Charlie Kaufman
‘Orion and the Dark’ Review: Jacob Tremblay and Paul Walter Hauser in Clever Animation Penned by Charlie Kaufman
Angela Bassett and Colin Hanks also feature in the voice cast of this Netflix premiere, an adaptation of Emma Yarlett's children's book about an anxious kid especially fearful when the lights go out.
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Lily Gladstone to Star in Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation of ‘The Memory Police’ for Director Reed Morano (Exclusive)
Hot on the heels of her historic Oscar nomination, Killers of the Flower Moon breakout Lily Gladstone has found her next starring role, one that reteams her with filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Gladstone is attached to star in The Memory Police, a hot package that is coming together. It will adapt of the acclaimed 1994 science […]
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Filmmaker Charlie Kaufman on Hollywood: “The Business Is in a Very, Very Bad Place”
Filmmakers Charlie Kaufman and Boots Riley joined Ed Solomon on Aug. 28 for the ninth installment of Word by Word, the weekly Zoom workshop for aspiring screenwriters. Presented by The Black List and raising funds for the Union Solidarity Coalition, the Entertainment Community Fund and the Hollywood Support Staff Relief Fund amid Hollywood’s dual strikes, the […]
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Charlie Kaufman to Receive Sarajevo Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award
Oscar-winning writer-director Charlie Kaufman, writer of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and writer-director of Anomalisia and I’m Thinking of Ending Things, will receive the lifetime achievement honor of the 2023 Sarajevo Film Festival, the Heart of Sarajevo Award. In Kaufman’s honor, the festival will also screen Spike Jonze’s 2003 […]
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Charlie Kaufman to Receive WGA West’s 2023 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Charlie Kaufman, who penned the Writers Guild Award and Academy Award-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, will receive the Writers Guild of America West’s 2023 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, the WGAW announced on Wednesday. This lifetime achievement award is presented to members who have “advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding […]
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Nantucket Film Festival Plans Hybrid Event, Online Screenwriting Series (Exclusive)
The partnering Screenwriters Colony unveiled a new online series for emerging film scribes featuring Charlie Kaufman, Nancy Meyers, Stella Meghie and Leslie Dixon.
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‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — Charlie Kaufman (‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’)
The eccentric described by Roger Ebert as "the most creative screenwriter of his generation" reflects on abandoning acting for filmmaking, his creative process and why 12 years elapsed between his first and second live-action directing gigs.
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‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Trailer: Charlie Kaufman Explores Uncomfortable Trip to Meet the Parents
Inspired by Iain Reid's bestselling novel, the horror-thriller stars 'Chernobyl' actress Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette and David Thewlis and comes to Netflix Sept. 4.
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Charlie Kaufman Set to Direct ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ for Netflix
Kaufman will also pen the thriller, which is based on a novel by Iain Reid.
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Charlie Kaufman: “It Has Gotten Considerably Harder for Me” to Get Projects Made
"I need to earn a salary. I am doing what I can to make a living, but hoping to do what I would like to do," the writer and director says.
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How ‘Anomalisa’ Directors Mastered the Art of Puppetry
"We didn’t want the characters to look cartoony," says Charlie Kaufman of his dark comedy that put a twist on stop-motion animation.
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Animation Roundtable: 6 Toon Creators on Fears, Methods and Which 2D Characters They Secretly Wish They Were
Hollywood's top animators — Pete Docter ('Inside Out'), Charlie Kaufman ('Anomalisa'), Peter Sohn ('The Good Dinosaur'), Steve Martino ('The Peanuts Movie'), Roger Allers ('Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet') and Richard Starzak ('Shaun the Sheep Movie') — discuss which emotion was cut from Pixar's Oscar frontrunner and how to approach the ratings board (when an animated film lands an R-rating).
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