Sentences with phrase «first feature film ever»

Joseph Kosinski was a commercial director whose FIRST FEATURE FILM EVER was Tron: Legacy.

The result was the first feature film ever produced under Roman Catholic auspices.

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Last year, a small movie studio even released what it claimed to be the first scripted feature film ever shot and released entirely on the messaging app.

In April, an upstart movie studio released what it claims to be the first ever scripted feature film shot and released entirely on the Snapchat social media app.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

At the same time, the film harks back to Disney's first - ever fairy - tale feature, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with its story of a princess in disguise living hidden in a forest; a villainess with access to supernatural powers; a supporting cast of lovable eccentrics; frolicking animal friends; and a handsome prince who awakens the heroine from a deathlike sleep with love's first kiss.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

But I'm sticking with my feeeling that «ÄúThe Hurt Locker «Äù will pull this one out — that for a variety of reasons, including the simple fact that she made the better movie, Kathryn Bigelow will become the first woman to ever win the DGA feature film award.

Netflix has extended its deal with comedian Adam Sandler to encompass four more feature films after his first two were the streaming giant's biggest - ever film releases.

In theaters September 13 from Open Road, here's a hi - res look at the first ever image from Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills featuring sexy starlette Amber Heard atop of Danny Trejo as the film's title character.

They'd been friends with the film's director, David Gordon Green, for nearly a decade, ever since he gave the Austin, Texas - based experimental - rock instrumental quartet its first significant movie placement in his 2003 film All The Real Girls (which happened to feature a young Zooey Deschanel as a co-lead).

Check it out below after the official synopsis... Inherent Vice is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel.

This is an exceptionally cool announcement, considering that Halloween H20 is one of the most popular and controversial sequels in the entire Halloween franchise, and this marks the first time that a feature commentary track has ever been provided for the film.

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first installment of The Hunger Games franchise, The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn — Part 2, Now You See Me, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, Snitch, Texas Chainsaw 3D, The Expendables 2, The Possession, Sinister, Arbitrage and Pantelion Films» breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the highest - grossing Spanish - language film ever in the U.S.

From Mark Osborne, Academy Award ® nominated director of Kung Fu Panda, comes the first - ever animated feature film -LSB-...]

Other significant personal preems, in order of original release, included: Buster Keaton's Go West (1925) and College (directed by James V. Horne, 1927); Howard Hughes's and James Whale's Hell's Angels (1928 - 30), featuring (sorry, other Howard) the most awesome aerial scenes I've ever witnessed; John Ford's Up the River (1930) and Airmail (1932); Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), utterly silly but quite beguiling as an empty exercise in directorial pizzazz; Gordon Wiles's — and Daniel Fuchs's — The Gangster (1947), an archetypal arty film noir; Val Lewton's Apache Drums; (directed by Hugo Fregonese, 1951); Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (1952); Robert Bresson's Quâtre Nuits d'un rêveur (1971); Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Phil Karlson's Framed (1975); Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (1977); and Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (1978), which returned to Seattle (after a five - day first run in» 78) only via Showtime.

The Duplass Brothers have premiered many of their short films and their last two features, The Puffy Chair and Baghead, at Sundance previously, but this was the first year that their film has ever played in the biggest Eccles Theater.

Quite possibly the most devastating performance of the year, Lupita Nyong» o's work in 12 Years a Slave is all the more impressive considering it's the actress» first feature film role ever.

The five films in this eccentric collection are the hipster youth generation satire Getting Straight with Elliot Gould; the Jeff Goldblum psychics - on - the - run comedy Vibes (notable as the feature debut of Cindi «She - Bop» Lauper); Stephen Frears» first film Gumshoe with Albert Finney; and the first - ever home video releases of Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five and Carol Reed's 1959 spy satire Our Man in Havana.

From first draft to final completion it was the most ambitious low budget feature film ever attempted.

Location - based horror is the name of the game for Yam Laranas» new feature The Road, the first ever Filipino film to get a commercial U.S. release in theatres (a fact

This is the first film from Stillman since his 2011 release Damsels In Distress ($ 1 million, Sony Classics) and only his fifth feature film ever.

Yet, as improbable as it may seem, «Selma» is the first feature - length film ever made about him.

The 1992 film's production was marred by frequent clashes between first - time feature director David Fincher and the ever - present 20th Century Fox's studio executives on set.

But Petit's video — the first time Farber has ever appeared on - screen, notwithstanding extended homages to him and his work such as Jean - Pierre Gorin's feature - length essay Routine Pleasures (1986) and Paul Schrader's short film Untitled: New Blue (1995)-- is after something more.

Their film features perhaps the first action scene we've ever seen where we cared more about what was happening in a character's relationship than how many kills he was about to rack up — and then, once it was done, felt simultaneously exhilarated by the visceral power of what was happening immediately, and the emotional stakes of what that set piece took him (and us) away from.

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first two installments of The Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, A Madea Christmas, Now You See Me, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, The Expendables 2, The Possession, Sinister, Roadside Attractions» Mud and Pantelion Films» breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the highest - grossing Spanish - language film ever released in the U.S.

