Sentences with phrase «name studio roles»

We've seen a string of directors trade their success in smaller independent features for big budget big name studio roles, and after both Creed and Black Panther, it's tough to deny that no one has been as successful in making the leap as Ryan Coogler.

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At age 13, she took her vibrant stage presence and star quality to Broadway, and by the next year she had made it to Hollywood, where MGM studio executives suggested she change her name to Rita.Mostly appearing in musicals, her most notable roles of the»50s include Zelda Zanders the Zip Girl in Singin» in the Rain and Tuptim in The King and I.

It's no stretch to imagine that the studio could have had a remarkably successful film had it simply hired the two stars of the stage version — Lee Remick (a Tony nominee for the role) and Robert Duvall, still a few years away from being a name moviegoers would recognize.

Clooney wasn't able to take the role, so the studio decided to eye someone younger (which is something they wanted all along anyway), with names like Bradley Cooper, Joel Edgerton and Ryan Gosling tossed around.

The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision is hearing that the studio is likely to go for a big name and isn't ruling out switching genders for the role.

While it sounds like Kyle Chandler may very well be the first choice to play Cable for director Tim Miller, the word is the studio is looking for a bigger name in the role, namely Taken star Liam Neeson.

Following the story's release, Hollywood Reporter writer Borys Kit tweeted confirmation, adding that Bale was another «big name» the studios was targeting for the role.

The beginning of the end most likely came in 1997, when the release of An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn gave the alias (played by Eric Idle) his first leading role in a motion picture, as «a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee [who] realizes he's an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big budget action film he knows is horrible.»