Sentences with phrase «cast in a film like»

Diverse casts in films like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, the Fast and the Furious series, Twilight and Hunger Games have always yielded big business, but Black Panther, with its near - total Black ensemble cast, is a groundbreaking landmark for Hollywood.

The importance of a good cast in a film like this can not be underestimated and as an ensemble piece, it worked really well.

Not exact matches

Of course, there will always be skeptics who claim Nolan cast the singer to help market his film, but the truth of the matter is, the director's films have always contained concepts (like «Inception» and «Interstellar») or iconic figures (Batman and The Joker) who are far bigger than any actor who has appeared in them.

Unlike other independent films in which big names are ridden into the ground like a sweaty mule, shoehorned into every possible scene in the movie, «Moms» Night Out» has an ensemble cast - an amazing feat for a film with a budget just under $ 5 million, according to Andrew and John Erwin, the brothers who directed the film.

During his film career, Adkins has been cast in mostly direct - to - DVD movies like the two Undisputed sequels, Assassination Games, Ninja, however he finally got to get a bigger role in Stallone's ensemble cast testosterone - packed movie «The Expendables 2» and star along other great action stars like Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, the all - powerful Chuck Norris, Jean - Claude Van Damme and many others.

Could Hanks, who remarkably hasn't been nominated since 2000's Cast Away (a race he ludicrously lost to Gladiator's Russell Crowe), end his drought as he couldn't with acclaimed performances in esteemed films like Captain Phillips and Sully?

Where those previous films felt compelled to lunge for edginess (read: sneering raunch) as chaos dutifully descended on characters they didn't like very much — and weren't particularly interested in getting audiences to like, either — Game Night takes care to locate our sympathies with Bateman, and McAdams, and its cast of charming ringers.

I liked that there wasn't much background to the characters, so found this feature unnecessary, but they are well done and voiced by the cast member who played the relevant role in the film, so I'm sure a lot of people will dig»em.

It is incredibly difficult to make a film this quirky still feel genuine but Ayoade and his very talented cast (it's saying something that two newbies like Roberts and Paige are the memorable ones in a film with Hawkins, Taylor, and Considine) keep it humming.

... Okay, so it's kind of lame to forcibly cite this film as nerdy to the point of getting a star with a surname that sounds kind of like «Edison», but the filmmakers had to have some corny joke somewhere in the casting, for it's not like Edison has been earning enough attention from, well, anyone to get a gig even this low in profile.

It was while she was working as an extra in various film productions that she answered Kusama's ad for actors; after being cast as Girlfight's protagonist, she trained intensively to condition her body like that of a boxer to such a degree that, at one point, she was even asked to go pro.

Black Panther's cast and creators trod carefully around the movie's connection to current politics in the press conference attended by Screen Rant, with Chadwick Boseman saying that anything that seems like a reference is just coincidence, and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige saying that «things have happened in the world which make the film seem more relevant.»

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, like the other films co-concocted by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, BEST IN SHOW, and A MIGHTY WIND, is a wry exercise in improvisation by an intrepid cast working from scenarios and guided only by their imagination and darinIN SHOW, and A MIGHTY WIND, is a wry exercise in improvisation by an intrepid cast working from scenarios and guided only by their imagination and darinin improvisation by an intrepid cast working from scenarios and guided only by their imagination and daring.

During this recent interview to discuss the TV version of Zombieland, co-creators and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talked about the journey from TV series to movie and now back to TV pilot, what it's been like to work with Amazon, what motivated the decision to have the same characters from the movie on the TV show, how they envision it as a road show, how much gore they can have, what Kirk Ward (who was originally cast as Tallahassee before being replaced by Woody Harrelson) brings to this version of the character, what led them to the 30 - minute format, whether they could have any surprise cameos (Bill Murray made a very memorable one in the film), what will determine whether the pilot is successful enough to go to series, and when they might know if they're picked up.

The film's largely no - name cast does include Max von Sydow, an actor accomplished and old enough to forgive and not second - guess some of the questionable recent projects he's agreed to pop up in, like this and the wretched Branded.

