Sentences with phrase «big time actors»

They are hot commodities and can attract big time actors like Michael Douglas to play along.

We got him off the street and into an apartment (unfortunately he couldn't sustain it... he had been a big time actor and became an alcoholic... turned out he was bipolar and was self medicating.

Or big time actor Jimmy Tree (Dano) struggling with his decision to sellout by appearing in a popular robot movie instead of pursuing his desire to be taken seriously as an actor?

Walt has a need to be a big time actor, but Bob is shy, and having to perform with another man attached to you is a hindrance, to say the least.

Not exact matches

Chances are you're not a beloved actor, and being perceived as inauthentic could set you back big time.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

When it comes to Boulud's attention to the details of his empire, there appears to be no hierarchy of importance: The invite list to the upcoming soft opening in Vegas; the amount of cream in the pâté grand - mère used in a banh mi at the Épicerie; a visit to actor Bryan Cranston lunching at Bar Boulud; a call to a high - profile pediatrician on behalf of two married employees with a constipated infant; what to do with a shipment of fresh herring; the placement of speakers in a corner of the dining room at DBGB; the lighting of a photo shoot for a cookbook he's contributed to — all things big and small are apparently in Boulud's portfolio, and everything receives an equal share of energy and time.

Television ad slots have been scarce in contested states during election seasons before, but the combination of big - money super-PACs and the expectation that both presidential campaigns will spend heavily seems to be driving political actors to reserve time much earlier than usual.

Now advances in special effects mean that it will soon be impossible to tell the difference between real actors and their digital doubles (see «Digital actors set to break into the big time»).

These superfit actors from across the pond may have spent a ton of time filming some of this year's biggest television and movie hits, but they also carve Directed by Shana Feste.

From Arnold Schwarzenegger to Aaron Paul, many of your favorite actors were contestants on game shows before they hit the big time and became household names.

Very Bad Things features a pretty terrific cast; while it features no real «big time» stars other than Cameron Diaz - who only achieved that status upon the release of Mary, which happened after this film was already done - it offers a very solid list of quality actors.

The addiction to CGI and the poor use of incredible actors makes this one of the biggest wasted opportunities of all time.

There are few actors, let alone big stars, who would have taken on such a big project first time out.

Throw in Myrna Loy and you have a very fun movie with 3 actors at the top of their game.The film is about a test pilot (Gable) and his trusty mechanic (Tracy) who meet a girl (Loy) and how the strain of a test pilot's life affects them all.The film is a little long, but the action is well done.The acting is the main reason to watch this film, and if your are a fan of the big three, then you will have a good time.

Snub: Jim Parsons, «The Big Bang Theory» Lead Actor - Comedy Rough one for «BBT» and its resident all - star Jim Parsons and four - time winner.

With the word that Scott Derrickson («Sinister», «Deliver Us From Evil») is set to direct the good Doctor's big screen debut, it's time, of course, to really start discussing which actor should bring Stephen Strange to life.

Hot on the heels of his turn in Ryan Gosling's directorial debut «How to Catch A Monster» and his two - hander with Ryan Reynolds («Mississippi Grind»), not to mention snaring a lead in a new Netflix series with Kyle Chandler and Sissy Spacek, the Aussie actor has snagged a role in a big - time Ridley Scott epic.

Producers, writers and actors from the film «The Big Sick» in the L.A. Times photo studio at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Friday.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Ted Demme Actors: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Paul Reubens Plot: A small time guy becomes a big time drug dealer in California.

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

Sam Elliott gets the role of his long acting career in The Hero, and as he told a packed audience at Deadline's 7th annual The Contenders awards - season event last month, the biggest surprise of all for him was that he actually got to play an actor for the first time.

Since that time, he'd been given a number of roles both big and small that seemed to elude even so much a nomination and quickly gave him the stigma as a character actor.

A major heavy - hitter might be the villain of Zack Snyder's reboot after all — and a couple of big - time actors are reportedly in line to play him.

Directed by This Is Love and A Bigger Splash's Luca Guadagnino, the film follows Elio — played by 21 - year - old American actor of the moment and Dazed 100 entrant Timothee Chalamet — as he struggles to navigate first - time feelings of lust, longing and same - sex desire brought on by the arrival of his father's new research assistant, Oliver.

As a busy juvenile actor, Doug McKeon was featured on the TV serial The Edge of Night, and was co-starred with Brian Dennehy in the 1979 prime - time series Big Shamus, Little Shamus.

But I think we were very lucky with getting the rights to Casino Royale and recalibrating the franchise; making it more relevant for the times, and the biggest lucky break we got was Daniel Craig, because with him we've been able to do so much with the character because he's just such a spectacular actor.

