Sentences with phrase «roles in the film production»

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The story of these marches is told in the film, which is directed by Ava DuVernay with production credits for Oprah Winfrey, who has a supporting acting role, and for Brad Pitt.

For National Public Radio and LA Theater Works Alma performed in the radio versions of Zoot Suit and Nilo Cruz's Pultizer Prize winning play Anna in the Tropics opposite Jimmy Smits.As a 25 year member of El Teatro Campesino (ETC) founded by Luis Valdez, she has appeared in landmark ETC productions of; Zoot Suit, both the film and play (1979 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award - Best Play); Corridos, both the TV version (1987 Peabody Award) and play; I Don't Have to Show You Any Stinking Badges; and Mummified Deer (Back Stage West «Honorable Mention» for her role as Mama Chu), all written and directed by Valdez.Ms.

Rodgers and Hammerstein returned to Hollywood in 1955 with their own production company, overseeing the movie adaptations of Oklahoma (1955) and South Pacific (1958); three years earlier, R and H played cameo roles in the New York - filmed Main Street to Broadway, for which they contributed one forgettable number.

It was around that time that she first met Richard Zanuck, a production executive (and the son of legendary mogul Darryl F. Zanuck), who offered her the role of Nova in the film Planet of the Apes.

Despite winning critical acclaim for her performance, it would be four years, save for a cameo in the Coens» Raising Arizona (1987) and various small roles, before she would be featured in another major film production.

He occasionally took a leave of absence from films to accept a stage role; in 1937, he created the part of George in the original Broadway production of Of Mice and Men (1937).

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Most recently he landed the role of Sergeant Holiday in the upcoming Ang Lee film BILLY LYNN»S LONG HALFTIME WALK, currently in production in Atlanta.

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

Cutting his losses at home (where ethnic actors like Al Pacino and, interestingly enough, Robert DeNiro were getting the plum roles), Dullea returned to Canada for a number of interesting but distinctly B - grade films (Welcome to Blood City with a pre-comeback Jack Palance) and the continent for guest starring roles in poorly - received art house productions (Pope Joan with Liv Ullmann) and the occasional thriller (as Mia Farrow's disbelieving stuffed shirt of a husband in The Haunting of Julia).

Although Nixon's starring role on the hugely popular series may have brought her to the attention of a new audience, observers of the New York theater had been watching the actor on and off Broadway since 1980, where she had performed in productions that included David Rabe's Hurlyburly, Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, Angels in America, and Indiscretions, for which she earned a Tony nomination.Born in New York City on April 9, 1966, Nixon made her film debut in the 1980 movie Little Darlings.

Steven Spielberg's film is a paean to the essential role of a free press, one the director felt he had to make in 2017 (he first read Liz Hannah's original script earlier this year and rushed it into production).

Biography: Initially, Owen carved out a career in television: in 1988 Owen starred as Gideon Sarn in a BBC television production of Precious Bane and the Channel 4 film Vroom before the 1990s saw him become a regular on stage and television in the UK, notably his lead role in the ITV series Chancer followed by an appearance in the Thames Television production of Lorna Doone.

After the war, his film parts multiplied, and he was very busy on the screen during the 1950s, in productions as different as Anthony Asquith's The Importance of Being Earnest and Tony Richardson's Look Back in Anger, and playing every kind of character role from coroners (in Cast a Dark Shadow) to British admirals (in Sink the Bismarck!)

After his attention - grabbing appearance in the 1983 horror film The Hunger, Cliff DeYoung concentrated on movie roles, with occasional returns to TV in such productions as the 1985 miniseries Robert Kennedy and His Times.

Upon his return from military service, Damone resumed his film career, enjoying featured or co-starring roles in major musical productions like Hit the Deck (1955) and the screen adaptation of Kismet (1955).

The Brit has proven elastic with the release of three largely disparate feature films — the sci - fi action thriller Kill Command, the romantic drama Me Before You, and a period drama Genius, in which she takes on the effusive role of Zelda Fitzgerald — and appeared in two theater productions including a turn as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn and as Elena in Robert Icke's Uncle Vanya in London.

McNairy: I was out here, struggling to get the roles I wanted, so I opened a production company to start making films that I wouldn't normally get cast in and that I wanted to see.

More recently, a few Hollywood productions have let him explore a more tongue - in - cheek side to his persona («Horrible Bosses» and «Fright Night» for example), but before that in American films, he was largely squeezed into straight - up hero or classic villain roles.

The film was a remake of a 1933 production of the same name, which starred Ann Harding, Myrna Loy and Spring Byington; their roles were taken over in the remake by Greer Garson, Joan Crawford and Spring Byington.

It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal against winner Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)-RRB-, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role from the earlier stage production, and in her film debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won only one Oscar for Best Art Direction - Interior Decoration.

Clocking in at a brisk one hour, the film tells the story of identical 11 - year - old Cuban triplets Angel, Cesar and Marcos, who are passionate about becoming ballet dancers and all want the same thing — to be picked for a role in an important production in Havana.

While the actor has yet to comment on his potential involvement with The Joker, the film is expected to go into production in May, the first project under a new banner that will house a range of properties outside of the DC Extended Universe, with different actors playing iconic roles.

During production in Atlanta, Newton — who, by the way, was also in both Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri last year — would pop over to the set of Halt and Catch Fire to film yet another role.

