Sentences with phrase «film director james»

Opponents of Proposition 23, the ballot initiative that would suspend California's climate change and clean energy law, have raised $ 11.9 million in the past two weeks; big - dollar contributors include the film director James Cameron, Microsoft's Bill Gates and the Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

This forum's featured speakers are artist Doug Aitken; Michael Connor, Artistic Director of Rhizome; artist Adelita Husni - Bey; Lucy Gallun, Assistant Curator, Department of Photography, MoMA; artist Lynn Hershman Leeson; screenwriter and film director James Schamus; and artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya.

Probably named after film director James Cameron, a lot of whose early films were partially horror.

Queen Elizabeth II, as well as «Titanic» film director James Cameron have been among that number of visitors in the past four years.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Hollywood film director James Cameron have also visited.

It's from documentarian recently turned feature film director James Marsh, who doesn't do much for the story besides move it along.

First - time feature film director James Bobin does a respectable job keeping all of the mayhem together without losing much in the comic timing, similar in tempo to his own time spent directing «Flight of the Conchords» for HBO.

He received his first Academy Award ® nomination, for Best Actor, for his masterly portrayal of gay film director James Whale, in Bill Condon's 1998 classic Gods and Monsters.

Update: A new company backed by Google founder Larry Page and film director James Cameron will later today unveil its plans to mine near - Earth asteroids for precious metals, such as platinum.

Not exact matches

In an interview posted to YouTube, «Avatar» director, James Cameron, revealed he wasn't impressed with the new film from director J.J. Abrams.

James Cameron nNet worth: $ 650M nCameron's (at left) film career has humble beginnings — the Avatar - director sold his screenplay for The Terminator for just one dollar in exchange for the opportunity to direct the film.

James Cameron Net worth: $ 650M Cameron's (at left) film career has humble beginnings — the Avatar - director sold his screenplay for The Terminator for just one dollar in exchange for the opportunity to direct the film.

Even Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn chimed in to support a fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe film, with a tweet advising social media users to ignore trolls and enjoy the film.

Former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, now an attorney for President Trump, has rocked the political and legal worlds not only with his revelation that Trump reimbursed attorney Michael Cohen for hush money paid to adult - film actress Stormy Daniels, but that the president fired James B. Comey because the then - FBI director wouldn't publicly clear Trump in the Russia affair.

A week after The New York Times and The New Yorker ran back - to - back reports cataloguing Harvey Weinstein's alleged serial sexual harassment of women in Hollywood, actress Selma Blair saw a story on HuffPost about writer and director James Toback's new film that made her blood run cold.

The truly amazing part of the play's history is that it was originally conceived for the husband - wife film - star team of Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester 50 years ago, with the great director James Whale (the original Frankenstein) attached to helm the production.

Iron Mike, 41, was in the French seaside resort last week for its annual film festival and the premiere of Tyson, a documentary about his life by writer - director James Toback (Fingers, The Pick - Up Artist).

The results also support director James Cameron's interpretation of events in his film Titanic — that wealth and social status reasserted themselves after time, possibly through bribery or favours from the crew.

The dam project, in planning for 30 years, has stirred opposition among environmentalists and celebrities, including the singer Sting and Hollywood director James Cameron, who compared the conflict to a «real life» version of his film Avatar.

Trained as an astrobiologist at Stanford and Caltech, Loretta has been to the Canadian Arctic to study plant life in extreme environments and to the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean with «Titanic» director James Cameron to film a 3D IMAX documentary, «Aliens of the Deep.»

The Game Changers is a new documentary film executively produced by director James Cameron.

Case in point: Proenza Schouler's front row, which welcomes the requisite editors and retailers, is also filled with friends and supporters of the brand, from Vogue's Lisa Love to the film director and writer James Oakley.

The recipient of a «Design Star» honour from Fashion Group International, Giannini has also been awarded «La Lupa Capitalina» by the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, and in 2013 was the subject of a documentary film «The Director,» produced by James Franco and Christina Voros, which followed Giannini's artistic process as she prepared for catwalk shows and launches.

In celebration of the Trussardi greyhound's 40th anniversary, the Italian brand enlisted director James Lima and Japanese illustrator Yuko Shimizu to produce this visually stunning and imaginative animated film.

Writer and director, James Gray, recently said, «As THE LOST CITY OF Z made its long and arduous journey to the screen, the film became something of an obsession for me — fitting, I suppose, given its subject.

The film earned the Merchant Ivory team 9 BAFTA nominations and a Palme d'Or nomination at Cannes for director James Ivory.

Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?

Writer / director James Bridges made his name in the 1970s with such socially aware, character - driven films as The Paper Chase (1973), but his unassuming style and non-blockbuster mentality slowed his career in the 1980s.

She rapidly became a favorite of two prominent directors, James Whale and John Ford, neither of whom were inclined to ask her to tone down her film performances.

The character has no franchise potential, as the film opens with an epilogue - as - prologue about Poe's death, but maybe Cusack and his director, V for Vendetta's James McTeigue, were still hoping for that same kind of pithy, indelible hero.

Veteran director Walter Hill helms this graphic novel adaptation about New Orleans (or, going by the film, Crescent City - NOLA's nickname) hitman James «Jimmy Bobo» Bonomo (Sylvester Stallone) who teams up with greenhorn D.C. cop Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang) to bring down the killers of their respective partners.

Like the real Wiseau, the Tommy of this film, played with uncanny accuracy by its director James Franco, is a mystery.

A national health care crisis in the United States yields this tense drama from screenwriter James Kearns and director Nick Cassavetes, who experienced a real - life dilemma with his daughter's congenital heart disease that mirrors the one in this film.

Kazan's first film, a sentimental family melodrama, is well acted (James Dunn won a Supporting Oscar), but it doesn't begin to suggest the powerful director he would become in the 1950s.

While director and star James Franco's behind - the - scenes recreation of Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero's cult classic carries a lingering sense of «having their cake and eating it, too,» the film is less focused on mocking the failures of its source material.

The director's next project (and first since 2010's Please Give) will, like her four previous films, star Catherine Keener, who is joined here by Julia Louis - Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, and Toni Collette.

Contributing to screenplays for the great Polish directors Andrzej Wajda (Danton) and Krzysztof Kieslowski (Three Colors), Holland has spent most of the past quarter - century making films in the West, including adaptations of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and Henry James» Washington Square.

Thanks to the content of his films, American director James Ivory has spent much of his long career being mistaken for an Englishman.

Really interesting documentary about director James Cameron and his crew exploring the remains of the Titanic with their adorable filming robots, comparing the wreck to original footage and telling the stories of the people involved in the tragic catastrophe.

Director James Franco takes on the experience of a wayward creator in his latest film, «The Disaster Artist,» and reveals how even if something deeply personal is usually deeply flawed, it can still connect with audiences in ways no one could imagine.

And now, director / star James Franco has brought the equally bizarre real - life story behind the movie's creation to the big screen with «The Disaster Artist» - proving that, at the very least, good films can definitely be made about bad movies.

But it's James Franco who hits a new career peak as actor and director by making sure his film is as heartfelt as it is hilarious.

Actor / director James Franco has created as unique a character in The Disaster Artist as Johnny Depp did with his Jack Sparrow creation in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

From Focus World and director / star James Franco, a film about visionary poet Hart Crane, who lived a life of beauty, passion, and tragedy.

Throw in Joss Whedon tackling The Avengers, the first of two Hobbit movies, James Bond's next adventure, the opening chapter of The Hunger Games, new films from Wes Anderson, David O. Russell, Judd Apatow, P.T. Anderson, Alfonso Cuarón, Whit Stillman, the Coen brothers (maybe), and more of our favorite directors, and we can't imagine a better year for movies.

He went on to starring and supporting roles the independent films BLACK CLOUD and BLIND DATING with Chris Pine for director James Keach; and larger studio films like STOMP THE YARD 2: HOMECOMING, and the hit film JUMPING THE BROOM.

There's little doubt that Perfect Stranger, for the most part, resembles one of those made - for - Lifetime thrillers that seem to crop up on a weekly basis, as the movie has been infused with an atmosphere of almost stunning artificiality that's exacerbated by director James Foley's disappointingly tame sensibilities (ie the lack of sex and violence perpetuates the film's TV - ready feel).

The director James Gray and others on what the conversion from film to digital means for independent theatres, as exemplified by the Fairview Cinema 3 in Hudson, New York.

This year's First Exposure series features the following filmmakers and films: our Opening Night director Jennie Livingston presenting Paris is Burning, Albert Maysles (Salesman), Julie Taymor (Titus), Michael Moore (Roger & Me), Kelly Reichardt (River of Grass), Cinematographer Frederick Elmes (Eraserhead), James Toback (Fingers), and Peter Bogdanovich (Targets).

Bonus features include: - Logan Noir: a black - and - white version of the film - Audio commentary by director James Mangold - Deleted scenes with optional audio commentary by Mangold - Making Logan — behind - the - scenes documentary