Sentences with phrase «action film business»

Disney already had the characters it needed to sell toys and T - shirts, the classic movies to resell on video, and a booming live - action film business.

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You say that you have some actions and solutions at the end of the film, and we know that there are some businesses doing incredible things.

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

Nichey as voiceovers are (and let's ignore the fact that most trailers forgo narration these days), the story seems to resonate with our vision of the sexist live - action film and television business, one that Bell has been a part of since a couple of 2002 «ER» episodes.

While that might sound like business babble, Bird is one of the most talented directors Disney has on their side and he successfully made the jump from Pixar animation to live - action films with «Ghost Protocol».

And more than ever, horror films represent a safe bet compared to expensive action flicks, so many of which flopped this summer in what has become a feast - or - famine business.

The whole conceit of Baby Driver syncs the actions of its cast to the film's soundtrack, and director Edgar Wright wastes no time getting down to business.

Walter Hill made the jump from literate screenwriter of tough - minded crime films to director of elegantly - made bare - knuckle thrillers and action dramas with Hard Times (1975), a depression - era tale of underground fights with Charles Bronson and James Coburn as business partners in who aren't quite friends but become the first of Hill's guarded buddy teams.

WHY: Michael Bay has wasted the better part of the last decade making shitty «Transformers» films, so it's nice to see him return to form with «13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,» an exhilarating and surprisingly apolitical military thriller that reconfirms why he's one of the best action directors in the business.

Finally, someone let him direct his own script, and the result was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a riotous riff on the hard - boiled works of Raymond Chandler (chapter titles are all from Philip Marlowe novels: Lady in the Lake, The Simple Art of Murder, The Little Sister, etc), that nimbly satirizes the movie business, detective - movie plotting (there are always two cases that implausibly tie up together), the action hero as idiot and the conventions of the film noir voiceover («Oh shit, back up, back up, I forgot to mention — Jesus, this is terrible narration, it's like my dad telling a joke and saying, oh, I should have told you the cowboy's horse is blue...»).

She also applauded Sorkin for creating a female character «defined by her words and actions,» and who «doesn't adhere to traditional gender roles,» a rarity in the film business.

But there are yahoos in the agenting business who make the slimy used car salesmen from 1970s films look like action heroes.

One is the single player story mode that plays out like a Michael Bay action film, and then there's the multiplayer mode, which is the true meat of the game and keeps Internet service providers in business.

Music simulation, music creation games, rhythm / action music games, dance games, karaoke, exercise aids, meditation aids (a small genre admittedly), vehicle simulation, social network Second Life stuff, Tetris, videogames that mimic traditional board and card games, games where you only avoid danger but never hurt anyone, farming games, games where you manage a business, games where you create and manage a family or a hospital or even a civilisation, sex simulation, dating games, art creation, cooking guides, brain training, pet caring, extreme sports like skateboarding or biking or freerunning, all sorts of puzzle and collecting games, games where you navigate mazes and obstacles, pinball, nonviolent detective and adventure or rpg games, interactive films or books.

Sometimes however, words are not enough, which is why we have also put together a short film, «Sharing Ledgers for Sharing Economies: A Boring Introduction To Mutual Distributed Ledgers» that demonstrates why MDLs are not - so - new new, shows our MDLs in action and reveals some of the emerging business applications.