Sentences with phrase «whose movies made»

Here, we will see top 10 directors whose movies made billion dollars.

The Room marks the writing - directing - acting debut of Tommy Wiseau, who's not just one of the most unusual looking and sounding (with an unidentifiable Eastern European accent) leading men ever to grace the screen, but a narcissist nonpareil whose movie makes Vincent Gallo's «The Brown Bunny» seem the apotheosis of cinematic self - restraint.

Deakins got his first Oscar nomination for his work on 1994's The Shawshank Redemption, and through the years, he's been nominated for all kinds of movies, from Best Picture nominees (No Country for Old Men; Fargo; The Reader) to more offbeat but lush achievements, working with directors like the Coen Brothers (whose movies make up for 5 of Deakins's 14 nods), Martin Scorsese (Kundun), Sam Mendes (Skyfall), and Angelina Jolie (Unbroken).

Not exact matches

Facebook users got a real wake - up call this week, according to Mezrich, whose best - selling book was made into the movie «The Social Network.»

Facebook users got a real wake - up call this week, according to Ben Mezrich, whose best - selling book was made into the movie «The Social Network.»

So let's say this movie is about a woman whose life was shaped by love of her father; the making of the film Mary Poppins (as well as the writing of the book) is about her coming to terms with the truth about personal love and death and all that.

This assumption is celebrated in the movie The Dead Poets Society, whose protagonist is a teacher who intends above all to help students make up their own minds.

The morning began as a typical morning; I poured a cup of coffee, rushed to make breakfast, rushed to get kids ready, tried to remember to get myself ready (to avoid that horrible dream about driving to school in my pj's), and there was a minor scuffle between the kids about whose turn it was to choose the movie for movie night.

Yvonne — whose 1993 memoir, The Ditchdigger's Daughters, was made into a TV movie — is an obstetrician - gynecologist.

Science spoke with director Ridley Scott; Andy Weir, whose debut novel provided the tale; and Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science and an adviser on the film, to find out how they made movie magic while staying largely faithful to the science — leaving out a raging dust storm and a few other moments of implausibility.

Rees, whose one and only feature film until now was her 2011 debut, «Pariah,» has said she set out to make an «old - fashioned» movie, and she's done that, allowing her story to unspool at a refreshingly deliberate pace and her characters to find their own footing within the story and with one another.

Mikkelsen, a 47 - year - old A-list Danish performer whose résumé includes «Casino Royale,» «Prague,» and «King Arthur» and who in this movie carries out a hot affair with 24 - year - old Alicia Vikander, makes the chemistry believable despite being in real life of different generations.

Michael Shannon, probably the busiest good actor in movies today, plays Rick Carver, the master house - flipper and real estate exploiter whose money is made on bank foreclosure properties, of which there is a scary supply in the wake of the worst recession since the»30s.

While the movie ends in a way that's clearly designed to prompt further sequels, we don't get that prequel X factor that makes us interested in a character arc whose outcome we already know.

The case could be made that The Disaster Artist is a little too sunny for a movie about a clearly damaged man whose lifelong drive to create something beautiful only led to his becoming a symbol of grand - scale failure.

Fun and delightful odd - ball comedy, featuring the always brilliant Johnny Depp, whose character in this story is no less memorable than all those he has come to play after this movie was made.

The movie dwells on Darwin's troubled personal life, I suppose to make him relatable to viewers, who may not share his rare genius, but who probably know someone whose spouse is a pain in the rear end.

Pictures and Alcon Entertainment's «Dolphin Tale 2» continues the story of the brave dolphin Winter, whose miraculous rescue and recovery - thanks to a groundbreaking prosthetic tail - made her a symbol of hope and perseverance to people around the world and inspired the 2011 family hit movie «Dolphin Tale.»

It does eventually show its hand as a space - monster movie, but Abrams never loses his grip on the entwined stories of his hugely likeable young cast, whose wit and resilience make them the antidote to studio - brat tweeness.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 12, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Morning Glory (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality and drug references) Romantic comedy about an aspiring TV producer (Rachel McAdams) whose hopes to save a struggling news program depend on her controlling the show's feuding co-anchors (Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford).

Director Ericson Core («Invincible») and writer Kurt Wimmer (whose previous remake duties include «Total Recall» and «The Thomas Crown Affair») clearly want to up the ante on the action, but they make almost no effort to incorporate these stirring sequences into the rest of the movie.

Over the course of the movie, Reynolds will spend far less time fighting bad guys than he will offering crude commentary, demolishing the fourth wall, making X-Men inside jokes, and occasionally all three at once — e.g., «Whose balls did I have to fondle to get my own movie?

Featuring George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Jonah Hill, Josh Brolin, Channing Tatum, Frances McDormand, and others, the meta movie - making film follows a 1950s production whose star (Clooney) is kidnapped in the middle of shooting, and the studio must scramble to find a way to get him back.

However, without the Magic Mike name, he might not have guaranteed to millions he was bound to make and he wouldn't have had access to Channing Tatum, whose dance moves provide this movie with its finest moments.

