Sentences with phrase «led heist»

Sandra Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of Danny Ocean (played by George Clooney in the previous three «Ocean's» films), in the female - led heist comedy.

It's been more than ten years since Ocean's 13 wrapped up director Steven Soderbergh «s Ocean's 11 trilogy, but now The Hunger Games director Gary Ross is reviving the franchise with a new female - led heist movie set in the same universe.

Female - led heist films are officially a trend.

But it turns out Bullock is playing Ocean's «ex-con sister,» who will lead a heist and crew of her own, which presumably means no childhoods or adolescences will be ruined in the making of the film (you win this round, nostalgia?).

While the pair speaks big for their future projects (including the strong desire to make a musical), they are currently attached to direct a screenplay by Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) and Dean Cavanagh, a female lead heist movie set in Leith.

Not exact matches

It was a high tech caper, involving a fake Uber and a $ 1.8 million digital currency heist, but it was old - fashioned stupidity that led Louis Meza to get caught.

Nikkei Asian Review reported Monday that Coincheck was targeted with «suspicious traffic» for weeks leading up to the Jan. 26 heist.

California's lucrative nut business is increasingly a target of sophisticated crime rings, and losses from cargo heists and a spike in thefts have led the industry and law enforcement to call an emergency summit.

Filmgoers want to experience something new, visceral and game changing, which is exactly what this heist musical accomplishes with Baby (played by Ansel Elgort), a hearing - impaired getaway driver who lives his life to the beat of a constant stream of music in his ears, often to the discontent of his criminal allies, led by Kevin Spacey in one of his most fatherly roles yet, especially for a crime boss.

The $ 315 million midyear budget gap could lead to another transit raid in the $ 20 million range before the year is out, if Governor Paterson convenes a lame duck special session and Albany repeats the same sort of heist it pulled off this fall.

Yes, the events leading up to the heist definitely have their moments, but the amount of banter and comedy between the characters throughout the heist works so well, that I feel like I'm rewatching that sequences play out in my head, long after I witnessed it in theatres.

It's a slick, swift - footed adventure which plays like a planet - hopping heist movie, and one which glides a long way on the charm of its leading man.

Along with a group of half - brained criminals led by Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson) and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David manages the impossible and makes off with $ 17 million in cash... only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this wild group of double crossers and has been set up to take the fall.

Along with a group of half - brained criminals led by Steve (Owen Wilson) and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David manages the impossible and makes off with $ 17 million in cash, only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this wild group of double crossers and has been set up to take the fall.

I felt it managed to compensate for its frenetic pacing, occasionally cringe - worthy special effects, and eye - rolling twist ending with superb chemistry among its leads and genuinely thrilling heist sequences.

A simple murder mystery game quickly leads to a kidnapping, a heist to break into a safe and even the discovery of an underground fight club.

When a failed heist leads to the kidnapping of his teenage son, Downs must race against time during a wild and restless night to save him and bring the criminals to justice.

Bullock leads an all - star cast including Cate Blanchett and Mindy Kaling in the gender - flipped remake of the heist comedy series

Each mission is smartly paced to feel like a vital chapter leading up to a grandiose heist, and fresh mechanics get peppered throughout the stages with a pleasant regularity.

In 1997, a failed bank heist led to the arrest of 24 people in North Carolina.

Those heist thriller - comedies boasted the sort of superstar roster that red carpet show producers would still trade limbs to secure, led by George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon.

How could you possibly ignore a blood - soaked heist movie led by a loony AnnaLynne -LSB-...]

«Plunder Road» (1957), 4:45 p.m.: In this little - known noir directed by Hubert Cornfield, five men, led by Gene Raymond (in a rare villainous turn), try to pull off the perfect heist: stealing $ 10 million in gold from a train headed for a U.S. Mint branch in San Francisco.

Riding on the back of the aforementioned «Antony,» he leads an army of Hymenopteras into battle, using them as accessories to complete the heist.

Evan Peters leads an amateur heist of a rare books library in the brand - new trailer for his upcoming film American Animals!

John Cassavetes was doing his Orson Welles thing — by that I mean acting in whatever movie paid well so he could finance his own, personal productions — when he took the lead in an Italian mob picture / heist movie hybrid shot in large part on location in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

When Gosling's attraction to a young mother (Carey Mulligan) leads him to assist her ex-con husband in a heist, he runs afoul of the wrong people, and struggles to stay ahead of them.

The heist film follows the Cutler family of outlaws led by Chad Cutler (Michael Fassbender) and his father (Brendan Gleeson).

