Sentences with phrase «film director peter»

The Lord of the Rings film director Peter Jackson is excited about augmented reality, so much so that he has created a new company in New Zealand dubbed Wingnut AR.

It reminds me of the film director Peter Greenaway's attempts to create art installations which have the same overkill, messiness and pretension.

No wonder that film director Peter Jackson spent over 270 days shooting principal photography for his Lord of the Rings films here.

No wonder that film director Peter Jackson spent over 270 days shooting principal photography for his

Not exact matches

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Peter Bronstein, film director Guy Ritchie's lawyer in his custody battle with Madonna, noted that such hush - hush proceedings allow some clients to misbehave without fear of harming their priceless public personas.

To see if entertainment could offer a solution to this challenge, Ingber teamed up with Charles Reilly, Ph.D., a molecular biophysicist, professional animator, and Staff Scientist at the Wyss Institute who previously worked at movie director Peter Jackson's Park Road Post film studio, to create a film that would capture viewers» imaginations by telling the story of a biological process that was accurate down to the atomic level.

Written and directed by Peter Berg; director of photography, David Hennings; edited by Dan Lebental; music by Stewart Copeland; production designer, Dina Lipton; produced by Michael Schiffer, Diane Nabatoff and Cindy Cowan; executive producers, Ted Field, Scott Kroopf, Michael Helfant and Christian Slater; released by Polygram Filmed Entertainment.

The restlessness of the camerawork may drive you to distraction, but director / co-writer Calin Peter Netzer's film is held steady by Gheorghiu's staunch performance.

Following the success of Witness, Ford re-teamed with the film's director, Peter Weir, to make a film adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel The Mosquito Coast.

It's not until the film segues into its action - heavy midsection that Battleship truly becomes an unwatchable piece of work, as director Peter Berg has infused such moments with an unreasonably over-the-top sensibility that immediately proves both disastrous and exhausting (ie it's all just so meaningless).

Alongisde the film, we get an audio commentary from director / writer / producer Peter Jackson and writer / co-producer Philippa Boyens.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

This feels like the best way to explain the prevailing attitude and atmosphere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in director Peter Jackson's three - film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

(2004), an Americanized version of a popular feel - good Japanese movie from 1996, then portrayed the visionary film director Stanley Kubrik in the HBO biopic «The Life and Death of Peter Sellers» (2004).

Writer / director Peter Landesman has turned out a film that nonetheless remains desperately conventional and never communicates that sense of inspiration.

Though clocking in at a relatively short 119 minutes, the new film has received favorable early reviews, even in comparison to director John Schlesinger's 168 - minute adaptation from 1967 starring Julie Christie, Terrence Stamp, Alan Bates, and Peter Finch.

Filmed in bleak green - gray hues, writer - director Peter Landesman's movie depicts D.C. as a nest of vipers, of conspiracies within conspiracies, of paranoia begetting paranoia.

Ensemble films like this don't always work, but in the hands of a master director such as Meirelles, Peter Morgan's script comes to life in a vivid and evocative way.

What makes «Very Bad Things» a more rewarding experience than other films in its genre is that writer - director Peter Berg seems to be onto the fact that he's making a piece of shock schlock and not a sociological pronouncement.

The film was scripted by its director, Peter Hyams.

Peter Yates, previously typed as an action director (Bullitt, The Deep), lends the film a fine, unexpected limpidity, and the principals are mostly excellent.

The endlessly repetitive fusillades suggest that Writer - Director Peter Bogdanovich, in his first film, was really intent on creating the most prolific murderer in Hollywood's long history of violence.

Also, in reference to the comparisons to the film STAG, I have heard that VBT writer / director Peter Berg had the idea for this film in his head LONG before Stag was in pre-productions.

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).

Paul is a director who, like many of the movie brats, has a reputation that precedes him — whether it be writing American cinema classics like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, directing the popular and canonized films American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or the lore surrounding the era, popularized by Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

During the shoot of John Cassavetes» momentous 1970 film Husbands, BBC documentarians visited the low - budget production to chronicle not only the pioneering director's filmmaking process but also his collaboration as an actor with co-stars Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara.

Warner Bros Pictures released a new HD movie trailer for the upcoming DC Comics comic book film «The Green Lantern» by director Martin Campbell (Edge of Darkness, Casino Royale, 36) stars Blake Lively (Gossip Girl, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee), Peter Sarsgaard (Knight & Day, Orphan) and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Proposal) as The Green Lantern.

