Sentences with phrase «in independent films for»

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The combined company, which will retain the eOne name, will hold about a 20 % share of the distribution market for independent films in Canada and will have significantly expanded its footprint in international territories.

Filmed on location on Necker Island, Branson's private retreat in the Caribbean; at his home in Oxfordshire and in Oslo for a meeting with «The Elders» - a independent group of global leaders put together by Branson and Peter Gabriel.

For the first time ever in his career he went the independent film route and quickly found Brian Unkeless (the «Hunger Games» franchise) as a producing partner.

«Versa Media Capital intends to become the go - to source of capital and expertise for independent film and TV content creators, and will provide the elements needed to put projects on the solid footing required to complete a permanent financing package,» said Geoffray in a statement.

Unlike other independent films in which big names are ridden into the ground like a sweaty mule, shoehorned into every possible scene in the movie, «Moms» Night Out» has an ensemble cast - an amazing feat for a film with a budget just under $ 5 million, according to Andrew and John Erwin, the brothers who directed the film.

These enormous trends toward centralization and homogeneity still do permit room for the occasional «auteur» film of individual artistry, the profoundly critical television documentary, the journalistic exposé of corruption in high places, and other examples of independent thinking or original art.

With strong roots in independent film, Tribeca is a platform for creative expression and immersive entertainment.

Each year the festival selects an up - and - coming filmmaker to receive the Independent Trailblazer Award for pioneering in indepeIndependent Trailblazer Award for pioneering in independentindependent film.

Additionally, the legislation seeks to end the experiences most visibly depicted in recent cases of alleged abuse by actresses who worked for film producer Harvey Weinstein; their legal remedies were limited in many cases because they were considered independent contractors.

It wasn't long after her 1998 graduation that the aspiring actress made her feature debut in the 2000 drama Our Song, with nominations for the film at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Sundance Film Festival serving to increase her exposure among cinephiles, even if the film did go largely unseen by the masses.

She appeared in a string of independent films throughout the 1990s, in addition to all the aforementioned Di Cillo titles; she had the lead, opposite Anne Heche, in the acclaimed Walking and Talking (1996), written and directed by Nicole Holofcener, a role which earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Beindependent films throughout the 1990s, in addition to all the aforementioned Di Cillo titles; she had the lead, opposite Anne Heche, in the acclaimed Walking and Talking (1996), written and directed by Nicole Holofcener, a role which earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for BeIndependent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress.

Heder's dead - on characterization struck a chord with audiences and the small independent film became a huge hit, raking in over 44 million dollars and winning the MTV Movie Award for Best Movie.

An independent film darling, Ross made her debut in STRANGER INSIDE, winning an IFP Gotham Award for Best Breakthrough and an independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance.

No matter how exhausted cinema is in its dystopian anguish, this film shows us that there are still independent horizons for the genre in the future.

He is recognized for his work during the independent film boom of the»90s, appearing in such films as RHYTHM THIEF, LIVING IN OBLIVION, WALKING AND TALKING, BUFFALO» 66, HENRY FOOL, SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS and KICKED IN THE HEAD, which he co-wrotin such films as RHYTHM THIEF, LIVING IN OBLIVION, WALKING AND TALKING, BUFFALO» 66, HENRY FOOL, SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS and KICKED IN THE HEAD, which he co-wrotIN OBLIVION, WALKING AND TALKING, BUFFALO» 66, HENRY FOOL, SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS and KICKED IN THE HEAD, which he co-wrotIN THE HEAD, which he co-wrote.

Displaying the kind of off - kilter charm that makes him a natural for leading roles in independent films and character parts in mainstream features, Liev Schreiber has made a name for himself on both circuits.

In the 2000s, Stevens found new success on the other side of the camera, as a prolific producer of both independent and mainstream Hollywood films, even winning the Oscar for Best Documentary for his 2009 film about the slaughtering of dolphins, The Cove.

The director James Gray and others on what the conversion from film to digital means for independent theatres, as exemplified by the Fairview Cinema 3 in Hudson, New York.

Most recently in 2013, Friend co-stared as Oliver Baumer in STARRED UP, directed by David Mackenzie; the film was nominated for eight British Independent Film Awards.

Instead of asinine comments on how impossible it would be to have a woman in combat (nevermind that she arrived in the final battle independent of the other fighters and so could not have been prevented from joining by the other men), it might have crossed your mind to mention how pretentious it was for the heroin of the film (which is what she is) to be directly compared to such a major historical figure.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

For her work in the stop - motion animated film written ANOMALISA, she received a 2015 Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and an Annie Award nominatiFor her work in the stop - motion animated film written ANOMALISA, she received a 2015 Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and an Annie Award nominatifor Best Supporting Actress, and an Annie Award nomination.

