Word: screenplays
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last of its budget), Wolf Creek was snapped up by the wily Weinstein brothers for international release. Opening in the U.K. in September, it grossed $3 million, roughly three times its budget; late last month it was nominated for seven Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Director and Original Screenplay for Mclean. Fueling the buzz were reports of hardcore violence, including finger slashings and execution-style murders, which managed to earn the film a respectable four and a half skulls on the gore connoisseur website bloody-disgusting.com...
...film was released to enormous critical acclaim in Australia, garnering five Australian Film Institute Award nominations, including one for Best Adapted Screenplay...
...entertaining books about his life--Man in Black and Cash: The Autobiography--that don't suffer much for not being entirely candid. But when director James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted; Cop Land) and his wife and producing partner Cathy Konrad (Scream, Identity) started to mine Cash's tales for a screenplay about his early struggles with drug addiction and his relationship with wife June Carter Cash, they hit dead ends. "There are enormous holes in those books," says Mangold. "We wanted to dramatize a period of several years, but all we had to go on was his saying, 'I was taking...
...year-old self. “The night before we shot [the execution scene], I was doing the shot list in my room,” says director Luis Mandoki in an interview with The Harvard Crimson. Mandoki helped Torres turn his draft into a completed screenplay. “I woke him up, and said, ‘please tell me this didn’t happen,’ and I saw his eyes welling up with tears.”No one doubts, of course, that events like this one did happen. The war killed...
...Never mind their roles and the standards set by Demi Moore/Ashton Kutcher; Russo is too old for McConaughey, period. Although Pacino’s genuine performance and hilarious one-liners prevent the movie from hitting snake-eyes, the canned dialogue kills the shot at lucky sevens. The screenplay extends the constant betting metaphors way too far: when Toni says, “You played me, Walter. You were gambling with me that night, Walter, you were gambling with me,” no one watching will take her seriously. Even though “Two for the Money?...