Sentences with phrase «casting than the actors»

Punch - Drunk Love enthrals for its craftsmanship and its conviction, for its fabulous instinct for magical realism (a harmonium appearing in the middle of a road, a telephone booth light coming on at the moment of joyous connection), and for a pair of performances that almost speak more for Anderson's talent for casting than the actors themselves.

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.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

It's been two decades since those six Friends burst A lot's happened since to the six actors who lit up our screens a show about women dating The actors were given the salary of the least paid cast member, meaning Aniston and Schwimmer earned less than they could have.

Very Bad Things features a pretty terrific cast; while it features no real «big time» stars other than Cameron Diaz - who only achieved that status upon the release of Mary, which happened after this film was already done - it offers a very solid list of quality actors.

Promising... Obsessive and more lonely than he can admit, Bobby's character is finely crafted by McDermott, an actor who meshes well with a strong ensemble cast.

That alone would be reason to get excited, and Coogler makes good on the landmark project's potential by featuring a predominantly black ensemble, casting some of the best young actors around — from Chadwick Boseman (who proved his dramatic chops playing James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in recent years) to Michael B. Jordan (even more buff, and twice as charismatic, than he appeared in the director's two previous features, «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»)-- as well as such legends as Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

The performances all around are great, and the cast does an admirable job portraying actors and other characters that The Room aficionados are more than familiar with at this point.

And a cast to dream of down to the smallest roles, most of the actors giving the performance of their lifetime: J.Lo is hardly recognizable as the irrelevant pop singer of recent years, doing a great job as a female cop tempted by the attracting opposites of bank robber George Clooney, who was never better than here.

And while Farrell is admittedly quite good as the smooth, charismatic Jerry, Yelchin is simply unable to become the compelling protagonist that the narrative clearly requires - with the actor's less - than - engrossing performance matched by an underwhelmingly bland supporting cast (eg Toni Collette, playing Charley's concerned mother, is hopelessly wasted here).

Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's script depicts Sistero as an actor of marginal talent but conventional handsomeness, another in a long line of would - be stars with a face that makes the occasional casting agent look more than once but rarely three times.

He has difficult behavior on the set, apart from that he is asking to be paid more than the other cast and main actor Robert Downey Jr..

The sequel to the original «Equalizer,» which made more than $ 190 million, is casting actors in both L.A. and New York!

It looks like enough Americans still believe in the fabled powers of intense British character actors: Less than a week after Emily Browning was cast as Laura Moon in the new TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods, another actor has developed the requisite number of followers to grant him power to participate in...

This heist film with a sensational cast, such as Edward Norton, Seth Green (who, ironically, was Vince and E's nemesis in Entourage) and rapper turned actor Mos Def was both a box office and critical success, doing even better than its theater run with DVD sales.

By going with an actress four years older than the character in the book, Lionsgate has locked itself into a cast packed with very late teens or actors in their early twenties as compared to if they'd gone with someone like 14 - year - old Chloe Moretz who would have called for a far younger Peeta and Gale.

With «Guardians Of The Galaxy» now less than two years from release, the studio is starting to get the cast in place for what is easily the most ambitious project on their slate (it has an alien tree creature and a pistol - wielding, talking raccoon, guys), and a ridiculously long laundry list of actors have been revealed as possibilities to star.

Led by Denzel Washington (2 Guns), as sometime lawman Sam Chisolm, that cast includes white guys Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Ethan Hawke (Before Midnight) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Daredevil), but also actors Byung - hun Lee (I Saw the Devil), Manuel Garcia - Rulfo (Cake) and relative newcomer (and Native - American actor) Martin Sensmeier (Lilin's Brood), making the overall balance of the titular group more diverse than in 1960.

Maybe it was the weak script that gave the actors nothing to work with, or maybe the casting director was more worried with getting big names than collecting the right cast.

With a much more expanded cast of supporting actors and its usual charm makes for a slight improvement than its predecessor.

It's hard to know how much to praise the cast here, since we see more of their avatars than we do of the actors themselves.

There's a thousand actors better than him... affirmative action meets casting

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

And in support the cast is unimpeachable, with a hotter - than - hot Matthew McConaughey featuring and Oscar nominee Jonah Hill, «The Artist» Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin, Jon Favreau, Kyle Chandler and rising Aussie actress Margot Robbie rounding it out, plus directors Rob Reiner and Spike Jonze in small parts.

Other actors have attempted their own version of this form of immersive acting (frequently identified as the Method, though it's not actually Method's defining characteristic), but their antics usually draw attention to themselves as being little more than self - important, cast - aggravating stunts (see: Jared Leto).

Since the cast does not extend much further than the six prominently - billed actors, everyone gets some interesting material, even if all but two of them drift out of the picture by its end.

Less than one month after actor Bruce Willis boarded the action - thriller Extraction, Gina Carano has been confirmed to join the cast, along with Kellan Lutz.

