Sentences with phrase «comedy film a year»

A man featuring in at least one comedy film a year consistently!

Not exact matches

The company said it is premiering eight new feature films, 30 original series, 35 children's shows, 12 documentaries, and nine comedy specials this year alone — an expansion that some analysts say could cost $ 5 billion.

The dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won big at the Golden Globes earlier this year, but the film has also seen a sustained backlash from critics over its questionable ending and a perceived failure in fleshing out the movie's non-white characters.

Sony had to cancel the much - anticipated release of the comedy film The Interview last year after hackers threatened action if the film was released theatrically.

The upcoming reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise features one of the funniest ensemble casts of any film this year: Along with stars Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, the sci - fi comedy will also feature appearances by Cecily Strong, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and a bunch of other big names.

Along with promising comedies, a new David O. Russell film, the latest offering from Pixar and a documentary about Hillsong, our list of the most anticipated movies of next year is filled with reboots and remakes.

Greta Gerwig's charming coming - of - age indie comedy is one the year's most critically praised films.

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

The year's funniest movie is probably The Big Sick, a heartwarming romantic comedy written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon, who tell their own life story in this film about an interracial couple dealing with their cultural differences.

And next year, she'll appear in the indie film Drive, She Said, a comedy with Jason Biggs.

Emma Roberts has been acting since she was 10 years old, staring in everything from drama films to comedy television.

She was the object of Adam Sandler's misguided affection in the comedy Just Go With It and she's currently filming What to Expect When You're Expecting alongside heavy - hitters like Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, while her action / alien invasion flick Battleship is set to hit theaters next year.

As the days get darker and the nights grow colder, one of the most blissful things you can do this time of year is to spend the evening watching a classic romantic - comedy film.

This year, I'm working on a series of eight short films, one of which is a romantic comedy in pre-production as we speak.

Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy - drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends The Rules is a way of dating that really works!

Despite an interesting premise and excellent cast, the film flopped, but Arquette continued to work steadily the following year, with lead roles in the black comedy Goodbye Lover; Stigmata, in which she starred opposite Gabriel Byrne as the unwitting target of a supernatural phenomenon; and Martin Scorsese's Bringing out the Dead, a film starring Arquette's then - husband Cage as a burnt - out paramedic.Following the weightiness of the creepy Stigmata and the disturbing Bringing Out the Dead, Arquette took things in a decidedly lighter direction with her next two projects.

Ultimately, good intentions aside, the only point that You Don't Mess With the Zohan really proves is Newton's Law of Gravity; cowriter Judd Apatow has been THE dominant voice in American film comedy for the last three years (and I'm even counting the underrated Drillbit Taylor), but this movie proves that even HE had to come down some time!

A team effort with longtime friend Romano would result in the straight - to - video comedy Grilled in 2006, with subsequent voice work in the animated family comedies Monster House and Barnyard arriving in theaters later that same year.James would maintain his position as a go - to guy for family friendly comedy over the coming years, appearing in films like I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Grown Ups, and Zookeeper and providing a voice in Hotel Transylvania.

Valletta's roles — given the actress» off - camera motherhood and intermittent magazine work — accumulated slowly over the next several years (in films such as the Nicolas Cage holiday vehicle The Family Man and the Danny DeVito - directed black comedy Duplex); as a result, Valletta only ascended gradually to top billing.

Sheen's next major success was also a comedy, the 1991 military - film satire Hot Shots, and while box - office blockbusters tended to elude him, Sheen worked steadily over the next several years, and racked up a respectable number of box - office successes.By this time, Sheen had developed a reputation as a hard - living star who spoke his mind regardless of the consequences, but his fun - loving image began to take on a darker hue in the mid -»90s.

It'd be unlike Denis — whose far - flung features over the last 30 years have ranged from the luridly modern vampirism of 2001's Trouble Every Day to films tackling war, colonialism, French modernity, and so on — to make a straightforward romantic comedy.

After a three - year hiatus from acting, Robbins returned to the screen in 1997 with the comedy Nothing to Lose; he soon announced plans to mount a film adaptation of Cradle Will Rock, the Marc Blitzstein play first staged by Orson Welles six decades earlier.

He made his screen debut in 1983 in the film comedy Baby It's You, and won the Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award that year for his work in Robert Altman's Streamers.

The Puffy Chair is the funniest, saddest and most emotionally honest «romantic comedy» to come along in years, even if I've yet to encounter many over the age of about 35 who like the film, or even get it.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

During her second year at Northwestern University, Williams got her feature film break when she was cast as protective father Steve Martin's soon - to - be-married daughter Annie in the (slightly) modernized version of the popular 1950s comedy Father of the Bride.

Later that year, Macdonald appeared in Mike Figgis» The Loss of Sexual Innocence, playing the young girlfriend of the film's protagonist; and in Gregg Araki's Splendor, a romantic comedy in which she played the blue - haired best friend of the film's heroine.After a slew of similar supporting roles, including a memorable turn as the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Colin Firth in My Life So Far, MacDonald was given possibly her biggest break since Trainspotting when Robert Altman cast her as a lead (albeit one of many) in Gosford Park (2001).

