There are two superstar screenwriters here, in Aaron Sorkin (Steve Jobs) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa), and it's rare for screenwriters to become as famous as those two are, so they're probably safe.
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Their narrative arcs are constructed by producers rather than screenwriters.
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When the screenwriters focus on trivia, inertia sets in rapidly.
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They change shape depending on the needs of the screenwriters.
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He extensively denoted unspoken moments, the way good screenwriters do.
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Chayefsky was himself the premiere soap box ranter of screenwriters.
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One of the screenwriters is the very astute Mike White.
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Catherine Turner, one of Hollywood's few women screenwriters, wrote the script.
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Screenwriters and directors have rushed in and out of the project.
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You've spoken widely about your work with female directors and screenwriters.
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I depend especially on the actors, because they are the screenwriters.
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Adjunct professors, NGO workers and unemployed screenwriters belong alongside Mark Zuckerberg.
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The loss of Simon was especially hard for playwrights and screenwriters.
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Gabourey Sidibe is tired of everyone focusing on her figure — especially screenwriters.
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Universal used the screenwriters' connection with fantasy fans in its marketing campaign.
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Here, then, are four simple ways screenwriters can counter gender bias in screenplays.
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At the front lines of that effort: screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.
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Think Marley and Me, as rewritten by the screenwriters handling the Saw movies.
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Think of it as a reminder: the screenwriters could do much, much worse.
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Because women who are pretty and do know it don't wanna fuck screenwriters.
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Screenwriters nationwide put down their pens and picked up signs demanding better contracts.
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Milkweed Editions A decade ago, screenwriters Shawn Otto and Matthew Chapman founded ScienceDebate.
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Murphy, who created the story, is also listed as one of the screenwriters.
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They're mostly male, mostly screenwriters or directors, and they're mostly very heavy drinkers.
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Yates and his screenwriters display an eagerness to correct Burroughs's one-note characterizations.
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You can practically hear the screenwriters ticking checkboxes: symbol of American heroism, check.
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The screenwriters are Lem Dobbs ("The Limey") and the character actor Leo Rossi.
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It also began a revolving door of screenwriters and directors to the project.
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Both Mr. Schrader and Mr. Martin were credited as screenwriters but not nominated.
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In 2017, women accounted for only 11% of screenwriters, and 19% of executive producers.
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The screenwriters of "The Big Sleep" in 1946 knew the importance of the pause.
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One of the first things good screenwriters learn to do is personalize their stories.
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The screenwriters use this as permission to ignore that period of his life altogether.
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Some speculate that the Broaddus' are screenwriters intent on selling their story to Hollywood.
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We asked 22010 performers, screenwriters, directors, documentarians, producers, journalists, and more to weigh in.
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Perhaps all the possibilities inherent in the material sent the screenwriters into a tailspin.
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He is scarier because he resembles a double agent dreamed up by liberal screenwriters.
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He also asked screenwriters to pen a film based on the private eye's findings.
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Directors and screenwriters there have become masters in using metaphors to speak their truth.
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Today, some of the finest screenwriters in the world are working on comic book stories.
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Screenwriters like Sarah Phelps, who created the recent A.B.C. Murders, also can interpret his character.
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Chappaquiddick's screenwriters, Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan, who are both in their 30s, certainly were.
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For decades, artificial intelligence was a thing best understood by sci-fi fanatics and screenwriters.
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Not my editors and publishers, not HBO, not [screenwriters] David [Benioff] and Dan [Brett Weiss].
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Just a reminder that what changes the screenwriters make could always be much, much worse.
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For now, the big screen remains the medium of choice for French directors and screenwriters.
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Hawkeye and Black Widow were the obvious choices for the screenwriters to go to Vormir.
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Those gatekeepers are sometimes moguls, but they're also directors, agents, financiers, screenwriters, and even journalists.
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Nor one who inspires screenwriters apparently, as Edmure has yet to actually speak this season.
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These programs are called "unscripted series" for a reason: There are no formal screenwriters involved.
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I understood what [the screenwriters] David, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley were trying to do.
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He has talked to other screenwriters without telling Ryan, even though the idea was Ryan's.
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On some titles ("Invasion" and "The Others," both showing Saturday), the authors served as screenwriters.
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So much of this movie has seemingly been hammered out via committee — four credited screenwriters!
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That was something that screenwriters added to the film after testing out the cruise's entertainment events.
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Then the screenwriters shuffled them around to figure out who should be matched up with whom.
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The Black List has evolved into a community of screenwriters and filmmakers; it organizes local meetups.
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The screenplay boasts, in the manner of many Hollywood franchise blockbusters, a whole lot of screenwriters.
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"I think new screenwriters will come away from the MasterClass with a new sense of confidence."
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Thing is, there are a lot of young women screenwriters who could have written the script.
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She has also extended an invitation to critics, the press, and screenwriters to do the same.
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Robert McKee's writing seminars, and his book Story have been staples of Hollywood screenwriters for decades.
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That project is set at AGBO, with script by "Avengers: Endgame" screenwriters Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely.
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Instead, screenwriters Aleksandar Hemon and David Mitchell are set to help produce the script alongside Lana.
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He's suing Paramount, BET, producer Will Packer and most of the flick's screenwriters for copyright infringement.
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Famously, Marion hosted Friday evening gatherings with Hollywood's women power players, from actresses to directors to screenwriters.
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Smart House had two screenwriters — William Hudson (this is his only listed film credit) and Stu Krieger.
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"Perhaps it was for more advanced screenwriters, but there were key basics missing for me," she said.
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The character Erin was developed over a 10-year process by screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi.
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We're thrilled that Sidibe is calling this out — hopefully, screenwriters will be more thoughtful in the future.
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It's worth noting, too, that during this period many blacklisted screenwriters were forced to obscure their identities.
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Reynolds will reunite with his "Deadpool" screenwriters for the remake, which doesn't yet have a release date.
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" Adds one of the film's screenwriters, Rhett Reese: "Most comic book heroes have been heterosexual or homosexual.
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Billy and Gary, both far more experienced screenwriters and gifted directors as well, really excelled at that.
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Screenwriters working on their next amnesia-assassin scripts got some real-life backup for the pitch meeting.
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"Like everybody else, we didn't see Macron coming," said Eric Benzekri, one of the show's two screenwriters.
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She then landed a part in a Milos Forman movie, "Taking Off," whose screenwriters included John Guare.
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Noah Baumbach is one of my favorite screenwriters, so I attribute that deeply considered characterization to him.
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Movies have them, though smart screenwriters disagree about how many and how long they ought to be.
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Chris Weitz, one of the screenwriters, responded that the claims were completely fake and called Posobiec a liar.
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Although OED is, in essence, a record of the written language, the tendency of novelists, songwriters, screenwriters, etc.
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That brawl is just one of numerous scenes Tomb Raider's screenwriters cribbed almost directly from the 20133 game.
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She laid the groundwork for numerous Hollywood films Screenwriters and directors found their muse in Warren's life work.
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The guild complains that agencies are prospering at the expense of the screenwriters they are supposed to represent.
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But I also did this because I think it's worth screenwriters talking about how they make these decisions.
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And to be fair to the talent behind the scenes, the screenwriters ought to know what they're doing.
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Their voices rang out for more female screenwriters, more female critics, more female directors, and more equality overall.
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If this were a different kind of story, the screenwriters would see both sides of the mouth, too.
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Julian Fellowes of "Downton Abbey" is one of the screenwriters on this adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel.
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And in Chelsea, the screenwriters Henry Bean and Leora Barish sold a townhouse with a private yoga studio.
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Like much of the Hollywood left, Humphrey Bogart supported the 19 "unfriendly" screenwriters initially called before the committee.
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In California, the pawnshop draws in the Hollywood set with actors, producers and screenwriters looking for fast cash.
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The screenwriters, Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand, have designed the dialogue both to instruct and to overwhelm.
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TV writers have more of a problem with packaging fees and the expanded roles of agencies than screenwriters.
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A 2016 Writers Guild of America study found that more than two-thirds of screenwriters are white men.
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In this, he makes a sly contrast with some Communist screenwriters who are true believers of a different stripe.
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Screenwriters need to take liberties and with a great novel, writers are often too faithful for their own good.
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Killing Eve creator and writer and Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge is serving as one of the film's screenwriters.
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The synopsis would go to Amazon Studios, where aspiring directors or screenwriters could lease the rights for a production.
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But when screenwriters Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons focus on the plot, they largely ignore the source material.
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That being said, this film was written by a group of screenwriters that include Eastbound & Down star Danny McBride.
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Additionally, the film's three directors, Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Jared Bush, are white males, as are its screenwriters.
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I hope screenwriters are paying attention because this seems like plot material for the next Ocean's movie to me.
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" Zuckerberg himself said the screenwriters made creative alterations he found "hurtful" and that he had "blocked the movie out.
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But for many screenwriters, the appeal of television lies not in money but in the creative freedom it allows.
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Screenwriters might cull a few thrillers from the text — and populate them with real-life heroes, fools and traitors.
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No script has been written and no deals have yet been signed with the movie's screenwriters, the source said.
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Podcasts have surged in popularity over the past several years, and television producers and screenwriters are definitely taking notice.
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NEW BRUNSWICK "New Jersey International Film Festival," screenings and special guest appearances by film directors, screenwriters, cast and crew.
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The screenwriters make it clear that Nebula didn't know what you need to do to get the soul stone.
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When that plan is greenlit, there is a large pool of talented directors, screenwriters, and performers available for hire.
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The director, David Yarovesky, and the screenwriters, Mark Gunn and Brian Gunn, hit the genre beats cleanly and efficiently.
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A more realistic depiction of swarms would take away their Achilles heel, requiring screenwriters to figure out new tricks.
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"It's such a taboo for a woman to say that she doesn't want or like children," explain the screenwriters.
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He and the screenwriters, Robert Schenkkan and Andrew Knight, are content to remind us that both are very important.
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Screenwriters tell me it&aposs nearly impossible to get a movie sold if it doesn&apost follow the structure.
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Screenwriters, directors or actors sometimes have a preference as to which guns they would like to have and to hold.
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Its author and screenwriters prefer to build fan expectations, then overturn them for narrative impact and, sometimes, pure shock value.
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I don't know how [actors and screenwriters] do it — how she does it — but it's definitely profound in this case.
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Screenwriters now face the difficult task of creating something that is both original and within the boundaries of Nordic crime.
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It's common for the screenwriters to move around plot events within the storyline which they seem to be doing now.
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Screenwriters Matt Leslie and Stephen J. Smith pack a lot into their script, but it's mostly tropes and shout-outs.
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Screenwriters are under no pressure to reach a standard for scientific accuracy, and Loverd knows each project has different demands.
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Screenwriters Jamie Linden, Alan DiFiore, and Jim Kouf fill the story with surprises, cleverly acknowledging and dodging some expected clichés.
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It was considered outrageously lucrative and made Goldman an instant celebrity, at a time when screenwriters weren't really household names.
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Bryan Cranston also makes a surprise appearance in the Best Actor category for Trumbo, a movie about blacklisted Hollywood screenwriters.
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Putman changes all of the character names to "Jane" to minimize embarrassment to screenwriters, but otherwise quotes the screenplays verbatim.
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Screenwriters tend to believe that ratiocination is kid stuff, and that A.I.s won't really level up until they can cry.
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The journalist and former New York Times Magazine writer Matt Bai is one of the screenwriters, adapting his own book.
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The screenwriters are Lem Dobbs ("The Limey") and the character actor Leo Rossi; directed by Kevin Connolly of "Entourage" fame.
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I don't want to be one of those screenwriters that trashes the books they adapt to make themselves look better.
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"Even screenwriters would not dare to create a plot like this," wrote one person on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.
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Screenwriters and directors usually chose to strip away the arch narrator—blunting much of Austen's power—and sex up the plot.
