Sentences with phrase «black comedy hit»

Bart is perhaps best known, however, for his portrayal of George Williams on the prime - time black comedy hit Desperate Housewives (2004 - 2005).

Not exact matches

Known for her hit HBO comedy Insecure, Issa Rae of Issa Rae productions is the first black woman to create and star in a premium cable series.

In this black comedy, a philosophical hit man (Cusack) reluctantly accepts an assignment in Detroit which coincides with his 10 - year high school reunion in the upscale suburb of Grosse Point,...

Matthew Perry is very funny in this black comedy about a dentist whose wife hires a hit man to kill him.

Sony Pictures has hired Lucia Aniello and Paul Downs to help with the expansion of its hit comedy franchise, which includes a crossover with «Men in Black.»

Co-created by Rae and Larry Wilmore, the HBO hit comedy about the two women navigating work and relationships in south Los Angeles explores the black female experience not really seen onscreen since UPN's Girlfriends.

Lionsgate currently has 30 television shows on 20 different networks spanning its primetime production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically - acclaimed hits as the multiple Emmy Award - winning Mad Men and Nurse Jackie, the comedy Anger Management, the network series Nashville, the syndication success The Wendy Williams Show and the critically - acclaimed new series Orange Is The New Black.

In RED 2, the high - octane action - comedy sequel to the worldwide sleeper hit, retired black - ops CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives — including former colleague Marvin (John Malkovich), ever - deadly sharp - shooter Victoria (Helen Mirren) and Frank's beloved Sarah (Mary - Louise Parker)-- for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

MIFF delivered many other memorable movies, from the giallo scares of Berberian Sound Studio to the bleak, black comedy of certain English hit Sightseers.

Alongside The Unjust, box office hit The Man From Nowhere features in the «Crime and Punishment» section, whilst black comedy Shim's Family and Blue Dragon Film Award winner The Show Must Go On join Oki's Movie in «Extraordinary Ordinary Families».

We've returned to Minnesota over the past few years with Noah Hawley's black comedy - drama TV series but it's always fun to revisit the inspiration behind the hit anthology.

Why It Could Fail: While last year's similarly toned black comedy, The Guard, managed to reap near - universal acclaim from the nation's critics, I wouldn't call it the runaway hit that would make waves at Oscar.

Director Shane Black lets his cast do their thing and so we get a comedy duo from Crowe and Gosling, the dramatic Keith David being a hit man and Matt Bomer, not dancing, («Magic Mike») but being another hit man.

So far the Hollywood movies screening at Cannes — Woody Allen's romantic roundelay «Cafe Society,» starring Kristen Stewart, Shane Black's hit - man comedy «Nice Guys» starring Ryan Gosling, and Jodie Foster's Wall Street thriller «Money Monster» starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — have played out of competition, more as red - carpet plays and marketing junkets than surefire Oscar launches.

Creator of the hit show Black - ish Kenya Barris will be teaming up with athlete and now producer Blake Griffin as well as Ryan Kalil to remake the 90's sports comedy White Men Can't Jump.

Lionsgate currently has 34 television shows on 22 networks spanning its primetime production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically - acclaimed hits as the multiple Emmy Award - winning Mad Men and Nurse Jackie, the comedy Anger Management, the network series Nashville, the syndication success The Wendy Williams Show and the critically - acclaimed series Orange is the New Black.

In this odd - couple comedy, an executive hits the skids and loses everything, only to gain a wayward black son he never knew he had.

Martin McDonagh's In Bruges - the 2008 black comedy about two hit men holed up in a pretty little hotel in a pretty little town in pretty little Belgium - was an inspired and nutty fish - out - of - water noir.

The first trailer has arrived online for Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel's hit Sundance comedy The D Train starring Jack Black, James Marsden, Kathryn Hahn and Jeffrey Tambor.

In the tradition of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Gold looks to be a hard hitting black comedy about plundering resources.