The other actors are all wonderful, but their big scenes are a long time coming.

That said, as an efficient, low - stakes thriller, A Patch of Fog comes recommended, mainly thanks to the showcase it provides for its leads: two reliable character actors given a chance to headline a psychologically probing battle - of - the - wits, something usually reserved for bigger movie stars, when this sort of film had an easier time getting funded in the current landscape.

The young actor, now 17 but 16 when the film was shot, is from Anaheim and has been acting since age 2, though this is by far his biggest film and the first time he has adopted the stage name of Revolori.

There is potentially a play to be made by The Weinstein Company to position 2 - time Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained) to be pushed to this category even though, by all that have seen Big Eyes, he is clearly a co-lead.

What made it even more remarkable at the time was that Kline was known almost exclusively as a dramatic actor, in films like Sophie's Choice, The Big Chill, and Cry Freedom — only people who'd seen him onstage or in The Pirates Of Penzance could have anticipated such a broadly comic turn.

Because the film's pair of protagonists spend a big chunk of their time buried in space suits, with the limited facial visibility that implies, it was critical to have actors with the kind of instantly identifiable star personas that Bullock and Clooney enjoy to keep us involved in the personal dramatics of the story.

As with «The Crucible,» Day - Lewis» big explosion — this time into outright stark - raving, animalistic rage, drooling and towering over Eli while pushing at him to tease him — wouldn't count for much if not for the slow - burn of the rest of the performance, with the actor's gradual shift from at least somewhat human to All - Powerful American Businessman as a Monster shown by his body going from upright to crooked, his face from quietly hateful to anything but.

Washington is now approaching his 60th birthday and he's spent more than a quarter of a century on the big screen, breaking into the big time when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor on the back of 1989's Glory and became a household name in the 1990s with the likes of Malcolm X, The Pelican Brief, Philadelphia, Crimson Tide and Courage Under Fire.

There's still time for one big movie to pick up that mantle — with the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards on the horizon, there's certainly a way for that momentum to build — but for now, the race really could be anyone's.

After moving to Los Angeles together and failing to hit the big time as actors, they decided to make a film of their own — written, funded, directed by and starring Wiseau, with Greg playing his best friend.

In The Disaster Artist, a young San Francisco actor, Greg Sestero (Dave Franco), takes classes and dreams of the big time.

This year, more than ever, several big - time Hollywood actors and filmmakers have served as producers on some of the prime awards contenders — with no other involvement in the movie whatsoever.

Supporting Actor this year is also noteworthy for featuring only one nominee who is being honored for the first time, moreover the fact that it's the big time frontrunner.

Chow Yun - fat, at this time the biggest star in the colony, hot off the smashing success of A Better Tomorrow, plays the middle brother while pop star Jacky Cheung, himself on the road to a successful film career (he'd win the Supporting Actor Hong Kong Film Award this year for his work in Wong Kar - wai's debut feature As Tears Go By), plays the youngest.

But for eight actors, Sunday is the first time under the nominee spotlight in the circus» biggest tent.

Of course host Jimmy Kimmel found time for plenty of jokes about Harvey Weinstein during his opening monologue, but elsewhere, some of the industry's biggest names made their allegiances evident, from the introduction of Best Actor by Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda, Emma Stone singling out sole female Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig when announcing that award, and Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence taking the stage to announce that it was a new day before they presented the Best Actress award to McDormand.

For example, because this is DreamWorks» / Universal's Oscar tentpole, the running time falls safely in the «adult contemporary holiday respectable» range of 130 - 145 minutes, and it features a big name actor in a role that requires him to be some combination of mentally disabled (I Am Sam, Forrest Gump, Rain Man), insane (As Good As It Gets), or that delicate combination of the two: a genius (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester).

Having heard that local swellguy Barreller (Michael Gambon in a ridiculous wig) owes some serious mullah to a big - time gangster, O'Malley persuades bit - part actor Tom (Dylan Moran) to put on the performance of a lifetime in order to snatch the loot for themselves.

But a less familiar face became just as important to the show over time, in the shape of Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman, and the 32 - year - old actor looks like he's on the verge of further big - screen success very soon.

She's worked with great directors and other great actors in big and small movies, she's been a key part of one of the biggest franchises of all - time and has even proved she can lead a summer action film by herself.

For as big of a star as Wahlberg has become, he's always been a director - dependent actor, turning in better performances for better directors while other times looking pretty adrift when the directorial hand lets him down.

Newcomer Levi, who plays Peter, ranks right there with director Joe Wright's previous discovery of Saoirse Ronan, as child actors with big time screen presence.

Just to choose the example of an Irish actor in recent times, who is very talented at breathing life into characters that end up on the big screen — is someone like Colm Meaney.