Sentences with phrase «turned director making»

Underworld: Blood Wars is directed by filmmaker Anna Foerster, a cinematographer turned director making her feature debut after work on «Outlander» and «Criminal Minds».

Not exact matches

The agency then turns that information into a brief that will inspire creative teams — typically made up of an art director and a copywriter — to come up with imaginative ideas.

«When you look at how much money somebody could make by turning a rental unit — particularly something that's rent - controlled, where the city is trying to keep rent low — into what is essentially a hotel room, you see there's a powerful incentive there,» said Ed Lazere, executive director of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, which helped oversee the report.

What makes this so ridiculous is that the previous athletic director SHOULD have turned around volleyball even if that was her only positive contribution to RU!

Choose, but choose wisely: drinking from the false grail will turn your blood to iced tea and make Steve Patterson your athletic director.

Leipzig, though, have made it clear that no amount of money will convince them to sell Keita ahead of their first crack at the Champions League with Sporting Director Ralf Ragnick adamant not even # 100million would turn their heads.

As the details of CIA director David Petraeus» affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell have slowly unfolded since the retired four - star general announced his resignation last week, it appears to be turning into a bad made - for - TV - drama about a jealous lover with just a touch of «what did she know and when did she know it?»

A board of directors who was ready to turn their company over to a pregnant woman, without making condescending inquiries about controlling her hormones or taking a vacation right after starting?

In it, I discuss Houston ISD's long and troubling history of turning a blind eye to illegal campus junk food — even after the implementation of Smart Snacks — and how continued junk food sales will only make the job of our wonderful new school food director, Betti Wiggins, exponentially harder.

But, before you turn the kids loose, review these easy steps to take to make summer play a littler safer from Malcolm Denniss, Technical Director for SGS Consumer Testing Services.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> A series of seemingly routine resolutions to appoint members to the Ulster County Industrial Development Agency board of directors turned controversial Tuesday when county Legislature Minority Leader Hector Rodriguez made a last - minute motion to change one of the appointments.

Presenting its report on Tuesday in Abuja, Gowon Maxwell, Esq, Executive Director of the group affirmed that the reports of UNICEF and NGOs have the potential to present Nigeria as a country with a military that has no good reputation, which would in turns make the country ineligible for international support.

«In the last year, Gemini has made huge progress in turning around the observatory,» says David Silva, director of the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Ariz..

«What he showed us is turning the immune system on isn't enough; the crucial step is to make sure it doesn't turn itself off,» says Antoni Ribas, director of the tumor immunology program at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

For weeks the artisans of the studio workshops had worked on building this pseudo submarine; and before the camera crank was turned the technical director had gone over every detail of its construction to make sure that it emulated successfully the interior of a modern submarine.

«We have yet to make real progress in turning the world toward decreasing CO2 emissions,» says the study's co-author Chris Field, director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Global Ecology in Stanford, Calif. «A greater buildup of CO2 means more warming.»

Malte Meinshausen, director of the Climate & Energy College at the University of Melbourne, said «Regions that make way for future - proof renewable energy and storage investments will turn a zero - emissions future into an economic opportunity.

Saint Olio's cleaners are a favorite among team mbg, and our food director, Liz Moody, credits them with turning her into a person who actually likes cleaning: «The scent, made entirely of essential oils, is sophisticated and complex — honestly, I'd wear it as perfume,» she raves.

No sooner had Peter Dundas been announced as the new creative director of Roberto Cavalli on Thursday (a bit of well - timed succession planning for Mr Cavalli, who will turn 75 later this year) than Massimo Giorgetti was named as Dundas» successor at Emilio Pucci on Friday morning, signalling that Pucci will take a younger, fresher stance in a bid to free itself from the shackles of its iconic prints and make the brand more relevant to a younger audience.

Critics Consensus: By turns intoxicating and confounding, El Topo contains the creative multitudes that made writer - director Alejandro Jodorowsky such a singular talent.

Now comes The American, a European - set film from photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn (he made Control, about Joy Division's Ian Curtis), a thriller based on a 1990 Martin Booth novel that promises some high - toned excitement, and a chance to see the dark side of George Clooney - that is, the side that isn't being a handsome scamp or earnest humanitarian.

Shortage of exotic shenanigans apart, artist - turned - director Sam Taylor - Johnson has delivered a decently acted and technically well - made adaptation of what remains a fundamentally silly and, at times, simply rather unpleasant story.

Like the directors that so clearly inspired Affleck (William Friedkin, Sidney Lumet, among others) so often did with true stories turned into captivating entertainment, the actor / director has made such a fine - tuned, well - oiled machine of a film.

Actor - director delves deep into the making of «The Room» and turns in a hilarious, moving ode to art, strange accents and friendship

Whereas Wan (who retains a producer credit here, and makes a cameo appearance) is the sort of director who can effortlessly turn a billowing curtain or creaking floorboard into an unbearable portent of dread, Whannell rarely makes the neck hairs quiver, let alone stand at attention.

