Sentences with phrase «old film producer»

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When Gwyneth Paltrow was 22 years old, she got a role that would take her from actress to star: The film producer Harvey Weinstein hired her for the lead in the Jane Austen adaptation «Emma.»

RIP Dan Lynch, an old - school newspaperman who was also a novelist, producer of documentary films, radio and TV host, political candidate and teacher, who died at the age of 71 Sunday at a hospice in Delray Beach, Fla., where he moved after decades in the Capital Region.

ALBANY — A $ 500 million deal to sell disgraced former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's old company collapsed Sunday night after state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office sued the fallen film producer and his company.

After switching careers, going from on - the - go film producer to the more - sedentary role of screenwriter, the 36 - year - old from Los Angeles began to feel lethargic.

The 44 - year - old actress and film producer also attended the amfAR dinner later that night in another look from Atelier Versace.

The premiere event is for mature audiences 18 years of age or older, will kick off with a cocktail reception and will be followed with a Q&A session with the film's voice cast and producers.

This article is adapted from Date - Onomics by Jon Birger (Workman Publishing Company, 2015) The dating game is rigged, but the problem is not strategic The Setup, a short film about Jewish dating by 25 - year - old Modern Orthodox filmmaker Leah Gottfried, was described by its producers as

So if we buy their own logic, Paramount is telling us that it chose to release a worse version of the movie because it was easier for 15 - year - olds to go see it on group dates, and that Ferrell, a producer on the film and one of the more powerful talents in Hollywood, acceded to this.

The Directing Award: U.S. Documentary was presented to: Alexandria Bombach for her film On Her Shoulders (Director: Alexandria Bombach, Producers: Hayley Pappas, Brock Williams)-- Nadia Murad, a 23 - year - old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS.

The director: Nanni Moretti (Italy) The talent: As in most of his films, writer - director - producer Moretti also takes one of the leading roles, but the film is principally a showcase for 85 year - old French legend Michel Piccoli, playing the Pope of the title.

With Emile Hirsch already locked in to play the Blue Brothers star, Steve Conrad in the writer / directors chair, Judy Belushi - Pisano (as she is now known) and Belushi's old friend and colleague Dan Aykroyd involved as producers the film is certainly gaining promise.

The Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to: Sara Colangelo, for her film The Kindergarten Teacher (Director & Screenwriter: Sara Colangelo, Producers: Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Handelsman - Keren, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler)-- When a Staten Island kindergarten teacher discovers what may be a gifted five year - old student in her class, she becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child — spiraling downward on a dangerous and desperate path in order to nurture his talent.

The 39 - year - old actor was joined at the event by his co-star Ben Schnetzer, as well as the film's producer Kate Soloman and director Jose Padilha.

After an enormously successful career as a producer, this is Apatow's third film as a director, after «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» and «Knocked Up.»

«Old School Orientation» (13:02) is a standard EPK - style featurette with the stars, producers, and director commenting on the film amidst clips.

The star of such films as Bridget Jones's Diary, About a Boy, Notting Hill, and Four Weddings and a Funeral and Eberstein, a 39 - year - old Swedish TV producer, are parents to three children born since 2012.

That dismayed one of the film's most outspoken producers, the Dallas Mavericks» billionaire owner Mark Cuban, whose name consequently has come up in the Weinsteins» disputedly - stalled negotiations to acquire their old Miramax library and name from Disney.

Inspired by the classic Cyrano de Bergerac story, Old Boys marks the feature debut for Toby MacDonald and producer Luke Morris - the team behind BAFTA - nominated short films, Je t» aime John Wayne and Heavy Metal Drummer - and is written by Luke Ponte and Freddy Syborn.

The 46 - year - old television personality has taken to social media to slate the disgraced film producer...

«Christine» is 33 - year old director Antonio Campos's third feature film (he was a producer on «Martha Marcy May Marlene»).

To celebrate the film's premiere at the Music Box Theatre, star Peyton Kennedy, producer Kishori Rajan and writer / director Anne Hamilton are accompanying the movie to Chicago and doing a Q&A for this drama - fantasy about an 11 - year - old girl who lives in a world that blends fables and reality.

The beginning of the Brooks empire, and still his funniest film, «The Producers» combines old - school kvetch comedy, Broadway backstage hi - jinks and outright headline - grabbing bad taste to intoxicating effect.

Luckily for the producers of this film, a PG - 13 rating was awarded, because now their target audience can be reached, namely 13 - year - old boys who find jokes about pooping, farting, belching, and urinating in one's pants to be the height of comedic glory.

