Sentences with phrase «taking lead roles in his films»

With over forty years of acclaimed cinema to his name, Allen has long refrained from taking lead roles in his films.

Zoë is taking the next step in her career with taking the lead role in the film «Raze».

Twenty Seven years since Lily Tomlin has taken a lead role in a film.

Not exact matches

When Gwyneth Paltrow was 22 years old, she got a role that would take her from actress to star: The film producer Harvey Weinstein hired her for the lead in the Jane Austen adaptation «Emma.»

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Despite an interesting premise and excellent cast, the film flopped, but Arquette continued to work steadily the following year, with lead roles in the black comedy Goodbye Lover; Stigmata, in which she starred opposite Gabriel Byrne as the unwitting target of a supernatural phenomenon; and Martin Scorsese's Bringing out the Dead, a film starring Arquette's then - husband Cage as a burnt - out paramedic.Following the weightiness of the creepy Stigmata and the disturbing Bringing Out the Dead, Arquette took things in a decidedly lighter direction with her next two projects.

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.

Honestly, while Samantha Isler gives a great performance in the lead role, I just didn't find the «modern day» stuff (in quotation marks since the film takes in 1977) to be all that interesting to be honest.

As interpreted by Jessie Buckley, who once played Miranda in Jeremy Herrin's 2014 film «The Tempest,» she brings fire and fury into her role as a woman determined to break the chain of her snobbish and repressive mother, willing to take her bond with Pascal wherever it leads and damn the possibility that she could be one of his victims.

No one expected that he would be able to take a lead in a major film after really doing nothing but supporting roles.

The director: Nanni Moretti (Italy) The talent: As in most of his films, writer - director - producer Moretti also takes one of the leading roles, but the film is principally a showcase for 85 year - old French legend Michel Piccoli, playing the Pope of the title.

Best known for starring in Cronenberg's Cosmopolis alongside Robert Pattinson and for her portrayal of the wife of the Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method, Canadian actress Sarah Gadon is now taking on the lead role of the young Princess Elizabeth in new British comedy film A Royal Night Out.

While Christopher Nolan has enlisted a number of A-list stars for his upcoming World War II epic Dunkirk, 19 - year - old newcomer Fionn Whitehead (Him) is set to take on the lead role in his feature film debut, and Entertainment Weekly has released a new image of his character, the young British soldier Collins; check it out here... -LSB-...]

Other nominees include Australian actor Margot Robbie, who began her career playing Donna Freedman in the long - running soap Neighbours and made her name in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonard DiCaprio, and Shailene Woodley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Starin the long - running soap Neighbours and made her name in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonard DiCaprio, and Shailene Woodley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Starin Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonard DiCaprio, and Shailene Woodley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Starin the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Starin the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our StarIn Our Stars.

Director reveals both films will «collide» in the new movie titled Glass, with Unbreakable's Samuel L Jackson taking a lead role alongside Bruce Willis and Split's James McAvoy

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.

Nichols elects to bring back the lead from his previous thriller (Take Shelter) Michael Shannon, but gives him a much smaller role in this film.

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).

Picture taken as hint that Pegg in line for lead role in forthcoming Edgar Wright - directed superhero film

The duo haven't worked together since their last film in 2002, but the good news is that a reunion seems to be imminent, with Spall announcing that he's taking the lead role in Leigh's next feature effort.

As we enter into the second half of 2016, the half of the year where the releases tend to be richer, let's take a look at the top ten most highly anticipated films with women in leading and co-leading roles.

And with General Okoye fast becoming a fan - favorite character in both Black Panther and her brief appearance in Avengers: Infinity War, it would be great to see her take on the lead role in film about the Dora Milaje.

Renamed PEREGRINE»S HOME FOR PECULIARS, and with a screenplay by Jane Goldman, it stars Dame Judi Dench, Samuel L. Jackson, Asa Butterfield, Terence Stamp, Rupert Everett, Ella Wahlestedt, Chris O'Dowd with Eva Green in the lead role, the film follows teenager Jacob, who follows clues that take him to a mysterious island, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's School for Peculiar Children.

The notion that Malone is in the film led to questions about her taking the Robin role, but they've been shouted down in the past.

Already established as a supporting player in the Riddick and Star Trek film franchises (he was the superb Dr. McCoy in the 2009 Trek reboot) here he's taken a leading role... where, as in the comic, his entire face is covered except for his mouth and chin.

