Sentences with phrase «actors on a film set»

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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.

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.

So while working on the set of The X-Files guarding the honey wagons (while this can be interpreted as some sort of honey filled cart and while a search for this will give you a suction-esque type of machinery that literally sucks up human excrement but instead in reality is just a simple nice way of saying a trailer for actors and actresses) he was fired for following his dreams; writing out scripts in hopes that one day he would be able to put that film degree to good use.

There are moments in Real Steel where I forgot I'd already seen enough movies about fighting robots, forgot I was too old to be the target audience, forgot that I think Hugh Jackman is turning smarmier with every passing film, forgot that overly expressive child actors set my teeth on edge, forgot to think about all the other underdog / boxing / father - son movies this one is ripping off.

When Wiseau and Sestero clash — the baby - faced actor becomes the de facto voice of reason on the film's chaotic set, thanks to every disastrous decision Wiseau makes — The Disaster Artist reveals itself as a nuanced portrait of the jealousies that arise when the creative process goes haywire.

Everyone knows about different acting methods and a lot of people knew about what Carrey did on the set of Man on the Moon but obviously we never saw it, but that's what this documentary is and although it's not spectacular or anything, it gives another look at the work of the actor and it becomes an excellent companion to the film and especially serves as a testament of one of Jim Carrey's best acting jobs.

That's not to knock these films on quality or suggest that anything with name actors is merely mindless escapism: Fox Searchlight's thriller The East efficiently mines suspense out of Brit Marling infiltrating Alexander Skarsgaard and Ellen Page's eco-terrorist group (at least until it goes south in its last third) and the Paul Rudd - Emile Hirsch two - hander Prince Avalanche makes the most of its pastoral settings and gently bro - centric chattiness, to name just two.

Backstage chats with one of the film's stars, Ty Simpkins, about what scared him most on set, his advice for young actors, and what it was like working with Chris Pratt.

I think the best part of being an actor is that to me it feels like I've been in the best film school for the last twenty years because not only do I see the director work on set, I see how the producers work, I see how the DPs work, I see how the gaffers work, I see how the costume department works, I see how the production office works.

The 37 - year - old actor was seeen chatting with a few crew members on the set of the film, which hits theaters on May 6, 2016.

Penélope Cruz rescues this frequently silly comedy, set on a 1950s film set in Franco's Spain, as a larger - than - life actor in a part - entertaining, part - exasperating tale

Countering the standard practice of having the actors in a film musical lip - synch their songs to prerecorded tracks (a / k / a «playback»), director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) insisted that all of the singing in his Les Mis happen live on the set, in the moment, with hidden earpieces allowing the actors to hear the orchestrations.

Instead, they filmed actors (including Douglas Booth, Chris O'Dowd», and Saoirse Ronan) on rudimentary sets, then hired artists to rotoscope each frame with oil on canvas, emulating the Post-Impressionist painter's swirling, scenic renderings.

PH: A few years ago, I was an actor in a film called «Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast,» and while on the set a number of people were talking endlessly and enthusiastically about the Tommy Wiseau film «The Room.»

The 30 - year - old actor is set to helm the forthcoming film, based on the David Barclay Moore novel of the same name, after Endeavor Content acquired the big screen rights to the project - and he can't wait to get started behind the camera.

Duke is just the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe newbie to join the highly - stacked Avengers film, as Thor: Ragnarok «s Valkyrie was spotted on set in Durham, England a few weeks back along with Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo and Thor actor Chris Hemsworth.

You Were Never Really Here recently won Best Screenplay and Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor at Cannes, and the film is set for a US release on April 6th.

Tropper spent a lot of time on set during the 32 - day shoot on Long Island (while also filming his Cinemax series «Banshee»), answering questions from Levy or the actors, or reworking lines when circumstances on set shifted.

Don Cheadle talks about his close «bromance» with Irish actor, Brendan Gleeson, on the set of his latest film, The Guard.

And sticking to «The Danish Girl ``, a lovely picture of Eddie on the set of the film with his «little fella ``, the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role was released this week which you can check out in our gallery!

On the other hand, a # 1.60 m UK debut for a relatively low - budget genre film, essentially populated by three actors, none of them marquee names, and largely set in a basement — most studios would like the economics of that proposition.

The film, set to start shooting in South Africa on October 1, is on the lookout for an actor to fill the Rock's shoes.

Now the actor has shared a photo from the set of Avengers: Infinity War, capturing a moment from his last day of work on the upcoming ensemble film.

One thing that I took away as an actor, is most directors are only on their own film set so they only know how they do it.

Featuring a memorable ensemble cast of both British and American actors, the film centers on a group of reckless criminals that inadvertently become involved in a labyrinth - like plot full of two - timing back stabbers set to the tone of Ritchie's trademark comic violence and tongue in cheek humor.

Verdict: The second directorial feature from «Eastern Promises» writer Steven Knight after so - so Jason Statham vehicle «Hummingbird,» «Locke» was both more stripped down and more ambitious: a film set entirely within a moving car, shot in real time, with only one actor on screen (the rest of the cast are heard over the phone, but never seen).

Rounding out the set is an insightful SFX featurette («Making an Actor Jump), a travel diary («Jumping Around the World»), a short discussion on the differences between the novel and the film, an animated graphic novel («Jumpstart»), and a handful of deleted scenes.

, which shows black - and - white B - roll footage of an aged Curtiz (this was one of his last films) directing his actors on the set.

It's not the first time that a studio has released a Frank Sinatra movie collection in conjunction with his birthday, but Warner Bros.» five - disc set — which spans two decades in the singer - turned - actor's film career — is the first one to ever be released on Blu - ray.

