Sentences with phrase «as movie stars do»

He justified his wages, then reported to be # 50,000 a week, by claiming that he deserves them because he entertains people, just as movie stars do.

Not exact matches

But others point to an overreliance on movie tie - ins and a lack of novelty: Star Wars toys didn't sell as well as expected, perhaps because kids see them as a tired formula.

The company has done well with several of its movie franchises, such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and Shrek, but it doesn't have anything that really compares to the Star Wars library or the Marvel franchise (although Shrek has pulled in about $ 3.5 billion since the original movie in 2001).

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.

I think few of us will ever be directly involved with a marketing blitz as big as releasing a Star Wars movie and its related merchandise, but we can watch what the professionals in charge of those events do, and learn some valuable lessons.

Pretty impressive, especially since this doesn't even include the Lucasfilm Star Wars movies (the third trilogy of Episodes 7, 8, and 9 plus spinoff movies) which I am looking forward to as both an investor and Star Wars fan.

James Franco directs and stars as the self - unaware Tommy, playing him just about perfectly when compared side by side to scenes from The Room (which this new movie does for a few minutes during the end credits).

«Secondly, don't believe everything that you read about movie stars because some of the women who've had kids in their late 40s, such as film stars, have used donor eggs, but they don't tell you that in the article because it's their own private business,» warns Prof Ledger.

But we know that you probably don't have the same salary as a movie star — and who says an amazing piece of jewelry has to be crazy - expensive?

We're not exactly sure what the former reality television star has been up to lately, as her career seems to be at a standstill since her last web series in 2011, «Dream Maker», save for filming some scenes in «Scary Movie 5» that didn't quite make it to the final cut.

WATCH: Although many Hollywood movies use India as a film location (think A Mighty Heart starring Angelina Jolie and Zero Dark Thirty, both of which used Indian locations when they didn't receive permission to film in Pakistan), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and The Darjeeling Limited were actually filmed in and set in Jaipur and Udaipur, two of Rajasthan's biggest cities.

The dress is tiny, not red carpet - worthy and looks like it was made for someone like Kendall Jenner to wear... This look is completely lackluster and she doesn't look like a star of the movie, even Jenna as a plus one outshined her

Much to my dismay, the OkCupid A-List doesn't involve quite as many sexy movie stars and free Chanel clothes.

It is not so much based on the 1984 film which starred Jeff Bridges as a sequel to it... Even if you saw the movie, you may find the TV show confusing... If you didn't, you may be utterly bewildered.

What did impress me about Who Framed Roger Rabbit even at a young age was the converging of cartoon stars from Disney, Warner Brothers, and elsewhere, all in one movie, animated more or less as they looked in the late»40s.

Movie 43 doesn't just bury the notion that a star - studded cast can somehow elevate a film's status as a cultural product, it also pisses, defecates, and spits ethnic slurs onto its grave.

While the movie includes narration (by Charles Osgood) drawn from the book, it also allows the stars opportunity for topical pop - cultural references as well as narrative detours, as when the mayor goes in for a Who - Root Canal «Sticking» «Who» in front of everything,» he gripes, «doesn't make it hurt less») or Horton's clover lands in a field of clovers, whereupon he sets out to locate his speck - adorned lower out of the thousands stretching before him.

One of the problems «World War Z» has faced all along is that it looks like a high - concept zombie - apocalypse movie (adapted from Max Brooks» novel, told as a series of first - person accounts) but it's really something we don't see that often these days, an old - fashioned Hollywood star picture.

Perhaps it's because not having The Rock looking and acting exactly the same as he does in every other movie starring The Rock was too bold of a move for The Rock to make.

It's only a matter of time before hollywood does a big budget, computerized - effects version of this movie starring Shia LeBouf or Zach Effron as Abu.

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.

These movies and a few others show that Whoopi was a serious actress when she did «The Color Purple», and «Ghost», and we really lost her when she started playing second hand characters such as nuns («Sister Act» sequels), and playing off the radar «Star Trek» characters not to mention we totally lost her when she went from acting into the daytime talk show circuit of garbage.