The Artist may have continued to build credibility as a genuine Oscar ® candidate as it scored nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, but The Help took the most nomination by a single film with four [Viola Davis nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role; Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role; The Help nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture].

This then led to a few quiet years away from film, but with the actress busier than ever on TV in the UK and Ireland, with major roles in «Criminal Justice,» «Misfits» and «Five Daughters,» while also taking lead roles at the National Theatre in London, in «Phedre,» opposite Dominic Cooper and Helen Mirren, and in «Hamlet,» as Ophelia.

It's been a while since the Aussie actress has taken a lead role in a mainstream film, of course she is co-leads here with Drew Barrymore.

Radiant redhead: Karen recently took the lead female role in the remake of the classic Jumanji film, joining Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black

Reptillus, who takes a special interest in Trixie (giving her something of a lead role this time out), and the others suffer from the delusion that Buzz exhibited in the original film.

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In 1966, Mike Nichols made his debut as a film director by bringing Edward Albee's Broadway sensation to the screen, with celebrity couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton taking on the venomous leading roles.

Of the films we have already seen, Chadwick Boseman buffed his stardom in the lead role in Marvel blockbuster «Black Panther,» while Joaquin Phoenix took home Best Actor at Cannes as a brutal killer trying to save a young girl from the sex trade in «You Were Never Really Here,» and Ethan Hawke earned raves as a melancholy priest out of the fall festivals for Paul Schrader's recently released «First Reformed.»

Michael Fassbender (Frank) is the new lead to take on the role of Jobs, as filming begun in the last few days.

While Helen Mirren is fine in taking on the lead role (it's a male role in Shakespeare's play), the film still has too many contradictions and falls flat.

The Hollywood A-Listers who will take on lead roles in the forthcoming film are to star...

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.

So, in a nutshell, here's where we're at with Captain America: Chris Evans is our hero, Sebastian Stan is his sidekick, Buck Barnes, Atwell is his leading lady and Hugo Weaving is still working out the details to take the role of the film's villain, Red Skull.

The following year, he took the lead role in Bronson, a film about Charles Bronson, a real - life prisoner who has spent much of his adult life in solitary confinement.

The actor can be seen in the recently released «Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues» and takes the leading role in Marvel Studio» upcoming release, «Ant - Man» and has finished filming «The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving.

He's at the cusp of stardom, essentially, with leading - man good looks and an ineffable quality of fearless integrity that allows him to back away from the big - budget blockbusters in which he has found himself of late to take a small role in a small film, just because it's important to him.

We previously reported that Jolie was in talks to take a small role in the film, but Deadline says there are rumors that she might take on the female lead (though they do note that her involvement is «less solidified»).

Danielle Harris takes the lead role in Christopher Lawrence Chapman's Inoperable, a new upcoming horror film set inside a evacuated hospital.

The» 127 Hours» star is reportedly wanted by film bosses to take on the lead role in the...

The radiant redhead recently took the lead female role in the remake of the classic Jumanji film, joining Nick Jonas, Kevin Hart and Jack Black.

He is taking the lead role in the upcoming 3D family film «I Heart Shakey».

First he's gimped - up to satisfy the didacticism of the time (with the trucking industry presenting limited opportunity for a moral, the movie settles on putting the fear of God in us over falling asleep at the wheel), then his role is reduced to reaction shots: When Paul finally takes the stand in the courtroom climax, all Bogart manages to squeeze out is «Wull yeah, but...» This is Raft's show, despite the film's studio - sanctioned absorption into the Bogey canon, though Bogart would have his revenge by stealing the lead in High Sierra — and in theory, every one of his Midas - touched career opportunities subsequent to High Sierra — out from under him.

The Hollywood trade couldn't rule out whether Bardem could appear in that film as Frankenstein before a standalone film of his own - and interestingly, Bardem had already turned down the role of Dr. Jekyll in The Mummy, leading Russell Crowe to take the part.

«Evil Dead» is the «horror film of all horror films» according to Jane Levy.The actress takes the lead role in director Fede Alvarez's remake of...

For the original films, the studio balked at the idea of having three then - unestablished stars in the lead roles, so Phillips took a pay cut and negotiated a percentage of the film's gross in lieu of a salary, in addition to a lower budget of $ 35 million.