Sentences with phrase «big film break»

Lindhardt's big film break came with A PLACE NEARBY in 2000.

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Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.

CNBC Meets» Tania Bryer meets actor, screenwriter and philanthropist Matt Damon, who discusses his big break in the film world.

One of the biggest surprises in «Avengers: Age of Ultron» occurs about halfway through the film when our heroes break away from the action for a more light - hearted family - centric scene on a farm.

Tull broke away in 2013 and has expanded in television while making big bets on his own films, including «Pacific Rim» and «Godzilla.»

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

During Wednesday's film session, he watched Virginia Tech's successful blitz pick - up, including a third - down screen breaking for big yardage.

Do you think the film of soapy bubble water is more likely to break the bigger it is and more it stretches?

Cynthia Nixon is calling for the big film industry tax break to be reined in as part of her run for governor — but the actress» own «Sex and the...

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

Cynthia Nixon is calling for the big film industry tax break to be reined in as part of her run for governor — but the actress» own «Sex and the City» movies scored enough dough from the $ 420 - million program to buy a lifetime supply of Manolos.

To achieve the high - definition needed for the big screen, Domino takes images which have been shot on movie film and converts them into a video format by breaking each of the 24 frames per second into a mosaic of 3000 × 2000 picture points.

In 2000, she got her big - screen break, starring in the horror film parody Scary Movie — and, later, three of its four sequels.

PLANETARIUM (Planetarium) Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Cast: Natalie Portman, Lily - Rose Depp, Emmanuelle Salinger, Louis Garrel Searching for their big break, two American sisters, who earn their living through clairvoyance, arrive in 1930s Paris, where they beguile a movie - producer intent on shooting their séances as part of an ambitious new film.

In the end, Imperial Dreams doesn't break any new ground when it comes to filmmaking, but the story it's telling is just as powerful as any big budget film being released nowadays, if not more.

It's Howle that is the film's big find, and the rising star break outs as the wounded and compelling Edward, a rough - hewed «bumpkin» who wears his heart on his sleeve.

Later that year, Macdonald appeared in Mike Figgis» The Loss of Sexual Innocence, playing the young girlfriend of the film's protagonist; and in Gregg Araki's Splendor, a romantic comedy in which she played the blue - haired best friend of the film's heroine.After a slew of similar supporting roles, including a memorable turn as the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Colin Firth in My Life So Far, MacDonald was given possibly her biggest break since Trainspotting when Robert Altman cast her as a lead (albeit one of many) in Gosford Park (2001).

Alexander Skarsgard has been a name thrown around a lot in smaller films or supporting roles, but this seems to be his first big break, at least in my opinion.

But the film also has too many memorable vignettes to count: Haven Hamilton's prickly recording session, where he mercilessly browbeats a hippie pianist; Barbara Jean's squirmily uncomfortable, rambling psychological meltdown while performing live for an impatient, unforgiving audience; Sueleen's conflicted ambitions when her «big break» devolves into a cheap striptease act; gentle Mr. Green's quiet suffering at the hands of his flakey niece; John Triplette's negotiations with various talent, buttering each of them up with compliments while at the same time insulting the musical form (and its admirers) in which they practice.

In one of the week's biggest pieces of film news to filter down through the regular internet channels, The King's Speech «s Colin Firth joined The Kids Are All Right «s Mia Wasikowska and Rabbit Hole «s Nicole Kidman in the mysterious feature (with the ladies replacing the earlier cast of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps «s Carey Mulligan and The Brave One «s Jodie Foster), which heralds from a script written by Prison Break star Wentworth Miller.

So far «Deadpool» has broken three box office records: Biggest opening weekend in February, Biggest opening weekend in the winter and biggest opening weekend for an R - rateBiggest opening weekend in February, Biggest opening weekend in the winter and biggest opening weekend for an R - rateBiggest opening weekend in the winter and biggest opening weekend for an R - ratebiggest opening weekend for an R - rated film.

Here's an entirely respectable film about Johnny Cash that begins in his childhood, proceeds into the Big Break, then segues from there into the euphoria of fame; the drug abuse and the groupies; the «Come to Jesus»; the rehabilitation; and the closing obituary.

Weinstein gave Clooney his first big break as an actor in the film «From Dusk till Dawn,» as well as his first big directing break with «Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.»

Even though it is mostly getting positive reviews, Ant - Man still has one very big hurdle to overcome: the lukewarm reception by audiences, and the very real possibility that by breaking from the Marvel mold, the film positions itself to alienate and confuse die hard fans of the MCU formula.

Basil Poledouris's lucky break as a film composer came because his old college buddy John Milius gave him a shot at Big Wednesday.

Some big Quentin Tarantino news has just broken from TheHollywoodReporter as they have revealed his next film.

