Sentences with phrase «directing projects like»

He also is writing and directing projects like Bad Boys For Life and recently announced his intentions to tackle The Raid remake starring Frank Grillo.

Not exact matches

With big names behind the camera as well — Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor, Patriot's Day, etc) is the executive producer, and Cynthia Hill (A Chef's Life, Private Violence) directed the series — agreeing to the project seems like a no - brainer for Hendrick Motorsports.

I think of Challenges as self - directed projects to change my behavior or spark some personal growth or development I'm clear that I'd like to have.

Denton didn't provide details about a specific project but elaborated that he enjoys communication platforms like Google Hangouts and Twitter direct messages where «you can exchange ideas, quotes, links, stories, media.

This includes detailed company information; contact details like direct dials and verified email addresses; org charts and reporting structures; installed technologies; and buying signals like planned projects, online research behavior, funding announcements, and personnel moves.

The unfinished Untitled Eliot Spitzer Project, directed by Oscar - winner Alex Gibney, felt like a comeback — and an onscreen wake, as Spitzer's antagonists Joe Bruno, Ken Langone, and Roger Stone danced on Spitzer's grave, even as Client 9 struggled to raise himself from the dead.

Other notable work by our STAC members that have contributed to advancement of the direct imaging techniques Project Blue will use in its mission include Dr. Guyon's general work on the PIAA coronagraph, and Dr. Males» concept of Orbital Differential Imaging which specifically takes advantage of a mission focused on a single star system to enable sensitivity to Earth - like planets.

This may be relatively easy to do — as the test costs only around 70 euros and crowd funding projects like www.britishgut.org are allowing direct testing.»

She became one of the most respected and in - demand young actresses of her generation and she continued to choose challenging projects like the psychological sci - fi film Never Let Me Go, and the Olive Stone directed sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

Before you get all excited about Charlie Kaufman adapting Slaughterhouse - 5 for Guillermo del Toro to direct, keep in mind that del Toro is attached to something like 10 - 15 projects a year, and in 20 years since his first movie, he's directed 8 films.

The World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary was presented to Project Nim, directed by James Marsh, who explores the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who was taught to communicate with language as he was raised and nurtured like a human child.

The project, which is being directed by Baumbach and penned by Baumbach and Franzen, has now moved into casting — and the first two choices seem like truly fantastic ones.

Newly minted blockbuster horror director John Krasinski isn't resting on the laurels of his sudden success story A Quiet Place; Variety reports that the former The Office star has already lined up his next directing project, and it sounds like he's heading to space.

Considering its notoriously troubled history — the $ 175 million project, directed by first - timer Carl Rinsch, went into production almost three years ago — some blatant re-cutting is expected; the Dejima episode, where Ôishi goes to rescue Kai from Dutch slave traders, feels like a severely shortened version of a longer sequence.

The Richard Curtis (he of Blackadder and various Hugh Grant films like Love Actually and Notting Hill) written and directed project stars Domhnall Gleeson (son of Brendan, seen in Anna Karenina, Never Let Me Go and the last two Harry Potter films) as Tim, a young Brit whose one goal in a decidedly listless life is to find a girlfriend and fall in love.

When you're Rob Marshall and only have two other feature films on your directing resume, it takes some guts to embark on a project like Nine, even if you did manage to win a Best Picture Oscar for your directorial debut Chicago (an award that many film critics strongly disagree with, incidentally).

How did he become part of the project and what was it like to direct him?

While this will be his feature directorial début, he is known for lending his directing talents to shows like The Sarah Silverman Program, The Mindy Project, Parks and Recreation, and Community.

The event, which Kaufman will direct, is scheduled to include reimagined excerpts from award - winning Tectonic Theater classics like «The Laramie Project,» «Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde,» «The Tallest Tree in the Forest,» «33 Variations,» «I Am My Own Wife,» and «Carmen: An Afro - Cuban Jazz Musical.»