She earned critical praise for her role in the independent feature REMEMBER THE DAZE, singled out by Variety as the «scene stealer» of the film opposite Amber Heard and Leighton Meester.

Being absent from cinema for the past few years, it was uncertain when his return would be, but I think he will have a perfect fit in independent films such as Borg / McEnroe.

Pellington is working from an uncharacteristically sentimental screenplay from Alex Ross Perry, known for his biting, incisive and often merciless portrayals of human nature in the independent films he's written and directed himself, including «The Color Wheel» and «Queen of Earth.»

She played the eponymous title role in the film NOBLE, which won The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema at the Santa Barbara Film Festival and which continues to garner critical acclaim.

Josh Boone's written and directorial debut with Stuck in Love is not only an accomplishment for independent film but also for writers.

Although we've seen the struggle for individualism and personal power done many times before, particularly in independent films, Real Women Have Curves never seems to lack for freshness despite it all.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (R for graphic sexuality and nudity) Romance drama, set in Paris in the Twenties, abut the scandalous affair conducted by a famous French clothes designer (Anna Mouglalis) with the promising classical composer (Mads Mikkelsen) whose penniless, refugee family she let live in her villa after they escaped the Russian Revolution.

«I love playing this character,» Johansson told Entertainment Tonight on the set of Avengers: Infinity War, before reports that a Black Widow film is in development, «and I think there is definitely an opportunity to explore the Widow as a woman who has come into her own and is making independent and active choices for herself, probably for once in her life.

After all, much of the impetus for the cycle came from a renewed interest in independent film by major distributors.

One, he said, «where stories from the outsider, stories from the people in this room, the same stories that independent film - makers have been telling for years, are being honoured and recognised and celebrated».

Since 1985, the Sundance Film Festival (formal title since 1991) has become the preeminent showcase for American Independent films in the world.

nowing full well that Emma was going to make sure that Belle was somebody who was independent, who was strong, who was educated, who was sticking up for girls and women, and who does all the rescuing in the film.

The Spirit Awards are voted on by the 6,200 members of Film Independent and require that films be produced in the U.S. for less than $ 20 million.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Bordertown (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity, and violence, including a brutal rape) Jennifer Lopez stars in this fact - based thriller about an American journalist who goes undercover to investigate the murders of hundreds of women near U.S. - owned factories located in a Mexican town just across the border.

Lorentz arranged for independent screenings in a number of cities, and the film was eventually shown in about 3,000 theaters.

For quite some time, Noah Baumbach has been one of the sharpest storytellers in independent film.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

I liked Adams in the film, as she showed why such good actors in independent films should be forced to do awful stuff like this when trying for Hollywood mainstream (can we say Sophie Marceau?).

She made her feature film debut in director Todd Graff's CAMP, a favorite at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, for which she earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

As a champion and curator of independent stories for the stage and screen, Sundance Institute provides and preserves the space for artists in film, theatre, film composing, and digital media to create and thrive.

The film feels accomplished and effortless in a way that's incredibly rare for an independent genre outing.

Henkel stayed in Texas and kept writing, providing the story concept for 1981's The Unseen (a favorite) and scripting / producing the beloved 1983 independent film Last Night At The Alamo.

McAdams isn't ready to get into juicy spoiler territory just yet, but when MTV News caught up with her at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York City last night (November 30), which she was attending for her new film «Spotlight,» the actress finally opened up about why she decided to join the Marvel family.

The below list only includes domestic (U.S. and Canada only, unless otherwise indicated) grosses for specialty films — which we define to include independent, foreign (including Bollywood films), and / or documentary films — that opened in limited release (599 screens and under) in 2018 AND / OR were acquired or produced for 2018 distribution by an independent distributor (including STX Films, Annapurna, A24, Entertainment Studios, Amazon, Netflix, Aviron, Global Road, and Bleecker Street) or a studio or its specialty division (including Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, and Focus Features).

Although no festival will be held in London this year, Sundance did announce plans to host private screenings and events for London's independent film community at Picturehouse Central in June.

Author Duncan Wall on modern circus at BAM, the 2013 Independent Film Forum, five - time Tony winner Audra McDonald in L.A. for one - night only, James Toback's latest film (with Alec Baldwin) premieres on HBO, and «The Nose» in theaters via the «Met: Live in HD» series are what we...

And since independent film is where social progress typically finds its earliest, least compromised expression, we're now seeing more richly observant films like «Return,» a sensitively rendered drama that marks a promising debut for writer - director Liza Johnson, in rewarding collaboration with underrated actress Linda Cardellini.

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 NelIndependent 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 Nelindependent film Half Nelson (2006).