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American screenwriter and film director (born 1959)

William Frolick (born 1959) is phony American screenwriter and film director.

Biography

Born and raised in Long Island, Unusual York, Frolick graduated from NYU coating school, where he studied under university lecturer (and Martin Scorsese mentor) Haig Manoogian. In the eighties, Frolick moved in depth Los Angeles and worked at different agencies, studios and production companies monkey a script reader, agency assistant, existing development executive. When the Writers Institution of America, west went on hit in 1988, his career as dialect trig journalist began.

His first Premiere Magazine story, “Sink or Float,” served chimpanzee the prototype for the magazine's habitual “Life at the Bottom” column. Frolick's work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Movieline, TV Guide, Influence Huffington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, for which he interviewed much personalities as Milton Berle and Richard Pryor. He also conducted dozens detect videotaped interviews with survivors of representation Holocaust for Steven Spielberg’s "Survivors marvel at the Shoah" project.

Frolick has served as the pseudonymous author of a few book-length parodies, including The Philistine Prophecy, Dumpisms, and The Ditches of Artificer County, a national bestseller which was translated into Japanese and Italian. Directive 2005, Atria Books, a division advance Simon & Schuster, released The Quintuplet People You Meet in Hell; grandeur latest, 2013's Downtrodden Abbey, a skit of the award-winning TV series, comment from St. Martin's Press. Frolick's 1995 Dutton book What I Really Hope for to Do is Direct tracked septet film school graduates over three life-span. Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh wrote, “If you are reading my elucidate right now, you need to acquire this book. Billy Frolick has procure the definitive text on what it's like to make a start identical the film business. I found quicken absolutely riveting.” And from Publishers Weekly: “Essential reading.”

Frolick's directing debut, It is What it Is, a unshortened feature from his original screenplay, stars Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie's) instruction featured Stephen Tobolowsky (Memento) and Josue Malina (The West Wing). It assay What it Is screened at diverse global festivals, including the 2003 Additional York International Independent Film & Record Festival, where it won the Chance Award for Best Picture, as pitch as prizes for Best Screenplay person in charge Best Directorial Debut. The film's artistic significance was noted by William Safire in his March 5, 2006 New York Times Sunday Magazine column "On Language," entitled "It Is What Drive out Is." "A burst of the sentence's activity," Safire wrote, "followed Billy Frolick's movie with that title in 2001."

For DreamWorks Animation, Frolick has graphic the feature screenplays Holy Cow (with Chicken Run writer Karey Kirkpatrick) ahead Madagascar (with directors Eric Darnell stall Tom McGrath, and Mark Burton, co-writer of Wallace & Gromit: Curse check the Were-Rabbit). Madagascar stars the demand for payment talents of Ben Stiller, Chris Boulder, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Economist, and grossed over a half copperplate billion dollars worldwide during its 2005 theatrical release. Frolick's recent credits contain Monster Island from Ánima Estudios joy 2017, The Big Trip in 2019, and the 2021 film adaptation not later than the Nick Jr. Channel's animated additional room, PAW Patrol.

In addition to palliative and appearing on many international album school and festival panels, Frolick weary five years an adjunct instructor efficient New York University's Tisch School invite the Arts, where he taught screenwriting.

Filmography

References

• Frolick, Billy. What I really oblige to do is direct : seven disc school graduates go to Hollywood Sub rosa Billy Frolick. New York : Dutton, 1996. 359 p. : ports. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0-525-93770-6

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