Sentences with phrase «about films of the year»

The Martian is one of the most talked about films of the year and has been named one of the best movies of the year by groups such as National Board of Review, which also awarded top honors to Ridley Scott for Best Director, Matt Damon for Best Actor and Drew Goddard for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Pilgrim Hill (2012) evoked critical acclaim from Ireland and abroad was the most talked about film of that year, resulting in writer / director Gerard Barrett winning Rising Star Award at the IFTAs.

What We Do In The Shadows is one of the most talked about films of the year as it has been leaving a wake of laughter behind every festival screening.

Hidden is bound to be one of the most talked about films of the year.

The drama «Foxcatcher,» a film based on a true story starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo, is one of the most buzzed - about films of the year and now you can finally learn more about the film from the official website!

Not exact matches

When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

Late this year, Imax announced two big movie releases in China: Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan, promising a «thrilling story of heroism, friendship and betrayal, which has never before been depicted on film,» and John Woo's The Crossing, a two - part historical epic about the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

We already know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens set records at the box office, but on Tuesday we will find out more about the blockbuster film's ultimate impact on Walt Disney's (dis) bottom line in the first quarter of the entertainment giant's fiscal year.

Netflix's target for original movies next year compares with a 2017 slate of about 50 film titles that it has released or is scheduled to debut globally.

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.

I wrote about the power of «no» earlier this year, when über - successful film star Tom Hanks expressed similar sentiments.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

In the film Snowden, released earlier this year, Woodley plays Lindsay Mills, girlfriend of the former National Security Agency contractor, who leaked details about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs and was granted asylum in Russia after fleeing the United States in 2013.

Jay Chandrasekhar, the director and a star of «Super Troopers 2,» spoke to Business Insider this weekend about how the film arose, out of necessity, from a massively successful crowdfunding campaign three years ago, which netted $ 4.6 million from 54,000 donors.

Articles about Apple's CEO, inequality, and the producer of the latest Star Wars film are among the year's most compelling.

Some projects have gone on to critical acclaim, too: About 10 % of the films at Sundance this year, for instance, have Kickstarter roots.

WASHINGTON — Adult film actress Stormy Daniels and her lawyer on Tuesday unveiled a sketch of the man she said threatened her seven years ago to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Donald Trump.

Twelve years after «Titanic,» which still stands as the all - time B.O. champ, Cameron delivers again with a film of universal appeal that just about everyone who ever goes to the movies will need to see.

Let's rewind the film of history backwards about 2 million years and peek in on our alleged ancestors.

Disney had an amazing year in terms of box office, but that doesn't exclude some of their smaller hits, including this film about a chess prodigy in Uganda who tries to balance her success with responsibility to her family.

I had the privilege of watching the film while seated behind a family that included four boys, who ranged from about six to 14 years in age.

He's spent the last four years since Sleepwalk With Me, his previous film, crafting a movie about performers in New York trying to grapple with the unlikely success of one of their peers.

Along with promising comedies, a new David O. Russell film, the latest offering from Pixar and a documentary about Hillsong, our list of the most anticipated movies of next year is filled with reboots and remakes.

On a topic closer to like what you're doing — about twelve years ago, I ran an in - depth website examining the Christian symbolism in «The Lord of the Rings» films.

Selma, director Ava Duvernay's film about the 1965 Voters» Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, has been touted as the best film of the year, thanks in no small...

Sheen is in the UK to promote The Way, a film about an unlikely pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago (the «Way of St James», a Catholic pilgramage through France and Spain walked than more than 100,000 people each year).

And while it's true that every branch of Christianity has been racked with scandal over the years, films like the Oscar - winning Spotlight and Netflix true crime series The Keepers do a much better job of creating compelling art that raises questions about faith and morality.

However, after «scheduling conflicts» forced Smith's departure, Jamie Foxx ended up as the star of one of the year's most talked about films.

The Houston Press: San Benito Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YouTube.

The 17 - year - old allegations have largely overshadowed the upcoming release of the film, and have led to larger conversations about how audiences should attempt to separate the artist and their art (similarly to Hollywood names like Woody Allen and Bill Cosby).

There's a lot to be said about Lady Bird, a wonderful film about a young girl's final year of high school in Sacramento.

About Tatrafan / Terichem More than 80 years of tradition of packaging film and BOPP film production in Slovakia and Finland created the foundations on which Terichem was built.

Jonathan Nossiter is a film - maker who first came to the attention of wine lovers when he released his epic hand - made documentary Mondovino about five years ago.

Learn more about the san Diego premiere of ULAM and other films featured at this year's #SDAFFSPRING at sdaff.org

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In truth, this news should come as no great surprise, considering Fury was filmed singing about «sniffing gear» with a group of England football fans earlier this year.

Asking for privacy after already filming years of a show publicizing every aspect of the relationship and intentionally leaking to a gossip magazine about the break up is pretty disingenuous.

In a highlight film of his career that was shown at a testimonial dinner for him last year, Marino appears on camera, full frame, with a few earnest opening remarks about how he'd like to be remembered as a team man who worked as hard as he could, and as a team leader, etc..

I was incredible excited to learn about this film — its premise is what I've spent the past five years of my life researching and writing about.

A slew of films about presidents over the past few years has likely contributed to the popularity of using presidents» names as baby names.

The above films and many other examples of media coverage over the years have come about because the boycott campaign puts Nestlé in the spotlight.

Councilman Eric Ulrich, a 32 - year - old Republican who has been filming a prospective reality television series about his potential run, didn't answer the question of whether he actually will run against Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Ulrich, a 32 - year - old Republican who represents a district in Southern Queens and has been filming a prospective reality television series about his potential run, didn't answer the question of whether he actually will run against de Blasio, telling WNYC's Brian Lehrer he'll make that decision in «a couple of weeks.»

What's shocking is how much our political culture has changed in just 60 years — the producers of this film lived in a country that had just seen REAL despotism in the form of Nazi Germany and a military - ruled Japan (note the brownshirt - style uniforms, and also the lack of any of any depiction of their Soviet equivalents), and they pull few punches about what leads a society away from freedom.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo is boasting about a banner year in the film and television industry with more projects than ever, the return of the «Tonight Show» and now the announcement of a Marvel television series expected to bring 400 jobs to New York City.

The year 2015 may have come and gone but lovers of Nigerian films will continue to talk about some of the great...

The map, which stems from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's last State of the City address, will also add information about film shoots and parking regulations later this year.

Over the last five years Spriggs and his team of film preservationists have located about 6,500 films, scattered among the government's high - security vaults and in varying degrees of decomposition.

Avatar opened at the end of 2009, but James Cameron's opus dominated the talk about films and filmmaking long into this year.

About ten years ago, after ferroelectric properties were demonstrated in ultra-thin single - crystal films of perovskites, an alternative concept for memory devices was proposed — based on the use of the tunnel effect.