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You, the big journalists; you, the big screenwriters; you, the big rock stars; you, the big restaurateurs; you, the big politicians.
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Its author and screenwriters prefer to build fan expectations, then overturn them for narrative impact — and sometimes for pure shock value.
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It may seem tempting to many screenwriters to simply reproduce the Nordic Noir formula in order to create an easy hit.
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He's also one of the most hated directors and screenwriters by critics and his contemporaries (though some have changed their opinion).
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Granted, screenwriters don't always show alcohol in the best light either; we have the Hangover movies as Exhibits A-C there.
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They were only 15 minutes long, watched by only 270 people, and hosted by screenwriters Douglas Fairbanks and William C. deMille.
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It's author and screenwriters prefer to build fan expectations, then overturn them for narrative impact — and sometimes for pure shock value.
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To their credit, the screenwriters mitigate the potential for corny science fiction technobabble by glossing over parts of how Reverie works.
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The endless profusion of F-bombs seems to indicate that the screenwriters must have thought they would be paid per use.
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And yet because the script was based on original research by screenwriters Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, it counts as original.
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Such advice is mildly plausible when applied to Hollywood screenwriters; it is doubtful the rest of humanity could employ it successfully.
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Many successful British screenwriters began their careers on soaps, prime time series or long-running, soap-like dramas such as "Casualty".
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Images and plot twists seem to have come more easily to Hitchcock than character work, which he left largely to screenwriters.
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But I kept writing, taping notecards on a wall for a script I planned to submit to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
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Although Clark prosecuted in a town filled with screenwriters and actresses, she describes the job as low-key during the 22016s.
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Throughout the franchise I had terrific screenwriters, and Francis Lawrence, who directed the last three films, is an incredible visual storyteller.
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O.J. Simpson's showrunners — screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski — have made their name, in films as varied as The People vs.
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The screenwriters found material and excerpts from interviews with those involved that were better than anything they could have made up.
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Mr. Maher said speeches like Ms. Streep's — calling actors, screenwriters and the news media to arms — weren't going to solve anything.
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David Kohner Zuckerman, a producer and the co-founder of the screenwriters' Web site Virtual Pitch Fest, was thinking about joining.
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Suddenly, Chinese companies are racing to snap up all things Bollywood — partnerships and distribution rights, but also Indian directors and screenwriters.
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The studio has broken ground with films like "Black Panther," its 2100 blockbuster with a black director, screenwriters and leading actors.
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Too busy strewing pop-culture references, the screenwriters fail to write convincingly for her character's age or inner life, for that matter.
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Production begins in July and will re-unite Harrison Ford with one of the original screenwriters of the 1982 classic, Hampton Fancher.
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In addition, the party was filled with Black screenwriters — the unsung heroes behind our favorite drama moments (and hilarious harness peeing situations).
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Zombieland, a 2009 horror-comedy directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Deadpool and Deadpool 2 screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.
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He was right; soon after, Riley received a grant from the San Francisco Film Society and was invited to Sundance's Screenwriters Lab.
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At HBO, "Game of Thrones" nearing its end, but the pay service has commissioned top screenwriters to come up with potential spinoffs.
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Britain is fortunate: in many European countries there are not the opportunities for young screenwriters to work on this type of show.
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Screenwriters know this, and, as with anybody compelled to hold up their end of a conversation, they seek ways to attract attention.
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John Moore, the director, and Dan Kay and William Wisher, the screenwriters, don't have anything new to add to that familiar dynamic.
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It doesn't feel as presumptuous to me as writing a novel did, maybe because I know so many television writers and screenwriters.
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The screenwriters have thought about Captain America running into Red Skull when returning all of the Infinity stones at the movie's end.
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Screenwriters Damian Shannon and Mark Swift love themselves some boy-band jokes, which are seemingly peppered throughout every scene Efron appears in.
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The power of cinema in Tamil Nadu has led several of the state's most prominent actors and screenwriters to pursue political careers.
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We're pumped for the movie, and it's too early to know what the screenwriters' vision will look like when it's brought to life.
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The screenwriters for the film Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely defended the length of the movie in an interview with Vulture in April.
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And indeed, it seems that many prospective screenwriters and directors have come to view the comics industry as a back door into Hollywood.
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And yet because the script was based on research conducted by screenwriters Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, it counted as an "original" work.
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There are quite a few 21st-century screenwriters who would happily endure a prison sentence in exchange for a working life like that.
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The screenwriters of "Game of Thrones" have tested their viewers' boundaries and patience on numerous occasions with gratuitous depictions of violence against women.
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Adlon and her older brother, Gregory Segall, were exposed to the fringes of Hollywood—minor screenwriters, classmates whose parents worked in the business.
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"We have been late on French television in representing tormented, ambivalent characters in politics," said Jean-Baptiste Delafon, one of "Baron Noir's" screenwriters.
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Although corruption was one of the main themes of "Baron Noir's" first season, the screenwriters chose to avoid it in the latest one.
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It's important to note that this early diversity was entirely due to the presence of women and did not extend to minority screenwriters.
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The result: all three are nearly tied: The Oscars and WGAs have both nominated about 1.5 percent more diverse screenwriters than the Baftas.
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Director Yorgos Lanthimos picked up a nomination too, as did the movie's screenwriters, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, and its cinematographer Robbie Ryan.
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Since she started in early 2015, Ms. Singer has had more than 270 appointments with clients, from ticket takers to screenwriters to dancers.
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A profound misfire, this biopic is a dramatically inert attempt to pay tribute to the blacklisted screenwriters caught up in the Red Scare.
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" 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.
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Some are traditional and sober-minded, written with future historians in mind; others are funny and personal, written with future screenwriters in mind.
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The timeline got complicated, screenwriters monkeyed with the story mechanics, directors brought new special effects into the battle to keep the action fresh.
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And so he set in motion an international operation that would have made the creative screenwriters of The Great Escape feel wholly inadequate.
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Fluid boundaries between media mean that directors and screenwriters can bring the same degree of artistry to television as they do to film.
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His short stories, in part because they are not as widely known, giving screenwriters more license to extrapolate, have been the least problematic.
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Netflix have had no such problems (and the screenwriters have worked in a winking reference to the superiority of "long-form television" over film).
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The film has a three-hour runtime which several people involved with the film, including the screenwriters and Marvel President Kevin Feige, have defended.
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Karen McCullah and Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith, the screenwriters behind the landmark teen romantic comedy, wrote the film while in a long-distance writing partnership.
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A number of directors and screenwriters have since been associated with the movie, and Ben Whishaw was going to play Mercury at one point.
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Set a few years after the first film, Zombieland: Double Tap brings back director Ruben Fleischer to helm a script by the Deadpool screenwriters.
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For more Kusama, Netflix also has The Invitation, another combination of social satire and horror, written by Destroyer's screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi.
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Both the novelist and the screenwriters seem to have no way to write about female character development other than through humiliation, rape, and violence.
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This one doesn't seem to be useful for general Netflix viewers, but could be developed into something conceptually useful for location scouts or screenwriters.
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Because film studios or producers often buy the rights to specific books or magazine articles, and then hire screenwriters to turn them into scripts.
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He becomes a sort of mentor figure to Han – screenwriters Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan have compared him to Long John Silver in Treasure Island.
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Impact is an 8-week bootcamp for fledgling screenwriters seeking to refine their scripts, develop show ideas, and eventually pitch and sell polished work.
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And what were the odds that one of the screenwriters of both films lived a few blocks from the Air Force-funded RAND Corporation?
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I feel fortunate to have had such a talented team — directors, producers, screenwriters, performers, designers, editors, marketing, publicity, everybody — to make the journey with.
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Well, there were no 40-year-old female screenwriters, and now women of color are writing screenplays and getting them made at big studios.
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The shift has rankled members of the Writers Guild of America, which represents about 13,000 screenwriters and has been whispering about a potential strike.
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PHIL LEBEAU: There has been a lot of reporting that you have had discussions with screenwriters, or people in Hollywood, about selling your story.
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The movie, from screenwriters Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, showcases Rogers' endearing personality and how he changed one journalist's life for the better.
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LOS ANGELES — Skeletons in the social media closets of movie stars, directors and screenwriters have started to haunt Hollywood on an almost weekly basis.
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"Piranhas," an Italian crime drama whose screenwriters included Roberto Saviano, the Italian writer and author of "Gomorrah," took home the prize for best screenplay.
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Screenwriters talk about trying to get into the heads of their characters, but two of your most important characters here were effectively omniscient aliens.
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To understand this lack of diversity, we need look no further than screenwriters, the folks by and large responsible for naming characters in film.
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The last series caused fury among devoted fans, with more than 1m people signing a petition to have the season redrafted by "more competent" screenwriters.
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The Federation of European Film Directors (FERA), the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE) and the Society of Audiovisual Authors (SAA) also welcomed the vote.
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Who (Mindy Kaling) can only speak in quotes from poets and rappers because she's "evolved beyond language," until the screenwriters apparently get tired of that.
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Showrunners (and "Dragonstone" screenwriters) David Benioff and D.B. Weiss know the audience will see the twist coming, but that's what makes the sequence so delicious.
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The movie may be a classic in 2019, but in 1999, screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith called it something else: their big break.
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Earlier this month, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that HBO hired four screenwriters to work on four separate scripts that would expand on the GOT universe.
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Screenwriters Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse work a little too hard to cram some of the more incredible aspects of Owens' story into their script.
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The Russos and screenwriters joked that the fate of the world really came down to the rat letting Scott Lang out of the Quantum Realm.
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In fact, when I talked to the screenwriters, they said as much: The first draft was more about Graham, and the inspiration was Graham's biography.
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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.
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Ms. Tovar's survivors include her daughter; a son, the producer Pancho Kohner; and grandchildren, two of whom, Chris and Paul Weitz, are filmmakers and screenwriters.
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Screenwriters think about structure and plot in a whole different way; you can't have a character sit there and remember something and have an epiphany.
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The union primarily represents traditional screenwriters — the 12,000 or so wordsmiths who dream up film scripts and annually churn out thousands of scripted TV episodes.
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In short, the movie invites the screenwriters — Erin Cardillo, Dana Fox and Katie Silberman — to do their worst, cliché-wise, and then to mock themselves.
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New Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon and screenwriters Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos know this, and treat the first film like source material.
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The screenwriters insisted they had limited knowledge of the real-life pizza bomb heist, and the cast and crew supposedly had no idea it had happened.
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Unlike other award shows, the SAG Awards only honor acting performances as opposed to the actual films, and directors, screenwriters, and the like are not recognized.
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But screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely disagree, noting in an interview with Fandango that they thought Cap lived out his life alongside his younger self.
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Hawley and screenwriters Brian C. Brown and Elliott DiGuiseppi blessedly avoid the go-to astronaut-drama move of giving Lucy a child to neglect or mourn.
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I've always said everything starts on the page, so we need to make sure we are mentoring screenwriters from marginalized communities, so their stories are told.
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In an interview with Vulture, the screenwriters of the film, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, insist the film is as "lean" in its runtime as possible.
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In a new interview with Vulture, the screenwriters of the film, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, insist it is as "lean" in its runtime as possible.
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Asia has been slower to change, with too few female directors and screenwriters, and with persistent stereotypical depictions of women that are "quite problematic", said Asmarani.
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But there was a twist: Amazon made a public call for submissions for screenplays and full-length movies from budding screenwriters and filmmakers, not established stars.
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While The Favourite certainly incorporates history, director Yorgos Lanthimos and screenwriters Tony McNamara and Debora Davis are mostly interested in these women and their loaded exchanges.
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Actually, given that reality, there really should be more stray dogs and cats roaming the streets — but we'll take that up with the screenwriters another day.
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Scientists of good standing within their communities have every reason to be tough on screenwriters, and discourage them from playing fast-and-loose with the facts.
