Ted is a 2012 American buddy comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane
in his feature film directorial debut.
Veep director Chris Addison will be helming the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake
in his feature film directorial debut.
Senes,
in his feature film directorial debut, has an understanding of how the story should play out, but the sluggish pace of the film causes this film to spiral out of control.
The film was written, helmed and produced by Kelly Fremon Craig
in her feature film directorial and producing debuts.
In his feature film directorial debut, Drew Goddard (a writer for «Buffy the Vampire Slayer,» «Lost» TV series, and the film «Cloverfield «-RRB- has taken a tired film formula — the teen slasher flick — and turned it on its head.
Not exact matches
Phyllida Lloyd makes her
feature film directorial debut an uneven one; she's a leading British theatre director who is noted for her work
in opera and directed the original stage production.
Outside of his Nightmare appearances, Englund's most significant credits were his one - shot
directorial stint on the theatrical
feature 976 - EVIL (1988); his characterization of the title role
in a medium - budget
film adaptation of Phantom of the Opera (1989); and his hosting chores on the Craven - produced TV anthology Nightmare Café (1992).
Skinny, bug - eyed Steve Buscemi, the twitchy actor du jour of American independent
films, makes a striking
directorial feature -
film debut with «Trees Lounge,»
in which he also stars as a twitchy, hyperkinetic loser.
Audiences saw him co-star
in Christine Lahti's
feature film directorial debut, MY FIRST MISTER, opposite Albert Brooks and Leelee Sobieski, which Paramount Classics premiered at the Sundance
Film Festival
in 2001.
«Seeking a Friend for the End of the World's screenwriter, Lorene Scafaria, who also made her
feature film directorial debut with the romantic dramedy, perfectly captured the essence of people needing to find comfort
in each other during dire circumstances with Dodge and Penny.
Screenwriter James Vanderbilt's
feature directorial debut recounts the scandal that led to Dan Rather stepping down from the CBS News desk
in 2004, but while Vanderbilt's script has some good ideas
in it, the
film is ultimately far too hagiographic for its own good, undercutting its thematic impact at nearly every turn.
The
film,
in which Emile Hirsch stars alongside Roberts
in his
directorial feature debut, opens
in cinemas on September 24th (UK).
If her 2017 IMDb page is any indication, however, she'll soon have to dust off those high heels and ring up Swennen, with five
feature films set to debut this year, including a role
in Greta Gerwig's highly - anticipated
directorial debut, Ladybird.
While Hudlin's
directorial history
in feature films is questionable (his TV work is great), the subject matter of a young Thurgood Marshall before his time as a Supreme Court Justice seems very Academy - friendly.
On the
feature film side of things, Guillermo del Toro took the top prize for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for his work on the Best Picture nominated The Shape of Water, putting him on the level with his «Three Amigos» compadres Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro González Iñ
feature film side of things, Guillermo del Toro took the top prize for Outstanding
Directorial Achievement
in Feature Film for his work on the Best Picture nominated The Shape of Water, putting him on the level with his «Three Amigos» compadres Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro González Iñ
Feature Film for his work on the Best Picture nominated The Shape of Water, putting him on the level with his «Three Amigos» compadres Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
From the leader
in animé Katsuhiro Otomo (Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis, Memories), comes his first
feature - length
directorial project since his breakthrough
film (Akira).
Most of the
features that make Lewis»
directorial work such a remarkable exception to the dominance of a realist aesthetic
in Hollywood filmmaking are brilliantly apparent
in The Errand Boy, including the foregrounding of sound manipulation (most blatant
in the sequence involving the post-synchronisation of the song «Lover» for a musical
film, and
in the tape manipulation of Kathleen Freeman's reaction to having been left by her driver
in the back seat of a convertible receiving a car wash) and the placement of actors
in a shot so as to highlight the presence of the camera (as when Morty, an undirected and oblivious extra
in a
film - within - the -
film cocktail - party scene, keeps looking at the camera from the background of a shot
in which other extras,
in their roles as party guests, intermittently block him from the camera).
The Directors Guild of America has announced the nominees for outstanding
directorial achievement
in feature film for 2013.
