Sentences with phrase «male leads in its films»

Prior to the 2014 announcement that the company would be making «Black Panther» and «Captain Marvel,» the studio had famously only cast straight while male leads in its films.

Not exact matches

SALON Icon has had a celebrity client visiting every week.Salon owner Lisa Mulder has the hairdressing contract for Lachy Hume the lead male in the Let's Get Skase feature film currently being filmed in Perth.

But as good as Schneider is (or as he can be in controlled doses) it's the lead male, Annable, who truly fails this film.

He reportedly auditioned for a small part, and though the show's producers did not deem him right for the characterization, they felt so impressed by Eigenberg's presence that they created the character of Steve Brady especially for him, as an extension of his own personality; the plan, again, was to create a sincere, committed, down - to - earth male paramour to offset Miranda's (Cynthia Nixon) cynicism.Though initially intended as a temporary part, the popularity of the character among viewers (and Eigenberg's onscreen chemistry with Nixon) led to Eigenberg's permanent inclusion on the show, as well as subsuquent movies.Circa 2002, Eigenberg expanded into film roles by playing the business partner of Richard Gere in Mark Pellington's underrated supernatural thriller The Mothman Prophecies.

Griff seems to be too psychologically damaged to make sense as a male lead, and his imagination swells the entire film in a fog of uncertainty.

In the lead - up to the film's release, there were rumblings that Bridesmaids was a straight rip - off of The Hangover, in which a male wedding party bonds over roofies, tasers and TysoIn the lead - up to the film's release, there were rumblings that Bridesmaids was a straight rip - off of The Hangover, in which a male wedding party bonds over roofies, tasers and Tysoin which a male wedding party bonds over roofies, tasers and Tyson.

The «Girls With Guns» films featured strong female leads, usually supported by ineffective or soon - to - be-killed male counterparts, and blended martial arts action with heavy gunplay, usually supported by eye - piercing 80s fashion, heavy synth scores, and lots of explosions in empty warehouses and abandoned construction sites.

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

After wrapping production last November, the movie has hit a slight bump in the road, and The Hate U Give cast is now being shaken up: a new report says the film's male lead is being replaced after a controversial video of him surfaced online.

Harris was up for Best Male Lead for his work in the indie film Beach Rats.

The constant droning of sad classical music over 70 % of the film is highly manipulative.The lead actress is toiling hard in the fields, yet at all times wears lipstick, foundation, rough and mascara.Even some of the males wear lipstick throughout.Everybody is drop dead gorgeous, no mud or gore in sight.The whole film is suffused with too much romantic zeal and sentiment.The two lead actors are excellent, but as usual Tom Sturridge is poor.He fails to convince he could ever be the dashing colonial soldier with his thin, weedy style of acting.One star

Vicky Boone Casting is conducting a state - wide search for athletic male high school student to play a lead role in an upcoming Paramount Pictures film.

«FIRE MAY BE SUBTLE» Three leads, two male and one female, are being cast in this short film about a woman whose psyche suffers a major break after the death of her boyfriend.

We need African - American female lead actresses in films, in tandem with African - American male leading actors.

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

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 Nelson (2006).

Billy Crudup, who recently starred in The Stanford Prison Project, is set to play the male lead in 20th Century Women, an Annapurna film written and directed by Mike Mills and co-starring 21st century women Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, and Greta Gerwig.

If the apartment of the female lead in Head - On (04) looks (according to her boyfriend) like it's been hit by a chick bomb, then the title restaurant of Fatih Akin's latest film has been hit by the male equivalent.

The film's only podium absences came at the hands of «Dallas Buyers Club» — Chiwetel Ejiofor lost to Matthew McConaughey in male lead and Michael Fassbender to Jared Leto for supporting actor, results that were thought by many a foregone conclusion both Saturday and at Sunday's Oscars.

In a film with as broadly comic a sensibility as this there is something that doesn't sit right about having such a deplorable male lead.

Legendary's King Kong movie Kong: Skull Island may have lost two of its male stars earlier this month in Michael Keaton (Birdman) and J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), but the project has now secured its female lead, with Deadline revealing that Brie Larson (Trainwreck) has signed on to the film.

Black Panther was certainly an important film on a number of levels — whether it was providing much - needed contrast to the otherwise caucasian male - led stories we had already seen in the past, or the genius marketing that further drummed up anticipation for the Wakandan - set epic.

Robert Downey Jr. is in talks to play the lead male role in Alfonso Cuaron's upcoming sci - fi film Gravity.

Of course you saw this coming, but Disney's latest animated film is more than deeply watchable fare with a good gender balance in the cast — a wonderful thing in its own right — it's hilariously funny, genuinely moving and its sisterly leads are compelling characters with relatable arcs, whether you're male or female.

Much might be made of Dhont's decision to cast a cisgender male in the lead role (films with Eddie Redmayne and Matt Bomer playing trans have been met with some backlash) but this might be a unique case.

