Sentences with phrase «role in a film based»

Californication, Season 4, Episode 1: Hank meets a movie star who might have a role in a film based on his book.

Driver will play the role in a film based on Mills» memoir, Tough As They Come.

Not exact matches

Angelina Danielle's passion for acting recently landed her the principle role of Hope in the all Michigan based TV sitcom / film «Percipience» which is set to be released in 2016.

Dale works for horndog dentist Julia (Jennifer Aniston, in her best film role in nearly a decade), who sexually harasses Dale on a daily basis.

After being cast as Lorene Rogers in a TV remake of From Here to Eternity (a role she reprised in a subsequent series based upon the film), Basinger finally made her way to the big screen in the low - budget drama Hard Country.

During Green's MTV tenure, he moved to films with a small role in the Saturday Night Live - based comedy Superstar (1999).

Today, he is a recognizable New York - based character actor with roles in the city's best theater, television, and film productions.

Though the film was only seen by an unlucky few, her role in the same year's I Am Sam was a wide release that found the adorable young starlet a solid fan base.

He began his career a mere decade ago, in his mid-twenties, with films in which he and his friends played characters based on himself and his friends (among them was Greta Gerwig, whose first major role was in his 2007 film «Hannah Takes the Stairs»).

Directed by Martin Campbell and produced by Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, the film's story is based on Ian Fleming's first 007 novel and it introduced Daniel Craig in the title role.

Based on the work of celebrated novelist H.P. Lovecraft, this film showcases Vincent Price, playing dual roles as both a warlock burnt in 1765 and his descendant, who arrives to take up residence at the family estate generations later.

Menashe Lustig brings warmth and a lumpen charisma to Menashe's lead role, giving life to a film based in part on his own experiences.

Eagerly anticipated by the game's devoted fan base, and with fearless star Angelina Jolie in the role of shapely heroine Lara Croft, the film did well in staying true to the source material's inventiveness, exotic locales, and pulse - pounding action.

The character seemed so imbalanced and without any reason, the leap to overreaction had no basis in any reality, truth's or the film's, and Winger had no handle whatsoever on the role.

The other week came word that Syfy had scrapped plans for a TV series based on the «Tremors» films, one which would have seen the return of Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward in their roles as Valentine «Val» McKee...

With every movie - related news story referencing James Franco of late — including rumours of his role in Sam Raimi's The Wizard Of Oz prequel Oz: The Great And Powerful, his impending directorial involvement of Cormac McCarthy's «Blood Meridian», and even a college course collated by the actor based on his work — the fact that his latest film releases in Australia this week has hardly rated a mention.

shrieks a freaked - out John Lithgow, who, in this anthology film based on the classic series, inherits a role originated by William Shatner, and descends into madness while watching a gremlin attempt to destroy the plane.

The stage role will be a first for Ronan, who earlier this week was touted as a potential Oscar winner for her role in the upcoming film Brooklyn, which is based on the novel by Irish author Colm Toibin.

In 1911, Carey signed with the Bronx - based Biograph film company, playing villain roles for pioneer director D. W. Griffith.

We also know that Ezra Miller, who played the role in Justice League, will be returning for the film, and that it will be based on the Flashpoint storyline.

Based on a 1979 film starring Alan Arkin and Peter Falk in the roles of put - upon father - of - the - bride and crazed father - of - the - groom, respectively, the remake doesn't have a single scene as classic as the «serpentine» gag of the first but compensates with the sort of instant familiarity afforded by veteran personalities in comfortable roles.

Michael Cera (Year One, Superbad) plays, not one, but two roles in Youth in Revolt, the Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl, Chuck & Buck) film based on the adaptation by Gustin Nash (Charlie Bartlett) of the first book of C.D. Payne's series of Nick Twisp novels.

Bruni Tedeschi takes the lead role as Louise, a retired unmarried actress in her forties, and sister of the ailing Ludovic (based on her own brother, to whom the film is dedicated, and played by Filippo Timi).

Going in Style is based on a 1979 caper film starring three elder statesmen, but this version features an updated and revamped plot and stars Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin in the lead roles.

Writer - director Shane Black returns to his 1980s roots with The Predator, the latest film based off the Arnold Schwarzenegger - starring muscle-fest in which Black played a delightfully absurd supporting role.

She also has a small role opposite Timothee Chalamet, as Henry V, in director David Michod's Netflix film The King, based on Joel Edgerton's interpretation of Shakespeare's Henry V (she will play one of Henry's sisters).

