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Amy Holden Jones is an American screenwriter and film director best known for directing The Slumber Party Massacre and for creating the FOX medical drama The Resident. She has edited various films and later began directing and writing. She currently works in television.
Feb 2, 2022 · It opened up the door to some very big themes: grief, recovery, loss, persistence of love, haunting by the past," co-creator Amy Holden Jones told ET.
Oct 24, 2022 · The Resident cast, with creator Amy Holden Jones (center) and showrunner Andrew Chapman (fifth from left), celebrated the 100th episode during a cake-cutting fete on the Atlanta set.
- Seija Rankin
Jun 6, 2023 · If the world’s biggest director called you up and asked you to edit his deeply personal fantasy film for him, I’m willing to bet you’d say yes. Most people would, in fact. Not Amy Holden Jones, whose career in Hollywood spans half a century now.
- Cole Haddon
- The original script for The Slumber Party Massacre was written by feminist icon Rita Mae Brown. Flush with cash from the surprise success of her debut novel, Rubyfruit Jungle, Brown moved to Los Angeles in 1973, where she connected with Frances Doel, a story editor for legendary producer Roger Corman.
- Amy Holden Jones backed out of editing E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to direct The Slumber Party Massacre. Jones was an editor and documentary filmmaker who had gotten her first taste of feature film production in 1975 when she worked as an assistant to Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver.
- The Slumber Party Massacre started as a test reel shot by Oscar-nominated Raging Bull cinematographer Michael Chapman. The test reel Jones shot has long been lost, and that’s a shame—it was lensed by her husband, acclaimed cinematographer Michael Chapman.
- Jones agreed to direct the film before she had read the entire script. 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 22, 2022 · Following the broadcast of episode 1 of The Resident, the co-creator and writer, Amy Holden Jones took to social media to pay a tribute of her own. Responding to a query on Twitter, the 67-year-old Screenwriter said Harrell was, “A long term crew member who was treasured” by the cast and crew of The Resident.
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