Sentences with phrase «said lead in the film»

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In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

(Avnet said the studio created a real website to build a mythology for the film's titular «Sickhouse,» a fictional home they gave a frightening backstory, while encouraging the movie's stars to casually drop mentions of the fake legend in the days leading up to the Snapchat release.)

A priest friend of mine dismissed Doubt without having seen it, saying that he felt the filmmakers caused damage to the public's perception of the Church merely by portraying the film's three leads in their clerical outfits next to the title word.

During the course of the week of demonstrations in 2003, which were filmed by Swiss television, Nestlé contacted Baby Milk Action to say it was accepting the WHA Resolutions — but again it spun this as Nestlé «taking the lead», the headline in the 7th edition of its «Code Action Report», shown left.

Theresa May is said to have been presented with a «Love Actually» moment this week: taking Hugh Grant's lead and giving President Trump the sort of tongue lashing the fictional US president received in the film.

Cuomo said there was a conflict in Vance leading the investigation because the state attorney general's office was probing the Manhattan DA's office over charges that Vance had not vigorously pursued past allegations against disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.

In a rare TV sit down interview for a documentary film about his late father, Cuomo reflects on his 2010 comeback win, saying he doesn't think he could have been successful if New York voters hadn't gotten over the anger that led them to oust the late ex-Gov.

Dr Jolle Jolles, lead author of the study, now based at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, said: «By filming the schooling fish from above and tracking the groups» movements in detail, we found that the randomly composed shoals showed profound differences in their collective behaviour that persisted across different ecological contexts.

Lead researcher Professor Tuomas Eerola, Professor of Music Cognition in the Department of Music, Durham University, said: «Previous research in music psychology and film studies has emphasised the puzzling pleasure that people experience when engaging with tragic art.

Hilmi Mustaffa, a strategy planner at a leading advertising agency in Malaysia, said it all when he commented, Had it been a Shah Rukh Khan film, the audience in Malaysia.

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Already revered for his obnoxious turns on The Daily Show and Anchorman, among others, Carell proves himself a genuine leading man, somehow maintaining Andy's good - hearted dignity under extreme circumstances (in the film's most emphatic gross - out scene, a drunken pickup vomits on him after a death - defying drive, then says she'll still have sex with him if he wants, which... he doesn't).

She also posed for a well - publicized layout in Playboy which, coinciding with the film's release, certainly didn't hurt her growing popularity.While Basinger's career took off after Never Say Never Again, and she appeared in several major hits (including The Natural, 9 1/2 Weeks, and Batman, the latter of which led to a brief romance with pop star Prince), quality roles tended to elude her.

That's not to say that leading man Steve Martin isn't good - he's as wacky and occasionally funny as he's been in recent years - but given how effective he used to be in films like Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Parenthood, that he's essentially become another Eddie Murphy is certainly a disappointment.

As if it's not enough that the characters are kind of unlikable in certain areas, this narrative that does little outside of simply meditate upon the questionable leads is pretty thin, and that really undercuts much momentum, to where natural shortcomings play an instrumental role in bringing the final product to mediocrity, and yet, I won't go so far as to say that this film's story concept is completely juiceless, as its portrayal of a nerdy manchild's lifestyle is pretty realistic, if not genuine, and therefore kind of intriguing.

That said, the performances, particularly the two leads and an engaging young Hispanic girl, are among the most captivating in recent memory, giving the film a charm and humanity that make it well worth seeing.

«A huge part of how my career has shifted is based on the way that I look, on the way that I've shaped my body to look,» Pratt said during the summer 2015 press tour for «Jurassic World,» which followed his true leading man breakout in the 2014 Marvel film «Guardians of the Galaxy.»

After wrapping production last November, the movie has hit a slight bump in the road, and The Hate U Give cast is now being shaken up: a new report says the film's male lead is being replaced after a controversial video of him surfaced online.

His career thus far both in front and behind the camera has been diverse to say the least from exploitation flicks shot for almost nothing like the Amateur Porn Star Killer series, to a film more considered and meaningful (and genuinely haunting) like My Name Is «A» By Anonymous, and scoring a lead role in an Albert Pyun one take film called The Interrogation of Cheryl Cooper.

That said, as an efficient, low - stakes thriller, A Patch of Fog comes recommended, mainly thanks to the showcase it provides for its leads: two reliable character actors given a chance to headline a psychologically probing battle - of - the - wits, something usually reserved for bigger movie stars, when this sort of film had an easier time getting funded in the current landscape.

He later said that he would never have forgiven himself if the film became a success with someone else in the lead.

THR's sources say that the «heavy comedic tone» of the Channing Tatum - led film led the studio to moving it from February 14 (the same weekend Deadpool debuted in 2016) to a more traditional summer movie date.

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

As Jess said when she dropped her verdict in Cannes, «It's an offbeat, fun and frequently very funny film, lifted out of disposability by some wonderfully rich production design, music and photography, and by the cherishable performances of the leads.»

Ryan Gosling is continuing to move away from indie films in favour of some bigger Hollywood paydays this week, as he is now said to be in talks for another major tentpole movie after landing the lead in a Logan's Run remake back in February.

