Sentences with phrase «producers of films about»

I find it fascinating when writers and directors and even producers of films about real people in the Bible read into what the people were like and how they fill in the gaps of the dialog, some I like, others I disagree with, but it allows me to put flesh and blood on their bones.

Considering that core N.W.A. members Dr. Dre and Ice Cube are producers of the film about the band that made them superstars, it will surprise no one to discover that «Straight Outta Compton» delivers an almost laughably squeaky - clean version of their life stories between 1986 and 1995.

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One of the most pronounced reactions, though, came when Meyers did a joke about Harvey Weinstein, the longtime film producer who sparked the reckoning over sexual harassment after The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed three decades of allegations against him.

Questions about where Mr. Low and the prime minister's stepson — a movie producer behind films including «The Wolf of Wall Street» — obtained money for the United States properties have helped fuel political unrest in Malaysia, where several political leaders in the opposition and in Mr. Najib's own party have called for the prime minister to step down.

«Age of Ultron» executive producer Jeremy Latcham talks about how the stones were adapted from the comics to film.

After more than three dozen women have come forward to accuse Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and harassment, George Clooney and Matt Damon have spoken out about the powerful Miramax head who helped launch their careers.

With a production schedule of about five months, Moment needed to produce four hours of top - quality content that would represent the essence of L.A. to the world — the equivalent of making 62 short films, each with different producers, actors and themes, some in 3 - D.

Articles about Apple's CEO, inequality, and the producer of the latest Star Wars film are among the year's most compelling.

Meanwhile, she pops up everywhere in the gender equality world — for instance, Harnisch was executive producer of The Hunting Ground, a new film about campus sexual assault.

It's the title, too, of a particularly cynical BoJack Horseman episode about mass shootings, in which beleaguered film producers find themselves rolling their eyes while they trot out the phrase, again and again, in response to real events as they try to get back to the «actually pressing business of making sure the movie gets made.»

McGowan was one of the people named in the recent New York Times exposé about Weinstein's sexual harassment claims and is reported to have reached a settlement with the film producer.

There's a curious and discouraging article in the November 20th Entertainment Weekly magazine about producers» efforts to «sell» the upcoming film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road to Christians (by way of their pastors).

Representatives for producers Aaron Spelling and Steven Bochco called asking about the chances of filming her story.

David was also the producer of «An Inconvenient Truth,» and just as that film served as a wake - up call for climate change, «Fed Up» hopes to similarly educate the public about the serious flaws in our food system and how the food and beverage industries have a vested interest in maintaining a status quo that puts profits over our collective health — and often with the assistance of the federal government.

What's shocking is how much our political culture has changed in just 60 years — the producers of this film lived in a country that had just seen REAL despotism in the form of Nazi Germany and a military - ruled Japan (note the brownshirt - style uniforms, and also the lack of any of any depiction of their Soviet equivalents), and they pull few punches about what leads a society away from freedom.

Cineflix executive producer Jacqueline Bynon said her film crew visited the Dannemora area in February for the one - hour documentary — about two weeks before Joyce Mitchell, who was convicted of helping David Sweat and Richard Matt escape, had her first parole hearing.

This morning on Press Pass, WBFO's Pat Feldballe speaks with Buffalo Niagara Film Commissioner Tim Clark about pitching producers, some new projects that are currently shooting, and the economic impact of film industry spending in Western New York.

On this week's edition of Press Pass, WBFO's Pat Feldballe and Buffalo Niagara Film Commissioner Tim Clark talk about the increasing interest film producers are showing in Western New York and how the number of scouting requests from out - of - town filmmakers continues to go up.

There are also meetings and film festivals where science producers gather, such as the World Congress of Science Producers, the Wildscreen Festival in the U.K., and the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, all of which are good places to go to learn about filmmaking and to meeproducers gather, such as the World Congress of Science Producers, the Wildscreen Festival in the U.K., and the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, all of which are good places to go to learn about filmmaking and to meeProducers, the Wildscreen Festival in the U.K., and the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, all of which are good places to go to learn about filmmaking and to meet people.

Producer David Kaplan, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University who conceived the film project and features prominently in it, talks with Discover's Gemma Tarlach about bringing theories of the multiverse to your local multiplex.

Guests include Joel Greenberg, author of «A Feathered River Across the Sky» and documentary producer David Mrazek, who directed the film about the life and extinction of the passenger pigeon, «From Billions to None.»

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«The Father of My Children» was about a busy film producer with a loving family, who puts a bullet in his head when his business starts to implode.

From Page To Screen — A Round Table Discussion: (20:27) Nate Moore, the film's executive producer, casually hosts a gathering of writers to talk about the film.

In the 2000s, Stevens found new success on the other side of the camera, as a prolific producer of both independent and mainstream Hollywood films, even winning the Oscar for Best Documentary for his 2009 film about the slaughtering of dolphins, The Cove.

Warner Brothers, which is marketing the film as a conventional thriller, recently overruled the producers» desire to show it in European festivals so that the studio could open it wide (in many theaters at once) and cash in as quickly as possible on the name value of its cast before word - of - mouth about its depressing subject matter could kill it.

