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Ehren Kruger
Highest Rated: 96% Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Lowest Rated: 7% Dream House (2011)
Birthday: Oct 5, 1972
Birthplace: Alexandria, Virginia, USA
A versatile screenwriter with a knack for fast-paced action, realistic dialogue and wry humor, Ehren Kruger got his start on the small screen before making his feature debut with 1999's "Arlington Road." A former script assistant at Fox TV and Sandollar Productions, Kruger received his first screen credit with the 1998 USA Network TV-movie "Killers in the House," a nail-biting hostage drama in which a family is held in their own home by ruthless bank robbers. Next his 1996 Nicholl Fellowship-winning script for "Arlington Road" was produced in feature form. Directed by Mark Pellington, the film was both an action-packed thriller and a psychodrama, a disturbing look at the smiling evil of domestic terrorism and one man's struggle with potential paranoia. "Arlington Road" starred Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack and opened with a portrait of mindless destruction that succeeds both as a momentary jolt and an image that haunts for the entire film. Kruger's script for the high-tech espionage drama "New World Disorder" never reached the big screen, but debuted on HBO. He lightened up a bit with his next feature foray, the last installment of the "Scream" trilogy. Faster paced, with more appropriate, less verbose dialogue and lots of surprises, "Scream 3" (2000) was a suitable sequel, capturing the former films' chills as well as tongue-in-cheek attitude, making fun not only of the horror genre as a whole, but the previous "Scream" entries specifically.
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | F1 | Screenwriter | - | 2025 |
96% |
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Top Gun: Maverick | Screenwriter | $718.5M | 2022 |
46% |
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Dumbo |
Screenwriter, Producer |
$114.8M | 2019 |
59% |
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Ophelia | Producer | $50.7K | 2018 |
42% |
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Ghost in the Shell | Screenwriter | $40.5M | 2017 |
8% |
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Rings | Executive Producer | $27.8M | 2017 |
18% |
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Transformers: Age of Extinction | Screenwriter | $245.4M | 2014 |
7% |
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Dream House | Producer | $21.3M | 2011 |
35% |
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Screenwriter | $352.4M | 2011 |
60% |
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Scream 4 | Executive Producer | $38.2M | 2011 |
20% |
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Screenwriter | $402.1M | 2009 |
11% |
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Blood and Chocolate |
Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$3.5M | 2007 |
38% |
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The Brothers Grimm | Writer | $37.9M | 2005 |
37% |
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The Skeleton Key | Writer | $47.8M | 2005 |
21% |
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The Ring Two | Screenwriter | $75.9M | 2005 |
71% |
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The Ring | Writer | $128.6M | 2002 |
25% |
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Impostor | Writer | $6.1M | 2001 |
25% |
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Reindeer Games | Writer | $23.4M | 2000 |
41% |
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Scream 3 | Writer | $89.1M | 2000 |
63% |
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Arlington Road | Writer | $24.4M | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Killers in the House | Writer | - | 1998 |