Sentences with phrase «film director in»

Corfixen has complete access in their shared living quarters in Bangkok — so, yes, we get footage of a famous film director in bed — but on the set, she must retreat to a limited role, which begins to frustrate her.

David Yates is not the best - known film director in the world, but he has been at the helm of four of the most successful.

Shoes (Milestone, Blu - ray, DVD) The Dumb Girl of Portici (Milestone, Blu - ray, DVD) The Covered Wagon (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray, DVD) Lois Weber holds a place in film history as the first major woman film director in Hollywood.

Lois Weber holds a place in film history as the first major woman film director in Hollywood.

Scandal Sheet was based on a novel by former newspaperman Samuel Fuller, an excellent film director in his own right.

Iceland's Euro 2016 goalkeeper Hannes Þór Halldórsson is a film director in his spare time and has a contract of employment with SagaFilm once his football career comes to an end.

«Peter is a writer at the height of his powers and Stephen Daldry is one of the most entertaining and original film directors in the world.

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.

When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

He earned a law degree from Dalhousie University in 1977 but eventually decided to jump into the film business with his writer - director brother, Paul.

Pop diva Mariah Carey, film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese are among the celebrities enlisted to help launch Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd.'s $ 3.2 billion Studio City project in Macau.

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.

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

Now, with 10 days on screen, it appears director Christopher Nolan's final entry in his three - film Batman epic won't live up to early box office hopes.

The character first appeared onscreen in Civil War last year, and the new film is already generating loads of buzz thanks to director Ryan Coogler (Creed) and a loaded cast that also includes Lupita Nyong» o, Michael B. Jordan, and Angela Bassett.

Also, David Guggenheim, the film director behind An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for «Superman,» has been brought on to tell Malala's story in a documentary.

Of course, there will always be skeptics who claim Nolan cast the singer to help market his film, but the truth of the matter is, the director's films have always contained concepts (like «Inception» and «Interstellar») or iconic figures (Batman and The Joker) who are far bigger than any actor who has appeared in them.

The comeback: Director Curtis Hanson cast Basinger in the role of Lynn Bracken in the 1997 film «L.A. Confidential.»

The directors are going to experiment with the technology for the action scenes in «Captain America: Civil War,» which is currently filming in Atlanta.

As Disney was wrapping up production on A Wrinkle in Time, the latest film from lauded director Ava DuVernay and an adaptation of the beloved children's book, out Friday, the production team reached out to Rodeo FX to add finishing touches on a selected scene.

«So whoever initiated this — and was very proud of themselves to see that little dip in Iran's centrifuge numbers — should look back now and acknowledge it was a major mistake,» Emad Kiyaei, executive director American Iranian Council, says in the film.

For «The American Dreamer,» directors Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson filmed Hopper in Taos while he was in postproduction on «The Last Movie,» though this was hardly a nonfiction work.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

That can work in the Red's favor if a director wants an edgy, harsher look, as appears to have been the case for Soderbergh's recent anxiety - soaked Side Effects or Robert Zemeckis's hard - hitting Flight — both filmed with Red cameras.

Avnet (whose father, Jon, is a veteran Hollywood director and producer as well as the studio's co-CEO) told Fortune the studio wanted to maintain the film's authenticity — they wanted viewers to think the horror film playing out in real - time might really be happening — so they avoided marketing the movie and, in fact, they did not even run the idea by Snapchat before proceeding.

In watching a group of people try to build civilization out of savagery, «The Hateful Eight» is the most optimistic film the director has ever made.

First announced in 2012, the Avatar theme park was intended to open alongside Cameron's sequel of the film, but the director has since delayed the movie until 2020.

One more thing... A MacBook Air that never connected to the Internet and was kept in a safe was home to the Star Wars: The Last Jedi script, the film's director Rian Johnson said this week.

We recently sat down with the director Asif Kapadia, who discussed the transformations that take place in the film.

Much like the first Star Wars standalone film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, released in 2016, Solo has had some production issues — to the point when Lucasfilm fired the film's original directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, for «creative differences.»

Festival director Thierry Fremaux had said he believed Netflix would arrange some kind of cinema release for the two films in competition — The Meyerowitz Stories and Okja — both highly anticipated, with stars that include Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Stiller and Tilda Swinton.

Fox's decision to finally move forward with the film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie made.

Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Film.

«Sexism is one of the most socially accepted forms of discrimination and a pervasive disease in the film and television business,» the founders of Shit People Say to Women Directors said in an email to Fortune.

In 2014, its script was leaked online — prompting director Quentin Tarantino to cancel the film, before changing his mind.

«We've watched this happen to director Lexi Alexander and screenwriter Julie Bush when they published their respective exposes on sexism in the film business,» they added, referring to blog posts by Alexander and Bush that risked backlash (and blacklisting) by taking the entertainment industry to task.

You've made many films and then you did return to a Western and in your 60s you won the Oscar for best director and for best picture so let's take a look at Unforgiven, really a masterpiece.

Danny Boyle, the director of «Steve Jobs,» shared the tidbit during a Q&A with Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the film, following a screening of it in New York City on Monday night.

EASTWOOD: When I did the Rawhide series in the 60s and late 50s we had a lot of wonderful directors, old time film directors that had not been doing that well so they would do television and our television show would come on.

We figured that by the time everyone got in and to their seats, and by the time the director and / or stars wrapped up their inevitable introductory speeches, the film would likely start an hour and a half after it was supposed to.

Previously, director Roland Emmerich, who will be returning for the sequel, said they simply couldn't afford to cast Smith in the film because «he's too expensive.»

Peep - show booths that ran film loops came first, then camcorders and VCRs — many of which were invented in Japan, but adopted first in the United States by porn directors.

«And the consequence of that is that the director [of the film], the person responsible, was not coming into the room in a defensive posture knowing that this group could screw him over,» Catmull said.

Spielberg has since gone on to win a reputation as one of the greatest directors in history, but «ET» is most likely to remain his most beloved film.

The latest news in the unfolding scandal embroiling actor - director - writer Nate Parker is that the Toronto International Film Festival said it still plans to host the international premiere of Parker's already highly - lauded film, The Birth of a Nation, next month.

The director confirmed at numerous screenings that he attended leading up to the movie's release that there's indeed one shot in the final cut of the film where Spacey can be seen playing billionaire J. Paul Getty.

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.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.