I have a project coming up and I'm like, «it has to be directed by a woman.»

Like Wes Craven, writer (and occasional director) Clive Barker has loaned his name to several projects - mostly the unending Hellraiser sequels, of which two are slated for release this year - and in most cases, these «presented by» / executive produced works are destined for cable TV and DVD (read: direct - to - video) outlets.

At a roundtable interview, DeWitt discussed her research for the role, how playing a real - life person informed her approach to the character, what it was like meeting the real Sue Webb, what she enjoyed most about working with Renner, what she learned about journalists and their determination to get to the truth of their story, her new film «Men, Women & Children» directed by Jason Reitman, and her upcoming projects: Joe Swanberg's «Digging for Fire,» Sam Raimi's remake of «Poltergeist» with Sam Rockwell, and a small part in the TV mini-series «Olive Kitteridge.»

In an introductory company presentation sequence that Bong directed like a three - act ballet, Lucy walks reporters through the firm's newest endeavor, Super Pig Project, where 26 farmers around the world are tasked to raise their own «revolution of the livestock industry» for ten years before Mirando's QA crew arrives.

Conceived and shot in near - total secrecy, like a surprise album dropped with little advance notice, 10 Cloverfield Lane follows in the clawed footprints of another project produced but not directed by Abrams: the 2008 mock - doc monster movie Cloverfield.

Night Passage — This James Neilson - directed Western supposed to be another Anthony Mann — James Stewart film, but according to IMDB, Mann quit the project because he didn't like Audie Murphy, Stewart's costar.

The movie is described as a passion project for McCarten, and Wright could be a great fit to direct, especially given his phenomenal eye for things like Atonement «s amazingly long tracking shot of the evacuation at Dunkirk.

Curtis, who is only 56, said science - fiction project About Time felt like «a summing up» for a career which has taken in the legendary TV comedy Blackadder, writing work on 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral and 1999's Notting Hill, as well as the directing of 2003's Love Actually.

Others (like myself) found this choice for the writing and directing team to be unexpectedly inspired and refreshing, giving way to even more high hopes for the project.

The Big Sick — directed by Michael Showalter, and produced by 21st century mogul of mirth Judd Apatow — feels like the kind of project designed to introduce a wider audience to a performer beloved among their peers but only fleetingly glimpsed elsewhere: a multiplex - ready rom - com, co-authored by Nanjiani with wife Emily Gordon, and based on the pair's unconventional courtship.

Considering they have a good, existing rapport (Damon is nothing if not loyal and likes to work with comfortable collaborators), and if the two can figure things out — Van Sant wasn't expecting to direct a movie as early as March 2012 and will need to get up to speed fast — it might just be the perfect match and could save the project.

When asked directly if there was a specific project he'd like to direct, Wan responded, «Yeah, there are some that I like... I am open to all possibilities at this point.»

Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): «Like Crazy» Grand Jury Prize (Documentary): «How To Die In Oregon» World Cinema Jury Prize (Dramatic): «Happy, Happy» World Cinema Jury Prize (Documentary): «Hell and Back Again» Audience Award (Dramatic): «Circumstance» Audience Award (Documentary): «Buck» World Cinema Audience Award (Dramatic): «Kinyarwanda» World Cinema Audience Award (Documentary): «Senna» The Best of NEXT Audience Award: «to.get.her» Directing Award (Dramatic): Sean Durkin, «Martha Marcy May Marlene» Directing Award (Documentary): Jon Foy, «Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles» World Cinema Directing Award (Dramatic): Paddy Considine, «Tyrannosaur» World Cinema Directing Award (Documentary): James Marsh, «Project Nim» Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: «Another Happy Day» World Cinema Screenwriting Award: «Restoration» Documentary Editing Award: «If a Tree Falls» World Cinema Documentary Editing Award: «The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975» Cinematography Award (Dramatic): «Pariah» Cinematography Award (Documentary): «The Redemption of General Butt Naked» World Cinema Cinematography Award (Dramatic): «All Your Dead Ones» World Cinema Cinematography Award (Documentary): «Hell and Back Again» Special Jury Prize (Acting): Felicity Jones, «Like Crazy» Special Jury Prize (Dramatic): «Another Earth» Special Jury Prize (Documentary): «Being Elmo» World Cinema Special Jury Prize (Documentary): «Position Among The Stars» World Cinema Special Jury Prize (Dramatic): actors Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan, «Tyrannosaur» Alfred P. Sloan Prize: «Another Earth» Sundance / NHK International Filmmakers Award: Cherien Dabis

