Sentences with phrase «actor is a movie star»

There isn't a lot for Johnson to delve into as Davis, besides his characteristics of having animals more than humans and a backstory to why he specifically despises poachers, but the actor is a movie star and embraces the material with charisma, charm and humor, and who hasn't wanted to finally see a movie where he's friends with an animal nearly as brawny as he is?

Not exact matches

When starring in movies like «American Hustle» or «The Hangover,» 40 - year - old actor Bradley Cooper is able to stay at his normal weight — around 185 pounds.

Rockwell's career has been a roller - coaster ride because of Hollywood's trouble placing him as either a movie star or a character actor over the years.

Still, the inclusion of dramatic actors such as Cruise and Kidman on the overpaid list does lend credence to the fact that paying an actor large amounts of money to star in a movie is pretty risky, if not foolish.

The major flaw with Forbes» process is equally obvious when the types of movies the actors star in are considered.

It's an odyssey that led actor Leonardo DiCaprio to obtain the film rights to Bushnell's life for a possible movie starring DiCaprio in the lead role.

12 Years a Slave The misleading poster by Italian film distributor BIM Distribuzione featured the giant head of movie star Brad Pitt, who served only a supporting role in the film, while the movie's lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was given a tiny spot at bottom right corner.

The movie, which is based on Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel of the same name, stars Golden Globe - winning actor Idris Elba and was written and directed by Cary Fukunaga, who won an Emmy Award for directing HBO television show True Detective.

Of course, firstborns also are represented in the entertainment world, but here is an intriguing fact — many firstborn movie stars (including Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and every actor who's played James Bond) chose macho roles.

This is one of the strangest internet stories you will likely ever read: There are people on Reddit and Twitter attempting to find a movie called Shazaam which starred actor...

Filmmaking skill and solid actors can make these movies fun, but the truth and virtues buried in them is what makes these movies important — much like the original Star Wars movies were for the previous generation.

If you heard that the latest Harry Potter movie starred Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, would it lead you to believe it was just a single really good actor made to look like 3 different people with trick photography?

Actor Kevin Sorbo stars in a new «pro-Second Amendment, faith - based action movie,» and to promote The Reliant, the filmmakers have launched an extremely controversial giveaway: They are giving away an...

On the one hand, some Christians are upset that a «Christian» movie stars non-Christian actors and is rated PG - 13.

While LaBeouf was shooting the film The Peanut Butter Falcon — which also stars Zachary Gottsagen, an actor with Down syndrome, for whom the movie was written — he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly in public.

«I remember watching this little old brown guy watering down the infield with this huge hose,» says actor Pat Morita, 68, who was interned with his family at Gila River and grew up to star in The Karate Kid, among other movies.

Take Mickey Rourke for example, he was a young, devilishly handsome actor who had just starred in some massive movies and was adored by the finer sex the world over....

There are several well - known actors named Matthew in more recent shows and movies, including Matthew McConaughey, of True Detective and Dallas Buyers Club fame; Matthew Broderick, who starred in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Producers, and Matt Damon, of Good Will Hunting and the Jason Bourne films.

Director J.J. Abrams has made it clear that the up and coming actors in the Star Wars franchise will be the ones to carry on the popular movies.

Shola Arikusa is a movie directed by Okiki Afolayan, it's currently being shot in Akure and it stars actors like Yinka Quadri, Femi Adebayo, Odunlade Adekola, Toyosi Adesanya, amongst others.

Actor Alec Baldwin will star in «Pottersville,» one of the upcoming movies to be filmed in the Syracuse area.

Updated at 8:12 p.m. ET on Tuesday 6/4 (CNN)-- Access to top Russian officials by U.S. lawmakers was helped along by action movie star Steven Seagal — and more specifically the actor's martial arts skills - the leader of a congressional delegation said Tuesday.

It was the early»80s, and Nixon soon fell into the pack of child actors making after - school specials and message movies like Little Darlings and My Body, My Child, in which she and Sarah Jessica Parker starred as the daughters of a woman — Vanessa Redgrave — agonizing over whether to abort a child with severe birth defects.

In the recent movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the face of the character Grand Moff Tarkin was constructed digitally, as the actor who had originally played him had died.

The 505 - million - year - old fossil called Kooteninchela deppi (pronounced Koo - ten - ee - che - la depp - eye), which is a distant ancestor of lobsters and scorpions, was named after the actor Johnny Depp for his starring role as Edward Scissorhands — a movie about an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation, who has scissors for hands.

The flick stars Josh Brolin (that movie where he's all purple and wants to destroy all the superheroes with a glove), George Clooney (Nippily Batman), Channing Tatum (that movie that all women went to go see), Scarlett Johansson (that movie where Jason Bourne buys a zoo), Jonah Hill (Oscar nominated actor), Ralph Fiennes (He - Who - Shall - Not - Be-Named), Frances McDormand (that movie I mentioned where she played a pregnant cop), Alden Ehrenreich (who played a character named Flamingo once) and Tilda Swinton (Conan O» Brien's female twin).

An ordinary guy escapes his turbulent home life when he is invited to an exclusive Hollywood party by his movie star friend, only to discover that there's Famous Supernatural guest stars include a future Star Wars actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer actors and classic horror ststar friend, only to discover that there's Famous Supernatural guest stars include a future Star Wars actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer actors and classic horror stStar Wars actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer actors and classic horror stars.