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World Premiere Lemon / U.S.A. (Director: Janicza Bravo, Screenwriters: Janicza Bravo, Brett Gelman) — A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his blind girlfriend.
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And director Tim Miller and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick eschew the idea that there must be anything grander to a superhero story than that.
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Directors Joe and Anthony Russo and screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (who will all return for the 2019 sequel) have not escaped their narrative dilemma.
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The historical accuracy of screenwriters Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh and Cyrus Nowrasteh (who also directs) is largely impressive, yet their theological imagination is found to be wanting.
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Reynolds, along with screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, wanted to stick to the R-rated, comics-inspired humor that helped make the film so successful.
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"I guess there are worse things," he said in late July over lunch here on the island, where he was the guest of the Screenwriters Colony.
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He has almost nothing to play but rage and muscle: the screenwriters, Jonathan Hirschbein and Nick Saltrese, provide him with no past and no future plans.
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"Screenwriters are terribly undervalued in Hollywood, given their relative contribution to the success and failure of the things that we all make," he told Recode Decode.
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Mr. Kosinski — and the screenwriters, Ken Nolan ("Black Hawk Down") and Eric Warren Singer — let the characters grow in complexity before they face their greatest trial.
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The studios behind "Green Book" racing to contain the fallout when a four-year-old anti-Muslim tweet by one of the film's screenwriters began recirculating.
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Beto also cashed some fat checks from two huge screenwriters ... $5,400 each from David Koepp ("Jurassic Park" and "Mission: Impossible") and Nicholas Kazan ("Matilda" and "Enough").
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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.
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Screenwriters Simon Pegg (who also plays Scotty) and Doug Jung are big fans of Star Trek, and that shines through in nearly every frame of Beyond.
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But the screenwriters have Gerald and Jessie herself take on those inner-voice roles, creating an internal conflict that seems logical instead of arbitrary and faintly comedic.
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It's also the first of his films that he didn't write himself, although he worked closely with screenwriters Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara to develop the project.
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"In such a relatively egalitarian atmosphere, women seemed destined to become equal partners with men," wrote Lizzie Francke in the book Script Girls: Women Screenwriters in Hollywood.
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The screenwriters, accordingly, are more insistent than ever that "we are all worth fighting for" and that we must all try to understand the perspectives of others.
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And according to the movie's screenwriters, you should just deal with the fact that some your favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe characters aren't coming back for the sequel.
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Whether it's Robert de Niro in "Taxi Driver" or Jamie Foxx in "Collateral," directors and screenwriters are drawn to people who drive lots of different people around.
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In 21978, director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriters Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner delivered a shotgun blast of dark comedy, social satire, and mind-numbing violence with RoboCop.
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Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber embellish the truth in places where the truth is more interesting, and slap a pat, rushed conclusion on the story.
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It provides a database users can search to find out if cast members, screenwriters, executive producers, or directors on specific projects have been attached to sexual misconduct.
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In an interview with Vulture, the screenwriters of the Marvel film, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, insist the film is as "lean" in its runtime as possible.
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Ms. Heller and the screenwriters, Jeff Whitty and the great Nicole Holofcener, resist the impulse to moralize about Lee's misdeeds or to sand down her rough edges.
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Like screenwriters, most of us tend to gravitate toward the more extreme examples of a technology's potential, its ability to save the world or to destroy it.
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The approaches differ not only in structure — screenwriters generally ignore the book's second half, as Luis Buñuel's 1953 film (Friday and Sunday) does — but also in tone.
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In the hands of the screenwriters Sofia Alvarez and J. Mills Goodloe, Lara Jean and her friends don't banter — they proclaim, as if being deposed by Cupid.
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All of this as the cost of living in New York and Los Angeles — the cities in which screenwriters must live, for the most part — grows astronomically.
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Instead, they highlight just how frightening politics can be in both real waysand those imagined by screenwriters who sometimes end up being scarily ahead of their time.
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"It was traumatic," Sutherland said, adding that screenwriters have already approached him about the story but that he is reserving rights to the story for the time being.
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The movie will be directed by F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton, The Fate of the Furious) with screenwriters Matt Holloway and Art Marcum working on the script.
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Director Jon M. Chu and screenwriters Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim are returning for the potential follow-up in development at Warner Brothers, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely recently told The New York Times they were fully aware some fans might view the scene this way while they were writing.
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With screenwriters and directors and a duo ready for the big screen, all that was left to secure was funding and distribution to turn this into a reality.
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Final Draft is now aiming at a more general audience and, while there are plugins for scriptwriting in Word and Google Docs, many screenwriters swear by the software.
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Respected British screenwriters and playright Jack Thorne and Tony Award-winning theater director John Tiffany helped Rowling pen the script, working off of an original story she wrote.
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Screenwriters Jennifer Lee (Frozen, Wreck-It Ralph) and Jeff Stockwell (Bridge to Terabithia) take plenty of their material directly from L'Engle's book, but that isn't always a plus.
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Ettore Scola, a Golden Globe winner and five-time Oscar nominee who was considered among the great directors and screenwriters of Italian cinema, died on Tuesday in Rome.
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But sometimes even setting expectations for a film to the lowest setting doesn't help, because the screenwriters have decided to let their characters do the dumbest things imaginable.
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David Koepp is one of Hollywood's most in-demand screenwriters thanks to blockbuster films like Jurassic Park and Spider-Man that have collectively grossed over $6 billion worldwide.
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The press often talks about a movie in terms of "what we got wrong," but as screenwriters, we don't always talk about why we make certain dramatic choices.
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World Premiere Brigsby Bear / U.S.A. (Director: Dave McCary, Screenwriters: Kevin Costello, Kyle Mooney) — Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James.
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This is exactly how '90s sci-fi screenwriters thought pornography would work Every possible emotional response feels like it's playing into the hands of an annual manufactured controversy.
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Screenwriters are taught from an early age the importance of giving their protagonist a goal, then loading him down with obstacles to overcome so he can achieve it.
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Most recently, Feig contributed to the newly released book On Story: Screenwriters and Filmmakers on Their Iconic Films, published this month in conjunction with the Austin Film Festival.
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They will also bring on the Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the screenwriters behind Captain America: Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, and the two upcoming Avengers films.
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The 1984 original is about a guerrilla uprising against a Soviet invasion of America; in the 2012 remake, screenwriters updated the movie by casting China as the aggressor.
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Years after the movie was released, Gore Vidal, one of the original, uncredited screenwriters, wrote about the gay subtext, suggesting that Mr. Boyd's Messala was Judah's spurned lover.
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Critical plot elements, it turns out, were contributed by one of the original programmers for the North American Aerospace Defense Command computer, who the screenwriters met through RAND.
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Film producer Ross Putman has read thousands of scripts during his career, and he's noticed a disturbing pattern: Screenwriters keep introducing their leading female characters as sex objects.
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About that: In prehistoric times, according to Mr. Park and the screenwriters (Mark Burton and James Higginson), cave men and giant lizards shared the planet for a while.
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And while a high number of credited screenwriters is frequently the sign of a bad movie, it doesn't quite explain the unique badness of Where'd You Go, Bernadette.
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Nixon had not begun his secret Oval Office recordings, so the screenwriters relied largely on first-hand accounts from Presley confidant Jerry Schilling and Nixon aide Bud Krogh.
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Screenwriters Geneva Robertson-Dworet ("Captain Marvel") and Lindsey Beer ("Sierra Burgess Is a Loser") will write the screenplay, with Chris and Paul Weitz&aposs Depth of Field producing.
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The politics of rape onscreen are so fraught that some screenwriters, like Bryan Fuller of the TV series "Hannibal," have banned sexual violence from their story lines entirely.
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There are people who make money selling books about how to write a screenplay in Hollywood when the best screenwriters have never cracked a book formula about it.
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Captain Marvel's screenwriters seemingly wanted to tell a story about how heroes, even the most powerful ones in the universe, may not know their own potential for greatness.
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Espinosa and his screenwriters, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (the team behind Deadpool), don't make us care about the crew members as much as they probably think they do.
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However, it said the plan failed to provide an "unwaivable right to remuneration" for European film, TV and multimedia screenwriters and directors to make a living from their works.
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Screenwriters George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris are all men, but they crafted one of the most progressive, female-empowering sci-fi films to date in Fury Road.
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There is a long tradition of the military taking innovative approaches to problem-solving, including DARPA's weird experiments (everything from ESP to, well, the internet) and collaborations with screenwriters.
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On a purely structural level, screenwriters Ryan Coogler (also the film's director) and Joe Robert Cole have balanced these two characters by giving each what the other most wants.
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The risk of spoiling even a second of the film's surprises — surprises they, the Russo brothers, and Feige toiled so hard to make work — weighs heavily on both screenwriters.
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It's a long, dreary drag waiting for these plotlines to come together, and Spanish director F. Javier Gutiérrez and his screenwriters don't spend the intervening time on anything good.
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When the opportunity arose to squeeze in a last minute celebrity cameo into Deadpool 2, the screenwriters decided to reach out to one of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
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Rogen and his fellow screenwriters have become the Greek muses of vulgarity: Their level of filth is only matched by the expertise and innovation they exhibit in deploying it.
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Heroic sacrifices of the type seen here, on the other hand, are so common in films that The Mummy's screenwriters apparently didn't feel they needed to justify this one.
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It's woven together tightly enough that screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who also wrote the previous film, are able to stitch in more elements from other previous films.
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All three of those films are also adaptations of novels, but Ivory directed them from adaptations by other screenwriters (all were nominated for Oscars, and the latter two won).
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Director Jon M. Chu and screenwriters Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim have all said in past interviews that in their film, they gave the agency to Rachel, not Nick.
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The inn is known to host many singers, actors, screenwriters, and dancers as return guests, so you're bound to mingle with an interesting personality or two during your stay.
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What I don't understand is why The Walking Dead's screenwriters seem so insistent that Dwight's misery is more interesting than, say, any other character arc we could be following.
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We can't claim to know what will happen if space aliens land on Earth, but the screenwriters of alien invasion movies have gamed out the possible scenarios for us.
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Mashable took to the red carpet to speak to actors, directors, screenwriters and producers about diversity in the industry, and to what extent they still think it's an issue.
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Gadot, with help from director Patty Jenkins and the screenwriters, get this balance exactly right and gives Diana a disarming warmth that makes it impossible not to love her.
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Your screenplays will be "unforgettable" Sorkin is a fascinating choice to lead a course like this, if only because he's one of the most distinctive screenwriters on the planet.
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Surely, screenwriters can come up with ways to avoid these narratives where dying women seem like tools, or a mere means to an end unworthy of their own stories.
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The screenwriters chose to portray these polarizing political figures as larger than life characters whose mistakes were few and far between, and whose aspirations were expansive, inclusive, and noble.
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In a coincidence that would have been too blunt for Hollywood screenwriters, Cohen's guilty plea came within minutes of a Virginia jury's verdict in the trial of Paul Manafort.
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The storyboards are roughly animated and voiced by temporary actors to create what's called an "animatic," then screened for the film's larger production team, including the directors and screenwriters.
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Then, Bismuth began making a quasi-documentary about the hired screenwriters making a movie about the hired private detective who's been tasked to find this possibly-nonexistent art object.
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Some of this is thanks to a smart choice by screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely to collapse as many characters as possible into as few storylines as possible.
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His father, Michel, was an orphan who became one of the most beloved screenwriters in French cinematic history, inventing an entire mode of speech that was playful and flowery.
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It's a celebration of the industry and a showdown between the year's biggest movies, filmmakers, and all of the people who make them special, including actors, screenwriters, and more.
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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.
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The giant sea creature in the film "Wendy" isn't a computer creation but a life-size puppet made by one of the screenwriters (and help from a sponge farm).
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It took more than a few screenwriters (11 by one count) to adapt Baum's vision into a girl's dream of a land over the rainbow from Depression-era Kansas.
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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.