Not perfect - the film is made on a tight budget and sometimes it shows - but this is so much better written than every other American comedy this year (apart from Burn After Reading) that it is embarrassing.

She appeared in the comedy film Molly, starring Elisabeth Shue, the following year.

That movie nudged him toward being considered a Serious Actor, a designation he nurtured with roles in three films shown at major festivals: Lee Daniels» The Paperboy and Todd Nichols» Mud (both at Cannes this year) and the popular indie comedy Bernie (London Film Festival).

Into The Night, on the other hand, is a underrated comedy film which remains largely funny twenty - five years on.

The film's big weakness is, ironically, its premise — as a straight romantic comedy in the Woody Allen / Nora Ephron vein this could have been one of the finest films of the decade, not just the year.

During his unprecedented twenty - seven - year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, westerns, musicals, war epics, historical dramas, horror films, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces.

Sixteen months after the blockbuster's debut, director Todd Phillips has one of this year's most anticipated movies in the forthcoming buddy road comedy Due Date, all three leads have moved past their vaguely familiar stage to a reasonable degree of stardom, the savvily - greenlit The Hangover 2 has begun shooting, and Warner Home Video has just reissued the film in Extreme Edition DVD and Blu - ray sets.

After breaking through with films made by an emerging avant garde — including Josh Trank's Chronicle, Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines and Josh Krokidas» Kill Your Darlings — this year the 28 - year - old actor has starred in two very of - the - moment genres, first playing Harry Osborn, Peter Parker's childhood pal turned homicidal supervillain Green Goblin, in The Amazing Spider - Man 2, and now appearing opposite Aubrey Plaza in the zombie comedy Life After Beth.

Smart and snappy, this comedy is one of the scariest films of the year, using humour to outline the 2008 economic collapse from the inside.

«Birdman» leads film nominees at this year's Golden Globe Awards with seven bids, including best picture (musical or comedy), best actor for star Michael Keaton, and supporting actor nods for Emma Stone and Edward Norton.

Five years after the success of his previous film David O. Russell returned with an even riskier project, an «existential comedy» as he described it.

Well, what we didn't tell you (because we didn't know) is that it's a prequel to My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument that takes us back to the teenage years of the characters in the 1995 film... And least promising sequel of the week has to be Spring Breakers: The Second Coming, a cash - in scripted by Irvine Welsh and directed by Jonas Akerlund, the man behind such bad - boy music videos as «Smack My Bitch Up» and the 2002 meth - addict comedy Spun.

Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, and Michael Showalter's unassuming romantic comedy is one of the year's funniest films, featuring some truly jawdropping one - liners and set pieces, but it's also so completely naked - hearted and raw that you'll frequently be weeping even as you laugh.

Anyway, the entire purpose of Zoolander 2 — and any comedy sequel made more than 10 years after the original, and comedy sequels in general — is to facilitate the repetition of jokes from the original film among fans who prefer to communicate their thoughts and feelings in movie - quote form, so reference away, referencers.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Writer - director Judd Apatow follows up his smash debut film, The 40 - Year - Old Virgin with another successful comedy, Knocked Up, which may even best the out - and - out laughs quotient of his very funny previous effort.

Maybe only just the 24 & up demographic know of Jim Carrey's great comedic skills, but it seems no one thinks he is funny since hasn't done a lol - comedy film in the last 8 years.

Not everything he's made has been a hit, but the last few years have seen Nicholas Stoller establish himself as one of the more reliable comedy directors in the business, with films like «Forgetting Sarah Marshall,» «The Muppets» (which he co-wrote) and «Get Him To The Greek.»

Texas Chainsaw 3D, the first film I get to review this year is actually one I saw a while back in December, Ruben Fleischer's (director of one of my favorite comedies of recent years, Zombieland, and one of the most forgettable comedies of recent years, 30 Minutes Or Less) stylistic 1940s tale of heroism, gangsters, and a colorful - but - corrupt Los Angeles, Gangster Squad.

In the time that has followed she has made at least two more feature film appearances a year, playing a variety of roles such as the trophy wife in the comedy Potiche (Ozon, 2010), a mother who rekindles a thirty year old romance in the musical, Les bien - aimé / Beloved (Honoré, 2011) and Queen Cordelia in the most recent instalment of Astérix and Obélix: Au service de sa majesté / God Save Britannia (Tirard, 2012).

Heavy on Spanish language films (including a Brazilian film not in its mother tongue) and the usual block of French film items, after seven years as Artistic Director, Edouard Waintrop leaves the Directors» Fortnight (the section that gave us The Florida Project and a Claire Denis comedy in 2017) with what appears to be a program of genre - friendly firecracker line - up items.

Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012) Anderson delivers a beautifully quirky romantic comedy drama, in what is destined to become one of his best films in recent years.

Clerks and Office Space have been often imitated over the years, and even though those films have their share of flaws, none of the pretenders to the raunchy work comedy throne have been able to topple them in terms of quotability or pure laughter.