Sentences with phrase «feature film actor»

In most cases a major Hollywood adaptation all but automatically puts a book in the NYT bestseller list for at least a couple weeks and it's relatively cheap for publishers to put out a new edition featuring the film actors / poster as a cover to draw in even more people who would otherwise have not read the book, especially since a popular film adaptation means the books will be shown face up on tables or in special displays all over the place.

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The film features a little - known cast whose biggest names are the British actors Mark Rylance and Simon Pegg.

12 Years a Slave The misleading poster by Italian film distributor BIM Distribuzione featured the giant head of movie star Brad Pitt, who served only a supporting role in the film, while the movie's lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was given a tiny spot at bottom right corner.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

She also helped finance the Screen Actors Guild nominated feature film The Butler, directed by Lee Daniels and distributed by Harvey Weinstein.

Helmed by Chapman Way and MacLain Way and featuring multiple appearances by their uncle and former Maverick himself Kurt Russell, the docu launched in the Documentary Premiere section of this year's Sundance Film Festival on January 20... In play right now with several buyers at Sundance, according to sources close to the film, Battered Bastards chronicles how in 1973 Bonanza actor Bing Russell formed what at the time was America's sole independent baseball team.

As an actor, Steines has guest starred on television shows including «CSI: NY,» «The Practice,» «Medium,» «Half & Half,» «America's Next Top Model,» «Handy Manny» and Sony Pictures» feature film «Nixon.»

New feature film exposes Nestlé's practices in Pakistan: The forthcoming film Tigers stars Indian actor Emraan Hashmi and is based on the true story of a Nestlé baby milk salesman in Pakistan who blew the whistle on Nestlé's unethical practices.

His most recent fundraising activity was highlighted by a Dec. 14 bash at Cipriani Wall Street that featured Bill Clinton, Bon Jovi and actor Michael Imperioli, who is portraying Cuomo in the film about the Dannemora prison outbreak.

It features Emmy - award winning actor John Turturro and 14 - year - old Jaeden Lieberher, and it will be filmed entirely in the Buffalo Niagara region from Sept. 11 to Oct. 20.

It features Emmy - award winning actor John Turturro and 14 - year - old Jaeden Lieberher, and it will be filmed...

Primate «actors» have been featured in major Hollywood films such as The Hangover Part II, The Wolf of Wall Street and Babe: Pig in the City.

Although the number of films featuring primate «actors» is relatively low, the wide reach of the film industry could worsen millions of viewers» understanding of primate needs and behaviors.

The film also happens to feature a full cast of fashionable model - turned - actors, most notably Cara Delevingne, who has also been working through somewhat of a fashion marathon herself.

The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

The son of producer George Englund and noted character actress Cloris Leachman, actor Bryan Englund appeared in two feature films, Crazy Mama (1975) and The Prowler (1981).

Skinny, bug - eyed Steve Buscemi, the twitchy actor du jour of American independent films, makes a striking directorial feature - film debut with «Trees Lounge,» in which he also stars as a twitchy, hyperkinetic loser.

A hilarious prelude features Maddin regular Louis Negin — who, like many of the actors here, will play multiple roles — narrating an instructional film about how to take a bath, inspired by a lost 1937 short film actually called How To Take A Bath.

Very Bad Things features a pretty terrific cast; while it features no real «big time» stars other than Cameron Diaz - who only achieved that status upon the release of Mary, which happened after this film was already done - it offers a very solid list of quality actors.

American actor Warren Kenner primarily worked in theater but also occasionally worked on television and in a few feature films including Obsession (1976) and Sounder, Part 2 (1976).

The actors did a fine job: Crudup, Angarano, Miller, Tye Sheridan, Thomas Mann (although Olivia Thirlby in a small role had literally one of the worst performances I have ever seen in a feature film).

British supporting actor Alan Howard is primarily a stage actor, but he also occasionally appears in feature films.

Donat was the recipient of a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the title character, and the film features the debut performance of a young Garson.

The film will feature live performances by the lead actors and is rumored to have a documentary feel as it tracks one week in the life of the main character.

Actor, singer, and voice actor Keith David has spent much of his career on the stage, but also frequently works in feature films and on televiActor, singer, and voice actor Keith David has spent much of his career on the stage, but also frequently works in feature films and on televiactor Keith David has spent much of his career on the stage, but also frequently works in feature films and on television.

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is perhaps most notable as the debut of Macon Blair as a director, who gained notoriety primarily as an actor featured prominently in the films of Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room), to which this film attempts to emulate to some degree.

Daley and Goldstein, who started off as actors, have co-directed one previous feature, the 2015 holiday - road reboot «Vacation,» but the sign that they're instinctive filmmakers, with a bold sense of comedy structure, comes in the sequence they stage, with serpentine ingenuity, at the home of a crime boss (Danny Huston) who has the film's MacGuffin — a Fabergé egg — locked in his safe.