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The challenges include labor unrest; screenwriters fired their agents en masse in April and the major agencies and the Writers Guild of America are fighting each other in court.
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"Sometimes for guy screenwriters, it's hard them to find the value in women if they're not attached to a man, so they usually kill her off," Ms. Rodriguez said.
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It's a qualitatively different relationship than the one screenwriters have with their characters, because video game characters don't just recite dialogue—they do shit, and the players interact with them.
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I can't speak to what Wilde and her screenwriters (Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, and Katie Silberman) were really like in high school, and I wouldn't presume to guess.
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In fact, more movies with credited women screenwriters won the Best Picture prize in the 13 years before World War II than in all of the years since the war.
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I did have a lot of institutional support along the way: the script went through the Sundance screenwriters and director's lab, which was huge in opening doors, and getting attention.
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His co-stars, producers and screenwriters from that series have accompanied him throughout the campaign, including standing at his side during a pre-election debate held in a football stadium.
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World Premiere Menashe / U.S.A. (Director: Joshua Z Weinstein, Screenwriters: Joshua Z Weinstein, Alex Lipschultz, Musa Syeed) — Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son.
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She and the screenwriters only reveal their hand in the funny, bitterly cynical ending, which touches on the way the public reacts to big media events and ugly human drama.
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But mostly, Snyder and screenwriters Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer seem to be taking advantage of the criticism to boost drama, without really comprehending the human source of it.
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She spent the next 943 years living off her daughter, giving the occasional talk to college students, helping out other directors and screenwriters, and forever searching for her lost films.
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But as it progresses, it becomes clear that screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi have thought deeply about the emotional terror present in even the most well-adjusted friend groups.
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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.
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Release Date: March 20After the first film exceeded expectations at the box office, "A Quiet Place" screenwriters and director John Krasinski decided to return to the silent but deadly world.
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The director Frank Perry, working with his first wife, Eleanor Perry, and other screenwriters, is distinguished mainly by his skill at eliciting enticingly florid yet intimately vulnerable performances from actors.
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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.
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Like other screenwriters in Hollywood, where thousands of scripts are submitted but only a relative few are chosen for production, Mr. Sargent often mused about the search for good stories.
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THE BIG SICK Easily the breakout of Sundance, this mammoth crowd-pleaser finds the married screenwriters Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani mining their own scary life experience for comedy.
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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.
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Hendriks and Caplan are both screenwriters, and appropriately, the novel is already being adapted into a movie, which will be directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg (Valley Girl & The Mindy Project).
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Founded 14 years ago by screenwriter and entrepreneur Aleks Horvat, theOffice is a single-room work space in Santa Monica, California, with 30 stations packed with screenwriters, novelists, designers and more.
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This past April, when The Black List (a network for connecting filmmakers and screenwriters) announced it would be partnering with an AI company called ScriptBook to evaluate some scripts, writers revolted.
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Yet, at the same time, it's permanently aspirational, a poolside Babylon flecked with doomed screenwriters, celebrity recluses, and ex-models, atmosphere thick with pollution and the absorbed fog of detective stories.
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Though the battle is consistently compelling to watch, it quickly becomes clear that Rønning and the screenwriters have no idea how to meaningfully wrap up the weighty themes they've laid out.
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No woman has ever been nominated for Best Cinematography, and women make up what should be a humiliatingly low percentage of nominated screenwriters in both the Adapted and Original Screenplay category.
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Hence, 1974's "Young Frankenstein," on which Brooks and Wilder collaborated as screenwriters and which which starred Wilder as the mercurial, yet oddly endearing descendant of Mary Shelley's quintessential mad scientist.
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Clearly, screenwriters Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein, and Dana Fox have written How to Be Single for women, but each one seems to have a different and rigid view of their audience.
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Binge-watching TV shows is changing the way we think about entertainment, it's altering the way screenwriters and producers design their stories, and it's taking up crazy amounts of our days.
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Harrison Ford and the screenwriters insist that he is not while director Ridley Scott insists he is and even recut the film several times to include footage to prove his point.
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But even with Mr Cranston's debonair swagger and bristling moustache, Jay Roach's lacklustre biopic of Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter, won't appeal to anyone except current screenwriters with masochistic tendencies.
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Where director James Mangold (and his co-screenwriters Scott Frank and Michael Green) could insert big action beats, they mostly eschew them in favor of people just talking to each other.
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Set in the 1940s and 1950s, "Trumbo" keeps insisting that the film industry was incalculably significant at the time, and that screenwriters were some of the most significant people in it.
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Emily Atkin: Never did I think I'd be gazing upon Jon Snow's bare booty at the exact moment the screenwriters are telling me that the woman underneath him is his aunt.
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Neil LaBute; Cusi Cram; and Alexander Dinelaris, one of the screenwriters behind the Academy Award-winning film "Birdman," are among the playwrights contributing brief new works for Summer Shorts this year.
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Mr. Gray noted that the center's chief executive, Peter Bale, met recently with one of the screenwriters of "Spotlight," Josh Singer, to talk about providing financial support to his organization's work.
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So of course there's a new "Hanna," a series created for Amazon Prime Video by one of the film's screenwriters (David Farr) with the film's director (Joe Wright) as a consultant.
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And the French screenwriters guild on Tuesday issued a statement supporting Mr. Baumbach and Mr. Bong, saying the controversy had "the benefit of putting back on the table" the unresolved discussions.
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There's nothing subtle about this examination of cultural and generational clashes, and sometimes the director, Ricardo de Montreuil, and the screenwriters, Elgin James and Cheo Hodari Coker, veer into cliché land.
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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.
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Regardless, #ReleaseTheJJCut trended on Twitter as fans pieced together links and quotes from the cast, screenwriters, and directors that seemed to prove a different cut of The Rise of Skywalker existed.
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There are times when we are grateful for talented screenwriters who can shape the mundane events of history and everyday life into more dramatic stories we can enjoy in movie form.
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I know how hard that is today, given that novelists and screenwriters like the late William Goldman -- whose "Princess Bride" script was, by general consensus, his masterwork -- are harder to find.
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But Mr. Plepler, the HBO chief executive, who announced his resignation on Thursday, was not among the roughly 211 filmmakers, screenwriters, journalists and HBO employees who filed in around 10:30.
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"Avengers: Infinity War" screenwriters Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus shared their advice on how to fix what critics have taken issue with in DC Extended Universe films in a podcast appearance.
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It doesn't matter that Dreamcatcher was written by two of the most accomplished screenwriters in history: William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and Lawrence Kasdan (Raiders of the Lost Ark).
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He pointed out that Thanos's use of the Reality Stone to have Star-Lord's gun fire bubbles instead allowed the screenwriters to include a callback to the moment later in the film.
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The Girl in the Spider's Web, Pacific Rim Uprising, and even Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween all changed lead actors, directors, and screenwriters, and each suffered major box-office drops from their predecessors.
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The Deadpool version of the story is an extreme exaggeration, and just one of many gags that's reaching for subversion by making light of the most serious subjects the screenwriters can find.
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The two guys who played the casting directors are actually screenwriters, so we had them in on these meetings to get to know the girls and know what emotional triggers they had.
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In addition to her acting work, Merrill was devoted to a number of philanthropic causes including the New York City Mission Society, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and supporting screenwriters in developing countries.
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Directors and screenwriters took characters like Batman and Iron Man, who were already darker than the average superhero in their respective comic books, and not only kept but leaned into those characteristics.
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Disney has hired screenwriters Max Winkler and Matthew Spicer to start tapping away on what is tentatively being called The Rocketeers, according to people familiar with the studio's wishes for the project.
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In a conversation at the 92Y in New York City in April that INSIDER attended, screenwriters Markus and Stephen McFeely said they wrote the "Infinity War" and "Endgame" scripts back-to-back.
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Mr. Ellis, also the film's cinematographer and one of its screenwriters, demonstrates a sure hand with location shooting and period details, but you are unprepared for the bravura pyrotechnics of the climax.
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For one thing, the film's screenwriters include Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, who were behind The Last Samurai, a movie that's frequently cited as a textbook example of a white savior narrative.
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At the helm are three acclaimed Bollywood directors and screenwriters, who also happen to be women: Zoya Akhtar ("Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara"), Reema Kagti ("Gold"), and Alankrita Shrivastava ("Lipstick Under My Burkha").
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"I shudder," she told The New York Times that September, some three months before the film's release, having heard that the screenwriters might have made her character seem a tiny bit aggressive.
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Future Forward has even been accused of being in cahoots with the Illuminati, the 18th-century secret order that has featured in the world-domination fantasies of Hollywood screenwriters and conspiracy theorists.
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Thus Hud, a minor character in Mr. McMurtry's novel, became the film's title character and dominant antihero, a symbol of the rapacious greed and materialism that the screenwriters saw spreading in America.
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The researchers and the implementing organization, Innovations for Poverty Action, hired local screenwriters to script three vignettes, which were filmed with local actors in Luganda, the dominant local language in central Uganda.
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And what's been less remarked upon is how much strength director Lee Unkrich, co-director Adrian Molina, and co-screenwriters Molina and Matthew Aldrich garner from structuring the story as a mystery.
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The night's first prize, for Best Original Screenplay, went to screenwriters Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy (who also directed the film), and then Spotlight lost the next four awards it was nominated for.
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Getting people to fall in love on national television isn't easy work — producers are storytellers as much as screenwriters are, it's just that their characters are autonomous and happen to be real people.
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The romantic comedy is based on the real medical calamity that brought now-married screenwriters Kumail Nanjiani (who stars as a version of himself) and Emily V. Gordon (played by Zoe Kazan) together.
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Let's pause for a moment here to appreciate the truly crazy premise by screenwriters Richard Curtis (who also directed) and Jack Barth, which Yesterday sometimes teases but truly has no intention of exploring.
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I started studying how master communicators such as Oprah Winfrey, screenwriters such as Lena Dunham and authors like Malcolm Gladwell engaged their audiences by leveraging different ways of telling stories and evoking emotions.
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"And yet she never wanted to derail things and she's never demanded story approval and she's never tried to meddle with what the screenwriters and show creators thought was best," the source says.
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World Premiere The Hero / U.S.A. (Director: Brett Haley, Screenwriters: Brett Haley, Marc Basch) — Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed.
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Rattled by this discovery, I reached out to Disney, and the agents of Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo, screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and star Sebastian Stan to ask for clarifications.
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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.
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The "Endgame" screenwriters and codirectors joked that the fate of the universe rested in the paws of the little rat who coincidentally let Scott Lang out of the quantum realm five years later.
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Jelly, already an expert on the varieties of male vanity, takes to studying Variety and ringing up sundry screenwriters and set- and costume-designers, apologizing for misdialing them, but then claiming mutual acquaintance.
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Six years and innumerable hired-and-fired screenwriters later came Alien 3, a bleak meditation on death and nihilism that couldn't be much further from Cameron's souped-up crowd-pleaser if it tried.
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But the curtain lifted for fans, too: Now we know the show is less the product of a grand creative plan and more a matter of production schedules, haggling screenwriters and celebrity influence.
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Then I got to work with [Colin Trevorrow, one of the movie's screenwriters] on that Super Bowl commercial for Jeep where I played Ian Malcolm and I was being chased by a dinosaur.
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Mr. Levinson and a team of screenwriters (including his son Sam) set "The Wizard of Lies" apart from a typical biopic by experimenting with different ways to convey information about Mr. Madoff's operation.
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It's tough to fault returning director Jake Kasdan and his co-screenwriters, Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, for playing it safe after the almost $1 billion box office haul of the last film.
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Instead, Jack Horne's voice is a high and husky affair, and you yearn—sadly, in vain—for Fuqua and his screenwriters, Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk, to furnish Horne with a tall tale.
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In a stunning move, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences turned thumbs down to "Straight Outta Compton" -- the only nom it got were the screenwriters -- a white guy and a white woman.
