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Filming for the music video, which also features her daughter Blue Ivy, sparked early speculation that a new song was coming, according to Spin, which reports the song will make its live performance debut during the Super Bowl.

The movement is brought to life through «The Experiment,» a film debuting today, featuring van Buuren and under the direction of Philip Andelman — who has worked with Beyoncé, Rihanna, Jay - Z, John Mayer and Lenny Kravitz.

He made his feature - film debut in Lewis» Cinderfella (1960), after having appeared on the early television series Life With Elizabeth (1953 - 1955) starring opposite Betty White.

He made his feature film debut in 1988 as River Phoenix's little brother in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.

This relationship forms the core of Michael Pearce's clammily compelling debut feature, which paints a very different picture of Channel Island life to that other film set on Guernsey involving books and potato peel pies.

Ondi Timoner, the director of the documentaries, We Live in Public 69 and Cool It 61 will make her feature narrative debut with the latter film.

Shot entirely on location in Barrow, Alaska, On The Ice is the engrossing and suspenseful feature film debut by filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean about two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town.

Check out the trailer below: Comedy superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart make their animated feature - film debuts in The Secret Life of Pets, -LSB-...]

In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.

Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi — film - à - clef debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab at putting his life back together.

Telling the tale of a real - life botched heist by a band of upper - middle class white college guys, director Bart Layton (in his feature debut) injects his film with interviews of the film's real - life protagonists, to an overwhelming degree.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Much like «Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol,» which marks the feature - film debut of animator Brad Bird, we're predominantly interested in next year's «John Carter» because it's the first live - action effort from Andrew Stanton, the genius brain behind Pixar's masterpieces «Finding Nemo» and «WALL - E.»

Mudbound (***) Writer / director Dee Rees» feature film debut Pariah was a depressing but touching look at black lesbian life.

Gudegast, making his feature directing debut after writing «A Man Apart» and «London Has Fallen,» seems to understand just enough about that element of Mann's film to recreate some of its conflicts — both in terms of crime scenarios and the characters» civilian lives — but lacks the discipline, or maybe skill, to lend them real emotional weight, much less originality.

Following a string of acclaimed short films, commercials and video work, Venezuelan director Carl Zitelmann makes his feature debut with The Lake Vampire - the true life tale of a true life vampire, namely serial killer Zacarias Ortega known for...

«Lamb,» director Yared Zeleke's debut feature film about a young boy named Ephraïm, who must live with faraway family...

The film's wildly loyal producer Judd Apatow, then known as a showrunner of acclaimed but short - lived TV comedies, would again cast Rudd in his hit feature directing debut,

Phang's award ‐ winning debut feature Half - Life premiered in 2008 at the Tokyo International and Sundance film festivals.

Director Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) and screenwriter Susan Coyne (in her feature debut) adapt Les Stanford's book with a mix of fantasy and biography, never making the commitment to either that might have elevated the film beyond merely pleasant holiday distraction.

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Terence Davies, an actor turned filmmaker who directed his first short film in 1976, has made a mere six features since 1988, when he released his debut feature Distant Voices, Still Lives.

It was nearly 10 years between Amma Asante's debut feature, A Way of Life, and her sophomore film Belle.

Life of Riley, the final film from the director (he passed away in 2014, a few months after the film's debut), is his third adaptation of British playwright Alan Ayckbourn and, like his penultimate feature You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (2012), revolves around the theater.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Jeremy Lovering («In Fear») If you went to Sundance looking for the next Christopher Nolan or Rupert Wyatt (who both had films premiere at the festival early in their careers), you'd be hard pressed to find a better candidate than Jeremy Lovering, whose feature film debut «In Fear» has been scaring the living shit out of people in the Midnight strand of the festival.

McKay is a veteran of Saturday Night Live short films, and for his feature debut, he throws in an homage or two to Boogie Nights and other visions of the high»70s.

Following in the footsteps of Studio Ghibli (which co-produced the film), Michael Dudok de Wit's «The Red Turtle» is a surprisingly poignant feature - length debut that proves animation can be just as effective as live action when done right.

From Academy Award - nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award - winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world - renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger - than - life literary giant Thomas Wolfe.

Meanwhile Ang Lee's Life of Pi, which got financed to the tune of $ 120 million and grossed over $ 600 million worldwide, was the feature film acting debut of «Suraj so - and - so.»

When the film opens, best friends Napoleon (Johnny Whitaker, who Disney must have seen as its new child star in 1972) and Samantha (Jodie Foster in her feature film debut) lead simple lives.

