Sentences with phrase «star on the big screen»

See pop classical music's brightest star on the big screen!

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Since the «Star Wars» prequels, in which George Lucas was heavily criticized for using too much CGI to create the worlds and characters, many big - budget movies have tried to find that happy medium of practical and visual effects to give the action on screen a more grounded feel.

While QB Cardale Jones took a few Twitter shots at the Bulls» forward after Noah mouthed something while he was shown on the big - screen, five - star linebacker pledge Justin Hilliard also took a swipe at the former Florida Gator.

Kids under the age of 18 are particularly vulnerable to images of high - wattage stars smoking cigarettes on the big screen, partly because adolescents, similar to very young children, are prone to mimic behaviors they see others trying, Sargent says.

On or off the red carpet, this big - screen star always looks effortlessly stylish and so right now!

Priyanka Chopra was one of the biggest fashion stars of the evening seen many times on screen swirling her stunning sheer gown in one of the two strongest bold colors of the evening.....

These stars will be walking the red carpet in honor of their performances on the big screen, but today they will be topping our list for the best and worst sex appeal.

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Crosby managed to score on radio in 1931, and a series of two - reel comedies made for Mack Sennett helped him launch a screen career; his starring feature debut was in 1932's The Big Broadcast.

Hall appeared on the big screen as David Kammerer, the former professor obsessed with and later murdered by Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan) in John Krokidas» KILL YOUR DARLINGS (Sony Pictures Classics) the Beat Generation drama that also stars Daniel Radcliffe as Alan Ginsberg.

Zayas was most recently seen on the big screen, starring in the sci - fi thriller SKYLINE.

She first appeared on the big screen in 2006 with a small role in the film ACCEPTED and later had a starring role as Brooke Crawford in the primetime soap opera WICKED WICKED GAMES, which was her first appearance on the small screen.

Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature - film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).

Co-starring Survivor contestant turned thespian Colleen Haskell, Schneider's tale of a car accident victim imbued with superhuman powers after being pieced back together with animal organs kept the low - brow rolling while marking his territory among the ranks of the more successful transitions from SNL player to big screen star.Later, in the 2000s, Schneider frequently alternated between starring in his own films (The Hot Chick, Duece Bigalow: European Gigolo), and supporting his old pal Sandler (The Longest Yard, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), with few on either side truly managing to ignite the box office or his career momentum.

On the big screen, Chatwin can be seen starring as a rock star and teen idol in BANG BANG BABY, opposite Jane Levy, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

With the new film of the space opera saga finally on the big screen and the release of Battlefront's new sequel, both after a decade overdue, it is definitely the best time to be a Star Wars fan.

On the big screen, Leggero starred in NEIGHBORS, alongside Seth Rogen; LET»S BE COPS, opposite Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans, Jr.; and appeared in the 2009 romantic comedy HE»S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU.

Though Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell haven't appeared in a movie together before this, the two stars have a few things in common: both arrived on the big screen after successful careers elsewhere (Wahlberg as a pop star in Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, Ferrell as a comedian and Saturday Night Live cast member), and both produce shows for HBO (Wahlberg's Entourage and How to Make It in America, Ferrell's Eastbound and Down).

After becoming a fixture on the big screen with the critically and commercially acclaimed SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, Freida Pinto quickly became an international film star and household name.

Her huge break on the big screen came in 2008 as she starred in the JJ Abrams monster movie Cloverfield.

Born in 1937 in West Cliff - on - Sea, England, screenwriter - turned - director Dick Clement cut his teeth on the small screen in his mid - to late twenties, as a BBC television writer and director, including such now - classic programs as the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964), the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook series Not Only... But Also (1965), and the brief Steptoe and Son successor Mr. Aitch (1967), starring Harry H. Corbett.Clement segued into big - screen comedy in 1966, co-scripting (with Ian La Frenais) the Michael Winner - directed picture The Jokers.

When: October 18th Why: Before «The Expendables,» moviegoers had to wait decades for the chance to see action stars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger side by side on the big screen, but these days, you can't seem to keep the two apart.

This fall brings the terrifying elements of the highest mountain on the planet to the big screen in the mountain climbing drama Everest starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Jake Gyllenhaal and more.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

Much of the revulsion to the film is little more than backlash for the «American Idol» pop star oversaturation, not wanting what has become a national obsession on the small screen to start spilling over onto the big.