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" And it's hard to argue an ensemble movie will not drum up more money than the more intimate film the screenwriters say they envisioned, before Marvel movie czar Kevin Feige proposed adapting "Civil War.
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The screenwriters of Avengers: Infinity War always knew the ending to their movie would be emotional, but they didn't quite grasp how emotional until they saw the actors performing it for the first time.
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World Premiere Dayveon / U.S.A. (Director: Amman Abbasi, Screenwriters: Amman Abbasi, Steven Reneau) — In the wake of his older brother's death, 13-year-old Dayveon spends the sweltering summer days roaming his rural Arkansas town.
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Randolph won an Oscar last year as one of the screenwriters for "The Big Short," a film about traders who shorted markets during the 2008 financial crisis based on the book by Michael Lewis.
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Screenwriters Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson previously partnered on the Oscar-nominated script for David O. Russell's The Fighter, and they bring a similar blend of sentiment and grit to Gillespie's film.
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Smith says that if screenwriters added five female speaking characters to every film in the top 100 movies each year, the industry would reach gender parity in four years — after decades without measurable progress.
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Screenwriters Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim—the pair who first adapted Crazy Rich Asians—will also pen the sequel script, with actors Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Michelle Yeoh already in talks to return.
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According to the report, Tarantino pitched his idea to Abrams, and the current plan is for the pair to assemble a writer's room of screenwriters who will then develop the concept into a screenplay.
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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.
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SUBURBICON The brothers Joel and Ethan Coen are among the screenwriters for this feature, set in 1959, but George Clooney, who directed, has said that the movie, contrary to appearances, is not a comedy.
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Santiago Mitre, the director and one of the screenwriters (the film is based on a 1960 movie, "La Patota"), trains his camera on tight shots of Ms. Fonzi then stays out of her way.
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So it was on an afternoon this spring when, feeling optimistic, I clicked an article about the dispute between the Hollywood groups representing screenwriters and agents, which had set the television industry on edge.
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While the authors didn't come up with the Dorrie and Kerry storyline in Netflix's adaptation of Let It Snow, they said they "all read every draft and felt really listened to" by the screenwriters.
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Longer-term change faces a deeply entrenched white, male-dominated system of studios, talent agencies and production companies that have been slow to welcome minorities in lead acting roles or as directors and screenwriters.
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Yet Netflix is also hungry for official recognition in the form of prestige pictures and the accompanying awards, which has required winning over directors, actors, and screenwriters more inclined to go the traditional route.
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Fifteen award-winning novelists and screenwriters, including Ann Patchett, Dennis Lehane, and Louise Erdrich, created characters and stories to complement Frederick's haunting paintings of liquor stores, row houses, farms, back alleys, and lonely roads.
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To back his opinion up, the Georgetown professor spent time with organic farmers, venture capitalists, screenwriters, freelance computer programmers, and other workers to find out how they landed in a career that they loved.
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Tower of Terror and It's a Small World: Both of these rides have movies in development — Tower of Terror had a treatment as of 2015, and It's a Small World hired two screenwriters in 2016.
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As more and more big studios turn over more and more of their schedules to massive franchise films, directors and screenwriters can occasionally feel less like artists and more like caretakers of beloved childhood properties.
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By most accounts, the Bonanno crime family has been battered and crippled by prosecutions and high-profile defections in the last 15 years, even if its glory days long ago became grist for Hollywood screenwriters.
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It probably won't surprise anyone to hear that Future Man was produced by Superbad / Pineapple Express screenwriters Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and created by their Sausage Party writing partners Ariel Shaffir and Kyle Hunter.
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The first series titled Illegal is based on the life of Rafael Agustin, one of the screenwriters of Jane The Virgin, who was born in Ecuador and immigrated as a child to the United States.
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I think a lot of people were really excited about the prospect of a monster film about the Great Wall of China; then they found out about the casting, the screenwriters, and the plot summary.
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Screenwriters Chris Terrio (Argo) and David S. Goyer (all three of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight blockbusters) have sort of solved this by devising ways to make Superman more frequently vulnerable than he's ever been before.
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It's all in service to a very subversive, occasionally charming story that appears to have sprung fully formed from Rogen's fevered brain (even though he spent a decade on it, and has three co-screenwriters).
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Visual and factual accuracy was clearly a primary concern for producers—the recreation of the crime scene in the show's opening minutes is particularly striking—and the screenwriters have carefully woven together their source material.
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Actress Jada Pinkett Smith, a childhood friend of Tupac, wrote several tweets criticizing the artistic liberties taken by both the director and screenwriters in the ways they chose to portray her relationship with the rapper.
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Screenwriters Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs also star as two men living in Oakland who are trying to deal with the gentrification of their community and the reevaluation of Diggs' character's life while on probation.
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Wilde and the screenwriters (Katie Silberman, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins and Susanna Fogel) don't so much reinvent the formula as refresh it, infusing some familiar situations with an exuberant, generous, matter-of-factly feminist sensibility.
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"The antitrust concerns raised by this deal are obvious and significant," the screenwriters' union, the Writers Guild of America West, said in a statement on Monday, calling media consolidation a "relentless drive to eliminate competition."
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ALL THE TRUTH IS OUT: The Week Politics Went Tabloid "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.
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In the movie, credited to four screenwriters (including Mr. Schreiber), and directed by Philippe Falardeau, Wepner is a more or less lovable rapscallion, whose relentless post-Ali-bout partying features a disastrous introduction to cocaine.
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In making Zombieland: Double Tap, screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and director Ruben Fleischer had to shake things up for Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Wichita (Emma Stone), and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin).
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Screenwriters Phil Lord (who co-directed the film) and Rodney Rothman seem to inherently understand that the wide array of joys, fears, and uncertainties that all kids experience, and that all adults are familiar with.
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While part of this speaks to a grave lack of diversity in Hollywood cast lists, it is also an indicator that screenwriters often "play it safe," selecting names the majority of viewers can identify with.
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Crowe doesn't get any more development than the other characters — the screenwriters clearly feel that Jekyll is a known quantity, his history already established in Stevenson's book, so there's no point in fleshing him out further.
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The song's lyrics were eerily prescient of Mercury's illness—"Too late, my time has come / Sends shivers down my spine / Body's aching all the time"—but the screenwriters have spared him his life of that monstrosity.
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But Lin and screenwriters Simon Pegg (who returns as Scotty) and Doug Jung don't put much heft behind these questions, letting them be mildly suspenseful mysteries we're pretty sure will be solved before the credits roll.
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Any fears we might have for Whitlock's safety are dispelled when we discover the identity of his captors: "The Future," a garrulous, genteel, kinda funny-lookin' group of Communist screenwriters clad in 50 shades of beige.
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So too, films that have at least one female screenwriter as part of the production team feature a higher percentage of girls and women in significant roles (34.8%) than teams that only have male screenwriters (25.9%).
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For now, DMG is focused on adapting the first Stormlight Archive novel, The Way of Kings; Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan are set as screenwriters, while Brandon Sanderson and Joshua Bilmes will serve as executive producers.
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"Film directors and producers approach me today and always say 'we'd love to do a TV show,'" says Ms Morgan, who is also one of Britain's most respected screenwriters for film ("Shame", "The Iron Lady", "Suffragette").
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It's the story of Joan Crawford's life and career, from 1939 to the time of her death, in 1977, seen from the perspective of her daughter Christina, whose memoir Frank Perry adapted, with three other screenwriters.
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Shame is nowhere to be seen at the Le Pain Quotidian in Marina del Rey, CA. Screenwriters sit on wooden tables against beige walls, discussing their business problems, while Ling drinks coffee with fat free milk.
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Both he and Bruce Banner's Hulk were both just too powerful to include in the movie, Civil War's screenwriters said, a god and an unstoppable superweapon turning a familial squabble into a potentially world-ending event.
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The debut feature film from the co-directors and screenwriters Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy hits some familiar noir notes — small-town corruption, bodies washing up and people doing whatever necessary to protect their own.
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Ready or Not's screenwriters Guy Busick and Ryan Murphy give the old narrative a contemporary edge, and directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (V/H/S) turn it into a cartoonishly bloody free-for-all.
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Mr. Peretz and the screenwriters (Evgenia Peretz, the director's sister, is credited along with Tamara Jenkins and Jim Taylor) find an amiable farcical groove, and the actors embrace the ridiculousness of the circumstances without overdoing it.
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Once I'm clued in, I can actually let myself be spirited away, as the directors and screenwriters intended, enjoying the things I'm normally too wired to enjoy: the sweeping landscape shots, skillful cinematography, meticulous wardrobe choices.
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Once a courageous foreign correspondent, M. (as Shapiro refers to her husband in the book) has spent the past 18 years as a screenwriter — one who, like most screenwriters, sometimes sells his work and sometimes doesn't.
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The director of "Long Shot," Jonathan Levine, and the screenwriters, Liz Hannah and Dan Sterling, must be nervous about the click, because they keep reminding us how wacky and miraculous this whole passion thing can be.
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The film's producer and one of its screenwriters, Mehmet Aktas, said the movie, a drama about a bride-to-be who survives an attack by ISIS on her village, showed that not all Muslims are terrorists.
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When Hollywood inevitably makes a biopic about Travis Kalanick, the embattled CEO of Uber—the most valuable private company in the world—screenwriters will have a hard time toning down reality to make it sound halfway believable.
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Neither Caple nor Creed II's screenwriters seem to realize just how sympathetic they've made the Dragos, especially in a climactic fight that hinges on the relationship between father and son in a way that doesn't wholly work.
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Markus and McFeely said while they did speak with Coogler and Cole, their main conduit for intel on Black Panther was executive producer Nate Moore, who'd worked with the screenwriters on the previous two Captain America films.
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The question of why recording artists have been unable to organize and collectively bargain the way other artists have — actors and screenwriters, for example — is one that has dogged them since the dawn of the record deal.
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That it disappoints shows how hard it is to reconcile Shakespeare's vague and ordinary life with his extraordinary, well-known works, and why many writers and screenwriters have opted for either irreverent mockery or dewy-eyed bardolatry.
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It's unclear how screenwriters Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, Anders Thomas Jensen, and Nikolaj Arcel thought they could condense thousands of pages into a single film, let alone one that runs just over an hour and a half.
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The curriculum is heavy on theory and craft, with practical classes like Comedy Writing for Television, Great Screenwriters: Wilder, Allen, Kaufman and Comedy Writing for Late Night, balanced out by headier electives like Why Did the Chicken?
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Langley, who died in 1980, was one of about a dozen screenwriters who worked on the big screen adaptation of L. Frank Baum's children's book that catapulted Judy Garland to fame and became an enduring movie classic.
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Meanwhile, he isn't exactly idle; he is writing a television series, as well as a film that he workshopped at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, and has two movies ("Widows" and the Marvel "Black Panther") due in 2018.
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But where the Locke & Key comics gained a reputation for its beauty and complexity, the show, co-created by veteran screenwriters and producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Meredith Averill (Haunting of Hill House), offers little of either.
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Directed by Craig Brewer (best known for "Hustle & Flow") and co-written by the "Ed Wood" screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, "Dolemite Is My Name" is a bright, energetic film about an entertainer following his dreams.
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Robbie has also partnered with screenwriter Christina Hodson to create the Lucky Exports Pitch Program, in which six women screenwriters, four of them women of color, developed pitches that are now being produced by Hodson and LuckyChap.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is urging a federal judge in California to hold off on dismissing a lawsuit by Hollywood talent agencies that claim a boycott by the union that represents screenwriters violated federal antitrust law.
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The screenwriters Bragi F. Schut and Maria Melnik and the director Adam Robitel steer this not-all-that-intriguing crew through a series of challenges, in spaces that the production designer Edward Thomas clearly enjoyed putting together.
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If Villeneuve and screenwriters Hampton Fancher and Michael Green recognized this, they must have ultimately decided they could accomplish the same goals without having to imbue those critical female characters with the same humanity as their male counterparts.
