Sentences with phrase «even film producers»

They are basically agents that represent authors or writers and their works to theatrical producers, publishers, and even film producers.

Not exact matches

Avnet (whose father, Jon, is a veteran Hollywood director and producer as well as the studio's co-CEO) told Fortune the studio wanted to maintain the film's authenticity — they wanted viewers to think the horror film playing out in real - time might really be happening — so they avoided marketing the movie and, in fact, they did not even run the idea by Snapchat before proceeding.

But even Jakes, a longtime pastor and film producer, said it's not easy to turn a religious text into a movie.

Even more extreme is the assertion by Schaeffer's film producer son, Franky V, in his impetuous tract A Time for Anger (Good News, 1982):

I find it fascinating when writers and directors and even producers of films about real people in the Bible read into what the people were like and how they fill in the gaps of the dialog, some I like, others I disagree with, but it allows me to put flesh and blood on their bones.

Help make an opening weekend for this movie even a reality as the director and producer need to show Hollywood that there is an audience for this film which has already been filmed and stars the talented Minnie Driver.

The film's producers call it a movie that «examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal - based and processed foods.»

Her subsequent role in 2002's Laurel Canyon — as an aging, wild - child record producer — earned her critical hosannas, even if the film was little - seen.

Not surprisingly, this film stirred up a great deal of controversy even before it aired; some Jewish leaders and prominent Holocaust survivors worried that Hitler might come off as being sympathetic (a concern that may have dictated altering the film's title, which was to have been Hitler: The Early Years); and one of the film's producers was summarily dismissed after issuing a public statement which seemed to compare Germany's blind, unthinking allegiance to Hitler to America's rallying behind George W. Bush during the Iraq crisis.

While Emmy - winning Survivor producer and host Jeff Probst (born November 4th, 1962) has occasionally taken a seat besides Kelly Ripa on Live with Regis and Kelly and even directed his own award - winning feature film, chances are that when all is said and done, the role he'll be best remembered for is that of the firm but fair host who snuffed out more than his share of torches on the popular competitive reality show that made him a household name.

In the 2000s, Stevens found new success on the other side of the camera, as a prolific producer of both independent and mainstream Hollywood films, even winning the Oscar for Best Documentary for his 2009 film about the slaughtering of dolphins, The Cove.

From the looks of it, not even the DVD producers have seen the film; the cover art places Michael Kelly's assistive supporting character on the front in a place and style clearly meant for Koteas» more prominent slimeball.

The Ann Arbor chamber of commerce should sue this film's producers for implying that that their cosmopolitan college town is an haute - cuisine - deprived backwater where a chef with Tom's experience would be reduced to serving sandwiches at a deli (even if that deli is the legendary Zingerman's).

The only saving grace is a brilliant performance by Cate Blanchett as producer Mary Mapes, but even Blanchett's virtuosity can only carry the film so far.

Even after «The King's Speech» surprised at the Producers» Guild Awards and took a dozen Oscar nominations, I held on to the notion that critical favorite «The Social Network,» a film more in line with the Academy's recent choices, would emerge victorious on Oscar night.

The chorus of Hollywood stars denouncing film producer Harvey Weinstein echoed across the Atlantic on Friday, even as his brother said the embattled production company that bears both their names insisted business was «continuing as usual.»

The perfect holiday gift for romantic comedy fans of all ages, Home Again on Blu - rayTM, DVD and Digital features a bonus commentary with the director and the producer of the film, taking viewers even deeper into the heartfelt story.

At the film's press day, actor Paul Giamatti, who's also an executive producer on the movie, talked about what drew him to John Dies at the End, his most memorable experience of the shoot, working with such new actors, how he sees the industry now, and that he doesn't think a film like Sideways would even get made today.

And even if Cuaron had wanted to, Columbus had installed himself as a producer on «Azkaban» with a particular goal in mind: «I wanted to make sure that the film didn't stray too far from the world the audience and the fans have sort of fallen in love with over the course of the first two movies,» he told The Times» John Horn last year.

There's much to admire on the screen yet even more to admire behind the scenes: Douglas, also the film's executive producer, hired screenwriter Dalton Trumbo to adapt Howard Fast's novel, a brave move given that Trumbo was one of the victims of the heinous Hollywood blacklist.

Lars von Trier) Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, Jamie Bell Even aside from the whole persona non grata that resulted after his ill - advised comments while promoting «Melancholia» at the festival two years ago (and there have been some suggestions that Lars von Trier «s work is still welcome at the festival, just not so much the filmmaker himself), it's very unlikely that von Trier's latest will be on the Croisette this year, for the principal reason that it's not ready: the film's producer indicated that the two - part movie just wouldn't be prepared in time to screen for contention.

How do the film's producers develop their characters» personalities, even with very little dialogue?

Wright had invited producer Steve Golin, which was enough to satisfy the die - hard cinephiles in the audience who knew him as the architect of Anonymous Content and Propaganda Films, but even without that, he charmed everyone with stories of Lynch's good luck rituals before a film like checking license plates in a parking lot for his initials and how he had a lunch meeting with Lynch where moments after he said he wanted Nicolas Cage for the part of bad boy Sailor Ripley, Cage walked into the restaurant they were eating at.

