Sentences with phrase «jolie taking»

With a script worked on by a quartet of legendary names (William Nicholson, Richard LaGravenese and the Coen brothers), Jolie took on the monumental task of sitting in the director's chair for Unbroken.

For the record, I in no way disapprove of the direction Jolie took on her second directorial effort, but I do believe that working in a genre beloved by the old, white male majority that dominates AMPAS» current membership is extremely advantageous.

Angelina Jolie takes on the role of Maleficent in this different take on the famous Sleeping Beauty fairytale.

The Coen Brothers (Fargo, The Big Lebowski) adapted the book into a script from which Angelina Jolie took over as director.

In 2013, he traveled to the former plantation where «12 Years a Slave» was filmed with director Steve McQueen, and more recently charted how the story of Columbine came to a stage in New York and watched Angelina Jolie take on her first big studio directing job, the «Unbroken» story of Olympian and USC alumnus Louis Zamperini.

Unbroken director Angelina Jolie took the stage to present the New Hollywood Award to the «least Hollywood artist I know,» Unbroken star Jack O» Connell.

When Jolie took the title role in the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, it represented the height of the character's fame — becoming the highest - grossing video game movie (until it was outdone by Prince of Persia nine years later) and breaking records for a film with a woman in the leading role.

Meanwhile, half a world away, Angelina Jolie took three of their children, Pax, nine, Zahara, eight Shiloh, seven, on a shopping trip to Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney, then the Great Moscow Circus, in Rose Bay.

Not exact matches

The newspaper showed Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt taking a walk in their backyard.

Jolie Cash: My belief is that a woman should start taking up prenatal yoga classes as soon as she thinks that she's pregnant.

Since Jolie loves making things as much as I do I let her take the lead on her shirt design and DIY.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the London summit on ending sexual violence in conflict, co-hosted by Mr Hague and UN special envoy and actress Angelina Jolie.

Take, for example, some of the women that Angelina Jolie recently called attention to, who harbor mutations in a particular gene called BRCA1.

Jolie Harrison works at NOAA managing programs to implement the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act that: 1) allow for incidental marine mammal take resulting from activities such as military training or seismic surveys, and 2) allow for research, enhancement, and photography of marine mammals and ESA - listed fish and sea turtles.

Take a deep breath, and ask yourself, «What about Angelina Jolie's decision triggers me?»

I really fell in love with this style when Nicole of Sweet -LCB- Jolie -RCB- took us for a tour through her STUNNING home filled with a ton of industrial elements used in some really unique ways!

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I'm well aware that to mock an actress for doing a lousy movie is, in effect, to punish her for the sins of Hollywood (i.e., there are too few good roles for women), but didn't Jolie realize that» Taking Lives» makes her look like a sap?

If you were Angelina Jolie, you might take it as a sign that your career is in trouble when you star in a grade - Z serial - killer mystery — and people still think of it as an Ashley Judd movie.

We take for granted that the likes of Brad Pitt and George Clooney can effortlessly do this sort of thing, and Julia Roberts and Angelina Jolie have had their share of this kind of drive.

Schreiber's many feature credits include Lee Daniels» THE BUTLER; Larry David's CLEAR HISTORY; FADING GIGOLO; THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST; SALT with Angelina Jolie; X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE; DEFIANCE with Daniel Craig; REPO MEN; THE PAINTED VEIL; THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, opposite Meryl Streep and Denzel Washington; THE SUM OF ALL FEARS; Ang Lee's TAKING WOODSTOCK; KATE & LEOPOLD; GOON; EVERY DAY; Michael Almereyda's HAMLET; SPRING FORWARD; THE HURRICANE; A WALK ON THE MOON with Diane Lane; THE DAYTRIPPERS; Nora Ephron's MIXED NUTS; and Wes Craven's SCREAM trilogy.

Jolie and Owen perform with such conviction, and the film — blissfully unaware of its own badness — takes its paperback - romance shenanigans with such goofy gravity, that it's easy to get caught up in the whole, soap - opera thrust of the thing.

Pitt and Jolie's talents take a backseat to special effects; there is probably fifty times more gunshots than there is lines of dialogue.

Jolie's scrupulous avoidance to melodrama is admirable, though she takes directorial restraint to an extreme — perhaps in deference to the stoical Zamperini, who died in July at the age of 97.

Directed by Angelina Jolie and co-written by the Coen brothers, this films tells the story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

In Kung Fu Panda 2, a tad more mature Po and his Furious Five kung fu masters Tigress (voiced by Angelina Jolie), Monkey (voiced by Jackie Chan), Mantis (voiced by Seth Rogen), Viper (voiced by Lucy Liu), and Crane (voiced by David Cross) feel ready to take on those out for control of the Valley.

