Director of film starring Eddie Redmayne, about Danish transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, says that «access to roles» is key to progress
Ava opened A Wrinkle in Time in the US yesterday, and Ryan penned an «ode» to
the director of the film starring Oprah Winfrey, calling her a «pioneer» for «inclusion, equity and representation».
Not exact matches
On Monday, New Form Digital, the studio formed by Discovery, Academy Award - winning
director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer, announced that it was partnering up with a collection
of YouTube
stars to fund and develop 14 short
films, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Festival
director Thierry Fremaux had said he believed Netflix would arrange some kind
of cinema release for the two
films in competition — The Meyerowitz Stories and Okja — both highly anticipated, with
stars that include Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Stiller and Tilda Swinton.
StarTalk airs on Monday nights at 11 p.m. ET, and features the scientist interviewing cultural and political figures like George Takei
of the original «
Star Trek» series,
film director Christopher Nolan and former President Jimmy Carter.
Jay Chandrasekhar, the
director and a
star of «Super Troopers 2,» spoke to Business Insider this weekend about how the
film arose, out
of necessity, from a massively successful crowdfunding campaign three years ago, which netted $ 4.6 million from 54,000 donors.
J.J. Abrams, the
director of the new
Star Wars
films, has shown from the beginning
of the project that he himself is a big fan
of the franchise and that he values and respects the responsibility that goes with directing the movie.
Set mostly in the fictional African nation
of Wakanda, the
film boasts a
director and primary
star who are both African - American men (
director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black
stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.
The truly amazing part
of the play's history is that it was originally conceived for the husband - wife
film -
star team
of Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester 50 years ago, with the great
director James Whale (the original Frankenstein) attached to helm the production.
The
film director of The Shack has defended how the upcoming Hollywood movie
starring Sam Worthington interpreted the Bible.
Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look
Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animal
Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act
Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animal
Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection
starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from
director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay,
starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe,
filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast
of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animal
of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films,
of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animal
of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous
film ever made,
starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast
of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animal
of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.
Marketing
Director, Amy White said «To support this Sky Sport sponsorship, we have
filmed a set
of new Mud House idents,
starring five legends
of rugby who have either played for, or against, the Lions.
Within the span
of a year, the driver who is considered one
of NASCAR's rising
stars has voiced a character in a Hollywood blockbuster, had a cameo in a
film helmed by an Academy Award - winning
director, and appeared on an NBC television show.
Isla Fisher («Wedding Crashers,» «Definitely, Maybe»)
stars in the
film from blockbuster producer Jerry Bruckheimer («Pirates
of the Caribbean» trilogy, «National Treasure,» «National Treasure: Book
of Secrets») and
director P.J. Hogan («My Best Friend's Wedding»).
Producer,
director, and screenwriter, George Lucas, who rocketed to fame with the
Star Wars and Indiana Jones
films, is a bearer
of the surname.
But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror:
Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends
of «wellness» in his new short
film Connected,
starring Pam Anderson as Jackie, a lonely spinning instructor who wants to feel more, well, connected — so she joins a wellness cult and gets wifi shot into her brain so that Jane Fonda (no, really, she does a voiceover cameo) can tell her how «limitless» she is all the time.
The recipient
of a «Design
Star» honour from Fashion Group International, Giannini has also been awarded «La Lupa Capitalina» by the mayor
of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, and in 2013 was the subject
of a documentary
film «The
Director,» produced by James Franco and Christina Voros, which followed Giannini's artistic process as she prepared for catwalk shows and launches.
Gilchrist
starred in the Focus Features
film IT»S KIND
OF A FUNNY STORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Davi
OF A FUNNY STORY, a coming -
of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Davi
of - age story from writer -
directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Davis.
Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video
director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat
of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the
star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family
film Holes.
Though she appeared in
director Adolfo Aristarain's Argentine - U.S. thriller The Stranger (1987), Roth eschewed an English - language career, instead
starring in a range
of Argentine
films during the 1980s and 1990s.
As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid
of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the
film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature
director Mimi Leder and fledgling
film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie
star.
Justin Timberlake and John Goodman also
star for first - time
director Robert Lorenz, who has produced many
of Eastwood's recent
films.
Taurog, who would in later years direct many
of Elvis Presley's
films, was named Best
Director only once, in 1930 for «Skippy,» another
film starring a child actor (Jackie Cooper).
Though
director George Sluizer (The Vanishing) originally ceased production
of Dark Blood when the
film's young
star Phoenix died tragically at 23, the
film arrived onscreen nearly 20 years after its original scheduled release date.
The original
director of A Prayer for the Dying, Franc Roddam, left the production midway through shooting due to disputes with the producers, and
star Mickey Rourke later attempted to disassociate himself from the
film.
In addition to rumors
of a bloated budget and unrest on the set between
director Mark Forster and
star Brad Pitt, the
film's original release date was pushed back six months to accommodate major rewrites and additional shooting.
Dax Shepard, who serves as co-director, one
of the several producers, writer, and
star of Hit and Run, appears to be heading in the right direction for actors - turned -
directors with his off - kilter debut
film.
Though when he originally concieved an adaptation
of the timeless tale
of Pinocchio Benigni envisioned the
film as
starring himself with famed
director Federico Fellini at the helm, the
director's death left Benigni the
director of what would be one
of the most expensive
films in Italian
film history.
Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord
of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and
starred kids (though anyone can see the
films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast
of respected performers, Potter had a rotating
director roster (all
of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt
of the work to the three kids and spectacle.
Neil LaBute's debut
film was an adaptation
of his own darkly comedic 1992 play, and its provocative, Mamet-esque dialogue marked the writer -
director as a rising
star in indie
film world in the late 1990s, while also launching the career
of star Aaron Eckhart, here playing one
of a pair
of coworkers seeking cruel revenge against women.
