Sentences with phrase «star vehicles for»

The films» most common trait is ego, since most are star vehicles for people with no business trying to carry a movie.

They're both star vehicles for a senior citizen legend carefully crafted entirely around her specific gifts.

The actress was hot off her breakout role in «The Wolf of Wall Street» and searching for movies that could be star vehicles for her when she came across Rogers» script.

Salt was originally intended as a starring vehicle for Tom Cruise, but when he turned it down, Jolie was able to step in with few changes.

Salkow was best known as a very capable if not necessarily stylish, maker of action films and westerns, although his wartime films included City Without Men, a prison melodrama that was an early starring vehicle for Linda Darnell.

Designed as star vehicle for Norma Shearer, this sensationalistic melodrama about a brutal gangster (the young Clark Gable) and boozy lawyer could not have been made after 1934, when the rigid Production Code was put in effect.

If so, it's one of several that can be reserved early for this fourth, spectacularly lousy screen version of Jack Finney's 1954 novella «The Body Snatchers,» which some bright light envisioned as the ideal starring vehicle for the Cold Mountain herself, Nicole Kidman, and for Daniel Craig, last seen as the most poker - faced James Bond on record.

Fresh off the smashing success of Neighbors, Heat Vision reports that Sony is developing an adaptation of the upcoming Shane Kuhn novel The Intern's Handbook: A Thriller as a star vehicle for Dave Franco.

It's a starring vehicle for David Spade (Joe Dirt, Tommy Boy), so automatically you know they aren't shooting for a good movie.

It could even be a starring vehicle for Ganondorf.

The latest batch of films includes The Big Sick, a semi-autobiographical story from couple Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon directed by Michael Showalter, a starring vehicle for Jessica Williams titled The Incredible Jessica James, and the latest from Daniel Clowes based on his graphic novel Wilson.

They recently bought First Man as a starring vehicle for Johnny Knoxville, and have made movement on the in - the - works project Mustache Riders.

Prior to production, the story went from starring Bridget Fonda and being set in the US to becoming a star vehicle for the director's daughter, Asia Argento, and taking place in Rome.

Crossroads serves as the fourth star vehicle for a pop star in the past year.

Kevin Hart has become the break - out star of this ensemble, so «Too» is basically a star vehicle for the Manic Little Man — with Vegas as the playground for this «Bridesmaids» meets «The Hangover.»

Despite a barrage of colour and noise, Punit Malholtra's paper - thin romantic comedy Gori Tere Pyaar Mein is little more than a lazy star vehicle for two of Bollywood's big names, neither of whom seem particularly keen to be involved.

Unfortunately, The Foreigner's purpose as a star vehicle for both actors leads to a few script and tonal issues.

's purpose as a star vehicle for both actors leads to a few script and tonal issues.

As a star vehicle for Carell, as a raucous R - rated gigglefest, even as a sentimental date movie, it hits every target at which it aims.

The directorial debut of Bryan Buckley, The Bronze serves as a star vehicle for The Big Bang Theory's Melissa Rauch, who also co-wrote the screenplay with her husband Winston (their first, and it shows), and it makes you wonder why anyone would write such a vile, intolerable character for themselves to play.

Whilst elements of the presentation raise a smirk or even a giggle (including the alliteration efforts of Popper's pithy personal assistant, played by No Strings Attached's Ophelia Lovibond), and the titular creatures charm as anticipated, there's no mistaking this saccharine star vehicle for anything other than middle of the road school holiday fare that might even inspire a few pet purchases.

EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Kaufman has been signed to do a page one rewrite of I.Q. 83, an adaptation of Arthur Herzog's classic 1978 science fiction novel that Paramount is now developing as a star vehicle for Steve Carell.

When we last checked in with the production of upcoming romantic comedy How To Be Single, Leslie Mann, Dakota Johnson, and Rebel Wilson had all just joined the cast, which we assumed was a star vehicle for Alison Brie.

Franco and Kinberg have been developing Fox's «The Hardy Men» as a potential starring vehicle for both James and Dave Franco, who would portray the grown - up versions of The Hardy Boys.

Writer - director Paul Weitz's proudly boisterous star vehicle for Lily Tomlin has about as many ambitions as it does delusions.

Though seemingly intended as a star vehicle for Chris Hemsworth, «Rush» ended up serving as a showcase for Daniel Bruhl, who leaves his co-star in the dust.

