Sentences with phrase «film executives who»

When we meet him, he's having lunch with a film executive who thinks he's brilliant, but what we hear is Charlie's non-stop monologue wondering if he» s sweating too much, saying too little, weighing too much, looking too bald and so forth.

«Beasts Of The Southern Wild» director Benh Zeitlin won the Breakthrough Director Award and was also presented with the inaugural Bingham Ray Award, dedicated to the veteran indie film executive who died in January.

Not exact matches

Mr. Walker recently helped the organization's chairman, Jay Fishman, recruit prominent African - Americans like Debra Martin Chase (Harvard Law, 1981), a film producer who has worked with Denzel Washington; and Ursula Burns, the departing chief executive officer of Xerox.

Tull, who will remain chairman and chief executive officer of Legendary, has been seeking to expand in Asia with Legendary East and in 2013 signed an agreement with China Film Co. to jointly produce large - scale films for global audiences, such as «The Great Wall,» which will star Matt Damon.

CiC hosted a screening of The Mama Sherpas, a film by Brigid Maher, with executive producers Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein who are best known for The Business of Being Born, and more recently Breastmilk.

One of the companies that received the film promotion pacts, Hauppauge - based BluChip Marketing, is headed by Karin Murphy Caro, who last month was tied to County Executive Edward Mangano through reported sexually suggestive text messages.

Cineflix executive producer Jacqueline Bynon said her film crew visited the Dannemora area in February for the one - hour documentary — about two weeks before Joyce Mitchell, who was convicted of helping David Sweat and Richard Matt escape, had her first parole hearing.

Remarks were offered by Rush Holt, AAAS CEO executive publisher of the Science family of journals, who moderated a discussion including Rep. Jerry McNerney (D - California) as well as film director Jon Bowermaster and others.

The film is produced by the team of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett - Smith along with Shawn «Jay - Z» Carter and Beyonce Knowles who served as executive producers.

It was around that time that she first met Richard Zanuck, a production executive (and the son of legendary mogul Darryl F. Zanuck), who offered her the role of Nova in the film Planet of the Apes.

In 2005, Christopher Nolan, who's an executive producer on this film, made Batman Begins — a very good superhero movie!

In addition to Slater (who also executive produced), Cameron Diaz is on hand as Kyle's bride Laura, a controlling, passive - aggressive woman who drops the passive hyphenate about halfway through the film.

Spencer (who ultimately became a co — executive producer on the film) didn't audition, though she did speak to Coogler over the phone and via Skype about the character.

Doug Liman, who helmed the 2008 film adaptation «Jumper,» returns as executive producer on «Impulse».

During this recent interview to discuss the TV version of Zombieland, co-creators and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talked about the journey from TV series to movie and now back to TV pilot, what it's been like to work with Amazon, what motivated the decision to have the same characters from the movie on the TV show, how they envision it as a road show, how much gore they can have, what Kirk Ward (who was originally cast as Tallahassee before being replaced by Woody Harrelson) brings to this version of the character, what led them to the 30 - minute format, whether they could have any surprise cameos (Bill Murray made a very memorable one in the film), what will determine whether the pilot is successful enough to go to series, and when they might know if they're picked up.

Also set in the 1950s, this film that notably doesn't star Clooney himself, follows a mild - mannered executive (Matt Damon) in the idyllic hamlet of Suburbicon who gets embroiled in a plot to murder his wife (Julianne Moore) and cash in on her insurance settlement with his sister - in - law (Julianne Moore, too).

At the film's press day, actor Paul Giamatti, who's also an executive producer on the movie, talked about what drew him to John Dies at the End, his most memorable experience of the shoot, working with such new actors, how he sees the industry now, and that he doesn't think a film like Sideways would even get made today.

But first, there was the big closing - night screening of his new film, Colossal (Grade: B), finally finished after a bumpy pre-production period thanks to star and executive producer Anne Hathaway, who Vigalondo says was instrumental in getting the film made.

Mashable recently conducted an interview with Bryan Singer (frequent go - to director for many of the X-Men films), who is serving as an executive producer on both FX's Legion and another untitled X-Men TV show to air on Fox.

Hullum and Burns, who also served as executive producers on «Lazer Team,» also contributed to the sci - fi action film looking visually stunning.

Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, who directed the film, will serve as co-creators and executive producers on the series.

The event was hosted by Chief Executive of the Irish Film and Television Academy, Áine Moriarty, who congratulated all winners and nominees working in the Irish film and drama industry.

It ends with a title card that states «A Paul Schrader Film,» but it is such in name only — a version of the movie that neither Schrader nor Refn (who retains an executive producer credit) nor Cage endorse or have done anything to promote, assembled by a team of producers without the input of Schrader or the film's credited editor, Tim Silano.

The film is as contemptuous of the rapacious and deceitful Texan oil executives who have put Peter's company out of business as it is of the rebel kidnappers, a band of Marxist revolutionaries so thoroughly corrupted by their drug and kidnapping operations that they now spend much of their time getting high.

Animal Kingdom was developed for television by Jonathan Lisco and inspired by the award - winning feature film written & directed by David Michod and produced by Liz Watts, who also serve as executive producers on the series.