PYONGYANGST - My Review
of THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT (3
Stars) Evoking more questions than answers, THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT, a documentary by filmmakers Ross Adam and Robert Cannan details the stranger than fiction account
of a prominent South Korean
film director and his actress ex-wife who were kidnapped by North Korea during Kim Jong Il's reign and were forced to make over 17 movies for him.
Handsomely mounted by Creed
director Ryan Coogler and
starring an enviable slate
of black actors that makes cameoing comics godhead Stan Lee almost seem lost, the
film is provocative and satisfying in ways that are long overdue, like its ornate, culturally dense production design and the deeper subtexts
of honor, compassion and destiny.
After taking some time off from directing and scriptwriting to appear in such
films as Out
of Sight (1998), Brooks resumed his
director - screenwriter - actor hyphenate with The Muse (1999),
starring opposite Andie MacDowell and Sharon Stone as a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter in search
of divine inspiration; Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World followed in 2005.
Some
of his more notable work came from his collaboration with
director Spike Lee; over the course
of the 1990s, Washington
starred in three
of his
films, playing a jazz trumpeter in Mo» Better Blues (1990), the title role in Lee's epic 1992 biopic Malcolm X (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination), and the convict father
of a high - school basketball
star in He Got Game (1998).
Among these: 2016's Office Christmas Party, and — especially — 2011's Horrible Bosses, with which Game Night shares considerable creative DNA (Bateman
starred in both
films, but Bosses was co-written by one
of Game Night's two
directors, John Francis Daley).
Starring writer -
director - producer and enigmatic «auteur» Tommy Wiseau, who had unlimited funds but questionable talent, the $ 6 - million
film has been hailed «The «Citizen Kane»
of bad movies,» a fascinatingly inept and endlessly quotable cult sensation that has carved out a place for itself as a midnight - movie communal experience.
From Czarist Russia's Moscow Art Theatre to Hollywood's biggest
film, narrator Gregory Peck joins an A-list
of Hollywood
stars to take us through the odyssey
of two Russian born Hollywood legends: The great acting teacher Michael Chekhov and the amazing
director George Shdanoff.
The success
of the uninspired movie is a testament to
star performances from the talented cast rather than to the
film's
directors.
While
director and
star James Franco's behind - the - scenes recreation
of Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero's cult classic carries a lingering sense
of «having their cake and eating it, too,» the
film is less focused on mocking the failures
of its source material.
One
of two upcoming WikiLeaks - themed projects (the other is We Steal Secrets, a documentary by Alex Gibney that is also expected in 2013), the next
film from Dreamgirls and Breaking Dawn
director Condon
stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, while Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens will be a hacker on his WikiLeaks team.
From Focus World and
director /
star James Franco, a
film about visionary poet Hart Crane, who lived a life
of beauty, passion, and tragedy.
Like a good butcher's cleaver, it's weighty, solid and sharp — an effective matching
of director and
star in what is hopefully the first
of a new
film series.
An energetic and curiously faithful remake
of the 1984
film of the same name
starring Kevin Bacon, writer -
director Craig Brewer's Footloose is a virtual cinematic poison pill to anyone irrevocably divorced from any trace memories
of adolescent feeling, and further proof that in life but especially art feeling is stronger than thought.
After a change
of pace with the action
film Hanna 65,
director Joe Wright returns to the world
of literary adaptations
starring Keira Knightley (they previously collaborated on Pride & Prejudice 82 and Atonement 85) with this highly stylized take on Leo Tolstoy's classic novel.
That's not much
of a story to build a
film on, but writer -
director Rachel Lang and
star Salome Richard manage to craft an intriguing feature debut filled with keen observations and slices
of dark humor.
It's very atypical
of the previous work
of both
director and
star, and it's as personal a
film, I suspect, as Cruise will ever make.
It almost cries out to be a Mike Leigh
film starring Jim Broadbent and other members
of the
director's stock company.
Unlike Ferrell, Wahlberg has a few especially strong
films on his resume — a result
of working with
directors like Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell — but both
stars have appeared in far too many middling
films, as you can see below.
His screenplay for the 1959
film version
of Tennessee Williams» Suddenly Last Summer was the most overt example
of out -
of - the - closet cinema
of the fifties, while his contributions to the screenplay
of Ben Hur (1959) were intended to suggest that Judah Ben Hur and Messala enjoyed more than just a warm friendship (Ben Hur
star Charlton Heston bristles to this day over Vidal's claiming responsibility for the tone and texture
of the screenplay; Heston insists that
director William Wyler rejected Vidal's script suggestions after a single cold reading).
DICK DINMAN & EDDIE MULLER DISPENSE A DOUBLE DOSE
OF DANA: The Warner Archive has just released on Blu - ray legendary director Fritz Lang's last two American - made edge - of - your - seat thrillers WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT in their original wide screen SuperScope incarnations and popular film noir author and TCM host Eddie Muller rejoins producer / host Dick Dinman as they both salute the unjustly underrated star of both films, Dana Andrew
OF DANA: The Warner Archive has just released on Blu - ray legendary
director Fritz Lang's last two American - made edge -
of - your - seat thrillers WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT in their original wide screen SuperScope incarnations and popular film noir author and TCM host Eddie Muller rejoins producer / host Dick Dinman as they both salute the unjustly underrated star of both films, Dana Andrew
of - your - seat thrillers WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT in their original wide screen SuperScope incarnations and popular
film noir author and TCM host Eddie Muller rejoins producer / host Dick Dinman as they both salute the unjustly underrated
star of both films, Dana Andrew
of both
films, Dana Andrews.