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The Town premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 8, 2010, and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 17, 2010. Based on actual events, the film received positive reviews from critics for its direction, screenplay, editing, and the performances of the cast (particularly Renner) and grossed $154 million ...
[17] [18] He went on to act in and direct two acclaimed features for Warner Bros.—the crime drama The Town (2010) and the thriller Argo (2012). [19] The latter, about the 1979 Iran hostage crisis in which he played the intelligence agent Tony Mendez, won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Affleck won the Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best ...
As a Boston-based crime drama, the movie forms part of a "crime-movie subgenre" typically marked by "flavorsome accents, pungent atmosphere and fatalistic undertow", according to Chang. Within that subgenre, which includes The Departed , Mystic River and Affleck's Gone Baby Gone , The Town is more of a straightforward crime-procedural and has a ...
In 2010, Carroll reunited with director Affleck for the film The Town. [18] The film is about a gang of bank robbers which includes Carroll, Affleck, Jeremy Renner, and Owen Burke. [19] For their performances they won Best ensemble cast at the 2010 National Board of Review, [20] and Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards. [21]
The American is a 2010 American action thriller film directed by Anton Corbijn and starring George Clooney, Thekla Reuten, Violante Placido, Irina Björklund, and Paolo Bonacelli. [4] Based on the 1990 novel A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth, it was loosely adapted to screenplay by Rowan Joffé. The film was released on September 1, 2010.
This is the milieu of This Town, a new six-part BBC One series from Steven Knight that celebrates how, at the margins of society, music is not a distraction but an escape. Birmingham, 1980s.
Forced to fool the town into believing John and Emma are husband and wife, they must maintain their secret while in public view. The town mayor, Ray Crill (Keith Carradine), and his wife Fanny (Susan Sarandon) come to see John try to host a political rally in his backyard in support of the incumbent candidate for the federal elections for ...
The original "Halloweentown" was filmed in St. Helens, Oregon, and every year the town celebrates the season by hosting the Spirit of "Halloweentown" Festival from mid-September through October 31.