Sentences with phrase «before turning director»

Yet another bonkers thriller starring Nicolas Cage, this trashy crime comedy comes from director Paul Schrader, who wrote classics like Taxi Driver before turning director with American Gigolo.

Not exact matches

After starting in sales, she had moved up to market research and before turning 30 was already the company's Business Development Director.

His dinner guests, a logistics consultant, a Marriott hotel representative and Silverman's new administrative director, eat through a few courses before discussion turns to dessert.

Players, directors and supporters alike are sure to spend the coming weeks assessing performances, assigning blame and handing out praise before all eyes turn to the excitement of the summer transfer window.

But, before you turn the kids loose, review these easy steps to take to make summer play a littler safer from Malcolm Denniss, Technical Director for SGS Consumer Testing Services.

The director at the child care center where she works had determined the order in which workers could get married or pregnant, and apparently, there was an unspoken rule that one must not take their «turn» before a senior staff member.

«The clear issue is before the kid turns 1 [going to the bathroom] is a purely reflex action,» explains New York City psychoanalyst Leon Hoffman, MD, director of the Pacella Parent Child Center.

But even before Friday's discovery of potentially lethal bomb plots, the Guardian reported that the review ordered by the incoming home secretary, and apparently in the safe hands of the former director of public prosecutions turned Lib Dem peer Lord Macdonald, was in danger of being captured by the security establishment.

«Paterson has time to turn things around before the 2010 election, of course, but there's not a hint of good news for him in this poll,» says Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

For weeks the artisans of the studio workshops had worked on building this pseudo submarine; and before the camera crank was turned the technical director had gone over every detail of its construction to make sure that it emulated successfully the interior of a modern submarine.

They will exhaust molecular breeding options before turning to GM, said John Soper, Pioneer's soybean research director.

In 1997, Kors was named the first - ever women's ready - to - wear designer and creative director of Céline, where he helped to turn the French fashion house around with successful accessories and a critically acclaimed ready - to - wear line, before leaving in October 2003 to concentrate on his own brand.

[Note: Italian - American Catholic Martin Scorsese was originally slated to direct the film, but turned down the chance - claiming the film needed a director of Jewish descent - before turning it over to Spielberg.]

Though his breakout success could only be hinted at when he appeared in director Julian Schnabel's critically acclaimed drama Before Night Falls the previous year, it was his turn as a naïve, sex - starved teen in Cuarón's coming - of - age comedy drama that catapulted him to international stardom.

Anglade sealed his success with Maladie d'Amour (1987) and Nocturne Indien (1989) before reuniting with director Besson in Nikita; the film, which cast him as the boyfriend of the titular punk turned assassin (Anne Parillaud), helped him attract notice in the United States.

This is reportedly the director's final Transformers movie before he turns over the reins, and he approaches it with infectious glee, as if he were the ringmaster of the world's largest zero - gravity robot orgy and delighted at the chance to crack the whip one last time.»

Another director to take a turn in English for the American market before returning to his mother tongue is Norwegian director Joachim Trier.

Before long she was Hollywood's only female director, turning out seven feature films and over one hundred TV episodes over a period of approximately two decades.

Whereas the director could get away with such a move as a novice nobody on his seemingly out - of - nowhere (though healthily budgeted and Peter Jackson - backed) debut, Blomkamp will be judged more harshly this time around, having enjoyed enviable success before even turning 30.

Language: English Genre: Action / Sci - Fi MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Matthew Vaughn Actors: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon Plot: Explores the early relationship of Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr when they were friends, long before they took the names Professor X and Magneto, and the rift that forms between turning them to arch-enemies.

A good guy one episode and a bad guy the next, he began as a presumed - dead American soldier turned into an Islamic terrorist before being «saved» by the C.I.A.; he was then disavowed again and propped up on heroin in a basement in Caracas before most recently being re-recruited by Saul (Mandy Patinkin) in the hopes that he could get close enough to assassinate the Director of Iranian Intelligence, General Akbari (Houshang Touzie), thereby promoting Saul's true asset within Tehran, Majid Javadi (Shaun Toub).

CREED Stallone turned down writer / director Ryan Coogler's request to play Rocky Balboa again for several years before he finally said yes.

But the tide began to turn in late January when «The King's Speech,» the British period piece about George VI's struggle to overcome his stutter before being crowned king of England, began to pick up steam, winning the Producers Guild of America Award, the Directors Guild of America Award for Tom Hooper, the top Screen Actors Guild Award and the BAFTA for best film.

Before going any further, before my bias toward the Kiwi's new movie renders me a totally unreliable resource, I should point out that this is the same director who made Vertical Limit, the face - palming result of woefully apparent and inadequate research that turned the rock climbing community into the laughingstock of audiences everyBefore going any further, before my bias toward the Kiwi's new movie renders me a totally unreliable resource, I should point out that this is the same director who made Vertical Limit, the face - palming result of woefully apparent and inadequate research that turned the rock climbing community into the laughingstock of audiences everybefore my bias toward the Kiwi's new movie renders me a totally unreliable resource, I should point out that this is the same director who made Vertical Limit, the face - palming result of woefully apparent and inadequate research that turned the rock climbing community into the laughingstock of audiences everywhere.

She tackled the issue of women in Hollywood, documenting how director Callie Khouri, an Academy Award winner for Thelma and Louise, was turned down repeatedly for 10 years before directing The Divine Secrets of the Ya - Ya Sisterhood.

Director Joseph Kosinski is a protégé of David Fincher's and was an architect before turning his attention to film.