Other significant personal preems,
in order of original release, included: Buster Keaton's Go West (1925) and College (directed by James V. Horne, 1927); Howard Hughes's and James Whale's Hell's Angels (1928 - 30),
featuring (sorry, other Howard) the most awesome aerial scenes I've ever witnessed; John Ford's Up the River (1930) and Airmail (1932); Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), utterly silly but quite beguiling as an empty exercise
in directorial pizzazz; Gordon Wiles's — and Daniel Fuchs's — The Gangster (1947), an archetypal arty
film noir; Val Lewton's Apache Drums; (directed by Hugo Fregonese, 1951); Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (1952); Robert Bresson's Quâtre Nuits d'un rêveur (1971); Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Phil Karlson's Framed (1975); Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (1977); and Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (1978), which returned to Seattle (after a five - day first run
in» 78) only via Showtime.
Longoria can currently be seen guest - starring on the Golden Globe Award - winning FOX comedy «Brooklyn Nine - Nine» and will star
in upcoming
feature films «Refugio» (Academy Award - nominee Demian Bichir's
directorial and writing debut), «Any Day» alongside Sean Bean and Kate Walsh, and «Visions.»
Verdict: Easily our favorite
film of the 2013 Tribeca
Film Festival, the fantastic
directorial debut of cinematographer / writer - turned -
feature filmmaker Daniel Patrick Carbone, «Smiling Faces» may have been the most striking debut we saw all last year (though not mentioned on our Breakout Directors list because it wasn't released
in 2013).
Verdict: The second
directorial feature from «Eastern Promises» writer Steven Knight after so - so Jason Statham vehicle «Hummingbird,» «Locke» was both more stripped down and more ambitious: a
film set entirely within a moving car, shot
in real time, with only one actor on screen (the rest of the cast are heard over the phone, but never seen).
In his
feature directorial début (or should we call it third
film?)
The
film marks the
directorial debut of The Kids Are All Right co-writer Stuart Blumberg and
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The Directors Guild of America has announced its five nominees for the outstanding
directorial achievement
in a
feature film award for 2013.
The
film marks the
directorial feature debut for Eddie Alcazar and stars Garrett Wareing, Abbie Cornish, Courtney Eaton, Tao Okamoto, Martin Sensmeier, Leonardo Nam, Alicia Sanz, and Maurice Compte; take a look below... «A boy
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Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good
films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «
feature - length
directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent,
in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician
film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set
in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which
featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»
The
film will be Sutter's
feature film directorial debut, and will follow an FBI agent
in pursuit of a rogue Shaolin monk into the seedy world of martial arts fight clubs.
After growing up
in the political tumult of France
in the sixties and seventies, Assayas followed a path similar to the one traveled by several titans of the French New Wave, first working as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma, then moving on to
film projects, including collaborations with André Téchiné and his own
feature directorial debut, the 1986 Disorder.
Of the six
features on this set, all but Playtime make their respective American Blu - ray debuts and two appear on disc for the first time
in the U.S.. From his debut
feature Jour de Fête (1949) to the birth of both M. Hulot and the distinctive Tati
directorial approach
in his brilliant and loving Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) through the sublime Playtime (1967) to his post-script
feature Parade (1974), this set presents the development of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his
films like works of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personality.
Robert Eggers» The Witch is indeed a
directorial debut
featuring a cast of little knowns, but isn't
in any way, shape, or form a
film that I'm having an easy time waiting for.
Maika Monroe and Jeremy Allen White have been set to star
in Shotgun, a romantic drama / offbeat comedy indie
film that was written and will be directed by Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency co-star Hannah Marks and Joey Power
in their
feature directorial debuts.
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».
Filming has officially started on location
in England and Scotland on the Working Title Films production of Mary, Queen of Scots, starring Saoirse Ronan
in the title role opposite Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I. Josie Rourke, artistic director of The Donmar Warehouse, makes her
feature directorial debut on the movie.
But did you know that Danielle briefly reprised her iconic role as Michael's niece Jamie Lloyd
in her own
feature film directorial debut Among Friends?