The film comes in the wake of 2013's heart wrenching Sundance Jury Prize award winner, Blood Brother, a film that seemed to come out of nowhere to wow audiences and critics alike, and apparently even the likes of Terrence Malick and Atticus Ross who came on to Hoover's latest project to executive produce and serve as composer, respectively.

PBS Distribution hired two new executives just in time for Sundance who will be looking to acquire theatrical, non-theatrical, home entertainment and VOD rights of films, and Tim League and Tom Quinn's recently named Neon also announced its presence just before the fest.

In Johnson's freshman effort — which starred Mark Duplass (Your Sister's Sister), who on this new film is the Executive Producer — the writer / director already demonstrated a strong understanding of script structure and a fine way with actors, but here he takes it to a whole new level.

Ridley Scott, who directed the original BLADE RUNNER (and its numerous versions over the years), was involved as Executive Producer, and to put things in perspective, the first film was released the same year as TOOTSIE and TRON.

Last month, Variety spoke with Schrader and Dying executive producer Nicolas Winding Refn, who claimed that the film's producers decided to override Schrader's rough cut of...

It is written by Grant Curtis, who is also the film's executive producer and has worked with Raimi before on numerous other projects.

HIFF's Breakthrough Performers Program has successfully sought out and supported promising new actors in film and grown into a dynamic, enriched program which includes intimate gatherings with directors, producers, writers, veteran actors and prominent industry executives who attend the festival.

The film follows a mild - mannered radio executive (Will Ferrell) who strives to become the best stepdad to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling and freeloading real father (Mark Wahlberg) arrives, forcing him to compete for the affection of the kids.

Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for the upcoming comedy Daddy's Home which reunites The Other Guys stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg; check it out below below... The film follows a mild - mannered radio executive (Will Ferrell) who strives to become the best stepdad to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their -LSB-...]

A corporate executive (Søren Malling), who starts the film giddy about successfully negotiating a sale, faces a tougher battle when one of his company's ships is taken over by pirates.

«Life Itself,» Steve James's film about the life and work of iconic film critic Roger Ebert, joins «Finding Vivian Maier,» co-director Charlie Siskel (nephew of Gene Siskel, Ebert's co-host on «Siskel & Ebert») and executive producer Jeff Garlin's portrait of the Windy City nanny who was secretly a genius photographer, and «Red Army,» Gabe Polsky's exploration of the hockey team's rise and fall and how it mirrored that of the Soviet Union, as three of the top contenders eligible for the Best Documentary Oscar shortlist.

Directed by James Bobin, who brings his own unique vision to the spectacular world Tim Burton created on screen in 2010 with «Alice in Wonderland,» the film is written by Linda Woolverton based on characters created by Lewis Carroll and produced by Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd and Jennifer Todd and Tim Burton with John G. Scotti serving as executive producer.

One film that will be screening is John Maclean's «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender, who also serves as an executive producer.

The series is executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, who made the original film.

The film is presented by acclaimed filmmakers Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, Traffic) and Marshall Herskovitz (The Last Samurai), who also executive produced the picture with Rogan Donelly.

He is also an executive producer on his friend Joe Cornish's Attack the Block and co-writer of the upcoming Steven Spielberg film The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn with Cornish and Doctor Who and Sherlock writer, Steven Moffat.

«We are delighted to offer these exceptional films by first - time directors who are best known for their work in other areas of the film world,» said San Francisco Film Society Executive Director Noah Cowan.

Hanks, who has excelled in his career playing the everyday man, and floored the bulk of America with his performance in Captain Phillips this year, absolutely nails his role as the film executive tycoon.

At the annual Telluride closing night party at the Steinbergs, Wright told me (and admiring Amazon Studios executive Ted Hope) that he stole the idea for the film's stunning out - the - window tracking shots from the Coens» «The Man Who Wasn't There.»

Because the film needs more estrogen, we also get Rose Byrne as an executive who Nick falls for on first sight because he's Owen Wilson, she's Rose Byrne, and the script demands it.

What is making the headlines today is ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, you are all aware of the sexual accusation around Kevin Spacey, Ridley Scott decided to reshoot all the scenes of Spacey with another actor, Christopher Plummer who was the first choice of the director but the studio executives wanted a bigger name, Plummer should shoot his scenes in the comming weeks, it looks like they want to keep the december release date, and Michelle and Mark Whalberg are expected to do some reshoots, i don't think michelle began working on Venom yet, it's crazy but i think Ridley is right to cut out Spacey of his film.

I definitely have colleagues who are women who are directors of programming or executive directors, but I bet are percentages aren't that much better than the number of women filmmakers getting into film festivals.

(Actually, if there's a glaringly Hollywood - ized note in the film, it's the rather idealized vision of Combs, who, perhaps not surprisingly, has executive producer credit on the film.)

The Pixar Braintrust is a respected group of directors, writers, and executives at the company who provide notes and advice to a film's creative team during the development process.

Abby Epstein (right), director of the documentary «Weed the People,» with Ricki Lake, who executive produced the film.