Sentences with phrase «as tv»

So, let a listing of some of the major characters suffice to bring an anticipatory smile to your face: Harry Shearer as Victor Allan Miller, best - known for playing a frankfurter in television commercials; Eugene Levy as Morley Orfkin, Miller's worthless agent; John Michael Higgins as Corey Taft, clueless publicist; Jennifer Coolidge as Whitney Taylor Brown, superfluous producer / financier; Ed Begley Jr. as Sandy Lane, stylist to the semi-stars; Parker Posey and Christopher Monyihan as romantically entangled co-stars; Bob Balaban and Michael McKean as the screenwriters; Jane Lynch and Fred Willard as hosts of an «Entertainment Tonight» - like TV show; Michael Hitchcock and Don Lake as TV film critics; Ricky Gervais and Guest himself as the director of «Home for Purim.»

The alien is brought back to Earth, where he eventually meets up with his successor Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen, who's been voicing this character ever since his early days as a TV - cartoon hero.).

As a TV blares the ridiculously macho propaganda of male self - help guru Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), one by one we're introduced to the characters, storylines, and relationships that intertwine over one eventful 24 - hour period detailed in the film.

As far as TV movies on DVD go, Cadet Kelly's release is respectable.

The video game industry which has strived since the 1980s to have the same cultural cache as TV and movies has found a taboo that can make gamers feel like they're consuming more mature, provocative entertainment.

«[RASL] was a motion picture pitch, which we felt was more potent as TV project in its merging of sci - fi, fantasy, and social commentary with strong characters and themes,» said Walter Parkes of Parkes + MacDonald.

Using their extensive experience working with talent, Ignjatovic and Prager launched Den of Thieves as the TV arm of the Warner Music Group in 2007.

Landing a second job as a TV personality on Showtime (where his boss is played by Teri Hatcher), Erik is enjoying his newfound respect — especially the look in the eyes of his adoring son Teddy (Dakota Goyo), to whom he's told more than a few tall tales (such as being buddies with John Elway).

The project was originally intended as a TV show but Japanese investors enabled the expansion of the project into a full - length film.

Debuting as a TV movie in its Gallic homeland (the Blu - ray offers the film both in English and French), the hour - long feature is minor but not without interest, with Welles cast as a dying man who longs to turn a popular myth involving a sailor and a woman into a real event.

It was a WB drama before those were respected, dismissed as the TV version of a chick flick before complicated female relationships were appreciated regardless of gender, and delivered dizzying, referential dialogue at a time when such writing was routinely scoffed at as merely cute, instead of hailed as «sharp» as it is today.

The movie's only real drawback is as obvious as every TV commercial and theatrical trailer produced for it.

There's editor brother John Gilroy (Pacific Rim) and producer brother Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton) along with actress wife Rene Russo (Big Trouble) as a TV news producer.

Great post there As for your number one spot, I will argue that Twin Peaks is a continuing film series disguised as a TV series.

Hocus Pocus is returning from the grave as a TV movie remake without any of the original cast.

Wednesday night's 7th Annual African American Film Critics Association's (AAFCA) Awards at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood celebrated 2015's Best Films such as «Straight Outta Compton,» «Creed,» «Dope,» «Carol,» «Chi - raq,» «The Peanuts Movie,» «A Ballerina's Tale,» «The Danish Girl,» «Concussion» and «The Martian,» as well as TV shows such as «Black - ish,» «How to Get Away with Murder» and «Survivor's Remorse.»

Nice Guys, which Black wrote with Anthony Bagarozzi, was initially envisioned as a TV series but never got past the pilot stage.

But the campaign for more politics as TV drama has only begun.

The character of Stone Crandall (played by Chris Hemsworth), the husband of Rusty's sister Audrey (Leslie Mann), is over-the-top and completely unbelieveable as a TV weatherman being looked at by «the networks».

We don't even think of cable as TV — one asks, «What's on TV?»

Recently rebooted as a TV series, this 2007 film from writer / director Frank Darabont remains fairly underrated.

A misogynistic, flat farce starring the usually adorable Elizabeth Banks as a TV news anchor who gets trapped overnight in downtown Los Angeles without a car or a cell phone.

Based on the NBC series Heroes, our game this week is a time manipulation / puzzle platformer that fans of the genre, as well as TV series, will enjoy.

