Sentences with phrase «movie debut as»

This musical drama, a remake of the 1976 film that starred Irene Cara and Lonette McKee, features Sparks in her movie debut as a budding songwriting genius who pens all the hits for her vocal trio that includes her two sisters.

And Justin Long made his movie debut as a nerdy teenager who lends a hand.

Pop singer Janet Jackson makes a promising movie debut as Justice, and Tupac Shakur is an offbeat leading man.

Cara Delevingne has reportedly missed out on the lead role in the «Fifty Shades of Grey» movie.The 21 - year - old model - who made her movie debut as...

Brigitte Nielsen made her movie debut as the scantily - clad blade - wielder.

Ferrara, who made his movie debut as a 10 - year - old in 1986 when he dodged a truck in F / X, got into the biz through his father, Frank Sr., a stunt coordinator who is James Gandolfini's double in The Sopranos.

Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter, Limitless) makes her DC Universe Movies debut as the voice of Selina Kyle.

Not exact matches

Super Bowl LII's thrilling finish wasn't the only surprise of Sunday night, as Netflix enticed millions of football fans by dropping a preview for a new movie that debuted on the streaming site immediately after the Philadelphia Eagles finished off their win over the New England Patriots.

The movie, which focuses on the titular superhero who is king of the fictional African country of Wakanda, is forecasted to pull in as much as $ 165 million in domestic box - office gross for its debut over the four - day President's Day holiday weekend.

Looking more like a creature out of a Steven Spielberg movie than one of our closer primate relatives, Callithrix saterei made its official debut as a new species of marmoset in 1996.

Kim Joo Hyuk last acting award is for best supporting actor in the movie Confidential director, his co-stars Hyun Bin, Yoo Hae Thirteen years after her debut as an actress, Kim Hyun Ju of Partner and Boys Before Flowers poses nude in the October issue of Singles to

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staAs schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

Biography: Difficult to recognize in her natural blonde state following her turn as a raven - haired Neve Campbell knockoff in Scary Movie and it's sequel, Anna made her professional acting debut at the tender age of nine at Washington's Seattle Repertory Theater.

Although it's been used repeatedly as a movie title, Alive and Kicking perfectly captures the joyous enthusiasm of Susan Glatzer's debut documentary, which presents swing dance as a vibrant, living art form.

Making his movie directorial debut with The Wicked Go to Hell (1955), Hossein went on to call the shots on such Film Noir fare as Nude in a White Car (1960) and I Killed Rasputin (1967).

Making the move to Los Angeles in order to pursue an acting career full time, her previous improvisational experiences would soon come in handy as she landed her breakthrough role in the popular Scream - slanted spoof of teen slasher pics, Difficult to recognize in her natural blonde state following her turn as a raven - haired Neve Campbell knockoff in Scary Movie and it's sequel, Anna made her professional acting debut at the tender age of nine at Washington's Seattle Repertory Theater.

Within a year, she made her television debut as a female police detective in the pilot for a short - lived crime drama entitled Dog and Cat; in 1978, she landed the starring role in the made - for - TV movie Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold, appropriately playing a beautiful Southern girl who comes to Los Angeles in search of stardom.

A dweeby and unenchanting concoction as romantic comedies go, Mark Decena's debut feature also juggles enough storylines to fill five or six movies in barely 80 minutes of screen time, ending up with a whole distinctly less than the sum of its parts.

Making her acting debut as an infant with her mother on TV's Days of Our Lives, Applegate subsequently landed her first movie role at age ten when she appeared with Priddy in the low - grade horror flick Jaws of Satan (1981).

Lelio makes his English - language debut with Disobedience, and, as with Lelio's two previous movies Gloria and the Oscar - winning Best Foreign Language Film A Fantastic Woman, it depicts a complex diorama of pain and longing, a hoping for acceptance but also a bracing for loneliness.

This superb debut feature by Korean - American director So Yong Kim seems to be constructed entirely of the ineffable and intangible, those fleeting moments that most movies treat as throwaways.

Fuglsig's feature debut is ultimately less an action movie and more a procedural, one in which incremental gains and minimal casualties are as much as can be hoped for.

Much like the kids in this movie who come of age, so too does Robert Kirbyson's skill as a writer - director in his debut film Snowmen.

Kuzyk made her feature debut in 1984's He's Hired, She's Fired, but went on to spend the bulk of her career playing supporting roles and occasional leads in television movies such as Family Sins (1987) and The Lifeforce Experiment (1995).

After making her film debut in That Night (1992), Heigl balanced movie work with high school, playing a small role in Steven Soderbergh's Depression - era drama King of the Hill (1993), starring as Gérard Depardieu's difficult daughter in My Father the Hero (1994), and Steven Seagal's niece in the action sequel Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995).

Debut writer - director Chris Kelly, a writer on «SNL,» digs in rather than relying on contrived, movie - ready set pieces (as in the similar «The Hollars»), making this gay «Garden State» rich with naturalistic comedy as well as beautifully touching moments.

