Sentences with phrase «first film directors»

He directed «The Bodyguard», «L.A. Story», «Volcano», and was one of the first film directors to embrace prestige TV projects with HBO...

In Westworld, Michael Crichton was the first film director to use computer generated graphics as a movie special effect, marking this 1973 movie as the beginning of the development of motion picture CGI.

In Westworld, Michael Crichton was the first film director to use computer generated graphics as a movie special effect.

In Westworld, Michael Crichton was the first film director to use computer generated graphics as a movie special effect, marking this 1973 movie as the beginning of the development of motion picture CGI.

Not exact matches

Scorsese isn't the first Italian - American director to receive blowback for portraying the mob on film.

What he means is, Pixar's ballyhooed Braintrust idea meetings boast a mixture of champion storytellers like John Lasseter, the director of the first two Toy Story films — and a whole bunch of employees unafraid to challenge him, even though he's the John Lasseter.

Well, a former SNL director — who also happens to be lead writer of the David Spade comedy «Joe Dirt» — was behind it, and Stewart was recruited only after the first actress suffered a «nervous breakdown» right before filming.

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

The character first appeared onscreen in Civil War last year, and the new film is already generating loads of buzz thanks to director Ryan Coogler (Creed) and a loaded cast that also includes Lupita Nyong» o, Michael B. Jordan, and Angela Bassett.

First announced in 2012, the Avatar theme park was intended to open alongside Cameron's sequel of the film, but the director has since delayed the movie until 2020.

Much like the first Star Wars standalone film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, released in 2016, Solo has had some production issues — to the point when Lucasfilm fired the film's original directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, for «creative differences.»

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

Peep - show booths that ran film loops came first, then camcorders and VCRs — many of which were invented in Japan, but adopted first in the United States by porn directors.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

In fact, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was the first woman to direct a superhero movie and the film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domestically).

The expulsion of the disgraced comedian and film director isn't a first for the Academy — it kicked Harvey Weinstein out of its Oscar club in October.

Super Size Me, first - time director Morgan Spurlock's documentary film in which he undergoes a self - imposed experiment to eat fast food exclusively for one month, makes its way to theaters.

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

As he began his film career, the director grew obsessed with telling the Noah story from that perspective — and employing the power of modern special effects to portray Earth's first apocalypse.

In fact, Paulist Pictures» Romero may be only the first of several films about the assassinated prelate; for example, director Gillo Poncecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) reportedly has a Romero project under way (tentative title: The Devil's Bishop) But however many such films are made, none is likely to be as much a labor of love as Romero was.

So far as I am aware, it is the first film by writer - director Omri Givon.

In fact, Paulist Pictures» Romero may be only the first of several films about the assassinated prelate; for example, director Gillo Poncecorvo (The Battle of...

We first meet them as Ryan decides to pull over a Lincoln Navigator in which yuppie film director Cameron (TerrenceHoward) and his wife Christine (Thandie Newton) are engaged in a bit of horseplay.

I was starting film school, and my biggest dream was to be the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director.

Chocolate Milk: The Documentary counters this habitually negative narrative as award - winning director and producer Elizabeth Bayne, MPH, MFA explores the racial inequities of breastfeeding in her first feature - length film.

Abby Epstein, the director of Lake's documentary, said she planned on having her first child at home, but complications gave the film an unexpectedly dramatic climax.

First - time director, producer and film - maker Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to the outspoken critic while working as a journalist in Beijing.

The actor / producer / director on his return from Australia is currently filming in Koforidua, Ghana for the first time.

First of all, Corbyn was filmed telling his communications director Seumas Milne: «Seumas, I'm not sure this is a great idea.»

First, they can show feature films in the proportions that their directors intended; on 4:3 screens, either some of the side of the picture must cropped out, or it appears in a letterbox, with black bands above and below.

He is the director of the upcoming film Bread Head, which is the first documentary to cover the science of dementia prevention.

First, his father created sets for films, and then became cinematographer and director.

Seventeen years later, he appeared in his first film, director Elia Kazan's Boomerang.

Writer and director John C. Walsh based Pipe Dream in part on his own experiences as he was making his first feature film, Ed's Next Move.

This Oscar - winning intense drama is the first in a trilogy of films by respected writer / director Ingmar Bergman.

Fabled is the first feature film from Ari Kirschenbaum, who served as director, screenwriter, and editor.

I've heard that for South Africans that there are many references in this film by first - time director Neill Blomkamp that blatantly reflect the country's own history.

By keeping the films inextricably linked through its core cast (Cruise, Rhames), while preserving its currency with self - contained plots and a constantly changing vision through the varying styles of its directors, the M: I gravy train remains unfettered 20 years after first exploding inside a tunnel.

Director David Fincher («Alien3») and first - time screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker generally handle the material quite well, but so much of the film is so distasteful that it is difficult to recommend.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

This was the director's first film in color and both the French New Wave and the Swinging 60's show their influence.

Justin Timberlake and John Goodman also star for first - time director Robert Lorenz, who has produced many of Eastwood's recent films.

The first «American» film by the director of Time of the Gypsies is every bit as bizarre and imaginative as his earlier work, although it's also maddeningly indulgent and erratic.

Where the first film was something of a teen horror film, the follow - up, again from writer - director Stefan Ruzowitzky, is more of an unintentional comedy.

Freeman (director Jackson's first choice for the title role) is inspired casting as Bilbo Baggins, and makes for a more likeable protagonist than Wood's rather other - worldly Frodo (who, along with Holm as the older Bilbo, makes an appearance in the film's opening framing story).

One of his first film roles was for director George Bloomfield in CBC's Paradise Lost.

The scariest thing to be found in this pointless horror film is that its director, Rob Schmidt, has less prowess as a genre filmmaker in his third film than Eli Roth did in his first.

The unanimously - praised film with a modest budget of $ 23 million deservedly won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (the first for Spielberg), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Editing (Michael Kahn), and Best Art Direction.

While the previous films in the series have been just that — parts of a sequence designed to get us here, each with their own beginning and end — the first and second parts of Deathly Hallows are two halves of the same film, and to approach them as separate entities means missing just what director David Yates, writer Steve Kloves, and a host of storytellers and performers have done: They've made a five - hour fantasy epic that balances effects - driven battles with some very real character moments, and one that isn't afraid to have its heroes pay a high price for their convictions.

But the second part also created another possibility — simply that director David Yates wanted to put all the boring and meandering moments of the book into the first film and then deliver a thrill ride giving the franchise the fitting finale it deserves.