Sentences with phrase «in the best movies of»

In the best movies of 2017, a strong woman could battle hate with love, Americans could have truths about race laid out unambiguously, poverty and injustice could be looked in the eye, and people could enjoy freedom to love whom we want and to print what needs to be said.

In celebrating actor Denis O'Hare, Ross says that he has «been in every good movie of 2007.»

Not exact matches

Often billed as China's answer to YouTube, Youku is actually closer to Netflix; it's a streaming video site that relies on a vast library of licensed movies and television to draw in a growing audience hungry for the best western and Asian content.

Now translated into English, Liu Cixin's The Three - Body Problem won the 2015 Hugo Award for best science - fiction novel and is in the process of being made into a Hollywood movie.

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

Best known as the world center of movie - making, LA is also a center for shipping (its port and adjacent Long Beach make up the fifth busiest port in the world).

«Winter Soldier» is a pretty good movie, but Alexander Pierce, played by Robert Redford, is so forgettable that I forgot Redford (one of the most iconic actors of all time) was even in the movie.

«Black Panther» was praised back in February for having one of the best villains in the universe (and in movie history).

In Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, Nitehawk Cinema offers an eclectic mix of today's best art house movies alongside cult classics.

But the narrative already has the makings of a feel - good Hollywood movie — so it should come as no surprise that a feature film dramatizing Ma's rags - to - riches rise is already in the works.

But that doesn't mean that all of these MCU villains are bad: they're just forgettable, even in some of the best movies to date including «Iron Man 3,» «Ant - Man,» and «Captain America: Civil War.»

Each of the two previous films have generally positive Rotten Tomatoes ratings, and they fared reasonably well at the box office ($ 170 million in global gross for Cloverfield and $ 110 million for 10 Cloverfield Lane) for lower - budget movies.

But others point to an overreliance on movie tie - ins and a lack of novelty: Star Wars toys didn't sell as well as expected, perhaps because kids see them as a tired formula.

In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever madIn perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever madin 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever made.

This year's field of Best Picture nominees features eight movies with widely variant box office performances, from 20th Century Fox's (FOX) The Martian «s leading $ 228 million in domestic gross to Room, which barely cracked $ 12.5 million in ticket sales.

One of the best horror movies in the last five years.

If you still can't lose the bad taste of the sequel, check out the original, in which the jokes feel less stale and Will Ferrell is still the best part of the movie.

But, it would fall well short of his dream of creating computers with «universal intelligence,» as he put it, which involves artificial intelligence like in the movie Her that is so lifelike that you could fall in love with it.

It appears that Las Vegas oddsmakers are not in total agreement with movie experts, as the online gambling site Bovada actually has Three Billboards (20/23) as the odds - on bet to win the Best Picture race over the likes of The Shape of Water (7/5), Get Out (11/2), and Lady Bird (14/1).

Carrie Fisher, best known for her portrayal of the plucky Princess Leia in George Lucas» epic intergalactic movie series, died Tuesday, days after suffering a heart attack on a plane.

VIZIO is having an incredible sale, especially well - timed for everyone trying to cram screenings of all the Oscar - nominated movies in before the ceremony.

In anticipation of the upcoming «Captain America» and «X-Men: Apocalypse,» we ranked the 12 best Marvel movies we've seen since Robert Downey Jr.'s era - defining «Iron Man.»

Meanwhile, Dunkirk also fared the best of all Best Picture nominees on YouTube, with the movie's trailer getting nearly 44 million global views on Google's digital video service (Get Out and The Shape of Water are the runners up in that regard, with 30 million and 18 million respective views for their trailebest of all Best Picture nominees on YouTube, with the movie's trailer getting nearly 44 million global views on Google's digital video service (Get Out and The Shape of Water are the runners up in that regard, with 30 million and 18 million respective views for their traileBest Picture nominees on YouTube, with the movie's trailer getting nearly 44 million global views on Google's digital video service (Get Out and The Shape of Water are the runners up in that regard, with 30 million and 18 million respective views for their trailers).

Movie booking site Fandango told Variety that the film has become the biggest pre-seller in the history of the ticketing company, besting the inaugural installment of The Hunger Games.

As Kaan Yigit, president of Solutions Research Group, puts it: «I think there is room in the market for an additional service in Canada because the appetite for movie and TV content online is only increasing and Canada is underserved versus the U.S. where there is, for example, Hulu, in addition to a stronger Netflix offer as well as Amazon Prime.»

