Sentences with phrase «coming film actors»

The party is Chopard's fourth annual awards ceremony recognising up - and - coming film actors.

Not exact matches

This was the case recently when Amy Pascal, Sony's co-chairman and chief of its film division, came under intense criticism for her remarks about President Barack Obama and less than flattering statements about high - profile actors, including Angelina Jolie, Kevin Hart and Adam Sandler.

The illuminating part, however, comes from looking at the magazine's most overpaid actors list, which calculates the revenue from their last three films against salaries.

The announcement came after Novartis was dragged into the scandal over Cohen's payment of $ 130,000 to US adult film actor Stormy Daniels just days before the 2016 presidential election.

Coming of age films are a dime a dozen, and what it really comes down to is the stregth of the young actor or actress.

Django Unchained is an epic film with a simple and straightforward story that is as entertaining as they come; for all the hyper - explosive and bloody bullet hits, the film shines in its more quieter moments, where an actor like Christoph Waltz can excel in his charm or Samuel L. Jackson can ooze with ill - intent.

The lead actors are both marvellous... Yet the film's most impressive performance might come from director Dominic Cooke, who has delivered an assured, wistful debut.

David Starsky is just the sort of uptight, anal retentive stick - in - the - mud that Stiller's has a lot of success with in films like Meet the Parents and Along Came Polly - while Wilson's Ken Hutchinson is reminiscent of virtually every character in the actor's repertoire (with few exceptions, including his rare dramatic performance in The Minus Man).

«The pleasure of this unique film comes in watching superb actors dine on Mamet's pungent language like the feast it is.»

Malholtra has clearly left his actors to their own devices and his leading lady offers up enough hair tosses, lippy pouts and come hither glances for a dozen films.

The actor originally hailed from Jonesboro, AR, where he was tormented by school bullies for being a «pretty boy,» and he came to film via New York's Juilliard School, where he acted in a number of productions.

Some of his more notable work came from his collaboration with director Spike Lee; over the course of the 1990s, Washington starred in three of his films, playing a jazz trumpeter in Mo» Better Blues (1990), the title role in Lee's epic 1992 biopic Malcolm X (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination), and the convict father of a high - school basketball star in He Got Game (1998).

Dave Franco plays Greg Sestero, the wide - eyed, unemployed actor Tommy persuades to come to LA with him and be in the film; The Disaster Artist is adapted from Sestero's 2013 memoir of acting in his anti-masterpiece.

And while the movie's obvious highlight comes with Roma's brutal dressing - down of Kevin Spacey's officious manager, Mamet's screenplay affords virtually all of the actors their moment in the sun - with Lemmon's sad - sack of a character ultimately standing as the film's emotional center (ie despite his exceedingly slimy actions, Levene becomes a figure worthy of the viewer's sympathy).

He accepts an invitation from Charlie to come to Los Angeles for a job writing a film starring rapper / actor Samurai Apolcaypse, then reunites with Karen, her former professor and now - husband Richard, and his daughter Becca, who now has a boyfriend named Tyler that is the spitting image of Hank himself... in the worst possible way.

Synopsis: When aspiring film actor Greg Sestero meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.

They aren't professional actors, but their non-acting creates a resonant tension, as their misplacement in a Hollywood film, directed by a legend, comes to approximate the surreal sense of misplacement that they could have felt when finding themselves in the midst of a terrorist attack.

For his elaborately choreographed fight scenes, Canutt developed a new, more realistic method of throwing punches, positioning the action so that the camera filmed over the shoulder of the actor receiving the blow, with the punch itself coming directly toward the lens.

Runyonesque American character actor Tom D'Andrea came to films when the Broadway production This is the Army was transferred to the screen in 1943.

Daley and Goldstein, who started off as actors, have co-directed one previous feature, the 2015 holiday - road reboot «Vacation,» but the sign that they're instinctive filmmakers, with a bold sense of comedy structure, comes in the sequence they stage, with serpentine ingenuity, at the home of a crime boss (Danny Huston) who has the film's MacGuffin — a Fabergé egg — locked in his safe.

The actors perform with multiple safety nets and the closest the film ever comes to taking a risk is having Freeman dance to a cover of Earth Wind & Fire's «September.»

The film is not without it's flaws, but with a well played role by Harry Treadaway an up and coming young Actor, low budget Independant film which has it's predictable moments but that makes the film seem natural as if a true story.

The critical and commercial success of the film put Pepper — and several of his co-stars — in the spotlight, and he soon had a coveted spot on the cover of Vanity Fair's 1999 Hollywood issue, alongside several other up - and - coming young actors.

An actor in British theater while still a teenager, Scottish - born Frank Lloyd came to the U.S. in 1913, and after acting in films he turned to writing and directing.

The film centers on child actor turned waiter Andrew, who comes back to his home state of New Jersey for the funeral of his father.

The film is fairly tolerable as these things go: Wilder takes time off from the steamrolling plot for improvised bits with some actor buddies (including Charles Grodin and Joseph Bologna), and the project as a whole is a lot less mawkish than we've come to expect from Wilder's directorial efforts.

