Rather than relying on formidable movie and television presidents to run their respective businesses, which has long been Warner's practice, Kevin Tsujihara, the studio's recently appointed chief executive, has shifted to lines of reporting that promise a more hands-on approach — by him.
If anyone is entitled to drop names, this formidable movie producer and distributor is.
Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's formidable Osama bin Laden movie anchored by Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain, was collecting the most best picture wins.
Fassbender does formidable work in the movie's last section, set in 1998, when he's playing the later-period Jobs, with the salt-and-pepper scruff and the angular physique, who has long been a public figure.
(Catsoulis) ★ 'PERSEPOLIS' (PG-13, 1 35, in French) Marjane Satrapi's adaptation of her graphic novel-memoir is a free-spirited coming-of-age story, beautifully drawn and voiced by a formidable trio of French movie stars.
(Dargis) ★ 'PERSEPOLIS' (PG-13, 1 35, in French) Marjane Satrapi's adaptation of her graphic novel-memoir is a free-spirited coming-of-age story, beautifully drawn and voiced by a formidable trio of French movie stars.
(Scott) 'PERSEPOLIS' (PG-13, 1 35, in French) Marjane Satrapi's adaptation of her graphic novel-memoir is a free-spirited coming-of-age story, beautifully drawn and voiced by a formidable trio of French movie stars.
Steel, jelly, steel, jelly: she displayed an eerie ability to turn her concentration all the way on and all the way off, a formidable asset for a movie actor, who spends more time waiting than doing and has to tap fresh energy take after take.
The riotous corruption that keeps the movie's formidable bulk of plot barely afloat is in its effervescent round of incidental details, starting with the pair's dermatological improvisations in the boudoir and continuing with the name-dropping chatter and catchphrase-laden monologues that take the place of conversation and of substance throughout the friends' trendy travails.
They can't compete with HBO in the original programming department, but their rag-tag assortment of old titles and movies is formidable.
While Netflix beat big rivals in the DVD rental business, like Blockbuster and Wal-Mart, it faces an increasing phalanx of formidable players in streaming movies, like Apple, Amazon and Hulu.
