's estimation. Women who aren't 'likable' still a tough sell in films 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Katz is an avid theatergoer, and Audible quickly turned to actors to voice audiobooks; then, when Audible started creating original content, Katz thought playwrights were better suited than screenwriters to crafting purely narrative stories. Radio Drama for a Podcast Age: How Amazon’s Audible Moved Into Theater 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Tesori knows how to translate feeling into song so well that she was even brought in as a vocal producer on the new “West Side Story,” at the screenwriter Kushner’s recommendation. Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z The idea came from Christina Hodson, a screenwriter who is involved with Time’s Up, the activist Hollywood organization addressing inequities in the industry. Is Your Script Gender-Balanced? Try This Test 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z In the film, Bogart plays a hot-tempered Hollywood screenwriter accused of murdering a hatcheck girl. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z A screenwriter, director and journalist based in LA The easiest – and cheapest – way to spot a celebrity in LA is to hang out in the right coffee shops. Oscars 2011: Where to spot a celebrity in LA 2011-02-26T00:07:42Z While he was a student, Mr. Lee made a short, “The Answer,” about an African-American screenwriter who’s hired for a remake of “The Birth of a Nation.” Spike Lee Turns a Period Piece Into a Protest of the Trump Era 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Certainly that's the way most of the directors, screenwriters and actors who worked at Hammer and who Gatiss interviewed seemed to view it. TV review: Whitechapel, Horizon and A History of Horror With Mark Gatiss 2010-10-19T07:00:00Z Kim Morgan, the “Nightmare Alley” screenwriter, was a little overwhelmed by the experience which was also her first time. After a year away, Oscar nominees celebrate together 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z That at least is positive news, since the company managed to ruin Alien 3 with constant interference and hiring of new screenwriters. Can Ridley Scott's Alien prequels be a new species of follow-up? 2010-10-14T14:33:00Z Things play out in a straight-forward fashion as screenwriter Gary Whitta gives little depth or complications to his characters or story. 2010-01-11T02:48:00Z Lydia Mulvey, 47, a screenwriter, said that she quit her job in a telecommunications firm as soon as she heard she’d made it into the program. Ireland Asks: What if Artists Could Ditch Their Day Jobs? 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Mungiu is credited as the screenwriter of the six vignettes. | 'Tales From the Golden Age': ?Tales From the Golden Age? - Review 2011-08-25T23:16:18Z Hitchcock and his screenwriters, Charles Bennett and Ian Hay, realized that a faithful adaptation of Buchan’s book, with its convoluted and implausible plot, lack of female characters and long interludes of parlor-bound chat, wouldn’t do. Television Review | 'Masterpiece Classic: The 39 Steps': An Action Hero Low on the Bond Factor 2010-02-26T22:14:00Z From that little-known chapter of Lennon’s life, the Spanish director and screenwriter David Trueba has extracted “Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed,” the Spanish entry in the competition for the Oscar for best foreign-language film. John Lennon's Spain Sojourn Becomes a Film (Without Lennon) 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z In a journalistic career that has paralleled his work as a screenwriter, Mr. Boal has written extensively for publications like The Village Voice and Rolling Stone. Film on Bin Laden Hunt Leads to Pentagon Investigation 2012-01-07T00:48:01Z Prince Michael , who wants to be a producer, director, screenwriter and actor, with siblings Paris and Blanket. Michael Jackson's kids are following in his celebrity footsteps 2013-03-14T19:17:12Z Indeed, her main criticism of the film is that Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader decided to "pull their punches" when it came to foregrounding Bickle's racism. Taxi Driver by Amy Taubin – review 2012-08-28T11:35:01Z A former journalist and screenwriter, Manto was one among the millions who were displaced: Manto moved to Pakistan and wrote fiction about the lives of marginalized people. 5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z The only anomaly – the detail the screenwriter would snip for being too out of character – is the e-cigarette. John Cusack: ‘Hollywood is a whorehouse and people go mad’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z "It's not a pirate show," said Cross, a novelist and screenwriter best known for his work on the BBC's crime thriller "Luther." Blackbeard epic 'Crossbones' has NBC crossing its fingers 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a call to Eric Roth, the veteran screenwriter behind movies like “Munich” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” found him scratching to find an unstoppable one-liner in “The Social Network.” Longing for the Lines That Had Us at Hello 2010-10-19T22:25:00Z Nate Parker, the director, screenwriter and star of "The Birth of a Nation," poses at the premiere of the film at the Cinerama Dome on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, in Los Angeles. 'Birth of a Nation' launches voter registration initiative 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Together with returning screenwriter Christopher Landon, this time around they seem short on new ideas, however, relying more on the series' reputation for low-budget thrills to attract audiences. Review: Little regard for plot in 'Paranormal 4' 2012-10-17T21:31:05Z Working with the screenwriter Seth W. Owen, and expanding some of the ideas in his 2012 short film, “Loom,” Mr. Scott creates a disappointingly skeletal Frankenstein story that entertains efficiently but vacuously. Review: In ‘Morgan,’ a Snow White With Lips Stained Red 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Ruberry said he contacted the screenwriter who had written the magazine story he’d seen, and she offered to take a look at that script. His movie scripts were rejected for 40 years. His Christmas film just aired on Lifetime. 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The screenwriter Anthony McCarten seems to find that the woman underneath the pop star shell was still struggling to define herself at the time of her death at the age of 48. ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ Review: Her Lonely Heart Calls 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z A movie belongs to a director much more to a screenwriter. 'Eleanor and Park' Author Rainbow Rowell Talks 'Fifty Shades' and Franzen 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z This film was Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan’s first professional father-son collaboration as screenwriters, in a film series that has a lot to say about conflicts between parents and children. He’s Tried to Leave ‘Star Wars’ Before. Will This Be It? 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z But things fell apart, as they often do in Hollywood, and she ended up a screenwriter for hire in Los Angeles, where the frustrations continued. Attica Locke left Hollywood to write novels. Now she’s found success in both worlds. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Moderating one was Graham Moore, Oscar-winning screenwriter of “The Imitation Game,” while the other was moderated by Rian Johnson, writer-director of “Looper” and an upcoming episode of the revitalized “Star Wars” saga. Video: Alex Garland, Rian Johnson, Graham Moore talk 'Ex Machina' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Interestingly, while he is primarily a director and screenwriter, Luhrmann’s only Academy Award nomination was for Best Picture, as a producer on Moulin Rouge. 'Moulin Rouge' Director Baz Luhrmann Now Has His Own Record Label 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z Pfister and screenwriter Jack Paglen are grappling with serious ideas about the future of technology and society, but the action-movie format makes everything seem just a notch or two more ridiculous. 'Transcendence'? Not in this Johnny Depp sci-fi thriller 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z One fan of these businesses is Caprice Crane, a novelist, television writer and screenwriter who lives in New York and Los Angeles. Skin Deep: Salons Offering a Menu of Pre-Selected Looks 2012-06-19T16:36:05Z Why is an attractive and successful, if neurotically submissive, screenwriter subjecting herself to insults like this? 'Dog and Pony's' grating personalities spoil the musical fun 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Peer was an unusual choice for a Bollywood screenwriter. ‘Haider’ Angers Hindu Nationalists but Excites Film Critics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z But Harling, the "Steel Magnolias" screenwriter, said he doesn't gauge his success through tissue sales. 'The Fault in Our Stars' adds new power to films' 'tear-jerker' label 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The director and screenwriter Emmanuel Finkiel dramatizes this through a preponderance of mirror shots and sometimes goes so far as to show one Marguerite watching another in the same frame. Review: In ‘Memoir of War,’ a Writer Awaits Her Husband’s Return 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z In March a Total Recall screenwriter filed a lawsuit accusing Disney of stealing his idea for the film Zootopia. Cartoonist who claimed to be Kung Fu Panda creator jailed for two years 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The true tale of Richard Phillips, the captain of a cargo ship taken hostage by Somali pirates in 2009, is so thrilling that screenwriters hardly needed to add any extra drama. The True Tale of Captain Phillips 2013-10-12T16:00:05Z There’s a lot of genre flourish packed into a relatively tidy running time in “Hotel Artemis,” the directorial feature debut from the screenwriter Drew Pearce. Review: Jodie Foster Presides at ‘Hotel Artemis’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps because the only notable British sitcom about a non-white family was The Crouches in 2003, which followed the lives of a black working-class south London family as imagined by a white middle-class Glaswegian screenwriter. Pass notes No 2,834: The sitcom 2010-08-22T19:00:00Z “Once, I was my trying to leave a bookstore and my way was blocked by a woman who was sitting on the floor , “the screenwriter Nell Scovell tells me. Why Women Should Stop Apologizing All the Time 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z If you aren't familiar with McKee and his message, you must never have harbored any ambitions to become a screenwriter, since he's the most famous teacher of the craft in the business. Screenwriting guru tells all 2010-04-21T15:06:00Z Master of None star and screenwriter, Lena Waithe, became the first black woman to win an Emmy for writing. Master of None's Lena Waithe: 'If you come from a poor background, TV becomes what you dream about' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand based the script for this film on an article in The New York Times that investigated the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and industrial disaster. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Deepwater Horizon’ and ‘Europa Report’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Armstrong’s personal life held its own terrors, screenwriter Josh Singer discovered during three years of research, including a daughter who died at age two. 'First Man' depicts astronauts 'with death nipping at their heels' 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Knight the screenwriter exerts a puppeteering control over Knight the director, dictating and constraining his own cinematic maneuvers in the sole interest of building up to the big reveal. “Serenity,” Reviewed: An Earnestly Absurd Film-Noir Grab-Bag 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z David Lynch, right, with Mark Frost, the co-creator and screenwriter of Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks: 20 years on 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z Davis says "an unusual number of extremely distinguished screenwriters" died this year, and the academy tried to honor many of them in the short memorial. Fawcett omission from Oscar segment no accident 2010-03-09T22:21:00Z Enchanting even, when director Dexter French pulls off the stylistic flourishes that he and “Billy Elliott” screenwriter Lee Hall sprinkle liberally throughout the film. "Rocketman" won't go breakin' your heart — but maybe it should've tried 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Charlie is a screenwriter whose doctor has given him six months to live. Review: Novels by Alexandra Kleeman, Edward St. Aubyn and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The screenplay for “Quartet” is by Ronald Harwood, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of “The Pianist” and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” and adapted from his play of the same title. ArtsBeat Blog: Dustin Hoffman Graduates to Film Director 2011-09-12T15:39:11Z The professor’s dissertations on monsters as queer symbols are a treasure map leading the viewer precisely where Franco, screenwriter Amber Coney and director Melanie Aitkenhead want them to go. Mother May I Sleep with Danger?: James Franco's lesbian vampire flick lacks bite 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z When Thaddeus lucks into a career as a Hollywood screenwriter, he gets them out of the “loud and dangerous, discouraged and falling apart” city and buys a lavish estate on the Hudson River. Can you live a moral and creative life and still enjoy a bit of luxury? 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z British screenwriter Christopher Hampton, whose previous work includes Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons, will adapt the script from a screenplay he wrote some 20 years ago. Johansson to star in TV period piece 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z A good screenwriter and a good director would manage to find the context to create empathy for a character in such a state of delusion. The Odd Factual Gaps in Michael Grandage’s “Genius” 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Alan Ball, the television producer and screenwriter who has helped imbue the supernatural drama “True Blood” with its sex-saturated bite, is preparing to say fangs for the memories to that hit HBO series. ArtsBeat: Alan Ball Stepping Down as Show Runner of HBO's 'True Blood' 2012-02-28T14:17:38Z The actor’s recent work also includes Trumbo, a biopic in which he plays blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Breaking Bad cast visits Smithsonian museum as show's props join collection 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z We spoke to the screenwriters behind “Infinity War,” “The Empire Strikes Back” and other series, and asked them how they approached writing the film before the one that brings a story to a close. Screenwriters Talk Shop: How to Get Audiences to Return for Part 2 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Before he wrote “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” the novel that shook up the world of Latin American letters, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez worked as a screenwriter in Mexico. Essential Arts & Culture: Zumthor's latest LACMA plan, USC's big art hires, a reparations debate, Streisand's Sondheim 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Lee declined to write the movie’s screenplay, a task later given to the playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote, who received an Oscar for his script. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z In this flash of self-awareness, he’s equal parts rapper and screenwriter, burning a clean hole through the fourth wall. Perspective | Listening to Los Angeles rap music feels like eavesdropping on the future 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z David Berry, a playwright and screenwriter best known for the play and film “The Whales of August,” died on Dec. 16 at his home in Brooklyn. David Berry, Playwright and Screenwriter, Dies at 73 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The Dutchman improvised the final soliloquy from screenwriter David Peoples’ far less lyrical original script, and it instantly changes everything we’ve seen thus far. The good, the bad and the cyborgs: Westworld's robot forbears 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z The journalist and former New York Times Magazine writer Matt Bai is one of the screenwriters, adapting his own book. Fall Movies 2018: Dive Into an Ocean’s Worth of Offerings 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z There was “Imitation Game” screenwriter Graham Moore’s admission of a suicidal period in his teen years, and his directive to other struggling kids to “Stay weird and stay different.” “Call your mom”: How J.K. Simmons made an Oscar night cliché a rally cry for women 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z This year’s international jury, which will award the festival’s Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards, is chaired by James Schamus, the American screenwriter and independent film producer. The Carpetbagger: 64th Berlinale Kicks Off With Premiere of ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2014-02-07T16:59:55Z “When it was the same screenwriters and the same producers and the same studio executives and Nat—Nat’s a big part of it for me—I couldn’t say no,” Green says. 14 Things You Learn on the Set of 'Paper Towns' 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Bruno, who also directed, brings whimsy and hilarious physical dexterity to characters ranging from wannabe screenwriter to pampered starlet to rowdy teenager. In the Bichir brothers' sharp-edged 'eXtras,' a call for more humanity in the immigration debate 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The primary shortcoming of “Steve Jobs” is the simplistic reduction of Jobs, by the movie’s screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, to a small set of facile diagnoses. Aaron Sorkin Hates Screens 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Dix, who went on to act in TV dramas including Soldier, Soldier, is now a screenwriter. Colin Firth expresses shame at failing to act on Weinstein allegation 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z She’s a consultant and screenwriter; he owns a management and IT consulting firm. He wanted a refined woman. She’s all that — plus owns a stand of a timber. 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z In 2019, screenwriters shouldn’t wait for a man to fall on his sword before giving his wife her due. Best supportive wife: how female characters fare at the Oscars 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z O’Nan compassionately and beautifully evokes the grim last act of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life, when he worked as a Hollywood screenwriter. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z In effect, Shepard and the other screenwriters are showing their work, but only narrowly, never fully holding it up to the light of psychology or practicality. “Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z In order to clear up this point, Thrones screenwriter Bryan Cogman took to Twitter Monday to address fans. Here's Why Game of Thrones Timelines Don't Always Seem to Match Up 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Wilson plays a successful Hollywood screenwriter, who while struggling to finish his first novel and searching for life's answers is transported to the 1920s and meets such luminaries as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Woody Allen wows critics, just don't call him soppy 2011-06-09T18:39:01Z When discussions with potential screenwriters lagged, the two decided to proceed on their own. 'Rosewater's' Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari bonded after joke bombed 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z You were fired as the film’s screenwriter after writing eight drafts of a script. Talk: Daniel Handler Has Not Abandoned Lemony Snicket 2012-11-25T04:07:02Z This collaboration, on which Pierson was director and fifth screenwriter, was detailed in an article in the Village Voice entitled My Battles with Barbra and Jon, one of the most revelatory behind-the-scenes accounts of film-making. Frank Pierson obituary 2012-07-26T15:28:43Z As the daughter of a screenwriter/director and a producer, Stewart always saw herself ending up behind the camera rather than in front of it. Kristen Stewart on her directing debut: 'The best female film-makers are compulsive freaks' 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Before his book, people never really gave thought to screenwriters, their craft, or their place in the ecosystem of movie-making. The Crown writer Peter Morgan on William Goldman: 'He was just a sublime storyteller' 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Americans are more likely to be familiar with Mr. Semprún as a screenwriter than as a novelist. Jorge Sempr?n, Author Who Blurred Line Between Novel and Memoir, Is Dead at 87 2011-06-10T20:37:18Z Back when I made my vow, I wanted to be a screenwriter. Did I make it? 2012-11-18T17:01:00Z When that ended, she married Wyatt Cooper, an author and screenwriter, in 1963. Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper, sorting through family hurt and history 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Wagner’s alter ego, Bud Wiggins — the hapless screenwriter hero of “Force Majeure” — puts in one of the more engaging appearances here. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z Related: Melissa Mathison, ET screenwriter, dies aged 65 in Los Angeles It is a stunningly simple and powerful metaphor for childhood unhappiness, the poignancy of the “imaginary friend” made flesh. Melissa Mathison: a masterful storyteller who brought ET to life 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “I feel great about the final cut,” the screenwriter said. Original "Rogue One" script kept Death Star a mystery, and more reveals from writer Chris Weitz 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z In one episode a screenwriter shadows Mo as research for a film he’s working on with Oliver Stone. ‘Black Monday’ Mines ’80s Excess for Comedy and Commentary 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Born in St. Louis, Simon was raised in California, where her father worked as a screenwriter. 