Sentences with phrase «studios movie debuts»

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Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

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.

OUR TAKE: Fresh young faces starring in a movie about a board game that hinges on delusion - as directed by Stiles White, a special effects guru from the Stan Winston studio, who has written films like Knowing and The Possession, but is admittedly making his directorial debut with this movie.

THR's sources say that the «heavy comedic tone» of the Channing Tatum - led film led the studio to moving it from February 14 (the same weekend Deadpool debuted in 2016) to a more traditional summer movie date.

The studio's two Allen movies (Café Society and Wonder Wheel) have grossed a combined $ 12.5 million at the domestic box office, and the TV show the director did for Amazon (Crisis in Six Scenes, which cost $ 80 million) debuted to negative reviews.

Gareth Edwards makes the leap from «Monsters» to his mega studio debut, with the movie expected to be in 3D.

On average, analysts set the movie's debut at $ 25 million, with studio estimates in the low 20s.

The few who did take an interest in the movie wondered if the low - key approach Disney took to marketing and exhibiting its film had something to do with the studio maintaining properties nearer and dearer to its heart, namely its long - promoted in - house fully - CGI debut Chicken Little and the increasingly optimistic negotiations with Pixar.

The studios are only debuting one little movie in theatres this weekend, which is considered the worst one of the year to release a new movie, writes Peter Howell.

by Walter Chaw With boring being the one thing from which an action movie can't recover, studio supergroup DreamWorks SKG marking their debut by giving professional director of boring action movies Mimi Leder the bank suggests they were asking to make a terrible first impression.

There is just very little to like about this film, an assertive, confident debut that squandered the backing of one of the world's biggest movie studios.

Now, with the film (and its cliffhanger conclusion) debuting to surely gargantuan numbers, it's clear that Marvel's perpetual - motion machine couldn't even get that right, and the only real infinite war is the one the studio is waging against a superhero - free night at the movies.

Director Lawrence Sher, making his feature debut after a career as a cinematographer, brings the skills he established shooting movies for Todd Phillips (including the Hangover trilogy, with Helms), which is to say he uses better lighting and more textured visuals than a typically overlit studio comedy while still neglecting to frame, cut, or pace scenes for actual laughs.

But then look at how the movie is making its Blu - ray debut: arriving alongside fellow box office flop Treasure Planet with minimal promotion in July, a month that the studio regularly ignores when making its annual home video schedule.

Virtually all of the two - disc edition's contents are retained on a single Blu - ray Disc issued by Criterion this week (oddly not in the studio's preferred Dual Format Edition), which marks the movie's debut on that high definition format.

uncan Jones was probably bombarded with a number of offers to direct a big studio movie following the release and cult success of his directorial debut, «Moon,» but there's something about his decision to choose «Source Code» as his follow - up that tells you a lot about the kind of filmmaker he hopes to become.

The service to debut later this year will include «blockbuster movies, classic films and original TV shows from major studios» for viewing on tablets, televisions or smartphones.

Some of his mixed - media art projects include Three's Company The Drama, an update to the sitcom using video and art that premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival; Unfinished, a collaboration with director Van Sant on two movies centered on River Phoenix that were presented at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills; and Collage, a show he directed featuring live dance, theater, music and poetry that debuted at Stella Adler studios in New York.

The company last August had announced plans to debut its own streaming service in 2019 with content like Star Wars and Marvel movies, Disney studio and Pixar films.