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Newly surfaced character breakdowns suggest Fox's Gambit is looking to cast major roles such as Bella Donna and Mr. Sinister for multiple films.

Plus, a religious horror story is casting major roles, a short film is casting its leads, and the Broadway musical «The Phantom of the Opera» is holding a casting call.

Not exact matches

The chief finance minister for the euro zone intends to keep going in his current role until the new year, despite a Dutch election in March that cast a major shadow over his presidency.

So influential are these stars that, when news spread recently a major Nollywood star had been cast in a small role in a Hollywood film, Marvel's «Avengers: Infinity War», Nigerians went wild.

Since the script was leaked in May, speculation has run rampant on the the casting of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, and with most major and minor roles filled, one remained: Django's wife, Broomhilda.

Recently cast in the role of Taylor, a non-binary gender identifying character in Showtime's BILLIONS, Dillon is the first non-binary gender identifying actor to ever be cast in a major television series.

After having his first major Broadway success with A Shot in the Dark, Matthau began working on the screen, usually in small supporting roles that cast him as thugs, villains, and louts in such films as The Kentuckian (1955) and King Creole (1958).

She had major roles in Dummy and Factory Girl, and in 2007 she joined the cast of the hit ABC series Ugly Betty.

Instead we are presented with an absolute turd of a film with shockingly bad «action» set pieces (despite not actually requiring major action set pieces for the plot), dreadful visuals that might as well be that «Gladiators» TV show complete with glitter and sparkles, a god awful thrash / heavy metal soundtrack just in case you forgot this film was suppose to be tough and your obligatory dire big name cast hot of the heels of other poor major blockbusters (yeah stick him / her in it, big name, can't go wrong, doesn't matter if they actually fit the role or not pfft!).

Allen, working, as always, as writer and director, marshals quite the cast for this London - set, London - shot dramedy: Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch and Naomi Watts all play major roles.

The cast is led by Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, and Nina Dobrev, with Alexander Ludwig, Alia Shawkat, Thomas Middleditch, and Adam Devine in major roles.

After taking on major roles and proving his range in recent titles like «Mudbound» and «Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,» Hedlund once again casts a lasting spell in Andrew Heckler's based - on - a-true-story «Burden» (winner of the Audience Award, US Dramatic).

Recently, Deadpool 2 made a pair of major cast additions, recruiting Zazie Beetz to play Domino and Josh Brolin to appear as fan favorite Cable; this is Brolin's second major role within the Marvel Cinematic Universe as he also portrays Thanos in the Avengers saga.

Although he became a star with three music - oriented films in quick succession — in addition to «Saturday Night Fever,» there were «Grease» and «Urban Cowboy» — Travolta was also quick to credit director Brian De Palma, who cast him in his first major film role in the Stephen King shocker «Carrie.»

A new Ghostbusters casting rumor is coming from Film Divider who say that SNL's Cecily Strong is taking a major role.

Shot on a minimal budget, with a production design that favors ingenuity and creativity and a cast that includes such major European actors as Geraldine Chaplin, Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, and recent Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling (some of them in multiple roles), it has a whimsical, absurdist sense of humor.

Brolin is currently filming Marvel Studios» Avengers: Infinity War as Thanos, and if this Cable casting comes through would attain a rare comic book movie trifecta with major roles in a Marvel Studios film, a 20th Century Fox X-Men film, and a DC Film - remember, he starred in 2010's Jonah Hex.

Deadline reports that Mark Feuerstein has been cast in a major role.

He also discusses his working relationship with actor Jack Nicholson, casting the future movie star in many of his early roles, making his first major studio film for Columbia Pictures Getting Straight starring Elliott Gould and Candice Bergen.

The pilot for TNT's upcoming Snowpiercer TV series casts The Americans» Alison Wright in a major role as one of the train's occupants.

Giving an untested director such as Chbosky complete creative control was still a pretty big risk on the part of Summit Entertainment, but if the casting (which includes a great group of young actors like Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller and Emma Watson in her first major post - «Harry Potter» role) is anything to go by, fans have nothing to worry about it.

The Game of Thrones and Star Wars: The Force Awakens actress is set for a «major» role in the drama, and a bunch of new plot details have just been revealed to go along with that casting announcement.

In addition to casting actors with Down syndrome in key parts in recent hit TV shows like American Horror Story (Jamie Brewer) and Glee (Lauren Potter), 2015's Where Hope Grows made history as the first major US theatrical release to star an actor with Down syndrome in a leading role (David DeSanctis).

The rest of the cast provides solid support, but no one really stands out apart from «The Daily Show» correspondent Jessica Williams, who exhibits real potential in her first major film role.

Doctor Who alum Matt Smith has been cast in the upcoming Terminator reboot in a major role that Deadline reports will expand in the second and third installments of the planned trilogy.

That's the RIGHT way to do it — the WRONG way is in something like «Robots» which has seemingly dozens of «name» actors cast in roles that range from major ones to glorified cameos.

The film is a major threat for the Cast Ensemble award at the upcoming Screen Actors Guild awards, with supporting players like Mahershala Ali (charming as ever), Jim Parsons (playing an against - type), Kirsten Dunst (feverishly addictive in her mean woman role), and Glen Powell (playing the late John Glenn) all crucial to the film's inevitable success.

The supporting cast aren't as funny as Coogan (Meaney comes close), but that's not the major problem with their roles in the movie.

His bid to find balance got a major boost from filmmaker and friend Lee Daniels, who cast Kravitz in the seemingly unlikely role of a nurse in his 2009 drama Precious, which soaked up the critical plaudits with six Oscar nominations and two wins.

One other major mistake is in the casting of Johnny Depp in the lead role.

Enter the remaining cast of characters, both major and minor: the janitorial staff of the classified underground wing of the compound, Zelda Fuller (Octavia Spencer in a role written for her by del Toro) and the mute Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins, radiant in a star - making role); the attending government scientist Dr. Robert Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg), also a Russian double - agent; and, of course, Elisa's next door neighbor, Giles (Richard Jenkins, deserving of a Supporting Actor nomination), who frets about growing older and his hair loss, pines for love with a local pie shop employee and shares his passion for musicals with the equally besotted Elisa (they sit side - by - side on the sofa performing a quick soft shoe).

But unlike «CQ,» this one is unlikely to vanish in limited release; the cast features Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Patricia Arquette, Aubrey Plaza and perhaps most importantly, tabloid magnet Charlie Sheen in his first major role since his public meltdown.

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2,» released the first photo of the film's core cast and confirmed Kurt Russell's role in the film, writer / director James Gunn has dropped one more major piece of information via a Facebook comment.

Director J.J. Abrams cast franchise rookies Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in major roles

Harrelson would be one of the last major characters to be cast in the still - untitled project, which has Alden Ehrenreich in the role originally made famous by Harrison Ford, plus Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian and Emilia Clarke in an unnamed role.

Despite repeatedly insisting that the lack of any non-white Oscar nominees was in no way a sign that the industry might have a race issue, Paramount and DreamWorks recently went ahead and announced that Scarlett Johansson would be cast in the leading role of Major Motoko Kusanagi in the live - action remake of legendary anime, Ghost in the Shell.

As if one major franchise wasn't enough, Hemsworth will also join the cast of the fourth Star Trek to reprise his role as Captain Kirk's (Chris Pine) late father, George Kirk: «I've spoken to J.J. [Abrams], and he has an amazing pitch on the whole thing.»

Garcia has been cast as the Major of New York City, but Williams and Walsh's roles aren't clear yet as their character names are just listed as Hawkins and Rourke, respectively.

Cast: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Alfre Woodard, Bobcat Goldthwait, John Glover, John Forsyth, David Johansen, Carol Kane, John Murray, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, Mabel King Small role: Brian Doyle Murray, Jamie Farr, Robert Goulet, Buddy Hackett, John Houseman, Lee Majors, Pat McCormick, Mary Lou Retton, Miles Davis, Paul Schaffer, Larry Carlton, David Sanborn, Solid Gold Dancers, Richard Donner Director: Richard Donner Screenplay: Mitch Glazer, Michael O'Donoghue (based very loosely on the novel, «A Christmas Carol» by Charles Dickens) Review published January 1, 2013

Creed actress Tessa Thompson has been cast in an unnamed major role in 2017's Thor: Ragnarok, according to Deadline.

Spielberg has cast the first major role in his upcoming adaptation of the beloved geek novel Ready Player One.

One of its strongest assets is its cast, with superior actors in the leading roles: Cumberbatch as Steven Strange, the brilliant and arrogant New York surgeon whose reason for existence is cut short by a horrific car crash... Tilda Swinton as a mystic known as the Ancient One who is willing to lead him to enlightenment in Kathmandu if only he will subjugate his inflated ego... Chiwetel Ejiofor as her faithful follower and right hand man... Benedict Wong as the guardian of the library where the accumulated secrets of their sect are stored... and Mads Mikkelsen as the brilliant student gone rogue who may soon destroy the earth, one major city at a time.

In the past few years, more movies not only include older characters but have cast them in major roles.

A major reason Nolan has become one of the premier filmmakers in the industry is because he never casts an actor that isn't completely deserving of the role.

Since Choi's casting, fans have speculated that he could be playing a descendent of that character, given Marvel's typical resistance to putting the same actor in two major roles in separate films.

The film features a large cast with brief appearances by Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, plus a host of shoutouts for various mutants from the comics who don't play major roles here.

We figured something was wrong when the rest of the casting for the film never came together, as you'd expect major roles would be filled by now, if the April shoot was to go ahead as planned.

Unnamed sources have informed The Wrap that director James Gunn is keen on casting none other than Kurt Russell for a major role in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

The two questions I am asked the most about casting are 1) How did I get Lee Majors to be in the movie, and 2) why did I decide to fill so many of the other lead roles with non-actors, like a ballerina?