Sentences with phrase «wars film series»

On the podcast this week we are discussing the 8th entry in the episodic Star Wars film series, The Last Jedi.

Perhaps what is most surprising about the news is that John Williams, who has scored each film in the Star Wars film series aside from the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars, will not be composing the score for the film.

However, it would be far better for parents to show their teens the original Star Wars film series rather than paying the extra money to go to the theater to see this movie.

Not exact matches

In collaboration with Lynn Novick, Burns» new 10 - part documenatry film series The Vietnam War will debut on September 17 on PBS stations nationwide.

As he and collaborator Lynn Novick prepare to debut their new 10 - part documentary film series The Vietnam War on September 17 on PBS stations nationwide, we spoke with the tireless documentarian about leadership, productivity, managing gigantic projects and how to achieve immortality through storytelling.

«Much like the final films in series like «The Dark Knight,» «Star Wars» and «Harry Potter,» this is billed as the payoff movie that fans have been waiting for,» he added.

The thin - film maker topped $ 1 billion in quarterly revenue with impressive profitability and a strong war chest as it continues its retooling for Series 6.

The first in a series of Star Wars «anthology» films — which are in addition to the new Star Wars trilogy — Rogue One takes place before the events of the original film, as a group of rebels try to steal the Death Star.

As Matthew Schmitz at the office excitedly explained to me, this «Star Wars» film is actually part of a series that began a while ago.

The Civil War A film by Ken Burns Shown as a PBS television series; also available on nine VHS videocassettes (11 hours).

Which can make it easy to forget that the original Star Trek series brought the first interracial kiss to broadcast TV, or that the first Star Wars film was steeped in the world's collective memory of the fear of Nazi Germany in WWII.

And perhaps this is because Star Wars is a film series that seems to work for everyone.

Psychological preparations for that first step have already been implemented with the film, «2001: A Space Oddessy;» the StarTrek series, and «Star Wars;» all of which deal with invasions from space and the coming together of all nations to repel the invaders.

«Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series Star Wars is no exception,» said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

Created by director George Lucas, the film series has Star Wars Celebration is coming April 13 - 16, 2017, to the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL..

«World War Z» plays a bit like a series of separate films and the juncture where the new final act was grafted onto the proceedings is unmistakable, but unless you knew about the film's troubled past, you'd never guess it existed.

Technically speaking, Avengers: Infinity War is the third in a series of four planned Avengers films, and part of an ever - expanding universe of Marvel films that's seemingly... infinite.

Based on the best moments of Atomic Blonde, I would very much like to see a series of films in which Charlize Theron's ruthless, brutal and glamorous secret agent dispatches a variety of Cold War - era enemies to the accompaniment of hit songs from the 80s.

One of the few sequels that surpasses the original in every way, Empire Strikes Back is one of the closest examples to a perfect film that there is, and anyone who disagrees is either an imbecile or (and most likely this) has formed a biased opinion that Star Wars is a nerd series that they are above (so an imbecile).

His 1940s films included one military - produced documentary co-directed by Ford and cinematographer Gregg Toland, December 7th (1943), which creaks badly today (especially compared with Frank Capra's Why We Fight series); a major war film (They Were Expendable [1945]-RRB-; the historically - based drama My Darling Clementine (1946); and the «cavalry trilogy» of Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Rio Grande (1950), each of which starred John Wayne.

The seventh and final film in Frank Capra's Why We Fight series, War Comes to America is one of history's great propaganda movies.

This ninth film in the series picks up where Star Wars: The Force Awakens left off.

This original film takes place prior to events of the Clancy's book series and is not based on any of the Cold War novel plots despite a young Ryan, who is stock broker working for a billionaire in Moscow, finding himself recruited by the CIA to foil his employer's terrorist plot to collapse the US economy.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 11, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The A-Team (PG - 13 for profanity, smoking, and pervasive action violence) Screen adaptation of the pyrotechnics - driven TV series from the Eighties chronicling the exploits of a squad of former Special Service soldiers determined to clear their names after unfairly being branded war criminals.

While we're no stranger to the idea of shock deaths in movies and TV series — our favorite characters being killed off gives fans something to talk about — the sheer scale of what happens at the end of Infinity War, and the Russo brothers decision to leave the ball in Thanos» court, is unprecedented when it comes to a film franchise of this scale.

The film includes references from 1960s Batman TV series, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, King Kong, The Iron Giant, Battlestar Galactica, Superman, Spider - man, War of the Worlds.

According to Evans, Captain America: Civil War, the third film in the series, will begin filming «in a couple weeks, and then that shoots until August.»

