Disney said it was the first time that either an animated feature or a 3D feature had been selected
as the opening night film.
Damien Chazelle's follow up to his Oscar - winning breakout «Whiplash» was recently announced
as the opening night film of this year's Venice Film Festival that will once again begin at the end of August.
as the opening night film, which will take place Thursday, June 13.
Fantastic Fest is excited to announce Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills will have its world premiere on September 19, 2013
as the opening night film for the 2013 festival, which will take place in Austin, Texas at the new Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline location from September 19 - 26, 2013.
By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Roman Polanski's anticipated «Carnage» has been selected
as the opening night film for September's New York Film Festival, it was announced today.
By Sean O'Connell hollywoodnews.com: Organizers of the 19th Plus Camerimage film festival — held each year in Bydgoszcz, Poland — have selected Roman Polanski's «Carnage»
as their opening night film.
Following it's prestigious spot
as the opening night film at the...
Matt Reeves's «Let Me In» was announced today
as the opening night film, though it will have already played Toronto by that time.
The resulting film, Sicilian Ghost Story, premiered
as the opening night film of Critic's Week in the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
SXSW has slated Everybody Wants
Some as its opening night film to kick off the festival and based on a few early reviews, this is going to be a solid opening night feature to kick the festival off right.
Luc Besson's «The Fifth Element» was selected
as the opening night film at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
Everybody Wants Some is slated to premiere at SXSW this year
as the opening night film.
«Selected
as the opening night film for Sundance 2012, HELLO I MUST BE GOING features acclaimed actress Melanie Lynskey (WIN WIN, UP IN THE AIR, TWO AND A HALF MEN) in her breakout role as Amy, a recent divorcée who seeks refuge in the suburban Connecticut home of her parents (Blythe Danner and John Rubinstein).
Unlike High - Rise which played in last year's Platform section, Free Fire is back at home
as the opening night film in Midnight Madness.
This year's series once again kicks - off with Michael Curtiz's «Casablanca»
as the opening night film with screenings May 26 and 27.
This is selected
as the opening night film of Sundance, which honestly is a bit of a concern, but I still have a good feeling this will be something quite unique if not very memorable.
Shonali Bose's Margarita with a Straw named
as opening night film of New York Indian Film Festival (Variety).
Woody Allen's Café Society makes its North American premiere
as the opening night film of the 42nd Seattle International Film Festival on Thursday, May 19 — a mere eight days after making its world premiere as the Cannes opening night.
This doc first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year
as the opening night film.
They join previously announced films such
as Opening Night film Kick - Ass, as well as narrative features Cold Weather and Elektra Luxx, and documentaries Hubble 3D, Lemmy, SATURDAY NIGHT and The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights.
The Cabin in the Woods was just announced
as the opening night film of the 2012 South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival which will take place in Austin, Texas from March 9 - 17.
Sundance experience: «Going there with your first film, and
as an opening night film — having people talk about it, having conversations about it on the street — I couldn't think of a more surreal experience.»
Not exact matches
Cast Martin Short
as the Canadian ambassador, Molly Parker
as his tart - tongued aide and Christopher Plummer
as the entire nation of Iceland — you've got the
opening -
night film for next year's Toronto International
Film Festival.
Bill Condon's «The Fifth Estate,» starring Benedict Cumberbatch
as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, will be the
opening night film of TIFF.
Emily Mortimer stars in «The Bookshop,» which will screen
as SIFF's
opening -
night film Thursday at McCaw Hall.
Opening Night on Friday, May 4 features the Midwest premiere of Fast Color, starring Gugu Mbatha - Raw (A Wrinkle in Time)
as a woman whose superhero powers send her on the run; Mbatha - Raw and the
film's co-writer and producer, Jordan Horowitz (La La Land), will be in Chicago for the occasion.
The
film, shot in Germany, recently premiered
as the
opening -
night film of the Berlin International
Film Festival.
The
film premieres
as the
Opening Night selection...
It's only the third
film confirmed to appear at this year's LFF, with Amma Asante's A United Kingdom previously announced
as the
opening night gala and David Oyelowo drama Queen Of Katwe getting a European premiere.
«The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro's striking, sensual fantasy
film, won the Producers Guild of America's top honor Saturday
night at the PGA Awards, cementing its place
as one of the front - runners of this year's wide -
open Oscar best picture race.
