Sentence examples for screenplay down from inspiring English sources

As it happens, only two are credited for the screenplay, down from three on the credits of the trailer, after some no doubt heated negotiations over at the Writers Guildd's arbitration office.

He received a Perrier nomination in 1993 for his first one-man show, Sick As A Parrot, at the Edinburgh Fringe - a couple of months after he started filming the Peter MacDougal screenplay, Down Among The Big Boys, with Billy Connolly.

She put the light on, reached beside her and turned the screenplay face down, and then slept like a baby.

He's also developing a TV show based on his feature screenplay "Pin Down Girl," which was inspired by the true story of a lady wrestler in the 1950s.

7 A.M. (Oxygen) SHOPGIRL (2005) In this film adaptation of a novella by Steve Martin, who also stars in and wrote the screenplay, a down-on-his-luck stencil artist (Jason Schwartzman) and an older millionaire (Mr. Martin) compete for the attention of a lonely glove saleswoman at Saks.

Ebert said of Foote's screenplay, "The down-to-earth quality of his characters drew attention away from his minimalist storytelling; all the frills were stripped away.... Rarely does a movie elaborate less and explain more than Tender Mercies".

But the skill in writing a screenplay often came down to if you could convey what you needed to convey in just a few lines.

Even Mark Wahlberg shines in his occasional moments, although the screenplay lets him down by forcing him to act obnoxiously obsessed for much of the picture.

The screenplay slims down the novel's tendency to oblique talkiness; it cuts down on use of the phrase "I love you"; and interestingly it does not hint at Carol's rather Hellenic suggestion in the original that gay love is a higher form than straight, a more balanced relationship.

Even though the Catholic League declared the movie "atheism for kids," the screenplay significantly toned-down Pullman's anti-Christian message.

But the narrative is driven by Skeeter's journey from oddball college graduate to rebellious neo-liberal muckraker, action that happens in the book but is given more prominence in the stripped-down screenplay structure.