Who wrote the screenplay for American film director and screenwriter Brian De Palma's "The Bonfire of the Vanities"?
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (film) The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed by Brian De Palma. The screenplay, written by Michael Cristofer, was adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe. The film, which was a critical and commercial flop, stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Kim Cattrall. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin.
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Brian De Palma Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is considered part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.
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Dressed to Kill (1980 film) Dressed to Kill is a 1980 American erotic thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma and starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, and Keith Gordon. It centers on the murder of a housewife and an investigation involving a young prostitute who witnessed the murder, the victim’s teenaged son, and her psychiatrist. The original music score is composed by Pino Donaggio.
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Vanities, A New Musical Vanities, A New Musical is a musical with music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum and a book by Jack Heifner, based on the book and 1976 play of the same name. The musical premiered Off-Broadway in 2009, after an engagement at the Pasadena Playhouse, California in 2008. A revised version was then staged in the West End in 2016.
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The Untouchables (film) The Untouchables is a 1987 American gangster film directed by Brian De Palma, produced by Art Linson, written by David Mamet, and based on the book "The Untouchables" (1957). The film stars Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro, and Sean Connery. Ness forms the Untouchables team to bring Al Capone to justice during Prohibition. The Grammy Award-winning score was composed by Ennio Morricone and features some period-correct music by Duke Ellington.
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Terence Winter Terence Patrick Winter (born October 2, 1960) is an American writer and producer of television and film. He is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO television series "Boardwalk Empire" (2010–14). Before creating "Boardwalk Empire", Winter was a writer and executive producer for the HBO television series "The Sopranos", from the show's second to sixth and final season (2000–2007). In 2013, he wrote the screenplay to Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was also the co-creator, writer and executive producer of another HBO television drama series, "Vinyl" (2016), which premiered for one season.
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Laura van den Berg Laura van den Berg is an American writer.
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Burton B. Roberts Burton Bennett Roberts (July 25, 1922 – October 24, 2010) served as Bronx district attorney before his election as a judge, later serving as the chief administrative judge for the New York Supreme Court in the Bronx until his retirement in 1998 after 25 years on the bench. His no-nonsense manner as a prosecutor and in court made him the model for the character Myron Kovitsky in the 1987 book "The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe.
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Steven S. DeKnight Steven S. DeKnight is an American television screenwriter, producer, and director. He is best known for being the creator, head writer and executive producer of the Starz series "Spartacus", including "", "", "" and "".
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Danny Strong Daniel W. "Danny" Strong (born June 6, 1974) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer. As an actor, Strong is best known for his roles as Jonathan Levinson in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and Doyle McMaster in "Gilmore Girls". He also wrote the screenplays for "Recount", the HBO adaptation "Game Change", "Lee Daniels' The Butler", and the two-part finale of "The Hunger Games" film trilogy, "" and "". Strong also is a co-creator, executive producer, and writer for the Fox series "Empire".
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Chuck Palahniuk Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk ( ) (born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as "transgressional" fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel "Fight Club", which also was made into an acclaimed film of the same name.
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Mardi Gras Massacre Mardi Gras Massacre is a 1978 American horror film written and directed by Jack Weis. It is a semi-remake of the 1963 film "Blood Feast". The plot follows a serial killer roaming the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, sacrificing women to a Peruvian god. The film is notable for its reputation as a "video nasty," having been banned in the United Kingdom upon its release and given an X rating in the United States.
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A Bag of Hammers A Bag of Hammers is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Brian Crano and written by Crano and Jake Sandvig, who co-stars in the film with Jason Ritter. The soundtrack was written and performed by British folk musician Johnny Flynn.
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Purple Violets Purple Violets is a 2007 relationship comedy film written and directed by Edward Burns, who also co-stars. It is an independent film, set in lower Manhattan, about four friends from college who unexpectedly meet again after twelve years apart. The film stars Selma Blair, Patrick Wilson, Debra Messing and Burns. It also features Dennis Farina, Donal Logue and Elizabeth Reaser. "Purple Violets" became the first feature film to debut on the iTunes Store.
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Burning Down the House (film) Burning Down the House is a 2001 film directed by Philippe Mora. It was written by Michael Cole Dinelli, who adapted it from his play "High Tension in the Tropics". It was shot in 1998 and released direct-to-video in the United States.
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Neil Landau Neil Landau is an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and director. His film and television credits include the teen comedy "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead", "Melrose Place", "The Magnificent Seven", "Doogie Howser, M.D.", "The Secret World of Alex Mack" and MTV's "Undressed". He has developed numerous one-hour drama TV pilots for several studios and networks including Warner Bros., Touchstone, CBS, ABC Family, and Lifetime, and has written movies for Universal Pictures, Disney, Columbia Pictures, and 20th Century Fox.
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Herman Raucher Herman Raucher (born April 13, 1928) is an American author and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the autobiographical screenplay and novel "Summer of '42", which became one of the highest grossing films and one of the best selling novels of the 1970s, respectively. He began his writing career during the Golden Age of Television, when he moonlighted as a scriptwriter while working for a Madison Avenue advertising agency. He effectively retired from writing in the 1980s after a number of projects failed to come to fruition, though his books remain in print and a remake of one of his films, "Sweet November", was produced in 2001.
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Brian King (writer) Matthew "Brian King" is an American screenwriter and director known for writing "Haunter", "Night Train", and "Cypher". He was nominated in 2014 for Best Screenplay at the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards.
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The Brothers McMullen The Brothers McMullen is a 1995 American comedy-drama film written, directed, produced by, and starring Edward Burns. It deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s.
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Don Winslow He has written the screenplays for "Savages", "Satori" and other adaptations of his novels with screenwriter/producer Shane Salerno.
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Mario Van Peebles Mario Van Peebles (born 1957) is an American film director and actor best known for directing "New Jack City" in 1991. He is the son of actor and filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, whom he portrayed in the 2003 biopic "Baadasssss!" that he also co-wrote and directed.
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Dionysus in '69 Dionysus in '69 is a 1970 film by Brian De Palma. The film records a performance of The Performance Group's stage play of the same name, an adaptation of "The Bacchae". It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.