It all sounds like a recipe for the most noxious liberal jerk - off movie since «Crash,» but in the hands of writer - director Richard LaGravenese, Freedom Writers turns out to be a superb piece of mainstream entertainment — not an agonized debate over the principles of modern education à la «The History Boys,» but a simple, straightforward and surprisingly affecting story of one woman who managed to make a difference.

This film from stuntman turned director David Leitch (who debuted behind the camera with «John Wick») starts with a literal bang, with our mysteriously depressed hero immolating himself atop a deathbed of explosive fuel canisters, then works its way backwards to detail the trauma that made him sad enough to kill himself.

The Salesman (Le Vendeur) / Canada (Director and screenwriter: Sébastien Pilote)-- Car salesman Marcel Lévesque operates by the rules of a bygone era, turning on the charm to make his quota.

Fittingly, Magee adapts the skills he learned on past creature crews to make his first turn in the director's chair a tour de force, with creature design and practical effects that rival the best of the big budget movies going today.

Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi — film - à - clef debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab at putting his life back together.

At the same time, his daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), a minor who just turned 17, is starting an affair with a sixty - something film director (John Malkovich) who is legendary for his skill and productivity but also notorious for making films about older men having affairs with much younger women and doing the same thing in real life.

In the wider scheme of things, «Tigerland» is not a great movie, but it is solid and unusually heartfelt for Schumacher, and what it lacks in nuance (the director has never knowingly turned in a subtle film), it makes up for in a simplistic but emotive understanding of the mechanics of masculine friendship and rivalry in the shadow of a nationally emasculating war.

Over the last decade producer turned director Matthew Vaughn has made a group of films that test the boundaries of the genres he's chosen to tackle.

And yet the scene, which also marks a turning point in the central relationship, falters when some of Emma's supposedly sophisticated friends make eager remarks about art and female sexuality that seem to mirror the director's problematic approach toward the representation of women.

I have large doubts that 20 years ago, following the debut of writer / director Kevin Smith's Clerks, anyone predicted that one day this man would make a film about a mysterious man turning an unknowing participant into a walrus, but here we are.

The Dutch photographer - turned - director who made a splash in 2007 with his terrific Ian Curtis biopic «Control,» has crafted a sexy and taught European thriller about an assassin on one last mission in the remote Abruzzo region of Italy.

Bonus features come by way of a feature - length audio commentary track with director Amiel, a special making - of documentary, and around 10 other separate featurettes which include a wide array of cast, crew and academic - leaning interviews, as well as a tour of Darwin's home, which has been turned into a museum.

I had been worried when a director I didn't particularly like was hired to make one of the earlier films, and somehow his work turned out to mesh well with all the other films.

Cinematographer - turned - director (in his directorial debut, no less) Jan de Bont makes excellent use of both skills.

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.

A couple of years back, critic - turned - director Gabe Klinger made a film called Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater.

Ahead of its release next month, a new poster and trailer has arrived online for director Michael Thelin's upcoming horror Emelie which stars Sarah Bolger; check them out here... SEE ALSO: Read our ★ ★ ★ ★ FrightFest review of Emelie here After their regular babysitter Maggie can't make it, the Thompson family turns to her -LSB-...]

Director Tim Miller's freshman outing, which is sure to be a mega blockbuster, features a career - making performance by Reynolds as Wade Wilson, a special - forces soldier turned low - end mercenary who finds out he has terminal cancer - like, all over the joint.

When all hell breaks loose, incoming director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In) and his crew make it dark, hellish and disorientating — there's one magnificently show - offy panorama of night - time mayhem, as Koba seizes control of a rotating tank turret, and the camera follows it through multiple 360 - degree turns, taking in all kinds of sound and fury.

Director Adam Wingard and Writer Simon Barrett continue their journey on making films that shock and amaze with every turn.

With the trailer for his latest venture WHITE HOUSE DOWN making its way online, of course the conversation would turn to director Roland Emmerich's...

Coupled with that are their kids; both of Barrymore's sons are horribly annoying, to the point where you hope the director makes some risky choices, turns the film into a The Ghost & The Darkness rip - off and they both get violently killed by lions, while Sandler's daughters fair a little better, but only because they appear to have recognisable human personalities.

Perfecting his style of absurdist deadpan comedy, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) introduces new rules, activities, and gruesome punishments at every turn: Matches are made based on arbitrary similarities; trial couples are assigned children; and time extensions can be earned by hunting down renegade singles who live in the woods and only listen to electronic music.

Turned down by every Hollywood studio and most of the major American directors, it was finally made independently by a pair of first time producers — actor Michael Douglas (who bought the rights from his father) and jazz record impresario Saul Zaentz — and émigré director Milos Forman.

The British director originally attempted to make it after his 2000 adaptation of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, but it was turned down by the body then overseeing British cinema, the UK Film Council — who, Davies remembers, told him, «It hasn't got legs.»