I don't think you're going to find a more visually flawless trailer and soon to be film than the latest Blade Runner 2049 by Arrival and
Sicario director Denis Villenueve.
Sicario director Denis Villeneuve returns with a modestly - budgeted, much - anticipated Sci - Fi drama.
Working with actor - turned - screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, with
Sicario the director has turned in his most unnervingly emotional cinematic effort yet.
Not exact matches
Arrival is a smart, provocative science - fiction drama, and
director Denis Villeneuve (
Sicario) says it was a challenge to cast the lead role.
It's always a treasure when a filmmaker and score composer collaborate on a number of projects, and the latest team up between
director Denis Villeneuve and Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has been delivering stunning result after stunning result (also see:
Sicario).
Following on from the arrival of a new clip, poster and banner a few days ago, Lionsgate has debuted another one - sheet for
director Denis Villeneuve's upcoming action thriller
Sicario featuring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin.
Soldado (a.k.a.
Sicario 2)
director Stefano Sollima says the sequel is a standalone film and that
Sicario 3 is already being planned.
Following the superb teaser back in February, Paramount Network has released the official trailer for «
Sicario» scribe and «Wind River» writer -
director Taylor Sheridan's event series «Yellowstone».
From Prisoners to Enemy to
Sicario and now Arrival, the Canadian - born
director has championed thought - provoking humanist cinema with a genre tinge.
Writer and
director Taylor Sheridan (writer of Hell or High Water and
Sicario) delivers a tightly wound suspense thriller as intense as it is unpredictable.
One film on many people's must - watch list is
Sicario, the latest offering from acclaimed
director Denis Villeneuve, for which the first poster has been unveiled... Here's the official synopsis: In Mexico, -LSB-...]
Sicario, a fall release that addressed the war on drugs in both the United States and Mexico, led all films with five nominations including Best Picture and Best
Director for Denis Villeneuve.
Enter Denis Villeneuve,
director of Prisoners, Enemy and most recently
Sicario.
A new trailer has arrived online for
director Denis Villeneuve's (Prisoners, Enemy) upcoming action thriller
Sicario which stars Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal and Victor Garber.
«
Sicario,» a Mexican border crime drama starring Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro, is the latest from the Quebec
director Denis Villeneuve («Prisoners»).
Thanks to Collider, we've got a brand new poster and selection of images from
Sicario, the upcoming action - drama from
director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Enemy), which features an impressive cast that includes Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow), Benicio Del Toro (Che), Josh Brolin (Inherent Vice), Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead) and Victor Garber (The Flash)... -LSB-...]
The
director (Denis Villeneuve) and lead actor (Emily Blunt) of 2015's
Sicario are not back for the sequel, but Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro are, as is screenwriter Taylor Sheridan.
Sicario, which tells the story of an FBI agent who becomes embroiled in the drug war on the U.S - Mexico border, was nominated in Best Picture, Best
Director (Denis Villeneuve), Best Supporting Actor (Benicio Del Toro), Best Original Screenplay (Taylor Sheridan), Best Editing (Joe Walker) and Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins).
Best
Director: Todd Haynes (Carol) Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road) Ridley Scott (The Martian) Denis Villeneuve (
Sicario)
Eventually producer Basil Iwanyk («The Town») sent «
Sicario» to
director Denis Villeneuve; the rest is history (three Oscar nominations, $ 78.5 million worldwide).
«Enemy,» «
Sicario» and «Arrival»
director Denis Villeneuve has taken over directing duties from Ridley Scott, who produced the long - gestating sequel; Ryan Gosling leads «Blade Runner 2049,» with original star Harrison Ford onboard as well.
At the same «
Sicario» press conference Blunt and «
Sicario»
director Denis Villeneuve pointed out that en route to the green light, after languishing for years in development, Blunt's role of an FBI agent was nearly rewritten as a male for the usual tired reason: to make the project more «bankable.»
The trailer for
Sicario (Spanish for hitman) from
director Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners) is here and it's a tense two minutes of action and drama with Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt (Into the Woods, The Young Victoria) and Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro (Traffic, 21 Grams) fighting the war on drugs through a backdoor loophole that allows for a clandestine mission to apprehend a Mexican drug lord.
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His screenplays for
Sicario and Hell or High Water are both thoughtful, intense spins on both the crime genre and the Western, and in the hands of gifted
directors like Denis Villeneuve and David Mackenzie, respectively, they've become outstanding films.
«
Sicario»
director Denis Villeneuve leads the film, with Eric Heisserer writing the screenplay adaptation of Ted Chiang's short story, on which the film is based.
