Sentences with phrase «name actors»

These days awards season guarantees one thing: a raft of movies based on real - life events featuring big name actors in disguise.

The list of big - named actors does not justify the textbook plot.

And I still didn't see many big name actors on there.

Promoting the book as a film, even naming actors to star in the roles.

The result of having such big - name actors lending their voices is that everything seems just that little bit more polished.

They're already talking about name actors but if you ask me they'd be crazy not to go with an unknown.

Already the most epic cast of all time, the extras might include the cut footage with eight more big name actors.

Some big - name actors do more than just star in million - dollar budgets — they have a stake in production companies of their own.

It's an odd, unpleasant little movie, with too - brief appearances by name actors like Jennifer Jason Leigh and Barkhad Abdi («Captain Phillips»), and too many scenes filmed in such dim light you're not sure exactly what's happening.

The supporting cast is lined up with name actors who do very fine work in small roles, highlights coming in the form of Viggo Mortensen as the William S. Burroughs surrogate, Kirsten Dunst as one of Moriarty's scorned lovers, and Amy Adams, giving a performance very far removed from her usual routine.

«Mic Check: Casting the Voices» (6:05) directs us to the fairly big name actors who give the movie its voices, with a mix of interviews and recording session clips.

2016 has no shortage of name actors cast in improbably tiny roles, but only one stands out as especially egregious.

He is going through his own Odyssey, trying to hide from locals who are apt to shoot deserters and meeting all sorts of characters (which translates to a slew of big name actors in small roles) along the way.

He has been the starring role in many movies and shows along with big names actors like Alan Tudyk and Ron Glass.

HBO has a knack for drawing big - name actors for limited - run projects, i.e. Frances McDormand in «Olive Kitteridge» (2014) and Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in «True Detective» (2014).

A skateboarding road - trip flick that will bore real skateboarders silly (and I should know — I've been one since the late»70s), it includes barely 10 minutes of badly - edited actual boarding, less than half of which features the main characters (no - name actors using obvious stunt doubles), who in the course of the movie perform only one trick (at the very end) that's beyond the abilities of any dedicated junior high school punk with a modicum of talent.

More obscurely, does it strike anyone else as peculiar that the question posed by the Legal Affairs Debate Club does not name an actor who would do the abolishing?

This special effects dominated sequel spent most of its budget on the visuals, with not much left for basic things like a quality script or even the ability to retain the mostly no - name actors from the first film, with only Robin Shou (Beverly Hills Ninja) and Talisa Soto (License to Kill) reprising their roles.

After she agreed to film the sketch, the scene took on momentum to become Mothers And Daughters, a collection of vignettes starring a slew of name actors including Selma Blair, Christina Ricci, Courteney Cox and Sharon Stone.

I did like how she thanked some of the smaller named actors in the film «Precious,» but you know once she wins the Oscar, she's going to speak even more deliberately.

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But anyone can see within five minutes that this mild and dawdling picture from writer - director Ron Shelton is the sort of trifle meant for a retirement - age audience who just want to spend a pleasant and uneventful hour - and - a-half with a few name actors of a certain age.

How would the Blumhouse Doctrine (the budget must be from $ 3 - 5 million, a dirt - cheap production, and everyoe gets paid scale — though name actors can get a larger cut on the back end in exchange for smaller upfront pay) handle the basic premise of students getting cursed and then dying off one at a time?

The 21st century corollary to George Kaufman's maxim that «satire is what closes Saturday night» might well be that indie black comedies — which almost never make money but continue to attract name actors — are what play contractually mandated one - week runs at the Village East before heading off to DVD.

Only the roster of stars used to prop up its mainstream appeal causes distraction — a stipulation of 20th Century Fox in coughing up more than half the budget was the inclusion of famous faces, and plenty of big name actors wanted to work with Malick whether they made final cut or not.

There's never been any confirmed word on her contract, but she's definitely in Infinity War — having been spotted filming in Scotland by multiple sources — and few name actors sign on with Marvel for less than three movies.

Plus the sheer volume of name actors squeezed into supporting roles was also a trifle distracting.

The strangest element of the film apart from the throwaway role for name actor Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) is the performance of Hugo Weaving (The Turning).

With her upcoming film The Bad Batch, Amirpour scores big name actors Jim Carrey and Keanu Reeves (though the extent of their roles is unknown at this time) along with Diego Luna and Suki Waterhouse to star in a film described as a cannibal love story set in a post-apocalyptic Texas wasteland.

The idea of hiring a cast of familiar name actors to voice animated characters is becoming increasingly tired and obvious, but the cast is perfectly chosen, and features some pleasant surprises, even in tiny roles: Forest Whitaker and Mackenzie Foy do fine work as the bear and mouse leads, but Paul Giamatti, as a squalling, tempestuous rat judge, is particularly fantastic.

These include Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), the hyperactive child of 22 - year - old Halley (Bria Vinaite), an unemployed single mother with bright - green hair who spends most of her time dodging rent deadlines from the motel's patriarchal manager, Bobby (Willem Dafoe, the first name actor to surface in Baker's typically microbudget filmography).

SAINTS ROW IV * FEAR AND LOATHING IN STEELPORT * Deep Silver's latest hyper - irreverent installment of the Saint's franchise has you killing terrorists, dismantling active nukes, assuming the Presidency of the United States, thwarting alien invaders, becoming the Deus Ex Machina of a computer simulation, and naming the actor Keith David as your second - in command.

Mark Ruffalo is now a house hold name actor.

On Tuesday, it swiftly hits DVD and Blu - ray, looking like a direct - to - video movie despite a cast that includes five marketable name actors.

We've got big - name actors screen testing for the «Fantastic Four» reboot, another admitting he's been approached about a role in «Star Wars: Episode VII,» and yet another choosing to back out of a franchise that he's partially responsible for starting.

Name actors Keenan Wynn and Clu Gulager do little but act cranky.

«It's a very international cast and I think that the best of casting her is that I didn't have to cast big name actors around her, I could cast people like Juliette Binoche, Kaori Momoi and Takeshi Kitano.

To see America's sweetheart go 90 minutes sans make - up and with unkempt hair is a welcome change, but the script contrivances and the choppiness of the presentation — a stream of big name actors make single scene appearances — do nothing to help the case for Aniston.

Barbara Walters names actors, dancer, designer, presidential hopeful for «10 Most Fascinating People 2015» TV special

This summer sees several name actors disappearing into their character thanks to movie magic, including Oscar Isaac and Idris Elba

Working with predominantly non-actors to great effect, what result did you find from bringing name actors into your projects?

Smith's internationally acclaimed thriller, Child 44, has already been adapted for the big screen starring big - name actors Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman, and we're betting on Smith becoming a household name in no time.

Probably the most significant factor in campaign mode is the return of FMV cut scenes, which not only have some big name actors involved, but look terrifically sharp and crisp.

Although the story is an improvement over Splinter Cell's (with some great named actors doing the voiceovers to great effect), it's hard to imagine Tom Clancy himself had too much to do with it other than banking the royalty advance.