Sentences with phrase «when lead actor»

The Lethal Weapon TV series ran into trouble recently when lead actor Clayne Crawford was fired for poor on - set behavior.

Of course, it doesn't help when your lead actor has been incorrectly cast.

When the lead actor walks out, Sal has to assume the starring role of this series, improbably playing a Princeton student who is assigned to share a dorm room with two gorgeous co-eds.

At last year's Emmys, when lead actor Bryan Cranston beat out Dexter «s Michael C. Hall and Mad Men «s Jon Hamm, the underdog bite in the W mirrored that of Walter White «s, the cancer - stricken, primo meth - cooking family man he plays.

Triple Frontier was a go at Paramount but hit the rocks when lead actors Tom Hardy and Channing Tatum dropped out over creative differences, weeks before the start of production.

Not exact matches

When paired onscreen with actors living fully in the present — playing characters who are defined by their relationship with the lead rather than by their own complicated backstories — DiCaprio is again made to suffer.

For years he held private screenings of the movie (it's also been shown at a few film festivals), and there was even a moment when he and Stern thought of remaking it with Hopper directing once more and a younger actor in the lead.

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When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead.

When we remember who the real actor is, we feel humbled; but we also experience, like Gregory, a sense of relief: itis Jesus, not we, who leads his flock, heals the wounds of sin, and raises up the people to divine union.

In regard to the involvement of regional actors, it seems in the book that there are examples where the involvement of regional actors in the state - building process is highly beneficial and other times when it leads to worse outcomes.

Just when scientists thought they had deciphered the roles played by the cell's leading actors, a familiar performer has turned up in a stunning variety of guises.

With older adults, mugshot viewing led them to experience a feeling of familiarity when they saw the pictured actor performing a familiar action from one of the videos, even if it was a different action than the one that was suggested when they viewed the actor's mugshot.

Jackman has been known to bounce around with different body types, but when you see how ripped he appears to be in all the X-Men movies, you are led to believe that the British actor may be using some help.

The lead performances are all good, even when the script lets the actors down somewhat.

When that picture unequivocally flopped, Steven Spielberg helped rescue Scheider (and in many ways put the actor on the proverbial map) by casting him as the lead, Police Chief Martin Brody, in the blockbuster shocker Jaws (1975).

His investigation gets a boost when the FBI informs him that they have a picture of the murderer... [/ font][font = Century Gothic] The thing that separates superior psychological dramas like «Keane» and «Red Road» from a mediocrity like «Fear X» is a certain fearlessness, not only from the director but also from the lead actor.

Though seemingly born with a battered bulldog countenance and a rattly voice best suited to such lines as «We don't like you kind around these parts, stranger,» tough - guy character actor Kenneth Tobey was originally groomed for gormless leading man roles when he came to Hollywood in 1949.

In 1999, Sheen's brother, Emilio Estevez, cast him as real - life adult filmmaker Artie Mitchell in the made - for - cable feature Rated X — a daring role, given Mitchell's drug abuse and sexual promiscuity — and the following year, Sheen became Hollywood's comeback kid when he was cast in the leading role of the popular situation comedy Spin City after the departure of actor Michael J.

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS and WARM BODIES actor Nicholas Hoult takes the title role, who begins a war between humans and the hideous giants of the skies when a huge beanstalk leads to a gateway into their world.

Leading actors tend not to be in the single digits on the occasion of their debut Oscar bids: Keisha Castle - Hughes was 13 when she got a best actress nod for Whale Rider in 2004, and how many people remember Jackie Cooper, who was indeed nine when he was tapped for a prize for Skippy in 1931?

What makes this movie so seamless is the spot - on performances of the two lead actors and the very relatable story of what happens when love — and life — happens.

The appeal of the film is manifold - its serenity as The American meticulously goes about his craft; the paucity of dialogue that heightens its few action sequences when they do occur; a superb ensemble of actors led by Clooney that also includes Violante Placido (Clara), Thekla Reuten (assassin), Johan Leysen (controller), and Paolo Bonacelli (as a local town priest); the artistic framing of the film by director Anton Corbijn both in its interiors and the long shots of the Italian settings; and simply the story's uncertainty that grips one from its very beginning.

Polanski himself takes the lead role, and, while he is not a brilliant actor, he is at least perfectly cast looks-wise in the part of a timid bachelor who rents a run - down apartment in Paris at a time when available apartments are at a premium.

That said, as an efficient, low - stakes thriller, A Patch of Fog comes recommended, mainly thanks to the showcase it provides for its leads: two reliable character actors given a chance to headline a psychologically probing battle - of - the - wits, something usually reserved for bigger movie stars, when this sort of film had an easier time getting funded in the current landscape.

Latino talent triumphed again when the Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman, starring trans actor Daniela Vega in the lead, won best foreign film.

