Sentences with phrase «british comedy starring»

Peter Cattaneo («The Full Monty») directs this British comedy starring James Nesbitt as Jimmy Hands, a raffish robber assigned to a grim correctional facility.

In a brilliant stroke of casting, British comedy star Peter Serafinowicz was tapped to play the titular superhero.

The picture was written and directed by Edgar Wright, who is best known for a trio of British comedies starring Simon Pegg: Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007) and The World's End (2013).

For us UK viewers, we all know Hugh Laurie as a British comedy star from the 80s.

The British comedy star - who shocked worldwide audiences at the Academy...

Following the success of her one - woman autobiographical show, Stevie Wonder Felt My Face, she wrote for many British comedy stars and published ten young adult novels featuring Georgia Nicholson.

Not exact matches

British actor Lee Evans established himself as a comedy star in his homeland before making the move to Hollywood.

Greig has starred in episodes of the ground - breaking series PEOPLE LIKE US, DR.. WHO, WHEN I»M 64 for the BBC, but she gained recognition and a British Comedy nomination for her television role as Fran Katzenjammer in Channel 4's BLACK BOOKS with Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey.

Cary Grant stars as a wealthy - yet - unfulfilled millionaire who attempts to spend a year among the working classes instead of relying on his family fortune in this British comedy - romance.

Some of the biggest and brightest stars in British comedy appear in this performance film, which documents a revue staged by John Cleese of Monty Python as a benefit for the human rights group Amnesty International.

On television, he was among the all - star cast of the classic British comedy I»M ALAN PARTRIDGE.

He starred opposite Nicole Kidman and Ben Chaplin in BIRTHDAY GIRL and his other movie credits include British romantic comedy CONFETTI, BILLY ELLIOTT, BEYOND THE POLE, and RUSH, directed by Ron Howard.

John C. Reilly is an eccentric high school vice-principal in «Terri» (Fox), an indie comedy with Sundance credentials, Rhys Ifans plays «Mr. Nice» (MPI), based on the crazed true story of a wildly successful British marijuana smuggler, and «Beautiful Boy» (Anchor Bay) stars Maria Bello and Michael Sheen as separated parents who turn to each other in shared grief.

Best known for starring in Cronenberg's Cosmopolis alongside Robert Pattinson and for her portrayal of the wife of the Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method, Canadian actress Sarah Gadon is now taking on the lead role of the young Princess Elizabeth in new British comedy film A Royal Night Out.

HBO has released the first trailer for Doll & Em, a new comedy series about a British Hollywood star who hires her childhood friend to be her personal assistant while she is making a film in Los Angeles.

A quirky British comedy about the nation's efforts to compete in the space race and save the planet from global warming, Back in Business stars a host of familiar British faces, including Martin Kemp, Chris Barrie, Brian Blessed and Denis Waterman.

The British actor scored his breakthrough role in comedy We're the Millers, starring opposite Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis.

With twelve different comedy genius directors including Peter Farrelly («Dumb & Dumber», «There's Something About Mary», «Shallow Hal»), Steve Carr («Daddy Day Care», «Dr Dolittle 2»), Steven Brill («Little Nicky») and Brett Ratner («Rush Hour») to name but a few and eight different writers, this jaw - droppingly crude and often obscene movie features a diverse star - studded cast, both British and American, who have banded together to shock you in the most hilarious ways you can think of.

That limits the time she can spend starring in movies, but she'll be part of a new big screen comedy coming from two outstanding British filmmakers.

Veteran British actor Bill Nighy is set to star in next year's movie adaptation of legendary comedy «Dad's Army», but he's apparently...

Keira Knightley signed up to star in a comedy with Steve Carrell because she needed a break from all her «dark» film roles.The British actress has...

For his feature debut, Richard Ayoade, a star of British television's The IT Crowd as well as a director of music videos and several earlier comedy series, fashions a storybook elegance out of his coming - of - age material.

«Hector and the Search for Happiness,» a British romantic comedy starring Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike, opened on four theaters and brought in $ 46,000 for Relativity Media.

But in his first thirteen years of writing and directing features, he has also established a wheelhouse in accessible, homagey genre British comedies co-written with Simon Pegg and starring Pegg and Nick Frost.

The series, which starred and was written by Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes, won two British Comedy Awards, and was nominated BAFTA Awards and an International Emmy Award.