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So with the new movie Little, starring Regina Hall, Issa Rae, and Marsai Martin, screenwriters Tina Gordon and Tracy Oliver were challenged with reinventing the comedic movie genre to make it entertaining and relevant for a modern audience.
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Women screenwriters — the most well-respected and well-paid being Frances Marion, Jeanie Macpherson, Anita Loos, June Mathis, and Bess Meredyth — wrote half of the silent films copyrighted between 19333 and 1925, according to Beauchamp's Without Lying Down.
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What's more, the screenwriters, Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, tie the plot so ingeniously to the previous films that the final minutes of "Rogue One" segue seamlessly and thrillingly into the opening minutes of the first "Star Wars".
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Screenwriters (and directors/producers) Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin added the line to the end of the speech, hoping it would convince the studio backing their film, 20th Century Fox, to fight for Independence Day, their preferred title.
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Freely adapted from Pluto's book by screenwriters Hank Perlman and Michael Berg, New Jersey Turnpikes was about the dying days of the ABA and how the league's collapse affected the losingest team in the association's short-lived history.
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Daveed Diggs (of "Hamilton," and also one of the film's screenwriters) plays a mover who has only a few days left of probation when, while driving one night, he sees a white cop shoot a fleeing black civilian.
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But Kasdan, along with screenwriters Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, found some creative ways to keep things fresh by implementing more game elements, adding some new characters, and trusting that the strength of the existing cast would hold.
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The film's screenwriters, Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, a married couple, elaborated on Hammett's dialogue, which itself was a worked-up version of the drink-fuelled back-and-forth of the writer and Lillian Hellman, his longtime girlfriend.
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The multi-hyphenate —working with screenwriters Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter—turned what could have been a sour story about an unsettling, delusional protagonist into ultimately a sweet paean to the idea of making movies with friends.
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The kung fu musical, "Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise," a show conceived by Chen Shi-Zheng and the "Kung Fu Panda" screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, with choreography by Akram Khan, is to begin performances on June 22.
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" To help avoid these missteps in the future, she stressed the importance of screenwriters' consulting with their subject matter or their relatives "to ensure both accuracy in the narrative and that permission is received to tell the story.
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Such freedom let screenwriters adapt Jane Austen's Emma into the movie Clueless; allowed Disney to rework the grisly Brothers Grimm stories into G-rated fairy tales; and gave us dozens of horror films based on Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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That's probably not what Showtime was going for — since, after all, this show features respected financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin as one of its co-creators (along with screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien) — but it's the ultimate effect.
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In a near-present world created by screenwriters Justin Lader and Charlie McDowell (who also directs), scientific proof of life after death results in an epidemic of mass suicides as people abandon their lives in order to "get there".
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Its director, Simon Curtis, and its two screenwriters, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Simon Vaughan, tell their dispiriting tale with clarity and force: anyone tempted to put their children in a reality TV show should be required to watch it.
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As first-time screenwriters, writing about an extraordinary family — American royalty, the Kennedys — until we had a first draft, we didn't have the guts to pick up a phone and try to reach out to any of these people.
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World Premiere Landline / U.S.A. (Director: Gillian Robespierre, Screenwriters: Elisabeth Holm, Gillian Robespierre) — Two sisters come of age in '213s New York when they discover their dad's affair—and it turns out he's not the only cheater in the family.
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The Oscar nominations come out on Tuesday, January 24, so this week, we decided to make our predictions for the six major categories (sorry, screenwriters) and discuss films we wish would be nominated, even though they have no chance.
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It was then that he met Mister Rogers, who prayed for him and his family every day, and who kept a file on Junod, which the screenwriters, Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, found in Rogers' archives in Pittsburgh.
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Part of the problem is that the screenwriters (four, including Mr. Virzì, share credit, working from a novel by Michael Zadoorian) treat the characters' symptoms as plot devices — traits they can ignore or play up as each scene demands.
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"Spellbound" This documentary, a 2003 Oscar nominee, follows the 1999 National Spelling Bee, offering "enough drama, humor and unfiltered nail-biting suspense to put all the thrill-mongering screenwriters in Hollywood to shame," wrote the Times critic A.O. Scott.
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But the more apt comparison is probably to the theater — a play done as a series of short scenes, albeit one that calls to mind the work of screenwriters like Woody Allen and Preston Sturges, a favorite of Tom's.
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The screenwriters Tracy Oliver and Kenya Barris set their sights on "Girls Trip" the moment they heard murmurings about the project, a comedy that would examine the friendship among four black women attending the Essence Festival in New Orleans.
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Set in the 14th century, "The Last Duel" re-teams Affleck and Damon as screenwriters for the first time since "Good Will Hunting" in 1997; Ridley Scott is directing the film, which has Oscar bait written all over it.
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The dialogue is simultaneously laugh-out-loud funny and densely philosophical, especially when the communist screenwriters appear, and it's mixed with lowbrow physical comedy (Whitlock's persistent inability to sit down due to a prop sword, Doyle's impossibly acrobatic horse-riding stunts).
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It's based on a novel by Rachael Lippincott, which was published just a few months ago in November 2018; screenwriters Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis also contributed to the book's original story, which was written in tandem with the film.
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The parallels are so striking, in fact, that it seems like screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (who, perhaps significantly, wrote Deadpool) know exactly what they're trying to do: play with and subvert the recent trend toward "inspiring" science fiction.
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So the choice to incorporate Drago, his son Viktor, and a vision of post-Soviet Russia that mostly seems drawn from watching '80s movies feels like a dangerous gamble on the part of Creed II screenwriters Stallone and Juel Taylor.
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And if people think Endgame is going to be about undoing the ending of Infinity War, well, the films' screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely told me that it (probably!) won't: "[Endgame] doesn't do what you think it does," Markus said.
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He hunts up a husband for his bawdy, pregnant water ballet star, played by Scarlett Johansson, and slaps some sense into George Clooney, who plays a none-too-bright actor kidnapped, and intellectually seduced, by a ring of Communist screenwriters.
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While most of us are content with Word or Google Docs, screenwriters have gotten used to Final Draft's unique key combinations and styling but made do with software that was, to be fair, far behind the state of the art.
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Considering how much of the film unfolds in an antique shop, it's conceivable that one of the screenplay's many drafts—there are ten credited screenwriters—may have admitted that toys just aren't as central to childhood as they once were.
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There may have been a utopian range of presenters on the stage, but they handed the main prizes to a male director, male screenwriters, a male composer, a male cinematographer, a male editor, a male costume designer, and so on.
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I remember going to see an early screening of Civil War and talking to [directors Anthony and Joseph Russo] and to [screenwriters Christopher] Markus and [Stephen] McFeely — who I don't know had completely thought this through or really even cared.
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World Premiere Burning Sands / U.S.A. (Director: Gerard McMurray, Screenwriters: Christine Berg, Gerard McMurray) — Deep into a fraternity's Hell Week, a favored pledge is torn between honoring a code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
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World Premiere Walking Out / U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Alex Smith, Andrew Smith) — A father and son struggle to connect on any level until a brutal encounter with a predator in the heart of the wilderness leaves them both seriously injured.
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World Premiere The Wound / South Africa (Director: John Trengove, Screenwriters: John Trengove, Thando Mgqolozana, Malusi Bengu) — Xolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.
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Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are more willing to spend time with them, even when they're not involved in a giant battle, and that pays off with the movie's funniest moments — as well as scenes with real weight and melancholy.
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With that said, his insistence on inserting himself into his characters and plots has proven occasionally disastrous, and the thought of a legion of young screenwriters entering the world with that kind of ornery heavy-handedness is a little scary.
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But the hangdog Mr. Ogalla, a nonprofessional actor and a friend of Mr. Veiroj's (and, with the director, one of the film's four screenwriters), does not project the tension to be expected from a driven man on such a mission.
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There's one other reason character actors are ascendant right now: When Hollywood stopped producing scripts of real merit, veteran filmmakers and screenwriters began making "prestige" television, which inadvertently became a training ground for these actors, much as theater once was.
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Mr. Bayona and the screenwriters, Colin Trevorrow (who directed "Jurassic World") and Derek Connolly (who was a co-writer of it), try to atone for the sexism that was one of the most remarked-upon features of the last installment.
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Mr. Puri first attained widespread acclaim in the 1980s during the so-called Indian new wave, when screenwriters and directors, steeped in world cinema, were devoting themselves to socially conscious themes, often dealing with the lives of India's oppressed classes.
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Novelists, essayists, memoirists, poets, playwrights and screenwriters who are members are here at the 40 cubicles, lost in worlds of their own making, with the occasional break to say "hi" to the person who has been typing at the next desk.
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We were so thrilled to be able to write the script for the movie, but most of the time screenwriters aren't involved in the day-to-day production decisions on a film (we're better off locked up in a room anyway).
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One heard from older scriptwriters and directors as far back as 1987, when "Princess Bride" came out, that younger screenwriters were leaning less on books for inspiration and instead draw on their DVDs of movies and television shows for ideas.
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In it, Stiller's version of Cohen read an opening statement that Cohen said he wrote himself (with some help from the screenwriters of Green Book, of course), in which he made a reference to Kardashian's ongoing drama with Tristan Thompson and Jordyn Woods.
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Screenwriters Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos try hard to bring an old-world servant-and-master relationship into a 2017 setting, where loyalty and service are expressly about emotional responsibility and the idea that all awful behavior has its roots in childhood trauma.
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When rookie screenwriters Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan decided to write a movie about Ted Kennedy and the 1969 car crash at Chappaquiddick that killed Mary Jo Kopechne and sidelined Kennedy's presidential hopes, they had no idea what they were getting into.
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Screenwriters just need to bake a reference to a beloved storyline into their script or add a post-credits scene with a fan-favorite villain, and more often than not, people who love the original property will respond passionately to the adaptation.
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Despite this cultural prevalence, Deadpool 2 screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick claim they'd never even heard of fridging before writing the film, and offer an explanation for their treatment of Vanessa that hews remarkably close to the textbook definition of the trope.
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On this episode of VICE's Foreign Film Club, we met up with the directors, producers, and screenwriters behind Indonesia's greatest B movies of the 1970s and 80s to hear how their films became so popular, and what it took to make one.
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In the wake of Thanos's snap at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, the Avengers had to resort to risky, drastic measures in Endgame to restore balance (and a bunch of their dusted peers) to the universe — and so did the film's screenwriters.
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World Premiere Free and Easy / Hong Kong (Director: Jun Geng, Screenwriters: Jun Geng, Yuhua Feng, Bing Liu) — When a traveling soap salesman arrives in a desolate Chinese town, a crime occurs, and sets the strange residents against each other with tragicomic results.
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Condon and screenwriters Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos treat the animated version like source material, creating a love letter to the classic film and its fans while updating the story and heroine Belle (Emma Watson) for Disney's post-Frozen, post-princess era.
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When Baird winds up in the company of those Communist Party-affiliated screenwriters, the script doesn't bother naming half of them, but the Coens cast such distinctive and familiar faces that they all seem ready to break out into their own scenes.
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A trollish humor that's all about excess But without making an overt point about it, screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (collaborators on 2009's Zombieland) have cracked the code that eluded similarly sneering hero stories like Kick-Ass and Sin City.
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It's the exact kind of thing screenwriters thought space marines and teenage hackers would stash in their bunks and capsule hotels by the year 2020: virtual reality headsets where sultry-eyed but technically clothed models beckon an imaginary viewer to ogle them.
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Negative publicity followed the House Un-American Activities Committee investigation into the movie industry, when the "Hollywood 10" - 10 screenwriters, directors and producers - refused to answer the congressional committee's questions about any past affiliation with communism and were subsequently jailed for contempt.
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"Avengers: Endgame" screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely attended San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, July 19 for a panel and said that Robert Downey Jr. gave some notes on how much dialogue Tony Stark/Iron Man should have during his final scene.
