Sentences with phrase «tv audience for a film»

It was around 1980 that Margaret Thatcher was in power, workers at British Steel went on a nationwide strike over pay, the British record TV audience for a film was set when around 23.5 million people tuned in for ITV's showing of Live and Let Die starring Roger Moore and the UK economy slid into a recession.

Not exact matches

Along with a handful of possession - themed TV shows (The Exorcist, Preacher, Outcast), audiences are continuing to turn out in droves for films like The Conjuring franchise.

The film's misjudged intro relies heavily on knowledge of a particular British TV show, but if audiences persevere through this awkward opening, Chalet Girl makes for untaxing, light - hearted fun that lacks the pretensions and meanness that seems to be the current flavour of comedy.

«A stunt coordinator, usually an experienced stunt performer, is hired by a TV, film or theatre director or production company to arrange the casting (stunt players and stunt doubles) and performance of stunts for a film, television program or a live audience.»

Pup Star: World Tour: Family film takes audiences around the world, as the action - packed spin on popular TV singing competitions goes global when «Tiny,» the adorable singing Yorkie pup, packs her bags for far - away places from Africa to India and beyond.

If overall on the disappointing side for fans of the directors of American Splendor and Cinema Verité, the film has a clever mix of movie, TV and stage stars, including Annette Bening, Matt Dillon, Kristen Wiig and Darren Criss, who should help broadcast its appeal to diversified audiences.

«Idiocracy» isn't high art — in fact, that's the point — but its slow - building success gives me faith in audiences and their increasing thirst for films that aren't sequels, remakes, or adaptations of books and TV shows.

There's something of The West Wing in the behind - the - scenes detailing of the film, the banter and tactics, constant reference to constitution and law, haggling for votes, the film sharing the TV series» humour and its refusal to patronise its audience.

Sometimes the best documentaries are unlooked for stories that surprise both the audience and the filmmaker, and this is part of understanding the wonderful experience of watching [email protected] Director Stephen Walker set out to create a BBC tv documentary, perhaps covering some of the ground of previous documentaries about the [email protected] chorus, and yet his film has grown legs and achieved international release as a feature film.

Those who used to actually watch made - for - TV films back in the mid-1970s may find this story familiar, as it had originally been told as Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story, starring Peter Falk and Jill Clayburgh, no doubt trying to capture the same audience of that most popular of all love stories involving someone with a terminal illness, Love Story.

That film reportedly was a valuable lesson in the type of movie he didn't want to make, and Greengrass returned to real - life drama in 2002 with «Bloody Sunday,» a film which, while financed by Granada TV, premiered in Sundance where it won the audience award, and played Berlin, tying with «Spirited Away» for the Golden Bear.

Nominees for the 2014 «New Now Next Awards» were selected by the New Now Next Academy, a mix of industry experts from television, film, music, literature, art and new media, as well as a survey of the Logo TV audience.

For content owners — think app developers, music labels, film and TV studios and authors and publishers — this could be an effective way to promote a release to a large audience of users.

There is only so much audience attention to go around and as mobile gaming, tv and film watching and web browsing become possible for everyone, it is just possible that digital books will lose out *.

The Best of Clicker 2010 Awards may start getting recognized as the online video world's awards season kick - off, for the second year running announcing audience favorites from ontent available online, including TV, film and web original series — with web shows dominating in terms of vote totals.