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«Jaws» became the highest grossing film of all time until «Star Wars» beat it out two years later.

Simply put, by employing less expensive semiconducting material thin - film solar cells would be cheaper to make, a fact born out by thin - film solar manufacturer First Solar's world - beating module that costs 73 cents per watt in 2011, albeit before the expense of installing it on the roof.

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In fact, the first half of «Mississippi Grind» almost plays out as an unofficial remake of the 1974 film, sharing more than a few character traits and story beats in common.

Actresses play grieving moms out for revenge in a film that makes up for its familiar beats with moments of deep insight

Of course, there will be long, boring biopics trotted out for Oscar season, but for my money, this very narrowly tailored and spare film will beat them all.

The 39 - year - old was awarded the honor for his horror film, Get Out, beating out The Big Sick, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouOut, beating out The Big Sick, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouout The Big Sick, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

The film's characters seem equally offbeat, including Goldblum as a very Goldblum - y villain called The Wolf King and Bautista as Everest, a «health care professional» who's happy to beat the snot out of any disrespectful guests at the eponymous hospital.

Iannotta doesn't have a feature film to his name yet, but he's got a credit that isn't just handed to any man or woman with a movie camera — his documentary short, My Big Red Purse, was selected to play at last month's South by Southwest Film Festival, beating out hundreds of competitors in the process.

The first Star Wars spinoff beat out the long - awaited Finding Nemo sequel, Finding Dory, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the new Jason Bourne film and Captain America: Civil War.

Because not everybody embraces the beauty of Jason Statham beating a guy up while strapped to a chair and then jumping out a three - story window, Ruthe Stein has also picked several promising independent films as well.

In one of the biggest surprises of the night, Wes Anderson's «The Grand Budapest Hotel» beat out Alejandro González - Iñárritu's «Birdman» to win the Golden Globe Award for musical or comedy film.

With three best - picture Oscars in the last 10 years, out of 12 nominations, the specialty film label has outpaced far bigger rivals thanks to a consistently off - beat slate of independent releases that have clicked with audiences and academy voters.

That makes Marvel's 18th film in its universe of superhero films the highest - grossing February release, beating out 2016's Deadpool.

While the previews suggest another CGI - heavy fantasy film with a dollop of mandatory - feeling «origin» beats, we're confident in Raimi's big bag of tricks to reach into the rich backstory of Frank L. Baum's writings and bring out something worthwhile.

The beautiful, diminutive Mexican actress Salma Hayek who plays Frida and had a lifelong ambition to play that role, co-produced the film with a host of others and thereby beat out other actresses such as Madonna and J. Lo who also wanted the part.

I thought the second movie was a great visual effects film if you wanted to see robots beating the crap out of each other, but overall it was so poorly executed that I actually wanted to walk out of the theater and I almost did.

Let's face it: whether he's railing against Bush, pulling Katrina victims out of toxic sewage, dining with third - world despots, or savagely beating paparazzi (or loved ones), the guy — much like Christopher McCandless, the subject of the book and film — marches to the beat of his own drum.

Saturday afternoon, the National Society of Film Critics has named Jean - Luc Godard «s Goodbye to Language the best film of the year, narrowly beating out Richard Linklater «s acclaimed Boyhood for the top prize.

He beat out Robert Towne for the job, pitching the film as an examination of the characters that inhabited these powerful bodies: why did they always do the right thing?

While our # 1 prediction, Moana, hasn't even come out yet, what we've seen of it from the trailer and stills and that Emmy, Grammy and Tony winner Lin - Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) is doing original songs for the film (hello, EGOT) is enough to sell us on it as the film to beat.

When Boreman came out with stories of violent abuse, beatings, threats at gun point, and gang rape, she found supporters in Gloria Steinem (who, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, ended up in the cutting room), Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon (whose radical feminism does not appear in the film, even though MacKinnon is credited as an adviser).

is misleading because while draped in Darius Khondji's luxuriant, golden - hued cinematography like the silks of Lady Liberty's gown, and decked in loving period costume and detail, the film is really a small - scale human drama in which those Gray staples, a love triangle and a love / hate brother-esque relationship, play out beat by minutely observed beat.

Well, maybe, but only if we accept the sanitized version of the decade that gave us rock and roll and the beats — the declawed, gutless, and thoroughly superficial take passed down by Happy Days and the movie that inspired it, American Graffiti, which was exactly the sort of film that Linklater said he didn't want to make when he set out to write and direct Dazed and Confused.

The Warner Bros. release features commercials that seem to sell the film as a highbrow «Taken» — a father (Hugh Jackman) kidnaps the a young man (Paul Dano) he suspects of abducting his daughter and her friend, and is prepared to beat the truth out of him.

Get Out can't be beat in terms of its budget, $ 4.5 million, versus how much the film made - what a triumph for first timer...

