Sentences with phrase «as audience figures»

Lee himself had hopes of a theatrical release, particularly as audience figures were slightly disappointing — it looks and sounds so much better in cinemas.

It is possible that, as audience figures suggest, this new Reformation may already have reached a plateau.

Not exact matches

Just as open and click - through rates can help marketing pros figure out which email campaigns are winners, analytics can greatly you help home in on a social media campaign that audiences will embrace.

As it points out, Bochco's series may have been hugely influential, with a devoted audience, but few garnered massive audience figures.

As experts, it's easy to overwhelm an audience with facts and figures thinking that if they just give people more information they'll understand better.

«The best brands figure out one key truth that they stand for, and the audience sees it as something they can learn from and communicate to others.»

According to Mendelsohn, these figures are a reflection of the changing nature of not just the audience Facebook caters to, but also Facebook as a platform as well.

For example, several centuries ago, God may indeed have become a «lover of Shakespeare» insofar as Shakespeare's works were experienced by human beings; yet, it is also possible that God's appreciation of Shakespeare's artistry (though not of the feelings of Shakespeare or his audience) declined as new literary figures and forms appeared.

These figures certainly do not tally with other research, such as the Nielsen surveys which list the combined audience for all syndicated religious programs on television in November 1980 as 19.1 million adults and children.

On the one hand, there are factors which suggest that this figure is too low as an estimate of the total audience for syndicated programs.

«I think it's difficult in this country because as an audience we're less used to seeing our political figures as sympathetic characters on screen.

Although sports figures such as tennis great Billie Jean King and Olympic champion gymnast Dominique Dawes drew most of the media attention, a half - dozen scientists were in the audience.

He told an audience in Washington, D.C., today at the American Association for Cancer Research that NCI has figured out how to ease the transition and avoid «the cliff,» as it's known.

Also anything that attracts a younger audience is interesting, since it is the biggest and fastest growing part of the dating market, but someone needs to figure out a way to make money from that audience, and advertising alone is unlikely to suffice as a source of revenue.

Though more mainstream - oriented audiences will not be on board with Ahn's brand of subtlety, for those willing to fully invest themselves, Spa Night offers a carefully considered story about identity or rather identities, with David having to figure out a way to accommodate his orientation and his position as the only child of Korean immigrants in L.A..

Two different groups are on the hunt for this boy, and that's where Nichols drops us right into the middle of, respecting the intelligence of his audience to catch up and figure things as they develop.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselAs an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas well as portraying Wiseau himselas portraying Wiseau himself.

That «Insurgent» and its predecessor prove to be at least halfway decent diversions is primarily thanks to leading lady Woodley's ability to fully commit to her character's internal journey as she eventually evolves into a self - sacrificing savior figure after being riddled with guilt and grief while summoning the sympathies of the audience.

We see images of the civil rights struggle in the 1960s and of figures such as John F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro, among others, and the furious and evocative unity of picture and song reminds the audience that communism sprang from concerns that intensely dog modern society.

Her portrayal is sympathetic, giving the audience a fly - on - the - wall experience of the personal devastation she suffered as the young wife and mother to such a major figure.

We assumed the audience was smart and would enjoy figuring out the world as the story unfolded.

Now, when Alan and I were working together, his version of how it should play out — and as you'll recall it playing actually in the movie — is that we, the audience, should glimpse a shadowy figure scampering away and that Klute should go rampaging after him unsuccessfully.

Dropped into the middle of the action, there's very little information given as to what's come before and I liked this... too many films waste precious moments spoon - feeding audiences everything they think we need to know when actually, if the script and performances are strong enough, we can usually figure out enough to get by.

In the first full - length trailer for «I, Tonya,» audiences finally get a substantial look at Margot Robbie as the titular Tonya Harding, the Olympic figure skater famously embroiled in 1990s - era scandal.

Comics and character actors have a partial immunity from the stigma of ageing: they haven't offered themselves up as dream figures, so there's no sense of their having betrayed their audience by being human after all.

As Ramsay holds back, refusing to tell us how Morvern feels or have her talk much at all, the audience leans in, grasping to figure it out.

The kids in the audience will get a kick out of his vernacular like: radio squeaker, hippodumplings, strawbunkers and cream, and a variety of others that drive Sophie crazy as she tries to figure out what he's referring to.

Whilst the central characters all get their conflicting say, all are equally ridiculed, reviled, and respected in a film that doesn't so much mock its subjects as much as point the finger of shame and blame at us, the audience, fascinated by this tabloid tale of greed, violence and figure skating.

