Sentences with phrase «mainstream success in»

Starting out in 1988, he has forged a career in hip - hop, the rapper and record producer finally achieving mainstream success in the mid 2000's.

With 2015's The Lobster, Greek weirdo auteur Yorgos Lanthimos achieved a surprising level of mainstream success in the States, given his film was about a dystopian alternate reality where people are turned into animals if they fail to find a mate in 45 days.

Absurdist comic Zach Galifianakis toiled around in supporting roles in mostly forgettable comedies (including Heartbreakers, Bubble Boy, and Out Cold) and one forgettable TV series (Tru Calling on Fox) before finally finding mainstream success in 2009's breakout comedy hit The Hangover.

Gosling then found massive mainstream success in the 2004 romance «The Notebook» alongside Rachel McAdams.

He's also a director who has flirted with mainstream success in the past, so it may come as no surprise to learn that Refn is reported to be teaming up with screenwriters Neil Purvis and Robert Wade — co-writers of five James Bond outings including Skyfall and Spectre — on an as - yet untitled Asian - set action thriller.

Not exact matches

Though Laura Dern, 50, has had major success in the past, she achieved mainstream praise for her role as Renata Klein on HBO's «Big Little Lies.»

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

Since then, we've witnessed the precipitous decline of the Christian retail industry and Christian music festivals, as well as the success of a lot of Christian artists in the mainstream.

Religion News Service: On Grammy weekend, Christian music bounces back Many experts say thanks to artists like TobyMac and Lecrae, the contemporary Christian music industry is experiencing a revival, with strong sales, record - breaking tours, and new success in the mainstream charts.

Thus have the neoconservative Jews sought — so far, to put it mildly, with mixed success — to convince their mainstream fellow Jews that the growing political strength of Christian believers is not a danger to them, that, on the contrary, in the long run it will conduce far more to the security and well - being of their children and grandchildren.

As part of the GEF Tea Program, and following its success in east and southern Africa, the Rainforest Alliance lead a project to mainstream sustainable tea production landscapes in India, China, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.

Blue Oyster Cult occupies a unique place in rock history because it's one of very few hard rock / heavy metal bands to earn both genuine mainstream critical acclaim as well as commercial success.

«A Teachable Moment,» August 17, 2008 «While it is true that for decades the children of New Orleans toiled in a substandard school system, they have also continually faced countless other obstacles to success — inadequate health care, poorly educated parents, exposure to high rates of violent crime and a popular culture that often denigrates mainstream achievement.»

Paladino, who has been making noises about running for governor again in 2018, recently said he sees himself in Trump and believes the billionaire developer's success proves that his own brand of political incorrectness is becoming more mainstream.

Founded in 1995, the party found mainstream success when Ross Perot obtained eight percent of the popular vote in the 1996 presidential election and Jesse Ventura was elected Governor of Minnesota in 1998.

Others who have been approached by the group remain deeply sceptical about its chances of success, pointing out that past attempts to defeat the mainstream parties have ended in failure.

He said Akande has always been the brain behind the success of progressives and APC in Nigeria having served tremendously in various capacities to place the party to mainstream of political circle in Nigeria.

Tinoco's success in moving from a 2 - year college to the scientific mainstream reflects both his exceptional tenacity and his good fortune in meeting the right people.

But the successes are modest compared with those in South Korea, where the anti-evolution sentiment seems to be winning its battle with mainstream science.

Lilly has gone on to find mainstream success outside of YouTube, in acting and as a New York Times bestselling author.

Single in the»90s, Jill Crosby tried online dating on mainstream sites but found little success.

As eHarmony pulls away from it's Christian focus towards the mainstream, perhaps Dr Leman will find success in maintaining it's focus on Christian singles matching.

With online dating becoming very mainstream as a source of dating success stories, those new to online dating are most likely to give it a chance in this key period of the year.

JDate has a high rate of success stories, which have been featured in mainstream publications like The New York Times, People, and ABC News.

Pulling off the tricky balancing act of aiming for mainstream success while keeping one's street cred intact, songs like «Ghost of You» and «Predictable» abandon the band's mall - rat roots in exchange for more mature influences like U2 and Muse.

He continued to work steadily through the late 2000s, and received mainstream and critical success for his role in director J.J. Abram's Super 8.

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.

A top - notch actress who managed to remain a complete unknown as far as the general moviegoing public was concerned (spending over a decade starring in numerous art - house flicks for ex-husband Nicolas Roeg probably had a lot to do with that), Theresa Russell enjoyed a soupçon of mainstream success when she co-starred in Twentieth Century Fox's production of Black Widow, an ever - so - modest box office hit ($ 25 million) back at the start of» 87.

