Sentences with phrase «from dreamgirls»
One of two upcoming WikiLeaks - themed projects (the other is We Steal Secrets, a documentary by Alex Gibney that is also expected in 2013), the next film from Dreamgirls and Breaking Dawn director Condon stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, while Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens will be a hacker on his WikiLeaks team.
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Jennifer Hudson performing a song from «Dreamgirls» and looking stunning in her metallic and sparkly, liquid - esq gown
Former American Idol contestant Jennifer Hudson won the best supporting actress award for Dreamgirls, and earned an apology from Simon Cowell who was I don't mean to be rude but... The British TV and music producer we all love to hate rose to public prominence as a judge on Pop Idol and American Idol
Starting off in early 1960s Detroit, Dreamgirls follows the struggles of a Black female trio of singers, known collectively as The Dreamettes, who have gone from amateur competitions around the area without much success.
A string of pearls even figures into the June Cleaver - chic before mid-film when Kris evolves from the patriarchy's dreamgirl into a nightmare embodiment of occupational castration.
Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and Dreamgirls and wrote the film version of Chicago)-- also know how to keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.
Sure, one could argue that he was the best thing that happened to the Twilight saga, but is that really what we want to see from the guy who made Dreamgirls, Kinsey and Gods and Monsters?
It would be a mistake to call Murphy's performance a stretch, since he played so many hustlers early in his career, but the break from playing fathers and the morbidly obese invigorates him; he hasn't been this lively since Dreamgirls.
Other striking male performances were provided by: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Alec Baldwin and Anthony Anderson in The Departed; Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Toby Jones in The Painted Veil; Wim Willaert in When the Sea Rises; Leslie Phillips and Richard Griffiths in Venus; Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Inside Man; Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase and Shido Nakamura in Letters from Iwo Jima; Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and Paul Dano in Little Miss Sunshine; Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell in The Illusionist; Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman and Ty Simpkins in Little Children; Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer and Dylan Walsh in The Lake House; Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena and Stephen Dorff in World Trade Center; Tim Blake Nelson, Pat Corley, Jeffrey Donovan, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson in Come Early Morning; Ryan Gosling and Anthony Mackie in Half Nelson; Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, and Danny Huston in Marie Antoinette; Matt Damon, Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Keir Dullea, Timothy Hutton, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Ivanir and Joe Pesci in The Good Shepherd; Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones and Ben Foster in X-Men: The Last Stand; Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Simon Abkarian, Sebastien Foucan, Jesper Christensen and Tobias Menzies in Casino Royale; Ebru Ceylan and Mehmet Eryilmaz in Climates; Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Bob Hoskins in Hollywoodland; Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover, Keith Robinson and Hinton Battle in Dreamgirls; Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Trevor Fehrman, Kevin Smith and Jason Lee in Clerks II; Justin Kirk and Jamie Harrold in Flannel Pajamas; Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker and Adrian Grenier in The Devil Wears Prada; Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hulce in Stranger Than Fiction; Samuel L. Jackson, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray, Sam Jones III and Brian Presley in Home of the Brave; Harris Yulin, Ty Burrell and Boris McGiver in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel David Moore and Nick Swardson in Art School Confidential; Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes and Alec Baldwin in Running with Scissors; Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Ciarán Hinds, Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar and John Ortiz in Miami Vice; Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam and Tim McMullan in The Queen; Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Marlon Sherman and Clarke Peters in Freedomland; Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Alex Rocco, Ron Silver and Raul Esparza in Find Me Guilty; Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley in Lucky Number Slevin; Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Chris Klein, Shohreh Aghdashloo, John Cho, Tony Yalda, Sam Golzari and Willem Dafoe in American Dreamz; Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane in A Scanner Darkly; Adam Beach, Ryan A. Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, Jon Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker and Robert Patrick in Flags of Our Fathers; Chow Yun - Fat in Curse of the Golden Flower; Sergi López, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo and Federico Luppi in Pan's Labyrinth; Bill Nighy in Notes on a Scandal.
At least the picture does follow a rudimentary plotline, although it's real reason for being is to satirize familiar scenes from such movies as Save the Last Dance, Fame, Step Up, Stomp the Yard, Roll Bounce, Dreamgirls, Black Snake Moan, Hairspray, Singing in the Rain, High School Musical, ATL, Twilight, Flashdance, The Little Shop of Horrors, Edward Scissorhands and Final Destination.
Director Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Kinsey, Dreamgirls) emerges from the quicksand of two Twilight movies with a potent and provocative take on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch), an egomaniac with a passion for transparency in the information age.
Original Song: «I Need to Wake Up» from «An Inconvenient Truth,» Melissa Etheridge; «Listen» from «Dreamgirls,» Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler and Anne Preven; «Love You I Do» from «Dreamgirls,» Henry Krieger and Siedah Garrett; «Our Town» from «Cars,» Randy Newman; «Patience» from «Dreamgirls,» Henry Krieger and Willie Reale.
Based on the Broadway musical and directed by Chicago's Bill Condon, you can tell from the very beginning that Dreamgirls has all that jazz and some to spare.
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The film is an original musical written by Bill Condon («Dreamgirls») and Jenny Bicks («Sex and the City») with lyrics from Oscar winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul («La La Land»).
For The Help, Tate Taylor retained twice Oscar nominated costume designer, Sharen Davis (Ray, Dreamgirls), to reproduce early 1960s Jackson, encompassing all its inhabitants; from white debutantes and ladies of leisure to the African American maids or «help» who served them.
Paul Thomas Anderson's previous film, «There Will Be Blood,» averaged $ 95,370 from 2 screens in December, 2007, which was at the time the fourth best live - action average, behind «Dreamgirls,» «Brokeback» and «Evita.»
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The previous per - theater - average record for a live - action film actually came from earlier this year when another Anderson, Wes, saw his «Moonrise Kingdom» average $ 130,749 from 4 screens, which topped «Dreamgirls,» «Brokeback Mountain» and «Precious,» the only other live - action films to find averages north of $ 100,000 (a dozen or so animated Disney films have much higher averages thanks to massive special screenings they'd hold before wide release — «The Lion King» is still # 1 with a whopping $ 793,377).