Sentences with phrase «first lead in a film»

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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.

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 Freedom Party, headed by the controversial Geert Wilders who attracted controversy following his anti-Islamic film Fitna, has led in several recent Dutch opinion polls and will secure its first seats in the Brussels chamber.

A research group led by Junichi Isoya, professor emeritus, University of Tsukuba and Tokuyuki Teraji, principal researcher, Optical and Electronic Materials Unit, NIMS, has successfully fabricated for the first time in the world single - photon sources of SiV (silicon vacancy) centers — one of the color centers in diamond during the growth of thin film diamond, which have high purity and crystalline quality — by introducing them at extremely low concentrations.

The first, led by Edward Sargent, an electrical engineer at the University of Toronto in Canada, started by simply blasting a perovskite film with a beam of ultraviolet light.

Though passed up for the lead in the former film, Leto made an impression in a supporting role as an arrogant yuppie doomed to be the first victim of vapid serial killer Patrick Bateman.

In 1964, Edwards introduced the bumbling Inspector Clouseau to an unsuspecting world in The Pink Panther, leading to a string of money - spinning Clouseau films starring Peter Sellers; actually, The Pink Panther was Edwards» second Clouseau movie, since A Shot in the Dark, although released after Panther, was filmed firsIn 1964, Edwards introduced the bumbling Inspector Clouseau to an unsuspecting world in The Pink Panther, leading to a string of money - spinning Clouseau films starring Peter Sellers; actually, The Pink Panther was Edwards» second Clouseau movie, since A Shot in the Dark, although released after Panther, was filmed firsin The Pink Panther, leading to a string of money - spinning Clouseau films starring Peter Sellers; actually, The Pink Panther was Edwards» second Clouseau movie, since A Shot in the Dark, although released after Panther, was filmed firsin the Dark, although released after Panther, was filmed first.

This led to her first film, 1937's South Riding, in which she played another petulant, foot - stamping adolescent.

When I first saw the trailer for this movie I thought it was good to be another awful horror film, but the twist led by the characters played by Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins makes this one of the most inventive horror films I've seen in a while.

The line isn't exactly «Call me Ishmael» or «Happy families are all alike», but this first line of what was published in 1937 as a children's book began what has proved to be a literary phenomenon, an alternative religion, an endless invitation to exegesis and a major industry that has led to an immensely successful trilogy of books and films about life in Middle - earth.

The first fantasy film that Mr McClure starred in which lead to him starring in three more out of this world flicks that are all slightly similar... in visual style at least.

On the first day of production on Hank Moody's latest movie «Santa Monica Cop,» Stu has brought back his «F — king and Punching» director in hopes of creating a cinematic masterpiece, but Hank's rendezvous with the film's leading lady puts his relationship with Sam in jeopardy.

Black Panther is the first superhero film with a black lead since Hancock in 2008 (and the first based on a comic since Catwoman in 2004), and that's certainly contributed to its success.

While not quite as transcendent as its first outing, Jessica Jones season 2 continues to prove that its lead character is one of the most complex and fascinating figures in the MCU, both on film and television.

The director's work has been spotty, with his first film, Dawn of the Dead 58, holding his highest Metascore and his most recent, Sucker Punch 33, possessing his lowest, and lead actor Henry Cavill, relatively unknown at the time of his casting, hasn't inspired excitement in his recent lead performances in Immortals and The Cold Light of Day (maybe we can blame that on the material).

Some may disagree, but it's one of the better Bond films not just because of Craig, and a great female lead — but because it combines everything that is good about Bond in the first place without the need of just gadgets to progress what happens in the storyline.

A leading man for such early silent stars as Norma Talmadge and Bessie Barriscale, Welch also starred in The Gulf Between (1918), billed as the first feature film produced in two - strip Technicolor.

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

The main contradiction to all of this praise, of course, is that the events that occurred in the first film (like killing off the entire team in the opening mission) lead to the less - than - impressive sequel.

Leonard Jr. got his first break when he was cast as the lead in short film, HIS GOOD WILL with James Avery and Ashley Jones.

Just four years ago, in his feature film debut Crazy Heart, Cooper led Jeff Bridges to his first Oscar, and Maggie Gyllenhaal to her first nomination.

Thus far her CV has consisted mainly of best friend / supporting character roles in films WARM BODIES, LUCY, and CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE; TWO NIGHT STAND is her first go at a lead.

His final film for Shaw, Come Drink With Me (66) revolutionized the industry, and gave Hong Kong not only one of its first period swordplay films shot in a new, modern style (inspired by Japanese swordplay films of the time), but also its first female action lead.

