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More of the same can be said for Crowe's debut as a director with the excellent Say Anything, showing once again he had a knack for taking what would ostensibly be a «just another...» film and taking it to depths no one had bothered exploring before.

Rocky made him an instant star, but Stallone continued to work behind the scenes, writing numerous films and directing many of them: he debuted as director with Paradise Alley (1978), directed four out of the six Rocky films, made the Saturday Night Fever sequel Staying Alive (1983), directed 2008's Rambo, and launched a new franchise with 2010's The Expendables.

Horror author Barker made an auspicious debut as a director with this bloody shocker about a violent con artist who cheats death in gruesome fashion.

He is going to debut as a director with Breathe on October 12 this year.

She's set to make her debut as a director with the dramedy A Happening Of Monumental Proportions.

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The new look for Shaka Tea — created by McLean Design — will debut at the Natural Products Expo West show, said Hughes, who recently appointed Tony Giannini as director of national sales as the brand gears up to announce «national distribution plans, launching in Q2 with one of the top distributors across the continental US.»

Raf Simons made already his debut last summer as creative director of Dior with a couture collection.

Dominic Jones made his debut as creative director of jewelry brand Astley Clarke with three different collections.

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

Dunne debuted as a producer / director in 1955 with the Edwin Booth biopic Prince of Players.

Mélanie Laurent's sweet but schmaltzy debut establishes her credentials as a capable director, and she does good work with old Inglourious Basterd Menochet, too.

Dax Shepard, who serves as co-director, one of the several producers, writer, and star of Hit and Run, appears to be heading in the right direction for actors - turned - directors with his off - kilter debut film.

Bridges made his film debut as writer / director with The Babymaker (1970).

In her debut feature as writer - director, Karen Gillan stars as a woman trying (and failing) to come to grips with the suicide of her friend.

With an excellent, career - topping performance by the late Harry Dean Stanton, coupled with a strong supporting ensemble, this quiet, low - key debut feature from actor - director John Carroll Lynch explores the meaning of life and the secrets to help make it fulfilling, both while we're here and as we're about to make our ultimate transitWith an excellent, career - topping performance by the late Harry Dean Stanton, coupled with a strong supporting ensemble, this quiet, low - key debut feature from actor - director John Carroll Lynch explores the meaning of life and the secrets to help make it fulfilling, both while we're here and as we're about to make our ultimate transitwith a strong supporting ensemble, this quiet, low - key debut feature from actor - director John Carroll Lynch explores the meaning of life and the secrets to help make it fulfilling, both while we're here and as we're about to make our ultimate transition.

Andrew Ahn's feature debut as writer - director examines the coming of age of a gay son of Asian immigrants with sensitivity and visual power

She made her debut with a small role in Maid to Order (1987) and appeared sporadically in films such as Easy Wheels (1989), but first gained national notice when director Spike Lee cast her as an aspiring actress who works for a phone sex service in Girl 6 (1996).

Writer - director Damien Power advances from his work on short films with his feature debut, a solidly visceral and harshly unforgiving pic that's lean and taut in its plotting and pacing, even as it shakes up linear chronology initially to tell its tale.

Debut director Yanne Demange does a remarkable job of ramping up the tension in the early scenes as his camera jostles with protestors summonsed by their wives and mothers» ritual banging of dustbin lids on the pavements.

This debut feature from writer - director David Veloz, based on a 1995 autobiography, starkly retells Stahl's rise and fall in LA - LA - land over the course of a multi-day shack - up with ex-addict Kitty (E.R.'s Maria Bello), a sucker for rehab patients who coaxes him away from a dead - end job (in, appropriately, Phoenix) in favor of sex (initially as frigid as the frozen chicken he was hacking at only hours earlier at his fast - food outpost) and conversation.

Debut writer - director Chris Kelly, a writer on «SNL,» digs in rather than relying on contrived, movie - ready set pieces (as in the similar «The Hollars»), making this gay «Garden State» rich with naturalistic comedy as well as beautifully touching moments.

Kristen Stewart stars as a guard at Guantanamo Bay who forms an unlikely friendship with a prisoner in writer - director Peter Sattler's feature debut.

ROB REINER»S debut as a feature film director with the mock «rockumentary» This Is Spinal Tap was as invigorating as his second film, The Sure Thing, is depressing: not since Michael Cimino followed The Deer Hunter with Heaven's Gate has there been such a dramatic comedown.

Rated R for strong violence, some drug use and language, the director makes a compelling action debut with «Faster,» as it shows the extreme measures people will take to take revenge out on those who wronged them.

The National Board of Review's awards celebrate excellence in filmmaking with categories that include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Performances, Best Ensemble, Breakthrough Performances, Directorial Debut and Spotlight Award as well as signature honors such as the William K. Everson Award for Film History, Freedom of Expression, and Special Achievement in Filmmaking.

The director: Markus Schleinzer (Austria) The talent: An actor and accomplished casting director — whose credits in the latter field include several films by his compatriots Michael Haneke and Jessica Hausner — 39 year - old Schleinzer has cast his debut feature as writer - director with several actors he previously tapped for other directors» films.

Known for hard - hitting screenplays for Submarino and The Hunt which he co-wrote with director Thomas Vinterberg, and for the popular Danish TV drama Borgen, Tobias Lindholm's solo directorial debut is perhaps as remarkable in the script department as his previous work, but the film itself — like the ship it depicts — sometimes goes adrift.

Just as Abbas Kiarostami «s «Certified Copy» glimpsed a different facet to the director's style through its international cast and location, Park Chan - Wook looks to follow suit with his English - language debut, «Stoker.»