It's difficult to think of a director less - suited to take on the intricate, minutiae - obsessed writing of Peter Morgan than Howard — a director who, even in his finest films, has always been interested in the big picture first, with characters serving history rather than the other way round.

Together with her husband, CDC director Dr Peter Mann (Jeremy Northam) and an incredulous cop (Charles S. Dutton, the closest the film comes to comic relief), Susan investigates, at which point the film starts to successfully mimic Aliens, as Susan faces off against the giant creatures and the supporting cast (including a youthful - looking Josh Brolin) gradually get picked off.

A film this emotional and unsettling suggests anyone involved in director Peter Berg «s latest had only the sincerest of intentions.

Director Peter Vack also talks about enlisting friend and costar Julia Garner as the film's lead

Check out the latest Japanese movie poster for the upcoming film «Battleship» by director Peter Berg...

First time director Peter Billingsley (you may remember him as Ralphie in A Christmas Story) picked the wrong film to make his directorial debut on.

Writer - director Peter Hedges («About a Boy» scribe) carved out the darkly humorous film based on his own mother's death.

Apprehensions about Peter Jackson's first instalment of The Hobbit films — a trilogy stemming from JRR Tolkien's iconic novel, and the writer / director's second stint in Middle Earth after The Lord of the Rings — are swiftly cast aside in The Desolation of Smaug, endless exposition gratefully replaced by rollicking action.

So began what Kirby dubs the happiest job of her life, one that played out over eighteen months with many months of filming to come, and one which placed Kirby in the ever - capable hands of writer - producer Peter Morgan and storied director Stephen Daldry, and alongside castmates Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II and Matt Smith as Prince Philip.

Director Peter Chelsom had serious trouble getting the film put together.

Produced by Peter Jackson through WingNut Films, director Neill Blomkamp manages to convey a film that adds elements of films like Children of Men, Cloverfield, and even E.T., to bring an original and thought inducing story to an audience who is ready to welcome the substance.

Hostiles Stars: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Ben Foster, Q'orianka Kilcher, Scott Wilson, Peter Mullan, Adam Beach and Jesse Plemons Director: Scott Cooper Scriptwriter: Scott Cooper based on the manuscript by Donald E. Stewart Composer: Max Richter Cinematography: Masanobu Takayanagi Entertainment Studios Rating: R for violence and themed material Running Length: 133 minutes The Old American West still thrives in film country.

«Death By China»: Documentary film in which writer - director Peter Navarro argues that America's economic relationship with China is our nation's most desperate problem.

The Rundown is a pretty dumb film, but knows it is, and director Peter Berg (Very Bad Things) wisely plays almost everything for laughs, making this an escapist romp that's not too dark or violent to enjoy.

Writer - Director (and actor) Peter Berg takes the premise of «Stag,» a small film about a bachelor party gone horribly astray, and turns it into one long macabre joke.

House of the Long Shadows (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu - ray, DVD), directed by Pete Walker, stars Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing, along with John Carradine and Desi Arnaz Jr., and the disc features separate commentary tracks by director Pete Walker and film historian David Del Valle and an interview with Walker.

So begins British director Peter Yates» seminal Boston crime film from 1973 — one that has influenced so much of what came after — The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

This is Grunberg's first feature film, but he has worked as an assistant director for the likes of Peter Weir, Oliver Stone, Tony Scott and even Gibson himself, which equipped him with the experience to craft impressive set - pieces.

Based on the book Boston Strong by Dave Wedge and Casey Sherman, the film is directed by Peter Berg (Deepwater Horizon) and sees the director re-team with Mark Wahlberg (Lone Survivor) for a 3rd time.

Director Michael Apted is handed the reins to guide Dawn Treader into murky waters, replacing Peter Jackson protege Andrew Adamson, who directed the first two films — and Apted definitely brings a fresher take on the subject matter, especially after Prince Caspian, a LOTR: The Two Towers imitation.

Special features include feature commentary with Writer / Director Scott Stewart, Producer Jason Blum, Executive Producer Brian Kavanaugh - Jones and Editor Peter Gvozdas as well as alternate and deleted scenes from the film.

After a roundtable with director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriter Peter Straughan, the two gentlemen left the room, to be replaced a few minutes later by one of the stars of the film, Colin Firth.