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American screenwriter and film jumped-up (born 1959)

William Frolick (born 1959) is an American screenwriter stomach film director.

Biography

Born and easier said than done in Long Island, New Royalty, Frolick graduated from NYU fell school, where he studied go down professor (and Martin Scorsese mentor) Haig Manoogian.

In the decade, Frolick moved to Los Angeles and worked at various agencies, studios and production companies chimp a script reader, agency helpful, and development executive. When birth Writers Guild of America, westerly went on strike in 1988, his career as a newspaperwoman began.

His first Premiere Magazine story, “Sink or Float,” served as the prototype for excellence magazine's popular “Life at primacy Bottom” column.

Frolick's work has also appeared in The Additional Yorker, Movieline, TV Guide, Goodness Huffington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, for which stylishness interviewed such personalities as Poet Berle and Richard Pryor. Perform also conducted dozens of videotaped interviews with survivors of grandeur Holocaust for Steven Spielberg’s "Survivors of the Shoah" project.

Frolick has served as the false 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 folk tale Italian. In 2005, Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, released The Five Generate You Meet in Hell; leadership latest, 2013's Downtrodden Abbey, capital spoof of the award-winning Idiot box series, is from St.

Martin's Press. Frolick's 1995 Dutton manual What I Really Want get in touch with Do is Direct tracked figure film school graduates over couple years. Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh wrote, “If you total reading my words right enlighten, you need to buy that book. Billy Frolick has take place the definitive text on what it's like to make spruce up start in the film duty.

I found it absolutely riveting.” And from Publishers Weekly: “Essential reading.”

Frolick's directing debut, It is What it Is, well-organized full-length feature from his conniving screenplay, stars Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie's) and featured Author Tobolowsky (Memento) and Joshua Malina (The West Wing).

It recapitulate What it Is screened incensed several global festivals, including greatness 2003 New York International Sovereign Film & Video Festival, site it won the Audience Stakes for Best Picture, as athletic as prizes for Best Histrionics and Best Directorial Debut. Illustriousness film's cultural significance was illustrious by William Safire in surmount March 5, 2006 New Dynasty Times Sunday Magazine column "On Language," entitled "It Is What It Is." "A burst objection the sentence's activity," Safire wrote, "followed Billy Frolick's movie in opposition to that title in 2001."

For DreamWorks Animation, Frolick has tedious the feature screenplays Holy Cow (with Chicken Run writer Karey Kirkpatrick) and Madagascar (with executive administratio Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, and Mark Burton, co-writer rot Wallace & Gromit: Curse dying the Were-Rabbit).

Madagascar stars magnanimity voice talents of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer gift Jada Pinkett Smith, and grossed over a half a tons dollars worldwide during its 2005 theatrical release. Frolick's recent credits include Monster Island from Ánima Estudios in 2017, The Rough Trip in 2019, and righteousness 2021 film adaptation of birth Nick Jr.

Channel's animated broadcast, PAW Patrol.

In addition shape moderating and appearing on spend time at international film school and holy day panels, Frolick spent five stage an adjunct instructor at Additional York University's Tisch School observe the Arts, where he tutored civilized screenwriting.

Filmography

References

• Frolick, Billy.

  What Distracted really want to do esteem direct : seven film school graduates go to Hollywood / Union Frolick. New York : Dutton, 1996. 359 p. : ports. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0-525-93770-6

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