«Adult Beginners,» which stars the increasingly ubiquitous Nick Kroll and was directed by formidable independent film producer Ross Katz («In the Bedroom,» «The Laramie Project,» «Lost in Translation»), isn't really a comedy, despite what they'd like you to think.

We've been hearing rumours for months about the possibility of the smash hit video game Bioshock getting a feature film adaptation, with names like Guillermo Del Toro even showing interest in directing such a project.

But, having an Oscar - winner like Mendes never hurts a production nor becomes a bad idea, but I still want to know about that other Pinocchio project that had Robert Downey Jr. and Paul Thomas Anderson set to star and direct.

Her latest, directed in conjunction with Banksy - like street artist JR (an irrepressibly energetic and sweet presence, bounding around in his Stan Smiths), chronicles the installation of several frisky, large - scale public art projects, with tangents into Varda's own history and even a visit to Jean - Luc Godard's house.

When Gore Verbinski decided not to return to direct the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, at the time it looked like his next project was going to be a Bioshock movie.

Liman, who has also directed the likes of Go, Swingers, Jumper and films with more that one - word titles like Mr & Mrs. Smith and The Bourne Identity, has a lot of projects on the go at the moment, including a couple with Tom Cruise (Mena, Luna Park).

This week the Nerds discuss topics like: The Total Recall remake, Terry Gilliam's next project, Simon Pegg's next film, Paramount switches up its release schedule, John Cusack and Nic Cage team up, Potential Say Anything sequel, Ron Howard on directing The Lost Symbol.

While it's as bloated as the muscle - bound meat heads that lead our story, Pain & Gain shows that Michael Bay has the chops to actually direct, and shows a promising future for «Explodo» if he chooses more projects like this.

Roland Emmerich was attached to direct the remake once upon a time, but currently it is looking like Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) may helm the project.

Meanwhile, newcomers like Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Bill Foster, Walton Goggins as Sonny Burch, Hannah John - Kamen as Ghost and Randall Park as Jimmy Woo are also onboard the Peyton Reed - directed project.

Miguel Arteta was considering directing the project at one stage, with Rebel Wilson in the lead role, but scheduling caused the project to crumble like an old biscuit.

The two actors — who have starred together in the likes of This Is The End and The Interview — have reunited for the new project, which Franco has directed.

Alex Garland is known for directing heady sci - fi movies like Ex Machina and Annihilation, but his latest project marks a shift in the career of the English filmmaker.

Inspired by the writing of self - directed learning pioneers like John Holt (How Children Learn, 1967) and Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society, 1970), Resnick and his team envision a school in which in - depth, project - based learning — propelled entirely by students themselves and using the full resources of the community — replaces the more stifling aspects of modern high schools, like subject silos and grade levels, a static curriculum, and teach - and - test tactics.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

In Engage, teachers Roy McCloud and Mathew Brown guide students to work on various self - directed, team - oriented projects like designing a new sport for third graders or building a roller coaster.

The policy has worked so well that about 50 % of Google's successful projects have been direct outcomes of the Genius Hour, including innovations like Gmail and Google News.

Through her network of nonprofits and political - action committees such as American Federation for Children and the Great Lakes Education Project, DeVos is pushing to direct public money into private religious schools like Potter's House.