Sentences with phrase «female leads»

The Fighter sees excellent performances by Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, and strong roles from its female leads, rare for a sporting movie.

Volume four of Film Movement's Festival Favorites series features three films with female leads.

Having found a great trio of female leads for novel adaptation The Girl On The Train, director Tate Taylor and the producers are now looking for some male supporting roles.

Oops, I just realized I started off both this week's «buzz» sections raving about gorgeous female leads — well, I'm a male, and I'm human, and it was Mcadams running the show here, and I'd be surprised if anyone were to disagree with such.

The new female leads, Marion Cotillard (rich philanthropist) and Anne Hathaway (Catwoman in all but name), have little to get their claws into.

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Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel have now been all but confirmed as the two main female leads, taking over for Sharon Stone's Lori and Rachel Ticotin's Melina respectively.

It certainly won't work to The Girl on the Train's advantage to be compared to David Fincher's Gone Girl but the proximity of the two properties — both feature strong female leads, are based on best selling novels and center on soapy surburian murder mysteries — make such comparisons as unavoidable as they may be unfavorable for director Tate Taylor.

Spielberg has been reading actors in Los Angeles and New York with the hope of finding both the male and female leads at the same time.

Hôtel du Nord's symmetrical, indeed almost circular plot and doubling up of interactions with a double set of male and female leads, slots neatly together in a way that resembles the crisscrossing patterns of behaviour found in the glossily upper - class, but in every way inferior, MGM all - star hit Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding, 1932).

An all - new behind - the - scenes video introduces the female leads of the upcoming 24th James Bond installment «Spectre.»

Previously, it was reported that Jane the Virgin «s Gina Rodriguez, Orphan Black «s Tatiana Maslany and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl «s Olivia Cooke were on the shortlist for one of the female leads in Johnson's Star Wars film, but now it appears that Mbatha - Raw is also in contention for this role.

Even the Fast and the Furious franchise has had several female leads throughout it, the majority of them being women of color.

The «Girls With Guns» films featured strong female leads, usually supported by ineffective or soon - to - be-killed male counterparts, and blended martial arts action with heavy gunplay, usually supported by eye - piercing 80s fashion, heavy synth scores, and lots of explosions in empty warehouses and abandoned construction sites.

In a strangely weak year for female leads best actress will likely be dominated by Julianne Moore for Still Alice.

Name the female leads of the Jack Ryan movies!

The cast's chemistry is on point and the four female leads each bring different comedic styles to the movie that generates laughs.

Olsen is also fantastic, but the female leads are all great this year.

The 1963 Haunting is still remembered fondly (mostly by critics) for its atmosphere and the performances of its two female leads, but, low - key as director Wise might have been, he, too, was not above a certain amount of excess, relying on distorting camera lenses and the cranking up of volume on music and special effects.

In 2011, she starred in the leading role of Estella in Mike Newell's film adaptation of GREAT EXPECTATIONS followed by one of the female leads in THE RIOT CLUB.

Rarely are female leads given anything of substance to do in action films, so I applaud Besson for writing this role for a woman.

Solid suspenser with good performances from the two female leads and excellent cinematography.

As comedies featuring raunchy female leads go the Bronze is a real win.

This is because somebody told the screenwriter that the male and female leads should have a conflict in their relationship at some point in the story, but didn't tell him that the conflict needs to occur for a good reason.

The Latina female leads are — to put this in a way that's both politically correct and blandly inoffensive — vivacious....

The rare buddy - cop action - comedy to feature female leads (you'll likely have to thank Bridesmaids, which Feig also directed, for that), The Heat stars Sandra Bullock as a no - nonsense FBI agent and Melissa McCarthy as her industry - standard «loose cannon» partner.

She deliberately left Jodie Foster's production company to do more big ticket writing and scored two * big * writing gigs with Disney, «Captain Marvel» and «Gigantic», both of which have female leads.

People in Hollywood are always citing rules, and they always have figures to back them up: «Action films with female leads never make money.»

The charisma and comic timing of the film's female leads make up for some of the screenwriting rough patches but not enough to justify a trip to the theater.

The female leads while both rightfully esteemed actresses are both miscast.

I was disappointed that the entire cast did nt return for one film (come on, what are the female leads really doing that was so important?

Designed for girls, these books feature female leads and are about life, love and fun.

This trilogy is set in a steampunk era with two fantastic female leads.

Strangely people no longer thought they were too male — there hadn't been any strong female leads during the campaign, in fact Michael Howard has often seemed to be a lone figure, so it is hard to explain why.

We asked our Facebook fans to tell us which books with female leads would also be perfect for boys.

Here's one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to television: female leads becoming pregnant as a means of character development, having the baby, and then never seeing the baby ever again.

Isn't it awesome that NBC bought a show in which three female leads take control of their lives in the face of danger?

Now my wife and I had guessed that there might be a romantic spark between the male and female leads, this being the movies and all, but it would have been nice to watch it unfold ourselves.

Female leads comprised 24 % of protagonists in the 100 top domestic grossing films last year — five percentage points fewer than in 2016.

Some of them, such as «Blue Steel,» «Zero Dark Thirty» and «Strange Days,» feature strong female leads.

Really #anes17 no female lead speakers at all?

When DreamWorks screened an early version of its 2001 film Shrek for test audiences, the female lead, Princess Fiona, made children scream in fear.

Movies like Black Panther and Get Out are celebrated, the new Star Wars made a point to have a diverse cast and a female lead, and cultural products are criticized for being too white and too male.

The general partners of True Wealth Ventures want to see more female led companies get venture capital investment.

«While more than 40 percent of the funds of female investors were invested in projects by female entrepreneurs, only 22.5 percent of the male investor funds went to female led projects,» the Berkeley researchers said.

A strong female lead... who isn't always right.

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.

A strong female lead... with no Prince Charming!

The male lead earned $ 750 per day, the female lead $ 1,500 per day (top money for the industry)-- a pittance in the whole financial deal.

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