Sentences with phrase «of role in the movie»

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Toby Moore, Gary's Hollywood actor son, will play the role of his grandfather in this next blockbuster movie.
Amidst allegations of abuse and decades of denials, Allen still continues to work in film, tapping big names for starring roles in his movies and still garnering support for fans and audiences.
Many of us relate very deeply to characters in movies, and we like to think that we share similar traits to the actor or, more importantly, to the role they play.
Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke, Westworld «s Thandie Newton, and Woody Harrelson also have prominent roles in the movie.
Stillerman headed up programming at AMC since 2008, taking on the role early in the TV runs of shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad, two popular and critically acclaimed series that helped transform AMC from a channel running movies to a destination for premier television.
12 Years a Slave The misleading poster by Italian film distributor BIM Distribuzione featured the giant head of movie star Brad Pitt, who served only a supporting role in the film, while the movie's lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was given a tiny spot at bottom right corner.
Through Harpo, Winfrey has also taken an active role in a variety of movie and theatre productions including Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire and Beloved, which Winfrey also starred in.
The actress was hot off her breakout role in «The Wolf of Wall Street» and searching for movies that could be star vehicles for her when she came across Rogers» script.
At the same time, the new movie is building upon the foundation of the original movies by bringing back Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Marc Hamill in their original roles.
Of course, firstborns also are represented in the entertainment world, but here is an intriguing fact — many firstborn movie stars (including Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and every actor who's played James Bond) chose macho roles.
Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B - movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she died.
The item got passed around from site to site, and a consensus began to form: The desperate not - quite - It Girl was Gretchen Mol, whose movie roles were starting to dry up; the new target was Blake Lively, beginning to transition from TV to film; and in the center of it all, between two beautiful young women whose careers he held in the palm of his hands, was Harvey Weinstein.
All of this is bound to disappoint fans, particularly with the excitement built up before release around the news that the movie's actors would be reprising their roles in the game.
Tom Hanks, the only actor in the movie that I recognized, and supposedly the star of the movie, filled the role of God who believed in the innocence of the the convicted prisoner, but could do little about it, because of the choice of the evil unbelieving people.
Barton and his work were also featured prominently in former «Growing Pains» star Kirk Cameron's movie «Monumental,» about the role of religion in American history.
Farmiga, who starred opposite George Clooney in the hit movie «Up in the Air,» told CNN that she began panicking during preproduction, as the magnitude of the undertaking - simultaneously directing and playing the lead role, lots of child actors, and 25 scenes that included music - became clear.
This movie came out of the gate with controversy for whitewashing the role of the «Ancient One» — a character who had been Tibetan in the comics, played in the movie by Tilda Swinton.
They just don't want to debase it by using it as a cheaper alternative to seeing a movie, or (for boys) as a way of asserting machismo in the absence of positive male role models, or (for girls) as a desperate ploy to hold on to a boyfriend — or any of the other sad, dead — end abuses of sex that become common whenever a society sheds its «repressed Victorianism.»
Bit players in the movie of his life, in which he has the starring role.
(Pentecostals play an even more prominent role in another acclaimed movie about a poor Brazilian community, O Homen do Ano, The Man of the Year.)
It seemed to me that some of the best scenes in the movie were those that were deleted from it, particularly a candidly outspoken scene in which Elastigirl, or Mrs. Incredible, defends her role as a «homemaker» against the crassly reasoned criticisms of an obnoxious feminist career woman.
The lack of emphasis on a single religion does not stop Disney from taking up a catechizing role, Pinsky notes, «In the Western world in particular, the number of hours children spend receiving moral instruction in houses of worship is dwarfed by the amount of time spent sitting in front of screens large and small, learning values from Disney movies,» Disney's evangelistic entrepreneurship has been extraordinarily successfuIn the Western world in particular, the number of hours children spend receiving moral instruction in houses of worship is dwarfed by the amount of time spent sitting in front of screens large and small, learning values from Disney movies,» Disney's evangelistic entrepreneurship has been extraordinarily successfuin particular, the number of hours children spend receiving moral instruction in houses of worship is dwarfed by the amount of time spent sitting in front of screens large and small, learning values from Disney movies,» Disney's evangelistic entrepreneurship has been extraordinarily successfuin houses of worship is dwarfed by the amount of time spent sitting in front of screens large and small, learning values from Disney movies,» Disney's evangelistic entrepreneurship has been extraordinarily successfuin front of screens large and small, learning values from Disney movies,» Disney's evangelistic entrepreneurship has been extraordinarily successful.
Annabelle: Creation is a movie that pushed me to think long and hard about the role of demonic activity and the occult in modern - day America, and was an excellent piece of cinema.