An overblown remake of William Wyler's 1955 film The Desperate Hours — itself based on the novel and stage play by Joseph Hayes — Cimino's Desperate Hours cast Rourke in the Humphrey Bogart role of a criminal on the lam who holds a suburban family hostage in their own home while he waits for his girlfriend to show up.

Based on a script by Chris Galletta that finished high on the 2009 Black List, we're expecting an offbeat combination of «Moonrise Kingdom,» «Son Of Rambow» and» Where The Wild Things Are» (we may yet be way off...), and while the film has a trio of newcomers in the lead roles, there's some ace comic talent in the supporting cast, including «Community» actress Alison Brie, and «Parks & Rec» duo Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally as some of the boys» parents.

Although they do love each other, tensions between the two set in regarding the casting of the film adaptation of Joe's latest bestselling book, as Sally think she would be the natural woman for the role, since she believes it is based on her.

He'd received some exposure and critical acclaim based on his roles in SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION and BAD BOYS, but the destructive alien sci - fi film was the one that blew us all away.

There's hardly a single original idea to be found, which is ironic considering it's about counterfeiting, and though Kormakur was presumably given the directing gig because he was familiar with the source material (having played Wahlberg's role in the Icelandic film that it's based on), he fails to demonstrate what made that movie so special that it deserved a remake.

After 4 years in the making we finally have our first look of «Mowgli»; the film is based on «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling and it's a much real and darker approach to the storytelling that we know with the actors in motion capture suits playing the roles.

When: January 13th Why: It's pretty funny that a movie about counterfeiting should turn out to be an imitation itself (the Icelandic film on which its based featured the U.S. version's director, Baltasar Kormákur, in the lead role), but despite the fact that its clichéd plot seems to have been ripped off from a number of generic action thrillers just like it, «Contraband» has one thing that a lot of those films didn't — a killer ensemble cast.

THR writes that Bonnie Aarons (Drag Me to Hell) will reprise her role as the unholy sister in The Nun, New Line's latest spinoff from James Wan's horror universe based on characters from the Conjuring films.

Based on Shaw's lack of presence in the promotional materials for Alien: Covenant, her minimal role in the film, and the fact she's with David (Michael Fassbender), we're presuming her post-Prometheus mission doesn't go so well.

She also starred opposite Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate in The Sweetest Thing and in two independent films that garnered her much critical acclaim: Dana Lustig's Kill Me Later and Todd Solondz's controversial Storytelling, and one of her most recognized roles, Liz Sherman in Hellboy (2004) and its successful sequel released in 2008, Hellboy II: The Golden Army based on the popular comic.

The other week came word that Syfy had scrapped plans for a TV series based on the «Tremors» films, one which would have seen the return of Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward in their roles as Valentine «Val» McKee and Earl Bassett.

Jordan played the lead role in the film, which was based on the real - life story of Oscar Grant, who was fatally shot by a BART police officer in Oakland, California, in 2009.

Wife Wanted, her final film, finds the actress in the midst of her three picture deal with the poverty row studio Monogram in a role that seems partially based on her own life.

Enrique is an up - and - coming film director and Ignacio is an actor who wants Enrique to make a film out of his screenplay, mostly based on true events from their childhood, and to cast him in a starring role.

The film is based on Fox's true story and stars Laura Dern in the lead role as the filmmaker alongside Jason Ritter, Ellen Burstyn, Common, Frances Conroy, John Heard, Elizabeth Debicki, and Isabel Nélisse; watch it here...

I'm not decrying the stunt - casting of a statuesque blond in the role of the tiny Minnesotan mine worker the life upon which this film is ever - so - loosely based, nor am I begrudging, per se, the natural instinct of Roger Ebert and the Academy to foam over turns like this from starlets undergoing extreme make - unders.

Starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey in the lead roles, the film is based on the real - life story of two 1950s teenage murderers.

Actor Robert Downey Jr has been roped in to play the title role in upcoming film «The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle», which is based on the classic character who can talk to animals.

Rupert Grint (born 24.08.1988) Rupert Grint is an English actor most famous for playing the role of Ron Weasley in the «Harry Potter» film series based on the books by JK Rowling.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

2005 saw Banderas winning the acclaimed Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for his role in the musical Nine, which is based on the film 8 1/2.

That's the stranger than fiction basis of Richard Linklater's 2011 film «Bernie,» which stars Jack Black in the title role.

The film based on Masamune Shirow's manga series has faced a controversy over Johansson being cast in the lead role.

It's perhaps a contrived set - up (based on David Constantine's short story), but that's the last thing in Haigh's film that's anything less than utterly truthful, particularly when it comes to performances from the two leads that come close to being the best roles of their 50 year careers.