Sentences with phrase «child actor macaulay»

Nicholas Hoult As a gawky 12 year - old, Hoult may have impressed in «About a Boy,» sparring opposite Hugh Grant with admirable lack of cuteness, but it was hard to see what kind of career lay ahead for a child actor with such a tart register and ungainly presence.

Former Star Wars child actor Jake Lloyd has told how he quit acting after school bullies mocked his Hollywood career and made life a «living...

If you are in your early 30s, like yours truly, you may get a kick out the fact that this is a mini Angels in the Outfieldreunion from when Gordon - Levitt was a child actor.

The buoyant child actor, looking wide - eyed in formalwear, has long been a fixture of awards season.

We're pretty sure this is the same movie that was previously announced as «Sundowning» earlier this year, with Kathryn Hahn and child actor Ed Oxenbould in the lead roles.

Clown Year: 2014 Director: Jon Watts An icky creature feature that never once blinks as it pushes its conceit as far as an especially game child actor's parents will allow, Clown is director Jon Watts» debut, a horror movie in which a lot of cute, innocent children are eaten — on screen — by a man in a clown suit.

Featuring Willem Dafoe in one of his all - time best roles and breakout performances from child actor Brooklynn Prince and young newcomer Bria Vinaite this movie might very well be a masterpiece.

The younger a child actor is, the cutesier his / her role tends to become.

Haley Joel Osment was considered the most amazing child actor around following his performance in The Sixth Sense, but he's burdened with the task of making his character's actions and words seem credible without giving away the big twist, which is a tall order for a 10 - year - old.

Whatever the intention, it's mangled by Gregg's inability to convincingly psychologize Howard beyond boilerplate facts and simple motivations, like Howard having been a child actor himself.

Starting out as a child actor, Yelchin landed his first roles in independent films and on TV while still in middle school, getting his big break in 2001's sentimental Stephen King adaptation Hearts In Atlantis, where he played opposite Anthony Hopkins.

Casting Haley Joel Osment in what might be one of the best child performances of all time, proved to pay off as he was the youngest actor to ever be nominated for an Academy Award, and it's not only a great performance by a child actor, but by any actor in general.

Sweary, cute and lethal from a child actor is a combination only possible through confidence, and Chloe Moretz has it in spades.

As for the outright strangeness of wunderkind Alton, it's nicely offset by the casting of Lieberher, a child actor who's impressive but essentially down to earth in his manner.

This is why child actor, Dakota Fanning, deserves star of the film because her depiction of a creepy kid is exactly the tone this movie is going for.

«Handle with Care: Working with the Martian Child» (24:18) covers the film's production with both eyes on child actor Bobby Coleman.

As for the boys, Haley Joel Osmont of «The Sixth Sense» had a high - profile career as a child actor, appearing in «Pay it Forward» and «A.I.,» which then morphed into him acting in movies such as «Montana Amazon» and doing voiceover work for the video game series «Kingdom Hearts.»

Before he starred in the «Lord of the Rings» trilogy, Elijah Wood was an accomplished child actor, making his name in commercials: some cheesier than others.

CF: The casting process was really daunting, because I knew from «Citadel» that it's hard enough to find one good child actor.

Gordon - Levitt was said to be taking a risk, but Araki was also taking a risk on a child actor on the cusp of manhood.

The child actor is excellent opposite his director / co-star, but this is Bateman's show, with Andrew Dodge's script playing to the actor's strengths so well that you'd think it was written specifically for him.

A child actor in the 2003 Disney Channel original movie «Right On Track,» Larson also acted in music videos during her pop starlet days.

In a career that stretches back nearly 35 years, he has pulled off tricky moves from child actor to adult star and from television to movies.

The fate of child actor's is rarely as promising or as eloquent as it has been for Canadian actress / activist Sarah Polley, whose first feature films have all been delicate examinations of human relationships.

At one time, it went by the title «Sundowning» (which, in my opinion, is a much better name than the generic moniker it has now), and Kathryn Hahn and child actor Ed Oxenbould are part of the cast.

Perhaps by connecting to his own experiences as a child actor, there's a weight to Bateman's performance here that feels new, distinct from the affably put - upon everyman persona of his more mainstream commercial work or even TV's «Arrested Development.»

