Sentences with phrase «film comedy series»
The march of the remakes continues with The Pink Panther, MGM's resuscitation of Blake Edwards» popular eight - film comedy series.
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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.
Nixon is best known for her role as Miranda on the HBO comedy - drama «Sex and the City» and subsequent film series, winning an Emmy for the role in 2004.
This year, I'm working on a series of eight short films, one of which is a romantic comedy in pre-production as we speak.
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The film - which follows a trio of friends (Bradley Cooper's Phil, Ed Helms» Stu, and Zach Galifianakis» Alan) as they attempt to piece together just what transpired during a pal's drunken bachelor party (where it inevitably becomes clear that said pal has mysteriously vanished)- strikes all of the wrong notes virtually from the get - go, as screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore offer up a series of broadly - portrayed caricatures that could only exist within just such a low - rent comedy (with Galifianakis» aggressively off - the - wall turn as Alan undoubtedly the most apt example of this).
A stint on Garry Shandling's breakthrough HBO series The Larry Sanders Show (for which she was nominated for an Emmy award in 1996) soon followed, and in 1994 Garofalo reunited with Stiller in the film comedy Reality Bites, a role which earned her the much - despised tag of «Generation X comedian.»
In between those two projects, Agee kept busy by appearing in the short film Chad Vader, the Internet comedy series «Yacht Rock,» and the Bob Goldthwait - directed comedy Sleeping Dogs Lie.
Dorsey's movie career ranges from heavy drama (WALK THE LINE), to lighthearted family comedy (JUST LIKE HEAVEN, Disney's GIRL VS. MONSTER, and the American Girl series MCKENNA SHOOTS FOR THE STARS), but her appearance in the Golden Globe ® and Academy Award ® nominated film MONEYBALL established her as a bona - fide star.
In 2010, she received her fourth Emmy nomination, for her work in Barry Levinson's YOU DO N'T KNOW JACK with Al Pacino, following a lead actress nomination in the film BERNARD AND DORIS and two previous guest actress nominations in a comedy series (FRIENDS, MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE).
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.
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 whole American Pie series just continues to produce consistently solid comedy films.
Even though I burst out laughing at certain scenes and moments in the films in this series, this one really is, beat for beat, a comedy, and it makes me laugh pretty hard.
Synopsis: «The second of three films in the Evil Dead series is part horror, part comedy, with Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) once again battling horrifying demons at a secluded cabin in the woods.
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.
HBO has released the first trailer for Doll & Em, a new comedy series about a British Hollywood star who hires her childhood friend to be her personal assistant while she is making a film in Los Angeles.
STX Entertainment has announced that it is set to capitalise on the success of the hit comedy Bad Moms by launching a franchise of feature film spinoffs, digital shorts, and a reality series, beginning with a Bad Dads movie, which has been set for a July 14th 2017 release.
He is most widely known for the feature films Role Models and Wet Hot American Summer, the 1990s» sketch comedy series The State and for directing the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital.
He is best known for his roles as Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, as Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy - comedy The Good Guys, as Red John in the CBS series The Mentalist, and as antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison.
A number of viewers have picked up on the Russo» recurring in - film tribute to the cult hit comedy TV series Community.
The 100 + episode craft - beer - and - movies podcast series features veteran film critic Cole Smithey and various guests from the entertainment, comedy, and craft beer worlds copiously consuming international politics and culture through the prism of a single film and a different craft beer each week.
Retaining the gentle, non-verbal comedy and daffy sight gags of the popular stop - motion TV series — itself a loose spinoff from Aardman's cherished «Wallace and Gromit» franchise — while assigning Shaun and his flock an urban escapade more expansive than their usual short - form gambols, the film should reward small fry and parents jaded by more synthetic kiddie toons.
Kathy Bates did not appear in the last season as she was in the midst of filming her Netflix comedy series Disjointed.
Directed by Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones's Diary), the new film in the beloved comedy series based on creator Helen Fielding's heroine finds Bridget unexpectedly expecting.
When the film makes its unfortunate shift from provocative comedy to drama, it begins to feel like a series of maudlin music videos interrupted by romance and saccharine uplift.
The series stars Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid in the «Harry Potter» films) as Paul Finchley, half of famous TV comedy duo, who is accused of rape years after the fact.
After catching the attention of critics and fans with acclaimed performances in the TV series Kingdom and the dark dramatic film Goat, Nick Jonas is turning to action comedy with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,...