Many handsome leading men lose their seductive confidence as they grow older, but Bachchan is such a industry - defining star that he can do (and often has done) whatever he wants, whether it's scowling pensively throughout a trilogy of «Godfather» - esque gangster films («Sarkar,» «Sarkar Raj» and «Sarkar 3») or playing a Cyrano de Bergerac - like bum who lends his commanding baritone voice to a struggling young movie star whose natural voice isn't sexy enough («Shamitabh»).

Shatner made one final appearance with the regular Star Trek cast in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), then served as one of the crossovers to the new series of films in Star Trek: Generations (1994), in which endlessly theorizing fans finally learned the fate of Captain Kirk.The success of the Trek movies reenergized Shatner's TV career, even if it didn't immediately earn him more film roles.

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.

Although Depp is the main character in this story (based on true events), I think it was his co - stars that make this movie go as well as it did.

It doesn't completely break The Law of Danny Huston, which dictates that any movie starring Danny Huston will usually feature him as either the root of all evil, or at least a general douchebag.

A would - be black comedy written by Tracy Letts, based on his play, and directed by 76 - year - old William Friedkin, who has done little of note since he made «The French Connection» and «The Exorcist» during the Nixon administration, the movie stars Emile Hirsch as a low - level drug dealer who decides to kill his mom to pay off his superiors.

But Last Days works only when it deviates from this pattern, as it does in a hilarious scene depicting the rock star's friendly yet indifferent agreement to buy space in the yellow pages from a clueless door - to - door salesman (Thadeus A. Thomas, the movie's only perfectly cast actor), or when it focuses on other members of Blake's entourage, or when the camera retreats at a snail's pace from the mansion for what feels like eternity.

While comic book adaptations don't always accurately represent the movies they're based on, the «Doctor Strange» prequel comic offers a lot of reveals that seem very plausible for the upcoming Marvel Studios film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the Sorcerer Supreme.

The movie — starring Saoirse Ronan (the jealous little girl from «Atonement») as the kick - ass title heroine Hanna, Eric Bana as her action - mentor dad Erik, and Cate Blanchett as Marissa, the vicious C.I.A. agent villainess — is such a departure from what Wright has done before that it's hard not to be impressed.

«The Treatment» (TBA): Outside of the «X-Men» movies, we just don't see enough of Famke Janssen, who stars here as the object of desire of a man (Chris Eigeman) ruled by his shrink (Ian Holm).

«The Messenger,» starring Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster as Army officers assigned to the Casualty Notification Office, brings the Iraq war home in a way that no other movie has done.

9:45 pm — TCM — Stormy Weather In the 1940s, African - American actors were sadly almost always either relegated to servant roles or incidental musical sequences, but MGM did a couple of movies to showcase the prodigious talents of their African - American stars, including this one starring Lena Horne in one of only two starring roles she ever had, as a popular singer being romanced by an up - and - coming dancer (Bill «Bojangles» Robinson).

Not only did it put her into contention for Spielberg's latest tentpole, but her name has surfaced as being on the shortlist for one of the Star Wars movies.

Gerald's Game, a Stephen King adaptation for Netflix starring Carla Gugino, is good Coming Soon Daniel Dae Kim's stunt training for the Hellboy reboot / Film Hocus Pocus moves forward as a TV movie remake - none of the original actors or filmmaking team are involved David Poland on Blade Runner 2049 with no spoilers «It is Aliens to Alien»... whoa, that's high praise Billboard composer Danny Elfman interviewed about Superman's iconic theme (redeployed for Justice League) and his long collaboration with Gus Van Sant Playbill Judy Garland's final concert, restored / remastered from 1969 will be released for the first time i09 on why you should be watching the Exorcist TV series, back for Season 2 / Film Amazon still has a lot of work to do to catch up with Netflix and Hulu but they're diving into the sci - fi genre big time

Although I did like the movie, some of you will probably see this as a negative review, simply for the fact that I do not give it five stars.

