Sentences with phrase «been movie star trying»

Riggan Thomson, «Birdman» Keaton's performance as a has - been movie star trying to make a comeback as the star, writer and director of a new Broadway play was simply sensational.

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Since the «Star Wars» prequels, in which George Lucas was heavily criticized for using too much CGI to create the worlds and characters, many big - budget movies have tried to find that happy medium of practical and visual effects to give the action on screen a more grounded feel.

It so happens that Dennis Hopper, the director, star, and cowriter of «Easy Rider,» has an idea for a movie he's been trying to make for the last decade called «The Last Movie.&rmovie he's been trying to make for the last decade called «The Last Movie.&rMovie.»

Numerous medalists have tried to take on Tinseltown following their athletic retirement, but after the endorsement deals expire, most showbiz careers are limited to an occasional TV guest spot, a brief movie cameo or a stint on reality shows like Celebrity Apprentice and Dancing With the Stars.

The Miz, legitimate Hollywood movie star, is looking to prove he's not a joke, while the appearing - to - be-winding-things-down giant Big Show is trying for (perhaps) one last title run.

The Film House is trying to sign star Gina Carano, a former mixed martial arts fighter who has starred in several movies, to be in «The Opium War.»

She's certainly kept in shape over the years, and she's the only one actually trying to act in this movie, but it's still a little depressing to see a well - known TV star grimacing her way through whipping scenes.

Jolie has a gangly inelegance that suggests a giraffe trying to hang wallpaper — but the entire movie is predicated on a spark between its prettier - than - thou stars that seems to have bypassed the screen and ignited in the tabloids instead.

The film is a deep character study of Riggan Thomson played by a moving and stellar Michael Keaton a once - time big movie star struggling to regain importance in his contemporary setting while trying to establish himself as an artist worthy of praise and to get rid of his «Birdman» image.

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 whole endeavor is an exercise in trying to do too many things — rehash a nostalgic property, propel Mexican film star Eugenio Derbez to mainstream stardom, revive Anna Faris» film career — but it never actually manages to be a good movie.

A Quiet Place John Krasinski's thrillingly intelligent post-apocalyptic horror movie, in which he stars with Emily Blunt as a couple trying to protect their family from monsters who hunt by sound, is walking - on - eggshells cinema of a very high order.

Despite his enormous success, Eszterhas seemingly felt slighted by the industry in which he made his living, and decided to bite the hand that fed him with Hollywood satire «An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn,» in which director Eric Idle makes a $ 200 million action movie (starring Sylvester Stallone, Jackie Chan and, um, Whoopi Goldberg) and tries to take his name off of it after studio interference, but is unable to because his name is actually Alan Smithee.

Seth Rogan is a hot dog trying to discover the truth about what happens to food when it leaves the grocery store in Sausage Party, the first R - Rated computer animated movie also starring the voices of Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton, Salma Hayek, and the rest of the Rogen / Goldberg crew.

After Dreamworks SKG was launched to great fanfare, its first movie release was an escapist action thriller, 1997's The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman trying to save the world from some rogue Russian army officers who steal some nuclear bombs.

Scene by scene, the movie is a bit uneven, but it's never long before it presents a moment of genuine glee, whether it be Mannix's presentation of the Hail, Caesar script to a group of religious luminaries for review («The Bible, of course, is terrific,» Mannix allows, sounding for an instant like Donald Trump); a marvelous exchange in which Fiennes's director tries to get through to his out - of - his - depth new star (respond to her «importuning,» he advises, with a «mirthless chuckle»); or an extended, gloriously homoerotic Tatum tap - dance number entitled «No Dames.»

It's almost as if the movie is working against its stars more often than it tries to help them.

Some of these movies include «Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,» a comedy film starring Andy Samberg, which is now in theaters and the longevity of which at the box office remains to be seen; «Central Intelligence,» another comedy which stars Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson and which will be released on June 17; and «The Shallows,» a movie about a woman trying to escape a shark which stars Blake Lively.

Both of these labyrinthine stories are mired in movie memories that the filmmakers try to reconcile with their visions of Los Angeles in the 90s, but Benton's references mainly run to the late westerns of Howard Hawks and to his own previous feature, Nobody's Fool (also starring Newman and coscripted by Russo), whereas the Coen brothers, characteristically, are all over the map, taking in Busby Berkeley, The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Cutter's Way, After Hours, and their own Barton Fink.

Game Night is a playfully subversive comedy, one so tightly wound with smart and surprising jokes that I found myself trying to remember the last time I'd seen a commercial comedy full of movie stars that captured and held my attention so completely.

, action star Liam Neeson and director Jaume Collet - Serra have crafted their most satisfying work to date by sticking to a tried - and - true crime movie template, and allowing a talented cast and tight production values to be the only high concept they need.

But «Torino» had Eastwood's big movie - star presence to fill gaps, and its untrained actors were playing people not themselves, thereby requiring them to try to show signs of their characters» interior lives.

Instead of marveling at the spectacle of a father trying to break a door so he can kill his kids, we marvel at this Academy Award - winning actor starring in a movie that's so far beneath him that it's amazing he didn't need a microscope just to read the script.

