Sentences with phrase «of dramatic actors»

Still, the inclusion of dramatic actors such as Cruise and Kidman on the overpaid list does lend credence to the fact that paying an actor large amounts of money to star in a movie is pretty risky, if not foolish.

Also, Murphy is more of a dramatic actor than a comedic one, and his characterâ $ ™ s background is filled in far too late.

He had one of the funniest lines of the night and that's saying a lot considering how serious of a dramatic actor he is known as being.

Not exact matches

Indeed a conversation is a dramatic work, even if a very short one, in which participants are not only the actors but also the joint authors, working out in an agreement or disagreement the mode of their production» (Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, 196).

The Bible tells a dramatic story of many actors in which God plays the primary and ultimate role.

From this primary and basic signification, the term progressed in meaning and came to be applied not only to the mask of the actor, but also to the dramatic character represented by the mask.

The rule of faith demands that Scripture be read as a coherent dramatic narrative, the unity of which depends on its principal actor: the God who has forever known himself and who, in the history of redemption, has revealed himself to us, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The lightning growth of Chinese media is part of the dramatic expansion of the presence of Chinese diplomats, peacekeepers, commercial actors (state - owned or private) and ordinary citizens that has been transforming the African continent in the last 10 - 15 years.

But how will the judges be able to compare a video game to a music video to a podcast of actors playing out a dramatic script... or to the creative idea you have in mind?

The story below may be a bit embellished to make the video more dramatic, and it's an actor in the video, but it's based on a real story of a man that kept fast food burgers in his basement to study them for breakdown.

It has some sparkly rivets and the neckline has a dramatic shape so it looks like it's made to be the star of the outfit, rather than a supporting actor.

American actor Franklin Pangborn spent most of his theatrical days playing straight dramatic roles, but Hollywood saw things differently.

The Stanford Prison Experiment is a reasonably engaging dramatic recreation of the experiment, featuring large group of talented young actors playing the test subjects.

As the lead actor and director of «City Lights», everything, down to the slapstick comedy, or the quiet and delicate dramatic moments, «City Lights» is a blast.

David Starsky is just the sort of uptight, anal retentive stick - in - the - mud that Stiller's has a lot of success with in films like Meet the Parents and Along Came Polly - while Wilson's Ken Hutchinson is reminiscent of virtually every character in the actor's repertoire (with few exceptions, including his rare dramatic performance in The Minus Man).

British actor Patrick Macnee barely had time to earn his Eton school tie when he began training for his career on a scholarship to the Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art.

Following a group of twentysomethings at a Los Angeles apartment complex as they seek stardom as actors, dancers, comedians and producers in this dramatic series.

You need an actor with the dramatic heft of Ralph Fiennes to deliver the four words that vile Lord Voldemort hisses here with such lip - smacking, syllable - stretching relish: «Harry.

A gender - bending role in the 1989 comedy Nobody's Perfect provided more exposure for the emerging actor, though it wasn't until his breakthrough performance in the 1991 - 1993 seasons of Life Goes On that audiences truly realized his dramatic abilities.

That alone would be reason to get excited, and Coogler makes good on the landmark project's potential by featuring a predominantly black ensemble, casting some of the best young actors around — from Chadwick Boseman (who proved his dramatic chops playing James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in recent years) to Michael B. Jordan (even more buff, and twice as charismatic, than he appeared in the director's two previous features, «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»)-- as well as such legends as Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

Named one of Variety's 10 Actors to Watch in 2007, Swedish - Canadian actress Malin Akerman has since been tearing up Hollywood with her beauty and charisma, her sharp comedic timing, and her touching dramatic performances.

More importantly, Washington's efforts, alongside those of director Spike Lee, have done much to dramatically expand the range of dramatic roles given to African - American actors and actresses.The son of a Pentecostal minister and a hairdresser, Washington was born in Mount Vernon, NY, on December 28, 1954.

As ever, the director has a real gift at working with actors; Richard Pryor's dramatic chops surprised viewers of Schrader's «Blue Collar» back in 1978, and Cedric the Entertainer's solid turn here should do likewise.

Dissatisfied with a mere taste of the theatrical arts and eager to extend acting into a full - time passion, Eigenberg subsequently moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, working odd jobs on the side (construction et al.) to put himself through school.Scattered roles followed, including a guest appearance on The Cosby Show and a bit part in the awful 1989 generation - gap comedy Rude Awakening (co-starring Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts), but Sex and the City (which Eigenberg auditioned for out of innumerable hopefuls) represented the actor's first huge break.

Jacqueline Brookes was one of but a handful of American actors accepted for training in the 1950s by Britain's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Even though I don't consider Owen Wilson an action nor dramatic actor I believe this is his best job as of yet.

