Sentences with phrase «much as a movie star»

It shows that he can be a strong character actor as much as a movie star.

«Jerry Maguire» (1996) Cruise may have given better acting performances, but he's never shone as much as a movie star as he did in his first collaboration with Cameron Crowe, «Jerry Maguire.»

Gather in the soaring social room, much as movie stars and other guests did decades ago for cocktails and conversation, then look up at walnut paneling and 16th century tapestries.

Not exact matches

«Much like the final films in series like «The Dark Knight,» «Star Wars» and «Harry Potter,» this is billed as the payoff movie that fans have been waiting for,» he added.

Designed by William J. Dodd, whose portfolio included such landmark buildings as the Los Angeles Herald - Examiner and The Pacific Center, this once private home sheltered famed New York attorney Samuel Untermyer as well as silent screen star Marion Davies, remembered as much for her 30 year affair with William Randolph Hearst as her movie roles and business savvy.

You have a point about rock but hes far too busy and has too much money to trot out on tv every cple weeks for next to no money (compared to his movies) the ronda thing has been all over sports sites and entertainment sites im not really a ronda fan but i cant deny she has mainstream appeal (not nearly as much as before but still has it) lets put it this way whens the last time we saw something like «sasha banks (insert every wwe star) wrestles tonight» featured in major media publications online.

Rogue One is a much different film and worth seeing clean, it is as many have described a war movie set in the Star Wars universe, and I enjoyed it more than Force Awakens.

It is instead as much a part of the publicity machine as other controversies involving rivals, girlfriends or stalkers, all of which make a movie star like Salman Khan the celebrity he is.

Much as women have always compared their bodies and breasts to models and movie stars, now the vagina is up for inspection.

Much to my dismay, the OkCupid A-List doesn't involve quite as many sexy movie stars and free Chanel clothes.

It is not so much based on the 1984 film which starred Jeff Bridges as a sequel to it... Even if you saw the movie, you may find the TV show confusing... If you didn't, you may be utterly bewildered.

Wayans isn't as funny as Johnson and unfortunately for him he looks way too much like his dad so you keep thinking it is his dad, and lets be honest... Damon Wayans Sr. is no top twenty movie star in any genre.

Most of the movie's star power has been harnessed without much obvious reason, right down to the movie's seeming origins as a delivery system for the Elton John catalog.

Never in a million years would I have guessed that the same filmmaker might turn around and make something like Tangerine, his punk - as - fuck portrait of a much seedier L.A.. It's not just a total creative 180, but kind of the opposite of a sell - out move: Trading a formulaic story for an unpredictable one and a slick Indiewood aesthetic for a gorgeous, radical lo - fi approach, Baker trains his iPhone camera on the kind of characters — black and transgender prostitutes, immigrant cabbies — that the movies rarely acknowledge, let alone put into starring roles.

Seeings as pretty much the entire continuing plot hinges on a (really obvious) twist revealed in that movie's final minutes, we'll just mention that it had Sean Bean in it and for a nice change he didn't betray anyone and / or die — meaning the Game of Thrones star can return for a larger role in the sequel.

We shouldn't be doubting a Star Wars movie because Star Wars is as much of a sure thing as you get in Hollywood.

The supporting cast includes an outstanding Daniel Kaluuya («Get Out»), a rare on - screen appearance by motion - capture master Andy Serkis with his Tolkien co-star Martin Freeman as a CIA agent, Forest Whitaker as a priest, Winston Duke as the leader of on of Wakanda's five tribes, and «This is Us» star Sterling K. Brown as a guy you're better off not knowing too much about until you see the movie, which I hope you do, more than once.

As it turns out, Real Steel, directed by Night at the Museum's Shawn Levy, borrows so much from other films that it might better be titled Reel Steal: not only from The Champ, but from Rocky, the Transformers movies and even some Star Wars.

Hollywood writer / producer Roberto Orci (Cowboys and Aliens, Transformers, Star Trek) and AMC Theatres blog editor John Campea (AMCTheatres.com / network / scriptscreen), moderate a panel of the most popular movie website personalities as they come together to discuss how new media has influenced moviemaking and marketing, what it takes to run a popular site, and much more in a panel discussion and Q&A session.

That approach includes focusing the spotlight on Evans» character (who leads a rebellion aboard a futuristic train that houses much of humanity in the film's wintery dystopian setting), in order to better utilize his star power as a selling point - in addition to emphasizing the movie's action beats, as accompanied by the expected dramatic musical cues in the post-Inception age of trailers.

Of course, if you are going to make another civil rights sports movie, the story of Jackie Robinson is pretty much the definitive version, so it's surprising that only one other film («The Jackie Robinson Story») has been made on the subject, and that movie starred the famous baseball player as himself.

Masters of the Web — Hollywood Writer / Producer Roberto Orci (Star Trek 2, Cowboys & Aliens, Transformers, Star Trek, Alias, Mission Impossible 3) and writer / director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs the World) moderate and AMC Theatres Blog Editor John Campea (AMCTheatres.com/network/scriptscreen) hosts a panel of the most popular movie website personalities as they come together to discuss how new media has influenced moviemaking and marketing, what it takes to run a popular site, and much more in a panel discussion and Q&A session.

Director Maria Finitzo focuses on the girls» soccer team — specifically a few star players and the benevolent, paternal coach — but this doesn't feel like a sports movie so much as a lament for America's beleaguered working class.

And she is as much a fan of genre movies and hearing her talk about, not just Star Wars, but hearing her talk about those kind of films, is evidence that she would just kill it.»

