Sentences with phrase «live movie director»

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None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

We had enough technical leaders to start a second production, but all of our proven creative leaders — the people who had made Toy Story, including John, who was its director; writer Andrew Stanton; editor Lee Unkrich; and the late Joe Ranft, the movie's head of story — were working on A Bug's Life.

In the hands of director J.J. Abrams, it lived up to the hype to become not only the biggest box office hit of the year, but also one of the most fun action movies we've seen in a long time.

Despite being responsible for bringing Ralph into my life I don't like Steven Spielberg as a director; I find that most of his movies are immersed in a squishy atmosphere, it's just not my cup of tea.

To me, doing two or three days on a movie with a cool director is more important than spending my life on a set.

A venerable Hollywood group with very prestigious directors has produced a movie called Forks Over Knives, about the careers and research and lives of Caldwell Esselstyn, M.D., and Colin Campbell, PhD.

PLANETARIUM (Planetarium) Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Cast: Natalie Portman, Lily - Rose Depp, Emmanuelle Salinger, Louis Garrel Searching for their big break, two American sisters, who earn their living through clairvoyance, arrive in 1930s Paris, where they beguile a movie - producer intent on shooting their séances as part of an ambitious new film.

Smiling on a road trip, quiet and reflective in nature, living for the next travel adventure, laughter - lots of laughter, heading with a spring in my step to a movie release of a favorite director or actor, looking with a..

In «Living in Oblivion,» he played the lead, a beleaguered low - budget director trying against all odds to make a movie.

Not a movie for most, The Tree of Life is an over-dramatic representation of what seems like a personal, spiritual struggle waged by the writer / director, Terry Malick, himself.

It's like if the director took a poem about life, and made a movie about it.

A movie about the real - life 1971 Stanford prison experiment could have been sadistic and unwatchable, director Kyle Patrick Alvarez's clinical approach focuses on realism and psychological drama rather than on thrills.

The director, Miguel Arteta, and the screenwriter, Mike White, who previously joined forces on the movies «Chuck & Buck» (2000) and «The Good Girl» (2002) and the short - lived HBO series «Enlightened,» have a proven knack for making their characters and audiences squirm.

Jandreau is a real - life Pine Ridge rodeo rider, playing a barely fictionalized version of himself, and director Chloe Zhao (Songs My Brothers Taught Me) brings a documentarian's eye to his story, augmented with some striking photography making the most of the movie's picturesque Badlands geography.

For the next commentary, we hear from writers / directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, actor James Adomian and Harold Lee, the real - life inspiration for the movie's title character.

The Departed marked director Martin Scorsese's return to modern - day gangster movies after an eleven year break, and while it possesses the brutality and violent tension of earlier classics such as GoodFellas (1990) and Casino (1995), it also differed from his previous explorations of the gangster life by following a more linear narrative and eschewing a spoken narration.

Paramount has chosen quality over quantity for the Blu - ray release of «The Fighter,» with a strong collection of bonus material headlined by an audio commentary with director David O. Russell where he discusses the filming of the movie and how it compares to its real - life subjects.

In the documentary, director Robert Zemeckis explains that the movie is really «three elaborate films in one»» a period live - action movie, an animated movie, and a special - effects extravaganza required to blend the two.

Worst of all is Sandler's and director Dennis Dugan's conviction that endlessly referring to its title character's «package» is in and of itself a laff riot: the character Biggus Diccus in Monty Python's Life of Brian notwithstanding, the only time a huge penis in the movies is funny is in certain triple - X rated movies from the days of yore when John Holmes used to almost trip over his own.

(2004), an Americanized version of a popular feel - good Japanese movie from 1996, then portrayed the visionary film director Stanley Kubrik in the HBO biopic «The Life and Death of Peter Sellers» (2004).

Review I have seen this movie twice, probably the third romantic movie that compelled me to do that, and the reasons are quite simple: It's probably impossible that anyone can't relate to young Josh Hutcherson's character, an 11 year old with a normal middle class life and problems (parents initiating divorce); that its surprise by the rediscovery of a young classmate (Charley Ray) initially as an unexpected friend and later as something else... The well crafted work of director Mark Levin is based on the mutual discovery of all these feelings (mostly new and uncontrolled) that evolved in Josh's character and in another particular viewer: you.

By the 1920s, Chaplin had emerged as the first larger - than - life movie star and director, if not the most recognizable person in the world.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

Made film debut in director Blake Edwards» 1986 movie That's Life!

And now, director / star James Franco has brought the equally bizarre real - life story behind the movie's creation to the big screen with «The Disaster Artist» - proving that, at the very least, good films can definitely be made about bad movies.

However, master director Terrence Malick just earned one for his new movie «The Tree of Life».

