Sentences with phrase «by being a movie star»

Shaquille O'Neal has made his mark in American by being a movie star, rapper and entertainer, and of course, a basketball player...

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A young girl from Uganda becomes a world chess champion in this movie that's directed by Mira Nair («Monsoon Wedding») and stars Lupita Nyong» o and David Oyelowo.

The Paris apartment block is a discreet building behind the city's Madeleine church, with several secret entrances, often frequented by movie and music stars who pay up to 15,000 euros a night.

The memory may have faded, but movie studios can still feel the sharp barb left behind by 2014's release of «The Interview,» the James Franco and Seth Rogen - starring slapstick comedy that saw the duo assassinate Kim Jong - un; hundreds of Sony's e-mails were leaked by hackers in the aftermath, causing their own controversies, while even the brief threat of all - out war seemed to hang strangely in the air.

He likes to say that Star Wars would not have been such a great movie if the director would have come out at the beginning and said to the audience, «By the way, Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father.»

The 1987 movie starring Michael Douglas and directed by Oliver Stone was supposed to demonstrate the greed associated with Wall Street.

Directed by Ryan Coogler (Creed) and starring Chadwick Boseman (Get On Up) as the Black Panther, the movie is the first standalone film for the classic Marvel Comics character after Boseman previously appeared as the Black Panther in 2016's Marvel film, Captain America: Civil War.

Zuckerberg and his cohort have taken to employing tactics normally used by high - profile celebrities and movie stars, such as «purchasing houses through trusts or corporate entities so that the owners» names are not on public deeds,» in an effort to keep their identities secret while they construct megamansions throughout the Bay Area and Palo Alto in California.

In an announcement unprecedented by the head of a major conglomerate, the chairman of Viacom, Sumner Redstone, publicly ripped into the star, who at the time was one of the most profitable at Viacom's movie studio, Paramount Pictures.

12 Years a Slave The misleading poster by Italian film distributor BIM Distribuzione featured the giant head of movie star Brad Pitt, who served only a supporting role in the film, while the movie's lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was given a tiny spot at bottom right corner.

The movie, which is based on Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel of the same name, stars Golden Globe - winning actor Idris Elba and was written and directed by Cary Fukunaga, who won an Emmy Award for directing HBO television show True Detective.

Directed by Joshua Michael Stern and starring Ashton Kutcher as Jobs, the movie will be released August 16.

It's all about the unpredictable at the MTV Movie Awards, hosted by comedian Kevin Hart and action star Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson, where fans vote for their favorite films and performances from the year.

Contrasting those, some of our featured content has been tweeted by famous movie stars & that didn't really do much for us.

That's according to Streep (and more or less backed up by history), who aired some of this laundry while presenting an award to Emma Thompson, who just starred in Saving Mr. Banks, a movie about Disney himself.

And Jimmy Fallon and co. are never ones to let important moments fly by unnoticed, so they wrangled up a bunch of Black Panther fans for what they thought would be a moment to record a video that would be sent to the movie's star, Chadwick Boseman, and you can probably see where this is going, but that doesn't mean you won't cry!

The movie «Exodus,» directed by Ridley Scott and starring Christian Bale as Moses, is scheduled for December.

Now that they are in school it's all clicking by too fast and we're talking about middle school and sleepovers, Star Wars movies and Percy Jackson books, baseball and Minecraft.

We learn about them by watching them in action and make no mistake, the action scenes are among the best you could hope to find in a Star Wars movie.

The former pro wrestler who has become one of the world's biggest action - movie stars was asked about his political aspirations by GQ, specifically, if he'd ever run for president.

Most people today are familiar with the recent Mission Impossible movies starring Tom Cruise based on the old television shows by the same name.

One day my children might enjoy a new technology created by a Jesuit who works at Google or a Jesuit whose path to the priesthood was perhaps inspired by a movie starring a certain Hollywood celebrity.

This clip was inspired by the first Star Trek movie.

Here they are... the 2018 Oscars odds, brought to you by someone who has not watched a movie in theaters this year and won't until Star Wars comes out.