When challenged over casting a white Australian and a white Brit as the leads in his Biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, director Ridley Scott responded brusquely, «I can't mount a film of this budget... and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so - and - so from such - and - such... I'm just not going to get it financed.

As I say in the review, this is plainly a two - lead (arguably, even three - lead) film.

The first report we've got about possible actors for the film says that Paula Patton is in talks for one lead role and that another has been offered to Colin Farrell.

I say «lack of star involvement», but The Longest Ride does come with gilded lineage in the shape of 29 - year - old lead Scott Eastwood, who will be hoping that the film starts to push his career Clint - wards.

Described as action - packed and splendid - looking, the film is a CGI feast according to critics, who say (Rowling's) magic is as potent as ever, and welcome Katherine Waterston, who introduces something that had been missing in the Rowling universe: a really strong young female lead.

I said, «Holy shit, I got the lead role in the film.»

And as far as «The Salon,» all I will say is that there's an ongoing joke in the comic - strip version of «The Boondocks» which suggested that the appearance of Vivica A. Fox in any film is a sure sign that it's going to be awful... and, friends, Ms. Fox has the lead role in «The Salon.»

The lead actor Tony Leung shared the experience with the audience and said that he particularly liked in the film's opening when his mentor tied Ip Man's belt for him.

«I can't mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so - and - so from such - and - such.

While what he said earlier this year led people to believe there was another trilogy in the works, the director spoke only of the follow up to Covenant this time, saying that «I'll probably be filming it within a year,», and revealing that John Logan had already given him a script for a direct sequel Scott plans to shoot after he finishes All the Money In The World and The Cartein the works, the director spoke only of the follow up to Covenant this time, saying that «I'll probably be filming it within a year,», and revealing that John Logan had already given him a script for a direct sequel Scott plans to shoot after he finishes All the Money In The World and The CarteIn The World and The Cartel.

For the months leading up to the release of The Sentinel I had it in my head that this was the «Michael Douglas versus Kiefer Sutherland movie», and I'm sad to say that this rather simplistic categorisation is much more exciting than the film itself.

But on the other hand, we're at a point in film history where there's only one star who's good at this kind of musical leading man role who has enough box office credibility from other projects (specifically his nearly 20 - year run as Wolverine) to get an automatic green light for almost any new musical movie just by saying «Yes,» and that's Jackman — so I'd rather not nitpick him to death here.

«We have already started seeding things in the films leading up to this moment,» Feige said, calling Black Panther one of the most exciting and integral Marvel characters.

Yeoh's leading man, Chow Yun - Fat only gets his say in the disc's token «making - of» documentary, Unleashing the Dragon, but considering it had aired on Bravo during the film's theatrical release, it's less an informational piece than a glorified infomercial, offering too shallow a look at, among other things, gravity - defying action scenes.

Entertainment One's film and television president Steve Bertram said, «Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, led by the incomparable Guillermo del Toro, is such a chillingly fun ride that it's sure to leave audiences around the world jumping in their seats.»

We've said it before, we'll say it again, but one of the best things about looking back over a year just gone at the movies is thinking of all the names who, just twelve months ago, we were faintly aware of at best, and who now have burgeoning careers, awards buzz, lead roles in indie films and / or blockbuster gigs on the way.

Weinstein's alleged blacklisting of the two actresses led to both of them missing out on roles in Jackson's «Lord of the Rings» films because of negative things the disgraced movie mogul had said about them, according to the report.

Salvo tells the story of a mob enforcer who foils an attack on his employer and tracks the man who did it only to encounter said Mafioso's blind sister, Rita, en route and opt not to murder her along with her brother, which in turn leads to the titular Salvo encountering an existential crisis that forms the core of the film.

And yet, the Scottish - born actress says with mock distress, she's cast as the servant rather than leading lady in films including Gosford Park and the upcoming Holmes and Watson.

That's not to say that this is a realistic film in any sense of the word — the lead characters are larger than life, the supporting characters are cartoonish — but there is a constant reminder that things could go horribly, horribly wrong for our hero at any moment.

«I'm sure a lot of people will think it's on the slow side of things,» says Corbijn, whose previous film, 2007's «Control,» was a critically acclaimed (but little seen) fictionalized biography of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the British post-punk band Joy Division who committed suicide in 1980.

It must be said right off the bat that Tenenbaums isn't quite as unconventional as Anderson's first two films, for this one can comfortably be described in a simple manner; it's about the dramas within a family, and the story leads to expectedly sweet messages of love and togetherness.

He's great in both films and the performances are not interchangeable the way that, say, Leonardo DiCaprio's two leads are.

Jennifer Lawrence has said in interviews that Red Sparrow was her way of countering the wicked violation of her privacy that led to every schmoe on the internet seeing her naked, and she definitely takes control of her own body in the film.

Bowman is not on hand for a feature - length commentary, but he does get some minimal say in some very brief «inside the editing room» featurettes that appear to have been expressly produced for the film's official website leading up to the release.