Sentences with phrase «first feature film role»

See Riz Ahmed's first feature film role, Julia Stiles in a brand new Sundance Now original series, and James Franco fight it out with collaborators in a combative documentary.

Quite possibly the most devastating performance of the year, Lupita Nyong» o's work in 12 Years a Slave is all the more impressive considering it's the actress» first feature film role ever.

O.J. Simpson has just landed his first job since being released from prison last October, and his first feature film role since he was... Read More

His first feature film role came in 2001 with a part in the absurdist comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

Not exact matches

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

The film features a very young Dennis Quaid, and Fran Drescher and also has Rosanna Arquette in her first starring role.

With success on the small screen soon prompting James to try his talent in feature films, a supporting role in 50 First Dates and a co-starring role opposite Will Smith in Hitch found the television favorite's amiable humor translating well to the big screen.

In 2007, she won her first leading role in the feature film LEFT, in which she played five different characters.

(His first two films were featured at Ebertfest, where Nichols told us that Michael Shannon, who played intensely dramatic roles in his earlier films, brings comic relief to «Mud.»)

This is Schumer's first leading feature film role.

Starring Paul Rudd (Ant - Man), in his first feature film, as Tommy Doyle, and introducing J.C. Brandy as the new Jamie Lloyd (taking over the role from Danielle Harris), «Halloween 666» is the original title for what would ultimately become the infamous «Producer's Cut» of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, a very different version of which was released in theaters in 1995.

Ahead of its U.S. release later this month, Early Autumn and Indie Rights have released a UK trailer of director Shannon Alexander's comedic drama The Misguided, which features Golden Globe nominee Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why) in her first film role, alongside Caleb Galati, Steven J. Mihaljevich and Jasmine Nibali.

Big Question: Will Nick Jonas turn heads with his first real feature film role?

Rolling Stone recently spoke with Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, portraying T'Challa (Black Panther), as he covers the publication's March 2018 issue, as well as director Ryan Coogler — as both detail more about the highly - acclaimed film and its impact, with it being the first Marvel Studios movie to put a person of color in the lead role and to feature a mostly black cast.

The hardest part about the Blumhouse film was «raising the stakes high enough to keep people on their toes, while still making it believable,» says Hale of her first feature lead role

Following graduation, Rodriguez booked her first lead role in the feature film «Tiny Dancer,» before breaking out with her performance as the title character in «Filly Brown.»

And this first one on Saturday features a first: Jocelyn DeBoer is the first CCFF guest to return in a different role, guesting as a star of «Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead» two years ago and returning with her short film, «Greener Grass» this year.

You've said that you were initially concerned that Joel Edgerton was taking on too much with this, directing his first feature and being in the film with a pretty sizable role.

THR brings word that Ant - Man director Peyton Reed is in talks with Marvel Studios to return for the 2018 sequel Ant - Man and the Wasp, which will feature Evangeline Lilly «s Hope van Dyne / Wasp in an expanded role (as teased in the end credits of the first film).

The latest «Marvel One - Shot» — short films produced by Marvel Studios as extras for home releases — is Agent Carter, featuring Hayley Atwell reprising her Captain America: The First Avenger role as Peggy Carter.

Her first major role in a feature film sees her playing Abbie, a teenager whose father returns from an extended absence and causes havoc for her, her mum and her step - father.

The first official image has arrived online from Life on the Road, the upcoming feature film from writer - director Ricky Gervais, which sees him reprising his role as David Brent from The Office... Set some 15 years after The Office, Life on the Road sees David Brent delving into his pension to head out on tour -LSB-...]

Screen Daily reports that Millennium Films is producing and financing London Has Fallen, with Focus Features onboard to distribute the film in the U.S. Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, and Radha Mitchell will reprise their roles from the first film, with the story now revolving around a plot to strike London during the funeral of the British Prime Minister.

I met with a variety of actors and eventually got the role, which was for the film «Greetings,» De Palma's first feature film.

The film's cast includes the great Brad Dourif, who will once again voice the possessed doll Chucky, as well as some other returning characters, including Dourif's daughter Fiona, who is reprising her Curse role of Nica Pierce, and fellow franchise veterans Alex Vincent, who starred as Andy in the first two Child's Play movies and had a surprise cameo in an after - credits scene in Curse, and Jennifer Tilly, who voiced Chucky's soulmate Tiffany in Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky and was also featured breifly in Curse.