We're taking our «Beauty vs Beast» series to a film that did well but maybe not as well as expected (no director, no screenplay)- Jordan Peele's masterful horror comedy Get Out, which we just happened to re-watch last night in an effort to reaquaint ourselves with a movie that was fading from memory.
Universal Pictures has announced that filming has wrapped on Dad's Army, the upcoming feature remake of the beloved British comedy series, and the film has been given a UK release date of February 5th, 2016.
But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.
It was definitely the Brat Pack generation, big TV series, the beginning of franchise action films, teen comedies.
She is known for her roles as Majo Tenorio in musical - drama film Filly Brown, as Andrea Fleytas in Deepwater Horizon and as Jane Villanueva in the CW comedy - drama series Jane the Virgin, for which she has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress — Television Series Musical or Comedy, winning incomedy - drama series Jane the Virgin, for which she has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress — Television Series Musical or Comedy, winning inseries Jane the Virgin, for which she has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress — Television Series Musical or Comedy, winning inSeries Musical or Comedy, winning inComedy, winning in 2015.
On first viewing, the jargon can overwhelm viewers less philosophically inclined, but in his efforts to find meaning in a series of coincidences, Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) is engaged in the same comedy as the film's viewers — desperately trying find order and meaning in a chaotic world.
While the screenplay does a fine job in its knowledge of the Bates mythos, the boat that is missed by Stefano is in the lack of dark, often tongue - in - cheek comedy that had a healthy helping in each one of the films in the series, which makes this the most serious, and thereby least entertaining of the series in terms of exciting moments.
Definitely a film of two halves, this crime comedy kicks off with a spark of witty energy as the title character blusters his way through a series of events with hilariously profane rants.
In 1978, Douglas Adams penned the script for British radio an eccentric SF comedy entitled «The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy» (or H2G2), and its success led to a run of five best - selling books (the first appearing in 1979), a BBC television series (1981), a computer game (1998), and now, over a quarter of a century after its first radio outing, a big - screen feature film.
He has generated dozens of comedy films like «Zoolander,» «Dodgeball,» «Night at the Museum,» and the «Madagascar» series.
Richard Curtis» Love Actually, which strikes me as the British counterpart to this film, played out as an ongoing series of happy endings, the kind every romantic comedy eventually provides.
Craig Robinson, one of the actors in some of Hollywood's most popular ensemble film and TV comedies, including «Hot Tub Time Machine,» «This Is the End,» and «The Office,» will be the main star of his own comedy series, «Mr. Robinson,» this summer on NBC.
Burshtein plays all of this for laughs in The Wedding Plan, and though her stylistic hand is a bit too heavy for what's a light comedy at heart, the film does have its choice comic moments, most notably the many dates Michal goes on with a series of eccentric suitors, one of whom offers an elaborate rationale for his refusal to look directly into her eyes throughout their dinner together.
Rather than really developing these issues narratively, the film unfolds with a series of action / comedy set pieces.
As the writer and director of the feature films Knocked Up and The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, the producer of the blockbuster comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and the creator of the acclaimed television series «Freaks and Geeks» and «Undeclared,» Apatow has developed a reputation for stories that are equal measures sentimental and unrefined.
Sony's hard at work on a spinoff for their»90s sci - fi comedy film series Men in Black, but now it's looking a little more like a reunion for the stars of Thor: Ragnarok.
The 29 - year - old Wayans appeared in a plenty of his father's work as a younger man: he played the younger version of David Alan Grier in his father's film «Blankman,» and would later appear in a recurring role in his sitcom «My Wife And Kids,» as well as being a regular on his short - lived Showtime sketch comedy series «The Underground.»
JASON MANTZOUKAS is best known for his starring role in the Will Ferrell / Amy Poehler film THE HOUSE as well as his recurring role as Rafi in the FX comedy series «The League».
They have produced films such as Rick Alverson's «The Comedy,» David Gordon Green's «Prince Avalanche» and «Joe,» «Camp X-Ray» and most recently, HBO's new series «Vice Principals.»
Amazon Studios has released a new teaser trailer and poster for its Jean - Claude Van Damme - headlined comedy series Jean - Claude Van Johnson which also stars Phylicia Rashad, Kat Foster, and Moises Arias; check them out here... Jean - Claude Van Johnson stars global martial arts & film sensation Jean - Claude Van Damme playing «Jean - Claude Van Damme», a global martial arts -LSB-...]
FX has ordered the first season of «What We Do in the Shadows ``, a half - hour comedy series based on the feature film of the same name...