On the set, we also had a chance to chat with a few of the main actors in the film including, Emmy Rossum, Margo Martindale, Alice Englert and Alden Ehrenreich.

Tony Jaa is a bona fide movie star who is the best martial arts film actor on the planet, and his follow - up to «Ong - Bak: The Thai Warrior» has one amazing action set piece after another.

This collection of production - diary - style footage finds Brian De Palma on the set of his 2002 film Femme Fatale directing the shoot, a process that — as seen in these specific clips — includes rehearsals with actors Rebecca Romijn and Antonio Banderas, working through movement / blocking and fight choreography, and the management of the movie's bravura opening setpiece that takes place at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Criterion's brilliant Blu - ray set of «The Night of the Hunter» devotes an entire disc to a documentary composed of pristine rushes and outtakes from the film, most with background audio of Laughton directing his actors using both carrot (for the kids) and stick (on Shelley Winters).

That sets the scene for the directorial debut for both actor Edmond O'Brien, who also stars as Detective Lt. Barney Nolan, the violent, angry cop, and producer Howard W. Koch, who apprenticed as an assistant on (among others) the early B - movie film noirs of Anthony Mann.

«British Columbia's work - safety agency says a film production company «failed» to ensure the safety of workers on the set of «Maze Runner: The Death Cure» when actor Dylan O'Brien was injured in March.»

Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)

Extras: Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer; segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive; «A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible,» Russell's 1989 biopic on his own life and career; interview from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson; interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set; new interviews with director of photography Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell; «Second Best,» a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates; trailer; an essay by scholar Linda Ruth Williams.

Extras: Two optional English narrations, including one by actor Roy Scheider; audio commentary from 2008 featuring Schrader and producer Alan Poul; interviews from 2007 and 2008 with Bailey, producers Tom Luddy and Mata Yamamoto, composer Philip Glass, and production designer Eiko Ishioka; interviews from 2008 with Mishima biographer John Nathan and friend Donald Richie; audio interview from 2008 with co-screenwriter Chieko Schrader; interview excerpt from 1966 featuring Mishima talking about writing; «The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima,» a 55 - minute documentary from 1985 about the author; trailer; a booklet featuring an essay by critic Kevin Jackson, a piece on the film's censorship in Japan, and photographs of Ishioka's sets.

EXTRAS: There are 11 cast and crew audio commentaries spread across the four - disc set, along with an overview of Season Three, featurettes on filming the ninth episode («Battle of the Wall») and the role bastards play in the Seven Kingdoms, a roundtable discussion with the actors whose characters died in the fourth season, deleted scenes, a blooper reel and some interactive features.

Set in Los Angeles in the summer of 1969, the movie focuses on a former male TV actor who's had one hit series and is looking for a way to get into the film business.

The rest are of the supplements are just grace notes: a relaxed interview with actor Rod Taylor, a tribute to «The Original Inglorious Bastards» with director Enzo Castellari and actor Bo Svenson (who both make cameo's in QT's film), a mock - featurette on «The Making of Nation's Pride» (with the performers all in character — Eli Roth has a blast playing the sneering autocratic German auteur of this «lost» classic of Nazi propaganda cinema) and montages showing the playfulness of QT and his cast and crew on the set.

It was on the set of an earlier XMen film (2011's First Class) that she met the British actor Nicholas Hoult and began a three - year romance that ended earlier this year.

French actress Mathilda May, Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer and American actress Virginia Madsen on the set of the film «Becoming Colette», directed by American director Danny Huston.

The film is set to be released on 20 December 2013 in the USA, and has already been generating critical acclaim during the upcoming awards season, being nominated for no less than 7 Golden Globes including, Best Motion Picture, Best Actor — Christian Bale, Best Actress — Amy Adams, Best Supporting Actress — Jennifer Lawrence, Best Supporting Actor — Bradley Cooper and two nominations for director David O'Russell with Best Screenplay and Best Director.

Mere days after wrapping Marvel's Doctor Strange, the actor is now back on the Sherlock set as filming on the long - awaited fourth season of the immensely popular series has begun.

Jason Bateman is set to direct Nicole Kidman's new film The Family Fang.The Horrible Bosses actor will also star in the movie based on Kevin Wilson's...

Oscar - winning actor Billy Bob Thornton is set to star in a new TV series based on the Coen Brothers» cult film Fargo.

During Star Wars Celebration last month it was revealed Rogue One will focus on a crew who set out to steal the Death Star plans, so it seems likely Luna could be playing a central member of rebel soldier Felicity Jones» gang — regardless, I'm just excited to see the first Star Wars Anthology film is continuing Force Awakens «trend of diversifying the franchise and casting incredible actors of color (crossing all my appendages that Rogue One actually delivers on its rumored LGBTQ + representation as well).

The anonymous actor admits to Vulture that bringing an acting coach on set to help Ehrenreich channel Harrison Ford worked in the film's favor.

Included is an excellent new audio commentary by the always informative film historian / author Troy Howarth; an additional audio commentary by director Peter Duffell and author Jonathan Rigsby; a new 10 - minute interview with second assistant director Mike Higgins; A-Rated Horror Film, a 17 - minute vintage featurette about the film featuring interviews with director Peter Duffell and actors Geoffrey Bayldon, Ingrid Pitt, and Chloe Franks; the English and Spanish theatrical trailers for the film, both in HD; 4 radio spots; an animated image gallery with 68 stills containing on - set photos, promotional materials, and advertisements; and a collection of Amicus radio spots and still galleries for Asylum, At the Earth's Core, From Beyond the Grave, Madhouse, Scream and Scream Again, Tales from the Crypt, The Beast Must Die, The Land That Time Forgot, The Mind of Mr. Soames, The People That Time Forgot, and Vault of Horror.