David Naughton is the actor - he went on to star in the movie An American Werewolf in London

This episode begins to delve a little further into each character and what makes them tick, though each answer Listen, there's nothing wrong with finding love on the set of a TV show or movie — lots of stars have done it, whether it was with another actor, a

As town wild - child and Reverend's daughter Ariel Moore, Jullianne Hough, best known for her stint on Dancing with Stars, shows off her own movie - star qualities, and though she's a professional dancer and not an actor, there's nothing stilted or wooden about her performance.

Trading slightly on the actor's own longtime status as a taken - for - granted utility player in Hollywood, Elliott plays Lee Hayden, a has - been western actor relegated to voiceover work, smoking pot, and private re-watches of his big movie moment as the steely - eyed star of a famous horse opera called «The Hero.»

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.

If you've heard one thing about this Sundance hit, it's probably that it was filmed entirely on an iPhone 5s, with some «circling» shots done through Baker filming the actors while riding his bike, and that it's one of the rare movies about transgender people to reach mainstream consciousness that also stars transgender performers.

Clint Eastwood won kudos from theater fans for tapping Broadway stars for his movie adaptation of 2014's «Jersey Boys,» but John Lloyd Young was a better singer and stage performer than actor in his performance as Frankie Valli.

Whether the young actor really was a star in the making or not, his career had gotten off to an inarguably positive start.Over the next several years, Pepper would find success in movies like Flags of Our Fathers and True Grit, as well as the TV mini-series The Kennedys.

Cruise is probably the most graceful physical performer to occupy the screen since Burt Lancaster, and in this sort of action role, he's just about peerless... He may not be a great actor, but to find a greater movie star would be a nigh impossible mission.

Ray handles two crises involving movie star clients: A-list actor Sean Walker (Johnathon Schaech) receives a threatening message at home and action hero Tommy Wheeler (Austin Nichols) is blackmailed with a sex video.

Although Nixon's starring role on the hugely popular series may have brought her to the attention of a new audience, observers of the New York theater had been watching the actor on and off Broadway since 1980, where she had performed in productions that included David Rabe's Hurlyburly, Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, Angels in America, and Indiscretions, for which she earned a Tony nomination.Born in New York City on April 9, 1966, Nixon made her film debut in the 1980 movie Little Darlings.

Paul Bettany's crime boss Dryden Vos might be the first major player in a «Star Wars» movie to make no impression at all, but the actor was probably doing the best he could under the circumstances; he replaced Michael Kenneth Williams, who was not available for reshoots and was originally cast as a CGI character, so he was probably playing somebody who had to be rewritten on the fly without damaging the surrounding narrative architecture.

Director, producer, actor — James Franco is firing on all creative cylinders in The Disaster Artist, and it's telling that this restlessly inventive star (his critics are always bitching that Franco tries to do too much) is giving everything he has to a movie about... the worst filmmaker of the 21st century.

The film Creation, which some people take to refer to both the creation of the Origins book and the creation / evolution controversy, stars Paul Bettany, who is best known for his roles in popular movies such as «The Da Vinci Code,» «Master and Commander,» and «A Beautiful Mind» (in which he won the London Film Critics» Award for Best British Actor).

The movie's failure is especially disappointing given the effectiveness of the stars» work here, and yet the actors» ample charisma is eventually rendered moot in the face of a narrative that's almost entirely lacking in momentum.

Despite the cameos of over 30 movie stars and big budget, George Sidney's gimmicky comedy, starring Mexican actor Cantinflas who goes to Hollywood to take care of his horse, is one of Hollywood's biggest flops of the 1960s.

** out of **** «The Tree» is a perfect example of a movie that has all the necessary materials - an appealing set - up that promises emotional resonance and overwhelming warmth, a strong starring performance from a well - respected actor / actress, and an almost outlandish sense of care for the setting of choice.

As for the movie's star, Shannon's notoriously idiosyncratic sensibilities serve him quite well here - as the actor delivers as relentlessly oddball and weird a performance as one has come to expect (although it's just as clear that this marks the apex of his career in terms of his ability to tackle similarly over-the-top figures in the future).

While the movie's star — and ruler, and ship's captain, and grand poobah — is Haneke himself, his actors are sublime.

Clearly, no actor would say no to a phone call from Steven Spielberg asking if they'd like to participate in an Abraham Lincoln movie, so even the smallest part is filled by either a big name movie star or a noticeable character actor, among them Lukas Haas, Hal Holbrook, Joseph Gordon - Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones (serving as the de facto emotional center for the movie), David Strathairn, Lee Pace, Jackie Earle Haley, Bruce McGill, Gregory Itzin, Jared Harris, Michael Stuhlbarg and Walton Goggins.

The movie is both a star vehicle and an ensemble piece; the other actors revolve around Newman yet give off more than just his reflected light.

The actor grins, scowls, charms and pummels his way through his latest stand - alone showcase with the kind of good - natured star wattage that might be the most underrated of the movie's many special effects; there are some scenes where I could almost swear Hemsworth's biceps were smiling.

Well, the acting was ok except for the main star of the movie, god what a terrible actor!