The 3 - D
film may have its faults, but I couldn't have asked for a better
opening -
night guest, a man who has made
films all over the world and remains
as passionate
as ever about his work at the age of 71.
«Demolition» raised eyebrows
as the
Opening Night selection once Fox Searchlight announced it wouldn't release the
film until next April.
She has written screenplays in the past, including the 2011 «Fright
Night» remake, and rather than necessarily seeing the books «Sharp Objects» and «Dietland»
as one - off
films, she saw the
open - ended possibilities for making them into series.
Payne's latest (and excellent)
film, «The Descendants,» serves
as the
opening night presentation of the Lone Star International
Film Festival, followed by a Hawaiian reception.
Spielberg's «The BFG,» with recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance starring in the Roald Dahl adaptation, will screen out of competition,
as will Jodie Foster «s «Money Monster,» Shane Black «s «The Nice Guys» and Woody Allen «s previously announced
opening -
night film, «Café Society.»
As everyone knows, I'm certainly not what you'd call a horror / thriller person, but I couldn't miss the
opening night film for SXSW 2018, A Quiet Place, directed by John Krasinski.
The
film opens with a black - and - white, La Dolce Vita-esque scene of Rome
as Paul is walking down the street at
night and suddenly abducted by what turns out to be a splinter group of extremists from the Italian Red Brigade, which regularly kidnaps high - profile targets.
As already announced, the opening night film is the European premiere of «Suffragette» with Carey Mulligan, and just announced as the closing night film is Danny Boyle's «Steve Jobs.&raqu
As already announced, the
opening night film is the European premiere of «Suffragette» with Carey Mulligan, and just announced
as the closing night film is Danny Boyle's «Steve Jobs.&raqu
as the closing
night film is Danny Boyle's «Steve Jobs.»
The 57th Annual San Francisco International
Film Festival, which runs from April 24 - May 8, has announced its
opening night film as The Two Faces of January, starring Oscar Isaac, Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst, which will be making it's North American premiere at the fest.
The Nicole Kidman starring biopic (of sorts) on Grace Kelly has been selected
as the big
opening night film of the 2014 edition of Festival de Cannes.
As previously announced, Universal's By the Sea, written, directed and starring Angelina Jolie - Pitt and also starring Brad Pitt, is the festival's
opening night film.
I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful
film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education»
as it were,
as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's
Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire
film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece;
Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the
film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little
film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.
Director Miguel Arteta, aiming for the easy laughs, overloads the
film with them, missing more substantial opportunities, although he does get a few in like a high
as a kite on cough syrup Emily coming out to perform on
opening night or a cameo from Dick Van Dyke where he persists in doing a reading to a group of children, disastrous typo and all.
As festival director Janet Pierson introduced the
opening night film, Linklater humbly dotted «I've had
films here before, but this is the first time I've
opened the festival» to a giddy crowd.
The troubled production went over-budget, took years to finish, and, upon its original release, performed poorly — the same year
as Saturday
Night Fever and Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Sorcerer
opened a week before a little
film called Star Wars, which capsized it in its considerable wake.
The movie, which
opens Friday but made its Houston debut Saturday
night as part of a day - long community event celebrating the
film sponsored by the Houston Museum of African American Culture that also included a welcome from Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, actually has its start in «Captain America: Civil War» two years ago.
Polley was in Chicago with her
film as the
opening night selection for the first ever Chicago Critics
Film Festival, which also played Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden's «Feral» which was nominated for Best Animated Short
Film.
The MacGuffin of
Night Moves is the same
as the microfilm - bearing South American juju from North by Northwest or the bird statue beneath the
opening titles of The Maltese Falcon — some kind of clay effigy pregnant with some kind of contraband, representative in 1975 of the extent to which
film has been entirely co-opted by the way audience expectations govern movies.
Empire State made its world premiere
as GIFF's
opening night feature, while festival darling, The Iceman, was one of the last
films to screen on the fest's closing
night event.
The red carpet was rolled out in a corridor near the hotel's auditorium for a lengthy procession of luminaries from the region — filmmakers and actors whose
films were to unspool at MEIFF, many unknown to me; festival jurors, many who were known to me, and so on —
as well
as... Demi Moore, Freida Pinto and Hilary Swank, amongst others shipped in to gratuitously increase the wattage of
Opening Night.