Sentences with phrase «feature film comedy»

Deadline is reporting that director Barry Levinson is teaming with Billy Crystal for a new feature film comedy entitled Revival, which has been scripted by Phil Primason (5 Doctors).

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The company said it is premiering eight new feature films, 30 original series, 35 children's shows, 12 documentaries, and nine comedy specials this year alone — an expansion that some analysts say could cost $ 5 billion.

Those include 14 new seasons of series, 13 comedy specials, six documentaries, two documentary series, nine feature films, and seven seasons of TV for kids.

We spoke with Nick on the day his first feature film, the seriously twisted zombie apocalypse comedy Range 15, hit theaters (and hit them hard.)

He has also produced two other feature films as well as helped shoot the renowned documentary comedy, Winnebago Man.

The upcoming reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise features one of the funniest ensemble casts of any film this year: Along with stars Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, the sci - fi comedy will also feature appearances by Cecily Strong, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and a bunch of other big names.

News, sports events, dramas, situation comedies, musicals, soap operas, documentaries, full - length feature films, even the weather report — all are providing part of the mass media «s mythic world.

If the»80s were the decade of slashers, horror - comedy, and terrifying children's films, the» 10s are shaping up to be a decade of sun - drenched heartache, featuring women.

Zegna's ambitous «A Rose Reborn» directed by Park Chan - wook made our list, as did Alexander Wang's funny Autumn / Winter campaign film, featuring Chris Kattan as Mango, a character from the American comedy show Saturday Night Live.

Ted is a 2012 American buddy comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane in his feature film directorial debut.

The second film to be made from Woody Allen's successful stage comedy (following a 1969 feature starring Jackie Gleason), Don't Drink the Water is a made - for - television adaptation directed by and starring Allen himself.

Baggage Claim is definitely a film that is made for an audience that is into these kinds of clichéd romantic comedies, which feature attractive casts and the bare minimum requirements to develop a premise that slightly differs from those that came before it.

Featuring David Schwimmer, Cheech Marin, and Sharon Stone, the film was a satirical comedy infused with screwball humor, with a notable appearance by Woody Allen.

Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).

The raunchy camp comedy Gorp, the last film released by American International Pictures, features almost all of the ingredients in Samuel Z. Arkoff's formula but is empty in cinematic nutritional value.

A Comedy channel featuring short films, sketches, impressions and much much more from award winning UK based Lumbfilm Productions.

While much of it is quite funny, the film ends up feeling like a good comedy sketch stretched out unnecessarily to a feature - length.

His first feature film role came in 2001 with a part in the absurdist comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

It'd be unlike Denis — whose far - flung features over the last 30 years have ranged from the luridly modern vampirism of 2001's Trouble Every Day to films tackling war, colonialism, French modernity, and so on — to make a straightforward romantic comedy.

Expect to see some great documentaries, performances, music, films and topical features as well as some cracking drama and comedy.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

Produced under the title Papi Chulo, Chasing Papi was the first feature film from director Linda Mendoza after an extensive resume of credits in television comedy.

Later alternating between television and film with features such as Trapped and roles on such high - profile series as Spin City and Malcolm in the Middle, her part opposite Brittany Murphy in the 2003 comedy Uptown Girls found the precocious youngster playing well off of her older co-star.

Prior to that, he produced and starred in Phil Morrison's black comedy ALL IS BRIGHT alongside Paul Rudd and lent his vocal talents to the English - language version of the Oscar - nominated French animated feature, ERNEST & CELESTINE, and the highly anticipated feature - film adaptation of THE LITTLE PRINCE, directed by Mark Osborne.

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.

He benefited hugely from his association with Foxworthy, who featured the comic in an occasional supporting role on his sitcom The Jeff Foxworthy Show; the two then teamed up with Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White for the mega-successful Blue Collar Comedy Tour, which spawned its own concert film in 2003.

The film has a clever premise that probably would have worked as a half - hour TV episode but fails to sustain a feature - length comedy.

Following several solo performance films (including Bill Engvall: Here's Your Sign Live in 2004 and Bill Engvall: 15 Off Cool in 2007), Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy co-starred in the feature comedy Delta Farce (2007), as a couple of blue - collar Joes mistaken for Army personnel.

During her second year at Northwestern University, Williams got her feature film break when she was cast as protective father Steve Martin's soon - to - be-married daughter Annie in the (slightly) modernized version of the popular 1950s comedy Father of the Bride.