If the studio offered her chances to star in Disney Channel Original Movies, as they like to do for young actresses who bring them business, Hathaway turned them down.

As the titular fish out of water in the family - friendly sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel - Air, Will Smith was undeniably charming, but his presence didn't exactly scream out «future biggest movie star in the world».

Seeings as pretty much the entire continuing plot hinges on a (really obvious) twist revealed in that movie's final minutes, we'll just mention that it had Sean Bean in it and for a nice change he didn't betray anyone and / or die — meaning the Game of Thrones star can return for a larger role in the sequel.

The supporting cast includes an outstanding Daniel Kaluuya («Get Out»), a rare on - screen appearance by motion - capture master Andy Serkis with his Tolkien co-star Martin Freeman as a CIA agent, Forest Whitaker as a priest, Winston Duke as the leader of on of Wakanda's five tribes, and «This is Us» star Sterling K. Brown as a guy you're better off not knowing too much about until you see the movie, which I hope you do, more than once.

I Am Legend perhaps revealed that Mr. Lawrence could handle contemporary screen icons, as did Constantine, which starred Keanu Reeves, Shia LaBeouf, and Tilda Swinton among other potentially hazardous alchemy; but the show also affirmed that Mr. Lawrence could handle adaptations of science fiction literature (the script for Catching Fire is credited to Michael Arndt, but under a pseudonym, after having written Little Miss Sunshine and several animated movies).

Sure it's got James Franco, but the real star of the movie is Andy Serkis, whose motion - capture computer - enhanced performance as a smart ape named Caesar just won him an acting nomination alongside actors like Nick Nolte and Christopher Plummer, who didn't act standing in front of a greenscreen in a bodysuit.

From the time vaudeville star Mae Murray arrived in Hollywood in 1916, Leonard gradually became her principal director, he abandoned his own career as a movie actor by 1918, but did make unbilled cameo appearances in later films.Murray's headstrong behavior and open contempt of the studio bosses at Famous Players - Lasky (i.e., Paramount) kept both of them on a slippery slope in this period, but her great popularity with audiences likewise kept the Murray / Leonard team employed.

Roberts is a mild exception as she still seems like a movie star playing a part, but it's certainly more daring work than she's done in awhile.

She's starring in a film that didn't even have distributor until the end of October and probably would have ended up as one of those movies whose existence you question on your Netflix streaming list had Aniston not received huge raves the Toronto Film Festival.

The Indian movie star, who makes his Hollywood debut in «Silver Linings Playbook» as Dr. Patel, initially tried to connect with director - writer David O. Russell via Skype, but when that didn't work, he asked the hotel attendant to film his audition.

Michael Stuhlbarg gives a moving performance as conscience - torn movie star Edward G Robinson, even if he doesn't remotely look like the actor he is playing.

Oblivion 2013, 125 minutes, PG - 13 / Director: Joseph Kosinski / Writers: Karl Gajdusek, Michael Arndt, Joseph Kosinski / Stars: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough Buy It: Blu - ray Combo • DVD • Instant Video I'm just surprised as you by an off - season Tom Cruise vehicle standing out, but this striking sci - fi movie did just that.

The movie will be headlined by Frank Grillo, who is best - known for his roles in «The Purge» and «Wolf Warrior II,» which has grossed an estimated $ 850 million in China; Jamie Bell, who stars opposite Annette Bening in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,» which SPC is positioning as an awards contender; Margaret Qualley, who starred in «The Nice Guys» and «Novitiate,» which SPC has acquired; and James Badge Dale («Only the Brave&raqstars opposite Annette Bening in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,» which SPC is positioning as an awards contender; Margaret Qualley, who starred in «The Nice Guys» and «Novitiate,» which SPC has acquired; and James Badge Dale («Only the Brave&raqStars Don't Die in Liverpool,» which SPC is positioning as an awards contender; Margaret Qualley, who starred in «The Nice Guys» and «Novitiate,» which SPC has acquired; and James Badge Dale («Only the Brave»).