The nine - year gap between films allows Linklater and his leads, with whom he collaborates closely on the scripts, to zero in on crucial milestones in the lives of Céline (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke): the first flush of true connection in Before Sunrise, reunion after long separation in Before Sunset, the vicissitudes of aging and domestic discord in Before Midnight.

The film assembled one of the studio's finest voice casts, led by Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres, gave them a ton of great gags and memorable characters (the surfer dude turtle and the «One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest» homage in the dentist's office first among them), and then grounded it in with a deep bass line of thoroughly relatable pathos.

After undergoing radical emergency surgery, Rose (former adult film star Marilyn Chambers in her first leading role in a mainstream film) develops an insatiable desire for blood.

There is a brief stop at an art fair in France, where the beautiful Monique (Cecile De France) insists on joining their expedition and can not be dissuaded; we think at first she has a nefarious motive, but no, she's probably taken a class in screenplay construction and knows that the film requires a sexy female lead.

The three leads go above and beyond in making sure this sequel is entertaining and not derivative of the first film.

McGregor had starred in Boyle's first three films and then Leonardo DiCaprio took over as leading man in the director's fourth picture.

The highlight of the excellent main cast is Howard, who Shyamalan eventually asks to carry his film, a task she succeeds gamely with in her first leading role.

Hayley Atwell «s Agent Peggy Carter was such a scene - stealing standout in Captain America: The First Avenger, she went from a supporting character in Captain America's debut film to a One Shot subject to the lead of her own TV show, Agent Carter (not to mention the fact that her cinematic arc was only just wrapped up in Captain America: Civil War).

Ehrenreich got an agent, and his first film was the lead role in Francis Ford Coppola's 2007 film «Tetro,» the second and most acclaimed of three 2000s personal projects the director shot using money from his winery fortune.

I'll first note that the film is just plain bad, with an amateur cast (led by Taylor James), cut - rate special effects, who - cares storylines, and confusing details shoehorned in from the Bible.

Paramount has delivered the first trailer for Michael Bay's Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth film in the ongoing cinematic Transformers franchise that introduces a new human cast lead by Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor.

And while he'd been a strong supporting player in films such as «Red Tails» and «Chronicle» and on TV's «Friday Night Lights» and «Parenthood,» «Fruitvale Station» would mark his first lead role.

, who has made a name for himself playing creepy dudes, got his first big lead role in the 2012 horror film

They set out in pursuit of the bank robbers, who turn out to be a gang of leggy Brazilian fashion models, led by leggy Brazilian fashion model Gisele Bundchen, making her first film appearance outside of a Victoria's Secret lingerie show.

The first half of the movie is not that great, filled with way too much bad acting, including that of the lead actors, but once things get going in the end of the second and into the third acts, the film turns into a pretty decent revenge flick.

Though Let the Sunshine In may be a star vehicle, Denis, in her first collaboration with Binoche, seems to have instructed her lead to think of the film as an ensemble piece, even if that group often consists of its smallest unit, the dyaIn may be a star vehicle, Denis, in her first collaboration with Binoche, seems to have instructed her lead to think of the film as an ensemble piece, even if that group often consists of its smallest unit, the dyain her first collaboration with Binoche, seems to have instructed her lead to think of the film as an ensemble piece, even if that group often consists of its smallest unit, the dyad.

He made his first film, Miroir, in 1946, and quickly rose to leading - man status.

It's easy to forget the young son in Squid telling his mother that she's ugly; I wonder if it isn't the lightness that tempers his first two pictures that's led Baumbach to craft a film full of the kind of stuff that elicits only the blackest laughter.

Though Black Panther will be Marvel's first film with a black lead and a predominantly black cast, the Wakandan king isn't the first black hero to take center stage in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

But with all the excitement in the air, there are some folks who don't know that Black Panther won't be the first film based on a Marvel character with a black lead.

It was the first time since 1958 films with female actors in lead roles topped North America's box office, according to the Guardian.

Not only do the lead characters in the new drama, «As You Are,» strive for continued approval from each other throughout the story, no matter what obstacles they're forced to overcome, but its first - time feature filmmaker, Miles Joris - Peyrafitte, is also seeking acknowledgement in the film community.

Zoe Lister - Jones (a regular on TV's «Whitney») has been acting regularly since 2004, and this is her first «all in» film project where she is writer / director / producer / lead actress.

That's something that led me in the first place to make films in America, the actors.

Two years later, Gosling was honored with winning Best Male Lead from the Independent Spirit Awards and earned his first Academy and Screen Actors Guild nominations as Best Leading Actor, for portraying a junior high school teacher in the independent film Half Nelson (2006).

Based on the book by H.G. Bissinger, the film stars Billy Bob Thorton as Gary Gaines, the new coach of the 1988 Permian Panthers, who's been brought in to lead the small - town high school to their first state title in years.

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.