Sentences with phrase «first feature role»

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.

- «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.

He landed his first feature role in the movie Dead Man Walking in 1995.

TCM Movie Database, < http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/82394/Magnificent-Obsession/articles.html > The website also notes that, before up - and - coming new star Robert Taylor was borrowed from MGM for his first big leading role, unsuccessful overtures had been made to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., to play Bobby Merrick.Coincidentally, Taylor's first feature role was as a supporting player in Too Late for Love, aka There's Always Tomorrow (1934), based on an unpublished novel by Ursula Parrott, directed by Edward Sloman, and remade by Douglas Sirk in 1956.

Her first feature role was in Flicka: Country Pride.

The British - born actor has made guest appearances on Ricky Gervais» Extras and a few other shows, but Carnival Row will be his first featured role on television.

Not exact matches

You might know Johnson as Nick Miller in «New Girl,» and also for his role in «Jurassic World» director Colin Trevorrow's first feature «Safety Not Guaranteed.»

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.

2 is only going to whip those rumors into a frenzy, as this Marvel sequel features Pratt in a role that's even more of a mashup of Harrison Ford's characters in Star Wars and Indiana Jones the first time around.

In 1967 he first sang the role of Peter Grimes under Colin Davis in New York and soon after that became a prominent feature of Herbert von Karajan's opera performances in the Saltzburg festivals.

Wenger told the press following on from the Gunners 2 - 1 win over the MLS ALL STARS, that Bielik would have a greater role this season, that could see him feature on occasion for the first team.

He featured for the first team at wing - back earlier in the season, but has been playing in his natural attacking midfield role in the Championship.

Asano never was expected to play a huge role at the club this season anyway, with the Japanese striker anticipated to feature more with the Under 21's rather than the first team.

Grujic featured for Liverpool Under 23s on Monday night in a 2 - 0 win over Chelsea, but in order to really prepare him for a more prominent role in Klopp's side moving forward, perhaps regular first - team football at senior level elsewhere will stand him in better stead for the future.

However, Hiddink has already told the Frenchman that he will be given a more prominent role in first team affairs under him having featured just eight times and scoring once.

But the new Museum Campus, which officially opens Thursday, has proven to be the great unifier: All the various factions with an interest in the lakefront played a role in creating the campus, which will link the museums for the first time in one continuous park featuring terraced gardens and broad walkways.

Or rather, Theo Bertram, a number 10 staffer who was playing the role of Clegg in one of many dress rehearsals staged by the Labour party in the build - up to the general election — the first British general election to feature live TV debates.

I had only recently joined LGC (see box for my earlier career steps), and so presenting an outline of the major features of the project and being questioned by a panel of advisers was one of my first duties in my new role — a slightly nerve - wracking start!

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The first whole genome analysis of an octopus reveals unique genomic features that likely played a role in the evolution of traits such as large complex nervous systems and adaptive camouflage.

Signed to a 20th Century - Fox contract in 1951, Boone was given good billing in his first feature, Halls of Montezuma; among his Fox assignments was the brief but telling role of Pontius Pilate in The Robe (1953).

Kaplan made Hollywood's A-list with The Accused (1988), a fact - based account of a rape victim's quest for justice which featured Jodie Foster in her first Academy Award - winning role.

In 1989, Tom Cruise picked her for a starring role in her first American feature, Tony Scott's Days of Thunder (1990).

Joss Stone is something of a newcomer to acting; while THE TUDORS is her first major role, she made her screen debut in the feature ERAGON.

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.

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

Mary director Hiromasa Yonebayashi worked in various animation room roles on four (Howl's Moving Castle, Tales From Earthsea, The Secret World of Arrietty, and When Marnie Was There), and he sticks to the formula for the first feature from the fledgling Studio Ponoc.

Benjamin Walker stars in his first feature, having earned the role in part due to his Broadway performance as another president, Andrew Jackson, in the musical Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson.

In her first feature, Fargeat seemingly recognizes that contradiction, in which a woman only becomes empowered by becoming a victim, as well as the idea that such a character in a story like this ultimately only serves two roles: as a victimized object of sexual violence and a vengeance - seeking machine.

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

Stahl, who dresses down his leading man looks, carries the burden of James» life with contorted features and hunched shoulders (he misses work regularly due to a sore back) and is very good; Sophia - Robb, whose most high - profile roles to - date have been in tween adventures (Because of Winn - Dixie, 2005; Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, 2005; Bridge To Terabithia, 2007; Race to Witch Mountain, 2009), plays tough at first, responding to Joleen's waywardness with a smart mouth and door - slamming physicality, but she softens into a trusting friendship with James.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an open world, action - adventure, role - playing game featuring blockbuster production values, a nonlinear story and revolutionary, first - person melee combat.

As his first major feature role independent of his siblings, Rory appeared as alongside Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix in M. Night Shyamalan's rural alien invasion thriller Signs.

The stunning redhead who just can't stop working, Jessica Chastain, is being lined up for the role of Jane in frequent HARRY POTTER director, David Yates» upcoming adaptation of «Tarzan Of The Apes», the first in the series of novels from Edgar Rice Burroughs to feature the iconic vine - swinging hero.

We've already seen quite a few photos and videos from the set of director James Mangold's sequel The Wolverine featuring star Hugh Jackman muscled up for his starring role, but now some images have surfaced that give us our first...

(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.»)

A first in franchise history, LittleBigPlanet 3 will feature a full voice cast for its adventure mode, and with English comedian Stephen Fry reprising his role as the narrator, there's no better villain than his original partner in crime, Hugh Laurie.

In his role as on - set visual effects supervisor for Game of Thrones, Raisani has helped craft much of the show's most iconic imagery; when not in Westeros, he also found time to direct his first feature, out this Friday from IFC.

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.

Skyrim is a great game brought down by bugs, great sound and great role play features brought down by a confusing and semi-difficult to use menu system where I end up either equipping an unintended item or accidentally closing the menu all together, and the infamous bugs, many quests are currently bugged and by Bethesda's own admission they will not even begin working on the majority of them untill January if i'm not mistaken, also there is a texture problem for most xbox 360 users to where the game looks like it could have been made in 2006 which is quite frankly inexcusable considering I noticed this within the first 10 minutes of playing (This is why we beta test).

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?

The video, seen above, kicked off production and features the cast inviting fans to make franchise history as the first fans to ever win a walk - on role in a Star Trek movie.

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.

These stories exist in the same universe and feature the same cast of characters (with most of the supporting players of the first movie taking on ancillary roles in this one).

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

A big hit at Sundance 2016 and the first local feature to gross more than a million on opening weekend in New Zealand, Waititi's adventure featuring a lovable, doughy, Tupac - loving orphan and his crusty foster uncle (Sam Neill in one of his best roles) is sure to be a favorite of CCFF crowds.

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.»