This formulaic, frothy British teen comedy stars Felicity Jones (ITV's Northanger Abbey) as a working - class waitress who is taken on as a maid in Bill Nighy's luxury ski lodge.

Comedy darling Lake Bell will star opposite comedy darling Simon Pegg in Man Up, a comedy directed by British comedy darling Ben PComedy darling Lake Bell will star opposite comedy darling Simon Pegg in Man Up, a comedy directed by British comedy darling Ben Pcomedy darling Simon Pegg in Man Up, a comedy directed by British comedy darling Ben Pcomedy directed by British comedy darling Ben Pcomedy darling Ben Palmer.

Death at a Funeral stars Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence and is an American remake of a three - year - old British comedy that was only so - so to begin with.

This week the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. gets a big screen update starring Armie Hammer (The Social Network) and Henry Cavill (Man of Steel), and yet another 1960s television adaptation is on the way in 2016 with the British comedy Dad's Army.

British actors Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch are among the Golden Globe nominees for their lead roles in biopics The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game respectively, while existential comedy Birdman has amassed five star reviews across the board.

Hello Ladies, which stars Stephen Merchant as a British expat looking for love in Los Angeles, will conclude its run with a comedy special based on Merchant's standup comedy, THR reports.

From the Judd Apatow gang comes this terrific sleeper comedy about a man trying to put his four - year relationship with a famous TV star behind him after she leaves him for a sex - starved British rock star.

The British star - who is currently promoting his new action comedy «Wild Target» alongside Rupert Grint and Emily Blunt - admits acting...

Veteran British actor Bill Nighy is set to star in next year's movie adaptation of legendary comedy «Dad's Army», but he's apparently worried that fans of the original series will hate the resulting film.

Saturday, August 22 «Blunt Talk» (Starz) at 9 / 8c Patrick Stewart stars in this comedy about an unhinged British journalist who gets his own cable news show in the U.S.

Anna is best known for her roles in «Twilight» and «Up In The Air», while British actress Felicity recently starred in «Like Crazy» and Imogen fronted horror comedy remake «Fright Night».

«Moonwalkers»: A special screening of a new British comedy from Antoine Bardou - Jacquet stars Ron Perlman as a CIA agent on a mission in 1969 London: Hire Stanley Kubrick to stage a moon landing in case the real one doesn't work out.

British actor explains his decision to play the pop star in an upcoming Sky TV comedy — a casting that has led to a row over race

It was then through star Robert Carlyle's urging that they reluctantly gave the directorial reigns over to Bird, whose previous work included a romantic comedy dud and critically acclaimed British dramas.

Who would have anticipated that the droll star of such British comedies as The IT Crowd had such a soulful sensibility hidden within?

Also in the mix: comedy Get Hard, starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart; long - delayed fantasy actioner The Seventh Son; indie sci - fi The Signal; and British sci - fi family film Robot Overlords.

A new trailer has been released for forthcoming British romantic comedy I Give It A Year - with its stars including Rose Byrne and Anna Faris showing off their funny side.

The British director of the star - studded political comedy, which premiered at the Berlin film festival, says it is «absolutely a political statement» about «a broken England»

The British actor - who stars alongside the «Alien» actress in his new sci - fi comedy movie...

British rocker Liam Gallagher recruited U.K. comedy star Fonejacker to record a humorous opening for the new Beady Eye album.Gallagher formed the...

The first film in Edgar Wright's «Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy,» a thematically linked series of three genre comedies about British masculinity, maturity and friendship, «Shaun of the Dead» announced Wright and co-writer and star Simon Pegg to an international audience with what might be the most balanced — and possibly the purely funniest — horror - comedy ever made.

Other standouts at the festival include Robin Wright's expertly mordant black - and - white first short «The Dark of Night,» which debuted at Cannes and stars Leslie Bibb and Sam Rockwell; the BBC 3 series «Five by Five,» starring Idris Elba; British writer - director Nick Frew's hilarious 1999 Christmas - in - L.A. movie, «Perfect Roast Potatoes,» starring Catherine Tate; and widescreen comedy «Super Sex,» from writer - director Matthew Modine, starring Kevin Nealon, Edward Asner, Elizabeth Perkins, and Efren Ramirez.

Another star is Ada, who played Colin in the British comedy series Spaced, which also starred Simon Pegg.