Killer Joe casts McConaughey as a preening wolf let loose in the henhouse, a corrupt authority figure whose pristine appearance — in a realm where nobody seems to mind looking like death personified — and strange moral code mask a core of pure sadism that comes out in a gruesome, bleakly funny climax that will forever change the way audiences view fried chicken.

It's an entire cultural epoch ahead of its time — the cynicism of Hud's «rightness» held in the trembling hands of creepy Cal, who, though he elicits the audience's sympathy, is as destructive a figure to our romantic image of the hero as Paul Newman's solipsistic cowboy.

Seemingly writing for the audience of a creative writing evening class, screenwriter Carlos De Los Rios — a veteran of such Z - grade mockbusters as The Da Vinci Treasure and Pirates Of Treasure Island — loads up on hamfisted symbolic figures, including the requisite tormenting devil (Walton Goggins) and mystical Indian (Adam Beach).

It takes a satisfyingly long time for the creature to appear, first cropping up too fast for the audience to get a good look at, and later being shown as an out of focus figure in the distance.

Pushing people he meets to the brink of confusion and discomfort, he's just as hard on an audience that, throughout this shaggy but ultimately winning movie, may not be able to decide whether he's an insufferable bully or a Panglossian figure of childlike innocence.

Hitherto an obscure figure to the mainstream Turkish audience, he has recently gained recognition in his homeland as a Turkish cinema pioneer.

Telling the plot of the story as if the audience can't figure it out visually is insulting and detracts from the scene.

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

The camera drifts back to reveal the huge pane of glass separating the figures, so spotless that the man (as well as the audience) initially fails to perceive its existence.

Whether you believe Jerry Lewis is a comic genius, a braying clown, a shrewd show - biz pro who carefully cultivated a popular stage and screen persona, a hopeless egotist with a cringing need for attention, or simply a comic with a gift for manic physical humor that clicked with audiences in the fifties and sixties, most people agree that The Nutty Professor was his greatest film as a director and his most interesting variation on the child - man figure he had transformed into Hollywood gold.

As the beleaguered but (mostly) loyal Greg, Dave Franco is also terrific, serving as a proxy for the puzzled but curious audience — his motivation for sticking around, like ours, is in part just to figure out this inscrutable dudAs the beleaguered but (mostly) loyal Greg, Dave Franco is also terrific, serving as a proxy for the puzzled but curious audience — his motivation for sticking around, like ours, is in part just to figure out this inscrutable dudas a proxy for the puzzled but curious audience — his motivation for sticking around, like ours, is in part just to figure out this inscrutable dude.

Mary Steenburgen as Diana, a singer who doesn't get the audience she deserves, figures large in the life of one of the guys.

Abiding by Islam's firm ban on pictorialization (which forbids depicting not only the Prophet's likeness but also his voice), Akkad was forced to devise a way of telling the story of Mohammed, after his revelation, without the audience ever seeing or hearing him — or, for that matter, any of the other central figures of the Faith such as his wives or his trusted cousin and son - in - law Ali.

As the film feeds clues to the audience, we (knowing the rules of a «mindf * & k» movie) attempt to figure out what is happening to the characters.

Her scenes serve as a dull framing device for the film, carrying us through Marston's career and helping connect dots that the audience should be able to figure out for itself.

The film received some boos at its press screening, apparently because some in the audience took offence at the portrayal of a Sicilian police detective as an insensitive, somewhat clownish figure.

Casting the versatile Jake Gyllenhaal as the film's athletic father figure Billy Hope, a nothing - to - lose boxer seeking redemption after the death of his wife, seems a surefire way to get audiences into theater seats.

The use of the close - up is particularly well done as it makes the audience even more uncomfortable with a situation they can't figure out.

And this is my challenge this summer: figure out how to give my students opportunities to find problems that they are inspired to solve, as Adam Braun did when he was traveling in India; as Dan Pallotta did when he was grieving the tragedies of AIDS; as Emily Pilloton's students did when they built structures that impacted their communities; as Kevin Brookhouser's students did when they were given an entire year to pursue a personal interest and produce a genuine product for an authentic audience.

As figures inspiring the country with their passion for STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths), each had their audiences» rapt attention as they discussed their inspiration, thoughts and personal stories in their sessions on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 March respectivelAs figures inspiring the country with their passion for STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths), each had their audiences» rapt attention as they discussed their inspiration, thoughts and personal stories in their sessions on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 March respectivelas they discussed their inspiration, thoughts and personal stories in their sessions on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 March respectively.

Figure out a way to narrow down your audience as much as possible and give it your best effort from there to interact with that audience in the most impactful way possible.

This figure should increase further as many media outlets have developed sophisticated app strategies to scale the audience.