But the problem is that very few producers are sufficiently capitalised to bankroll the films that don't pay for themselves, and even the companies that might be considered to be that highly capitalized — like Alliance / Atlantis — have pretty much gotten out of the business of feature filmmaking.

Maren Ade's original German film has not even completed its campaign for Best Foreign Language Oscar, but Paramount Pictures and producers Adam McKay and Will Ferrell wasted no time in snatching up U.S. remake rights to the Cannes sensation.

Music Producer Quincy Jones and Colleen Camp hosted a special evening in Hollywood celebrating the new film Mudbound.

In Knife + Hearet, Vanessa plays a gay - porn producer in 1979 Paris who is trying to win back her ex-girlfriend even as a masked serial killer stalks and slays the actors who star in her blue films.

Again, it's a miracle this film was even made at all with all the references to Disney properties (with the studio choosing not to sue producers) and the guerilla shooting style, but that's what has people buzzing about the film.

Jack Gracie chats with Mary and The Witch's Flower director Hiromasa Yonebayashi and producer Yoshiaki Nishimura... When Studio Ghibli announced it was closing production of feature films in 2014 many saw it as the end of an era, even if they did take back that statement a few years later.

Even with production ready to go again — though no word yet on who is replacing the departed Law — producers reportedly ran into further financial woes when it was discovered that 175 extras originally hired to work on the film had been cancelled owing to delays.

A new Molly's Game featurette video takes you behind the scenes of the film, with Sorkin, Chastain, producer Mark Gordon, and even the real Molly Bloom herself discussing the film's story, and more.

I'd like to think so, even though the film's producers would probably like to sell it as a Jim Carrey comedy.

Sam Mendes had considered directing the film for a while, and even talked to Carey Mulligan about starring, but now Carol producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen have The Hollow Crown's Dominic Cooke attached to make his film debut with it.

In 2016, producer David Herman revealed that the script will differ from the previous films and even Roald Dahl's beloved children's books.

He also served as the film's line producer despite having no experience in the position and even, as he admits, «no idea what a line producer was.»

The film was a misfire from the start, its ideas about a virtual movie star created on boozy producer Pacino's home PC dated before the film was even released.

She appeared in the 2005 film «The Producers «and even appeared in an episode of «Scrubs» with fellow «Bullets...» star Zach Braff.

For producer Alison Owen it's been an even longer saga, starting when she shopped around the rights to the novel that inspired the film back in 1999.

By any reckoning he owes a lot to privilege: the right upbringing in the right place with the right parents (a cinephile professor and a film critic), the right schools, right connections and right friends, even the right producer (Scott Rudin).

All it does show is that the goofy superhero film probably isn't ever going to work, even with a light - hearted character like Spider - Man and that the series» producers still don't really know what makes him tick, despite being one of the most iconic characters in the Marvel pantheon.

The film has a script by LEGALLY BLONDE scribes Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith but could this all be bravado on the part of the producer (and would Steep in particular even touch anything like this)?

The recently released producer's cut of the film focused more on the cult, and even though it's not a great movie, there are some very bold decisions made, especially with the ending.

Your writers, editors, production designers and producers are non-Chinese, even Game of Thrones» Ramin Djawadi scores the film.

But too often even the best episodes, like Season 2's free - wheeling «Shrooms,» feel like deleted scenes from producer Judd Apatow's Knocked Up or Funny People stretched into overstuffed short films.

Marvel head honcho and guru producer Kevin Feige figured out long ago that these crossover event movies thrive when stuffed with as many supers and their corresponding larger - than - life personalities as possible and with each new film he and his crew have attempted to broaden the canvas and find room for even more characters.

While this films producers should be applauded for their sensible approach in teaching parents how to talk to kids about sex, the awkward reading of cue cards and embarrassing situations will produce nervous giggles among even the most jaded audiences.

It's hard to know where to start or how to even describe Annihilation — part alien invasion film, part surreal mind - bender, part heartfelt melodrama... I was on the set a little over a year ago, spoke with the producers, director, production & art designers, saw the mood boards tracking the story of the film, and watched a particularly tense sequence filmed — and yet even after all of that, I'm still not sure what to expect.

I understand that people looking at making films based on the likes of Suicide Squad, Booster Gold, Deathstroke and even Team 7 have been told that they have to partner or work with Goyer as producer.

Unfortunately, even with James Wan involved as a producer, and his longtime cinematographer, John R. Leonetti, stepping in behind the camera, «Annabelle» is a boring mess plagued by bad acting and an unoriginal script that blatantly steals from better films like «Rosemary's Baby» and «The Omen.»

Extra features on this non-SE include: a comprehensive commentary by director Hoblit and co-screenwriter Billy Ray, with the occasional comment from Bruce Willis sandwiched in; another yak - track from producer David Foster, who concentrates on the film's background in WWII history; ten deleted scenes (in 16x9) that reveal that an even more structurally and politically complex film lies on the cutting room floor, with elective commentary from Ray and Hoblit — they're especially sorry to see go, as am I, a bit in which the American soldiers entertain their German captors by donning blackface; a 4 - part photo gallery — see Bruce make serious expressions for «The Poster Shoot»; and trailers for Hart's War, Windtalkers, and the TV shows «Jeremiah» and «Stargate SG - 1».