I have definitely dropped that money on worse production before, but this one has so much star power and a fun premise (or at least it sounded that way) that I feel this was one of the least risky choices I've made as far as going into a movie I know very little (or nothing) about.

So, it's not about casting Batman's sidekick as much as it is about casting a fully - established superhero with enough star power to lead his own solo movie (whenever the Nightwing movie happens).

For children of the 1970s, there was no greater one - two punch in the history of cinema than 1980 and 1981 as they featured not only the best Star Wars movie Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back, but also Superman II, the much - anticipated sequel to Superman.

The much - hyped movie «Black Panther,» starring Chadwick Boseman as the eponymous superhero, opens on February 16, picking up the adventures of the African king and superhero.

What makes «Year of the Rat» so vital is how, incidentally or not, it goes from denouncing the auteur theory (through not only the typically insecure observations of actors, but also the deflective statements of Morgan and long - time creative partner Wong) to validating it: In a coda, we see that the movie's poor box - office showing has shaken Morgan and only Morgan to the core; call filmmaking a «collaborative effort» to your heart's content, but as William Shatner, of all people, opines on the recent Star Trek V discs, at the end of the day no one on the set has as much emotionally invested in the picture's success as the person at its helm.

A few other Westerns featuring female protagonists that almost made the cut are: the Coens» «True Grit» although we just didn't really feel like Hailee Steinfeld, good as she is, actually leads the movie; Samuel Fuller «s «Forty Guns» which also stars Western superheroine Barbara Stanwyck; 1995 TV movie «Buffalo Girls» in which Anjelica Huston plays Calamity Jane; William Wellman's «Westward the Women» in which a wagon train of «marriageable» females is brought out to supply a woman - starved town in the West; and straight to video title «The Desperate Trail,» just because this is a list about strong women leads and they don't get much stronger than Linda Fiorentino (alongside Sam Elliott).

In the case of Donnie Darko, any movie that used a plane crash as a major catalyst for its plot and which was released just a month after the 9/11 attacks had about as much of a chance of success as I would if I tried to get a gig writing a Star Wars movie.

Region: US The film: Curtis Hanson's «90s masterpiece still stands as one of the very best movies of that decade, making stars of its two unknowns - Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe - and giving its leading lady, Kim Basinger, a much - deserved Oscar.

Starring Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Peña as two cops on the trail of some villainous scum, the movie puts a raucous and hilarious spin on cop movies by making the leads crooked cops, much...

In The Last Movie Star, Reynolds looks frail at 82, but his eyes are alive with witty challenge as he plays Vic Edwards, a superstar who started as a stuntman, much like Reynolds himself.

This horror - comedy cult favorite starring Tom Hanks is as much a fun movie as it is a fine experiment.

Johnson's star vehicle, «San Andreas,» was made for much more — $ 110 million — but the investment was well spent as the 2015 action movie went on to make $ 474 million worldwide.

Why it Could Succeed: One of the biggest female movie stars in the world, Angelina Jolie can disappear from the movie scene for a long period of time and come back with as much salivating support from fans as when she left.

Granted, it would be pretty unusual for a Star Wars movie to not feature some dramatic landscapes, but — as previously established — we still don't know much about The Last Jedi.

This is actually my first Steve McQueen movie; on the basis of this one, it's evident he's not much of an actor but wields considerable power as a movie star.

And when his 1958 masterpiece «Vertigo» — that eerie romantic chiller starring James Stewart as a detective afraid of heights and Kim Novak as the beautiful mystery woman for whom he falls — was recently voted the best movie of all time, finally beating out runner - up «Citizen Kane» in the Sight and Sound film poll, it was a recognition that was probably as much for Hitchcock's entire oeuvre.

That is why Hollywood stars are worth the salaries they are getting, and why some stars now make as much as a movie used to cost.

Early on in Jack and Jill, Mexican television star Eugenio Derbez, playing Sandler's landscaper, carries around an unopened bottle of Coca - Cola for no reason whatsoever, but that's only the tip of the iceberg in a movie that's just as much about commercials and product placement as it is about its ostensible, sibling - conflict premise.

I didn't care much for the two movies starring Angelina Jolie (come to think of it, they were awful, despite a good performance from Jolie), so I was certainly looking forward to seeing Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, and she nails it.

Schwentke does not appear to have as much experience directing action movies, although his most recent film is the upcoming Warren Ellis comic book movie Red starring Bruce Willis.

There's also a really great action sequence with Reynolds and «The Killing» star Joel Kinneman (who previously worked with director Daniel Espinosa on the Swedish hit «Snabba Cash») that will likely go down as one of the best fight scenes of the year, but for a movie packed with this much talent, there should have been a lot more highlights than that.

This is despite the participation of such stars as Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, and Eva Mendes; Cleaner is ultimately just one of those movies that, though generally free of outwardly negative attributes, remains strangely uninvolving for much its running time.

Jason Segel found it challenging being Emily Blunt's love interest.The actor stars alongside the 27 - year - old beauty in new movie «Gulliver's Travels» as regal love interest Horatio and found being believable as a princess» boyfriend much...

Dwayne Johnson is making his starring debut, Steven Brand (as Memnon) comes straight from a crop of failed TV shows, director Chuck Russell is just coming off of one of the worst movies in 2000 (Bless the Child), and a script that had been rewritten numerous times by hacks that haven't made very much in terms of great screenplays.

By nature of the job, we never really learn much about the personal lives of character actors, as opposed to the movie stars.

Robin Williams pretty much set the template for comedians breaking into movies: start out as a wildly popular cult comedian, get your own network sitcom tailored specifically to your style of comedy and then begin accepting starring roles in Hollywood films.