Their scenes seem trimmed to make way for Josh Brolin's Thanos, the character whose movie this is — nobody's onscreen more than this brooding purple titan, and he's a more compelling villain than most non-Loki, non-Killmonger Marvel screen baddies.

The movie doesn't shy from romantic sentiment, which may turn some viewers off, but it remains a pretty thoughtful, good - natured, and sincere drama whose blockbuster numbers make some sense, even if they would never occur today without a bigger hook.

And Zazie Beets owns all of her screen time, playing someone whose superpower - luck - makes her a bit like a walking Final Destination movie.

Film director and writer whose own illness informed the making of Still Alice, the award - winning movie about Alzheimer ’s

Derek and Hansel make up and reunite when they're beckoned by the world's latest, greatest designer, Don Atari (SNL's Kyle Mooney, whose interpretation of passive - aggressive hipster youths is the movie's highlight) to walk the runway in his ultra-hip garb.

You'll discover a whole new version of the old fairytale in this Hallmark made - for - TV movie where the tall tale comes to life after an enormous skeleton is unearthed at the family estate of a wealthy businessman whose first name is Jack — of course!

Los Angeles — Elizabeth Taylor, the violet - eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old - fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday.

DuVernay, whose previous directorial efforts were small - scale domestic dramas, is one of the very few black women making Hollywood movies.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 18, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Limitless (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes, violence, sexuality and disturbing images) Bradley Cooper stars in this action thriller about a frustrated writer whose life is transformed after he is introduced to a top - secret, smart drug which enables him to use 100 % of his brain.

The whole experience isn't quite as good as actually sitting down and watching a movie with Wright — whose clear enthusiasm for film and gabbing about it is pretty much unquestionable at this point — but it does make for a pretty good excuse to bust out one of our best comedies since 2000 and give it another watch.

Add in the fact that said CIA agent is played by Nicolas Cage, an actor whose wild mood - swing style already resembles the early symptoms of dementia, and you've got the makings of a pretty good movie — which Dying Of The Light isn't, for a number of reasons.

It's an unconscionable and completely inappropriate suggestion — the kind that only someone with Amanda's blunt, cold - bloodedly pragmatic attitude could make, although it's just the sort of hypothetical that attracts us to the works of «Strangers on a Train» novelist Patricia Highsmith, or more outrageously, films like «Jawbreaker» and «Heathers,» whose influence can also be found lurking beneath this movie's elegant surface.

«It isn't about the making of the worst movie ever — it's about people chasing the American dream,» says Goldberg, whose production company with Rogen, Point Grey, is making the film.

Because Hill couldn't figure out a way to make something that looked any different from the average Adam Sandler movie, he would up making a movie whose point seems to be to raise the acceptable level of mayhem for Adam Sandler movies.

A coming - of - age story that captures the purity and confusion of youth as perfectly as any movie ever made, Tomboy follows an androgynous kid named Laure whose family moves to a new neighbourhood outside of France.

The directing debut of longtime cinematographer and former assistant camera operator David A. Armstrong (whose credits include the first six Saw movies), Pawn utilizes a slightly nonlinear presentation that makes you anticipate more meaningful twists than it delivers.

She enlists a vastly overqualified accompanist by the wonderful (and real) name of Cosmé McMoon (The Big Bang Theory's Simon Helberg, an accomplished pianist whose expressive silences and poorly suppressed giggles all but make off with the movie).

The movie stars Kwang - rok Oh as a fisherman whose life is altered when he makes an unexpected catch.

It takes roughly two minutes to get completely sucked into true - life filmmaking odyssey of Sandi Tan, whose life - story is bound to make for somebody's new favorite movie.

Tom Hanks apparently championed the film during pre-production when it seemed that the film wouldn't get made, but apart from that we have a bunch of — uniformly excellent — actors whose names don't usually appear above the titles on movie posters.

«Solo» tries on a different genre — when it's pausing between chases, it's a full - on gangster movie (Paul Bettany makes for a shrewd, ruthless kingpin, whose eyes glow red when provoked).

However, the one most worth discussing in greater depth is Daniel Brühl (Rush) as Helmut Zemo: the shadowy antagonist with a mysterious agenda in Civil War whose true motivation makes him more complex than your average Marvel movie villain.

The film's title comes from the name of a self - help book written by Teddy Raymond (Tom Berenger), a semi-anonymous guru whose work has managed to sweep the nation (or at least greater Los Angeles; the movie makes it hard to differentiate between the two) despite his lack of participation in the publicity machine.

Photographed by Tom Hoops for Lab MagazineNicolas Winding Refn, the Danish auteur whose made a career of candy colored violent films after grimier movies at home, is both exactly what you'd expect and unexpected.

Alverson, whose formal chops are undeniable, makes movies like no one else.

The script makes reference to sci - fi author Jules Verne, whose stories are the inspiration behind Journey to the Center of the Earth (the prequel to this movie), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days (and the remake from 2004).