'Horrid Henry' author drawn to impish behavior 2011-08-27T05:20:29Z He also read detailed reports on the conflict produced by the United Nations, the European Union and Human Rights Watch as he worked with the Finnish screenwriter Mikko Alanne. Seeking Drama In a Conflict That?s Still Raw 2011-08-14T02:53:01Z In a recent interview with Terry Gross, Bradley Cooper described how he and screenwriter Jason Hall initially envisioned “American Sniper” as a revisionist western. “American Sniper” is not a war movie: It’s a classic revisionist western, and one of Eastwood’s finest 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The marvel of a script is credited to a dream team of New Hollywood screenwriters: Buck Henry, who had written “The Graduate,” and Robert Benton and David Newman, the credited authors of “Bonnie and Clyde.” When Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal Went Screwball 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z In Daughters of the Dust, you’re credited as producer, director and screenwriter. Film-maker Julie Dash: ‘#OscarsSoWhite worked!’ 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z American director, screenwriter and producer Darren Aronofsky was named jury president for the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, the festival announced on Tuesday. American director Aronofsky to head Berlin festival jury 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z I asked her what her occupation was, and she said to me, ‘I’m a screenwriter, but I don’t think I’m very good at it.’ Spielberg on Melissa Mathison: E.T.’s Glowing Heart Was Hers 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z No calls from breathless literary agents, no screenwriters inquiring about options — no Martin Scorsese. I sold my soul to Ricki Lake 2013-03-18T01:00:00Z Oscar winning screenwriter, director and producer Charlie Kaufman and French actor Jean Reno will both be honored by the festival's president award. 51st edition film fest opens at Czech spa town, honors Dafoe 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Of course, this isn’t real life; it’s a movie, as the screenwriter doesn’t know but the actor does. Seven Psychopaths: Smart, Violent, Crazy Fun 2012-10-11T12:00:26Z Given its transnational provenance – its Anglo-German source novel adapted by a British-Bengali screenwriter, its Australian director and its bleak Nazi-era subject matter – I'm reluctant to dub Lore a straightforwardly German movie. Lore: Cate Shortland's latest isn't your standard second world war movie 2013-02-18T16:00:00Z Only in adulthood did she discover her conception was a result of an affair her mother had conducted with the English screenwriter Ivan Moffat, known for his adaptation of “Giant.” The Gimlet Eye: A Poor Little Rich Girl at Christmas 2010-12-21T20:37:10Z The two British writers are up against the acclaimed American author and screenwriter George Pelecanos, who was nominated for an Emmy for his work on The Wire. Accent on youth as Gold Dagger nominees are revealed 2010-08-10T12:05:00Z Mr. Spielberg kept tabs on the project and even began consulting screenwriters, but it wasn't until the book, "Team of Rivals," was finished that work began in earnest. The Carpetbagger: From a Chance Meeting, 'Lincoln' Emerges 2013-01-29T22:35:33Z Glenn Berger, the screenwriter of the "Kung Fu Panda" movies, said that China is a trendy theme now. China's rise driving Hollywood interest in Asia 2012-03-20T10:22:10Z The highly emotional documentary is narrated by Dustin Lance Black, the screenwriter for “Milk,” who, like Mr. Cowan, is gay and grew up in a Mormon household. | '8: The Mormon Proposition': A Documentary on Gay Marriage Fight in California 2010-06-17T22:26:00Z Transformers and Star Trek screenwriter Roberto Orci is to direct the next instalment of the Star Trek franchise, according to Variety. Roberto Orci 'to direct Star Trek 3' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z As a screenwriter and filmmaker, 3d does nothing to add to the emotional depth of a film. Roger Ebert: Why I Hate 3-D Movies 2010-04-29T14:54:00Z I'm sure he's a wonderful chap, and he is clearly a polished multiplex screenwriter, but does he need to be in front of the camera? The Green Hornet buzzes to the top of the box office 2011-01-17T16:46:23Z King, for example, described how the nominated screenwriters supported themselves by working catering jobs or suffering through telemarketing. "Nomadland" wins big at the 2021 Oscars, which made history — and some unfortunate choices 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z The screenwriter in Mr. Hayes mandates that “I Am Pilgrim” begin with a big, lurid crime scene. ‘I Am Pilgrim,’ by Terry Hayes 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z They aren’t the words you expect to hear from a screenwriter. For new ‘Sin City,’ Frank Miller draws out performances that go beyond the scripted Initial news accounts identified McKinney as a California screenwriter, and at first she denied being the central figure of the "Mormon sex in chains case." "Tabloid": The beauty queen who "raped" a Mormon 2011-07-15T00:30:00Z WARSAW, Poland — A Polish court has convicted three people on charges of blackmailing Krzysztof Piesiewicz, a senator and screenwriter known internationally for collaborating on the award-winning "Three Colors" movie trilogy. Court convicts 3 for blackmailing Polish senator 2011-08-30T15:58:07Z “Bad Robot is its own self-contained Death Star,” says the screenwriter and producer Damon Lindelof, referring to the gargantuan space station in “Star Wars,” one of Abrams’s formative movies. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z Brady said he expected the business would attract a wide range of customers, including tourists, celebrities and Hollywood screenwriters. ‘Cannabis oasis’: Los Angeles cafe first in the US to offer dine-and-dab service 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z That was exactly what the screenwriters for “Lion King 1 ½” were going for, Rogers says. We just solved a major mystery in the "Lion King" franchise 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z In Spain it always takes awhile to get the financing for those of us who are the screenwriters of our own films that we direct. John Lennon's Spain Sojourn Becomes a Film (Without Lennon) 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Oldroyd and the screenwriter, Alice Birch, weave Leskov’s tale into a barbed feminist fable of class, cruelty and sexual power that feels absolutely true to its period and uncannily attuned to the present moment. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The prequel story also allowed the screenwriters to show Tony Soprano in boyhood before he has committed to pursuing a life of crime. Michael Gandolfini and the Riddle of Tony Soprano 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Grant is a once-successful screenwriter fallen on hard times who accepts a teaching job at a US university. The films to watch in autumn 2014: from Gone Girl to Mr Turner 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Speaking in 2014, screenwriter Bob Gale said he was absolutely opposed to the idea of a Back to the Future 4. ET and Back to the Future producer vows neither movie will be remade 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Salman Rushdie will soon be able to add "screenwriter" to his extensive literary CV. Salman Rushdie writes TV drama series 2011-03-11T15:06:59Z Now they have made the transition to cinema, a result of screenwriter Eric Aronson's having picked up a copy of "Don't Point That Thing at Me" in a London bookshop in 2003. Character Mortdecai has much in common with creator Kyril Bonfiglioli 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z The author and screenwriter of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them says there are 11 “prestigious” magic schools, including Hogwarts, and she’s named a few. J.K. Rowling Reveals All 11 Wizarding Schools in the Harry Potter Universe 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Stewart Stern, an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter who wrote “Rebel Without a Cause,” “Rachel, Rachel” and other acclaimed films before forsaking Hollywood three decades ago, died on Monday in Seattle. Stewart Stern, 92, Screenwriter of ‘Rebel Without a Cause,’ Dies 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z I’d hang out at Muscle Beach with the steroid-bloated weightlifters and tourists and wannabe actresses, actors, screenwriters, producers, directors and other local whack jobs, begging people to read my book. I wrote my way to true love 2013-02-14T01:00:00Z One of the film’s screenwriters, Dalton Trumbo, had been sent to prison for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. DVDs: Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z Sort of like a Chinese kid from Toronto whose dad lived above a laundry while growing up, heading to Hollywood to become a screenwriter? Guns. Money. Iraq. And Then a Screenplay for ‘War Dogs.’ 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The Clyde Theater in South Whidbey is honoring screenwriter/director Lewis Carlino this month, with screenings of "Resurrection" on Sunday and "The Great Santini" on March 27, both at 1 p.m. At A Theater Near You: Seattle Jewish Film Festival wraps up 2011-03-17T20:02:05Z “The Front Runner” is based on this 2014 book by the New York Times Magazine writer Matt Bai, who is also one of the screenwriters. What to Read Before Heading to Movie Theaters This Fall 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z She remembered the fondness for the 1994 film, which is about an awkward but determined young woman from a small town in Australia, and reached out to the screenwriter and director, P.J. Four Musicals on Three Continents: An Australian Company’s Big Bet 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Assembling a story that’s equal parts astonishing and bamboozling, Baird and his screenwriter, Noah Pink, pit communism against capitalism and individual passion against corporate greed. ‘Tetris’ Review: Falling Blocks and Rising Freedom 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z In the new film "Maps to the Stars," director David Cronenberg and screenwriter Bruce Wagner chart a course through a Hollywood hellscape populated by damaged and dysfunctional people. 