THE MONARCH CHANNEL is a collection of some of Monarch Films most popular factual TV Series from around the world, and an acclaimed collection of feature films featuring some of Hollywood's most popular actors.

Patrick Cassidy followed in the footsteps of his actor parents Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones and his brother Shaun Cassidy and half - bother David Cassidy, by establishing himself as a frequent television and occasional feature film star.

Since the 2013 film «Drinking Buddies,» Swanberg has been working with Hollywood actors — indeed, with stars — and his new feature, «Digging for Fire,» made on a likely scant budget, has a cast that any director could envy.

Since the 2013 film «Drinking Buddies,» Swanberg has been working with Hollywood actors — indeed, with stars — and his new feature, «Digging for Fire,» made on a likely scant budget, has a cast that any director could envy, including Jake Johnson (who co-wrote the film with Swanberg), Rosemary DeWitt, Brie Larson, Anna Kendrick, Orlando Bloom, Mike Birbiglia, Judith Light, Sam Elliott, Jane Adams, Ron Livingston, Melanie Lynskey, and Jenny Slate.

«Alexander» is an excessive, massive film, «spectacular» only in the sense that it features many actors making spectacles of themselves.

The longtime character actor's droopy, distinctive features and endearing onscreen warmth have kept him a familiar figure in both film and television.

The daughter of actor Martin Sheen and the sister of actors Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen, Renee Estevez has been appearing on television and in feature films since her 1985 debut in the television movie Babies Having Babies.

Goreshter made her foray into film opposite actor Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Liam Hemsworth in the high stakes thriller feature PARANOIA, directed by Robert Luketic.

Additional film credits include TALK TO ME; the 2006 Oscar ® winning Best Picture, CRASH, which Cheadle also produced; HOTEL RWANDA, for which his performance garnered Academy Award ®, Golden Globe ®, Broadcast Film Critics Award and Screen Actors Guild ® Award nominations for Best Actor; OCEAN»S ELEVEN, OCEAN»S TWELVE, and OCEAN»S THIRTEEN, directed by Steven Soderbergh; Mike Binder's REIGN OVER ME with Adam Sandler; the Academy Award ® winning film TRAFFIC and OUT OF SIGHT, both also directed by Soderbergh; Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed BOOGIE NIGHTS; BULWORTH, SWORDFISH, MISSION TO MARS, John Singleton's ROSEWOOD, for which Cheadle earned an NAACP Image Award nomination; FAMILY MAN, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage; COLORS, HAMBURGER HILL, and the independent features MANIC and THINGS BEHIND THE SUN.

Irons adds the credit of executive producer and featured actor in TRASHED, a Blenheim Production feature documentary directed by Candida Brady, which received a special screening at the 2012 Cannes film festival.

Director, Producer, and Actor Kasi Lemmons had the film world buzzing in 1997 when her feature - length debut «Eve's Bayou» hit art - house screens and racked up film festival awards along the way.

With looks that allow him to either play soft - skinned pretty boys or greasy - haired white trash refuse, Sarsgaard has used his malleable features and brooding charisma to great effect in such films as Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.A graduate of St. Louis» Washington University, where he was a co-founder of the improvisational group Mama's Pot Roast, Sarsgaard studied at the Actors» Studio in New York.

«Miller and His Platoon» (8:23) features Spielberg and Hanks discussing how their collaboration on the film happened, and discussing the younger actors, many of whom are interviewed as well.

Lately the actor has been gearing up to star as George W. Bush in Adam McKay's new film, which also features Christian Bale as Dick Cheney.

HBO Films» «Nightingale» features David Oyelowo in a completely solo performance for the duration of the film, and a new extended video shows off exactly how the «Selma» actor pulled it off.

Naturally, this film wasn't made by a large studio or featured well - known actors.

Actor Chris Pratt, right, and his wife, actress Anna Faris seen at the premiere of the feature film «The Lego Movie» on Feb. 1, 2014 in Los Angeles.

But Assayas also refers specifically to Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944), a recently rediscovered Swedish pioneer of abstract art who claimed that her paintings were directly dictated by spirit forces, and to 19th - century French literary titan Victor Hugo, who practiced «table turning» sessions to contact the dead (Assayas fabricates an «extract» from an apocryphal French TV film of the 1960s, featuring actor - singer Benjamin Biolay as a solemn Hugo).

And while 12 Years a Slave provides ample meat for its established actors (Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti and Brad Pitt feature memorably), it also helps shape a star in Nyong» o (making her film debut) who is heart - wrenchingly real as the terrorised Patsey.

It is the feature film debut from Australian stuntman and actor Nash Edgerton.

The One I Love is cleverly written by Justin Lader and directed with budget - minded skill by Charlie McDowell (son of actor Malcolm, and step - son to Ted Danson, who makes a small acting appearance), both of whom are making their feature film debuts.