McCarthy has followed his highly acclaimed debut with two more praised dramedies as writer / director, 2008's The Visitor (which surprised some when it earned long - underappreciated Richard Jenkins a Best Actor Oscar nomination) and last year's universally approved Win Win.

With little over a year to go before its release, Universal Pictures has debuted the first poster for director Sam Taylor - Johnson's adaptation of the all - but - forgotten E.L. James erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, which features Jamie Dornan (Once Upon a Time) as Christian Grey...

Korean director Park Chan - wook's English - language debut plays like one giant homage to Alfred Hitchcock (particularly his 1943 film «Shadow of a Doubt»), but with a decidedly unique and erotic twist that's every bit as perverse as his previous work — the kind of movie that gets under your skin and stays there for days.

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

John Green's debut novel, Looking for Alaska, is also set to be adapted into a film with Sarah Polley (Away from Her, Take This Waltz) set as director.

Director Nicholas Stoller, whose debut Forgetting Sarah Marshall still stands as one of the best romantic comedies of the 2000s, shed some of his lengthier tendencies with Neighbors and crafted a hilarious comedy that didn't overstay its welcome, and I'm incredibly eager to see how he progresses the characters in his first - ever sequel.

«Revenge» is the film we need right now, from a filmmaker we need right now: French writer / director Coralie Fargeat, who makes her stunning feature debut with a rape - revenge fantasy that's as brutal as it is thrilling.

Here he reunites with Shia LaBeouf, who served as the director's proxy in his debut, for his latest, Man Down, a PTSD melodrama concerning an anguished US veteran struggling to cope in the aftermath of a traumatic event during combat.

Coinciding with its US release today, «A Look Inside» featurette has debuted for director Danny Boyle's upcoming biopic Steve Jobs which stars Michael Fassbender as the Apple co-founder.

Director Fabien Constant, in his narrative feature debut, finds a momentum in that knowledge that propels the film forward, as Vivienne explores her fate (while never disclosing it) in encounters with friends, family and strangers.

Familiar elements such as a dark family secret, a ghost and a Ouija board start to seem trite after a while, and the third act is a little ridiculous, but debut writer - director Nicholas McCarthy does a lot with a little and seems fully prepared to handle a big - studio horror project.

It's no wonder her debut as a feature film writer and director would be met with a certain level of expectation, but what she delivers with Lady Bird is something even more magical and grander than could have ever be expected.

Writer / director Martin McDonagh - making his debut here - has infused the majority of In Bruges with a deliberately - paced, overly talky sensibility that undoubtedly reflects his background as a playwright, and it's certainly difficult not to admire the fervor with which both Farrell and Gleeson tackle their respective characters and the film's ample dialogue (the actors» heavy accents does make it difficult to make out every word, admittedly).

After making a striking debut with 2013's based - on - fact, tragically devastating drama Fruitvale Station and following that up with the stunning, Oscar - nominated Rocky spin - off Creed in 2015, the young writer / director was seemingly given the keys to the kingdom by Marvel as it pertained to Black Panther, the studio apparently feeling comfortable to let him do whatever he wanted with this story of an African superhero from the secluded fictionalized nation of Wakanda.

Release: Friday, April 6, 2018 → Theater Written by: Bryan Woods; Scott Beck; John Krasinski Directed by: John Krasinski As a relatively newly minted father himself, actor - director - Scranton prankster John Krasinski seems to be sharing with us in his horror debut something deeply personal, an epiphany that has struck him, like it might another parent, as horrifying: There will eventually... Continue reading A Quiet PlaAs a relatively newly minted father himself, actor - director - Scranton prankster John Krasinski seems to be sharing with us in his horror debut something deeply personal, an epiphany that has struck him, like it might another parent, as horrifying: There will eventually... Continue reading A Quiet Plaas horrifying: There will eventually... Continue reading A Quiet Place

It is filled with life and colorful characters and great lines of dialogue, and De Niro, in his debut as a director, finds the right notes as he moves from laughter to anger to tears.

The Indian movie star, who makes his Hollywood debut in «Silver Linings Playbook» as Dr. Patel, initially tried to connect with director - writer David O. Russell via Skype, but when that didn't work, he asked the hotel attendant to film his audition.

That's a title that pretty much gives you everything you need to know about his feature debut, but even still he's a fresh director with a lot of talent in front of the lens as well, so there is potential here.

We have an exclusive interview with Agnès Varda, and Rebecca Daly talks about her debut feature, The Other Side of Sleep, which is screening as part of the Directors Fortnight at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas with her feature - narrative debut State Like Sleep (which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival) starring Katherine Waterston as a photographer trying to find answers to her husband (Michiel Huisman)'s recent death; co-starring Michael Shannon and Luke Evans.

For the Blu - ray debut of «Snatch,» Sony has brought over most of the bonus features from the two - disc special edition DVD — including an audio commentary with director Guy Ritchie and producer Matthew Vaughn, deleted scenes, and a making - of featurette — as well as some exclusive extras found only on BD - Live.

The results range from the sublime to the ridiculous, of course (there's no guarantee that even a great screenwriter will coincidentally come equipped with the talents to be a great director, after all), and with two others coming down the pike (Alex Garland «s «Ex-Machina «and Matthew Michael Carnahan's «Violent Talent» with Garrett Hedlund) this week sees another attempt as Geoffrey Fletcher, Oscar - winning screenwriter of «Precious» releases his directorial debut, «Violet and Daisy.»