There's a 1988 movie, based on a book and a real - life experience, titled Bat 21, starring Gene Hackman as Iceal Hambleton, an Air Force colonel shot down in Vietnam who uses golf course design terms to secretly radio his position to Bart Clark, an Air Force captain played by Danny Glover.

Take Mickey Rourke for example, he was a young, devilishly handsome actor who had just starred in some massive movies and was adored by the finer sex the world over....

He justified his wages, then reported to be # 50,000 a week, by claiming that he deserves them because he entertains people, just as movie stars do.

The Star Wars movies revolutionized merchandising in the 1970's by putting their label on every possible item and by making every character, vehicle, location and prop in the films into a toy to be purchased.

The term was popularized by the movie Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan.

The name Hazel was definitely popularized by the book and movie «The Fault in Our Stars».

I can see how an ad like that (with famous movie stars as endorsers, making a triangle sign with their hands like they're enlightened by aliens or something) can dupe the masses.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

Shola Arikusa is a movie directed by Okiki Afolayan, it's currently being shot in Akure and it stars actors like Yinka Quadri, Femi Adebayo, Odunlade Adekola, Toyosi Adesanya, amongst others.

However, now that critics have gotten a first look at the movie written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski, that buzz appears to be fading.

He disclosed that a group called Ashanti Faithfuls For Mahama has been formed by some movie makers and stars in kumasi and very soon, a press conference would be held ahead of the Nov 7 national polls where all the projects and full reasons why every Ghanaian and every Ashanti needs to vote for John Dramani Mahama shall be made known.

He said the last movie he saw was «Lincoln» — the 2012 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Day - Lewis as the nation's 16th president.

Updated at 8:12 p.m. ET on Tuesday 6/4 (CNN)-- Access to top Russian officials by U.S. lawmakers was helped along by action movie star Steven Seagal — and more specifically the actor's martial arts skills - the leader of a congressional delegation said Tuesday.

The scientists decided to make a parody of a trailer for a Star Wars movie, but instead of showing starship cruisers hurtling through space towards the Death Star, they chose a biological process with its own built - in narrative: the fertilization of an egg by a sperm, in which millions of sperm race to be the one that succeeds and creates the next generation of life.

In the opening scene of 2009's Star Trek movie reboot, the Federation starship USS Kelvin is under attack by the Romulans.

By visualizing star birth in a way that was never before possible, Hartigan's Hubble «movies» suggest that scientists have much to learn about the jet process.

12 R2 - D2 is the only character that appears unchanged (by aging, say, or a funky black outfit) in all six Star Wars movies.

From the original «dark stars» suggested by John Michell and Pierre Laplace 200 years ago, to ubiquitous sci - fi movies and TV series like Star Trek, the black hole (whose name was coined by John Wheeler in the 1960's) has become a familiar concept, albeit not so well understood.

For over 40 years now, fans have been entranced by the simple story framing the beginning of every Star Wars movie.

In the movie of the book, starring Richard Gere and Anjelica Huston, he's played by Full Metal Jacket's Matthew Modine.

Professor Philip Lubin at UC Santa Barbara and some of his students are working on a public engagement and educational outreach program by placing the essence of humanity, in the form of documents, poetry, pictures, movies, music, tweets, digital DNA and other data, into every spacecraft and eventually to the stars.

Anaplastic carcinoma makes up 2 % of all thyroid cancer cases, and was made famous by the 2012 bestseller The Fault In Our Stars ($ 11; amazon.com)(the main character, a teen with this cancer, was played by Shailene Woodley in the movie).

With his movie - star good looks, his broad shoulders and tiny waist and diamond shaped calves, Steve was said to be «the most beautiful human to ever walk the sand of Muscle Beach,» in a book called Remembering Muscle Beach written by Harold Zinkin.

This anabolic steroid has been used by everyone from athletes to movie stars looking to slim down and shape up.

«They figure this out by watching their parents and their friends, and movie stars are like very high - profile peers.

She was seriously movie star glamorous, posing for this photo (I'm sure taken by my dad who used to have a thing for photography).