The comedy team, Broken Lizard, finds itself somewhat in a similar lace Rob Thomas and the Veronica Mars team did after their successful Kickstarter haul got them a feature film.

Though many of his feature - film assignments were bits, Van Zandt was permitted generous screen time in his many appearances in two - reel comedies.

Although the show was eventually cancelled, the actress continued to appear in a number of TV series and independent films, including Hartley's Flirt (1995), Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions (1996), which cast her as Tilda Swinton's psychiatrist lover, and Sour Grapes (1998), a black comedy which featured her as the girlfriend of a greedy neurologist.

The real value of the documentary from Douglas McGrath lies in charting Nichols» creative trajectory from the staging and improvisation lessons learned with comedy partner Elaine May, through collaborations with playwright Neil Simon on «Barefoot in the Park» and «The Odd Couple,» and the director's first two feature films, both legendary — «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?»

One of the few features in which he had more than five lines was RKO's 1945 mystery - comedy Having Wonderful Crime; perhaps significantly, his sister Blanche Ring topped the film's supporting cast.

Tilly's other feature film credits include Bound, The Getaway, Made inJennifer received an Academy Award ® nomination and an American Comedy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Olive in Bullets Over Broadway.

Add to it a soundtrack (featuring The Cure, The Smiths, and Tears for Fears, among others) that is the English equivalent to an 80's John Hughes film, and you have a film that will have all post-punk, 80's nostalgic fans tapping their feet while delighting in the chemistry of this pleasant romantic - comedy.

Featuring Aubrey Plaza (Funny People), Mark Duplass (Humpday), and «New Girl» star Jake M. Johnson, this has all the makings of a quirky comedy, even if there ends up not actually being any time traveling in the film.

Pixar's 2013 film, the comedy «Monsters University» from first - time feature director Dan Scanlon, just became the fourth Pixar film to pass $ 700 million at the global box office, finding a large audience despite comparatively moderate reviews.

After winning an Oscar for his short film «Six Shooter», director Martin McDonagh's first feature length dares to combine a crime thriller with comedy and the results are surprisingly good.

Directed by Peyton Reed, whose last theatrical feature was 2008's Jim Carrey comedy Yes Man (which perhaps describes his level of control on this film), it's likely to be the sort of mindless diversion devoured by a perpetually unfaltering core audience, but the rest of us tired of this staunchly self - involved and defiantly conventional universe will be left with one more opportunity to grumble at the infinite depths of Marvel's stockpile.

Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, and Michael Showalter's unassuming romantic comedy is one of the year's funniest films, featuring some truly jawdropping one - liners and set pieces, but it's also so completely naked - hearted and raw that you'll frequently be weeping even as you laugh.

Check out the trailer below: Comedy superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart make their animated feature - film debuts in The Secret Life of Pets, -LSB-...]

The documentary is accompanied by a number of interesting films: three shorts made at the Champion studio from 1910 to 1913, an early documentary short about Fort Lee by Theodore Huff and Mark A. Borgotta, a feature called The Danger Game starring Madge Kennedy, an early Mack Sennett comedy short, and a 31 - minute version of Robin Hood released by Éclair America in 1912.

Focus Features has released the full boney trailer for their animated horror comedy ParaNorman, which finally reveals the film's villain: the...

Appearing on screen until his final days in Christopher Nolan's mind - bending Inception and Ben Affleck's Boston bank - robbing tale The Town (playing a key figure in both), he leaves his fans with just one more feature — the upcoming comedy film Killing Bono — to look forward to.

It's not his fault, though, as this film would have been weak regardless of the star, with a predictable storyline and events that will have you recalling bits and pieces of plenty of other comedies of humiliation featuring a meek man finding the cojones to finally take on the bully in his life, only to make an utter ass of himself.

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.

Robin Williams went on to establish an amazing career in both stand - up, comedy and feature films.

Sony Pictures Animation, in conjunction with Aardman Animations, has produced two critically acclaimed feature films: the CG - animated family comedy Arthur Christmas (3D); and the stop - frame animated high - seas adventure, The Pirates!

Fans of the TV series regularly appearing on «Comedy Central» already know what to expect from this feature - length film, showcasing more of the same parody of «COPS» as if starring the gang from the Police Academy movies.