Jerry Bruckheimer - one of the two Hollywood producers credited with creating the blockbuster format - recently gave an interview to Latino Review in which he talked about all his upcoming film projects, including the adaptation of the Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time videogame (advertisements for which have been digitally inserted into the upcoming chick flick Confessions Of A Shopaholiof the two Hollywood producers credited with creating the blockbuster format - recently gave an interview to Latino Review in which he talked about all his upcoming film projects, including the adaptation of the Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time videogame (advertisements for which have been digitally inserted into the upcoming chick flick Confessions Of A Shopaholiof the Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time videogame (advertisements for which have been digitally inserted into the upcoming chick flick Confessions Of A ShopaholiOf Persia: Sands Of Time videogame (advertisements for which have been digitally inserted into the upcoming chick flick Confessions Of A ShopaholiOf Time videogame (advertisements for which have been digitally inserted into the upcoming chick flick Confessions Of A ShopaholiOf A Shopaholic.

Minnelli's second film suffers from the casting of Lucille Bremer (producer Arthur Freed's mistress) in the lead role, and the public was not crazy about seeing Astaire playing a thief.

Just as one can't assume all producers of juvenile products have playful depositions, parents should be aware that this Disney film about a children's novel being adapted into a kid's movie is really not intended for young viewers.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

He would eventually meet with a slew of producers and industry people about developing the project into a feature film.

During this recent interview to discuss the TV version of Zombieland, co-creators and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talked about the journey from TV series to movie and now back to TV pilot, what it's been like to work with Amazon, what motivated the decision to have the same characters from the movie on the TV show, how they envision it as a road show, how much gore they can have, what Kirk Ward (who was originally cast as Tallahassee before being replaced by Woody Harrelson) brings to this version of the character, what led them to the 30 - minute format, whether they could have any surprise cameos (Bill Murray made a very memorable one in the film), what will determine whether the pilot is successful enough to go to series, and when they might know if they're picked up.

At the film's press day, actor Paul Giamatti, who's also an executive producer on the movie, talked about what drew him to John Dies at the End, his most memorable experience of the shoot, working with such new actors, how he sees the industry now, and that he doesn't think a film like Sideways would even get made today.

We are, of course, talking about the film's director, writer, producer and star, Tommy Wiseau.

Writer / director / producer Bettina Wilhelm is the granddaughter of Richard Wilhelm and in this film she travels to China and the towns and cities her grandfather worked in to witness for herself what he saw in the country and its people whilst discovering more about his life and work.

Nothing else has been revealed about her character, but according to the newspaper, Seydoux «will undergo a series of costume, make - up and camera tests so that director Sam Mendes and the film's producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson can determine her «look».»

Blu - ray Highlight: The audio commentary with directors / producers Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh is filled with a ton of great information about making the movie, including the technical aspects of filming the combat sequences, the real stories that inspired them, and the level of realism that was achieved thanks to the cooperation of the Navy.

Special Features High - definition digital transfer from the 2004 Film Foundation restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Archival introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir «Around the River,» a 60 - minute 2008 documentary by Arnaud Mandagaran about the making of the film Interview with filmmaker Martin Scorsese from 2004 Audio interview with producer Ken McEldowney from 2000 «Jean Renoir: A Passage Through India,» a new video essay by film writer Paul Ryan Trailer Plus: An essay by film scholar Ian Christie and original production notes by Renoir

The second Blu - ray disc includes an in - depth look at the film with «A Filmmaking Journey» with Steven Spielberg, «Editing and Scoring» featuring Spielberg's long - time collaborators Michael Kahn and John Williams, «The Sounds of War Horse» about the sound design and «Through the Producer's Lens» which takes a look at the photographic journey of producer Kathleen Producer's Lens» which takes a look at the photographic journey of producer Kathleen producer Kathleen Kennedy.

The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and producer.

Like Edmund Halley, who died just a couple of years before seeing his prediction come true about the date when the comet bearing his name would return, the sad note about the film is that Rad (listed as director, producer, writer, editor, composer, production designer and set decorator) died in 2007 before he saw it gain new life.

Each title gets a full - length audio commentary from Travis Crawford, a dogged film critic and programmer with the instincts of a historian, who goes into detail on the background of just about every lead and significant supporting player who appears on screen, in addition to the producers and financiers behind the scenes who allowed (or more likely didn't allow) Romero to realize his vision on screen.

From Oscar - winning producer Kathryn Bigelow comes «Cartel Land,» director Matthew Heineman's documentary film about the Mexican drug war and vigilantes on both sides of the US - Mexican border.

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.

The evolution of the movie «The Post» (2017)-- a story about The Washington Post's 1970s battles with government over its publication of classified information relating to the Vietnam War and Pentagon Papers — reportedly goes something like this: It was a screenplay authored by Jewish writers Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, who presented it to Jewish film producer Amy Pascal, who decided it would «be a great story to tell.»

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE writer and producer Simon Kinberg had a lengthy discussion with Collider about Bryan Singer's upcoming epic, revealing how his initial perception of film's character arcs has changed somewhat.

With the film released in UK cinemas this Friday, ahead of a Christmas Day streaming debut on MUBI UK, we chat with Green about his direction of actors and collaborating with producers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

There have been rumors of behind - the - scenes tensions about the film, with producers worrying that Garland's adaptation is too cerebral and too weird for general audiences.