As the writer and director of the feature films Knocked Up and The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, the producer of the blockbuster comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and the creator of the acclaimed television series «Freaks and Geeks» and «Undeclared,» Apatow has developed a reputation for stories that are equal measures sentimental and unrefined.

I managed to convince the producers of Jo - Maxi (old RTE magazine show) to let me do their film reviews for a while.

Accused masturbator and Woody Allen collaborator Louis C.K. has begun principal photography on a film in which he plays a TV writer - producer whose nubile teen daughter establishes an unclear relationship with an older filmmaker known to prey on young women.

Imagine the clusterfuck of controversy that would've erupted if Deadline had ran an item announcing, «Accused masturbator and Woody Allen collaborator Louis C.K. has begun principal photography on a film in which he plays a TV writer - producer whose nubile teen daughter establishes an unclear relationship with an older filmmaker known to prey on young women.»

First it was a joke: the little ginger headed toddler Sarah hardly resembles her father, Michael; then it was a rumour: Sarah's oldest brother seems to have overheard a phone conversation where their mother said she didn't know who the father of the baby was; finally it became a mystery with an answer: Sarah seeks out men her mother might have slept with, and through a DNA test, she discovers that Harry Gulkin, an important Canadian film producer, is her biological father.

With early word from advanced screenings sounding pretty strong, and producer extraordinaire Scott Rudin being on board (Rudin has produced five Best Picture nominated films including The Hours, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, The Social Network, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), my hopes for the film remain high.

Mark Millar, who has almost finished book for third film, urges producers to move quickly before stars become too old

It's very heartening, too, that the DVD features such a robust slate of bonus material, anchored by 50 minutes» worth of behind - the - scenes footage that includes interviews with all the cast and crew, and charts the movie from inception (producer Ian Birkett was a film school classmate of Andrews, and his older brother Paul worked up the script) through pre-production work, shooting up in Canada, and post-production.

The cinematic adaptation gradually builds up to the gruesome murder of the forty - four year old entrepreneur Bryan Kocis (Stephen in the movie), because he was standing in the way of a couple of gay adult film producers who wanted to hire Brent.

The film - obsessed stand - up and TV auteur stars as a successful sitcom producer who finds himself at wit's end when his idol, a Woody Allen-esque movie director (John Malkovich), takes a leering interest in his spoiled 17 - year - old daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz).

The esteemed producer Scott Rudin («No Country For Old Men,» «There Will Be Blood,» «The Social Network») reportedly had final cut on the film, and he sided with Garland's vision.

The aviator / film - producer depicted here by Beatty (who is twenty - years older than the character he's playing) is a past his prime, germaphobe whose eccentric behaviour leads many to want to have him committed.

Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man.

The film's surprising sense of humor occurs largely during the Hollywood sequences, as Mendez recruits his old buddy and movie makeup master John Chambers (a hilarious and wonderful John Goodman), as well as veteran producer Lester Siegel (an equally enjoyable Alan Arkin), to assist in the creation of the fake production company and film.

The film, which features C.K. as a thriving - yet - emotionally - stunted TV producer, follows him as he confronts (but apparently does nothing to stop) the fact that his 17 - year - old daughter (played by Chloe Grace Moretz) is being seduced by a famous filmmaker (John Malkovich) four times her age.

The 53 - year - old actress and Matthew, 56, were joined by producer of the film Emily Mortimer, who was accompanied by her husband Alessandro Nivola and their two children — Samuel John Nivola and May Rose Nivola.

Like the Staten Island educator at the center of this film, The Kindergarten Teacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines as it navigates its way through a tricky story of a five - year - old boy (newcomer Parker Sevak), who shows an unreal gift for poetry, and his teacher, Lisa (a career - best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also one of the film's producers), who struggles in her adult - education class to be a poet as well, if only to add a bit of culture to a home life that offers her little by way of intellectual stimulation.

The story behind this film is almost as good as the picture itself: it was written as a «spec script» by 31 - year - old newcomer Liz Hannah and came to the attention of producer Amy Pascal, who gave it to Spielberg in February of this year.

• Film School Rejects looked at new releases of old movies on dvd: Election, China Moon and more • Deadline TV / film producer Martin Ransohoff has died.

At the time of its release, Breslin was only ten years old, Dano hadn't yet made his mark as the film industry's resident off - beat weirdo, and Carell was such a relative unknown that the film's producers were actually worried he didn't have enough acting experience.

«Essentially, this 11 - year - old had information about Warhol as a sex maniac and off - color film producer.»

Founded in 1939, Cinécraft Productions is the oldest commercial producers of corporate and industrial films in the US.

Olivia is a 34 - year - old Hollywood film producer who is trying to launch a movie version of Don Quixote with the help of an obstinate director.