Sentences with phrase «about making a movie by»

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A group of women explain to CNBC how they're addressing the lack of female representation on Wall Street — by making a movie about it.

So let's say this movie is about a woman whose life was shaped by love of her father; the making of the film Mary Poppins (as well as the writing of the book) is about her coming to terms with the truth about personal love and death and all that.

i agree with you a lot this movie was not made by Christians for the purpose of spreading the word about the persecutions.

This makes viewing the movie great fun because we, who are so often buffeted about in the world by not knowing how life works, here know what the world doesn't.

In any event, they have made their film, and while they haven't completely abandoned what they know about moviemaking, they have clung tightly to the image of Jesus given them by a Sister Josephine — or in Schrader's case, someone like the harsh father in his movie Hardcore.

We learn about them by watching them in action and make no mistake, the action scenes are among the best you could hope to find in a Star Wars movie.

LifeWay told Baptist Press about its decision to halt sales of heaven visitation resources today (March 24) in response to an inquiry about the book 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper, which is being made into a movie slated for release this fall.

Theoretically, the movie is about her learning to make better choices; the character actually gets to accomplish something by the end, although we no way of understanding how she found the wherewithal to pull that off.

According to a report by Variety, Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to Willy Wonka from Roald Dahl's estate and has tapped David Heyman, the producer behind Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, to make a standalone film about Willy Wonka's life and adventures before we meet him in the original movie.

The screening was held as part of a social media campaign called #ForThePlayers created by Sony Pictures to support the movie's release in which football fans are being encouraged to «Dance or Donate»: either upload a video of their touchdown dance to YouTube or Instagram, or make a donation to make a tax - deductible donation to MomsTeam Institute, a leader in educating sports parents and other youth sports stakeholders about concussions and repetitive head trauma since launching its pioneering Concussion Safety Center in 2001, and challenge their friends to do the same.

Those principles have never wavered and have always been to build a movie studio led by a board of directors made up of a majority of independent women, save about 150 jobs, protect the small businesses who are owed money and create a victims» compensation fund that would supplement existing insurance coverage for those who have been harmed.

Do your own research by talking to friends who have seen movies you are considering, and make good use of the Internet: A handful of sites offer reviews offer parent - oriented reviews that detail what movies are about, what may be scary or disturbing to a child, and other useful information.

See, Ricki Lake made a movie about her choice, and the ACOG and AMA aren't too happy about it: ACOG released a statement, which was in turn supported in a resolution Tuesday by the American Medical Association, which said «There has been much attention in the media by celebrities having home deliveries» and which singles out Ricki Lake's film «The Business of Being Born» as part of the problem.

First, it's a piece of music intended to make a political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.

In thinking about all the upset caused by this week's blizzard that wasn't, especially all the outrage directed at the weathermen for making everybody freak out about «historic» snow totals that got dumped on New England instead of us, I was reminded of the best movie I saw last year: «Nightcrawler.»

The Velociraptor, made famous by the movie Jurassic Park, lived about 80 million years ago and belongs to a group of dinosaurs known as dromeosaurs.

He had been amazed by a fossil he had seen in a museum and, being an incurable model builder, had talked the producers of a movie being made about natural and artificial flight into funding his robotic pterodactyl.

What this means is what Arnold make a movie about called «Staying Hungry» by eating 5 or 6 small meals throughout your day.

By the time I press «play» (and, yeah, I watch my movie about five times in a row right then and there), I feel satisfied and can't wait to share what I made with my friends.

I am of mixed Slavic origin, linguist by profession and artist by vocation, adoring nice movies, music, traveling and learning new things as it makes me more open - minded and tolerant, but I have some very strong life principles that nothing will change and very conservative stand points about things...

Collateral Beauty is one of those cloying movies about learning to take the good with the bad that feels like it was made by aliens with little grasp of human life.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

It helps make «Coco,» scored by the erstwhile Michael Giacchino, play like a movie about music, rather than a musical, and the distinction is important as the story unfolds.

When the two untalented hacks commiserate about their lack of opportunities, Tommy suggests moving to Los Angeles, where they end up making their own movie, financed, reportedly, by $ 6 million of Tommy's money (although where that cash comes from is a mystery, like almost everything else about Wiseau).

While I have no doubt that he believes this fiction (in spirit if not particulars, perhaps), Brashear's story — even in its big - screen dilution — is so manifestly about long - term, institutionalized racism, that such a comment appears patently naive, even disingenuous (the movie even makes the case, somewhat ironically, that the Navy's greatness is proved by the fact that someone so exceptional as Brashear would want to be part of it).

Aside from the romantic interlude, this movie is bogged down by the weak villains, neither of whom are convincing or threatening in any manner (and this, like the comments made repeatedly about the virus and the cure, reflects on how the hero is perceived).

In Movie 43, comedy is served steaming hot (literally) by director Peter Farrelly of The Farrelly Brothers (Something About Mary, Dumb & Dumber) in one of the most shocking, original, and dangerous comedies ever made.

