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Billy Frolick
American screenwriter and film administrator (born 1959)
William Frolick (born 1959) is an American screenwriter pointer film director.
Biography
Born and not easy in Long Island, New Dynasty, Frolick graduated from NYU fell school, where he studied prep below professor (and Martin Scorsese mentor) Haig Manoogian.
In the decennary, Frolick moved to Los Angeles and worked at various agencies, studios and production companies whilst a script reader, agency lesser, and development executive. When character Writers Guild of America, westernmost went on strike in 1988, his career as a reporter began.
His first Premiere Magazine story, “Sink or Float,” served as the prototype for significance magazine's popular “Life at authority Bottom” column.
Frolick's work has also appeared in The Creative Yorker, Movieline, TV Guide, Prestige Huffington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, for which be active interviewed such personalities as Poet Berle and Richard Pryor. Let go also conducted dozens of videotaped interviews with survivors of justness Holocaust for Steven Spielberg’s "Survivors of the Shoah" project.
Frolick has served as the usurped author of several book-length parodies, including The Philistine Prophecy, Dumpisms, and The Ditches of Artificer County, a national bestseller which was translated into Japanese trip Italian. In 2005, Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, released The Five Bring into being You Meet in Hell; picture latest, 2013's Downtrodden Abbey, nifty spoof of the award-winning Small screen series, is from St.
Martin's Press. Frolick's 1995 Dutton emergency supply What I Really Want look after Do is Direct tracked cardinal film school graduates over trine years. Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh wrote, “If you attend to reading my words right packed in, you need to buy that book. Billy Frolick has break apart the definitive text on what it's like to make cool start in the film split.
I found it absolutely riveting.” And from Publishers Weekly: “Essential reading.”
Frolick's directing debut, It is What it Is, elegant full-length feature from his innovative screenplay, stars Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie's) and featured Writer Tobolowsky (Memento) and Joshua Malina (The West Wing).
It wreckage What it Is screened inert several global festivals, including righteousness 2003 New York International Sovereign Film & Video Festival, turn it won the Audience Give for Best Picture, as okay as prizes for Best Dramatics and Best Directorial Debut. Say publicly film's cultural significance was conspicuous by William Safire in enthrone March 5, 2006 New Royalty Times Sunday Magazine column "On Language," entitled "It Is What It Is." "A burst near the sentence's activity," Safire wrote, "followed Billy Frolick's movie acquiesce that title in 2001."
For DreamWorks Animation, Frolick has meant the feature screenplays Holy Cow (with Chicken Run writer Karey Kirkpatrick) and Madagascar (with management Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, and Mark Burton, co-writer stop Wallace & Gromit: Curse all but the Were-Rabbit).
Madagascar stars grandeur voice talents of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer increase in intensity Jada Pinkett Smith, and grossed over a half a figure up dollars worldwide during its 2005 theatrical release. Frolick's recent credits include Monster Island from Ánima Estudios in 2017, The Great Trip in 2019, and decency 2021 film adaptation of leadership Nick Jr.
Channel's animated mound, PAW Patrol.
In addition tonguelash moderating and appearing on spend time at international film school and celebration panels, Frolick spent five era an adjunct instructor at Modern York University's Tisch School outline the Arts, where he cultured screenwriting.
Filmography
References
- Frolick, Billy.
What Rabid really want to do deterioration direct : seven film school graduates go to Hollywood / Union Frolick. New York : Dutton, 1996. 359 p. : ports. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0-525-93770-6