It follows two seedy investigators — Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) and Holland March (Ryan Gosling)-- as they try to track down a young girl named Amelia (The Leftovers» Margaret Qualley) and figure out why everyone connected to a porn movie she starred in is being killed off.

Colin Farrell is at his best when he's not trying to do the movie star thing.

The movie, which is set to be released on March 11, 2011, follows a pregnant Electra Luxx, a former porn star, who is trying to make a living teaching a sex education class to housewives.

In a career - best performance from Moore, we learn that Havana is desperately trying to land the lead role in a remake of a movie which starred her late mother (Sarah Gadon) who, to add spice to the mix, appears at various junctures to berate Havana for her messed - up life and to remind her that she'll never be the actress she was.

In September, we reported that Johnny Depp was set to star in a movie about Detective Russell Poole, the Los Angeles cop who has spent years trying to prove that there was some connection between the LAPD, various gangs, Suge Knight, and the murders of both Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.

Schumer seems to be actively trying to avoid becoming the latest movie star comedienne who gets cast in similar roles in different films only to burn out until the next big thing hits (i.e. Melissa McCarthy's career).

Laura Butler Movie stars Liam Cunningham and Michael Fassbender are two of his closest friends, but Dylan McGrath has insisted that despite their encouragement he will never try his hand at acting.

In the case of Donnie Darko, any movie that used a plane crash as a major catalyst for its plot and which was released just a month after the 9/11 attacks had about as much of a chance of success as I would if I tried to get a gig writing a Star Wars movie.

But the 35 - year - old Lego Movie star - who is married to actress Anna Faris - also confessed he has already tried and failed at script writing.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

Basically, Universal is trying to lineup a formidable force of legit movie stars to lead their burgeoning shared universe.

The big story, however, is the cast, which includes former Disney stars Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez trying to break free from their squeaky clean images with more adult roles, and James Franco continuing his bizarre acting career with a turn as a cornrowed, gold - toothed wannabe gangster that should make the movie worth seeing whether it's good or not.

They try to make happen British model - turned - actress Cara Delevingne as big movie star, but it's not gonna happen.

Being John Malkovich (April 29th, 18.30), a glimpse at what might be the life of the movie star, as revealed through John Cusack's failed puppeteer, keeps the viewers on their toes as they try to figure out just who is mocking whom.

Stay tuned to see if any last minute movies are added to try and brighten up the star power.

Starring Martin Sheen in his mid-life renaissance (he was going gangbusters in TV movies and short - lived series, and kept trying to break back into films, scoring, at best, supporting roles in a couple Stephen King adaptations (Firestarter and The Dead Zone) before securing the lead in 1987's The Believers.

So that means you can peruse this story and Star Wars toy aisles to your heart's content, and you won't ruin the mysteries of Star Wars: The Last Jedi unless you're trying to go into the movie without knowing anything at all.

When: July 1st Why: The «Terminator» movie franchise has been limping along for over a decade now, first with the terrible «Rise of the Machines,» and more recently with the failed reboot starring Christian Bale, but that hasn't stopped Hollywood from trying to keep the series alive.

The films» most common trait is ego, since most are star vehicles for people with no business trying to carry a movie.

4) «The LEGO Batman Movie» Smart Rating: 91.87 Release date: Friday, February 10, 2017 Genre: Children, comedy, adventure, action, animated Starring: Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson Description: There are big changes brewing in Gotham, but if Batman (Will Arnett) wants to save the city from the Joker's (Zach Galifianakis) hostile takeover, he may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.

Dave Franco In between all the writing and directing and poetry and whatnot, James Franco is also trying to be a bona - fide movie star, but the jury is still out on whether it'll work out: «Rise of the Planet of the Apes» was a big hit, but not really down to the actor, and one can't help but feel he's been spread a little thin with some of his turns.

The story of love and redemption in Hawaii is trying to be several movies at once, and jarringly so, and it wastes the considerable charisma of its stars: Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and Rachel McAdams.

To say that «Black Panther» is as imprecise an analogy for oppression and revolution as «Star Wars» and «Star Trek» isn't a slam against this film, or any Marvel film; it's an acknowledgment that genre movies tend to work best when they're anchored to emotions and big personalities, and run into trouble when the filmmakers or the audience try to map a geometrically precise relationship to the world beyond the screen.

Riggan (Michael Keaton) is a washed - up superhero movie star trying to prove his artistic relevance by adapting Raymond Carver for the stage.

Case 39 Rated R for violence and terror including disturbing images Available on DVD and Blu - ray Attempting to horn in on the creepy kid movie genre, Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper star, respectively, as a social case worker and a shrink who take an interest in the life of a little girl whose parents try to murder her.

Michael Keaton is a washed up comic book movie actor trying to make a comeback in the dark comedy Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) also starring Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, And... Read On

It's disappointing to see Brad Anderson's once - promising career relegated to low - rent fodder like this, because while the director and his two stars try their best to elevate the material, their effort only goes so far before the movie crumbles into a clichéd mess.