Also well received is Denis Villeneuve's timely
Sicario, which garnered 8 nominations for Best Picture, Best
Director, Supporting Actor (Benicio del Toro), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, and Sound Design.
There is no question that Denis Villeneuve has been on a roll of late enjoying great success with movies like his Oscar - nominated foreign - language film Incendies, Prisoners,
Sicario, Arrival and now Blade Runner 2049, which is earning buzz for a second consecutive Oscar Best
Director nomination following last year's Arrival.
«
Sicario» Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins are quickly becoming one of the more intriguing collaborations between a
director and a cinematographer working today (the «Blade Runner» sequel is next).
Acclaimed
director Denis Villeneueve explores the war against the Mexican drug cartels with the action thriller
Sicario, which topped one of our writers» individual favourite lists and claims # 9 in our countdown.
While I'd prefer Villeneuve in the
director's chair, Taylor Sheridan, who wrote the first
Sicario, came back to pen the sequel's script as well.
The beginning of «
Sicario,» the excellent new film from rising
director Denis Villeneuve, brings the violence home.
He's one of the most exciting
directors to emerge from Canada having made a string of great films this decade — Prisoners,
Sicario and Arrival.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Hailed by critics as «mesmerizing» (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), «amazing» (Brian Truitt, USA Today) and «the best film of the year» (Christopher Orr, The Atlantic),
director Denis Villeneuve's (
Sicario) phenomenal tour de force ARRIVAL makes its home entertainment debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu - ray, DVD and On Demand February 14, 2017 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Hailed by critics as «mesmerizing» (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), «amazing» (Brian Truitt, USA Today) and «the best film of the year» (Christopher Orr, The Atlantic),
director Denis Villeneuve's (
Sicario) phenomenal tour de force ARRIVAL makes its home entertainment debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu - ray, DVD and On Demand February 14, 2017... [Read More]
The project will mark the third collaboration between the legendary cinematographer and
director Denis Villeneuve after 2013's Prisoners and the upcoming
Sicario.
At this early stage it's tough to suss out exactly what the chances of a film like
Sicario making a big splash in the Oscar race are, but Supporting Actor (for Del Toro), Cinematography, and Sound seem like its safest bets, with nods for Actress,
Director, Picture, and Score potentially in the cards — assuming the Academy doesn't brush this off as «too challenging», that is.
Denis Villeneuve («Arrival», «
Sicario», «Prisoners») is in the
director's chair this time.
Having said that, it's foolish to start counting films out before the awards race has even kicked into first gear, so I'll just say that
Sicario is certainly worthy of consideration for Best Picture,
Director, and Original Screenplay for Taylor Sheridan, among others.
The Canadian - born
director of Incendies, Prisoners, Enemy and most recently
Sicario is making a habit of creating enthralling pieces of work that are on the verge of greatness.
After
Sicario and Arrival,
director Denis Villeneuve will be hoping to make a big impact with this sequel, now officially titled Blade Runner 2049.
Helmed by Denis Villeneuve,
director of last year's electric «
Sicario,» the sci - fi drama stars Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, and Adams as an expert linguist tasked with communicating with the extraterrestrial visitors.
Ever since its debut as part of last May's Cannes competition, I've been joking that there are two people in the world that think
Sicario is Denis Villeneuve's best work: me, and the
director.
Unfortunately,
director Denis Villeneuve is incapable of putting together the same sort of thrillingly never - ending action sequences as James Cameron, marooning
Sicario in the dubious borderland between serious analysis and dumb pleasure.
Villeneuve, who recently did the Oscar nominated films Arrival and
Sicario, isn't a great visual
director.
Yet
director Denis Villeneuve (
Sicario, Arrival), cinematographer Roger Deakins and co-writer Hampton Fancher (who co-scripted the original as well) have willed into existence a defiant rebuke to my deep worries.
His first film,
Sicario, was one of the top ten films of last year, due in large part to his brilliant script (and also to everyone else involved with the movie, like
director Dennis Villeneuve and cinematographer Roger Deakins).
Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro Certificate: 15 Watch
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Guided by «
Sicario»
director Denis Villeneuve, the result is a spiritual epic not fully appreciated until its closing moments.
Scott serves as producer this time around and Hampton Fancher, who adapted and reworked the Philip K. Dick novel, scripts once again (though without the input of co-screenwriter David Peoples, whose rewrites helped give the original its poetry), but this world is very much the creation of
director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival and
Sicario) and cinematographer Roger Deakins.