For an outsider rather perplexed by the overwhelming success of The Hunger Games series (both the young adult books and the mainstream movies), Divergent is partly more of the same, but there's also a bit more soul and relatability in Divergent's simple message: Don't give up.

I exaggerate, but Josh Gad has certainly become one of the hardest - working people in Hollywood in the past few years since he broke into mainstream success with Frozen, quickly accumulating movie credits like Beauty and the Beast and Murder on the Orient Express.

By its very existence it begs the question of whether this (or the upcoming Kevin Costner vehicle Dragonfly) would even have been considered if not for the success of the supposedly non-influential The Blair Witch Project: a mainstream horror film that flies in the face of conventional genre wisdom (at least since The Exorcist) in refraining from gore as steadfastly as it refuses to show its bogeyman.

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Call Me by Your Name was given life anew in Toronto, months after screening to raves in chilly Park City and Berlin — but the jury's still out on whether it's too arty and queer for mainstream awards success.

The movie is also funniest when Lang's team is in on the act, thanks to the deadpan humor of Michael Pena (who may finally get some mainstream success) and Scott's fellow tech - nerd crew of criminals.

After the success of the visually stunning and critically acclaimed Hero, one can only expect great things to come from the mind of writer - director Zhang Yimou, after raising the bar for kung fu movies seeking mainstream acceptance in theaters in the United States, and worldwide.

Its plot follows the mysterious disappearance of Bowie-esque glam - rocker Maxwell Demon, but the film is actually more interested in concepts, and in so many ways it was simply too cool and strange for mainstream success.

Coming off a decade where the American genre film devolved into lowest - common - denominator investments and blockbusters ballooned skyward on the backs of sequels and franchises, Refn's modest exercise in crime pastiche and car - chase nostalgia parlayed both the exhaustion of Hollywood's narrative resources and — perhaps more importantly — the gathering mainstream curiosity in independent music's preoccupation with the sound and feel of the 1980s (the film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular word - of - mouth successes of the decade).

It's another positive step in the ongoing mainstreaming of genre films that's been taking place over the past couple of years, recently given an additional credibility boost by the Oscars success of The Shape Of Water and Get Out.

Coming off of the mainstream success of his supporting role in the surprise hit, college comedy Neighbors back in 2014, and following his more recent success as the star performer and lead talent on his own original sitcom The Carmichael Show on NBC, Carmichael should be able to hold his own in Transformers 5, provided he continues to bring his aforementioned A-game.

Do you think this film will lead Charlie Day into more mainstream success for his comedic talents, apart from his years of stellar work on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?

The general consensus is that Red Dead Redemption 2 will be a huge success in its own right, but will not reach the levels of overwhelming mainstream popularity that catapulted GTA 5 to the top of the sales charts.

Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 action film Léon: The Professional, but mainstream success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released in 1999, 2002 and 2005).

-- Lovelace (Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, starring Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, James Franco, Sharon Stone)- Deep Throat, the first pornographic feature film to be a mainstream success, was an international sensation in 1972 and made its star, Linda Lovelace, a media darling.

Lovelace / U.S.A. (Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Screenwriter: Andy Bellin)-- Deep Throat, the first pornographic feature film to be a mainstream success, was an international sensation in 1972 and made its star, Linda Lovelace, a media darling.

Chase, of course, was instrumental in escalating the beloved humor magazine — co-founded in 1970 by Doug Kenney, who'll be played by Will Forte in the movie — from cult success into a mainstream name with his starring role in the brand's various Vacation films.

She appeared in the erotic romance 9 1/2 Weeks before finding more mainstream success playing reporter Vicki Vale in the first Batman movie.

Starting out in cult comedies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore before finding giant mainstream success with The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy.

Visions may lack some of the atmosphere of Jessabelle, which used its Louisiana locations to great effect, and Fisher lacks the compelling, quirkier presence of the earlier film's Sarah Snook, but Visions serves as further evidence that Greutert is one of the most interesting mainstream horror directors around — I can easily see a The Conjuring - style success in his future — and that despite its many diminishing - returns franchise films (Paranormal Activity, Sinister, Insidious, et al.), Blumhouse is far from running out of ideas.

Success has not shined upon most of the actors in this film, David Paymer is the most known in the mainstream as a character actor and he's only in the movie for less than five minutes.

Cardellini's talent has outstripped her opportunities for years now, though in mainstream successes («ER,» «Brokeback Mountain,» a recurring role on «Mad Men,» those shrill «Scooby - Doo» movies) and in work found in the margins (the very fine 2011 drama «Return,» where she played a military veteran back from Iraq) her unerring instincts in all kinds of material have served her well.