He is the premium actor who has never been in a bad movie his whole career – a couple of moderate films but that statement is fact; IMDB it.
For an event tied to last year's Academy Awards, Mr. Wolan's company paid a premium to actors willing to don gold spandex body suits and pose as Oscars.
These centers conduct rigorous training exercises in the Suzuki method of acting, which puts a premium on actors' control of their bodies and energy.
At the urging of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the United States Copyright office last year required Internet broadcasters to pay a 300percentt premium to actors in radio commercials also played on the Internet.
A portfolio of premium-quality actors, a string of showreel-standard speeches and intensively rehearsed outbursts, a selection of palate-cleansing shots of the landscape … the movie version of Tracy Letts's award-winning Broadway stage play looks classy, but doesn't add up to anything very nourishing.
Correction: February 21 , 2002 Thursday The E-Commerce Report column in Business Day on Monday about the business challenges of Internet radio broadcasting misstated the origin of a 300percentt premium paid to actors in radio commercials that are also played on the Web.
Given reality TV's premium on amateur "talent," actors could be forgiven for boycotting these shows on economic grounds, but apparently nobody is immune from their charms.
The American film industry believes in its own mythology and a man with an Oscar is an actor at a premium, even if he does upstage their leading men.
Starz Entertainment, the premium channel that airs the show, used different actors to film a prequel called "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena," while awaiting the star's return.
Competitors such as Netflix, Amazon, Showtime, AMC and FX have elbowed their way into the premium space for prestige projects, giving creators and actors more options for where to take their projects.