While it would be easy to shoot an entire film like this on a sound stage and use visual effects to complete the scenery, director Baltasar Kormakur (2 Guns, Contraband) wanted the cast to experience the elements firsthand by shooting on location in Nepal on the foothills of Everest, as well as the Italian Alps.

A new report gives us several actors who may be cast to play a young Han Solo in a Star Wars prequel film and I'm not liking any of them.

While the majority of the cast is working in costume for most of the film, it felt like Malin Akerman (Silk Spectre) and Patrick Wilson (Night Owl) would never get there.

This year, Telluride enticed the likes of the Coen Bros, Robert Redford, Steve McQueen, Jason Reitman, Penn & Teller, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, the cast of Palme d'Or winner Blue is the Warmest Color, Alfonso & Jonas Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu (who was just in town to see films) and so many other notable names.

While the supporting cast, featuring James Franco, Sharon Stone, Chris Noth, and Chloë Sevigny (the list literally goes on and on), is amusing simply for the novelty of seeing them dressed in kitschy»70s getups playing the likes of Hugh Hefner and Harry Reems, the revolving door of familiar faces is just one example of the film's lack of focus.

Though it feels a lot like Jeff Nichols» Southern Gothic crime drama, «Mud» (which is ironic since Green reportedly cast youngster Tye Sheridan based on his work in that film), they're very different stories apart from the father - son dynamic between the two leads.

In this case, that amounts to your typical scene - specific trivia in addition to some other interesting tidbits, like the title of the cut from the film's score that's playing at any given moment, or detailed cast and crew listingIn this case, that amounts to your typical scene - specific trivia in addition to some other interesting tidbits, like the title of the cut from the film's score that's playing at any given moment, or detailed cast and crew listingin addition to some other interesting tidbits, like the title of the cut from the film's score that's playing at any given moment, or detailed cast and crew listings.

Harris's trembling - lipped emoting actually suits the Mia Farrow mold of victimized motherhood (just like Charlize Theron's did in The Astronaut's Wife), and the film does well to cast all the baddies as British.

Throughout the film's production, Reynolds and Deadpool 2 studio 20th Century Fox have been very crafty about not revealing any potential spoilers for the film, and in fact, made normal procedures such as casting announcements - like the addition of Cable (Josh Brolin) and Domino (Zazie Beetz) to the film - feel like pop culture events.

In the US version of The Grudge, Takashi Shimizu has remade his own film, actually featuring most of the same cast members (and what looks like the same house!).

That falls inline with killer babies like those in Larry Cohen's It's Alive films, British film The Asphyx and Friedkin's The Exorcist, but despite the cast and supporting roles by Henry Beckman, Susan Hogan and Nicholas Campbell, the film never adds up to being very convincing.

Like most John le Carré movies, Our Kind of Traitor is a handsome and well - polished piece of filmmaking, and the film earns a strong shot in the arm from its more - than - capable ensemble cast.

Filmed in India, «Meru» casts aside other trivia like how the three get several hundred pounds of climbing materials to the base of the mountain.

Though he'd built up a strong reputation among critics and cineastes in the 1960s with darker character work in films like Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and the daring masterpiece Victim (1961), he was best known to the public as Simon Sparrow, the heartthrob comic lead in Doctor in the House (1954) and four subsequent sequels.

Woody Harrelson barely makes an appearance and still seems like the most underutilized star in the franchise (although Stanley Tucci gets nothing more than a cameo appearance), while Donald Sutherland is the film's greatest benefit, hitting that perfect note of high drama and total commitment to the character — they were lucky to cast him in the role.

It's probably hard for you to grasp the humor and the meaning of it from films like this with predominantly black casts in them.

Until suddenly he does, and the film shifts gears from a study of trauma into a more conventional (but still eerily effective) horror movie, with Josh (who looks more than a little like Glover in River's Edge) enthusiastically casting himself in the role of psycho killer, as if trying to live up to what he worries his best friend thinks he's become anyway.

Whilst the focus of many reviews of Lost in Translation has been on the renaissance of Bill Murray's career, Coppola's choice in casting him in the starring role and to juxtapose him with Scarlett Johansson is inspired in its exploitation of his deadpan, ironic screen persona established in films like Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993).

For characters like Black Panther and Spider - Man, who'll get their own solo films directed by Ryan Coogler and Jon Watts, where does the question of authorship fall in terms of casting and development?