Entertainment Tonight ran a behind the scenes feature on Christina Aguilera «s live - action big screen film debut Burlesque.

In the 1960s, his feature film debut, he plays the haunted and pale Boo Radley in To Kill A Mocking Bird; in the 1970s he immortalized his love for the smell of napalm in the morning as a general who like to surf and plays Wagner when going into battle; in the 1980s he plays a quiet, down - on - his - luck country singer who does odd jobs for room and board while trying to put his life back together; and in the 1990s his turn as the bombastic Apostle E.F. might just be the best single performance of that decade.

Just this evening at the San Diego Comic - Con I caught up with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (review) helmer Troy Nixey, who made his feature - length directing debut with the film, a remake of the 1973 made - for - TV movie of the same name about a family that discovers murderous tiny creatures living in the basement of their new home.

Bill Taylor's feature film debut Don't Get Killed In Alaska is an intriguing melodrama that depicts a young woman's attempt to carve out her own path in life and make amends with her fragmented family members.

McArdle strays from the realist norms of many coming - of - age films with her bold aesthetics, which are complemented by other creative takes on teenage life: Léa Mysius» astonishing debut feature, Ava, is just as visually bold, immersing you in its protagonist's subjectivity.

The film marks the feature directorial debut of Parker, an actor who has directed several short films and been part of the ensemble casts of films including The Great Debaters, The Secret Life Of Bees, Red Tails and Ain't Them Bodies Saints.

Filmed by Claire Denis» long - time cinematographer, Agnès Godard, Claudia Sainte - Luce's debut feature, based loosely on events from her own life, blends a wry and moving naturalism with moments of inspired comedy.

The story of a little six year old girl who lives at a run - down motel with her on - the - brink mother in the shadow of Disney World in Orlando, Florida, The Florida Project features one of the most incredible child performances I've ever seen from Brooklynn Prince, as well as a fantastic debut role from non-actress Bria Vinaite as the mother / daughter pair that form the film's heart.

Zhao's feature about a badly - injured cowboy, played by real - life cowboy Brady Jandreau, was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards, and has played dozens of film festivals since its Cannes debut.

Comedy superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart make their animated feature - film debuts in The Secret Life of Pets, which co-stars Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Steve Coogan and Albert Brooks.

Tessa Thompson and Lily James» Little Woods, from writer / director Nia DaCosta making her feature film debut, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival over the weekend and drove home the point that there's still some life left in this dormant arena.

Live By Night is Ben Affleck «s fourth film as director after cutting his teeth with his debut feature, the impressive Gone Baby Gone, followed by the slightly superior The Town, and then the Oscar - winning Argo.

The success of Ted, his feature directorial debut starring Mark Wahlberg as a man who smokes pot with a living, foulmouthed teddybear, which earned more than $ 500 - million worldwide, guaranteed that MacFarlane could do anything he wanted with his follow - up film.

Gosling made his feature film debut in 2000 opposite Denzel Washington in the real - life sports saga «Remember the Titans.»

But the fact that Ayoade's directorial debut is so full of life and so true - to - life promises what I hope will be an amazing career in feature films.

Writer - director Joshua Marston (who scripted the film along with Andamion Murataj) chronicles the psychic toll of a blood feud in the Albanian countryside; as in his debut feature Maria Full of Grace, we see young people with richly textured lives and full of aspirations, before they're corralled into a system much larger than they are, one they're forced to submit to in order to survive.

Cinematographer Michael Bonvillain (Lost, Cloverfield) will make his directorial debut on a feature adaptation of the io9 - approved short horror film, Teddy Bears are for Lovers, concerning a lothario haunted by the murderous, living teddy bears of his former lovers.

A film unlike anything you've seen (or will see), Julie Dash's rapturous feature debut is set at a moment of wrenching cultural crisis, when the island - dwelling Gullah — former African slaves living off the coast of South Carolina — decide in August 1902 to head to the nearby American mainland and endure the pain of a second separation from their past.

Fun Mom Dinner is directed by Australian writer / filmmaker Alethea Jones, making her feature directorial debut after a number of short films and work on «Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street» previously.

Other film credits include the recent comedy «Keanu»; Peter Bogdanovich's «She's Funny That Way,» opposite Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson; «Life of Crime,» opposite Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, Tim Robbins and Isla Fisher; «Run and Jump,» which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Best Irish Feature Award at the Galway Film Festival; the Adam Sandler Netflix comedy «The Ridiculous 6,» as well as «That's My Boy,» opposite Sandler and Andy Samberg; and «The Watch,» opposite Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill and Vince Vaughn.