There are no two actors on the planet that are better choices for Andy and Strickland than Day and Cube (bonus points for working an N.W.A. song title into his dialogue), and the supporting cast is just as good.

If Cooper, who showed he's a great voice actor with The Guardians of the Galaxy, joins the cast, his involvement would mean this is probably more than another talking dog movie, as he usually picks smart projects.

And while the casting debate is a non-starter (not only is Jordan an excellent actor, but he's a great choice for the role), the latest trailer doesn't exactly fill me with confidence that «Fantastic Four» is going to be any better than its predecessors.

I guess the movie might be praised for its casting diversity, incorporating white actors to a larger degree than most black - leaning productions do.

While the cast has some familiar faces, including «Out Of Sight» and «Grey's Anatomy» actor Isaiah Washington as Muhammed, and Joey Lauren Adams and Tim Blake Nelson among the other co-stars, we're hoping for something closer to Gus Van Sant «s «Elephant» than to a Lifetime movie reconstruction.

Casting directors caught on early as the actor has got no fewer than four lead roles on the way.

A two - hander, the picture stars Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch (who Green almost worked with years ago on a a shuttered project called, «Bully «-RRB-, with no else listed in the cast other than 77 - year - old character actor Lance LeGault.

Dunst's performance here is hardly different than those she would portray in modern - day films for young adults, and although Coppola's dialogue does mostly avoid obvious modern catchphrases and slang, all of the actors speak in their own native dialects, with a cast blended with mostly American and British actors.

Kroll is less innately lovable than his co-star in a way that makes his casting as Robbie's brother, Bill, surprisingly perfect (save, perhaps, for the idea that the two actors have much in common genetically).

Like the majority of animation made today, Disney traditionally records the voices and animates to it, rather than the voice actors having to perform to picture, which made the process more difficult even for a cast that is full of previous animated stars.

Seven of the branches — actors, casting directors, costume designers, designers, documentary, executives, and film editors — invited more women than men this year.

At the film's recent press day, del Toro and Gutierrez spoke about the genesis of the project, Gutierrez's unusual pitch that convinced del Toro to produce the movie, Gutierrez's vision using authentic folk art characters, the film's humanistic tone, casting a talented and eclectic international group of actors to voice the larger than life characters, choosing Reel FX to tackle the complicated animation design, gaining the support of Fox's Jim Gianopulos, how Zoe Saldana and Diego Luna learned to sing, the film's amazing music, and del Toro's upcoming projects including «Crimson Peak,» «The Strain,» «Pacific Rim 2,» the «Pan's Labyrinth» Musical, and the possibility of a «Hellboy 3.»

The cinematography is still pretty to look at, but almost every shot is a green - screen composite, looking like it was cast with local weathermen rather than actors.

The supporting cast isn't too shabby, either, boasting actors like Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Anne Heche, Sofia Vergara and Jason Alexander, but most of them are nothing more than glorified cameos.

The strong supporting cast also tries, but even the great John Carradine (easily the best thing about the film) and Anthony Quinn (who seriously out - swaggers Power here) can't change the fact that the bloated script slows the scenes to a trot, and Mamoulian appears far more interested in directing the light of shadow across the faces of his actors than in the actual actors.

The actors are cast based more on looks than talent, the special effects are (if nothing else) well - rendered, and there is a kinetic energy produced by the hard - driving rock soundtrack and music video - style editing — surface pleasures strictly for people that don't want to have to think while watching their schlocky, b - movie fare.

Casting the real - life heroes in the three lead roles in The 15:17 to Paris is no doubt an inspired move by Eastwood, who clearly saw something special in Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler than any name actor who auditioned for any of the three roles.

From the cast of more than 20 stars, Dillon scored a best supporting actor Oscar nomination.

Director Stephen Fung is making a martial arts movie for the internet age; the fight sequences have additional videogame - style graphics showing angles of attack, and rather than putting the cast's names in the opening credits, Fung introduces them whenever they show up in the movie, and adds each actor's best - known credit next to his or her name.

Though it never surprises, much less transcends, in exposing the vile underbelly of Texas justice, the film is more affecting than it ought to be, thanks to a loaded cast that includes Alfre Woodard, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton, Charles Dutton, and the rapper and sometime actor Xzibit.

Cleverly, the film amps up Pitt's hero stature by populating the cast with emerging and unknown actors rather than the usual rota of reliable and recognisable character actors.

Black Panther has more women and black actors than any MCU movie and A Wrinkle in Time has an amazingly diverse cast, promising a shift in genres that have traditionally neglected people of color (a fact that's very frustrating, considering what a fruitful and powerful genre it is for talking about oppression).

And Danny Huston — an actor so gruffly engaging that I can't understand why he's so rarely cast — seethes and snarls as if he shares my desire for scenes more dramatically complex than these.