A seven - book series that enchanted millions, JK Rowling's boy wizard has spawned eight films, one current hit play, theme parks and a mountain of merchandise that'd put Star Wars to shame.

Disney and Lucasfilm have released the full Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer for the second film in the Star Wars story series ahead of the film's Cannes premiere (10 days before it hits theaters).

Disney and LucasFilm have released the first look at Gareth Edwards «standalone Star Wars story series film Star Wars: Rogue One, featuring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Jiang Wen, and Donnie Yen.

Fresh off his Golden Globe wins for his FX series Atlanta, Donald Glover is getting ready to step into the galaxy far, far away by portraying a younger version of Lando Calrissian — played by Billy Dee Williams in the original Star Wars trilogy — in the untitled Han Solo anthology film.

War For The Planet of The Apes: The third film in this surprisingly strong series brings back Andy Serkis as the alpha - simian Caesar, who leads a war of vengeance against mankiWar For The Planet of The Apes: The third film in this surprisingly strong series brings back Andy Serkis as the alpha - simian Caesar, who leads a war of vengeance against mankiwar of vengeance against mankind.

Captain America: Civil War has been buoyed by strong reviews, with a 94 % «fresh» rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes suggesting it could be the best - received Marvel film since 2008 series opener Iron Man.

Bennett's film credits include Citizen King and Fisk Jubilee Singers for the PBS series «American Experience,» Hymn for Alvin Ailey for «Dance in America,» and the award - winning PBS mini-series Africans in America and America's War on Poverty.

This Star Wars Story is the second in a series of films that live outside the Skywalker family saga, and is set during the early scoundrel days of the iconic characters, prior to A New Hope.

He and Christensen acted together in the «Star Wars» series and that film, along with «The Matrix» is halfheartedly referenced here.

Columbia Pictures War for the Planet of the Apes (July 14) Caesar and his apes battle a human army led by a brutal colonel in this third film in the latest series inspired by Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel.

Jason Isaacs, who plays scientist Dr. Hunter Hap, was Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series (not to mention The Inquisitor on Star Wars Rebels).

Solo, the Star Wars series» second anthology film following 2016's Rogue One, and one of Rolling Stone's 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2018, arrives in theaters May 25th.

Diverse casts in films like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, the Fast and the Furious series, Twilight and Hunger Games have always yielded big business, but Black Panther, with its near - total Black ensemble cast, is a groundbreaking landmark for Hollywood.

The idea of a «natural» sound stage is almost at odds with a film in the Star Wars series, but the sound mix team here (led by the incomparable Gary Rydstrom) have created an electrically vibrant, totally involving mix that makes full use of the entire sound stage, with effects happily flying around the room in complete sympathy with what's happening on screen.

In other words, Boll's latest evokes the form but not the content of such film series as Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars, which means that few if any fantasy fans will be deceived into believing that Dungeon Siege is a legitimate endeavor rather than the same everything - must - go yard sale of clichés and familiar formulas the director mined for his previous work.

What does it say about Solo: A Star Wars Story that the most interesting character in the film is one with no previous connection to the series?

«War for the Planet of the Apes»: This current incarnation of the «Apes» saga comes to a rousing conclusion with the best film of the series.

Chapters of a long - running film franchise that exist in temporal limbo, like the one - generation - too - late prequels to the Star Wars series, often feel static and irrelevant.

And those weren't even the only films with female leads in the top 5 of this weekend's domestic box office: Underworld: Blood Wars, the fifth installment in the vampire hunter series starring Kate Beckinsale, opened at No. 4 with $ 13.1 million from 3,070 theaters.

Since the film's release, zombies have become infinitely more popular with films like World War Z and Warm Bodies, and the wildly successful TV series The Walking Dead.

Maybe my expectations were duly lowered but director Francis Lawrence, who took over the series from filmmaker Gary Ross and raised the bar, and screenwriters Peter Craig and Danny Strong turn out a surprisingly engaging film about rebellion, propaganda, media, and the emotional and psychological scars of war, all seen from the point of view of a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who becomes a symbol of resistance simply by surviving with courage, dignity, and compassion.

Cutler's other work includes the documentary films The War Room, A Perfect Candidate, Thin, The September Issue, The World According to Dick Cheney and Listen To Me Marlon; the documentary television series American High, Freshman Diaries, The Residents and 30 Days; and the prime time drama series Nashville.

On top of Star Wars: The Force Awakens two years ago, and the side trip last year to the stand - alone Rogue One, Disney has now more than confirmed the wisdom of rebooting Lucasfilm's crown jewel saga with what just might be the best film in the entire series that started 40 years ago in the mind of George Lucas.