Sentences with phrase «female lead of the movie»

Berry will play the female lead of the movie, which will be produced under the banner of Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment.

Not exact matches

That success may change the groundwork for future female - led superhero movies, and will most certainly change the perception of DC.

You'll see a lot of action movies where they'll have a supposedly awesome female lead, but it's still a lead who is broken, has «daddy issues,» or is crippled in some form.

Not only was it due to Sandra Bullock's, the female lead of The Gravity movie which bagged endless number of Oscar statutes, and Best Actress nominee Amy Adams's same choice of dark blue, but that Best Supporting Actress winner Lupita Nyong» o also wore a grecian - style blue gown that compliments her skin tone too well.

In 2007, she appeared in an even bigger horror movie as the female lead in a remake of The Hitcher, starring opposite veteran actor Sean Bean.

A badass female can be the lead character of an exciting, successful movie series?

Through the early»50s he starred in dozens of Westerns, often accompanied by his horse, Trigger (billed «the smartest horse in the movies»), and his sidekick, Gabby Hayes; his female lead was often Dale Evans, whom he married in 1947.

But here's Twilight Time to revive that memory: Ms. Kelly plays the female lead in the film adaptation of the Off Broadway show The Fantasticks, a movie about a carnival and a scheme two get two «bickering» neighbors» kids married off to one another.

Name the female leads of the Jack Ryan movies!

In fact, eight of the ten movies I included in my top ten of the festival were led by a female performance, five of the ten films were directed by women.

Fanning, who was last seen as Aurora in Disney's MALEFICENT alongside Angelina Jolie, will lead a young female cast in the movie, Refn's first dip into the genre following some absolutely belting action / crime movies which have always have heaps of style, depth and substance.

Despite the star power of the female led movie, Ocean's Eight faces an uphill battle at the box office.

When I look at this list I am mostly struck by how many of these movies are led by strong female performances, with Julie Delpy as Celine topping the list.

Not only is Wonder Woman going to be the first female - led superhero movie of this post-MCU comic book movie boom, but it's also the first one directed by a female filmmaker, with Patty Jenkins at the helm.

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Diana Prince has officially arrived in the world of men, both literally and figuratively, as DC and Warner Bros. dropped the very first trailer to the very first female led super hero movie....

Directors Catherine Hardwicke and Mimi Leder are also said to be in talks to helm a reboot of the 2000 female - led action movie

It brought three big Marvel movies, gave us the first female - led superhero movie of the modern era, and saw Ridley Scott replace Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer a month from release, reshoot all the scenes, and still deliver it on time.

«Lucy» marks Johansson's top opening as the lead in a film and is one of the highest openings ever for an R - rated action movie starring a female.

A pale imitation of the first film that boasts some terrible acting and even worse writing — and that doesn't even include the laughably misogynistic undertones that crop up once Katee Sackhoff's lone female character is introduced — «Riddick» doesn't really progress the overall story any further, leading one to question why another movie was necessary at all.

One would think it would be obvious, and rushed into development long ago: the MCU already has some of the most bankable women in the world on its payroll, this is a new era where Wonder Woman was a huge critical and box - office success, demonstrating the viability of a female hero - led movie; there's precedent from comics canon to mine, from the more recent A-Force to the 1970's Lady Liberators.

They have also planned many female - led or predominantly female films via their DC property like Birds of Prey, and a couple more Harley Quinn movies along with Batgirl.

The First Avenger was not a movie that had a lot of room for a fully - fledged female lead, but it made the time anyway (granted, this should not be an exemplary quality in a movie, but we live in the world we live in).

But having the year's top - grossing movie led by a female character has become downright commonplace over the past few years: The «Star Wars» prequel spin - off «Rogue One,» starring Felicity Jones the daughter of an Imperial scientist who the Rebel Alliance and leads a team determined to steal the Death Star plans, was the highest grossing film of 2016, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.

Ant - Man and the Wasp will be the final Marvel movie of the year, and also the first one to share its title with its female lead, so you don't want to miss it!

«It is just a renaissance going on in 2017 and now moving into 2018 where female - led movies and movies with female characters at the centre of the story have moved front and centre in terms of the box office and in terms of critical acclaim.»

Who knows, though, since Captain Marvel is the focus of a lot of MCU - related speculation at the moment; not only will it be the franchise's first female - led superhero movie, but it also got a massive Hail Mary pass from last month's blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War, which asked fans to sit through, roughly, 7,000,000 minutes of end credits in order to get the merest peek at her logo.

To the shock (and horror) of fans, the first female - led MCU movie won't be a Black Widow movie, but a solo movie for Captain Marvel - and after the events of Infinity War, it's shaping up to be one of the most exciting films on Marvel Studios» upcoming slate.

