Loew's theater presents `` Where The Boys Are '', an MGM picture produced by Joe Pasternak and directed by Henry Levin from a screenplay by George Wells.

The screenplay was by Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. Gardner Sullivan, with uncredited work by Walter Anthony and Milestone.

Its screenplay was written by Dave Sheasby and the show was directed by David Hunter.

In that same year Lerner also wrote the Oscar-winning original screenplay for An American in Paris, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

" In Mexico he wrote 30 scripts under pseudonyms, such as Gun Crazy ( 1950 ), based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor, who was the front for the screenplay.

With the support of Otto Preminger, Trumbo was credited for his screenplay for the 1960 film Exodus, adapted from the novel by Leon Uris.

In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.

In 1965, Coppola won the annual Samuel Goldwyn Award for the best screenplay ( Pilma, Pilma ) written by a UCLA student.

Rumble Fish was based on the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

The former — whose screenplay was written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, disguised by a front — features a bank holdup sequence shown in an unbroken take over three minutes long that proved widely influential.

Madero's leadership of the Revolution, presidency and assassination are depicted in at least two Hollywood movies, Viva Villa !, ( 1934 ) directed by Jack Conway, screenplay by Ben Hecht, and Viva Zapata !, ( 1952 ) directed by Elia Kazan, screenplay by John Steinbeck.

* The 1993 film of The Trial was based on Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation and starred Kyle MacLachlan and Anthony Hopkins.

Aside from multiple " made-for-television " versions, The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted for the English-language cinema at least three times, first in 1952 by Anthony Asquith who adapted the screenplay and directed it.

In 1999, BBC produced a four-part miniseries based on the novel with a screenplay written by Andrew Davies ; Wives and Daughters featuring Justine Waddell, Bill Paterson, Francesca Annis, Keeley Hawes, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, Anthony Howell, Michael Gambon, Penelope Wilton, Barbara Flynn, Deborah Findlay, Iain Glen, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, and Ian Carmichael.

In 1993, the play was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Richard Attenborough with a screenplay by Nicholson, co-starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger, winning Oscar nominations for both Nicholson and Winger.

The film was produced by Hal Wallis and directed by John Rich from a screenplay by Anthony Lawrence and Allan Weiss.

In 1970, Peter Shaffer's twin brother, Anthony Shaffer, had adapted Black Comedy into a screenplay, announcing that it would be his next project, but the film was not produced.

The first draft of the screenplay was written by Kneale with input from producer Anthony Hinds.

Whitemore returned to the project to write the screenplay for the 1987 film adaptation starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins.

The screenplay was by Cy Endfield, from his book, and Anthony Story.

The screenplay was written by Huston and Anthony Veiller.

Rabe wrote the screenplay for a 1998 film version directed by Anthony Drazan.

* Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls ( 1973, short, directed by Anthony Korner ) – screenplay

An uncredited John Huston and Richard Brooks co-wrote the screenplay, which was credited to Anthony Veiller.

In a review of the DVD release, Scott Tobias, while critical of the screenplay, described the drama's noir style, writing, " Lifted note-for-note from the Hemingway story, the classic opening scene of Siodmak's film sings with the high tension, sharp dialogue, and grim humor that's conspicuously absent from the rest of Anthony Veiller's mediocre screenplay.

The screenplay was written by the team of Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman, with Anthony Veiller, from a story by Lester Cohen, specifically for Hepburn.

It was produced and directed by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Clemence Dane and Anthony Pelissier based on a story by Clemence Dane.

* Cimarron ( 1960 ): based on the 1929 novel by Edna Ferber ; directed by Anthony Mann and Charles Walters ; screenplay cast includes Glenn Ford, Maria Schell and Anne Baxter

In the film of the book, the character is referred to in Anthony Minghella's screenplay as coming from the county of Dorset.

In 1970, Le Mesurier appeared in Ralph Thomas's Doctor in Trouble as the Purser ; he also made an appearance in Vincente Minnelli's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, a romantic fantasy musical with a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner adapted from his book for the 1965 stage production of the same name, featuring Barbra Streisand in the main role.

Other than two additional scenes at the beginning ( set in a Tibetan monastery and Alaska ), and a move from New York City to London for the main setting, the screenplay was relatively unchanged from the comic script.

* The 1989 film I Want to Go Home ( Je Veux Rentrer a la Maison, screenplay by Jules Feiffer ) has a scene where the main character, a retired cartoonist played by Adolph Green, makes an unexpectedly emotional appeal for Al Capp and his legacy.

* In Adaptation, the main character, Charlie Kaufman, suffers severe writer's block when he is unable to write the screenplay for The Orchid Thief.

Glienna — who also played the original film's main protagonist — and Mary Ruth Clarke co-wrote the screenplay.

Dave Blase was the model for the main character in Tesich's award-winning screenplay Breaking Away in 1979.

Field also refers, sometimes, to the ' Midpoint ', a more subtle turning point that happens at approximately page 60 ( of a 120 pages screenplay ) in Act II ( the Confrontation ), which often has an apparently devastating reversal of the main character's fortune.

The main screenplay writer, Simon Moore, and cast members have expressed interest in a possible sequel at one time or another.

There are several main screenwriting theories which help writers approach the screenplay by systematizing the structure, goals and techniques of writing a script.

The first draft of the screenplay for Blue Thunder featured Frank Murphy as more of a crazy main character with deeper psychological issues, who went on a rampage and destroyed a lot more of the city.

In early 2005, the award received some criticism, since only three of the 33 Swedish feature films that premiered in 2004 received nominations in seven main categories ( film, direction, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, screenplay ) and it was made public that some of the jury members had not seen all 33 films.

The restructured screenplay by Graham Greene, directed by Otto Preminger, begins with the play's last scene, which then becomes the springboard for a long flashback, from which the main story is told.

However, the main characters are all played by the stage actors who performed in the Los Angeles stage production on which the screenplay is based.

The screenplay was developed using some unorthodox strategies: during the writing process, the main characters of Ryan, Todd, and Amy actually had “ real ” identities on the Internet.

Jason, Freddy, and Ash Williams ( the main protagonist of the Evil Dead movies ) would later meet in the comic book series Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash ( a story adapted by writer Jeff Katz from a Freddy vs. Jason 2 screenplay treatment he had written in 2004 ) and again in Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors.

* The screenplay for 8 Mile by Scott Silver opens with a quote from Rabbit, Run: " If you have the guts to be yourself ... other people'll pay your price ," and the main character is nicknamed " Rabbit.

He wrote the screenplay for the latest Silvia Ferreri movie, still editing, Lo stallo ( The stall ), where he also plays the main role together with Rolando Ravello and Pierfrancesco " Titizzo " Natale.