As with his previous film, Funny People, Apatow again cast his real - life wife (Leslie Mann) and daughters (Iris and Maude Apatow) in a bid for something like verisimilitude, with a pot - bellied Paul Rudd standing in as the writer - director's surrogate.

We just need to raise the funding, and Kickstarter seems like a great way to collaborate with Alex's fans, the cast's fans, and people who care about film preservation and indie filmmaking in general to make this happen.»

Thomas Brodie - Sangster were in the film it makes it feel like it's the movie with the best cast ever made.

Still, the production value was there and a cast that includes James Spader (2 Days in the Valley, Crash), Angela Bassett, and Robert Forster (Psycho, Rear Window), along with a veteran film director like Walter Hill, so the question is «How could things have gotten this bad?»

That version stalled, only to be reborn in its current form with heavier involvement by the Chinese film industry, a greater focus on cultural authenticity and an international cast including popular Chinese actors like Andy Lau and Kong: Skull Island's Jing Tian but also Damon and Willem Dafoe, as well as Game of Thrones and Narcos star, Pedro Pascal.

Ayer clearly has no control as a writer or director, the cast feel like they are worlds apart from one another in every way, and the studio clearly cut the film to hell trying to salvage whatever they could out of the mess that he gave them.

Only the main actors were known to me but now, some years later, when I watch and find out that Martin Freeman, Chiwetel Ejiofor or Thomas Brodie - Sangster were in the film it makes it feel like it's the movie with the best cast ever made.

(Elia Kazan, 1947), Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway, 1948), and The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948), T - Men achieved this semblance of realism through the then - innovative (by classical Hollywood standards) on - location filming in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.; a newsreel - style voiceover; and a cast featuring lesser - known stars like former Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer contract player Dennis O'Keefe.

No cast yet (and good luck strying ot out Stockard / Olivia / John) but it's aiming for 2015 Serious Film my friend Michael liked Match, the Tribeca film starring Patrick Stewart I reviewed yesterday, a helluva lot more than me so it's worth sharing an opposing opinion First Showing footage from Russell Crowe's directorial debut, The Water Diviner Empire the WB triples down on director Zach Snyder giving in both the Man of Steel sequel and the Justice League movie (but why?

Amidst those early signs of viewer interest (Blade), franchise launches (X-Men), moments of director / source material synergy (Raimi's Spider - Man) and 18 or so MCU films, Deadpool is recognizable as a triumph of perseverance and (baby) hand - in - glove casting, as well as proof that R - rated superheroing is viable at the box office (which in turn smoothed the way for more serious takes like Logan).

A slot in the experimentally inclined Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival seemed like a strange fit for this new film by David Mackenzie (Starred Up), with its starry cast and seemingly commercial intentions.

While the cast thins as in a slasher film, a couple of video security men (Tim Bagley, Michael Hitchcock) function like a Greek chorus, somehow catching every moment of action, keeping score of the casualties, and providing commentary.

Casting himself as a heavy in his own film, Haley gets several of the film's more flowery, belabored passages, though he fares better with these than Edi Gathegi (better known as the dreadlocked vampire in the first Twilight film) as the kidnapped son of a black criminal lynchpin (presented so unenthusiastically it makes the crime syndicate run by Harry Belafonte in Altman's Kansas City seem more like Scorsese).

Featuring a memorable ensemble cast of both British and American actors, the film centers on a group of reckless criminals that inadvertently become involved in a labyrinth - like plot full of two - timing back stabbers set to the tone of Ritchie's trademark comic violence and tongue in cheek humor.

«Such a delight» cast & crew statements do little to bolster the actual quality of the docu, but because the film is sort of fun in a trash - cinema way, you feel like forgiving a lot of the crimes of self - regard herein.

Northern Playlist contributor Nikola Grozdanovic saw both parts, and found it «a remarkably well made relationship film,» using a «Rashomon «- like conceit cunningly across a «multi-layered, organically paced, delicate and quite often hilarious screenplay,» with a «perfect ensemble cast» led by Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, with Isabelle Huppert, Ciaran Hinds, Bill Hader, Viola Davis, William Hurt and Jess Weixler among those in support.