One of the few critics associations awarding the year's best in both film and TV, GALECA chose Amazon's freshman breakout Transparent as TV Comedy of the Year.

And they have an established relationship with Refn, having worked with him on a version of the Barbarella reboot that's currently bubbling away as a TV drama in Amazon's development cooker.

«Morning Glory» stars Rachel McAdams as a TV producer hired to boost ratings on a failing morning show that's anchored by two feuding past - prime personalities (Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford).

You may not know him by name, but if you've seen Richard Linklater's Slacker, you probably remember artist Kal Spelletich from his memorable scene as a TV obsessive — not a television watcher but a collector of old televisions, which he places...

This is the kind of source material that would have fared much better as a TV series on a channel like the USA Network, because from the look of things, it's highly unlikely that the studio will get the chance to adapt the entire Plum series, let alone the follow - up «Two for the Dough.»

As the story opens, we find him having a hard time holding on to his day gig as a TV - jingle writer.

R&B star John Legend has stepped in to replace Lionel Richie as a TV judge on a new U.S. reality show.The veteran Hello hitmaker signed on to front...

Deadline has reported that Ascendant, what was to be the final film in the series, is heading over to their recently acquired Starz as a TV series.

The celebrated «werewolf noir» story by the author of «Game of Thrones» is in development as a TV series.

never really worked for me as either a radio show or as a TV mini-series.

Recently it was announced that the final film in the DIVERGENT series would be released as a TV movie.

But the writer - director never finds a coherent point of view (or a way out of Strindberg's three - wall play structure), and Miss Julie ends up merely a whirlwind of moods without a center, as changeable and as random as a TV flipping channels.

Since as far back as his TV movie Fraulein (1986), Michael Haneke has used contemporaneous television news broadcasts as a form of punctuation in his narratives.

Now, more than four decades after the Academy Award - nominated film, THE EXORCIST returns as a TV series.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Modern - Day Version of Noah's Ark Arrives on DVD Steve Carrell's breakout role came in Bruce Almighty where he managed to upstage Jim Carrey as TV news anchorman Evan Baxter.

Kore - eda started his career as a TV documentarian, working regularly at TV Man Union, before making his feature debut in 1995 with «Maborosi.»

But as a Tv - show fanatic, I can say I'm looking forward to it... calmly.

The isolated honor comes at an interesting time, as the industry ponders if a doc like «OJ» should be counted as TV or film (it's nearly 8 hours in length, and had both theatrical and TV rollouts).

Everest's story is of the 1996 events, made famous by Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air (already filmed as a TV movie with Christopher McDonald as Krakauer), in which three separate Everest expeditions ran into tragic difficulty in a sudden storm.

We wrote it as a TV pilot and sold it to CBS, and they had a lot of notes, which we addressed.

Clea DuVall is an acclaimed actor whose credits over the past twenty years include the cult favorites But I'm a Cheerleader and The Faculty, Rodrigo Garcia's Passengers, David Fincher's Zodiac, and Ben Affleck's Oscar - winning Argo, as well as the TV shows Veep, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, Better Call Saul, American Horror Story, New Girl, The Newsroom, and Carnivàle.

Scenes of Segel on the job as a TV show composer are more distracting than amusing, and a strange choice considering the character himself is supposed to be lazy and unambitious.

While masquerading as a TV - series spin - off, TZ under the editorship of TED Klein was an excellent periodical devoted to horror and dark fantasy.

Thankfully, the original writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are attached to the project, which shouldn't be a big stretch for them, as Zombieland was developed as a TV series before it was adapted for film.

And Alan Ball, who is probably better known as TV showrunner on «Six Feet Under» and «True Blood» but who of course is behind the screenplay for «American Beauty,» did big - screen directorial duty on «Towelhead» which we're ashamed to say we haven't caught up with yet, but we've heard some good things about.

Year after year her awards are fraught with controversy that includes incomplete nominations lists (check out the TWO nominations in Adapted Screenplay this year), names that are later removed (which happened to Viola Davis for 2008's Doubt), actors being listed as TV shows (I'm looking at your, Lizzy Caplan) but the biggest and most real controversy has been the group's penchant for nominating films they haven't even seen.

Schaefer's subsequent non-TV films were as forgettable as his TV work was memorable; arguably the best of his Hollywood efforts was An Enemy of the People, a 1978 labor of love co-conceived by Schaefer and star Steve McQueen.