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Dan Gilroy

16 credited titles on WatchWise

Daniel Christopher Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler (2014), for which he won Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards. His other screenwriting credits include Freejack (1992), Two for the Money (2005), The Fall (2006), Real Steel (2011), and The Bourne Legacy (2012)—the last in collaboration with his brother Tony Gilroy. His wife, Rene Russo, has also been his frequent collaborator since the two met in 1992 and married later that year. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Gilroy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Dan Gilroy in one minute

Strongest genre

Drama

$26M · 0% hit rate

Biggest hit

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

$13M

Standout efficiency

0.6x

Roman J. Israel, Esq. · gross ÷ budget

Commercial performance

Associated lifetime gross

$27M

Combined reported budget

$67M

Gross / budget

0.4x

Bankability Index

8 / 100

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