Joaquin Phoenix will assume the role of Jesus Christ in the upcoming movie Mary Magdelene, which follows the story of Jesus» final days from the perspective of the title figure.
Nevertheless, Von Sydow has the distinction of playing both Jesus in a largely conservative, by - the - book retelling of the Gospel, as well as having a prominent role in one of the most religiously controversial movies ever made: The Exorcist.
Actor Martin Freeman — best known for his roles in The Lord of the Rings movies, the TV show Sherlock and the original...
Shot in Panama using members of the Embera tribe for all but a few key roles, the movie is a stirring, lush production that elevates the visual storytelling portfolio of independent Christian movies.
Researchers at the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University looked at the top 700 highest - grossing movies of 2014 — which make up almost all of the year's major theatrical releases — to see how many featured women in prominent production roles.
According to Spadaro and Figueroa, in church, man is a believer; in the council hall, he is a politician; at the movie theater, he is a critic; and he is apparently supposed to keep all of these roles separate.
Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.
They also appeared in the movie My Neighbor Totoro playing the role of dust balls in an abandoned house, where the main characters were moving.
But Lil Rel also plays a role in the Uncle Drew movie starring Kyrie Irving, and Howery shared a moment on the red carpet ahead of the Oscars on Sunday about when Irving found out he was traded to the Boston Celtics.
He has already taken a few roles in off - seasons, appearing in six movies and doing six episodes of the HBO prison series Oz.
Carrey played the role of Kaufman in the movie, and continued the feud with Lawler, while he spent 80 straight days in character as Kaufman.
Spotted at the U.S. Open: diminutive Oscar - winner Holly Hunter, who spent a few days trailing Billie Jean King in preparation for her role as King in an upcoming ABC movie about 1973's Battle of the Sexes.
Brad Pitt plays a total bad ass tank commander and Logan Lerman seems to be making more of a name for himself with another solid role in a big budget movie.
Upon resigning myself to just interviewing an actress from the movie Mirror Mirror, I found out that she acted in The Blind Side and then it clicked: I LOVED her role of the daughter of Sandra Bullock in the movie...
By the way, when he talks about roles, he doesn't mean the kind of role an actress plays in a movie, where she's just pretending to be somebody else — he means a functional purpose which you fulfill or assume in your life.
Either way, your daughter will be exposed to people, media and movies who paint the «role» of women in one of these ways.
Young Ghanaian rising actor, Abraham Attah, has received yet another award, this time the rising star award, from the Black Film Critics Circle for his role in the movie, «Beasts of No Nation».
Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.
The actor who was enthusiastic about his role in the International movie apologized to members of Ghana actor's Guild, for his inability to attend the thanksgiving service organized by the Guild.
Famed Nigerian actor Nkem Owoh best known for his role Osuofia in the very popular Nigerian movie «Osuofia in London» was among the many dignitaries invited to the launch ceremony of the new Kwame Nkrumah flyover.
The top ten men continue to out - earn their female counterparts by a huge margin — $ 488.5 million compared with just $ 172.5 million — a disparity Forbes attributed in part to the preponderance of superhero movies and action blockbusters that offer few starring roles for women.
The movie had majority of the nominations for Ghana but missed out on Best Actress in Lead Role Category.
The Western New York region and many of its landmarks are taking a leading role in a made - for - television movie, airing Saturday night on the Lifetime Movie Netmovie, airing Saturday night on the Lifetime Movie NetMovie Network.
Hollywood's interpretation of Spinosaurus landed a starring role as the main menace in the movie Jurassic Park III.
In the meantime, aspiring female astronauts in search of a role model had to make do with «Astronaut Barbie» or scantily clad Jane Fonda in the 1968 movie Barbarella, who piloted her fur - lined spacecraft on a mission to eradicate evildoers on the planet TaIn the meantime, aspiring female astronauts in search of a role model had to make do with «Astronaut Barbie» or scantily clad Jane Fonda in the 1968 movie Barbarella, who piloted her fur - lined spacecraft on a mission to eradicate evildoers on the planet Tain search of a role model had to make do with «Astronaut Barbie» or scantily clad Jane Fonda in the 1968 movie Barbarella, who piloted her fur - lined spacecraft on a mission to eradicate evildoers on the planet Tain the 1968 movie Barbarella, who piloted her fur - lined spacecraft on a mission to eradicate evildoers on the planet Tau.
«Mars was the first place we explored that's on our list of biologically interesting worlds — a list that now includes Europa, Enceladus and Titan,» says the 6 - foot - 6 59 - year - old, whose rugged looks might have landed him roles in cowboy movies if he were less obsessed with astrobiology.
Our culture's obsession with external sources of entertainment — TV, movies, the Internet, video games — may also play a role in increasing boredom.
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