Sentences with phrase «film industry figures»

News of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's string of sexual harassment offences sent shockwaves through the media and resulted in a number of other high - profile film industry figures being implicated for similar crimes.

Earlier this week, two initiatives were launched by prominent French film industry figures — 5050 Pour 2020, which promotes gender equality in the movie business; and #NowWeAct (Maintenant On Agit), the French equivalent to Time's Up which was set up by the Fondation des Femmes and is being backed by France's Cesar Academy.

As well as The Salesman the programme includes speeches from key film industry figures including Mike Leigh, as co-organised by Khan, actor Lily Cole, producer Kate Wilson and filmmaker Mike Donne, and sponsored by Curzon.

Not exact matches

In the first biography of this colorful, instinctual artist, Alan K. Rode illuminates the life and work of one of the film industry's most complex figures.

Of the members of the Seven Little Fortunes Peking Opera troupe to become major figures in the Hong Kong film industry in the last 20 years before the colony's handover to China, Corey Yuen is the least well known.

Ryan Kavanaugh may have been one of the most outspoken figures in the film industry, but potential bidders for his company have been conspicuously quiet.

Linklater is an inspiring figure in the film industry: Without ever leaving behind his Austin, Texas, roots (or Austin itself), he's spent the last 15 years quietly and cheerfully churning out what has now become an impressively varied body of work.

The film suggests by its title a health insurance industry run amuck with bad faith and unstoppable corruption, but the title also comes to invoke Sonia as a Medusa - like figure, whose gun - toting rage incidentally sets off a violent chain of events that also involves her teenage son, Dario (Sebastián Aguirre Boëda).

But I've got to figure out how to frame the performance of the film for the movie industry.

In a contest we can only imagine came down to either him or Bob Balaban, John Goodman is once again in talks to play a movie industry figure in Trumbo, Jay Roach's upcoming film about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

The Prince of Wales mingled with film stars and directors The Prince of Wales praised the high standards of the British film industry at a reception for leading figures from both sides of the camera.

Along with Peter Weir, Gillian Armstrong, and Bruce Beresford, Schepisi was a key figure in the renaissance of the Australian film industry, making the acclaimed features The Devil's Playground (1976), a semi-autobiographical account of adolescent life in a religious boarding school, and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), based on Thomas Keneally's novel.

The nominated films, which were chosen by a jury of leading industry figures, represent the best of British short filmmaking, and showcase innovative and exciting... Read More

Sheila Roberts is an entertainment journalist and film critic who lives in Los Angeles where she interviews leading film and television industry figures and writes about film for a variety of print and online publications includingCollider.com, MoviesOnline, MovieScope Magazine, Cineplex and UCLA Magazine.

Max Landis is a fairly polarizing figure in the film industry, partly because he's the son of John Landis and will continue to get opportunities even when his projects flop and partly because he tends to have awful opinions about Star Wars characters, but now he may have finally landed a film that will prove once and...

But while McBride's is the most public face, all three men have become influential figures in the film industry.

Until recently, notoriously contrarian film critic Armond White — whose negative Get Out review ruined its otherwise perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, causing a tiny Twitter tempest — was just about the only high - profile entertainment industry figure who wasn't a vocal fan of the movie.

As the largest collection of African - American film critics in North America, the AAFCA is highly respected by some of the biggest figures within the industry, including Spike Lee, Jordan Peele and former AAFCA publicist Ava DuVernay.

The movie industry seems to have figured out that fall isn't the only time a serious film can do well — publishers should give it a try.)

Lee remains a hugely respected and dynamic figure in the entertainment industry and continues to develop a variety of film, television and video game properties.

The Future of public funding for the UK film industry will be discussed by Culture Minister Ed Vaizey and key figures in the film...

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