'Maps to the Stars' an incendiary tour of Hollywood hell, reviews say 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z It only took two meetings to convince her to back "Zero Dark Thirty," said screenwriter and producer Mark Boal, who said he and Bigelow chose her over other interested financiers. Oracle CEO Ellison's daughter pans for Oscar gold 2013-02-23T11:09:09Z A novelist or dramatist chooses when the final full-stop comes; a TV screenwriter is at the mercy of ratings, advertisers and actor availability. Television re-runs: only 235 episodes to go 2011-03-06T22:46:00Z This is why it's such a great marriage with the screenwriter and the director, really a really good union. Melissa Leo’s masterclass in method acting: “There’s not one way” 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z He’s not a hero, either, which is another great and rare quality Kaufman has as a screenwriter. Being John Malkovich at 20: why the surrealist comedy demands a rewatch 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The screenwriter and critic Jay Parini wrote, “Being an artist has absolutely nothing — nothing — to do with one’s personal behavior.” How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Those words shook the Washington courtroom as Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo shouted over a slamming gavel. Review | When Hollywood caved to the House Un-American Activities Committee 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Documentary-style shows — created by small outside production firms with limited overhead, free of unionized screenwriters and expensive talent — accounted for 30 percent of all original programming. How Thom Beers Built a Reality-TV Empire 2012-12-16T23:37:47Z After spending most of the 1960s as an in-demand screenwriter and script doctor, Sautet re-emerged as a director with a series of dissections of the French bourgeoisie in the wake of that decade’s political turmoil. Movie Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z As a screenwriter, did you learn anything from this year’s movies? The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: B.J. Novak 2012-02-14T17:23:40Z Hollywood isn’t known for turning senior citizens into freshman screenwriters. Jennifer Salt: The Story Behind the Writer 2010-07-21T22:30:00Z This exhibition explores the history and evolution of the technology, honoring the careers of innovators like the stop-motion pioneer Ray Harryhausen and the prolific artist, screenwriter and director Chuck Jones. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The crime novelist and screenwriter George Pelecanos, whose new book is “The Man Who Came Uptown,” would want Gladys Knight to write his life story: “Music heads will get that one.” By the Book: George Pelecanos 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Since then, Kureishi, 68, a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and director best known for “My Beautiful Laundrette” and “The Buddha of Suburbia,” has been dictating daily dispatches from his hospital bed. A Writer Collapses. As He Recovers, His Dispatches Captivate Readers 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z As does the screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard’s recent revelation that, when he was first pitching the story, one studio suggested the ideal actor to play Tubman would be Julia Roberts. How Cynthia Erivo took the US by storm – with a little help from Aretha and Oprah 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z It was her first attempt at writing a film script and, although it was not used in the end, it led to her being offered a job as a screenwriter. Nora Ephron dies aged 71 2012-06-27T00:59:34Z William Goldman, the screenwriter of “A Bridge Too Far,” called Mr. Attenborough “by far the finest, most decent human being” he had ever met in the movie business. Richard Attenborough, Actor, Director and Giant of British Cinema, Dies at 90 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Aug. 19 A letter from the screenwriters’ union: If I don’t meet the guild-required minimum income by Sept. 30, my family’s insurance will run out. One Writer’s Diary for Television Pitch Season 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s that kind of emotional openness the screenwriter, Kamen, saw in the actor decades ago. Ralph Macchio Will Always Be ‘The Karate Kid.’ He’s Finally Fine With That. 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z With returning screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg delivering her sharpest adaptation yet, Slade keeps the rather episodic story moving at a good clip, though things still bog down often enough in the same old routine. Review: Third 'Twilight' eclipses chapters 1 and 2 2010-06-29T16:06:00Z But rather than trust the audience’s ability to think through the thorny historical and ideological issues at the heart of the story, Mr. Redford and the screenwriter, James Solomon, descend, perhaps inadvertently, into Confederate apologetics. | 'The Conspirator': History?s Loose Ends, and a Tightening Noose 2011-04-14T22:29:34Z But acknowledging the dopiness of other rom-coms doesn't make this movie smarter: if the screenwriters knew it was silly, why didn't they write a smarter ending? Movie review of What's Your Number starring Anna Faris 2011-09-28T11:05:00Z Just weeks before our meeting, the screenwriter Buck Henry died at the age of 89. 'Love and free food': Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner share the secrets of their 70-year friendship 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z That collaborative effort is becoming increasingly common, and worked well for Michael Mitnick, the screenwriter for Lois Lowry’s The Giver, premiering in August. This is the screenwriting secret to adapting "The Fault in Our Stars" 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Throughout her impressive career as a journalist, essayist, screenwriter and director, Ephron’s wit and sharp observations about human nature always shone through — and there’s nowhere that’s more apparent than in When Harry Met Sally…. 25 years later, "When Harry Met Sally" is still the perfect rom-com 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z At another level, Sam Goldwyn's advice to the screenwriter comes to mind: "Give me the story and send the message by Western Union." Life of Pi – review 2012-12-23T00:06:56Z Boal, a freelance journalist turned screenwriter who won a best screenplay Oscar for "The Hurt Locker", would not elaborate except to say that the agent was "a real person." Bin Laden movie "Zero Dark Thirty" arrives, mired in controversy 2012-12-17T19:13:29Z Although aware of the riot, she had never heard of the horror of the Algiers motel until her regular screenwriter, Mark Boal, pitched her the project. Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Having previous worked on Alias and Game of Thrones, Taylor is currently one of Hollywood’s most in-demand screenwriters. From Alden Ehrenreich to Zazie Beetz: the 40 rising film stars of 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z My days as a professional screenwriter were done. Adventures at the Clown Palace: Stand-up comedy helped me confront my depression and cultural taboos 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The two screenwriters are also sensitive of Price’s and Knight’s families. Story of Australian woman who skinned and cooked partner to be told in film 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Taylor Sheridan, the screenwriter of last year’s socially conscious crime drama “Hell or High Water,” proves an undeniably strong director with his second effort in that job, “Wind River.” Review: Murder Mystery on the Reservation in ‘Wind River’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “Piranhas,” an Italian crime drama whose screenwriters included Roberto Saviano, the Italian writer and author of “Gomorrah,” took home the prize for best screenplay. ‘Synonyms,’ Drama by Israeli Director, Takes Top Prize at Berlin Film Festival 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Mr. White moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s because he wanted to be a screenwriter and did a variety of work, including car sales. James L. White, who wrote screenplay for Ray Charles film, dies at 67 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Early on, the screenwriters summon a snowstorm to strand the protagonist. ‘Christmas With You’ Review: Pop-Rocking Around the Christmas Tree 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z “Speaking to Hawley’s talents as a screenwriter, his dialogue brings the characters alive. Again and again, the exchanges are humorous, sad and revealing,” S. Kirk Walsh writes in her review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z White screenwriters would often lift things directly out of his books, whether characters or the lingo he used or the streetwise style of his books. The Mark Twain of hip-hop: How Iceberg Slim’s “Pimp” changed pop culture 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z Later that year — a month before Woodruff died — screenwriter Craig Borten interviewed him at length, hoping to make a movie about his life. The True Story of Dallas Buyers Club 2013-11-08T18:24:22Z Working with her longtime collaborator, screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, Bier only gradually entwines these two plot strands. 'In a Better World': an Oscar-winning tale of friendship, violence, revenge 2011-04-28T20:05:08Z Cody is living the quiet life these days, eight years after her fabled rise from – to give the official publicist version – “feminist stripper to Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Juno”. Diablo Cody: ‘Thanks to me, you get to see Meryl Streep make out with Rick Springfield!’ 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z An actor before he was a screenwriter, Mr. Sheridan clearly spent a lot of his time learning about filmmaking on movie sets; his direction is assured throughout. Review: Murder Mystery on the Reservation in ‘Wind River’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Gore Vidal followed in the footsteps of William Faulkner and F Scott Fitzgerald when he took the Hollywood shilling and signed on as a screenwriter for MGM. Gore Vidal: not just about the books 2012-08-01T11:26:07Z The screenwriter David Bromberg describes his “horrible wife” who abused antidepressants and left him to support the family single-handedly, then says, “Wait a minute, that was me!” ‘112 Weddings’ Revisits Ceremonies and Couples Years Later 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Ken Loach's latest collaboration with screenwriter Paul Laverty is warm, funny and good-natured. Cannes 2012: The Angels' Share – review 2012-05-21T19:30:02Z The combustible playwright and screenwriter turns once again to fiction in his fourth novel, set in 1920s Chicago among small-time crooks and aspiring mobsters. New & Noteworthy 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z As the screenwriter, he also concocts some pretty inert dialogue. The Truth About a Network Anchor Dropped Overboard 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The dialogue leans so heavily on pop culture references you have to wonder whether the film’s screenwriter, Mark Perez, is as insecure as his creation Max. Review: ‘Game Night’ Has a Winning Rachel McAdams and Charades With a Twist 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The screenwriters’ union was torn over whether to assist the Tony Awards, with its eastern branch, filled with playwright members more sympathetic than the affiliated western branch, which is more Hollywood-oriented. How America’s Playwrights Saved the Tony Awards 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Violet Weston, the horrifying matriarch of “August: Osage County” who got Meryl Streep her 18th Oscar nomination, is famously based on the screenwriter Tracy Letts’s own grandmother. The Carpetbagger: Write What You Know, Especially if It’s Difficult Family 2014-01-31T13:30:24Z The History channel said then that the scripts in question were incomplete drafts, and that it stood by the accuracy of more current drafts that were annotated by the screenwriter, Stephen Kronish. ArtsBeat: History Channel Will Not Show 'Kennedys' Miniseries 2011-01-08T02:27:24Z In April, Meryl Streep launched an initiative to encourage female screenwriters over the age of 40 and this week has seen the announcement of who will be included. Meryl Streep's Writers Lab reveals first group of female screenwriters 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Russo is also a screenwriter now, and one of the characters in this volume appears to be modeled on Robert Redford. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z You don't get to be a good screenwriter unless you do 20, 30 drafts: fact. Lenny Henry: This Much I Know 2012-10-13T23:06:00Z Mr. Wilson said he would like to see superhero franchises exploded and reinvented by innovative directors and screenwriters. Propelling a Genre Beyond Hero Worship 2011-03-25T16:14:24Z “People call him the screenwriter’s screenwriter,” Mr. Brest said in a phone interview. Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 90 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z “She has a principled, practical approach,” said Robin Swicord, screenwriter of “Little Women” and writer-director of “The Jane Austen Book Club.” Ava DuVernay and ‘Middle of Nowhere’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z And while the film's talent — actors, screenwriter and director — were eligible to compete in their respective categories, they weren't nominated. "Minari" is an American film about the American dream — why did the Globes categorize it as foreign? 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z It also occupied a 35,000-square-foot space in the imagination of screenwriters, popping up in shows from “The Good Place” to “30 Rock.” Bed Bath and the great Beyond 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Ide’s most recent career — there were a few — was as a screenwriter. Raised in South Central, Joe Ide Expands the Territory of L.A. Noir 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The novelist and screenwriter has for decades chronicled Los Angeles from the perspective of someone who has plenty of experience with its many characters in all their extremes. Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Then you’d have to get a screenwriter to actually write genuinely funny lines for that character. 50 shades of Shutterstock 2012-05-29T01:00:00Z The winning screenwriters of the academy's annual global screenwriting competition were announced last month. Film academy dedicates Nicholl Fellowships event to Yelchin 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But getting this far required some detective work by the screenwriter. A 'lost story' of 'Pride' touches on bonds, support and so much more 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Copies were flying off the shelves at brick-and-mortar outlets, which is when Kay Cannon, the film's screenwriter, said she realized, "We had really hit." A word-of-mouth hit? The perfect pitch for 'Pitch Perfect 2' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Berg is a good action director and a smart screenwriter, but the lack of variety proves to be a liability. 'Lone Survivor' is a long firefight 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z The screenwriter originally conceived Katharine as a male character and it shows, in her self-possession and audacity. Someday My Prince Will Leave Me for Someone More Low-Key 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z “They are very much more open, I think, to the idea of the screenwriter as an equal collaborator.” How Ian McEwan, Novelist, Became Ian McEwan, Movie Consultant 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Apparently so, and I'm not sure whether Howard and screenwriter Allan Loeb are to be commended for aspiring to something odd and original, or condemned for a result that's so messy and miscellaneous. "The Dilemma": Vince Vaughn's psycho-stalker breakdown 2011-01-14T20:30:00Z With such a convoluted plot, not to mention hundreds of pages of period British colloquialisms, screenwriters face enormous challenges in dialogue and characterization. A New ‘Wuthering Heights,’ From Andrea Arnold 2012-09-30T04:27:19Z Deadline Hollywood said there was no screenwriter attached so far. Schwarzenegger to star in proposed new "Terminator" 2011-04-27T18:58:45Z “As they have stood by us, we stand with our fellow workers on Broadway who are impacted by our strike,” the Writers Guild of America, which represents screenwriters, said in a statement late Monday. Tony Awards Broadcast Can Proceed After Striking Writers’ Union Agrees 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z But he wrote his hands to the bone, hoping the story would conquer all, as young screenwriters are told, as people read about in profiles like this. Director Christopher McQuarrie's unlikely path to 'Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation' 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Actors' rights to remuneration and protection of their work - unlike those of directors, screenwriters and musicians - are not included in current international copyright law. New actors' treaty a good step, hard work remains 2012-06-20T05:46:41Z Oppenheim is also an author and screenwriter of such films as “The Maze Runner.” NBC News replaces executive who oversaw scandals involving Trump, Williams 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Heigl could be commended for giving lesser lights in the acting universe their shot, for entrusting this down-market heroine with female screenwriters and a female director. 'One for the Money': Paging Dr. Izzie for a career transplant 2012-01-27T18:25:05Z Can the Bagger rightly assume that Jason Hall is the only Hollywood screenwriter who wrestled multiple Navy Seals to prove he was the best guy to write a film about their buddy? 'American Sniper' Writer Wrestled His Way Into Project 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Unfolding on screens in a series of interconnected vignettes, the movie begins with Ben, a screenwriter, pitching his idea for a romantic comedy that occurs over video calls. ‘Distancing Socially’ Review: Scenes from a Quarantine 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z I asked whether he thought Shakespeare would have been a man of the cinema, and he said he thought he would have preferred theatre, if only because playwrights tend to be better regarded than screenwriters. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The screenwriter and novelist Don Mankiewicz died last month, at the age of ninety-three. Joan Jonas, Roger Waters, and Mother’s Day Theatre Picks 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “They were looking for novelists, screenwriters and journalists who were clearly fanboys.” The killer career of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Novice screenwriters are the only ones who worry about plagiarism – except lawyers, I suppose. Seen it all before? The Shape of Water and claims of movie plagiarism 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z She began life in Berlin, the daughter of one of Germany's most celebrated intellectuals, the drama critic, journalist and screenwriter Alfred Kerr. My hero: Judith Kerr by Michael Rosen 2013-06-07T06:05:01Z See the varied talents of Orson Welles — as a director, actor and screenwriter — in this lineup of classics. What’s on TV This Week: CMA Fest and ‘Becoming Elizabeth’ 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z The screenwriter and director Paul Schrader is set to return to theaters next month with his newest movie, “The Card Counter,” a drama about a troubled gambler. What’s on TV This Week: Lorde on Late Night and ‘American Horror Story’ 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Winter, who earned an Oscar nomination as the screenwriter of Scorsese's 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street," will serve as showrunner and writer, as well as executive producer with Scorsese and Jagger. HBO orders 1970s rock drama from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Tarantino isn’t trying to play here what another novelist/screenwriter, Terry Southern, liked to call the Quality Lit Game. Quentin Tarantino Turns His Most Recent Movie Into a Pulpy Page-Turner 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z As the screenwriter Bianca Sams told Insider recently, “Pretending these episodes never existed doesn’t change the fact that they did.” What Actually Happens When a TV Episode Gets Pulled? 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Here’s a tip to aspiring screenwriters: When you get to that clever, meta, self-referential moment when your characters describe their situation as a “Twilight Zone episode,” it might be nice if that weren’t wishful thinking. Couple’s therapy gone wrong: “The One I Love” and the creative starvation of American indie film 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z She was loosely inspired by Anita Loos, pun intended, who was one of the only successful female screenwriters in the studio system in the '30s. From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z In 1941, Walt Disney traveled to South America with a small army of artists and screenwriters as part of the United States government’s postwar “Good Neighbor” policy. At a Los Angeles Art Show, Mickey Mouse as an Imperialist Icon 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z For a start, it sounds a little like a whistlestop tour of topics that have featured in Ephron's five decades-long career as a journalist, screenwriter and essayist. Nora Ephron: how I'll miss her 2012-06-27T15:55:01Z The pulpy thriller “A Walk Among the Tombstones,” from “Out of Sight” screenwriter Scott Frank, called on a particular set of acting skills that Neeson’s action films hadn’t yet required. The surprisingly durable second act of Liam Neeson 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z They will also receive a free digital comic book written by the “Man of Steel” screenwriter, David Goyer. Warner Bros. Enlists Walmart Stores to Promote ‘Man of Steel’ 2013-04-24T04:11:00Z "Many of us in the cast were trained screenwriters with thoughts and ideas that only grew more seasoned with time," Liu wrote. How "Kim's Convenience" went from a beacon of representation to a lesson in racist storytelling 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z “I approached it as a horror movie, but everything I do has comedy,” said the screenwriter S. Craig Zahler, whose credits include the acclaimed indie gorefests “Bone Tomahawk” and “Brawl in Cell Block 99.” Made of Blue Felt and Working Blue, Too: Dirty Puppets on the Big Screen 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Bruce Feirstein, a screenwriter and Vanity Fair contributing editor, has attended the party regularly since its inception. It Was the Hottest Oscar Night Party. What Happened? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The screenwriter was among the last survivors of Hollywood’s anti-Communist blacklist whose Oscar-nominated script for “The Front” drew upon his years of being unable to work under his own name. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Steve Kloves, a screenwriter for the film series, said he invented a spider who Harry would talk to in the cupboard. 