Sentences with phrase «biggest film credit»

Keaton's biggest film credit since I Spit is its unofficial, largely unknown and unloved sequel, Savage Vengeance (a.k.a. I Will Dance on Your Grave), shot in 1988 and curiously released in 1993 to unanswered questions.

Soap opera veteran Larson, whose biggest film credit to date came in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, must relish this part, one of the rare lead ones doled out to a woman of age.

Not exact matches

Spielberg — along with the screenwriter Zak Penn («X-Men: The Last Stand,» «Last Action Hero») and Cline (who is also a credited screenwriter)-- creates an event film that has to be seen on a big screen to be fully appreciated.

Her other film credits include: «Happy Anniversary» (1959), «By Design» (1982), «Willy / Milly» (1986), «The Hitch - Hikers» (1989), «Prelude to a Kiss» (1992), and «Bigger Than the Sky» (2005), among others.

The Big Short, an upcoming film about the housing and credit bubble that led to the financial crisis of 2007 - 08, is lining up one of the better casts in recent...

Meanwhile, Cuomo seeks to end a lucrative tax credit — worth nearly $ 450 million — for the film and TV industries, which have been big donors to Cuomo's campaign.

Even the biggest film fan would acknowledge that it's very difficult to get to know someone when conversation is forbidden until the credits roll, but at a concert there's plenty of time to chat between songs, while the songs themselves help to fill any awkward silences.

Among his recent big - screen credits are Joel Schumacher's horror TOWN CREEK (2009) and the Woody Allen film WHATEVER WORKS (2009).

The film's biggest (and, truthfully, only) laugh comes from seeing ex-major leaguer Todd Zeile and current steroidal slugger Jason Giambi credited as executive producers.

It is so unknown, that one of his biggest fans, didn't even realize that this film was based on a story by Dick, until I saw it in the credits.

The big bum - note is a curiously stodgy screenplay, penned by director McQuarrie, who is also credited with writing one of the finest thriller films ever made with The Usual Suspects.

Her other film credits include: MOVIE 43, SOME GIRLS, WRITERS, BIG MIRACLE, YOU AGAIN, BURLESQUE, WHEN IN ROME, COUPLES RETREAT, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, PULSE, DERIOUS MOONLIGHT, and David Mamet's SPARTAN.

Other British film credits include THE SECRET RAPTURE and THE BIG MAN with Liam Neeson.

This was also the first time Joseph not only got top billing (his name was even bigger than the director's name in the end credits) but his character completely carried the film.

But the problem with the film is that Jerry experiences the biggest personality transformation in his life as part of a montage that facilitates the opening credits.

Iannotta doesn't have a feature film to his name yet, but he's got a credit that isn't just handed to any man or woman with a movie camera — his documentary short, My Big Red Purse, was selected to play at last month's South by Southwest Film Festival, beating out hundreds of competitors in the process.

Reynolds, who was credited as a producer on the original film, is said to have a bigger influence on a sequel — something backed up by the No Good Deed short he posted online.

Director / writer Joseph Kosinski «s story (the script is credited to Karl Gadjusek and Michael DeBruyn, with William Monahan and Michael Arndt among those who worked on the film too) cribs liberally from other more familiar sci - fi tales, including one recent cult hit which mentioning the name of would likely tip you off to the film's big secrets.

I understand why Johnny Depp is credited as the main actor, not because he is a bigger draw at the box office, but because he as Tanto starts off in the film telling the story of how the Lone Ranger came to be.

Though credit is usually clearly given to the screenwriters most prominently responsible for the film's script, there's usually a few big name writers who spend a short time with a script giving it final touch ups before calling it complete.

None of the five film and television roles he had in 1953 — in the series Racket Squad, Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, and Russell Rouse's Wicked Woman — were credited, but they opened a three - decade career.

SKE will finance and produce the film with Plan B Entertainment, which has Academy Award - celebrated films «The Big Short,» «Selma,» «12 Years A Slave» and «The Departed» to its credit.

Also, big fan of the soundtracks they have used — the first film had lots of good songs (but for some reason never had an official soundtrack) and I thought it was great that they used Middle Distance Runner's «The Sun and Earth» during the opening credits / flashback of Part 2 — the video is posted at

By Sean O'Connell hollywoodnews.com: The only thing bigger than the films John Logan wrote in 2011 are the films he'd credited with writing in 2012 and beyond.