Hammer landed two of his first major roles at polar opposite ends of the dramatic spectrum: one playing the young Christian evangelical minister Billy Graham in actor - turned - director Robby Benson's chronicle of Graham's early life, Billy: The Early Years (2008), and another playing the son of Satan on the small screen fantasy adventure series Reaper.

Each of the five superb actors gets a moment of dramatic glory out of Mr. MacLachlan's screenplay, which is about guilt, roots and the selfishness of implacable conviction.

That same year, he was nominated for a Gemini Award as Best Actor in a Dramatic Series for his role of Theo in the drama YAMASKA, a long - running, one - hour television series starring Anne Marie Cadieux and Elise Guilbaut.

After Ray, Foxx was viewed seriously as a dramatic actor, but he hasn't been given much of note to do in recent years.

The cameo performances by Helen Mirren (as a doctor), Vanessa Redgrave (a piano teacher) and Patricia Clarkson (the victim's mother), among others, reveals Mr. Penn to be a great director of actors with a mind - reading ability to discover a character's truth in the tiniest dramatic nuances.

On top of trying to be a Big, Important Film, Jones is also meant to be a showcase for McConaughey's post-Oscar relevance as a dramatic actor, and he turns in a solid but unmemorable lead performance.

The sad part of this is that you have great actors like Theron and even Hemsworth, who come across as overly dramatic.

Oscar winner Danny Boyle assembled an all star A team of actors for «The Children's Monologues,» a charity event of performances to benefit the UK charity Dramatic Need.

Daniel Craig is having the time of his life in a role that may be his most impressive, while Channing Tatum continues to stretch himself as an actor, showing just as much ability in his dramatic tones versus his comedic.

They like rewarding predominantly comic actors for taking a darker dramatic turn, even if the degree of difficulty isn't notably higher than in their comedy work.

The only time the «Harry Potter» franchise stooped to splitting a book into two (and the book was itself not the longest of the series), while all other credentials are present and correct — David Yates is in his stride as the franchise's most reliable director; the actors are the best they'll be; the visuals are as dramatic as the themes — the installment is let down by ending in mid-air and having a whole inert section where the three kids play house in a forest.

At the same time, most of the actors in the film are comedic actors, except for Dane [DeHaan] who is a generally dramatic actor.

Finally, unlike his brief appearances on Game of Thrones (as the elusive Rickon Stark), young actor Art Parkinson gets to show off some dramatic chops playing Vlad's son, Ingeras.

But from the deftly staged opening onward, Stiller makes the most of his comic timing and, especially his underappreciated skills as a dramatic actor.

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal's dramatic recreation of the migrant's last days and his encounters with others on each step of the same journey are juxtaposed with interviews with those who knew the deceased, shots of American officials on the other side attempting to identify and trace the dead man, and information about the treacherous trek across the border.

Ruffalo, one of the great dramatic film actors of his age, has never been, to put it charitably, the funniest screen presence, but he acquits himself admirably.

Crowe, despite his considerable talents as a dramatic actor, is plainly incapable of presenting Javert's convictions believably, starting with the embarrassingly obvious fact that acting well while singing is way beyond his reach; his warning to Valjean to heed his words and remember his name is delivered with such flatness and with so little affect that it's difficult to think of anything else.

We are instead given a number of impressive, but token flashy performances by veteran actors in tough guy bit parts (Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper as irredeemable lifelong criminals) and newcomers in «dramatic stretches» (The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner who is good (again) but not as great as the star - makers would have you believe, and most notably, Blake Lively, excellent as a drug - addled neighborhood floozy).

With such a farfetched plot already in place, this is the sort of film that could have easily degenerated into a muddled farce with a one - note stand - up comic as the lead, but with a good comedic and dramatic actor like Kline at the forefront, he is able to keep the tone of the comedy and drama appropriate to each scene.

It's not as if Amistad was completely shut out, either, picking up nominations in Supporting Actor (Hopkins), Original Dramatic Score (one of the few years where musicals and comedies were given a separate category), Cinematography, and Costume Design.

Released: December 1 Cast: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Alison Brie Director: James Franco (The Sound and the Fury) Why it's great: There are no half - measures with Tommy Wiseau, the failed actor / secret millionaire behind the notoriously awful cult drama The Room, and there are no half - measures in The Disaster Artist, James Franco's dramatic telling of the film's bizarre backstory.

Whitehouse and Freeman may have cut their teeth and first come to prominence as comic actors, but both possess impressive dramatic chops, the colder elements of their characters delivering jolts when prefaced by the lightest sprinklings of humour.

Dr Strangelove had the kind of heightened dramatic tone that created a structure to let us understand the actors» farcically exaggerated performances on their own weird terms.

But that's not the big surprise about the film: this story of an arrogant, over-the-hill slugger (Mac) who comes out of retirement to chalk up his 3000th hit is more of a serious sports film than a knee - slapping comedy, and Mac gets a rare opportunity to showcase his true dramatic range as an actor.