8 Ridiculous Theories That Will Change How You Read Harry Potter 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The brothers Julius and Philip Epstein, two of the three credited screenwriters on “Casablanca,” are closer to merry dandies than the clever, cynical, seasoned experts in adapting plays that they were. Review: ‘CasablancaBox’ Is Looking at You, Kid, Behind the Scenes 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z The screenwriter of "Sleepless in Seattle" and "When Harry Met Sally" can apparently make anything amusing, as she proves again in her most recent book, "I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections." The Week Ahead: 'Wittenberg' and Ralph Lemon are A&E highlights 2010-11-14T05:01:00Z He says that when he read the script, he loved it, but he asked the screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, if he could direct it and Kaufman could make it about Tom Cruise. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Besides, he added, a screenwriter can always be bailed out by the people speaking their words. 'The Fault in Our Stars'' unique challenge 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z First written by Waterhouse as a novel in 1959 about the clerical assistant with a dead-end job who wants to be a screenwriter, it became a successful stage play and film. This week's new theatre 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z “The minute we heard the song the first time, I knew that I had to rewrite the whole movie,” said Jennifer Lee, the screenwriter and co-director. Oscar-Nominated Songs With Familiar Composers 2014-02-19T22:59:00Z He changed their names to “Jane” in order to prevent the screenwriters from knowing which description he’s quoting, but it also makes the point that the female leads are pretty much interchangeable. “A little tipsy, dancing naked on her big bed, as adorable as she is sexy”: These script introductions to female characters are terrible and hilarious 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s not the game Cooper’s fault, but the screenwriters. The Hangover Part III: The Third Time’s the Harm 2013-05-22T23:43:08Z She was not only the screenwriter for “Call My Agent!” but also, following the first season, named its showrunner. Exploring the Diversity, and Precariousness, of French Stand-Up 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Camilleri spent much of his life working as a theater director, screenwriter and teacher, only becoming a successful and highly prolific writer from his late 60s. Andrea Camilleri, author of Inspector Montalbano novels, dies at 93 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z But screenwriter Mark Boal said the film is a non-political account of the actions of the undercover operatives who hunted down bin Laden and eventually killed him. Writer says bin Laden film, trailer not politically motivated 2012-08-08T21:07:43Z He said he helped to develop the film, renew Paramount's options for the rights to the book, and participated in the search for a screenwriter. Tom Cruise film producers sued 2012-02-07T10:59:14Z After buying the paintings, Mangin said he and Force tracked down the screenwriter, who told them over lunch how he had bought the Basquiats in 1982 as an investment on the recommendation of a friend. In Orlando, 25 Mysterious Basquiats Come Under the Magnifying Glass 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z In addition to his acting work, Pegg is a genre-savvy screenwriter whose credits include "Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz" and "The World's End," all written with Edgar Wright, and "Paul," written with Nick Frost. Simon Pegg, Doug Jung to co-write 'Star Trek 3' 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Roy’s depiction of Tilo and Musa’s furtive romance in Kashmir has a cinematic quality — a reminder of her work as a screenwriter — as well as a genuine poignancy and depth of emotion. Arundhati Roy’s Long-Awaited Novel Is an Ambitious Look at Turmoil in India 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z On the bright side, you may have a bright future as a screenwriter – you’re more colorful than Mamet, and your letter has already been turned into the greatest performance of Michael Shannon’s career. From Reese to A.J. Clemente, stupidity keeps going viral 2013-04-23T19:58:00Z Kolsby, whose produced screenplays include "City Unplugged" and "Spread," was then a struggling screenwriter. How David L. Ulin and Paul Kolsby co-wrote their satiric earthquake novel, 'Ear to the Ground' 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Rick is a Hollywood screenwriter who seems stuck in the long second act of his mortal script. Review: In ‘Knight of Cups,’ a Writer’s Flesh Is Willing but His Spirit Is Weak 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z In an interview last year he told American GQ he'd signed up for Garfield based on the calibre of the screenwriter's previous work. Why do comedy stars do family films? 2011-08-04T20:30:01Z She was born in 1944 to actor Mary Davenport and screenwriter Waldo Salt, who survived the Hollywood blacklist and won two Academy Awards, for his scripts for "Coming Home" and "Midnight Cowboy." "Eat Pray Love" marks writing debut for actress 2010-08-16T04:01:00Z That’s probably because journalism is a vaguely glamorous job that doesn’t require screenwriters and directors to do much research. Hacked off: why screenwriters need to stop writing about reporters 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z I was a young writer, struggling to master a very demanding form – screenwriting, and he was a revered screenwriter with awards and spectacularly acclaimed movies in his resume. “What we talked about was the work”: The nourishing intimacy of the writer-mentor relationship 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The film’s director and screenwriter, Dennis Lee, was inspired by the discussion of “nuclear family” during the presidential campaigns of the early ’90s and sought to explore a modern definition of the term. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Video Interview: Dennis Lee 2011-04-25T03:05:58Z Another change in direction followed his service with the RAF, when he became a television screenwriter, penning episodes of the puppet show Supercar and The Avengers, among others. Martin Woodhouse obituary 2011-07-05T17:03:04Z And that is precisely why the screenwriters ought to kill her off about half-way through, leaving the audience unbalanced and in unfamiliar territory. Will Ridley Scott's Alien prequel make a groundbreaking scene? 2010-10-21T16:33:00Z In 1961, taken with idea of becoming a screenwriter, he moved to Mexico. Novelist Gabriel García Márquez wrote a western in the ’60s — it screens in Hollywood on Friday 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z On the other hand, that’s a fraction of the whopping 45 hours that screenwriter Robert Bolt originally estimated would be required to capture the full story as told in Boris Pasternak’s novel. How 'Doctor Zhivago' Went From Page to Screen 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Pierson, who was born in Chappaqua, New York, worked in advertising before he sold a story and changed careers to become a screenwriter. Oscar-winning "Dog Day Afternoon" writer Frank Pierson dies 2012-07-24T01:26:53Z She wrote eight books and was known as a talented screenwriter with a keen ear for dialogue, but it was her autobiographical and semi-autobiographical work that left perhaps the largest mark. Carrie Fisher: A Look at Her Life Beyond ‘Star Wars’ 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The news of a movie about the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo has poked a stick into the nest of right-wing wasps, who have responded with their usual venomous inaccuracies, distortions and half-truths. Ann Coulter’s perverted history: The right’s latest obsessive, venomous half-truths 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The director and the screenwriter are prominent in their fields, Ms. Rourke in the theater and Mr. Willimon in TV, yet both are making their feature debuts, and their big-screen inexperience shows. ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Royalty Minus Majesty 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The screenwriter and director Drew Goddard is back in theater this month with “Bad Times at the El Royale,” a star-studded neo-noir thriller that not many people seem to be seeing. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘CMT Artists of the Year’ and ‘Hell or High Water’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z In this climate, fewer and fewer younger screenwriters are coming into the film industry and gaining a foothold. TV is viewed as holding more promise for screenwriters than movies 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z In the dim glow of St Mark’s Theater bar after a Naked Angels reading not long ago, Mr. Silver, a 33-year-old screenwriter, was telling me of receiving his first V-selfie eight years ago. The Selfie That Dares to Go There 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z In the mid-seventies, when the screenwriter and director George Lucas was attempting to sell movie studios an idea he had about a space odyssey, even his friends thought the concept was a bit far-fetched. Sunday Reading: The Allure of Science Fiction 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Who cares, when the kid's just going to go work for the family company — or become a screenwriter with a trust fund — anyway? The real scam of the elite college admissions game goes beyond Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Trey Ellis is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. The Revolution Will Be Handheld 2012-07-05T14:02:00Z In Hollywood, the screenwriter William Goldman once observed, nobody knows anything. How big tech became the new titan of television 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Neither Taylor-Johnson, nor screenwriter Kelly Marcel, will return to the franchise for the second film. EL James' Husband Will Write 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Movie Sequel 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z But director Johnston and his screenwriters, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, use the vintage squareness of the original Captain America comics to their advantage, nimbly walking the fine line between period spoof and patriotic celebration. "Captain America": A patriotic surprise from the comic-book past 2011-07-21T00:30:00Z “The Iron Lady” was written by Abi Morgan, a British screenwriter greatly in demand these days. Arts & Leisure: For ?Iron Lady,? Armor Added to Streep?s Wardrobe 2011-12-23T15:01:39Z Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson on the long-running animated television series, has made her first movie as a screenwriter and producer, a charming drama about the love of movies and youthful passion. Review: Love of Il Maestro Drives ‘In Search of Fellini’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z He was also a prolific screenwriter, enjoying success with the 1960 film "The League of Gentlemen" and more recently with "Chaplin" in 1992. "Stepford Wives" film director Bryan Forbes dies aged 86 2013-05-09T09:44:53Z Between the specific plot demands and the “worst Batman ever” sort of casting complaints, it’s no wonder that some screenwriters try to insulate themselves from all the online chatter. ‘Divergent’ Adapters Face a Delicate Balancing Act 2014-03-19T17:52:24Z Coppola is an Oscar-winning screenwriter, director and producer whose films include “The Godfather” saga and “Apocalypse Now.” Claudia Rankine and Meghan Daum lead 2015 PEN Literary Awards 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z It brings to mind the central conflict of Charlie Kaufman’s movie “Adaptation,” which portrays, among other things, a screenwriter’s desperation not to write. Harper Lee: What's wrong with a one-hit wonder? 