As 20th Century Fox's X-Men spin - off Deadpool gears up to go into production, T.J. Miller (Transformers: Age of Extinction) has revealed on Twitter that his «comedic» role in the Ryan Reynolds - headlined movie is that of Jack Hammer, a.k.a. Weasel, who in comic book continuity (and presumably in the film too) is Wade's tech expert and -LSB-...]

McConaughey followed up with supporting roles in more local productions, including «My Boyfriend's Back» (1993), «Angels in the Outfield» (1994), and «Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre» (lensed 1995), in which his maniacal performance was shelved for two years until he and the film's co-star, Renee Zellweger, had become famous and there was a dollar to be made.

The studio is reportedly looking at Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy, Hellboy, Blade 2), Monica Bellucci, Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor, and Ben Mendelsohn to play key roles in the film, with production rumored to begin sometime this year.

Following a lively five hour conversation that led to their expulsion from the bar, Phillips told McConaughey to stop by the production office and perhaps he could find a role in the film for him.

The 1975 production is set in the 1920s and stars Warren Beatty as a con man trying to get his hands on the fortune of a madcap heiress (a bubbly Stockard Channing in her first major film role) and Jack Nicholson as his dim - witted stooge who slowly figures out he's really a partner in crime.

It's her Oscar - nominated debut as a standalone director, but not her first rodeo: on top of the starring roles she took in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha (2012) and Mistress America (2015), she wrote those films with him, and collaborated early in her career on several shoestring productions by Joe Swanberg.

Filming has officially started on location in England and Scotland on the Working Title Films production of Mary, Queen of Scots, starring Saoirse Ronan in the title role opposite Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I. Josie Rourke, artistic director of The Donmar Warehouse, makes her feature directorial debut on the movie.

A theatrical performer and writer who's only broken into film and TV in the last few years, he has the distinctive look of a second banana — the kind of guy who would've had the role of Rich, not Denis, in a different production.

Visit Carvahall and you'll find featurettes about the Inheritance Trilogy to which the novel Eragon belongs, The Storyteller's Scroll (focusing on turning the novel into a screenplay), Realizing Alagaësia (a look at storyboards, locations, scouting and character design), The Destined Roles (casting the actors), From Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next in the series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini.

Cate Blanchett (who would play «a sophisticated woman who has her life together») and Bradley Cooper are also both looking at roles in the film, though they aren't locked just yet (in the case of the latter, it will likely be a matter of ensuring production doesn't clash with «The Hangover Part III «-RRB-.

Debra Zane is casting the film that is already up to the rafters with actors, but additional roles are expected to be filled before production starts in mid-October.

The rise of franchise - minder figures such as Marvel's Kevin Feige and Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy in roles that are an unusual blend of producer, production chief and showrunner, initially looked to be pointing toward a homogenous sameness from film to film in the name of quality control and brand management.

Samuel L. Jackson and John C. Reilly are said to be circling roles in the film, which starts production in October in Hawaii.

Evidently, Butler believed in the project and invested himself in the role both personally and professionally — as both an actor and with an executive producer credit, due to his efforts in assisting in the films production.

Even though Vicky Krieps's work thus far has mainly been German productions (though she also had a small role in the Philip Seymour Hoffman spy film A Most Wanted Man), she's still among the more high - profile actors from the nation of Luxembourg today.

There was talk about recasting the role of Tony Stark in fear of «challenging» negotiations with Downey Jr., but now Marvel confirms that he's locked for the pair of films, the first of which is scheduled to go into production in March of 2014 and hit theaters on May 1, 2015.

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The indie film is still seeking to fill smaller roles as it gears up for production in mid-July.

From AP drama critic Michael Kuchwara on the Broadway production of «God of Carnage»: The real revelation of the evening, though, is Harden, usually seen in much more somber roles such as her Oscar - winning performance as Lee Krasner in the film «Pollack.»

(However, two of his oldest friends have pivotal roles in the film — Jack Fisk, who helped finance Eraserhead, is the production designer, and Fisk's wife, Sissy Spacek, plays Rose.)

The film is a biopic on Bruce Lee «s mentor, Yip Man, and production has been underway since last December with a cast consisting of Tony Leung Chiu - wai in the title role, Song Hye - kyo as his wife, with Zhang Ziyi, Zhao Benshan, Julian Cheun Chi - lam and Chang Chenand rounding out the cast.

The comment was somewhat facetious, but it underlined a curious fact: not only are most film - lovers unaware of Freed's huge influence on Band Wagon, Silk Stockings, Singin «in the Rain, and the 40 - odd other films produced by his unit, but the very roles of producer and production unit have been little studied by film historians, much less commented on by theorists and critics.

Employing a workshop format to cast the film, he ended up with quite the impressive roster; working with DiCaprio again for the first time since his take on «Romeo & Juliet,» he also has a galaxy of stars in support, including Maguire, and, playing against type, Mulligan as the materialistic, sometimes simple - minded Daisy Buchanan; curiously, it's her first leading role in a big Hollywood production.

The press release is using the «nearly three years of film production and almost a decade of preparation» to sell the picture that finds Tony Leung in the lead role of Ip Man, the master of Wing Chun who mentored Bruce Lee.

Outlier Society productions currently include the upcoming «Thomas Crown Affair» remake that will have Jordan starring the the lead role, the forthcoming Netflix series «Raising Dion,» in which he will have a role, and a film adaptation of the YA novel «The Stars Beneath Our Feet» that will see Jordan in the director's chair for the first time.