Momentum Pictures has unveiled the first official trailer for an indie romantic comedy titled Half Magic, the feature directorial debut of actress Heather Graham, who also stars in the film in the lead role as «Honey».

That film, along with his first starring role in the feature Speed a year later, have just been released by Warner Archive Classics.

Tyrannosaur is the first feature film by actor Paddy Considine (Submarine) who switched up his traditional role for...

Tyrannosaur is the first feature film by actor Paddy Considine (Submarine) who switched up his traditional role for writer and director on this film.

Now, LeBlanc picks up his first feature film credit since 2003, when he reprised the role of Jason Gibbons in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

Hot off the heels of releasing the first full length trailer of «From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series», El Rey Network is unveiling two new images from the Austin, TX set featuring Wilmer Valderrama («That»70s Show,» «To Whom It May Concern») as enigmatic crime lord Carlos, and Eiza González («Lola: Érase Una Vez») who recreates the role of Santánico Pandemonium, credited for launching Salma Hayek's film career.

ShockYa (SY): Allie, you play Isabel in the new horror thriller, «The Institute,» which marks one of your first feature film leading roles.

In collaboration with the Parisian agency les bons faiseurs, La Semaine chose the image which better reflects this 50 +5 edition: the magnificent actress Jessica Chastain in a scene from Take Shelter, second feature film by Jeff Nichols where her performance in one of her first leading roles was particularly remarked.

Low - key and charming, but with a few great chase sequences, the film also features Audrey Hepburn in one of her first roles.

The film Poetic Justice marked this very versatile talent's first foray into acting in feature films, and that was soon followed by a co-starring role in Nutty Professor II.

- «12 Years a Slave»'s Chiwetel Elijofor had his first feature role in Steven Spielberg's «Amistad», the story about a slave ship revolt and the trial of the once free man who led it; a film which also co-starred his biggest challenger for Best Actor, Matthew McConaughey.

DreamWorks Studios has announced that Steven Spielberg has found his Sophie for the upcoming adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic tale The BFG, with 10 - year - old newcomer Ruby Barnhill securing the role in what will be her first feature film.

by Beth Wilson Stars of new Australian film Snowtown, Daniel Henshall and Louise Harris talk about their first feature film acting roles and understanding their characters.

The cast also features Uma Thurman, in her first feature role since 2013's Nymphomaniac, though it doesn't look like she's in the film much.

Obviously Coogler's muse for his first two feature films has been the oober talented Michael B. Jordan and has received fan and critical praise for his roles in the well directed film previously mentioned, and now we are getting confirmation that Coogler has found a role for Jordan to play in the director's third feature film.

It's definitely going to be a showcase for Winslet as this will be her first truly leading role in a feature film since she pulled double - duty on «Revolutionary Road» and «The Reader» in 2008, and we're intrigued to see how she works with Brolin.

The film features Hugh Grant in his first animated role, as well as Brendan Gleeson, David Tennant and Salma Hayek.

Huisman's first major role in a feature film is a memorable one that gets his movie career of on the right foot.

Though it was David Bowie's first starring role in a feature film, Nicolas Roeg's 1976 movie the Man Who Fell to Earth is far...

While Depp was briefly seen in the first «Fantastic Beasts» film — for the majority of the feature, he was «disguised» as another wizard, played by Colin Farrell — he is expected to take a «much more pivotal role» in the next feature.

Steve Martin's first starring role in a feature film proves to be a winner, with a fresh, wholly unique approach that shows dumb comedies, when done well, aren't so dumb after all.

It would be known as the first of the «Ninja» trilogy of films (Revenge of the Ninja and Ninja III: The Domination would follow) featuring martial arts actor Sho Kosugi (Blind Fury, Black Eagle), although he is featured in a secondary supporting role here.

It's undoubtedly one of the marquee films competing for the Palme D'Or; featuring an intriguing cast with Tatum in the lead, Mark Ruffalo in supporting, and Steve Carell overshadowing in his first villainous role, directed by one of America's brightest emerging talents, and with an Oscar buzz that began before cameras rolled.

The actor spoke on Sunday for the first time about the role since Marvel confirmed the news last week that Cumberbatch will star in the 2016 feature film, Doctor Strange.

Gaga's role will also mark her first lead in a feature film.