9 «The Lives of Others» With its slow - burn paranoia and pitch - perfect performances, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck «s Oscar - winning «The Lives of Others» (it beat out «Pan's Labyrinth» among others) works as a political suspense film for the majority of its running time.

As the air of authenticity gets sucked out for traditional action - movie beats, so too does the realistic grip of the film.

Violence: A movie studio films various scenes for pictures including: a western with a shoot - out where one of the actors is gunned down on screen, an underwater extravaganza where an actress is swallowed by a whale, and a Roman epic that depicts centurions beating slaves.

Even the slapstick in this film has an ugly streak to it, such as when our heroes throw apples at joggers and bikers for fun, or when a gay couple played by Patrick Warburton and Michael Dorn attend Comic - Con to beat the crap out of nerds, simply for being nerds.

And then the topic of Pixar as reliable geniuses, practitioners of a kind of ruddily American innovation, will be put back in the box until it is dragged out all over again the next time a Pixar film is released, to be repeated with much the same series of beats.

Out of Time is handsome and consistently enjoyable even when its opening act drags on several beats too long, even when Cain shows himself to be an extremely limited actor given too large a role in a film that just isn't about him (see also: Ron Eldard in The House of Sand and Fog).

One of the most predictable Academy Awards in years took a film - worthy twist as Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker beat out the closest thing the movies have to a Goliath — a film that just happened to be made by Bigelow's ex-husband.

But Bigelow was surprisingly left out of the Best Director race, and the film took a beating for its depiction of torture from some in congress and from a number of left - wing commentators.

And when his 1958 masterpiece «Vertigo» — that eerie romantic chiller starring James Stewart as a detective afraid of heights and Kim Novak as the beautiful mystery woman for whom he falls — was recently voted the best movie of all time, finally beating out runner - up «Citizen Kane» in the Sight and Sound film poll, it was a recognition that was probably as much for Hitchcock's entire oeuvre.

Ever since the release of the first trailer of Avengers: Infinity War, diehard fans had been poring meticulously over every single frame and still from the movie, released via both official and unofficial channels, trying to figure out the main story beats of the superhero ensemble film.

This early out, it's hard not to see this as one of the biggest prestige players and probably the film to beat come Oscar time.

10:30 pm — TCM — Captain Blood The first pairing of Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (they'd eventually make eight films together) is still one of the best — probably only beaten out by The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Angel pines for the device as a means of material power, and his attempts to recover it, including beating Jesús to a pulp (twice) and driving him off a cliff, are the crucial instances where the film suggests that mortal sins like envy and lust are the real threats to look out for.

In the middle of shooting his third feature, Soft in the Head, he decided to steer the improvised film's narrative arc in a new direction, retreating to the roof of the apartment building where he was shooting to scrawl out story beats on a napkin alongside his producer and Cody Stokes, his director of photography and frequent collaborator.

So we've put together a list of 20 off - the - beaten - path films coming out between now and the end of August that will satisfy your alternative - viewing needs — the documentaries, indies, foreign - language flicks and a few straight - up unclassifiable projects that will also be coming to a theater near you soon.

This year's best picture Oscar, after all, went for the first time to a science - fiction film of sorts, Guillermo del Toro's adoring monster - movie homage The Shape of Water — beating, among others, Get Out, Jordan Peele's wickedly playful collision of old - school horror with brisk, bracing racial politics.

It's joined by Guillermo del Toro's love fantasy The Shape of Water, Jordan Peele's prescient horror film Get Out, Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age dramedyLady Bird and the French - language ACT UP drama BPM (Beats Per Minute).

The film, which took twelve years to make, took home the award for Best Motion Picture — Drama, beating out Selma, The Imitation Game, Foxcatcher, and The Theory of Everything.

This is exceptional also for the fact that it was the lowest box office film of the year (and the lowest winner since 1982's E.T. the Extraterrestrial) and it beat out the highest grossing film of all time (Star Wars: The Force Awakens).

The film just beat out four easy targets at the Hugo Awards to claim yet another trophy, this one for Best Science - Fiction Film of 2008.

One of the more controversial Oscar winners of the modern age, John Madden's Shakespeare in Love beat out such films as Life is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan and The Truman Show to win Best Picture in 1999.

On top of that, Deadline is also reporting that Warner Bros. just picked up Garrett Hedlund to take the film's lead role of Hook, beating out Jack Huston and Ezra Miller for the part.

Some entries in the largely undistinguished dysfunctional - family - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comforts.

This is the biggest Marvel Studios film to date — the story plays out on a global scale and the main cast reaches double digits — but many of its best moments are small, throwaway beats: Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), who is cramped in the back of a small car, asking a surly Falcon (Anthony Mackie) to move his seat up; a starstruck Ant - Man (Paul Rudd) so giddy about meeting Captain America (Chris Evans) he practically asks for a selfie; Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) teaching the synthetic Vision (Paul Bettany) how to properly use paprika in a recipe; Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) casually flirting with Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), to the alarm of her nephew Peter Parker (Tom Holland).