One of the very first American pictures produced during the heralded «film noir» epoch - predating the typically marked «starting year» of 1944 - H. Bruce Humberstone (Charlie Chan At The Olympics -LSB-» 37]-RRB- crafted this shadowy, 20th Century Fox precursor as a starring vehicle for Betty Grable (with whom Humberstone would work again on Pin Up Girl -LSB-» 44]-RRB-.

John Madden's Miss Sloane is a ferocious star vehicle for Jessica Chastain, both richly enjoyable for the opportunity it affords Chastain and as an antidote to the end of our political year.

Intended as a star vehicle for Reese Witherspoon, this...

«The production company's purpose isn't to have starring vehicles for me but for any actress.

Though presented as a star vehicle for Tom Hanks, this is filled with actors relishing the most of even the smallest of screentime.

The long - running comic book character from Harvey Comics got the big screen treatment in 1994 with Richie Rich, a seemingly perfect starring vehicle for Macaulay Culkin (The Good Son, Home Alone), although at this point of his career, the former red - hot child star had been ice cold.

The pic was initially developed as a starring vehicle for Eminem, centering on a welterweight's rise to a championship title «as he battles various tragedies in his personal life and wins back the love of his daughter.»

Redrafted as a prequel to the storyline in the game, the movie will be directed by Shawn Levy («Night at the Museum») in a starring vehicle for Holland that's said to have come together after studio head Tom Rothman saw the latest «Spider - Man» film, in which the young actor plays the title role.

Designed specifically as a starring vehicle for MMA fighter Gina Carano, «Haywire» looks like a pretty kick - ass action movie that retains Soderbergh's indie sensibilities.

The Pacifier is very much a star vehicle for Vin Diesel, whose luminosity may have been in question as the years passed since his two blockbuster hits (The Fast and the Furious and XXX) informed that this bald, muscular presence was Hollywood's next action star.

by Walter Chaw Seedy in that ineffable Eighties way, Michael Chapman's All the Right Moves is a star vehicle for a young Tom Cruise, following up his leading role in Risky Business with what is essentially a feature - length Steve Earle song about a downtrodden Pennsylvania steel town.

Fox has closed a deal for Men Who Kill, a pitch that will be developed as a star vehicle for fast - rising Michael B. Jordan.

Demolition is another starring vehicle for Gyllenhaal to show off just how versatile he continues to be as an actor.

The real problem with «Ghost Rider» is that it was as a star vehicle for Nicolas Cage, despite the fact that he was 10 years too old for the role and is an actor not known for his restraint.

For about two thirds of its brisk running time, writer / director Paul Weitz is crafting a very funny and periodically poignant road trip dramedy that serves as a brilliant star vehicle for Lily Tomlin.

Audiard is back with «Rust and Bone,» a star vehicle for Oscar - winning Marion Cotillard («La Vie en Rose») and Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts, who came to new visibility by starring in this year's Oscar - nominated «Bullhead.»

Though handsome and intermittently intriguing, The Man Who Wasn't There was grim and remote; Intolerable Cruelty functioned principally as a star vehicle for George Clooney and Catherine Zeta - Jones and was scarcely recognizable as a Coens film at all.

This year, in fact, has several high profile movies with options to choose from like the blockbuster horror film It, the controversial remake of The Beguiled, the Todd Haynes puzzle Wonderstruck, and Wonder is a star vehicle for Jacob Tremblay, a previous winner in this very category for Room (2015).

It says that the film is being developed as a starring vehicle for Denzel Washington.

Spin City was a star vehicle for Fox and she was primarily an accessory.

The first feature film directed by Susannah Grant, the screenwriter of «Charlotte's Web,» «Erin Brockovich» and «In Her Shoes,» «Catch and Release» is a star vehicle for Jennifer Garner, who plays Grady's nervous but plucky fiancée, Gray Wheeler, left stunned by his death on the eve of their wedding.

And he doesn't turn this story into a star vehicle for Cruise's Ethan Hunt, who shares the laurels with others.

DreamWorks» cunning casting of the silky Spaniard Antonio Banderas as a swashbuckling Puss in Boots pays off, brilliantly, in «Puss in Boots,» a star vehicle for the nursery rhyme kitty cat from the «Shrek» movies.

It's a star vehicle for the marvelous Diane Lane, who recycles her babe - ilicious married - woman - rediscovers - her - sexuality turns in A Walk on the Moon (1999) and Unfaithful (2002), with a lot of added mugging.