Establishing himself from child actor to adult Academy Award - nominee, he is perhaps best known for his roles as Moocher in Breaking Away, Kelly Leak in The Bad News Bears, pedophile Ronnie McGorvey in Little Children, the vigilante Rorschach in Watchmen, as horror icon Freddy Krueger in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, released on April 30, 2010, and most recently as Guerrero in Fox's drama Human Target.

This approach would never work without a strong child actor in the title role and they knocked it out of the park with this one.

They appeared together on an episode of The Clinic when Saoirse was a child actor and also both starred in the 2013 film How I Live Now.

The trailer shows child actor Rohan Chand as Mowgli, weeping as he rattles the bars of a cage, while the black panther Bagheera (voiced by Christian Bale) offers him advice.

We also get child actor audition tapes, some set footage, and remarks from two of Malick's many admirers in the industry, directors Christopher Nolan and David Fincher, who comment about his work as a whole (quite possibly without having seen Tree of Life yet).

We also get a glimpse at Sugar Ray's marriage (former child actor Jurnee Smollett - Bell plays his wife) and Ray's marriage (Ellen Barkin plays his wife in three scenes), which comes to include a secret daughter with a drug problem (Drena De Niro, De Niro's real adopted daughter).

If we consider Pong to be the equivalent of a popular child actor of its time - seen everywhere, but not quite fulfilling its potential - then BIT.TRIP BEAT is that child actor's attempt to reinvent itself during the heady early 90's period, full of synth beats and slatherings of neon to hide its aging concept.

Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of the child actor from The Return of the Swamp Thing.

Instead of a retarded football player («The Waterboy»), a freaky little man - whore («Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo») or a morally corrupt child actor («Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star») we get male fire fighters pretending to...

Rupert Grint might be the strongest child actor here at the moment though, his comic relief being the saving grace where the child actors begin struggling, especially in the most heart - stopping game of chess ever seen in cinema.

First, there was the cute child actor who accrued 30 credits in 10 years, none as famous as Andy Taylor's son Opie on TV's «The Andy Griffith Show.»

Shadowy satanist organizations, American political powers, and everyones favourite villain David Warner (here playing a shaggy haired photographer who figures out the truth), Rottweiler and Baboon attacks, the mark of the devil 666, and a creepy performance from child actor Harvey Spencer Stephens insured that The Omen was a huge success at the time.

Tye Sheridan (from «Tree of Life» and the upcoming David Gordon Green film, «Joe,» which so far in a brief career makes him three for three in working with terrific filmmakers) and his co-star Jacob Lofland (in his film acting debut) transcend the child actor ghetto (saying they're good for being kid actors is wildly understating it).

It stars Clive Owen and child actor Jaden Lieberher, who's so good in MidnightSpecial.

Goyo comes off not as a child but as a child actor who is trying to act like a child.

A new Hunt for the Wilderpeople trailer has just debuted, and it shows off just enough of the hilarious manhunt that takes Sam Neill and breakthrough child actor Julian Dennison through the woods of New Zealand.

Backstage Expert and acting coach Denise Simon offers her take on whether extra work should be included on a child actor's resume.

If disgraced actors aren't enough to keep the franchise going, The Last Knight added a child actor... because those are cute?

One of the things I briefly noted (and wish I had expanded upon) in my review of Pixar's «Up» (releasing tomorrow) was how «pitch - perfect» child actor Jordan Nagai is as the voice of Russell, a Wilderness Explorer sidekick of sorts to Ed Asner's disgruntled Carl Fredricksen.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt started his acting as a child actor.

** NOTE: If you don't recognize Jerry O'Connell's name, you might remember him as a child actor... he played Vern in Stand By Me (1986)

Placing the acerbic David Spade in the role of a has - been child actor is a stroke of genius.

He supervised the 2K digital transfer and is joined on the commentary track by Criterion President Peter Becker and child actor Jake Ryan, and they call up co-writer Roman Coppola and supporting actors Bill Murray, Edward Norton, and Jason Schwartzman to elicit comments from them.

Voiced in the American version by child actor Mackenzie Foy and the perpetually gruff Forest Whitaker («Lee Daniels» The Butler»), Celestine and Ernest form a friendship based on their mutual outsider status.