Mercilessly ribbing the James Bond movies and Graham Greene's espionage entertainments, the ninth Carry On saw Barbara Windsor make her series debut as the most resourceful of a hamstrung quartet of agents sent to Vienna to recover a secret formula.

«The industry is bracing for the record - setting debut of the highly anticipated «Avengers: Infinity War» that is expected to break through the $ 200 million opening weekend sound barrier as the summer movie season of 2018 gets off to an early and auspicious start,» mentioned comScore field place of business analyst Paul Dergarabedian.

Herzfeld, whose career somehow lived to fight another day after his 1983 debut feature, «Two of a Kind» — a spectacular Hollywood turkey that imagined John Travolta and Olivia Newton - John as a failed inventor and bank teller chosen by the angels to restore God's faith in mankind — is a master of unintentional kitsch, and most of his latest plays out like a Mel Brooks or Zucker Brothers parody movie minus the actual jokes.

That movie debuted the Predator and starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers as part of a special forces team who ended up in a fight to the death with the alien bounty hunter.

As summer winds down, we're starting to see glimpses of the movies that will be vying for Golden Globes and Oscars this fall and winter, and one of them is undoubtedly Steve Jobs, which just debuted a new extended TV spot.

Simple, haunting, and with one of the best taglines in modern memory, the poster for Jordan Peele's directorial debut will go down in movie poster history as one of the greats.

(The film debuted in 1977, just as Star Wars was revolutionizing movie sound with a wide release in Dolby Stereo.)

Lana and Lilly Wachowski's feature debut before they both transitioned was a B - movie by design, but damn it if Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon didn't steam up the screen as lesbian lovers out to con a mobster for millions of dollars.

It's interesting too, because this is the movie that brought them together as a couple, and it hits theatres in North America the day after its European debut.

Hopper appeared in some of the most iconic movies of all time, but with his directorial debut Easy Rider he proved he was just as capable of making modern masterpieces himself.

After years of writing for television and cutting his directorial teeth on the 1979 TV movie The Jericho Mile, Michael Mann made his feature film debut with Thief (1981), a cool, gritty crime movie starring James Caan as the head of a high - end crew of professional safecrackers.

Tom Holland's first solo outing as the web - slinger also has a higher domestic debut than fellow superhero movies Wonder Woman and Logan, beaten only by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

OUR TAKE: Fresh young faces starring in a movie about a board game that hinges on delusion - as directed by Stiles White, a special effects guru from the Stan Winston studio, who has written films like Knowing and The Possession, but is admittedly making his directorial debut with this movie.

«Disclaimer: this is about to get romantic as F.» 20th Century Fox has debuted the second official trailer for a movie titled Love, Simon, in theaters this March.

by Walter Chaw The same kind of movie as Doug Liman's Mr. and Mrs. Smith but more so, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang marks the hyphenate debut of star screenwriter Shane Black, and it's the kind of movie his Last Action Hero would have been had they aimed it at adults (and cast actors).

British comedian Russell Brand, as the gregarious, lizard - hipped, sexaholic rocker Aldous Snow, stole the show so thoroughly in his big Hollywood debut, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, that they simply had to give him his own movie to run away with.

As usual, there are a bunch of Netflix originals, including some movies that debuted at the SXSW Film Festival, new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a new comedy special from Louis C.K., a new season of The Get Down and more.

Paramount has debuted the first trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street, the latest movie directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a young millionaire living the party life.

You can see how all that plays out in the first Sleepless trailer that debuted last fall, but now a clip from the movie has debuted, showing us the tense, cheeky relationship that Jamie Foxx has with Michelle Monaghan, who works in internal affairs and has no idea that Foxx is just pretending to be a corrupt cop as part of his job, and isn't actually as bad as some of his colleagues.

Korean director Park Chan - wook's English - language debut plays like one giant homage to Alfred Hitchcock (particularly his 1943 film «Shadow of a Doubt»), but with a decidedly unique and erotic twist that's every bit as perverse as his previous work — the kind of movie that gets under your skin and stays there for days.

Sony Pictures and Eon Productions have debuted the final trailer for the 24th Bond movie, titled Spectre, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig as Agent 007.

The film debuted at the Toronto Film Festival where its performances — especially from Janney and Robbie — were given high praise, as well as the way the movie balanced its comedic tone with the way it portrayed the facts and still grounded Harding in humanity.

The sometimes - stale «Danny Collins» is the directorial debut of writer Dan Fogelman, who has penned movies as charming as «Crazy, Stupid, Love» and as... not charming as «The Guilt Trip.»

The D Films release slate include the polarising, oddball Sundance buddy movie Swiss Army Man starring Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano, as well as Natalie Portman's directorial debut A Tale Of Love And Darkness, and Oasis documentary Supersonic.