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Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

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Extras: The Blu - ray includes quite a few extra features, including a detailed, if at times kind of lethargic commentary by director Lloyd; three interlocked featurettes detailing the stage genesis of the property, the vocal training of the actors (including a laugh out loud segment showing the largely incompetent Firth attempting «dance moves»), as well as the source ABBA music; another featurette detailing the making of «Lay Your Love on Me,» a duet between Seyfried and Dominic Cooper that becomes a bit of a production number; deleted scenes (including the cut musical number «The Name of the Game») and a music video of «Gim me!

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staAs schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

Inspired by nocturnal thrillers such as The Warriors and John Carpenter's Escape from New York, with his»71 the dynamite first - time feature director Yann Demange gives us his take on the Troubles, a violent 30 - year struggle over the constitutional status of Northern Ireland.

Sandbox was nominated for a Juno Award, East Coast Music Awards, and a Casby Award.Smith has mixed sound for such films as The Weight of Water and Serendipity.He had been a long - time friend of Trailer Park Boys director Mike Clattenburg, and met Robb Wells (Ricky), and John Paul Tremblay (Julian) while sound mixing on the original TPB feature.

It's ultimately clear, however, that Fear and Desire simply isn't able to justify its feature - length running time (ie the whole thing feels padded - out even at 61 minutes), with the movie's less - than - consistent vibe paving the way for a second half that could hardly be less interesting or anti-climactic - which does, in the end, confirm the film's place as a fairly ineffective first effort that does, at least, highlight the eye - catching visual sensibilities of its preternaturally - talented director.

The comic drama Krystal, marking William H. Macy's third time out as a feature director, is so baffling that it must be appreciated at least for its ability to defy all logic.

Dustin Hoffman, a 75 - year - old first - time feature director better known as a great old acting pro, conducts at a pleasant tempo.

Writer / director Richard Ayoade, making his feature debut, nails a salient point about why it's so tough to stay grounded as a teenager: Oliver realizes that most of the «tragedies» of his life won't have meaning by the time he's 38, but that's scant comfort at the moment.

Billed as a sort of follow - up to Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning, Sara Jordenö's debut feature takes us back to the heart of the New York's ballroom scene - only this time the director casts her lens over a very specific part of that enduring cultural scene.

sees Nicholas Meyer (writer - director of Time After Time, featuring Malcolm McDowell as Wells) and others giving a brief overview of Wells's speculative / political work, spiced with archival footage of Wells speaking for himself.

Like their previous film Lenny Cooke, sibling directors Benny and Joshua Safdie focus on a true story in Heaven Knows What, only this time they shoot it as a feature narrative instead of a documentary.

Lion director Garth Davis earned two nominations today, the top category as well as First - Time Feature Film.

, first time feature director Jeremiah Zagar has created a kaleidoscope of influences ranging from the ethereal wonder of Terrence Malick to the dreams - as - art fantasy of John Cameron Mitchell.

With little over a year to go before its release, Universal Pictures has debuted the first poster for director Sam Taylor - Johnson's adaptation of the all - but - forgotten E.L. James erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, which features Jamie Dornan (Once Upon a Time) as Christian Grey...

With We the Animals, first time feature director Jeremiah Zagar has created a kaleidoscope of influences ranging from the ethereal wonder of Terrence Malick to the dreams - as - art fantasy of John Cameron Mitchell.

Sleeping With Other People, the second feature by writer - director Leslye Headland (Bachelorette), doesn't so much subvert the conventions of its genre as redeem them, one terrific gag and remarkably frank sex scene at a time.

Screenwriter John Romano served time as writer - producer on Hills Street Blues, L.A. Law and Monk, while director Brad Furman turned to crime in his first feature, The Take.

As the film's star once again tramples across a vast expanse of land — albeit in rather different circumstances to The Hobbit trilogy — first - time feature director duo Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke turn a zombie pandemic into a musing on parental love, environmental destruction and the nation's cultural disharmonies.

You catch the final act and you forget that first - time feature director Carl Rinsch has no experience or apparent skill for this material and that his leading man is every bit as much of a stiff as he.

Since «George Washington» (2000) opens with a teenage girl's dreamy, wise - beyond - her - years narration as the camera floats in slow - motion through waving fields of grass and glides along railroad tracks, you probably don't need to be told that first - time feature director David Gordon Green, then just twenty five and fresh out of film school, was a big Terrence Malick fan.

First - time feature writer - director Mike Cahill (who co-scripted with Marling) gives Another Earth a raw visual aesthetic in keeping with its low budget, but just as suitable to its raw feelings of loss, regret, and longing.

First - time feature director Anna Foerster seems well aware that the talky bits in the Underworld universe are best served in small doses, and that gives the extended cast — which also includes Theo James as a good guy, Tobias Menzies as a bad guy, Lara Pulver as a vampire lady we're not quite sure about, and (of course) the awesome Charles Dance emoting his way through some enjoyably colorful nonsense — ample time to beat the stuffing out of each other.

For directors like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg who tend to work on a massive scale with even larger budgets it takes more time and effort to turn in that final product, which makes it quite surprising that Ridley Scott has become as efficient at delivering a steady flow of features in the past few years.

