#Adam john movie director series#
In 2015, Wingard signed on to direct a live action American film adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's popular horror crime-thriller manga series Death Note. The film is a sequel to the 1999 found footage horror classic The Blair Witch Project and received mostly ambivalent reviews. Wingard directed Lionsgate's horror film Blair Witch, based on a script by Simon Barrett. In 2014, Wingard directed The Guest starring Dan Stevens, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest, receiving wide critical acclaim upon its wider theatrical release in mid-September. The film was acquired by Lionsgate, and received a wide release in August 2013 to generally favorable reviews. A solo directorial effort, You're Next, a home invasion slasher, premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the ‘Midnight Madness’ section. He was selected to direct one chapter of The ABCs of Death, a 26-chapter horror comedy anthology for Drafthouse Films and Magnet.
In 2011, Wingard co-directed Autoerotic with mumblecore icon (and frequent actor in Wingard films) Joe Swanberg. The anthology had its premiere at the 2011 Fantastia Film Festival in Montreal where Wingard was honored by the festival with his very own sidebar section: “Medicated Monsters – A Spotlight on Filmmaker Adam Wingard”. What Fun We Were Having is a 4-part anthology dealing with the subject of date rape.
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The serial killer love story horror film A Horrible Way to Die premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in the ‘Vanguard’ section and was acquired by Starz/Anchor Bay at the festival for a North American theatrical and home media release. A Horrible Way to Die (2010) and What Fun We Were Having (2011) followed. Made on a total budget of $2,000, Pop Skull had its international premiere at the Rome Film Festival and its domestic premiere at the AFI Film Festival in 2007. His first feature, the horror comedy Home Sick, starring Bill Moseley and Tiffany Shepis, proved to be a stepping stone to his second feature, the psychotropic ghost story horror film Pop Skull.
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In addition to teaching screenwriting for the Program in Film and Media Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, Adam, a member of the Writers Guild of America, continues to write, direct, and produce for film and television through his production company, 8 th Day Pictures.Wingard was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and graduated from Full Sail University in 2002. In 2016, Adam’s screenplay was selected for inclusion in the permanent Core Collection of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library in Los Angeles. and internationally, was named a New York Times Critic's Pick, and debuted in the top 10 (Art House) On Demand releases. The film won multiple festival awards, was released theatrically in the U.S. In 2014, Adam co-wrote and directed the indie romance At Middleton, starring Academy Award nominees Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia. Capitol for members of Congress, and has played in festivals worldwide. The film, which NPR called “a brilliant production,” was an Oscar semi-finalist for the 2010 Academy Awards (Best Short Film, Live Action), won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, screened at the Pentagon, the Department of Justice, and the U.S. That same year, Adam directed The Response, a 30-minute short based on transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals, starring Aasif Mandvi, Kate Mulgrew, and Peter Riegert. Dutton (who also directed), and was nominated for several awards. Adapted from a Los Angeles Times article profiling a sprint-relay team comprised of incarcerated young women, the film starred Emmy-winners Tiffany Haddish and Charles S.
In 2008 they saw their first greenlit project, the television movie Racing for Time. In the decade that followed, Adam and his writing partner sold and optioned more pitches and spec scripts (to Universal, Fox, and Sony, among others), and were named among the “Top 10 Screenwriters to Watch” by Script magazine. at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, won a student Emmy Award, moved to Los Angeles, and broke into the movie business in 2001 with the sale of his comedy spec script, Moving Elliot, to Universal – one of just 101 feature screenplays bought by the major studios that year. (Vin Diesel is currently attached to produce and star.) Adam Rodgers grew up in Maryland, earned a B.A.
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