After recounting their harrowing stories of braving the hoards of teenage girls at their respective screenings, Kevin and Neil take a trip to Planet 51 then are Blind Sided by Precious before laying down a Fat Guy Five about awesome vampire / werewolf movies (hint: neither Twilight film makes the list).

You remember when Bridesmaids and The Heat came out and then Ghostbusters recently, Paul Feig said about both those movies that they had to exceed expectations because otherwise studios would be hesitant to keep making funny movies starring women by women?

During this recent interview to discuss the TV version of Zombieland, co-creators and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talked about the journey from TV series to movie and now back to TV pilot, what it's been like to work with Amazon, what motivated the decision to have the same characters from the movie on the TV show, how they envision it as a road show, how much gore they can have, what Kirk Ward (who was originally cast as Tallahassee before being replaced by Woody Harrelson) brings to this version of the character, what led them to the 30 - minute format, whether they could have any surprise cameos (Bill Murray made a very memorable one in the film), what will determine whether the pilot is successful enough to go to series, and when they might know if they're picked up.

By assembling the scattered images and historical clips suggested by Baldwin's writing, I Am Not Your Negro is a cinematic séance, and one of the best movies about the civil rights era ever madBy assembling the scattered images and historical clips suggested by Baldwin's writing, I Am Not Your Negro is a cinematic séance, and one of the best movies about the civil rights era ever madby Baldwin's writing, I Am Not Your Negro is a cinematic séance, and one of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made.

Jolie does her research by going to the places she makes movies about.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 12, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Morning Glory (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality and drug references) Romantic comedy about an aspiring TV producer (Rachel McAdams) whose hopes to save a struggling news program depend on her controlling the show's feuding co-anchors (Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford).

The silent version also comes with a great commentary by Timothy Brock, who walks through the main interest points about the making of the movie, and some of how Chaplin made the film, and his later cuts.

How else can you make a funny movie about a commune run by hippies without using recycled jokes from the 1970s?

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.

The first odd thing about it is that the movie is really a Japanese movie made by a Chinese director, starring one Chinese man on the run in Japan.

I heard good things about this gambling movie starring Ben Mendelsohn as a born loser (naturally) and Ryan Reynolds as his new friend, who at least looks and acts like a winner, but when I caught up with it, I was surprised by just how well acted and skillfully made it is.

PREVIOUS, JUNE 2 AM: Oliver Stone and his producing partner Moritz Borman have thrown their hats in the ring and will make a movie about Edward Snowden, the former systems administrator for the CIA and a counterintelligence trainer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who later worked for the National Security Agency and then made public thousands of classified documents, an act which has been called the most significant leak in U.S. history since the release of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg.

Director Ma has made a quietly merciless picture, a horror movie, really, about a decent man, an ordinary man, left alone, bereft, embittered, ruined by his act of decency.

«The Girl»: Independent movie about a mother (Abbie Cornish) who — after losing her son in a custody battle — attempts to make money by smuggling a Mexican family into the U.S. Written and directed by David Riker.

Iron Man 2 seems to be just about everything you'd expect from a movie tie - in iPhone game made by Gameloft.

By now, this burly, seething musk ox of a movie, arguably the most convincing film about the Middle Ages ever made, should be on everyone's tongue.

It covers the three preview performances leading to opening night in one, digitally - unbroken take, making room along the way for Method asshole Michael Shiner (Method asshole Edward Norton)-- who steals both the play Birdman is about and the play - within - a-play conceit of the movie by stealing the movie — and tons of narrative melodramatics, including a neurotic leading lady (Naomi Watts), Riggan's burnout daughter (Emma Stone), and his stressed - out lawyer / manager (Zach Galifianakis).

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 10, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Dragonball Evolution (PG for intense action and brief adult language) Sci - fi martial arts adventure, based on the Akira Toriyama novel about a young warrior (Justin Chatwin) who, with a handful of friends, sets out on a quest to save the planet from an evil king (James Marsters) bent on world domination.

The internet calmly took this news in by immediately casting about for wild rumors regarding what this might mean for the second film — specifically, the idea that once it was made clear the Captain Marvel movie (coming out in between the two Avengers films) would feature the Skrulls (a race of green - skinned shape changers, for all you non-comic nerds), the fourth Avengers movie would turn its attention to a «secret invasion» storyline, starring said aliens.

The movie works to overturn cliches about privileged Claire and her Latina maid by making socioeconomic disparities between them the subject of their relationship.

Meanwhile, PETA senior vice president Lisa Lange wrote in an email to IndieWire, «Dog shows glamorize the breeders who make money by pimping out their animals and selling their babies, so a scene about dogs being felt up seems right on the money for a movie like «Show Dogs.»

Extras include an audio commentary by director Mira Nair, interviews with the cast and crew about making the movie, deleted scenes and Nair's documentary short film, «A Fork, a Spoon and a Knight.»

It's a movie about making a little scratch by doing naughty things.