But as possibly the most seasoned director we spoke to for this feature, the Aussie genre pro also understands the value of not showing the monster — an approach he partially learned from one of the most famous creature features of all time.

But then we figured, so what, Whedon actually faced the same, if not worse, obstacles as any other first - time feature director and the grace and wit with which he did so are extraordinary.

As for Day, who worked with first - time feature director Richie Keen on the TV series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, it's not that his performance was weak, but rather that I just didn't care about his character at all (despite the fact that he was given an overdue pregnant wife and young daughter as justification for why it was critical that he keep his job over others who had been let go in a massive, nonsensical layoffAs for Day, who worked with first - time feature director Richie Keen on the TV series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, it's not that his performance was weak, but rather that I just didn't care about his character at all (despite the fact that he was given an overdue pregnant wife and young daughter as justification for why it was critical that he keep his job over others who had been let go in a massive, nonsensical layoffas justification for why it was critical that he keep his job over others who had been let go in a massive, nonsensical layoff).

All of that didn't leave much time left over, but I did get to see one other film, a debut feature by directors Alex and Benjamin Brewer called The Trust, starring Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood as crooked Las Vegas cops who try to pull off a daring heist.

Roth is a voice the genre hasn't heard in quite some time as The Green Inferno marks the director's return behind a feature film -LSB-...]

«Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk» (Sony Pictures Entertainment) Although watching two - time Academy Award winner Ang Lee's latest feature takes some getting used to, there's no denying you're witnessing a director and an ensemble of actors (led by newcomer Joe Alwyn as Billy Lynn) at the height of their powers.

It reads like well - worn territory and when a first - time director picks their own life as inspiration for a debut feature, the results can often seem self - indulgent.

Writer / Director Rian Johnson (Brick) delivers a very entertaining, creative, thrilling and clever sci - fi film that features time travel, dark comedy, romance, metaphysics, and enough action to keep just about any viewer engaged... as long as you enjoy using your brain a bit.

His sophomore feature Boogie Nights (1997), about the adult film industry in the late 1970s (partially inspired by the life of porno star John Holmes) is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family, with Burt Reynolds as a quiet but firm director Dad and Julianne Moore as the porn star surrogate mother to the company's teen stars Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), the «natural» from the suburbs who is quickly recruited.

Features relaxed commentary by director Lone Scherfig and actors Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard (who spend as much time reminiscing over the shoot and appreciating key moments as discussing the production and the characters), a nine - minute making of featurette (which also includes interviews with screenwriter Nick Hornby and author Lynn Barber) and 11 deleted scenes among the supplements on both DVD and Blu - ray.

«Birth of a Director» is a shorter, one - on - one interview with a French journalist, and as the title suggests, it's principally focused on Farhadi's humble beginnings and on the thematic and formal evolution of his work (A Separation is discussed at length, but the amount of time spent on his earlier films suggests that the extra will be more useful to people already familiar with his previous features).

Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows of the time to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers overseen by Whiteman himself (including a larger - than - life rendition of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue»)-- all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson and beautifully shot in early Technicolor.

There may be a reason the writer / director only made one other feature (Circumstantial Evidence -LSB-» 45]-RRB-: his sense of humor probably wasn't for everyone, especially during as scary a time as World War II.

What You Need To Know: Swedish - born first - time feature - length filmmaker Fredrik Bond might be an unknown in the film world, but he has accumulated numerous awards throughout the course of his successful career as a commercial director including one at Cannes.

Director Guy Ritchie hosts, appearing twelve times throughout feature film playback to explain key sequences as they arise.

Writer / director Hayden J Weal uses chronesthesia (aka mental time travel — the ability to think into the past and future) as a catalyst for romantic comedy in this low - budget feature.

Ching Siu - tung: a long - time action director, Ching Siu - tung was directing his own movies, featuring elaborate wirework (which allows actors to seemingly fly during combat), when he first encountered Tsui while working as an action director on Peking Opera Blues.

These young adult movies have seen some impressive names step behind the director chair but Maze Runner finds itself as the feature debut of visual effects artist Wes Ball and there's no doubting the fact that this feels like a first - time effort of someone who can't bring the energy required to keep a film's pulse moving.

Can you name any other director who made as many feature films over as long a time as Allen?

Since her first feature, Girlfight, Karyn Kusama has hardly been the most prolific of directors — a problem not unique to her, as women have a harder time landing directing gigs in Hollywood than do men — but she has not been entirely absent, either, helming the Charlize Theron vehicle Æon Flux and Megan Fox indie horror comedy Jennifer's Body.

That will make this their fourth feature film together as actress and director — and that doesn't even count the numerous times he's made a blink - and - you'll - miss - it cameo in one of her comedies.

Any new Paul Thomas Anderson film is guaranteed to create excitement, but «Phantom Thread» has generated more buzz than usual for two reasons: The drama marks a reunion between Anderson and Daniel Day - Lewis ten years after «There Will Be Blood» and the movie finds the director serving as his own cinematographer on a feature film for the first time.

The Chair, which is being submitted in the reality competition category at this year's Emmys, follows two first - time directors as they embark on the cinematic journey of creating a feature using the same original screenplay.

Seeing that the project is produced by J.J. Abrams, the ambiguity should come as no surprise — the real surprise will be whether or not first - time feature director Dan Trachtenberg can pull off such an ambitious project.