Sentences with phrase «famous characters in film»

Nevertheless, being able to run around on vast maps as storm troopers is a joy, and players even acquire power - ups, turning them into some of the most (in) famous characters in film history.

No matter what anyone says, I've liked the three previous James Bond movies with Pierce Brosnan taking on one of the most famous characters in film history.

Not exact matches

Spider - Man: Homecoming, the latest film starring the famous Marvel Comics character and the second reboot to the franchise, pulled in $ 50.5 million from 4,248 locations in its opening on Friday night.

Actor Sir Patrick Stewart, who played Charles Xavier in the X-Men films based on the comic books, said the famous character would have voted Remain.

Brewer made a risky, but bold, decision in hiring Wormald and Hough to portray the two lead characters who were made famous by Bacon and Lori Singer in the original film.

It is a welcome surprise to see a lighthearted Western that places its importance more on the characters than on the famous real gunfight depicted - and the deep - focus shots are beautiful -, but still the film has trouble with maintaining the focus and pacing in the second act.

And in the film's most awkward moment, a character cribs from Unforgiven's famous speech, saying that «I've killed everything that's walked or crawled at one point.»

Most famous for the clean cut character Jessie on «Saved by the Bell,» Berkley tried to shed that tired old exterior, and in the process also shed her clothes many, many times for this film.

Not only did the film make all kinds of»80s jokes and references, but John Cusack's character existed as something of a throwback to the many famous roles he had in that aforementioned decade (Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, Say Anything, et cetera).

Occasionally, characters wear the iconic wide - brim, super-tall hat made famous in Alejandro Jodorowsky's druggy, cosmic 1973 cult film The Holy Mountain, which, like Dirty Computer, deals with personal freedom and sexual liberation.

Despite all the famous character actor faces in The Odd Life of Timothy Green (Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Diane Wiest, M. Emmet Walsh, David Morse, Common...), the true star of the film is, perhaps not surprisingly, the titular twelve - year - old boy...

Taxi Driver has been so effective in immersing us in Travis Bickle's singular, interior isolation, I think most of our memories of the film — its most famous images — are of his loneliness, when, in reality, the film is full of wonderful supporting characters (Peter Boyle as Wizard, and even Scorsese himself).

The New York City women she has become famous for playing — like Brooke, or the titular character in another Baumbach - directed film, 2012's Frances Ha — may be dizzily manic and have a certain contrived quirkiness to them, but they're fully realized women.

Not every casting choice works in the film though as Michael Cera really didn't fit the character of a famous hotshot actor, but thankfully it doesn't deter much from the story.

Speaking of that other Valkyrie, obviously the version that Tessa Thompson plays in the film is different from the original Marvel version of the Valkyrie, as the Marvel version intentionally evoked the mythological version of the character, which is very much a Norse vision of what a woman would look like, complete with the name Brunhilde (Brunnhilde also was a major part of Richard Wagner's famous operatic «Ring» cycle).

Natasha Lyonne to co-star in Open Road and Riverstone film, features famous voice cast for canine characters

Crowe, of course, went on to direct such memorable films just as funny and full of well - developed characters in Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, but to this day, Say Anything still remains my favorite of all his movies.

The sequel begins with a new case — the famous Amityville incident — which screenwriters Chad Hayes, Carey Hayes, David Leslie Johnson and Wan only touch on briefly to give the audience a sense of where the characters are at in their careers and, rather seamlessly, efficiently establish a new internal and external threat in the film.

Call it a trend or a coincidence, but suddenly there is a flood of new movies that explore the creation of famous characters in literature that were eventually turned into films themselves.

The notable and recent MPDGs in film include Natalie Portman's character in Garden State, Kate Hudson's in Almost Famous, and Zooey Deschanel's in (500) Days of Summer.

We may not know how the adventures of Newt Scamander will turn out, but thanks to the Harry Potter films and books, we know what happens to many of the famous characters seen or mentioned in the prequel.

GONYEA: With the taxi driver - obviously, your most famous creation is that character, Travis Bickle, played by, of course, Robert De Niro, but many of your films have - while they have varied in subject matter, in a panel discussion following a screening this week of «First Reformed,» you talked about how you keep returning to, kind of, a version of Travis Bickle's character.

Other examples of historical characters in biographies in the 1930 - 40s included Norman Taurog's children's dramatic film Young Tom Edison (1940) about the famed inventor (Mickey Rooney), The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939), the historical drama Marie Antoinette (1938) about the famous Austrian princess who married future King Louis XVI, Michael Curtiz» costume drama The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), and Mervyn LeRoy's oft - nominated Madame Curie (1943) with Greer Garson as the title character researching radioactivity with her husband Pierre (Walter Pidgeon).

by Bryant Frazer Very early on in Blue Streak, as Miles Logan, the character portrayed by a fast - talking Martin Lawrence, co-opts Dr. Martin Luther King's famous «I Have a Dream» speech to describe his own civil rights movement upon getting released from the joint after serving time for his role in a botched jewel heist, it's clear the film is aiming for giddy irreverence.

