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He is the ninth most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts with a total gross of over $2.3 billion. [2] Koepp has achieved both critical and commercial success in a wide variety of genres: thriller, science fiction, comedy, action, drama, crime, superhero, horror, adventure, and fantasy.
McFeely and Markus are the second and the third most successful screenwriters of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts, with a shared total gross of over $12.3 billion. [1] However, in overall metrics, they are the highest grossing screenwriters altogether in terms of worldwide box office with the total gross of $95.8 billion. [2] [3]
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources.
Notable orphans and foundlings include world leaders, celebrated writers, entertainment greats, figures in science and business, as well as innumerable fictional characters in literature and comics. While the exact definition of orphan and foundlings varies, one legal definition is a child bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment ...
Considered one of the greatest screenwriters of all time, Towne also wrote ‘Shampoo’, ‘Days of Thunder’ and ‘Mission: Impossible’ Robert Towne, Oscar-winning Chinatown writer, dead at ...
In 2010, Time magazine named Cameron one of the 100 most influential people in the world. [216] That same year, he was ranked at the top of the list in The Guardian Film Power 100 [ 217 ] and in 30th place in New Statesman 's list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010". [ 218 ]
June Mathis (born June Beulah Hughes, [1] January 30, 1887 – July 26, 1927) was an American screenwriter. Mathis was the first female executive for Metro/MGM and at only 35, she was the highest paid executive in Hollywood. [2] In 1926 she was voted the third most influential woman in Hollywood, behind Mary Pickford and Norma Talmadge. [3]
He is the eleventh-most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of domestic box office receipts with totals at around $5.5 billion. [2] In May 1993, Rossio and Elliott were hired by TriStar Pictures to write a screenplay for Godzilla, which featured Godzilla battling a shape-shifting alien in New York.