After several years of directing primarily lower-key live-action films, Hideaki Anno formed his own production studio and revisited his still-popular Evangelion franchise with the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, a new series of films providing an alternate retelling of the original story.

After having worked in the industry for 14 years and directing many financially successful films, Hawks found himself having to re-prove himself as being an asset to the studios.

After he died, he became an angel, and was tasked with guarding the golden plates, and with eventually directing Joseph Smith to their location in the 1820s.

After the first commercial telephone exchange was installed in 1878, the need for an automated, user-controlled method of directing a telephone call became apparent.

After directing episodes for the revitalized version of ' 50s /' 60s anthology horror series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, Burton received his next big project: Beetlejuice ( 1988 ), a supernatural comedy horror about a young couple forced to cope with life after death, and the family of pretentious yuppies who invade their treasured New England home.

After directing the boxing melodrama The Iron Man ( 1931 ), Browning began work on Freaks ( 1932 ).

After the show ’ s run, he remained in England and began directing for stage and television, as well as producing several of the shows he directed.

After directing a few television show episodes, Nimoy started film directing in 1984 with the third installment of the film series.

After learning that Welles was in the cast, Heston expressed his greater interest in starring if Welles were directing.

After Hu was recalled, he was promoted to directing the Party's organizational department, and later directed Party propaganda through a department of the Politburo.

After seeing this film, Harrison Ford was so impressed by Andrew Davis ' directing work that he immediately signed on to play Dr. Richard Kimble in Davis ' adaptation of The Fugitive.

After this last film, Lean began his directing career, after editing more than two dozen features by 1942.

After seeing The Heiress on Broadway, Olivia de Havilland approached William Wyler about directing her in a screen adaptation of the play.

After directing The Search for Spock, cast member Leonard Nimoy was asked to direct the next feature, and given greater freedom regarding the film's content.

Five years prior to writing and directing Time After Time, Nicholas Meyer published the novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, in which Sherlock Holmes meets Sigmund Freud.

After the success of the 4CV, Lefacheux continued to defy the postwar French Ministry of Industrial Production, which had wanted to convert Renault solely to truck manufacture, by directing the development of its successor.

After Raffles's death in 1975, Littlewood left Theatre Workshop and stopped directing.

After pointedly directing his searchlights at the ship's ensign, an invitation to surrender — which was declined — he opened fire, finally sinking the ship.

After returning to Egypt, he turned his attention to directing.

After a few years of directing films, Davis continued as a cinematographer for his company, Sid Davis Productions, hiring others such as Art Swerdloff, Robert D. Ellis, and Ib Melchior to write and direct.

After War of the Worlds, he spent time directing unsuccessful straight to-DVD movies.

After this record he retired from music to embark on a long and successful career directing porn films.

After the financial collapse of the Italian opera company in 1777 due to financial mis-management, Joseph II decided to end the performance of Italian opera, French spoken drama, and ballet.

After graduation from high school in 1952, against his parents ' wishes, he majored in drama at San Francisco City College, where he was a classmate of future actress Lee Meriwether.

Barrymore's role in the costume drama Ever After ( 1998 ) offered a modern take on the classic fairy tale of Cinderella and served as a reminder, according to Roger Ebert, of how well Drew Barrymore " can hold the screen and involve us in her characters ".

After appearing in the B-movie drama Pilot # 5 he took the male lead in Cole Porter's Du Barry Was a Lady opposite Lucille Ball.

After graduation he began work on the very stylized crime drama, The Element of Crime ( Forbrydelsens element 1984 ), which won a technical award at the Cannes Film Festival.

After the failure of family drama Family and Friends in 1990 they launched the raunchier and more extreme Chances in 1991.

After graduation in 1948, Peckinpah enrolled in graduate studies in drama at University of Southern California.

After public stage performances had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theatres in 1660 signalled a renaissance of English drama.

* December 26 – After 35 years on the airwaves and holding the title of longest-running non-news program on network television, NBC airs the final episode of daytime drama Search for Tomorrow.

After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of 20, Grace Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions as well as in more than forty episodes of live drama productions broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television.

After the formation of amateur Gilbert and Sullivan companies licensed to perform the operas, professionals recognised that the amateur societies " support the culture of music and the drama.

After her role in RKO's Sudden Fear, Crawford appeared in films ranging from the camp western film Johnny Guitar ( 1954 ) to the drama Autumn Leaves ( 1956 ), opposite a young Cliff Robertson, a movie which showed Crawford in a great many kissing scenes which shocked some audiences.

After eighteen months at the drama school, she was signed to an exclusive contract by the Rank Organisation and appeared in various British films.

After the advent of television, radio drama never recovered its popularity in the United States.

After performing in several stage productions, she was propelled into the world of auteurs Jean-Luc Godard ( Hail Mary, 1985 ), Jacques Doillon ( Family Life, 1985 ) and André Téchiné, who made her a star in France with the leading role in his 1985 drama Rendez-vous.

After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full-time during 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger ( in print as Runway Zero Eight ).

After his military service, Scott enrolled in the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism and then became interested in drama ; he graduated from the university in 1953.

After receiving an education in drama, Boyer became a star of 1920s French theater, but he found his greatest success in American movies during the 1930s.

After appearing in 2002's box office success, the health care-themed John Q., Washington directed his first film, a well-reviewed drama called Antwone Fisher, in which he also co-starred.

After the first commercial, Gibney would officially introduce the program: " Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime.

After public stage performances had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theatres in 1660 signalled a renaissance of English drama.

After backing out of a role in F. Gary Gray's 1996 drama Set It Off, Norwood made her big screen debut after winning the supporting role of sassy Karla Wilson in the franchise-flick I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

After her appearance as lust incarnate in the hit Bedazzled, she returned to the U. S. and appeared in the Western film Bandolero !, with James Stewart and Dean Martin, which was followed by the private-eye drama Lady in Cement with Frank Sinatra.