Sentences with phrase «pictures classics comedy»

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Host David Steinberg interviews the show business legends, lifelong friends who got their start writing for television variety shows and became comedy motion picture directors, each with a string of classic box office blockbusters to his name.

Born in 1937 in West Cliff - on - Sea, England, screenwriter - turned - director Dick Clement cut his teeth on the small screen in his mid - to late twenties, as a BBC television writer and director, including such now - classic programs as the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964), the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook series Not Only... But Also (1965), and the brief Steptoe and Son successor Mr. Aitch (1967), starring Harry H. Corbett.Clement segued into big - screen comedy in 1966, co-scripting (with Ian La Frenais) the Michael Winner - directed picture The Jokers.

PHE is responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of home entertainment products on behalf of various parties including: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, Insurge Pictures, Paramount Famous Productions, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, CBS and PBS and for providing home entertainment fulfillment services for DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment.

Fox Searchlight will handle the drama The Surrogate, while Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the comedy Celeste and Jesse Forever.

Earlier today Sony Pictures Classics picked up the Rashida Jones comedy Celeste and Jesse Forever and Fox Searchlight acquired...

Sony Pictures Classics has scheduled Bryan Buckley's comedy - drama The Bronze to open March 18 in select cities.

Imagine a comedy as sharp and dexterous, as light and bouncy, as the sequence in the classic musical Singin» In The Rain wherein Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor walk their way through a Hollywood soundstage, passing various pictures of different genres being shot like another day at the office.

A Broadway classic that has delighted audiences for generations comes to the big screen with a new, contemporary vision in Columbia Pictures» comedy, Annie.

Plot details for MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT are still under wraps but the Sony Classic Pictures film, thought to be a romantic comedy (so no change there) spanning 20 years during the 1920 / 30s, has a super cast that is led by Emma Stone and Colin Firth.

... DeVito pops up out for a groupie with Sony Pictures Classics chief Michael Barker (back) and royal couple of comedy, Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow.

Following its world premiere at SXSW last month, Sony Pictures Classics has debuted the first trailer for writer - director Shana Feste's upcoming comedy drama Boundaries which stars Vera Farmiga, Christopher Plummer, Lewis MacDougall, Bobby Cannavale, Kristen Schaal, Yahya Abdul - Mateen II, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Fonda, and Dolly Wells; watch it here...

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that the company has acquired the North American distribution rights to Woody Allen's upcoming period piece / romantic comedy titled Magic in the Moonlight.

In «Peter Rabbit,» Sony Pictures Animation's «irreverent, contemporary comedy with attitude» about the little dude, Peter's long - standing feud with Mr. McGregor (Domhnall Gleeson, who seems to be hellbent on dominating the space of «beloved kid lit classics, reinvented for the big screen» these days) takes on a new dimension when the pair battle over a charming new neighbor (Rose Byrne), who apparently also adores animals.

With just a month to go until its US release, Sony Pictures Classics has debuted a new trailer for the upcoming comedy drama Final Portrait.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25th — Park City, Utah — Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US and Latin American rights to the action comedy THE GUARD, written and directed by John Michael McDonagh and starring Brendan Gleeson as an unorthodox Irish policeman who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent, played by Don Cheadle, to take on an international drug - smuggling gang.

IFC Films acquired North American rights to the Ewan McGregor and Eva Green romantic thriller Perfect Sense, Sony Pictures Classics acquired the action comedy The Guard starring Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson, and Fox Searchlight snatched up the sci - fi drama Another Earth starring William Mapother and Brit Marling.

Pixels (Blu - ray + Ultraviolet) Details: 2015, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: PG - 13, suggestive comments, language The lowdown: A science fiction comedy about aliens who misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war and retaliate by attacking our planet with games such as Pac - Man, Donkey Kong, Centipede, Space Invaders and Galaga.

This week, we saddle up with The Next Picture Show «s Keith Phipps to look back at the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy classic Blazing Saddles!

Pegg and Frost went on to co-write the lackluster extraterrestrial comedy «Paul» on their own (and Pegg appeared in two «Star Trek» pictures) while Wright made the stellar «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,» a film which failed to connect in its initial release but has become something of an instant cult classic.

All three bring a new passion and timeliness to A Star Is Born one of the screen's classic love stories (previously filmed in 1937 and 1954) and winner of five Golden Globe Awards including Best Picture Actress and Actor (Musical / Comedy).

Ahead of its US release next month, Sony Pictures Classics has released a trailer for John Krasinski's upcoming comedy drama The Hollars.

Fans of classic creature features may want to book a trip to Hotel Transylvania, Sony Pictures Animation's 3 - D horror comedy that features the voice acting of Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, David Spade, Jon Lovitz, Cee Lo Green, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon and Selena Gomez.

Jerry Lewis, le un and only, will be feted in person at Cannes; his comedy «The Ladies» Man» will screen on the beach as part of the Cannes Classics series, and this new picture, a modestly scaled indie, showcases Lewis as a jazz pianist who discovers a secret about his long - time marriage.

Fans of classic creature features may want to book a trip to Hotel Transylvania, Sony Pictures Animation's 3 - D horror comedy that...

Pictures» reboot of the classic comedy Vacation, this news might change your tune.

Following its world premiere at SXSW last month, Sony Pictures Classics has debuted the first trailer for writer - director Shana Feste's upcoming comedy drama Boundaries which stars Vera Farmiga, Christopher Plummer, Lewis MacDougall, Bobby Cannavale, Kristen Schaal, Yahya Abdul - Mateen II, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Fonda, and Dolly Wells; watch it here... SEE ALSO: Exclusive Interview — Shana Feste, Yahya -LSB-...]

This is saying something when you consider that the first film that comes to many cinephiles» minds when asked to think of horror comedy musicals is that venerable «midnight movie» and cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, dir.