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z They enlisted Michael Arndt, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Little Miss Sunshine,” to write the script — which earned him another Oscar nomination — and set about designing the characters. The Carpetbagger: Animation Advocacy, Pixar Style 2011-02-09T23:54:28Z But other changes are just made because the screenwriter or studio or network says, “Oh, this will be better.” ArtsBeat: Q. & A. With ?Game of Thrones? Author 2011-04-01T12:30:50Z "She was very young and seemingly delicate and fragile, but she just did this outrageous stuff and said things that sort of shocked you," says Kazurinsky, now primarily a screenwriter living on the North Shore. Hollywood's fickle; family ties endure 2011-03-16T21:28:00Z “Wick has so many friends in this world because, at the end of the day, he’s inherently a good man,” the screenwriter Michael Finch explained. John Wick Sure Has a Lot of Friends for a Lone Assassin 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Amour's nominations include one for film of the year, another for best foreign language film and dual awards for Michael Haneke in the director and screenwriter categories. Skyfall up for UK critics awards 2012-12-18T12:12:19Z HBO has responded to criticisms saying that the movie is based on not just on that book, but on many other published journalistic accounts and screenwriter Danny Strong’s own interviews with principals in the campaign. Dead Tree Alert: Shiny Object Lesson 2012-03-02T14:24:47Z K’s hologram girlfriend suggests the film’s screenwriters were prepared to imagine artificial intelligence in forms that go beyond the existence of the first movie’s replicants. Blade Runner 2049: does it live up to the critical hype? Discuss with spoilers 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z “There were so many things on the page that she just delivered beyond our wildest dreams,” the screenwriter said. "Booksmart": Billie Lourd was so magical on set, she’d get new scenes written for her each day 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The Shining prequel is being written by Shutter Island's Laeta Kalogridis, suggesting that the studio is taking the prospect of a new film seriously enough to employ a screenwriter of some pedigree. Shining again 2012-07-30T12:01:37Z There is also an amazing book by William Goldman called “Adventures in the Screen Trade,” which tells the inside pain that even a most successful screenwriter goes through. Joan Rivers: By the Book 2012-07-19T14:00:00Z Her father, Paul Fox, was a screenwriter, and a drunk, given to "interminable, stumbling descriptions of the ways in which he and fellow writers tried to elude domesticity," she observes in her new book. Paula Fox looks back on a wayward life 2011-05-05T10:32:09Z William D. Wittliff, the screenwriter who, with his wife, founded the collections, said he discovered the paddle, which had been broken into three pieces, in a woodpile at Hard Scrabble. ArtsBeat: The Best Little Literary Paddle in Texas 2013-08-02T17:00:42Z An aspiring screenwriter working as an office manager, she had finally fallen in with a group of South Asian artists. Bhangra Is Big on Campus. Now It’s Inspiring a Musical. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z He won an Oscar as screenwriter on The Usual Suspects, which opens in similar lapel-grabbing fashion, though this film soon reveals itself as belonging in an inferior class. Jack Reacher – review 2012-12-30T00:08:01Z In a recent interview, “Doctor Strange” screenwriter C. Robert Cargill insisted that the casting of the iconic the Ancient One was “absolutely unwinnable.” White isn’t a neutral color: “Doctor Strange,” Tilda Swinton and the “unwinnable” diversity argument 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Just as Kilmer didn't strain to take on a British accent and screenwriter Bob Dolman refused to contort the script to fit J.R.R. The "Willow" legend continues, only now the quest is open to all who would take it, including girls 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z He moved to Hollywood and was a contract screenwriter, working for Columbia and RKO. Nathanael West's Hollywood home is for sale 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Very sad news this week: Stewart Stern, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter who’s lived in Seattle for several decades, died Monday at the age of 92. Remembering Stewart Stern 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z In his densely textured, overtly political fifth novel, the acclaimed director and screenwriter recounts what happens when shale oil is discovered beneath an Indian reservation in the North Dakota badlands and crowds of outsiders descend. New & Noteworthy, From John Sayles to Julius Caesar 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z "There is a real dark side emerging," says British independent film producer and screenwriter Ant Neely. Iron Sky doesn't stand out from the crowdsourcing 2012-05-22T09:59:54Z He wrote the introduction to my 1974 book on screenwriters, Talking Pictures, whose format I shamelessly stole from The American Cinema. Remembering Andrew Sarris: A Great American Film Critic 2012-06-21T12:39:03Z Logan, a screenwriter and a Tony-winning playwright, drives these freeways every day. In ‘Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,’ California Dreaming, Darkly 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Netflix has turned to South Korean actors, screenwriters and directors to continue creating original shows. From "Parasite" to "Squid Game," America of course exploited South Korea's anti-capitalist content 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z I had crashed as a screenwriter and was wondering what I would do to pay the mortgage. For Years, a Literary Villain Made Joe Ide Wary of Nurses 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z If you want fame, and a beautiful statue made of yourself, don't be a screenwriter. Jean-Claude Carrière: 'If you want fame, don't be a screenwriter' 2012-06-28T20:00:02Z At first, it’s entertaining to watch as Penn bares fangs and madly masticates screenwriter Will Beall’s overcooked dialogue. ‘Gangster Squad’: Crime drama goes down in a hail of bullets 2013-01-09T22:44:00Z But no amount of toil could disguise the fact that Fitzgerald was no screenwriter. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z He is also the screenwriter of the forthcoming “Into the Woods” film. Opening night for Kennedy Center’s ‘Little Dancer’ — or is it? “The passing of our two-time Academy Award winning screenwriter is a significant loss to the global film community.” Oscar Winner, Author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Dies 2013-04-04T00:49:12Z The trade paper says the role, as written by screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, was envisaged with Lawrence in mind. Jennifer Lawrence drops out of Richard Linklater movie 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Aaron Sorkin’s spiritual sequel to “The Social Network” finds the Oscar-winning screenwriter again profiling a Silicon Valley innovator with offhand wit and dramatic flair, as directed with ferocity and intelligence by Danny Boyle. Stream These 7 Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix in January 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z It ought to have been something of a fun role to play, with stand-in director and screenwriter Joss Whedon throwing in trademark japes from the sidelines, yet it never seems to have been enjoyable. Ben Affleck's Batman was hard to like – but the man himself deserves some empathy 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z In their own words, the screenwriters behind “A Quiet Place,” “Widows,” “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” explain their approaches. The Script Secrets of Gillian Flynn, John Krasinski, Barry Jenkins and Christopher McQuarrie 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z I went from a twenty-something-year-old running a scenic restaurant bar in Hollywood with tons of friends and fresh ambition to an insecure screenwriter who never made his bed and asked permission to buy sugar cereal. So many men are miserable jerks. I should know — I used to be one too 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Her father, Leonard, was a screenwriter whose credits included “Dressed to Kill” and other Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone in the lead role. Cynthia Macdonald, Poet Known for Humor and Ability to Shock, Dies at 87 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The film's credits list Mr Webb as sole screenwriter but the director Ava DuVernay has been openly critical of the script she inherited and has said she rewrote the film extensively. Oscars: Selma writer tells his side 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z The screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and the director David Fincher seemed, at first, like an odd pairing — a shotgun marriage of florid dialogue to a moody, sensual visual style. Stream These 9 Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix in July 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z So it was on Thursday night when the Paris National Opera opened a revival of its boldly contemporary 2006 production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” by the Austrian film director and screenwriter Michael Haneke. ‘Don Giovanni’ Revival by the Paris National Opera 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Though Spielberg and screenwriter Melissa Mathison—with the permission of the author’s estate—have somewhat expanded and changed Dahl’s story, The BFG honors the author’s whimsical, waggishness impropriety. Review: Spielberg's 'BFG' Honors Roald Dahl's Spirit 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Five credited screenwriters and not one compelling stake. ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Review: Here Come the Grease Monkeys 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z “That really is the nature of storytelling,” says Bruce Joel Rubin, the screenwriter behind a trilogy of films about death and grieving: Ghost, Jacob’s Ladder and My Life. Good grief: cinema’s new mood of despair 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z According to entertainment news Web site Deadline.com, Kathryn Bigelow and her "Hurt Locker" screenwriter Mark Boal have been working for some time on their project about an earlier, unsuccessful mission to nab bin Laden. Hollywood has bin Laden death in its sights 2011-05-03T19:05:33Z Mr. Rogen, who is 38 and also a screenwriter, director and producer, long ago transcended the beta male image to become a Hollywood power player. Seth Rogen Is All Fired Up 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z “In doing the research, the thing I realized was that we were never going to make Secretariat an underdog,” said Mike Rich, the film’s screenwriter. Film: In ?Secretariat,? Dark Horse Is the Owner 2010-10-03T00:45:00Z Unlike Hollywood screenwriters who get paid but lose copyright control to the studios, playwrights — usually poorly paid — at least retain copyright. Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z With inspiration from a novel by Tim Powers titled On Stranger Tides, about another captain named Jack, screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio show typical ingenuity in devising hair-raising obstacles for Jack to overcome. Penelope Cruz adds spice to enjoyable "Pirates 4" 2011-05-12T15:28:37Z Speaking to USA Today, De Niro defended the decision of screenwriter Steven Zaillian, saying that such silence was part of the point of the character. Martin Scorsese on The Irishman: 'Please, please don’t look at it on a phone' 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z "Not a single female director, screenwriter, or cinematographer were nominated. In addition, no people of color received acting nominations." Oscars 2015: Diversity is the biggest nomination snub 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z “When I wrote the film, abortion – like feminism – was one of those issues that people thought wasn’t relevant any more,” Eleanor Bergstein, Dirty Dancing’s screenwriter told me. 'When you grow up your heart dies': how the coming-of-age film got smart 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Around this time, she also joined the Watts Writers Workshop, a collective by the screenwriter Budd Schulberg, where she began writing “Daddy Was a Number Runner.” It’s Not Too Late to Discover Louise Meriwether 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z "But I knew Scott's history as a screenwriter, which was A-plus, and I liked that he allowed the story to breathe and we as actors were allowed our moments." Scott Frank stays on the case for 'Tombstones' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z But the film was accepted by Sundance, and Rees won backing from its mentoring programme, which supports emerging screenwriters and directors. Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z His way in is a potent visual symbol: A bloodstained script, taken from a murdered screenwriter, that Miles convinces Rick to help him turn into a film. ‘Get Shorty’: You Know the Name, but Not This Story 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z She isn’t certain that she’s hung that up for good, though; a screenwriters strike may be looming. Four Rising Theater Stars to Watch This Spring 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Boon said he wanted to make sure the world created by Boyle and the show’s screenwriter, Craig Pearce, didn’t feel “like a caricature,” he said. Becoming Johnny Rotten, When John Lydon Would Rather You Didn’t 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Related: The 10 best Bill Murray moments Many movie stars are a creation of screenwriters and directors, but Murray truly made his own mark. Bill Murray finally wins this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z But every writer needs an editor, especially King the screenwriter. "Lisey's Story" isn't a horror tale as much as a cry to end it all sooner 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Despite his being an established screenwriter, Amini said, the company turned him down flat. Highsmith's 'Two Faces' caught director's eye 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z As female screenwriters first elbowed their way into TV writers’ rooms, we saw complex, often unlikable female characters in shows like Sex in the City and Weeds. In Praise of This Summer's 'Complicated Women' 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z According to screenwriter Jason Hall, there really was an Iraqi sniper named Mustafa. The True Story Behind American Sniper 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Jason Hall, the screenwriter of “American Sniper,” directed. Fall 2017 Movie Release Schedule 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Those were amassed by the screenwriter Mr. Schrader, a close friend, then sold intact after his death in 2006 to a film buff in India. ?Kiss of the Spider Woman? Owners Want to Sell It as Art 2010-07-09T23:07:00Z “That’s the most R-rated G you will ever see in your life,” said Tab Murphy, a screenwriter of Disney’s animated “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” which was released 25 years ago this month. ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ at 25: ‘The Most R-Rated G You Will Ever See’ 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Non-white children have traditionally been a favorite for screenwriters and directors. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Since late 2010, the company's Hollywood studio, Amazon Studios, has let aspiring screenwriters and film makers upload thousands of scripts to its website. Crowdsourcing goes to Hollywood as Amazon makes movies 2012-10-10T11:04:09Z Gaiman, the award-winning cult author of the Sandman comic books, novels including Coraline and American Gods, and screenwriter of Stardust, revealed the news on his blog. Neil Gaiman to appear on The Simpsons 2011-01-14T10:18:24Z When the comedy screenwriter Lauryn Kahn first tried her hand at horror, a friend told her to write about the thing that scared her the most. In These Women’s Hands, Dating Is Truly the Stuff of Horror 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z THR reports that screenwriter Kelly Marcel will also probably not be involved in the sequel, and the film’s producers will most likely assemble a new creative team for the next installment of the trilogy. 'Fifty Shades' Director Won't Do the Sequels 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Both a playwright and a screenwriter, Rebeck has learned a thing or three about constructing crime and suspense yarns from her years turning out scripts for "NYPD Blue" and other TV series. Review: 'Mauritius' at Seattle Public Theater is a taut, twisty thriller 2010-10-07T21:32:00Z This autumn Bafta is offering a series of lectures in London by screenwriters which also seems poignantly timed. Mad Men: the future of American film is on television 2010-09-08T08:01:00Z Is that because screenwriters Ben Chandler and David James Kelly couldn’t be bothered to write their own generic pep talks, or is it a knowing illustration to how the past can wrap around the present? “Robin Hood” review: Revisionist history has never been dumber or more boring 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z That settlement means that the play, with a new script by the prominent Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, will be allowed to go forward. Broadway ‘Mockingbird’ Is Back on Track, as Court Dispute Ends 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z One might equate Trump’s hate-fuelled policies with the famous line screenwriter Paul Schrader gives the embittered Travis: “Some day a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.” Taxi Driver: the awkward teen of US cinema 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z “Max has a unique ability to open up his heart and spill it on the page,” the screenwriter Drew Goddard, a friend and consigliere to Mr. Landis, said in an email. Max Landis Is a Hollywood Disrupter With an Attitude 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Although a screenwriter is not yet attached to the project, Clinton is said to be intimately involved in the selection process. Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg to make TV series on women's suffrage 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z She said she was impressed that Tony Kushner, a screenwriter on the film, “turned himself into a pretzel trying to get it right.” Oscar Rewind: When Rita Moreno Made History and Thanked No One 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z “The Newsroom”: Cliched as hell Topics: , , , The Newsroom, This Sunday, Aaron Sorkin’s new show, “The Newsroom,” will premiere on HBO, allowing the Oscar-winning screenwriter to hold forth on the state of American journalism. “The Newsroom”: Cliched as hell 2012-06-21T00:00:00Z Of course Russell and the screenwriters are driving toward a sentimental conclusion -- much more sentimental than the real ending of the Ward-Eklund story, as it happens -- but the journey is plenty wrenching. "The Fighter": From small-town palooka to champion 2010-12-10T01:30:00Z Beacom usually reads for deafness and sign language usage while writer, screenwriter and sensitivity reader Lara Ameen reads for visible and invisible disabilities along with queer or Jewish characters or content. "I have no particular power": Don't blame sensitivity readers for the latest censored books 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z MacIntosh, who is currently adapting a foreign language short story for an American producer, added that screenwriters often complain that even recent films with original screenplays could no longer be made now. Smiley starts a row over reluctance to commission original scripts 2011-07-09T23:07:03Z Some of this, perhaps, has to do with the fact that Jim worked closely with the screenwriter Rona Munro, who also scripted Ken Loach's film Ladybird, Ladybird. The Loach family business 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z In 1955, with little work to keep her at home, Ms. Hunt and her husband, the screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr., took a yearlong trip around the world. Marsha Hunt, Actress Turned Activist, Is Dead at 104 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z In “Rachel,” Dan Stevens is a procrastinating screenwriter and a stay-at-home dad. Emily Nussbaum: “High Maintenance,” “My Mad Fat Diary” Reviews 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The answer, according to Taylor-Wood and Control screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh, is a conflicted adolescence in which his loyalties were torn between the aunt who raised him and the mother who abandoned him. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up: 44 Inch Chest; Nowhere Boy; The Unloved 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z As a screenwriter, I’d been bludgeoned with the need to make characters “likable.” How ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ and My Work Friends Made Me an Honorary Millennial 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z "Motorcycle Diaries" screenwriter Jose Rivera is set to write the script. Story of trapped Chilean miners set for big screen 2011-07-25T16:43:08Z She was the screenwriter behind the “Twilight” movies and their tortured vampires, not to mention serving as the head writer on the serial killer drama “Dexter,” before she created the noir-superhero Netflix series “Jessica Jones.” The Creator of ‘Jessica Jones’ Serves Up a Dark Mirror for Our Moment 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z In describing the genesis of these ideas, Mr. Büsser called to mind the protagonist of Woody Allen’s latest film, “Midnight in Paris,” a disenchanted Hollywood screenwriter who is magically transported to 1920s Paris. Special Report: Watches: Leaping Forward, Back in Time 2011-11-24T14:08:56Z |
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