It marked the director's first collaboration with Grégoire Colin, a dark - eyed, arresting young actor whom Denis would also employ to great effect in both Nénette et Boni and Beau Travail.The former film, made in 1996, was another coming - of - age drama that centered on the relationship between a lovelorn young man (Colin) and his rebellious, pregnant 15 - year - old sister (Alice Houri).

Everyone must watch this film its my humble request... I liked it so much that i watched it more than 100 times.The song the cameras all are well set... Both actors looks charming and they have really given their maximum effort in making such a marvelous film... Come up with new films like this in future..

Recruited by an old chum (Peter Boyle) to help find an exotic prostitute missing in Chinatown, Hammett enlists his implausibly gorgeous neighbor (Marilu Henner) to play Girl Friday as he matches wits with colorful actors including Jack Nance («Eraserhead» and other David Lynch works), David Patrick Kelly (whose strangled voice is an interesting counterpart to his iconic «Come out to play - yi - yay» taunt from «The Warriors»), Roy Kinnear and a few old - timers from film noir's heyday (the scene with Sylvia Sidney is especially good).

Two actors, however, come along and steal the movie, one of which is brand new to Tarantino's films while the other is an old staple.

Occasionally, Demanges» naturalism can come across as a little contrived but this is rare with the director more often than not delicately balancing nuanced performances from his actors with all the thrills that you would expect from a genre film.

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.»

For our edition of the film, coming out tomorrow on Blu - ray and DVD, the lead actors spoke with us about the pleasures of collaborating on this project.

Liam Neeson, who played Batman villain Ra's al Ghul in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, was mentioned by Deadpool himself in the first Deadpool flick's post-credits scene, though it was actually another actor from Zack Snyder's films who may have come closer.

These comments perhaps serve as a testament to just how far digital performance capture has come in recent years, to the point where some actors actually prefer the process to - or at least would put it alongside - traditionally filmed roles.

Real Name: Emilio Estevez Image: 80s film star turned up - and - coming director Birth Date: May 12, 1962 Best Known For: Being part of the Brat Pack Early Life: Born in New York, Emilio is the eldest son of actor and activist Martin Sheen.

Each actor is always typecast and plays it «safe» when it comes to making choices in their movies, but this film is a complete role reversal and shows what they are capable of doing.

There's some top - notch string work from composer Alan Silvestri, which adds some pleasing gravitas to proceedings, but the emotional integrity of the film ultimately comes down to a groups of actors audiences have come to know and love.

The coming of age movie has picked up Best Film awards in New York and Canada with lead actor Aide Spratt also taking home a Best Actress award in LA for her work on the film.

Her recreation came to life with director Adam Shankman and lead actors Shane West and Mandy Moore (in their respective roles of rebellious Landon Carter and reserved Jamie Sullivan) and the beloved film grossed $ 41 million, domestically.

There's very little depth to the cast of victims (ahem, I mean characters) even in comparison to the average slasher film, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Sky High) is the only actor to come off in a positive light.

For Richard Linklater's epic coming - of - age film, shot in real - time in Texas, Austin casting director Sepko brought in local actors and stayed nimble during an unstructured shoot.

And indeed, the greatest pleasure comes from watching this trio of exceptional actors breath life into a film that does absolute justice both to their talents, and to the multi-faceted characters they play.

The actor actively campaigned for this role during interviews and on social media, so even if the film keeps getting delayed, Channing Tatum may still stick with it for the long haul, until all of the pieces finally come into place and production starts.

I understand why Johnny Depp is credited as the main actor, not because he is a bigger draw at the box office, but because he as Tanto starts off in the film telling the story of how the Lone Ranger came to be.

As good as the young actors are here, Elle Fanning is far and away the best of the group and with her work in 2010» s Somewhere and this film, she is laying the foundation for becoming a potential superstar in the years to come.

Coming into his own after a long gap, the actor does a convincing job of showing where Dixon's rage is coming from, and has picked up one of the Oscar nominations among the film's seven (including acting nods for McDormand and HarrelsonComing into his own after a long gap, the actor does a convincing job of showing where Dixon's rage is coming from, and has picked up one of the Oscar nominations among the film's seven (including acting nods for McDormand and Harrelsoncoming from, and has picked up one of the Oscar nominations among the film's seven (including acting nods for McDormand and Harrelson too).

When it comes to his latest directorial effort, an adaptation of cartoonist John Callahan «s memoir Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, the movie is undoubtedly remarkable, but it's due to the performances Van Sant pulls from his actors rather than the film as a whole.

As of now, Ehrenreich is the only actor on board the project, but expect many more casting announcements to come soon, considering that a recent tweet from co-director of the film Christopher Miller seems to suggest that shooting isn't far, far away.

The films come at regular intervals, they look good, have a great cast of actors I can get behind and a story I like but I've never walked away from a new Potter film feeling wowed.