In the last few months of 2017 (which saw female - led movies top the year - end box office and female stories dominate the Emmys), the entertainment world was rocked by scandal, starting with the revelations about Harvey Weinstein, which were followed by accusations against executives, longtime actors and some of the industry's most powerful men.

And this brings us to the critical backlash to this film: a feeling in some quarters that for all its powerful and compelling female lead, the movie appears obtuse on race and blackness by making it a subsidiary function of the white characters» moral journey.

It's a feeling that for all its powerful and compelling female lead, the movie appears obtuse on the racial issue that it chooses to make part of the characters» moral journey.

A few other Westerns featuring female protagonists that almost made the cut are: the Coens» «True Grit» although we just didn't really feel like Hailee Steinfeld, good as she is, actually leads the movie; Samuel Fuller «s «Forty Guns» which also stars Western superheroine Barbara Stanwyck; 1995 TV movie «Buffalo Girls» in which Anjelica Huston plays Calamity Jane; William Wellman's «Westward the Women» in which a wagon train of «marriageable» females is brought out to supply a woman - starved town in the West; and straight to video title «The Desperate Trail,» just because this is a list about strong women leads and they don't get much stronger than Linda Fiorentino (alongside Sam Elliott).

Legendary's King Kong movie Kong: Skull Island may have lost two of its male stars earlier this month in Michael Keaton (Birdman) and J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), but the project has now secured its female lead, with Deadline revealing that Brie Larson (Trainwreck) has signed on to the film.

Leaked emails from Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter question the profitability of a female - led superhero movie.

Congrats, Kris Awards Daily the US trailer for Blue is the Warmest Colour i09 8 ways to make a female led superhero movie work Slant Magazine excellent piece on «the IMAX cancer» and the rerelease of The Wizard of Oz... only not the one you know.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A CAST ENSEMBLE — «Spotlight «BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE — Leonardo DiCaprio in «The Revenant» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE — Brie Larson in «Room» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE — Idris Elba in «Beasts of No Nation» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE — Alicia Vikander in «The Danish Girl» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A CAST ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY SERIES — «Orange is the New Black» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES — Jeffrey Tambor in «Transparent» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES — Uzo Aduba in «Orange is the New Black» BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES — Idris Elba in «Luther» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES — Queen Latifah in «Bessie» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A MOTION PICTURE — «Mad Max: Fury Road» BEST PERFORMANCE BY A STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES — «Game of Thrones» LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD — Carol Burnett

The success of female - led action movies like Wonder Woman and Atomic Blonde have no doubt encouraged Marvel to finally get going on Black Widow.

This year, we look forward to a sampling of some mighty powerful female driven movies, each of which features an A-list cast and an exceptionally strong performance by the leading actress (es).

What??? This movie and the shape of water are tied as my favourites from last year mostly because of the lead female performances.

2018 looks to be packed with spin - offs: It will also see the release of the Han Solo standalone film — which is about to land its female lead — as well as another Fantastic Beasts movie.

And because there can be no talk of gender swapping or reboots without invoking Paul Feig's new Ghostbusters movie, Indiewire notes that the Sony hack — that gift that keeps on giving — uncovered an email from Amy Pascal, in which she urged completion of Feig's film to head off other female - led franchises.

It's always cool to see high school party stories that center on female protagonists, because there have been plenty of those movies with male leads.

«There haven't been a lot of superhero movies with female leads and there have been even fewer — if any — that were truly funny.

Since Hollywood, and the industry, really really really doesn't like movies with strong female leads in them, and that there are barely enough of them to go around at all, it seems plausible that Streep's tour de force could blow out any potential competition.

Her damsel - in - distress channels echoes of strong female leads like Sigourney Weaver's Ripley from the Alien movie, though not in the obvious way.

Slick production, a pleasing score, an appealing female lead and excellent comic relief do lift this fifth outing above some entries in the franchise, and many movies of its type.

Whenever onscreen Emily Browning makes for an engaging female lead we can care about, even if the script saddles her character with some of the movie's slowest scenes.

This has led to many recent societal embarrassments, across media forms devoured by viewers who want to keep analytical challenging out of their popular entertainment, but it especially shines in the unfortunate backlash against that upcoming, female - led «Ghostbusters» movie.

Before the appointment of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck as directors on Captain Marvel, one name who appeared on the shortlist to helm Marvel's first female - led superhero movie was Rachel Talalay (Tank Girl, Doctor Who).

The movies that did win at the Globes were of the female - led persuasion.