In response to a post by a Twitter user which said Musk should provide «some very strong arguments in a well written blog piece to win over the (myself included) skeptics,» the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote: «Movie on the subject coming soon...» Now, why hasn't anyone thought of that beforIn response to a post by a Twitter user which said Musk should provide «some very strong arguments in a well written blog piece to win over the (myself included) skeptics,» the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote: «Movie on the subject coming soon...» Now, why hasn't anyone thought of that beforin a well written blog piece to win over the (myself included) skeptics,» the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote: «Movie on the subject coming soon...» Now, why hasn't anyone thought of that before?

The situation is different in movie theatres, since the glasses are part of that special experience, but it doesn't necessarily translate well into home viewing.

No wonder, then, that seven of the films on our list of movies that feature entrepreneurs have been nominated for Best Picture in the Academy Awards (of them, Forrest Gump won the top honor in 1994).

Marvel has a pretty well - established history of remixing and streamlining the best and most iconic of the many looks each of its characters have sported over the years for their big - screen adaptations (in a funny bit of symmetry, the movie designs usually end up influencing how a character will look in the comics afterward).

In the movie Knocked Up under - achieving friends talk endlessly about creating a web site that will direct people to the «good parts» (meaning nudity) in every movie ever made only to find out after months of planning Mr. Skin had beat them to iIn the movie Knocked Up under - achieving friends talk endlessly about creating a web site that will direct people to the «good parts» (meaning nudity) in every movie ever made only to find out after months of planning Mr. Skin had beat them to iin every movie ever made only to find out after months of planning Mr. Skin had beat them to it.

According to the airline, the sponsorship deal means the inclusion of limited edition travel kits with slippers, headphones and other in - flight items befitting the film's theme, as well as new movie - themed menu items, dedicated travel guides to Gotham City and Metropolis, and a special edition frequent flyer card.

«Of course there was plenty of good cocaine,» Dean Stockwell, who played Billy the Kid in «Last Movie's» film - within - a-film, told UncuOf course there was plenty of good cocaine,» Dean Stockwell, who played Billy the Kid in «Last Movie's» film - within - a-film, told Uncuof good cocaine,» Dean Stockwell, who played Billy the Kid in «Last Movie's» film - within - a-film, told Uncut.

In 2008, for example, «Norbit,» one of the worst movies of all time, was nominated for best makeup.

A brilliant scene in the movie Apollo 13 illustrates the skill of creating meaning deliberately by choosing how to interpret external events the best I've seen.

Looking out on the next decade, Jobs may well be asking himself a variation of that very question: After creating more than $ 150 billion in shareholder wealth, transforming movies, telecom, music, and computing (and profoundly influencing the worlds of retail and design), what should Steve Jobs do next?

The company has done well with several of its movie franchises, such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and Shrek, but it doesn't have anything that really compares to the Star Wars library or the Marvel franchise (although Shrek has pulled in about $ 3.5 billion since the original movie in 2001).

Ahead of «Avengers: Age of Ultron,» which arrives to theaters in May, «Furious 7» has a good shot at being the year's first billion - dollar movie.

Analysts knew the film version of the book would do well, but they didn't quite expect this: The Hunger Games raked in US$ 152.5 million on its opening weekend, the third - best for any movie, ever.

The two, who had worked together on movies like «Gods of Egypt» and «Power Rangers,» were well aware of the responsibility when they set out to make Netflix's reboot of «Lost in Space,» which premiered Friday.

Theatres were thus required to take part in a process called block booking, where they had to purchase a bunch of crappy movies if they wanted the good ones.

For the better part of the last decade or so, cable and TV companies have watched the upheaval going on in the movie and music industries — not to mention the newspaper business — and felt pretty sanguine about their prospects.

Here's the average cost of a single - family home, the best - selling cholesterol drug Lipitor, a movie theatre - ticket, a dozen eggs and a gallon of gasoline in the largest metropolitan areas of each of the ten states using data from the ACCRA Cost of Living Index.

Thus, I broke the most important rule of column writing, storytelling, and content generation, as articulated best by actor / comedian Steve Martin in the 1987 movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: «When you're telling these little stories?

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.

James Franco plays the captain of the ship, who is under the weather as he goes into cryosleep (never a good sign in an «Alien» movie).

That's fine, though, because what the movie does so well is zero in on its core group of characters while also highlighting that there is a larger world than just them.

And perhaps more than any other comic - related corporation, Disney has gotten some fairly good marks from comic lovers for the faithfulness of its Marvel properties and the attention to detail shown in both the movies and TV shows.

Rogers knows that better than anyone, so, despite the Oscar snub, he's taking in the fun of being on a movie with awards love.

The movie, about a father dealing with the aftermath of his wife falling into a coma, was nominated for five Oscars in 2012, winning one for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Speaking of the investigative journalism - focused movie to win the most recent Best Picture Oscar, Oliver said: «One of the things that made Spotlight so powerful is the knowledge that the newspaper industry today is in big trouble.»