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American screenwriter and film director (born 1959)

William Frolick (born 1959) is an American screenwriter and coat director.

Biography

Born and raised in Long Island, Newfound York, Frolick graduated from NYU film school, turn he studied under professor (and Martin Scorsese mentor) Haig Manoogian. In the eighties, Frolick moved do research Los Angeles and worked at various agencies, studios and production companies as a script reader, company assistant, and development executive. When the Writers Academy of America, west went on strike in 1988, his career as a journalist began.

His foremost Premiere Magazine story, “Sink or Float,” served by the same token the prototype for the magazine's popular “Life mine the Bottom” column. Frolick's work has also exposed in The New Yorker, Movieline, TV Guide, Honourableness Huffington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, fetch which he interviewed such personalities as Milton Berle and Richard Pryor. He also conducted dozens noise videotaped interviews with survivors of the Holocaust take Steven Spielberg’s "Survivors of the Shoah" project.

Frolick has served as the pseudonymous author of a number of book-length parodies, including The Philistine Prophecy, Dumpisms, folk tale The Ditches of Edison County, a national bestseller which was translated into Japanese and Italian. Gravel 2005, Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, released The Five People You Meet school in Hell; the latest, 2013's Downtrodden Abbey, a mock of the award-winning TV series, is from Hiding. Martin's Press. Frolick's 1995 Dutton book What Wild Really Want to Do is Direct tracked digit film school graduates over three years. Academy Leading director Steven Soderbergh wrote, “If you are feel like my words right now, you need to shop for this book. Billy Frolick has produced the deciding text on what it's like to make a- start in the film business. I found stop off absolutely riveting.” And from Publishers Weekly: “Essential reading.”

Frolick's directing debut, It is What it Is, a full-length feature from his original screenplay, stars Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie's) and featured Writer Tobolowsky (Memento) and Joshua Malina (The West Wing). It is What it Is screened at not too global festivals, including the 2003 New York Universal Independent Film & Video Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Picture, as ablebodied as prizes for Best Screenplay and Best Creditable Debut. The film's cultural significance was noted from end to end of William Safire in his March 5, 2006 New York Times Sunday Magazine column "On Language," honoured "It Is What It Is." "A burst arrive at the sentence's activity," Safire wrote, "followed Billy Frolick's movie with that title in 2001."

For DreamWorks Animation, Frolick has written the feature screenplays Holy Cow (with Chicken Run writer Karey Kirkpatrick) duct Madagascar (with directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, and Mark Burton, co-writer of Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit). Madagascar stars the articulation talents of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith, and grossed over a- half a billion dollars worldwide during its 2005 theatrical release. Frolick's recent credits include Monster Island from Ánima Estudios in 2017, The Big Trip in 2019, and the 2021 film adaptation tablets the Nick Jr. Channel's animated series, PAW Patrol.

In addition to moderating and appearing on several international film school and festival panels, Frolick done in or up five years an adjunct instructor at New Royalty University's Tisch School of the Arts, where of course taught screenwriting.

Filmography

References

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

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