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"Endgame" directors, Anthony and Joe Russo, and screenwriters, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely get together to share the evolution of key scenes, how Hawkeye was almost in "Infinity War," and alternate versions of scenes with Nebula, that were once on the drawing board.
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The comparison with Sherlock is a little unfair, since that program only ran to three episodes per season, and the BBC produced it with all the power it had at its disposal: the best screenwriters, the most inventive editing, the finest actors.
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Scriptwriters from Amazon's U.S. shows like "Transparent" and "Man in the High Castle" conducted workshops for Indian screenwriters, offering guidance on storytelling in a limited format, how to develop a longer story arc and tips on how to draw out individual characters.
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Rings' all-male team of screenwriters seems to want to portray femininity as a unifying force that allows Julia to see and have sympathy for Samara and her plight, but the film doesn't develop either character enough for this connection to seem meaningful.
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That's also going to make [the entertainment business] open up their accessibility for playwrights and screenwriters and actors and producers and editors — you really need people from the [disabled] community in all areas of production and development, and in front of the camera.
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As the day of the hearing approached, Mr. Johnson's lawyers filed arguments for leniency, and in doing so, submitted letters on the producer's behalf from boldfaced names in the industry, including Mr. Simon and the novelists and screenwriters George Pelecanos and Richard Price.
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Additionally, while the Academy provides an overall breakdown of its membership, it does not share the gender, racial or ethnic breakdown of each branch, whether it be actors, directors or screenwriters, and it doesn't share how many people are in each branch.
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Watching Hollywood and Big Cable lobby against the FCC's proposal to promote competition in the set-top box market, you might think their lawyers have taken a hint from their screenwriters: don't let facts get in the way of a good story.
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But the screenwriters Stephen Chbosky ("The Perks of Being a Wallflower") and Evan Spiliotopoulos ("The Huntsman: Winter's War") added depth — what happened to Belle's mother, more about why the prince got zapped — and a new household character, a touchy harpsichord (Stanley Tucci).
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Screenwriters Brad Copeland and Lloyd Taylor, who loosely adapted "Spies in Disguise" from the 2009 short film "Pigeon: Impossible," anchor the story around the refreshingly subversive theme of nonviolence, as the movie finds increasingly inventive ways to visualize Walter's whimsical approach to spycraft.
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In 1947, the concern was Communism, and morality clauses gave studios a way to blacklist the Hollywood 10, a group of directors and screenwriters who denounced the House Un-American Activities Committee as illegitimate and refused to say whether they'd ever been Communists.
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Comedians and screenwriters have presided over previous editions of Drunken Masters, but this time it was the poets' turn to face accomplished poets Rocio Carlos, Joseph Rios, and Hari Alluri at Wolf & Crane, a Japanese whisky and craft-cocktail bar in Little Tokyo.
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But there is another reason male-skewed names are dominate this list: Many screenwriters and novelists name their characters after people they know in real life — and in real life, men tend to be given the same names more frequently than women are.
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The outlandish characters at the heart of "War Dogs" (2016), "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013) and "There Will Be Blood" (2007) made for plenty of entertainment; screenwriters compounded that effect by showcasing the most interesting facets of arms dealing, penny stocks and oil monopolies.
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BRUNI: I'm glad you mentioned Nick Hornby because I think he's emerged as one of the nimblest, most assured screenwriters working today and because "Brooklyn," interestingly, marks the third time in a short span that he's been the deft teller of a woman-centric story.
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Taylor Sheridan is one of Hollywood's buzziest screenwriters, with a reputation for serious, violent dramas set in America's overlooked places: on the US–Mexico border in Sicario, and in recession-plagued West Texas in Hell or High Water, for which he received an Oscar nomination.
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This is three sets, essentially, of screenwriters coming together to work with a great director, Michael Curtiz, and an incredible cast, led by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, to bring you this incredibly powerful, emotional story that we can all relate to.
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Among the many astonishing stats surrounding women at the Oscars — for example, no woman has ever won for cinematography, or had even been nominated until this year — one of the more befuddling is the surprising dearth of women screenwriters following the Second World War.
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When screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely were plotting out the film, they certainly put a lot of thought into how to use humor to balance the story, and to shore up some of the most difficult plot obstacles Infinity War would inevitably face.
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Everyone behind the camera has work to do, too, whether it's screenwriters who pen their flirty dialogue, editors who establish the rhythm of their rapport, or the director who maintains a firm grasp on the tone and tenor of that relationship as it evolves.
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If director Alex Kurtzman and the movie's fleet of screenwriters, or even Cruise himself, understood how funny it is to have the 50-something Cruise, who's trying desperately to look like he's about 37, playing this role, The Mummy might have turned into something.
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Instead of creating a house or skyscraper, the group scours for evidence of lies, crimes and human rights violations — combining the spatial and engineering skills of architects, the data-gathering prowess of librarians, the doggedness of investigative journalists and the storytelling finesse of screenwriters.
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It pays off when screenwriters look beyond the typical Hollywood writing-room, as well: "The Kite Runner" (2007) successfully adapted a tender novel by Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini, and Roger Allers turned Khalil Gibran's multi-faith prose poems, "The Prophet", into an 2014 animation.
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Representation matters If screenwriters followed these simple guidelines, it would improve working conditions for performers and production staff, it would humanise the women and girls we see on screen, and it might help the way audiences think about their own gender identity and relations.
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But in fact virtually the entire creative community — including actors, filmmakers, screenwriters and production crews all over the country — rejects the Federal Communications Commission's plan to take over copyright licensing and dictate the terms on which we distribute and get paid for our work.
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As Mr. Hashimoto recalled in his memoir, translated by Lori Hitchcock Morimoto and published in English in 2015, Kurosawa, like the foreman of a sequestered jury, sometimes holed up with his screenwriters in an out-of-the-way inn until a script was complete.
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William Goldman, who won Academy Awards for his screenplays for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men" and who, despite being one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters, was an outspoken critic of the movie industry, died on Friday in Manhattan.
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Screenwriters for Irish soap opera Fair City even watched Gibson's 60 Minutes interview for research when introducing a character suffering from Munchausen by proxy syndrome, a mental disorder in which caregivers harm children or those close to them to garner sympathy and attention for themselves.
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Billy Wilder's classic tale of romance between classes on Long Island owes its enduring popularity to two main factors: the ever-astringent humor of a trio of legendary screenwriters — Wilder, Samuel Taylor, and Ernest Lehman — and the chemistry of a trio of legendary actors.
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But while Ebola (and its cousin the Marburg virus) justifiably earned a frightening reputation over the next few decades, it never became the worst-case scenario some journalists and Hollywood screenwriters pumped it up to be—a pandemic killer that jumps from person to person with ease.
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Every February, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gathers the year's Oscar nominees for one of the most cherished Academy Award traditions, the nominee luncheon, where the gathered actors, directors, screenwriters, and film artisans get to mingle together without the pressure of a televised ceremony.
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In a 22007 essay, a screenwriter named Marion Fairfax argued that since women predominated in movie audiences—one reason that domestic melodramas, adventure serials featuring acts of female derring-do, and sexy sheikh movies all did well—female screenwriters enjoyed an advantage over their male counterparts.
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It's the biggest live-action hit in years for costars Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson (who play Auggie's concerned parents), and another triumph for director Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), who's also one of the credited screenwriters for this year's Beauty and the Beast.
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His complete comments on the Avatar sequels here: Just an update: I've been working the last couple years with a team of four top screenwriters and in parallel with some of the top artists and designers in the world to design the world of "Avatar" going forward.
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When Sharon is revealed to be Peggy's niece — a fact most fans knew already in Winter Soldier, given that Agent 13 is also Sharon Carter in the original comics — my first reaction was confusion, not whatever catharsis screenwriters Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus were going for.
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The Oscars bring in the lion's share of the Academy's revenue, which it uses throughout the year to fund everything from fellowships for emerging screenwriters to education and grants to programs focused on increasing diversity to a research library to film preservation, restoration, and oral history initiatives.
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For Lanthimos and his screenwriters, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, all historical reconstruction is a game, and to pretend otherwise—to nourish the illusion that we can know another epoch as intimately as we do our own—is merest folly, so why not relish the sport?
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Five of them were attending Sundance with their proud mother, Kristi Stanley Fontenot, 65, hosting screenwriters, film editors and the like dressed in casual sweaters, jeans and snow boots, at panel discussions on the future of cannabis and alternative healing and at parties serving CBD-infused cocktails.
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Thanos's deployment of the six Infinity Stones to wipe out half the life in the universe was unforgivable, of course — I can't believe I just typed that — but it proves to have been helpful to the Russos, the screenwriters (Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely) and the audience.
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The screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who worked on the last six Bond films, were originally set to write "Bond 25" as well, but when Mr. Boyle signed on as director it was announced he would work on the script with John Hodge, a longtime collaborator.
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But screenwriters Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse commit precisely the same sin of reductive thinking and crude stereotyping when they make "The Hunt" a crypto-class war, ignoring the inconvenient truth that most of the voters who tipped the election in 2016 were relatively well-off.
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Ronnie is a pudgy nerd, with tech-geek skills and a brain-melting crush on C. J. Summer is there for Matt to ogle and flirt with, and to attest to the screenwriters' utter inability to make a woman in a bathing suit an interesting character.
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The screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson and the director George Nolfi only intermittently manage to breathe credible cinematic life into that milieu in "Birth of the Dragon," which is set in late '60s San Francisco, where, the movie tells us, Lee taught kung fu.
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Letter of Recommendation When I was 10 or so, my mom took me to a Fourth of July barbecue so we could celebrate America in our traditional family way — at her Howard Zinn-reading grad-student friend's apartment, where most of the other guests were aspiring screenwriters.
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Although "Green Book" did not receive as much attention as expected — Peter Farrelly was snubbed as a director nominee — voters seemed generally unfazed by the ongoing brouhahas around the film, including the resurfacing of an anti-Muslim tweet by Nick Vallelonga, one of the film's screenwriters.
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In the rivalry between two women (Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz), who are fighting for influence over an ailing Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), Lanthimos and his screenwriters, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, reveal the corrosive influence of power, but they have a lot of fun doing it.
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With Aquaman, the film's credited screenwriters David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, and Will Beall have created a fantasy adventure story that winks at the idea of the Sword in the Stone and King Arthur, as their spin on Arthur Curry struggles to become the king that Atlantis deserves.
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On Wednesday night in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz, the community room at Our Mother of Good Counsel Church was packed with screenwriters and sci-fi nerds, here for the latest meeting of the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council Committee on Planning, Zoning, and Historic Preservation.
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A regular film adaptation of the book is also in the works: Avengers: Infinity War's Russo Brothers optioned the book for a feature film, with Captain America and Avengers screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, set to write, and with It director tasked to helm it Andy Muschietti.
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Long before anyone came up with a catchy name for it, the possibilities and outcomes of big data analysis have captured the imaginations of screenwriters and directors for years, and their portrayals can offer some lessons for business leaders about the best ways to use and analyze data.
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The surprise came for executive producers and screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski — Hollywood's masters of the biopic genre who've cinematically told the tales of the rich, famous, odd and off-kilter, including filmmaker Ed Wood (Ed Wood) and pornographic publisher Larry Flynt (The People Vs. Larry Flynt).
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It's a shock-value blitzkrieg, and it feels desperate, as if director Nicholas Stoller and his co-writers (Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, plus original Neighbors screenwriters Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O'Brien) are out to preemptively scream down anyone who might doubt their commitment to juvenile comedy.
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After a promising placement in an Amazon Studios open call, followed by a frank discussion with a producer about the pitfalls of writing period pieces, Allain finally uploaded the screenplay to The Black List, a forum where screenwriters can solicit feedback and get their work seen by Hollywood professionals.