From early childhood in Macedonia we see where Alexander gets his drive — mostly from his vengeful snake - lovin» mother Olympias (Angelina Jolie) who urges her son to take charge as well from his tutor Aristotle (Christopher Plummer).

I don't know who was responsible, but much of the dialogue here has an awfulness I thought impossible with a movie of this pedigree: it's a testament to Jolie's direction and O'Connell's acting chops that Louie's mantra, «If you can take it, you can make it,» is merely cringeworthy.

TAKING LIVES *** / **** DVD - Image A - Sound A - Extras C + BD - Image B + Sound A Extras C + starring Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands screenplay by Jon Bokenkamp, based on the novel by Michael Pye directed by D.J. Caruso

THE DVD Reissued to capitalize on the DVD debut of Jolie's Taking Lives, HBO's unrated edition of Gia is new to the format and runs approximately five minutes longer than the broadcast version familiar to owners of the previous disc.

OUR TAKE: Angelina Jolie is still look for a big breakout as a filmmaker, but this biography of the late (and great) Zamperini has been cultural fixation since the book's release.

«The good news is that the Oscar - winning actress offers an entertaining and occasionally devilish take on the famed video game heroine, on variation that can stand side - by - side with Jolie's two attempts.

The five actors nominated for the prestigious award, which honours the future stars of cinema, include Brits Jack O'Connell, who began his career in the E4 drama Skins in 2007 and this year took the lead role in the Angelina Jolie - directed feature Unbroken, and Gugu Mbatha - Raw, already an established name on stage and television, who was named best actress at this year's British Independent Film Awards for her portrayal of Dido Elizabeth Belle in the period drama Belle.

Taking Lives» trailer plus a 3 - minute «gag reel» of line flubs and Jolie's botched attempts to break a mirror round out the special features; trailers for The Big Bounce 2004, Starsky & Hutch, and Triggerman precede the main menu.

We've also got some rather glamorous casting news to report — Naomi Watts assuming the role of Princess Diana and Angelina Jolie officially taking on Maleficent.

The amazing thing about Jolie is that when she does take on a part she gives herself totally to it, you never see the «star,» just the character she's playing.

«Alexander» begins with Olympias (his mother, played impressively by Angelina Jolie) doting on her little son that soon begins to take on an incestuous and almost evil shape with the woman teaching the little boy how to handle snakes.

Jolie — whose directorial debut, The Land of Milk and Honey, took place during the Bosnian War — keeps most of the action away from the front lines this time.

Her big - screen appearances as Lara Croft (in 2001 and 2003) weren't much as movies go — I'd actually forgotten there was a sequel — but Jolie's defiant air of confidence took care of business.

Sandra Bullock's star turn in «Gravity» has propelled the actress to the top of Forbes» 2014 list of the highest - earning film actresses, with her estimated $ 51 - million annual take well ahead of what Angelina Jolie raked in to top the same ranking last...

«Thanks to my beautiful wife for hanging with the kids»: Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, Chris Hemsworth shared a snap of himself posing with his «replacement» Golden Globes date Taika Waititi... after Elsa Pataky joked about THAT photo with Angelina Jolie

Then again, we're still talking about the same limited formula: Take a recent Oscar winner (once Angelina Jolie, now Vikander), put her in a tank top and see how fast she can run while furrowing her brow.

«I've felt a deep connection to Africa and its culture for much of my life, and was taken with Eric's beautiful script about a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers who emerged with a deeper understanding of man's footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him,» Jolie says in a statement carried by Variety.

Angelina Jolie directs this unsparing adaptation of Ung's chilling memoir; while a wisp of controversy has already begun to swirl around some alleged unconventional casting methods, the actress / activist / filmmaker has promised a sensitive, empathetic take on this delicate material.

«Mr. Brad Pitt,» as McQueen called him Saturday, was in attendance with partner Angelina Jolie and was referenced throughout the ceremony but didn't speak upon taking the stage for the feature win.

A Chinese thriller saw off competition from Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel and Angelina Jolie's Difret to take the top prize at the Berlin...

Here, the guileless Hirsch — who, at 18, still professes awe over boobies and cigars and Long Island iced teas — takes the odd good - natured dig at Cuthbert («Elisha had her own chemistry going on»), while Cuthbert says things that probably should've remained as interior monologues, like her statement that she was channelling Angelina Jolie for part of her performance.

Anyway, we all know that Brad Pitt is a busy man, especially when you take into account his family life with Angelina Jolie and their six children, and whatever it is he and George Clooney probably do on weekends.

Zamperini's story (told in the autobiography written by Laura Hillenbrand the movie is based on) is as awe - inspiring as any you'll hear, but Jolie and screenwriters Joel and Ethan Coen (yes, they do write scripts once every blue moon) take a storytelling approach that's too rudimentary and overly respectful.

Gone are the days of Angelina Jolie's overtly, and shamelessly, provocative take on the character.