His team can only hope that when academy members mark their ballots this week, they think of this and not this when voting for lead actor.

While Michael Fassbender «s plan to make a western earlier this year with Lynne Ramsay was kiboshed when that project hit a few rocky patches, leading to the exit of both the director and actor, it looks like the thesp has gotten back on the horse.

This is a competent enough, if plodding, espionage thriller with mostly compelling actors (except for the lead, Jessica Chastain, a lightweight who is mysteriously being called great in this film, and who just received a Best Actress nomination) that tells the story of the painstaking intelligence gathering that led to the ultimate revenge killing, when U.S. Navy Seals exacted retribution for the murder of 3000 people on September 11, 2001, on U.S. soil.

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

Welsh actor Luke Evans stars as Vlad III Tepes, a prince of the ancient central European kingdom of Wallachia who becomes a hero when he leads the fight against the Ottoman Turks.

It turns out that Yim Ho — the gifted director of Homecoming (1984), which I reviewed favorably when it showed at Facets Multimedia in late 1987 — started shooting King of Chess in Taipei around that time, from a script that he wrote with Tony Leung, one of his lead actors.

When challenged over casting a white Australian and a white Brit as the leads in his Biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, director Ridley Scott responded brusquely, «I can't mount a film of this budget... and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so - and - so from such - and - such... I'm just not going to get it financed.

In 1988 the know - it - alls in Hollywood laughed when it was learned that 20th Century Fox had given $ 5 million to a television actor to star in a film whose lead character had already been offered to, and turned down by, such stars as Burt Reynolds, Sylvester Stallone, Don Johnson and Richard Gere.

2016 brought an eerily similar story when director Alex Proyas» $ 140 million fantasy action film Gods of Egypt - starring Gerard Butler (who barely attempted to alter his Scottish accent), Danish Game of Thrones actor Nikolaj Coster - Waldau, and Australian Brenton Thwaites as the three male leads - opened to a domestic weekend of just $ 14 million.

The latest Quentin Tarantino effort, The Hateful Eight (released January 8), went through various pre-release and even pre-production hurdles before making it on - screen - most notably when an early draft of the script was leaked online, reportedly by an actor, leading Tarantino to call off the whole thing in a fit of pique at the betrayal.

When you can see people driving past in the background as the leading actors battle sharks tumbling from a tornado.

When one of the actors is injured in a freak accident, Riggan brings in theater luminary Mike Shiner (Edward Norton) as a last - minute replacement, only for Mike's unconventional methods to lead to a clash of egos between the two men that puts the whole production in danger of shutting down before it even begins.

James» US profile was boosted when he won a Tony Award in 2012 for best leading actor in a play for his starring role in One Man Two Guvnors, which transferred to New York from the West End.

Cruise is STILL a solid lead actor when it comes to playing action heroes and he has fun here playing against time as someone who's originally a bloody coward.

Leading actor Dylan O'Brien was injured during production when a stunt went wrong.

Not everyone enjoyed Dan Gilroy's directorial debut when it premiered at Toronto earlier this month, but the majority of people that did really loved it, leading many to believe that Gyllenhaal could finally earn his first Best Actor nomination come awards season.

The lead actor Tony Leung shared the experience with the audience and said that he particularly liked in the film's opening when his mentor tied Ip Man's belt for him.

The actor is one of those guys who you recognize when he comes on screen even if you can't name him, but really shines in a rare leading part here, with our review calling him «particularly excellent, affecting and funny.»

The only category change was when Benicio del Toro won Lead here and then won the Supporting Actor Oscar in 2000 for his role in Traffic, clearing the way for Russell Crowe to win the Oscar for Gladiator.

In the lead drama races, Taraji P. Henson (Empire) became the third black woman to win drama actress and the first in 23 years after Gail Fisher and Regina Taylor, while Jon Hamm — who didn't get to give a speech when he won his first drama actor Globe for Mad Men during the writers» strike — became the first former drama actor champ to get dropped as a nominee and return to win.

With excellent technical specs and two of the finest actors in the business in the lead roles, American Gangster is not unlike Frank Lucas himself, a polished, professional effort that gives the people what they want when they want it, without diluting the product.

Particularly when its evident Maggie's hubby isn't exactly down with the lifestyle Milo leads as a gay actor from L.A..

While losing a lead actor like Philip Seymour Hoffman is always devastating, it's never easier when a fantastic supporting actor leaves this world.

Let's face it, when you're spotted a trio of Oscar - nominees for the lead roles right off the bat, namely, Thomas Haden Church (for Sideways), Melissa Leo (for Frozen River) and Elisabeth Shue (for Leaving Las Vegas), plus have a couple of veteran character actors like Keith David and M. Emmet Walsh at your disposal as well, it's reasonable for your audience to expect to witness something special.