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Bad News Bears seems to have been greenlit by people who only saw Richard Linklater as the director of School Of Rock, and Billy Bob Thornton as the star of Bad Santa, and plugged them, along with Bad Santa screenwriters Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, into a studio spreadsheet.
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Months later, I received an email invitation to their screenwriters intensive for my script Noor, an epic love story set in Brooklyn about a black woman who develops an intense connection to an Arab man after her brother is murdered by a police officer outside of his bodega.
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Zendaya is one of my favorite actors of her up-and-coming generation, and her world-weary affect is perfect to play teen characters who speak with the voice of 30-something screenwriters, because Zendaya has seemed world-weary since she was on the Disney Channel as a teen.
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Despite the prominence of female stars like Star Wars' Daisy Ridley and Felicity Jones and Ghost in the Shell's Scarlett Johansson, and female filmmakers like Wonder Woman's Patty Jenkins and A Wrinkle in Time's Ava DuVernay, male leads, male directors, and male screenwriters remain very much the norm.
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Not only were the acting nominees again all white, but "Straight Outta Compton," about the gangsta-rap group N.W.A., was noticed only for the work of its white screenwriters, and the "Rocky" sequel "Creed," which had a black director and star, received a single nomination—for Sylvester Stallone.
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" But for the most part, Mr. Azoulay said, "directors and screenwriters use their imagination to construct a story and then try to give it credibility by tapping into the available literature in magazines or on the internet, or by interviewing experts," as Ridley Scott did for "The Martian.
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During an appearance on Kevin Smith and Marc Bernardin's podcast "Fat Man on Batman," Marvel Cinematic Universe screenwriters Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus offered their advice on how the DCEU can be saved, and it turns out less is more when it comes to building a gigantic movie universe.
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While Donald Trump's remaining Republican primary opponents—Ted Cruz and John Kasich—keep resorting to the kinds of desperate tactics that typically occur to mediocre screenwriters, it is nevertheless possible to imagine a feasible, though still implausible, scenario in which they "beat" Trump without ripping the GOP completely in half.
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Lee often cited the key role that advances in special effects played in convincingly bringing superheroes to the screen, but an equally important development was the maturation of those who grew up reading the source material -- directors, screenwriters and studio executives who approached the comics with greater reverence and respect.
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But no: The film's director, Seth Gordon ("Identity Thief"), and its screenwriters, Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, have glommed "Baywatch" onto the theme of the moment: namely, that a bunch of good-looking SoCal lifeguards, devoted to keeping their beach a safe cool magical place, are just like — wait for it!
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Meanwhile, on the "Shortland Street" set in New Zealand, upon receiving the letter from Clements, a crew of four mental health experts with the MHF worked with the screenwriters, producers and actors of the show to develop storylines revolving around one character's diagnosis with bipolar disorder and another character's suicide attempt.
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"10 Cloverfield Lane" keeps you on the edge of your seat, in a way, but you're less tense about what the characters will do next than about what the screenwriters and director—first-timer Dan Trachtenberg—can do with such a cramped setting and such a tiny cast of characters.
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Meanwhile, screenwriters and filmmakers are running wild:On that censorship-free haven of HBO, David Milch (co-creator with Stephen Bochco of the profanity-laden NYPD Blue) introduces us to the lawless Wild West town of Deadwood, where the word "fuck" is uttered (somewhat anachronistically) 2569 times in the first episode.
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It's saved by Murphy's bright performance, Rudy's actual jokes, and the delighted can-you-believe-it tone that director Craig Brewer and screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski adopt throughout the whole thing — and, at the TIFF premiere screening, by an energetic crowd whose laughter echoed those of the audiences onscreen.
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If you're just getting addictive little hits of outrage and vindication, reinforcing the same crude, useless narrative — assholes at it again — it's really no different from the righteous loathing that screenwriters easily elicit by having bullies kick the nerdy hero's books into the mud, or having leering hillbillies harass a vacationing family.
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As if to underline this point, the film's screenwriters added an openly gay kid, Ethan (Clark Moore), who isn't in the novel, but he only ends up serving as Simon's demographic counterpoint — he's black and effeminate — and as a reminder that it still takes some real steel to come out in high school.
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A sequel based on China Rich Girlfriend, the second book in Kevin Kwan's series, is in the works from the first film's director Jon M. Chu and screenwriters Peter Chiarelli and Adele Li. "I think that Hollywood needs to find that balance and I think it is," Awkwafina, born Nora Lum, continued.
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The screenwriters (Lost and The Strain's Carlton Cuse, Hercules' Ryan J. Condal, and Non-Stop's Ryan Engle) seem to have approached the project with a "keep it simple, stupid" attitude — they beef up the narrative with some buzzword-packed nonsense science, and try to inject some heart and humor into the mix.
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The crimes committed by our doomed dectet are more violent here than they were in the novel, presumably because its screenwriters don't think modern audiences would be shocked enough otherwise; there's a sexy subplot that isn't canonical, though it does echo what happens in the story's original stage adaptation (also written by Christie).
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Ben Hecht, the greatest of American screenwriters, produced, near the end of his career, a garrulous autobiography, " A Child of the Century ," in which he tells us the following: In 19268, at the age of sixteen, he left the University of Wisconsin after attending for three days and took a train to Chicago.
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In October 1949, the name Nancy Davis appeared in a Hollywood newspaper on a list of signers of a supporting brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn the convictions of two screenwriters who had been blacklisted after being found guilty of contempt for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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So, while the data suggests a historical lack of opportunity for female and minority screenwriters to get invited to the Oscars, we can take heart in a couple findings: First, if a writer does get nominated, regardless of background, he or she has the same chance at winning as every other competitor.
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" The screenwriters know some fans are unhappy — Mr. McFeely said, "I read a tweet this morning that said, 'Good morning to everyone, except Markus and McFeely'" — but that's O.K. Mr. Markus said, "We still argue that 'Infinity War' is its own, complete film," adding, "It's just the one where the bad guy wins.
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" — Maggie Lee, Variety "Beyond the casting and the ceaseless onslaught of diverse special effects, Zhang and his Hollywood screenwriters have delivered nothing more than a formulaic monster movie — albeit one transposed to a historically undefined China where generals dressed like terra-cotta warriors already have mastered anesthetics, air travel and American-accented English.
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" He added, "I've been working for the last coupe of years with four top screenwriters, and in parallel with the top artists and designers in the world, to design the world of avatar going forward: the characters, the creatures, the environments, the new cultures, everything that it takes to bring that world to life.
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I'm being purposefully vague to avoid a minefield of spoilers, but just know that director Karyn Kusama and screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi — whose taut thriller The Invitation was one of the best films of 2016 — have created a fearsome showcase that a female actor of Kidman's talents has never really enjoyed before.
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Director Craig Zobel and screenwriters Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse (who have all spent their careers finding joy in messing with audiences through their work, and have recently done so in their collaborations on "The Leftovers" and "Watchmen") is using the audiences' own triggers to show the absurdity of the actions that often follow.
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It's a structure that would make most screenwriters weep, but by treating Suicide Squad less like a story and more like a sandbox where he can play with some of DC's more eccentric anti-heroes, Ayer delivers a deranged and deadly entertaining blockbuster that is just the shake-up this dud-studded summer needs.
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Christopher Robin was written by three hugely acclaimed screenwriters — Oscar winner Tom McCarthy, Oscar nominee Allison Schroeder, and indie film genius Alex Ross Perry — and its willingness to slow down and examine its characters' emotions (or, say, Pooh's sadness at how long Christopher Robin has been away from him) is ultimately what makes it work.
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Together with screenwriters Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer, Yates has mended several of Burroughs's racist, sexist views to create a film where black lives matter, where Jane (Margot Robbie) is more daring than damsel, colonialism is synonymous for white evil, and Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) is as concerned with equality as he is muscular (very).
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Directed by George Nolfi from a long-gestating script by a team of screenwriters, "The Banker" is a handsome-looking if occasionally dull affair: As gratifying as it is to see Mackie given the kind of showcase he's long deserved, even he can't make windy explanations of cap rates, multiplicative inverses and markups exciting.
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" The term "women's film" refers to a mushy not-quite-genre of movies written by male screenwriters for an audience of women, starting in the silent film era, that concerned supposedly "womanly" issues like motherhood, the family, and the home — what feminist film critic Molly Haskell called "softcore emotional porn for the frustrated housewife.
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"Steve Pink, the director, and a trio of dementedly scholarly screenwriters (Josh Heald, Sean Anders and John Morris) load up every scene with more jokes than necessary — visual allusions, verbal flourishes and plain old fall-on-your-face slapstick — but their excess proves to be a canny strategy," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in 2010.
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Krasinski's power play Screenwriters Bryan Woods and Scott Beck wrote the "A Quiet Place" script on spec and 18 months ago, while deep into preproduction on "Jack Ryan," Form and Fuller got a call from their agents at WME that they wanted to pass along the script, which they described as a "high concept" genre movie.
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If you got angry about Will Ferrell's role in a hypothetical movie, I urge you to place that anger back on the fact that Alzheimer's is an epidemic that is still so misunderstood, Hollywood screenwriters are still writing insensitive scripts about it — and that it's still very much underfunded by the government President Ronald Reagan once led.
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So get ready for "Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise" (starting June 22), a commission that brings together the director Chen Shi-Zheng ("Monkey: Journey to the West"), the screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger ("Kung Fu Panda"), and the enigmatic singer-songwriter Sia for a "futuristic kung-fu musical" that unfolds around and above its spectators. ♦
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In a stroke of genius, Scott and screenwriters Hampton Fancher and David Peoples recognized that the darkness of dystopian science fiction could be mapped onto the similarly dark and inherently morally ambiguous genre of neo-noir, with its interest in ethically compromised detectives and femme fatales, and the result would be bigger than the sum of its parts.
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Screenwriters Phillips and Scott Silver have crafted a tragic downfall of an everyday man with mental health problems — one who, crucially, tries consistently to reach out for help — and their adapted screenplay is not your usual superhero CGI-marathon, but a layered and thoughtful character study that explores adult themes and offers a lot of worth on repeat viewings.
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Double Tap feels more like a story of people coming together because it's foolishness not to resurrect familiar IP in this franchise-obsessed age, especially when the actors, director (Venom's Ruben Fleischer), and screenwriters (Deadpool's Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, this time with Dave Callahan) are all way more marketable than they were a decade ago.
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You can chalk up the success of the movie to the creatives behind it, especially the producer who oversees the franchise, Jerry Bruckheimer, who for years had to navigate a revolving door of directors, screenwriters, as well as numerous release date changes, and appeasing his temperamental stars to finally get the third movie in the can.
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But Tremaine and the screenwriters Rich Wilkes and Amanda Adelson have sanded it down to a junior varsity "Bohemian Rhapsody," complete with many of the same crude devices: embarrassingly bad wigs, hilariously on-the-nose needle drops (the band plays "Take Me to the Top" as they go … to the top) and declamatory, subtext-free dialogue.
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During daytime hours, with not too many other people there — some screenwriters at their laptops, some bros holding a real-estate meeting, couples on dates — I had similarly strong experiences with Charles Mingus's "Mingus Plays Piano," the French folk singer Emmanuelle Parrenin's "Belle Virginie," and the ice-cream minimalism of Seigen Ono's self-titled first album.
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The show, the unlikely fruit of an even less likely collaboration — involving Chen Shi-Zheng, the Chinese-American opera impresario; the "Kung Fu Panda" screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger; the musician Sia; and the choreographer Akram Khan — pushed the star-studded creative team to its limits, taking three years to make and crisscrossing as many continents.
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But Hollywood almost never makes these sorts of movies anymore, which means they've shifted over to TV. Yet where a movie can get by with only one or two conflicts, TV needs many small conflicts that fit under the umbrella of its larger ones, which is where so many movie screenwriters get tripped up, including Dubuque.
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