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Guests at the festival will include actress / director / producer Trudie Styler, who will present her
directorial feature debut, «Freak Show»; Canadian director Denis Côté, who will serve as a mentor
in the festival's Future Frames section; Byelorussian director Sergei Loznitsa, who will present his
film «Austerlitz»; and Belfast - born director Mark Cousins, who will come to the festival with «Stockholm, My Love.»
In a highly competitive acquisitions market at the Toronto Film Festival, Focus also recently acquired worldwide distribution rights to Bad Words in which Jason Bateman stars and makes his feature film directorial debu
In a highly competitive acquisitions market at the Toronto
Film Festival, Focus also recently acquired worldwide distribution rights to Bad Words
in which Jason Bateman stars and makes his feature film directorial debu
in which Jason Bateman stars and makes his
feature film directorial debut.
In his
feature directorial debut, A.C.O.D., Stu Zicherman has taken the premise for the episode of a sitcom, and turned it into a
film that's not only funny, but also surprisingly relatable for audience members represented by the title's acronym, «Adult Children of Divorce».
Wright made his
feature film directorial debut
in 2005 with Pride & Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Rosamund Pike, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn and with Carey Mulligan,
in her first screen appearance.
The
film marks Mitchell's first
feature directorial effort since «Rabbit Hole»
in 2010.
Kyle Patrick Alvarez — «The Stanford Prison Experiment» While it's the third
feature film from Alvarez, «The Stanford Prison Experiment,» a retelling of the infamous 1971 psychology experiment pioneered by Dr Philip Zimbardo, sees him take a big leap
in terms of craft and
directorial authority.
After creating the HBO 2010 twentysomething series How to Make It
in America, Ian Edelman soon turned his attention to feature films, making his directorial debut with Puerto Ricans In Paris, which he co-wrote with Neel Sha
in America, Ian Edelman soon turned his attention to
feature films, making his
directorial debut with Puerto Ricans
In Paris, which he co-wrote with Neel Sha
In Paris, which he co-wrote with Neel Shah.
In an exclusive interview, the multi-talented RZA talked about the genesis of the project, what appealed to him about his character, how he prepared for the role, his collaboration with Delamarre on his feature directorial debut, working with Belle and the late Walker and what they brought to the film, his bold line of dialogue, what he learned about himself while making the movie, how Walker inspired him, his role in the upcoming martial arts sequel «The Protector 2» with Tony Jaa directed by Prachya Pinkaew, and his new Fox Network TV series, «Gang Related,» that premieres May 22n
In an exclusive interview, the multi-talented RZA talked about the genesis of the project, what appealed to him about his character, how he prepared for the role, his collaboration with Delamarre on his
feature directorial debut, working with Belle and the late Walker and what they brought to the
film, his bold line of dialogue, what he learned about himself while making the movie, how Walker inspired him, his role
in the upcoming martial arts sequel «The Protector 2» with Tony Jaa directed by Prachya Pinkaew, and his new Fox Network TV series, «Gang Related,» that premieres May 22n
in the upcoming martial arts sequel «The Protector 2» with Tony Jaa directed by Prachya Pinkaew, and his new Fox Network TV series, «Gang Related,» that premieres May 22nd.
In addition, Munn will play the title role Justine Bateman's
feature film directorial debut «Violet,» Variety reported last week.
The
film marks the unlikely
feature directorial debut of Michael Rapaport, a veteran actor whose juiciest credits came
in Tribe's one successful decade and include Beautiful Girls, Cop Land, Deep Blue Sea, and a recurring role on «Friends.»
With «Meadowland» — Morano's
feature directorial debut — she pushed the boundaries
in what is a dark, atmospheric, and personal
film.
In addition to his celebrated acting both on stage and on screen, Hoffman made his
directorial debut with the
feature film Quartet, based on Ronald Harwood's stage play.
The
film, which has earned $ 10 million at the box office thus far, is also up for several Independent Spirit Awards, though Gerwig was surprisingly snubbed
in the best - director category; Lady Bird is the multi-hyphenate's
feature directorial debut.