Sentences with phrase «directing dreamgirls»
Condon has a long history with musicals - he wrote and directed Dreamgirls, directed the upcoming Disney live - action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and wrote the screenplays for Chicago and upcoming musical The Greatest Showman, which stars Zac Efron and Hugh Jackman.
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Sadly not a miniseries biopic of the great Ms. Swinton, but this HBO project, co-written and with a pilot directed by «Dreamgirls,» «Gods & Monsters» and «Twilight: Breaking Dawn» helmer Bill Condon, did focus on a surrogate for another Hollywood figure: the once - much - feared, now seemingly vanished Nikki Finke, founder of Deadline Hollywood.
State of play: Due for release in 2017 with Dreamgirls» Bill Condon directing, Harry Potter's Emma Watson as Belle and Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens as the Beast.
Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and Dreamgirls and wrote the film version of Chicago)-- also know how to keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.
Frantically directed by Bill Condon («Dreamgirls,» «The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn»), though, the film's attempt at balance involves pointing fingers and pointing more fingers and government types (Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci) in an office vaguely wondering, «Who is really to blame?»
The film began production in New York in November, 2016, right after the presidential election, and the screenplay (by «Sex and the City» writer Jenny Bicks and «Dreamgirls» director Bill Condon) contains many images and situations that feel like direct challenges to Trump - style politics of resentment.
Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) directs.
Beauty and the Beast is directed by filmmaker Bill Condon, of Kinsey, Dreamgirls, Breaking Dawn - Part 1 & 2, The Fifth Estate and Mr. Holmes previously.
Condon is best known for directing and writing the critically acclaimed films Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, and Dreamgirls.
2006 saw two major film releases starring Jamie Foxx: Dreamgirls (the story of 1960's doo - wop girl group, with similarities to The Supremes), starring Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Hudson and Eddie Murphy and Miami Vice (a modernized film version of the 1980s TV cop series), which was directed by Michael Mann and also starred Colin Farrell and Gong Li.
Based on the Broadway musical and directed by Chicago's Bill Condon, you can tell from the very beginning that Dreamgirls has all that jazz and some to spare.
Beauty and the Beast is directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) and sees Emma Watson as Belle alongside Dan Stevens as Beast, while the cast also includes Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts, Luke Evans as Gaston, Gugu Mbatha - Raw as Plumette, Stanley Tucci as Cadenza, Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, Kevin Kline as Maurice, Josh Gad as Le Fou and Audra McDonald as Garderobe.
Okay, probably not — It'll likely be more of the same longing glances and unconvincing action sequences, let's be honest — but it will be directed by Dreamgirls writer and director Bill Condon.
The director's eclectic career includes Gods and Monsters, Kinsey, a Candyman sequel and two Twilight sequels, but his work on two Academy Award - winning musicals, Chicago (which he wrote) and Dreamgirls (which he both wrote and directed), certainly serves him well here.