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Jul 21, 2016 · Amy Holden Jones is a writer and director who works in film and television. She started her career by winning the AFI National Student film festival and went on to write and direct both independent and studio films. Among her numerous screenplay credits are Mystic Pizza, Indecent Proposal, Beethoven, The Getaway, and The Relic. Her directing credits include the cult classic Slumber Party ...
Jan 24, 2023 · Amy Holden Jones / Frederick M. Brown/GettyImages. When Corman saw Jones’s test reel and learned she had made it for about $1000, he immediately hired her to make the entire film.
Sep 14, 2021 · In this installment: Amy Holden Jones, who helmed the pioneering 1982 horror flick The Slumber Party Massacre. There is a familiar trajectory to the careers of so many unsung female directors: early achievements in other creative fields, followed by a brief period of big screen success, and then a permanent shift to directing and producing episodic television.
In the heyday of the slasher film it wasn’t common for women to direct these movies, but in 1983 Amy Holden Jones helmed The Slumber Party Massacre, which is now considered a classic. Jones’s career is a fascinating one and her path leading up to directing The Slumber Party Massacre is dotted with interactions with some of the most significant North American filmmakers of her time.
Amy Holden Jones is an American film editor, screenwriter, and director. She was born in 1955 in the United States. She is best known for her work on the films Thelma & Louise (1991), Mystic Pizza (1988), and Indecent Proposal (1993).
Jun 8, 2023 · Amy Holden Jones, screenwriter, director, and, most recently, creator of “THE RESIDENT” 1, has had a long career of ups and downs and ups again.Starting in the seventies, she began to blaze a trail for female American filmmakers built on a series of bold — some might even say audacious — decisions, from cold-writing Martin Scorsese for advice, to turning down editing E.T. THE EXTRA ...
Jun 6, 2023 · Q&A: 'THE RESIDENT' Creator Amy Holden Jones Looks Back at the Ups and Downs of Her Long Career (Part 1 of 2) From turning down Steven Spielberg, to editing Hal Ashby's worst film, to directing a slasher for Roger Corman, the filmmaker had seemingly done it all before she was even thirty...