He's done a few shorts, and two documentaries, but his three feature films so far — the comedy «The Ape,» the Sal Mineo biopic «Sal,» and Hart Crane tale «The Broken Tower» — haven't exactly become big hits or critical favorites.

Ava DuVernay over the last few years has become a mighty presence in cinema, and an important voice that shines a light on diversity in her films and the stories she tells and while I Will Follow came first and Selma counted as her big break out moment, Middle of Nowhere is what officially started the stir.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening September 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS 3:10 to Yuma (R for violence and profanity) Christian Bale and Russell Crowe co-star in this remake of the 1957 classic Western about the dangerous gauntlet across the desert negotiated by a broke rancher out to collect a bounty for escorting an outlaw man to a train waiting to transport the wanted man to justice.

Two films make big jumps this month, The Theory of Everything (which breaks into the top 10 for the first time) and Gone Girl.

The film raked in $ 155 million in the US in its opening weekend, breaking box office records for biggest nonsummer and biggest nonsequel debut for a feature film.

After breaking out big in the early 1990s, actor Jim Carrey took on his most challenging role yet - playing Andy Kaufman in the film Man on the Moon.

For Laure, this is a spiritual act (one of many baptisms in the film), and for De Palma it's a correction: he flips Billy Wilder the bird by saddling his femme fatale with a crisis that matters, even if her personal pain is not readily apparent when she and a group of thugs break into the Cannes Palais, hoping to swipe a fortune in diamonds from Regis Wargnier's whorish girlfriend Veronica (Rie Rasmussen), with whom Laure makes out in a bathroom stall while Wargnier's hideous East - West plays on the big screen.

Their biggest project to date, FROM THE LOST DAYS comes 7 years after the success of their first Silent Hill fan film, Broken Notes.

The 2016 Deadpool film broke data and changed into an astounding essential and industrial luck, particularly for an R - rated film, which is why many studios are actually satisfied R - rated comedian e book films can paintings on a big scale.

Magnolia Pictures released a new movie clip from the upcoming film «Bel Ami» by directors Declan Donnellan (The Big Fish) and Nick Ormerod and starring Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, Water for Elephants, Twilight), Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: Vol.

Just as the girls are close to landing a record deal from an important producer (Curtis Armstrong, adding to his legacy of black musician films in an apparent effort to further shed his reputation as «Booger from Revenge of the Nerds»), Sister's troubled situation costs them their big break.

This film proved to be Blyth's big break and boy, you can see why.

With a resume that big, it's tough to say how accurate the number is, but if you thought this might be the one with which Corman would break from the cheap, crass playbook he's relied on for over fifty years, then take another look at the cover art above and notice that the film is called Camel Spiders.

Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, The Amazing Spider - Man and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey are tipped to be the biggest films of 2012.

Salma Hayek had her big break portraying Frida Kahlo in the film «Frida.»

Could Fantastic Beasts be the Wizarding World film to finally break into the night's bigger categories?

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: When it comes to cinema, there are often little gems in a sea of bigger spectacles, that can break through in the most proficient way.

Benjamin Wallfisch seemed likely to become a film composer of real note just a few years ago, writing elegant, classically - styled music of sophistication, suggesting he might follow the path of someone like Alexandre Desplat if he got the big breaks.

The movie was filmed in such places as Belgium, England, and Florida, and Burton told EW that the break away from sound stages (on big - budget tentpoles like Alice in Wonderland) was a nice change of pace of him too:

Oscar - nominated films hoping to bring home major trophies at the March 4 ceremony have not broken out with as much commercial force as past years» crops, a reality that is starting to sink in as the big night approaches.

At a conference at the film's Los Angeles press junket, co-stars Dwayne Johnson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (who plays Agent Russell) and Joe Manganiello (who plays Burke, the leader of a team of mercenaries sent to stop one of the animals) talked about breaking the video game to movie curse, the ambition of filmmaker Brad Peyton, the relationship between Davis and George, the gorilla, being big animal lovers themselves, and the influence of Jurassic Park.

Though the sequel has a new director and some new cast members, Deadpool 2 is unsurprisingly doubling down on what made the first film such a big hit, including jokes about exactly how big of a hit at the box office it was, as well as plenty of other fourth - wall - breaking moments.

He further won over comedy fans with a killer guest spot savaging «Glee» on the Christmas episode of «Community,» but he's getting his big - screen break in a much more surprising venue: he recently joined the astonishing cast of Steve McQueen «s «Twelve Years A Slave,» alongside Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt (who presumably approves of Killam's impression, given that he's the film's producer), Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodard, Ruth Negga, Garret Dillahunt and Scoot McNairy, among many others.

Avengers: Infinity War is set to wrap production on July 14th, but that doesn't mean the cast and crew will be getting a big break between films.