When a failed heist leads to the kidnapping of his teenage son (Octavius J. Johnson), Downs must race against time during a wild and restless night to save him and bring the criminals to justice

Clearly word got out before it even hit theaters, as he's got a number of very promising projects in the works for early 2013 — he'll play the boyfriend of lead Teresa Palmer in Jonathan Levine «s zombie romance «Warm Bodies ``; he's just one in an excellent ensemble cast, including Jesse Eisenberg, Melanie Laurent, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Isla Fisher, Michael Caine, Common and Woody Harrelson in Louis Letterier «s magician heist movie «Now You See Me ``; and he's playing none another than Romeo in Fox «s Shakesperean re-do «Rosaline.»

Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson lead a group of magicians who seem to pull off a bank heist during their show, and promise more of the same.

Soon he teams up with a smuggler named Beckett (Woody Harrelson) to pull off a heist, which starts a chain reaction of events that lead him to Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), the Millennium Falcon and, eventually, to becoming the Han Solo we see in A New Hope.

Felecity Jones will lead the cast, and the film is supposed to be as much a heist film as it is a war film, and one that has no Jedi to be seen.

Presented in an extensive series of visual puzzles, requiring logic and imagination, each panel move changes the current narrative, leading to all kinds of comedic blunders, untimely deaths — and when solved correctly — stylish heists, fast getaways and nail - biting escapades.

11:30 am — TCM — The Lavender Hill Mob Alec Guinness leads the Ealing Studios regulars in this delightful heist comedy, one of the greats among a bunch of great late»40s, early»50s Ealing films.

Entertainment Weekly has revealed a new images for Gary Ross» upcoming female - led spinoff to the Ocean's trilogy, Ocean's Eight featuring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, and Awkwafina; check it out here... The tide has turned and it's a whole new «Ocean's» when eight women plan and execute a heist in New York.

We'd watch this group of leading ladies discuss international trade regulations, yet alone star in a heist movie connected to a popular property we all pretty much enjoyed in the mid 2000s (we know George Clooney's Oceans movies were remakes as well, no need to yell at us on Twitter).

Dignan, the twentysomething fuck - up played by Owen Wilson who leads his friends into this folly, fancies himself a gangster out of a»70s heist flick.

Soderbergh and Blunt lead viewers through the preparations for the heist, which includes getting Clyde arrested so he can hook up with explosives expert Joe Bang (a delightfully funny Daniel Craig), and break both of them out of the prison just in time for the robbery and then returning them undetected after they complete the job.

On one of their more recent busts, they follow a lead to a planned million - dollar heist, and immediately want to be there to score the loot themselves in the bust.

Flash - forward a few years, and Han has joined a crew — led by the eternally cynical Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson)-- trying to pull off a daring heist, the proceeds of which will satisfy a debt owed to a high - living gangster, Dryden Vos (Paul Bettany).

Essentially merging the heist, home - invasion, and conspiracy - thriller genres into one overstuffed story, Firewall follows Ford as his family is captured by a group of ruthlessly well - organized goons led by Paul Bettany, who intends to extort Ford into cooperating with a high - tech bank - robbery scheme.

A heist - romance - chase film with a diverse and truly remarkable selection of songs, high energy, more than a few comedic moments (the Mike Myers mask sequence is brilliant) and a recurring Monsters, Inc quote requires a strong lead, and young Mr. Elgort aces the test.

Sexy Beast is only 89 minutes long, but nearly an entire hour of that time is devoted to Don convincing Gal to come back to London to lead an eight - man team in pulling off an impossible bank heist.

Billed as a modern spin - off to the George Clooney led Ocean's Eleven series of heist flicks, the cast list alone is enough to leave you reeling with anticipation, with Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, and Helena Bonham Carter all involved as part of the ensemble effort.

An» ally award» a year or so after he infamously said that» rehearsal is for fags» during a Q&A for his film Tower Heist, a comment that in part led to his resignation as producer of the Academy Awards?

Synopsis: A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse Attica (Chris Brown) successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life of luxury while planning their next job.

Assayas forged ahead instead with Personal Shopper (2016), and even though he'll complete the Juliette Binoche led comedy Non Fiction before he gets to his heist thriller, the project is alive and well with original star Robert Pattinson to be joined by Sylvester Stallone and Rachel Weisz.

The heist is led by Casey's partner Perkins (Ralph Ineson), who betrays Casey and his government employer in the hopes of taking an early retirement in Ireland.

4:00 pm — TCM — Topkapi One of the classic heist capers, with a group of ragtag criminals (led by Melina Mercouri and including comic relief Peter Ustinov) planning to steal a jewel - encrusted dagger from the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul.