Sentences with phrase «actor stars in the film»

I appreciated the fact that emerging actors starred in the film, together with well known ones like The Rock or Jack Black, however, I must also say that the well known actors have not obscured the emerging ones, which is great!

The 38 - year - old actor stars in the film about a New York stockbroker who refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.

Not exact matches

Actor Joel Edgerton («Warrior,» «Exodus,» «The Great Gatsby») wrote, directed and stars in the film, which is clearly reminiscent of similar thrillers like «Fear,» «Fatal Attraction» and even Michael Haneke's fantastic «Caché,» but gleefully twisted enough to distance itself from the pack.

Singer and actor Justin Timberlake took on a role in Allen's 2017 film «Wonder Wheel,» starring alongside Kate Winslet.

And actor Johnny Depp starred as Ichabod Crane in the 1999 film called Sleepy Hollow, an adaptation of Irving's story.

It's called «Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon» and it refers to the fact that pretty much any actor or actress is most likely just a few roles away (or less) from having worked with Bacon, who has starred in more than 80 films and TV shows.

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.

That puts the Sony Pictures film on pace to swing to a $ 120 million opening, short of the record - breaking $ 151 million debut of 2007's Spider - Man 3 but according to Variety topping even the sunniest expectations for the film, which stars 21 - year - old actor Tom Holland in the title 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.

This film, shot in black - and - white and starring French actor Jean Dujardin, was released in fewer than 2,000 theaters.

Actor John Travolta — best known as starring in films such as Pulp Fiction and Grease — will be among the numerous celebrity attendees, serving as a special guest speaker.

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.

American actor Mark Hamill became famous for his role as Luke Skywalker in the epic film «Star Wars,» as well as its sequels «The Empire Strikes Back,» «Return of the Jedi» and «The Force Awakens.»

Anton Yelchin, a rising actor best known for playing Chekov in the new «Star Trek» films, was killed by his own car as it rolled down his driveway early Sunday, police and his publicist said.

If you are legendary actor Nicolas Cage — and on the verge of a career renaissance and even higher, unprecedented levels of global fame as the star of the upcoming Left Behind film — what would you wear if you were attending a Guns N» Roses concert in Las Vegas alongside Andrew Dice Clay.

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

The film marks a transition for actor Andrew Garfield, from blockbuster superhero, to critical darling, in a starring role that is already being called one of the year's most powerful.

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.

Christian actor David Gyasi stars as space explorer Romilly in science fiction film Interstellar.

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 animals.

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For those old enough to remember Errol Flynn, he was an film star who could not play football and a pretty poor actor, much in the same mould as his «lookalike «Giroud.

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The coda to the TurinGames will be inspired by Venice's annual winter Carnevale — think acrobats,high - wire acts and actors in costumes from the 1971 Fellini film The Clowns.When the tumbling is over, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli (above) will performand pass the Olympic torch to Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne, who will acceptit on behalf of the host of the 2010 Games, Vancouver.

The actor is set to star in a film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Nick Powell (The Bourne Identity, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cinderella Man), which centers on Frank Walsh (Cage), a big game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white jaguar.

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.

New feature film exposes Nestlé's practices in Pakistan: The forthcoming film Tigers stars Indian actor Emraan Hashmi and is based on the true story of a Nestlé baby milk salesman in Pakistan who blew the whistle on Nestlé's unethical practices.

The renowned British actor starred in more than 200 films and TV series during an illustrious career which spanned six decades.

After productions of Ghost Busters, Star Wars and Back To The Future, the latest offering from the immersive film / theatre company tackles nuclear warfare and communist conspiracies with the help of 35 actors in a cavernous warehouse boasting a six - screen auditorium.

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

They hedge their bets by hiring Chinese stars or film sequences with Chinese actors that are only in the version released in China.

In the 1992 film Medicine Man, actor Sean Connery stars as a grizzled scientist who discovers a cure for cancer in the Amazon and then struggles to replicate his findings as bulldozers destroy the very forests that harbor iIn the 1992 film Medicine Man, actor Sean Connery stars as a grizzled scientist who discovers a cure for cancer in the Amazon and then struggles to replicate his findings as bulldozers destroy the very forests that harbor iin the Amazon and then struggles to replicate his findings as bulldozers destroy the very forests that harbor it.

So how does the actor who starred in films The Green Mile, Armageddon, and...

The plot is rather simplistic, in where the actors appearing in a film about ancient Rome are summoned by Hollywood «fixer» Eddie Mannix to go out and find recently kidnapped main star, Baird Whitlock.

Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist, who starred in the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo films alongside Noomi Rapace, died on Tuesday.

Wes Bentley was a relative newcomer to film when he starred in Sam Mendes» American Beauty (1999), but his haunting portrayal of the battered, enigmatic Ricky Fitts made him one of the most talked about young actors of the year.

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).

While Buster Crabbe would become the actor most closely associated with the «Billy» films, Bob Steele stars in this maiden effort.

The filmmakers went into this project insisting that all the actors do their own singing, and while «crooners» like Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth (let alone Stellan Skarsgård, who is very, very brave to have done his own singing) are not going to go down in history as much more than barely competent, star Meryl Streep, who has already proven her musical chops theatrically and previously in such films as Postcards from the Edge, is marvelous, if a bit too country - yodelish for this patently pop score.

Skinny, bug - eyed Steve Buscemi, the twitchy actor du jour of American independent films, makes a striking directorial feature - film debut with «Trees Lounge,» in which he also stars as a twitchy, hyperkinetic loser.

This misstep didn't seem to hurt the actor, whose name was already attached to a number of high - profile projects that would no doubt further increase his star wattage.Two such projects were the edgy indie films American Psycho and Requiem for a Dream, both released in 2000.

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.

The young star of the film, newcomer Josh Wiggins is absolutely terrific, outshining multiple award winning actors and actresses in this film, but he's not the only difference here.

This is really the actor's moment to shine after over a decade in the black wig, working that cape like America's Next Top Model, increasingly alluring visual - kei, Jrock star styling and short appearances in each of the films.

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.

With dogged determination, the producers continued onward with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), at which point fans finally flocked to the series, rallying behind the film's crisp space battles and the melodramatic tête - à - tête between Shatner and Ricardo Montalban.Shatner had to wrestle with his advancing age and the deaths of several characters in Star Trek II and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but by Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the actor got to indulge in his more whimsical side, which has since characterized his career.

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).

With a solid voice cast that emphasizes their vocal work over their star power (there are recognizable actors in a few roles such as Bratt and Bernal (Blindness), but none that cast in order to sell the film commercially), a vibrant color scheme, outstanding visuals, terrific toe - tapping tunes, and an imaginative concept, this will likely go down as a favorite Pixar film for many who follow the animation company's output religiously.