Something striking about your films is the concept of maturity within your characters, especially in this story with the three male leads.

Male lead Sullivan Stapleton's ocker intonations are never quite as stirring as Gerard Butler's guttural Scottish brogue in the first film, but he can swing a sword with conviction.

The male lead from Gareth Edwards» low - budgets sleeper Monsters has got great people working on his side, because despite not having the most head - turning performance in that film he has become a hot commodity after years of playing sideline roles.

After tracing how the discoveries of Turing's World War II decoding machine led to the modern computer, Cumberbatch clarified that the Morten Tyldum - directed film «is not a period drama» but is «utterly relevant» now because of its discussion of Joan Clarke's (Keira Knightley) plight in a male - dominated workplace, as well as Turing's secret homosexual status, for which he was punished by the British government and eventually triggered his suicide.

As Julie Kirgo points out in her liner notes essay for the recent Twilight Time Blu - ray release of the film, The Crimson Kimono can perhaps be best understood as a romance between its two male leads: detectives Joe Kojaku (James Shigeta) and Charlie Bancroft (Glenn Corbett).

Being here in Cannes I've been paying close attention to how these films with such strong female leads have been faring with the male majority.

Next up is the male lead in lesbian werewolf indie «Jack and Diane» alongside Juno Temple and Riley Keough, but the latter part of the year will see him with key roles in two of our most anticipated films of the year.

The truth is, there were female leads in those films but they had a male counter part.

Up until now, the only weekend in which a film with a white male lead actor had won the box office came when «Maze Runner: The Death Cure,» starring Dylan O'Brien, knocked «Jumanji» off the top spot at the North American box office on the weekend of Jan. 26.

Paramount's first Transformers spinoff, Bumblebee, casts Jorge Lendeborg Jr. for the male lead, joining Hailee Steinfeld in the film.

After his breakout comedy In Bruges and its wild, male - centric follow - up Seven Psychopaths, writer / director Martin McDonagh shifts gears again for his most emotive film yet — and one led, no less, by a woman.

The chief problems seem to be: scheduling conflicts of both WKW and Nicole; the amount of time it will take to film and the filming in China are unfavourable to Nicole; WKW's inability to find a male lead to act opposite Nicole; WKW will only make this film if Nicole acts in it.

A film consultant told The Associated Press in February 2006 that the project was being delayed to 2007 because Wong hadn't found a strong male lead.

Beasts of No Nation, Netflix's first foray into original feature film making, made a huge impact this morning landing nominations in Best Feature, Best Director (Cary Fukunaga), Best Male Lead (Abraham Attah), Best Supporting Male (Idris Elba) and Best Cinematography.

While Helen Mirren is fine in taking on the lead role (it's a male role in Shakespeare's play), the film still has too many contradictions and falls flat.

Rockwell is known for his standout leading performances in an array of noteworthy films, including George Clooney's Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, which he received a Silver Berlin Bear Award for Best Actor at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival; Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men opposite Nicolas Cage and Alison Lohman; and Seven Psychopaths opposite Woody Harrelson, Colin Farrell and Christopher Walken, which earned him a 2013 Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Male.

In almost any other version of this film (including any that would come from Hollywood where inclusion, diversity and #MeToo is in full swing) the two male leads would be depicted as hardscrabble, hardworking lovable rogues conquering the world while their devoted women keep home and hearth, smiling lovingly at their achievementIn almost any other version of this film (including any that would come from Hollywood where inclusion, diversity and #MeToo is in full swing) the two male leads would be depicted as hardscrabble, hardworking lovable rogues conquering the world while their devoted women keep home and hearth, smiling lovingly at their achievementin full swing) the two male leads would be depicted as hardscrabble, hardworking lovable rogues conquering the world while their devoted women keep home and hearth, smiling lovingly at their achievements.

It's exactly the kind of film that money - focused studios are afraid of — intelligent, thoughtful and led by women in a genre whose «traditional» fanbase skews male.

It is the performance of Alvaro as the steadfast and moderate Louisa, however, that grounds the film and allows its audience to engage in the more highly strung antics of the two male leads.

«The Fault in Our Stars» will put him over the top to women and men everywhere as it'll be his breakout role as the film's male romantic lead.

The film is based on their popular theme park ride, and already has the mighty Dwayne Johnson cast in the male lead.

This is the kind of film that was all the rage in the early «60s: aging male star, once a romantic lead, is cast as head of a really annoying family that puts him through absolute hell, until the denouement that insists that family life is in fact splendid and really the ONLY THING WORTH EXISTING FOR.

Woody Allen no longer casts himself as the romantic lead in his films, but it's still pretty obvious when the director's own viewpoints, neuroses, and inclinations are coming out of his male leads» mouths.

Set in the 1970s, more about the film features two male leads — played respectively by Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling — who are thrust into a conspiracy when they...

Not only have they been acting for decades already but this year they have whole films built around them; these aren't girlfriends propping up the male character, but leads in their own right.