Barbarella will adapt the characters and ideas created first in Jean - Claude Forest's graphic novel, made famous by Jane Fonda in Roger Vadim's 1968 film.

Redmayne has not long finished filming the THEORY OF EVERYTHING in which he played famous physicist Stephen Hawking, so he should be well versed in playing complex characters.

References to the work of Jean - Luc Godard permeate the film, from the title (although Michell is nowhere as self - destructive as Godard's 1967 film), to the multiple allusions to 1964's Bande à part (watching the movie on TV, Nick and Meg dance along to the famous scene of the main characters dancing in a cafe).

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Although having a roster of famous actors to voice animated characters is trendy and seemingly felt to be necessary in the marketing of such films, in many cases those voices can distract from the enjoyment of the film itself.

Set in the 80's, it'll feature younger versions of several characters from the first series of films, but by this looks of this image, the Professor will go the other way and finally sport the bald looks he's famous for.

One of the grounding character arcs in the film concerns the tension between Rogen and Baruchel now that Rogen has become a bigger and more recognisable star and has famous friends like Franco.

This film is set in Los Angeles in the 1940s, where part of the city is the fictional Toontown, where all of the famous (and not so famous) cartoon characters (called «Toons») reside.

He talked about what it's like to be part of a famous filmmaking family and still earn recognition on his own terms, the difficult process of shooting Kill Your Darlings that gives the movie an extra spark, how he prepared to play Kerouac at this stage in his life, his character's arc on Boardwalk Empire, American Hustle and the unusual way they shot the film, upcoming projects including an Errol Flynn biopic and a production of Strangers on a Train in London, and more.

In case we needed another reminder that Hollywood does not care about minority characters or actors, yesterday brought the news that Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures thought it would be a cool idea to cast Scarlett Johansson as the famous Japanese heroine Major in the film adaptation of Japanese writer / illustrator Masamune Shirow's Kodansha Comics manga comic series, GHOST IN THE SHELIn case we needed another reminder that Hollywood does not care about minority characters or actors, yesterday brought the news that Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures thought it would be a cool idea to cast Scarlett Johansson as the famous Japanese heroine Major in the film adaptation of Japanese writer / illustrator Masamune Shirow's Kodansha Comics manga comic series, GHOST IN THE SHELIn case we needed another reminder that Hollywood does not care about minority characters or actors, yesterday brought the news that Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures thought it would be a cool idea to cast Scarlett Johansson as the famous Japanese heroine Major in the film adaptation of Japanese writer / illustrator Masamune Shirow's Kodansha Comics manga comic series, GHOST IN THE SHELin the film adaptation of Japanese writer / illustrator Masamune Shirow's Kodansha Comics manga comic series, GHOST IN THE SHELin the film adaptation of Japanese writer / illustrator Masamune Shirow's Kodansha Comics manga comic series, GHOST IN THE SHELIN THE SHELIN THE SHELL.

In fact, the only people you're even relatively sure are going to make it out alive are the architect (Paul Newman) and the fire chief (Steve McQueen)... and, even then, once Robert Wagner buys it early in the film, you begin to realize that the filmmakers are willing to kill off any character, no matter how famous the actor or actress who's playing them may bIn fact, the only people you're even relatively sure are going to make it out alive are the architect (Paul Newman) and the fire chief (Steve McQueen)... and, even then, once Robert Wagner buys it early in the film, you begin to realize that the filmmakers are willing to kill off any character, no matter how famous the actor or actress who's playing them may bin the film, you begin to realize that the filmmakers are willing to kill off any character, no matter how famous the actor or actress who's playing them may be.

DOUG JONES While famous for working under prosthetics in iconic feature film roles, Doug Jones is also a versatile character actor who has performed as «himself» in guest star roles on shows like Arrow, The Flash, Teen Wolf, Z - Nation, The Neighbors, Criminal Minds, C.S.I. and NBC's horror anthology Fear Itself.

However, for those who liked the cameo appearances and detective storyline from the first film, there's less to identity with in this sequel save for the personality of the main character, whose famous catchphrases and one - dimensional delivery become redundant very quickly.

Their ongoing collaboration with Lucasfilm for Star Wars: The Last Jedi has produced seven show vehicles to highlight Nissan's dramatic designs and the famous characters and crafts from the upcoming film, debuting in theaters Dec. 15.

The famous character used the Jaguar and Land Rover cars in many of his films.

In a new video featuring actor Christopher Lloyd reprising his famous role as Doc Brown from the Back to the Future films, Warner Bros. revealed gameplay featuring even more characters coming to LEGO Dimensions.

Ofili was inspired by Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film, Pulp Fiction, in which, in one famous scene, Samuel L. Jackson's character, the hitman Jules, kills a man while proclaiming biblical verse.