(1997 Director: Michael Oblowitz) I enjoyed this movie, though admittedly it was a little difficult to watch two incredibly gorgeous twins (one female, one male) living off their looks in less than moral ways.

Stale as week - old bread and every bit as bland, the movie saddles a strong cast with a groaningly ineffectual script (courtesy of Michael LeSieur, who wrote 2006's You, Me and Dupree) and wastes the director's gift for bringing lived - in charm and feeling to broad comic premises.

Writer / Director (Perry) tries so hard to make a romantic comedy I am not sure he understand LIFE, He does not try so hard to make a movie why does Lionsgate support his movies?

It's a larger - than - life ensemble, and feels at times as if director Craig Gillespie gave each of his actors the same instruction — elbow your way to the front of this movie.

There is, let's acknowledge, enough historical detail in the life of Queen Elizabeth, that no director could cover all of it in a single movie.

It has been argued that Jackson's performances in Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown served to sanction his writer - director's fetishizing of certain stereotypes pertaining to African - American movie characters — and also his co-opting of subcultural postures and attitudes well beyond his real - life experiences (if not, it goes without saying, his VHS collection).

I don't know what director Angelina Jolie thinks her movie Unbroken is, but the last thing it seems to be is the story of Louis Zamperini, the Olympian and war hero whose life story was told in Laura Hillenbrand's New York Times - bestselling book «Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption ``.

Todd Phillips has made nine movies and he will make many more but no matter what he does for the rest of his professional life, he will forever be remembered as the director of 2003's «Old School.»

In talking about his cops - versus - Russian - gangsters movie We Own the Night, the writer and director James Gray cites the ancient Greeks» idea «that one's life is shaped primarily by forces outside of one's control, as if the gods had dealt each person a fate — a destiny.»

After watching it, I really think that this one will divide the audience and any time could go both ways - some would love figuring it out what the writer and director wanted to say while others could simply walk away, deciding that their life is too precious to be wasted on such movies.

The runner - up for the audience award at last year's Toronto Film Festival, the movie represents a change of pace for director Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me, Elegy), best known for clunky dramas on weighty themes.

Almost three months ago, I described how our cinematographers bring movies to life, by lensing the director's vision, the actors» performances, the production designer's and the writer's mood, just to begin.

Despite his enormous success, Eszterhas seemingly felt slighted by the industry in which he made his living, and decided to bite the hand that fed him with Hollywood satire «An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn,» in which director Eric Idle makes a $ 200 million action movie (starring Sylvester Stallone, Jackie Chan and, um, Whoopi Goldberg) and tries to take his name off of it after studio interference, but is unable to because his name is actually Alan Smithee.

Netflix and Brad Pitt's Plan B production company have teamed up to bring Korean director Joon - Ho Bong's upcoming monster movie, Okja, to life.

Paul is a director who, like many of the movie brats, has a reputation that precedes him — whether it be writing American cinema classics like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, directing the popular and canonized films American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or the lore surrounding the era, popularized by Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

In «Last Flag Flying,» director Richard Linklater comes to grips with a reality of life that most people (and movies) would prefer to deny: Bad things can happen from which there is no recovery.

Warner Bros Pictures released a new HD movie trailer for the upcoming DC Comics comic book film «The Green Lantern» by director Martin Campbell (Edge of Darkness, Casino Royale, 36) stars Blake Lively (Gossip Girl, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee), Peter Sarsgaard (Knight & Day, Orphan) and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Proposal) as The Green Lantern.

Happily, writer - director Mike White, whose métier is quirky movies like «Year of the Dog» in which a secretary's life changes when her dog dies, is not so arty this time.

With the movie, it becomes much more the live - action director's medium and the question was are we going back to the original concept for the animated movie and move to live - action from that, or are we going to take it from the animated to the Broadway show and then the live - action?

Director Jonathan Jakubowicz seeks to remedy that with «Hands of Stone,» but while the film plays like a greatest hits of Duran's life, it doesn't offer anything different from the dozens of other boxing movies before it.

Destroying the Earth four times is probably the limit for any director but luckily for Emmerich, we just discovered water on the moon, so he can go ahead and make a movie where we've colonized it and are living there, but for whatever reason it gets destroyed.

But the Rocky series and Black Panther share common DNA in the form of director Ryan Coogler, who gave new life to the Rocky franchise with his movie Creed.

A lot of that credit goes to directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who bring the LEGO universe to life with the sort of boundless imagination that the movie preaches to its audience.

What You Need To Know: «Bridesmaids» director Paul Feig brings it back to the»80s with this buddy cop movie, pairing straight - laced Sandra Bullock with live - wire Melissa McCarthy.