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With a diverse range of films on offer and film legends in attendance, JDIFF promises to be a highlight of the year.

Not exact matches

In 2007, Warner released 33 films; three — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 300, and I Am Legend — each took in more than $ 200 million at the U.S. box officIn 2007, Warner released 33 films; three — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 300, and I Am Legend — each took in more than $ 200 million at the U.S. box officin more than $ 200 million at the U.S. box office.

(Avnet said the studio created a real website to build a mythology for the film's titular «Sickhouse,» a fictional home they gave a frightening backstory, while encouraging the movie's stars to casually drop mentions of the fake legend in the days leading up to the Snapchat release.)

He worked with stars like John Legend and Oprah Winfrey before launching his own multi-platform media company, Macro Ventures, which was behind the production of Denzel Washington's Academy Award - nominated feature film «Fences» in 2016, and more recently, the acclaimed indie film «Mudbound,» which Variety predicts may be the first Netflix feature to compete for an Oscar.

Certainly the legends of the Carolingian peers do not continue to generate popular literature and film in the way that the stories of Camelot do.

The film would be based on the biography Steve McQueen: The Life And Legend Of A Hollywood Icon, in which author Marshall Terrill spent a decade researching McQueen's life, career and death.

Featured in countless films and music videos, «The Pink Lady» has undergone million dollar renovations in recent years to further its legend for a new generation.

Collins's penchant for sending his linebackers came to international attention last year when Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima came to SMU with a Japanese film crew to publicize the Mustangs» game with Houston in the 1983 Mirage Bowl in Tokyo.

The new film on his life and career is set to hit cinema screens in 2017, featuring appearances from other F1 legends such as Emerson Fittipaldi, Sir Jackie Stewart and Mario Andretti.

A 9o minute moving and inspiring film telling the story of Bobby Moore, who has passed into football legend as the captain who in 1966 led England to its only World Cup victory and West Ham captain from Barking.

Boys names with notable increases in popularity this year are «Reggie» (up 59 %)- most likely influenced by Rastamouse star Reggie Yates but possibly Tom Hardy's portrayal of Reggie Kray in the 2015 film «Legend» - and «Ezra» (up 77 %), which can be attributed to the world famous «Budapest» singer, George Ezra.

You're holding onto the past, but jazz is about the future,» Legend says, in what is arguably the best line of the film.

In the middle of the film, Keith (John Legend) explains to Seb, who is a ~ serious musician ~ grudgingly playing for»80s cover bands to make a buck, why being obsessed with classic, 20th - century jazz is holding him back as an artist.

Pete the purple squirrel has become a legend among staff and pupils at the school he visits in Hampshire «Squirrels will chew anything even if it's Carl Pugh, 35, behaved «despicably» when he was filmed repeatedly striking his American bulldog Jeff on a towpath, which was viewed on social media

Whilst not the worst film tie - in, Fantastic 4 still feels heavily watered down and certainly comes across as a weaker version of «X-Men Legends.»

Fans may not like the CGI zombies, but unlike the video game creatures in I am Legend (2007), these are more filmed actor - CGI tweaked hybrids; their believability is really dependent on how much viewers will accept the virus as a fast - moving bug which immediately transforms a host into a rabid sprinter with super-strength (not unlike 28 Days Later).

Hideo Kojima is a pioneer in film - making, right up there with legends such as Tommy Wiseau and Uwe Boll.

In 2010, he co-starred in the highly acclaimed Australian crime - drama Animal Kingdom and lent his voice to the animated film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'HoolIn 2010, he co-starred in the highly acclaimed Australian crime - drama Animal Kingdom and lent his voice to the animated film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoolin the highly acclaimed Australian crime - drama Animal Kingdom and lent his voice to the animated film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.

They aren't professional actors, but their non-acting creates a resonant tension, as their misplacement in a Hollywood film, directed by a legend, comes to approximate the surreal sense of misplacement that they could have felt when finding themselves in the midst of a terrorist attack.

Ethan Hawke stars in another adventurous film about a jazz legend, the Chet Baker fantasia «Born to Be Blue.»

Covering a transformative year in Hendrix's life from 1966 - 67, in which he went from a New York City backing musician to making his mark in London's music scene up until his Monterey Pop triumph, the film presents an intimate portrait of the sensitive young musician on the verge of becoming a rock legend.

Biography: Liv Tyler, daughter of rock star legend Steven Tyler, is an American film actress most known for playing the role of Arwen Undomiel in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Also starring in supporting roles and fantastic to say the least; Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, Liev Schreiber, Vanessa Paradis, and New York's own, film legend Woody Allen.

The middle film in The Hunger Games trilogy, in IMAX, is cleverly helmed by popular music video director Francis Lawrence («Water for Elephants» / «I Am Legend» / «Constantine»).