Ginsburg received standing ovations from the Sundance audience, but she turned her compliments to directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen, whose work she had seen before.

She first collaborated with the director on a 1979 radio play before going on to star in six of his feature films, climaxing with a stunning lead turn in 2002's «All or Nothing» that was shamefully ignored by awards bodies on both sides of the Atlantic.

Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite goes incredibly deep, using amazing, never - before - seen footage of actual, life - and - death events, along with TV news accounts and raw, compelling interviews with former SeaWorld trainers and others forever effected by this practice of capturing killer whales and turning them into entertainers.

Ritesh Batra «s romantically melancholy «The Lunchbox» is a lovely diversion with a nice turn from Irrfan Khan; Ron Howard «s «Rush» is jolt of new energy from a director that's a pretty terrific piece of entertainment; Jude Law chews the scenery like you've never seen him before in «Dom Hemingway «-- it's his Tom Hardy /» Bronson» moment; Mike Myers «directorial debut with the documentary «SuperMensch» is surprisingly affecting while «Dallas Buyer's Club» will rightfully earn attention thanks to two excellent turns by Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto.

Jamie Foxx believes fans will feel sorry for Max Dillon before he turns into the blue - skinned foe of Peter Parker in director Marc Webb's sequel.

Writer - director Richard Tanne, in his first turn behind the camera, takes a popular anecdote about how the president wooed his first lady and turns it into a sweetly speculative Richard Linklater imitation, following his two before - they - were - great icons on a walk and talk excursion across Chicago, as they chat about their lives, their ambitions, and their responsibility to the city.

In all smiles, Zhang Ziyi took turns hugging her costars including Tony Leung, Chang Chen, Max Zhang, Ada Choi, and director Wong Kar - wai, before heading onstage to claim her award.

Out of protest, the Fat Guys get rid of the Alpha and Omega trailer before laying down a Fat Guy Five about actors - turned - directors.

As it turns out, the director was able to see the future and knew Baby Driver was poised for greatness years before it was released.

Having been on the Croisette before with his debut film Un 32 août sur Terrre (Un Certain Regard), and the Directors» Fortnight was home for his epic short Next Floor and sobering Polytechnique, the Quebecois helmer saw his critically lauded Incendies and Enemy receive a pass from the fest, but it was this work that ultimately convinced backers with deep pockets to have the auteur filmmaker move onto large - scale productions (Prisoners, Story of Us, the Blade Runner sequel), and in turn Sicario is now among the hopefuls for the Palme d'Or.

The most comedic of the Beverly Hills Cop films turns out to be the least amusing, despite a veteran director (Landis, An American Werewolf in London) and screenwriter (de Souza, Hudson Hawk), ones who have worked with Murphy before to success, signing on.

So director George Miller and Nicholas Hoult were in New York today promoting the film before final nomination ballots are turned in on Friday.

Writer / director Robert Eggers» debut feature, which premiered to great acclaim at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival — winning the Best Director Prize in the U.S. Narrative Competition — painstakingly recreates a God - fearing New England decades before the 1692 Salem witch trials, in which religious convictions tragically turned to mass hdirector Robert Eggers» debut feature, which premiered to great acclaim at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival — winning the Best Director Prize in the U.S. Narrative Competition — painstakingly recreates a God - fearing New England decades before the 1692 Salem witch trials, in which religious convictions tragically turned to mass hDirector Prize in the U.S. Narrative Competition — painstakingly recreates a God - fearing New England decades before the 1692 Salem witch trials, in which religious convictions tragically turned to mass hysteria.

Deutch has Hollywood running through her veins — her parents are director Howard Deutch and actress / director Lea Thompson, while her sister, Madelyn, is also an actress — and may have dabbled briefly in competitive jazz dance growing up (Thompson also briefly flirted with a career in dancing before turning to acting), but she always knew she wanted to act.

Like Transformers before it, it's a great idea for a kid's toy line and a tentpole action flick — and you might as well get the director behind one of the biggest - earning vehicular action movies of all time to help turn it into one.

Luxembourg - born, French - based actress - turned - director Anne Fontaine is no novice to feature films or erotic material; her filmography includes Coco Before Chanel and Nathalie..., the film remade as America's Chloe.

Dan Lin (Sherlock Holmes), Roy Lee (Quarantine, The Strangers) and Brian Rogers are producing, and although there is no word on a director as of yet, I have to think it won't be long before Louis Leterrier's name turns up as a possibility.

Director E.L. Katz starts Cheap Thrills off as a sort of funny crossover between Saw and Jackass before gradually turning the film into something as vicious as Funny Games.

Mr. Lin's early career was as an aerospace engineer, before he turned, in his mid-20s, to coaching, teaching, and serving as a human - resources director.

He previously was a practicing attorney in business and labor law, deputy director at the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Workforce Development and chief executive officer at a Boston nonprofit before turning to education.

She smiled as she made the turn past the Corvette Store to the cheering of staff and guests, before parking it in front of the Corvette Café and handing over the keys to Museum Director Wendell Strode.

Coordinate Your Surrenders «We speak with families who plan on giving up their pet and ask them to wait at least a week before turning them into the shelter, so we can promote the animal on our Facebook page,» says Director Margaret Shepherd of the Northeast Arkansas Humane Society.

Ken Levine, co-founder and creative director at the studio, wrote in a note that his passion «has turned to making a different kind of game than we've done before.»

There is a wonderful high - budget movie feel to this newest version of Twisted Metal, and it seems like this game truly is what David envisioned back in»95 (after all, the man did want to become a movie director originally, before he turned to video games).