There's an unbelievable tension present throughout the film, and this is a credit to the performances and the film's very construction, for there are very few «big» things that occur.

Jon Polito, the prolific and raspy - voiced character actor whose more than 200 credits ranged from «Homicide: Life on the Street» and «Modern Family» to the Coen Brother films «Barton Fink» and «The Big Lebowski,» has died.

Okay, it's a stretch under the new voting scheme to think that Adam Lambert's closing credits track «Time For Miracles» from Roland Emmerich's blow - stuff - up - good entry «2012» would be an Oscar contender, but with the film hitting theaters over the weekend (and with the just - announced news that another big sci - fi entry will have an original tune -LSB-...]

Credit Roberts, Finney and Soderbergh for making one of the biggest surprises of 2000, because this is definitely a film that took real guts to make.

I credit Demme, Streep, and Springfield for giving this section of the film some depth as you realize that Julie has had just as big of an impression on Ricki as Ricki did on her.

The film is directed by Stuart Beattie who recently directed «Tomorrow When the War Began» and has writing credits on big blockbusters including «Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl», «Collateral», «and «G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra».

When it comes to this crop of nominees, there seems to be a movement towards bigger, stronger, more popular casting and films like Adam McKay's The Big Short and Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant — the former a dramatic comedy centered around the collapse of the housing and credit bubble of 2008, the latter a brooding take on life on the frontier in 19th century America — epitomize star - studded casts.

The film is directed by Luca Guadagnino (who made I Am Love and A Bigger Splash) and adapted from the novel by André Aciman by James Ivory, who had originally been slated to co-direct and has a producer credit.

Remaking hit Japanese horror movies (a la «The Ring») is Hollywood's latest plan to rake in big bucks without actually having to be creative or original — and while «The Grudge» is nothing more than a cultural twist on the standard - issue haunted house movie, I will give credit to director Takashi Shimizu (remaking his own film «Ju - On») for giving me goosebumps.

I'm actually not always big on sci - fi — the fact that it's well represented on this list is a credit to how many thoroughly original and well executed genre films there were in 2014.

One of the big problems of the film lies in the opening credit sequence, where several plot elements are introduced without explanation, and then never answered.

Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)

To the film credit this casting choice is probably the biggest leap an audience has to take in a rare film where style and substance are in perfect equilibrium.

Based on the non-fiction novel by Michael Lewis «The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,» the film tells the story of the build - up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s that led to the discovery of mass subprime fraud and the financial crisis of 2007 - 2010.

Even the film's big reveal is lessened by the mention of a big star in the opening credits.

Among his long list of feature credits are The Pillow Book, Velvet Goldmine, Young Adam, Big Fish, I Love You Philip Morris, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen and Moulin Rouge (scoring Golden Globe nominations for the latter two films).

After a few minor TV roles, Day - Lewis got his first big credited role with a tiny part in the 1982 film «Gandhi.»

The Big Brawl was directed by Robert Clouse, who would earn his claim to fame directing the Bruce lee films Enter the Dragon and Game of Death, and give him credit in playing the film to Jackie's strengths as a defensive martial artist and his penchant for slapstick, rather than try to make another Bruce Lee - type vehicle.

The film is written and directed by Stuart Beattie who recently directed «Tomorrow When the War Began» and has writing credits on big blockbusters including «Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl», «Collateral», «and «G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra».

Surprise number one came right at the opening credits --- this was a John Carpenter film; the same John Carpenter who gave us Big Trouble In Little China, and The Thing, and Escape from New York, and Assault on Precinct 13 --- and I love all those films, and several others of his.

Other notable film and television credits have included the Harry Potter film series, Wit (2001), Love Actually (2003), Angels in America (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), Last Chance Harvey (2008), An Education (2009), and Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010).

When the credits roll at the end of a highly anticipated film and you're sitting there with a big smile on your face, that's a good thing.

Now Willis is 62, and while he continues to find regular work (10 film credits over the last three years), he is no longer one of the biggest movie stars in the world — but he rarely if ever phones it in, even when the vehicle he's driving is a low - rent knockoff.

I'm usually a big fan of Elfman but I didn't even realise that he had scored this film until I saw his name in the end credits.

Three harassment claims were reportedly brought Wedensday against the veteran cinematographer, whose credits include such films as Ordinary People, The Big Chill, and Groundhog Day.

The film starts off with a big chase sequence on a remote planet and rarely lets up until the credits roll.