A former child star in her native England on the long - running show «Grange Hill,» Asante spent four years trying to bring her story to the big screen, even working on the script on her wedding day and writing pickup scenes while sitting by her dying father's bedside.

The event info says all three Extended Editions of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, starring Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, will be shown on the big screen.

Tomlin has enjoyed a steady stream of quality television work in the past few decades, so she's certainly deserving of another star turn on the big screen.

The 3D made a few scenes more interesting - and I was just happy to see Star Wars on the big screen again.

Other winners on the night included Ireland's Got Talent host Lucy Kennedy for Best Female TV Star and Keoghan for Best Male Star of the Big Screen.

The sci - fi thriller «Life,» starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds opened in fourth place, behind «Kong: Skull Island,» with a middling $ 12.5 million, while the big screen take on «CHIPS» only managed to bring in $ 7.7 million in its first weekend in theaters for a seventh place start.

At 39, True Blood's Swedish - born star Alexander Skarsgard has become the latest actor to play Tarzan on the big screen.

But whether it's dipping in for the pilot and then handing the reins to a showrunner and moving into a producing capacity, as per David Fincher and «House of Cards,» or merely coming on board as a director for hire to give a project a profile boost, it seems every week or so we're reporting on another big - screen directing star spinning the small - screen roulette wheel.

The Edwards - helmed movie marks the first time that the Star Wars story has been told on the big screen outside the confines of its episodic structure.

Shailene's star status was firmly established by response to the big screen version of Divergent, the sci - fi thriller based on the popular Young Adult novel of the same name by Veronica Roth.

Alden Ehrenreich «s Han Solo in the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story is the youngest we'll have seen the dashing smuggler on the big screen.

Only the third film that the acclaimed actor has made as a director (after 2002's Antwone Fisher and his last, 2007's The Great Debaters), Washington certainly had familiarity with August Wilson's beloved Pulitzer Prize - winning material when he decided to bring it to the big screen; the actor won a Tony Award of his own for starring in the 2010 revival of the production, to go along with the play's Tony for Best Revival (and the many that it won during its first run on stage in 1987).

Movie stardom had long been considered the holy grail for a TV star to aspire to, and actors on the rise would agitate to get out of their small - screen contracts — or schedule their blossoming big - screen gigs around those infernal commitments — in order to make that second act happen.»

Queen of the Damned starring Aaliya and Stuart Townsend also has its fans but the franchise stalled on the big screen while it continued in novel form.

Mario Party Star Rush is definitely a sibling to the classic Wii game Mario Party and although you do miss out on some of the fun that you have on a big screen TV, it's still a very entertaining event with some enjoyable mini-games and quirky characters.

The 50th anniversary 4K restoration of Mel Brooks» The Producers, starring Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, will open the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival on April 26 and come to theatres across the country on June 3 and 6 as part of TCM Big Screen Classics, co-presented with Fathom Events.

The composer has signed on to score Haynes» first big - screen film since 2007's ambitious Bob Dylan biopic «I'm Not There,» the Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara - starring «Carol.»

The film feels very much like a low - budget version of another big screen Star Wars - tinged film based on existing franchises, Flash Gordon, with its cheesy sets and costumes, and juvenile presentation.

On the big screen, audiencessaw her in «Fireflies in the Garden,» a family drama starring, in addition to Hayden, Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie - Anne Moss and Ioan Gruffudd.

At the same time, some of these big stars are only on screen for two or three minutes of the movie's 3 - hour running time.

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Starring: Tina Fey, Martin Freeman, Margot Robbie, Alfred Molina, Billy Bob Thornton, Christopher Abbott Tina Fey furthers her attempt at having a big screen career by taking on the true story of journalist Kim Barker.

It has a score by John Williams, and — oh yeah, did we mention it stars Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, teaming up on the big screen for the very first time?

More recently, the question about Marvel TV's relationship with Marvel Studios has moved away from whether or not Agents of SHIELD stars will appear in the films to a slightly different question: Will Netflix's Defenders get their chance to shine on the big screen?

Kirsten Dunst stars in the film with a supporting cast including Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Hurt, Stellan and Alexander Skarsgård and Charlotte Rampling, but in this new trailer it's the stunning cinematography that seems to be the star and makes this a must - see on the big screen.

Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Human Torch, and The Thing are back on the big screen in Marvel's Fantastic Four starring Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell, Is this movie a fun and entertaining contemporary re-imagining of the classic superheroes, or is it just a craptastic reboot?