The first of these essays is going to focus on Joseph Kahn's second feature, 2012's Detention, one of the most energetic, frenetic and downright insane films I've ever had the pleasure of watching.

This release features, for the first time ever, every musical cue used in the film (over an hour's worth of music).

For the first time ever, and to hundreds of thousands of fans» anticipation, a feature film based on Games Workshop's phenomenally popular Warhammer 40,000 science fantasy universe has been bought to screen by new production company Codex Pictures, starring Terence Stamp (Superman 2, Valkyrie), John Hurt (Alien, Hellboy) and Sean Pertwee (Event Horizon, Dog Soldiers).

It's taken Sharon 15 years to make Brown Girl Begins, the first ever Canadian - Caribbean science fiction feature film.

In the ever growing yet still somewhat scanty representation of LGBTQ in today's cinema, films like A Fantastic Woman (featuring Chile's first a...

As the 50th full - length animated feature in The Walt Disney Studios» celebrated library and the first animated feature film to ever debut day - and - date on Disney Blu - ray 3D,

The first - ever (and only) full - length feature film Potter parody, the ground - breaking Harvey Putter follows the -LSB-...]

Then, in part three, we discuss Spurlock past and future including the disappointing box office of the fantastic Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, his upcoming film Mansome, some TV projects and even his first narrative feature.

Córki dancingu (The Lure, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2015) Because, for a feature film debut, why not make Poland's first ever musical a gloriously camp affair concerning cannibalistic mermaids?

Spotlight Features and Commentary: Andrea Arnold on Wuthering Heights (Moira Macdonald at Seattle Times) «Secret Festival» Rebellion (David Schmader for The Stranger) Updated Release Dates for SIFF films (Moira Macdonald for The Seattle Times) Just Before Dawn: The First SIFF (Richard T. Jameson for Straight Shooting) Interview with director Drew Denny of The Most Fun I've Ever Had With My Pants On (Twitch) Q&A with Lynn Shelton (Brian Miller for Seattle Weekly) Lynn Shelton: «I never imagined I could be a filmmaker» (Moira Macdonald for Seattle Times) Scriptless in Seattle: A Filmmaker's Map (Lynn Shelton profile at The New York Times) Interview with Megan Griffiths at SXSW (Indiewire) Rick Stevenson's 10 - Year Documentary (Sean Axmaker for Seattle Weekly)

«Career Opportunities in Organized Crime,» the first ever feature - length film shot with 360 - degree virtual reality cameras, is set to premiere at the VR / AR Experience Expo at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

Brace yourselves for «the first ever feature - length horror film to be shot entirely on an iPhone» (it says here, although we seem to recall James Cullen Bressack's To Jennifer being shot on an iPhone 5 around the same time) when Hooked Up (2013) arrives on UK DVD on April 27, courtesy of Signature Entertainment.

The first ever all - female crew feature film Band - Aid was a delight with writer / director / star Zoe Lister - Jones.

Miyazaki's first digitally animated feature (the highest - grossing Japanese film ever) initially seems like a Through the Looking - Glass fantasy, but rapidly picks up a resonance, weight and complexity that make it all but Shakespearean.

If you look at a list of the greatest films ever made, you will consistently find one title at or very near the top: Citizen Kane (1941), the first feature film from the legendary Orson Welles.

Fine Line Features, the distributor of «Hoop Dreams,» has spent thousands of dollars to persuade academy members to make the film the first documentary ever nominated for best picture.

Nokia's Communicator series has always been a good seller for the Finnish phone makers, ever since they first began to arrive back in 1996 where the Nokia 9000 Communicator was even featured in the 1997 Val Kilmer «Saint» film.

As well as being home to the first Piña Colada cocktail ever made, the resort has featured in many popular TV shows and films.

This features a lot of animated content, including the entirety of the incredibly cheesy (but - oh - so - fun) Saturday morning cartoon show from 1995, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (in my opinion, featuring some of the best fight scenes choreographed for any film, live - action or animated), Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind, and the Super Street Fighter IV Original Video Animation, aka the «Juri anime,» which is being released in English for the first time ever.

Soon after the launch of the detergent, Chambers starred in one of the first feature - length porn films ever made, Behind the Green Door, and Rhoades was drawn to the dichotomy between advertised wholesomeness and adult content, which in this case arguably contributed to the popularity of both.

On 30 July our first ever REcreative tour explored two of south - east London's best known art spaces - Bold Tendencies, the annual sculpture exhibition held on the top floors of the Peckham multiplex carpark - and White Cube Bermondsey, to see an exhibition by UK artist Sarah Morris, called «Bye Bye Brazil» that featured her amazing film about the city of Rio.

Many works in the show relate to Wilhelm Sasnal's first ever feature - lenght film entitled Swiniopas (Swineherd), which he realized in the past year.

In 2013 the Qatari Government's UK Year of Culture featured «This Breathing World», a major solo exhibition of 54 artworks & films as part of the first ever Art & Disability Festival in the Middle East at Katara Cultural Village, Doha.