Sentences with phrase «as bigger films»

POOTS: Here's the thing: in terms of this studio film and what is seen as the bigger film, I think that's totally fine and great and fun, and I would love to be a superhero or a princess --

Rufus Sewell is as evil as any big film villain, but Helgeland and Sewell discreetly humanize him just enough he's not intolerable to be around.

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Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

So, the studio's biggest question mark of the year will be November's Justice League, which will bring together several superheroes from that universe of films, including Wonder Woman as well as Batman and Superman.

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

Kodak is framing the announcement as a «Super 8 Filmmaking Revival Initiative,» which it intends to leverage the previously mentioned roadmap and support from Hollywood's biggest directors such as J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, and Quentin Tarantino to make film a mainstream item once again.

But for Paramount, the studio's success will largely be defined by movie ticket sales as well as the number of big blockbuster and tentpole film franchises it can churn out.

So it shouldn't come as a big surprise that in his latest movie, the film's two monolith - like robots TARS and CASE had hardly any digital effects.

Cross over appeal: The biggest mistake some analysts may have made was seeing the film's audience as exclusively young, African - American and male.

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

In between those films he agreed to star in pal Ben Stiller's 2008 comedy «Tropic Thunder» as the overweight, bigger - than - life movie exec Les Grossman.

Having Mudbound become the first Netflix original feature film to compete at the Oscars would be a big deal for the streaming service, and a Golden Globes win (it's nominated for Best Original Song, and Mary J. Blige is nominated as a supporting actress) could be the first step.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

As U.S. box - office receipts decline, some Chinese investors and U.S. media execs are pairing up to make big bets on China's film industry.»

Wang Jianlin, the Chinese tycoon who just agreed to acquire the co-producer of «Jurassic World» for $ 3.5 billion in cash, signaled bigger deals may be in the works as he builds Dalian Wanda Group Co.'s influence in the global film industry.

While I believe there will still be consumer demand to see big, franchise films in a glitzy theater with overpriced popcorn, the jury is still out as to how much traffic will be affected.

It's the visual cues as well, which feature dozens of references to film from the decade of big hair and glam rock.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the latest of the Narnia Chronicles to hit the big screen, is not so much a children's story as a film about growing up... More

But unlike other films with more direct Christian messages, churches are much less likely to buy out theaters in bulk as they did for «Son of God» and «God's Not Dead,» a move that brought those films big returns at the box office.

It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.

When Jim Caviezel hyped up the movie as the «biggest film of all time — it's that...

Come Sunday is no different from those films that wrestle with big, nuanced themes because it not only looks at what Pearson went through but also his church that went through it as well.

That Avatar «s melodramatic attacks on corporate interests and its defense of simple, natural living come packaged as one of the most expensive, and probably the most technically advanced, corporate films in history would seem to indicate that only quality bigger than the movie's stupidity is its head - in - the - clouds hypocrisy.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

We Indians love our turmeric and use it as a multi-purpose weapon, just like Gus Portokalos uses Windex for everything in the critically acclaimed film My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

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He isn't the physical specimen that Hunter is, so his big plays don't always look quite as impressive on film.

The biggest crisis of his film career came when he was cast as a cab driver; he was behind the wheel before the director discovered Abe didn't know how to drive.

One bigger question I have as it pertains to the entire franchise is whether or not these characters» stories end with Episode IX or whether they continue to be the focus in more films.

In 2009, Unesco described Nollywood as being the second - biggest film industry in the world after Bollywood.

«We have had films like Tunde Kelani's Abeni feature at the festival as well as Half of a Yellow Sun, which is a collaboration between Nigeria and the UK, but I think this is an opportunity to do more and to go bigger.

Cynthia Nixon is calling for the big film industry tax break to be reined in as part of her run for governor — but the actress» own «Sex and the...

Serving as an MP between 1987 - 2010 and 2012 - 2015 he was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother and more recently brought out a film about Tony Blair.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

Cynthia Nixon is calling for the big film industry tax break to be reined in as part of her run for governor — but the actress» own «Sex and the City» movies scored enough dough from the $ 420 - million program to buy a lifetime supply of Manolos.

As the National Conference of State Legislatures reported last month, the big boom in state film and TV subsidies that occurred in the 1990s has definitely subsided:

Maybe I'm overfamiliar with Ramanujan's story after reading both The Man Who Knew Infinity and Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology many times, but I was exasperated that this religious element was held up as the film's big reveal when Ramanujan's actions already made it obvious that he was a deeply spiritual man.

The main difference between Ultimate and other emulsions is that its silver bromide grains are extremely fine — around 10 nanometers across, or 1/10 to 1/100 as big as the grains in ordinary film.

Consciousness is one of the biggest themes in all of these films, and Hutter thinks that if consciousness is ever achieved, it's likely to be an emergent property of advanced AI rather than something that was explicitly programmed or activated: «In general I would say that if I have a system which is sufficiently complicated... if they display behavior we would interpret as emotions as humans, then there's a reasonable chance that it has emotions.»

Even if «Gravity» did not win big at the Oscars it would have been easy to call the film a success, in part due to its box office take as well as furthering awareness of space exploration and helping foster curiosity about NASA and their programs.

They found that the reaction occurs without an energetic push, but the position of the water molecules as they come in to form first «puddles» of water that connect into a film as they grow bigger.

A documentary about the Snow Leopard Trust's community - managed livestock insurance program was selected as the best film about «People & Big Cats» at the International Big Cats Film Festival, held to celebrate World Wildlife Day.

Therefore as they said in the old cowboy films — this town is not big enough for the both of us, one of us has to go — and it is the negative thoughts that are moving out.

PLANETARIUM (Planetarium) Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Cast: Natalie Portman, Lily - Rose Depp, Emmanuelle Salinger, Louis Garrel Searching for their big break, two American sisters, who earn their living through clairvoyance, arrive in 1930s Paris, where they beguile a movie - producer intent on shooting their séances as part of an ambitious new film.

WATCH: Although many Hollywood movies use India as a film location (think A Mighty Heart starring Angelina Jolie and Zero Dark Thirty, both of which used Indian locations when they didn't receive permission to film in Pakistan), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and The Darjeeling Limited were actually filmed in and set in Jaipur and Udaipur, two of Rajasthan's biggest cities.

Then there's the fresh, delicious menu that showcases gorgeous local ingredients, and the cocktail list, which is the perfect mix of creativity and humour (one cocktail, Big Flavours in Little China, is described as a `' tribute to the greatest movie ever filmed in Vancouver or anywhere else.»).

After playing minor roles in the television series Doc and the film Big Fish in her childhood, she became a teen idol starring as the character Miley Stewart in the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana in 2006.

Since then, she's gone on to score an independant film project as well as other big - budget films which should be coming to theaters in the near future.