Side note: Kendrick Lamar's curated sountrack is spectacular as is Run The Jewels» «Legend Has It» in the film's trailer.

He starred in the film ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES for Adam McCay.

After these notable performances, Mihok continued to create memorable and diverse roles in such films as THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, DARK BLUE, BASIC, CONNIE AND CARLA, director Shane Black's KISS KISS BANG BANG, 10TH & WOLF, HOLLYWOODLAND, SEX AND DEATH 101, THE LONGSHOTS, Marvel's PUNISHER: WAR ZONE, and the unsettling motion - capture performance of the Alpha Male creature that went toe - to - toe with Will Smith in I AM LEGEND.

The story of what went on behind the scenes was as interesting as what ended up on the screen — if not more so — as the world learned when Greg Sestero, a star of the film and compatriot of Wiseau, pulled back the curtain in his 2013 book The Disaster Artist, in which he chronicled his life as a friend to Wiseau and the ridiculously lengthy and taxing production of The Room, while also trying to shed some light on the legend of Tommy Wiseau.

That's my best guess; at the end the film informs us, «and so the legend begins,» leaving us with the impression we walked in early.

The film is directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) and is based on Sara Gruen's bestselling novel about a veterinary student (Pattinson) who joins a traveling circus and falls in love with the wife (Witherspoon) of the head trainer (Waltz).

The Legend of Tarzan feels like the sequel to a much more interesting film... I wish Yates would have just focused on the elements of Tarzan's story that made it so interesting in the first place instead of foolhardily trying to modernize it.

Told in flashback, the film consists of Chaplin's responses to questioning by fictional publisher George Hayden, who wants to know about the parts left out of the legend's autobiographical book.

Gayheart, if not widely known, has certainly increased her recognition with her work in films such as Urban Legend and Jawbreaker.

I do like serious, dark films, but when it comes to the Snow White legend, I was hoping for something more in the middle ground that both films missed.

After setting the screen alight in films like Kingsman and Legend, he had to change everything about his appearance to play Eddie: adopting an underbite and wearing glasses that were so thick that he had...

After starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the film, she went onto secure leading roles in Focus, The Legend of Tarzan as well as Suicide Squad.

The director: Nanni Moretti (Italy) The talent: As in most of his films, writer - director - producer Moretti also takes one of the leading roles, but the film is principally a showcase for 85 year - old French legend Michel Piccoli, playing the Pope of the title.

The real intrigue of The Green Legend lies in its background details: The film is a co-production of Netflix and The Weinstein Company, and will be released simultaneously in theaters and on the streaming service as part of Netflix's ongoing experiment in «day - and - date» releases.

Hammer legend Peter Cushing also pops in and is charmingly eerie as usual, especially delivering the film's final blow.

For some, it will be very bad news that Ritchie (who co-wrote King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword with Joby Harold and Lionel Wigram) stays in his lane with this film; if you didn't enjoy the look and pace and overall vibe of other Ritchie movies, such as Snatch or Sherlock Holmes, then you might feel that his often jarring and visually exhausting style could overpower the strong performances from a great cast.

The legend of Superbad, Jonah Hill, also stars in this classic comedy, but his character is pointless in the film.

2:00: Wait, comedy legend JERRY LEWIS is in this film?

His last two March releases, Watchmen and 300, both had big openings, however, his latest film, the $ 80 million Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole only took in $ 16 million to start.

Other films that have chosen to show in Telluride (with a possible first stop in Venice) include Cary Fukunaga's Netflix drama Beasts of No Nation; the Brie Larson - starring Room, based on Emma Donoghue's bestseller; Tom McCarthy's ensemble drama Spotlight, starring Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams; Legend, in which Tom Hardy plays the Kray twins, who ruled London's gangland during the 1950s and 1960s; and Remember, which, ironically, is directed by one of Canada's most famous auteurs, Atom Egoyan.

«Legend of the Fist» is the second film starring Donnie Yen set in Hong Kong between WWI and WWII that I saw this year, the first being «Ip Man 2.»

Eclipsemovie.org just posted a set of brand new photos featuring Robert Pattinson in the upcoming film «Water for Elephants» by director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine) and starring Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Bel Ami) and Reese Witherspoon (This Means War, Pharm Girl).

Actor Ben Best has a small role in the film and, while he couldn't reveal much, he did let out this funny story about Rogen's adversary in the film: the man, the legend Mr. Ray Liotta...

There's a moment where he's watching a Clark Gable film and you see him recognising himself in the screen legend's image.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

Man in the Dark — Stephen Lang, who is absolutely brilliant in the film, talks a little bit about his character and how he thinks of the Blind Man almost like an urban legend.