Sentences with phrase «big film productions»

It was the biggest film production ever in Scandinavia.

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The two big winners, with 12 nominations apiece, were the musical productions of «Mean Girls» and «SpongeBob SquarePants,» earning Tina Fey a nod for her adaptation of her wickedly funny 2004 film of the same name.

Though there have been several film versions of the Christian allegory, the latest version, which is currently in production, will likely be the biggest budget effort to date.

It comes right out of Disney's film productions, a place where we meet animated «real - life» versions of goodness personified (Snow White, the third Little Pig, Dumbo, Pollyanna) and the essence of evil (the Wicked Queen, the Big Bad Wolf)-- and thus learn to divide the world into good and evil, watching goodness triumph with a smile and a song.

Considering the film is deep into production, it isn't a big surprise that they brought in a seasoned pro like Howard, with tons of blockbuster experience under his belt.

Donors affiliated with a major TV and film production company who never gave more than $ 250 to any city office donated thousands to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2013 — and are now dodging questions about the big - money contributions.

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.

The most invaluable below - the - line contribution, meanwhile, comes from production designer Alex DiGerlando, who furnishes the film's broad range of Floridian boxes — big and small, flashy and fetid — with a wealth of subliminal personal and social history, even as they stand empty.

Whatever caused all the production angst on this film I don't know, but you never get the feeling that Forster loses control of the images, and «World War Z» contains several of the most effective big - canvas action sequences in recent history.

In tackling Louie's story (which sees him transition from Olympian to soldier to castaway to POW to war hero), she takes on a production of monumental scale, filmed in multiple countries and in vast expanses of the open, pitiless Pacific, but her willingness to go big is less impressive than her unwillingness to go gentle.

The main bonus is a 7-1/2 minute Behind - the - Scenes Featurette with writer - director Kenny Riches explaining his motivations for creating this story and the film's production (oddly, he cites Pee Wee's Big Adventure as a strong influence).

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

Raimi's first film since 2009's Drag Me to Hell (and first big - budget production since his Spider - Man trilogy) is a $ 200 million, visually dazzling, 3D prequel to the story told in 1939's The Wizard of Oz, chronicling the rise of said wizard from his humble beginnings as a small - time Kansas magician.

The production design is incredible, with some of the biggest sets I have ever seen in a film.

«Keith Carradine Demo» (12:06) sets the actor's four performances of three songs («It Don't Worry Me» twice, his Oscar winner «I'm Easy», and the unused «Big City Dreamin»») to film stills and production documents.

The success of the film led to a job directing the 1989 big - budget version of Batman; a darkly lavish, gothic production, the film proved to be a huge hit, securing Burton a place on the roster of A-list directors.His next film, 1990's Edward Scissorhands was the tongue - in - cheek gothic tale of an artificial boy put together by a benign scientist, who dies before he can complete the boy; as a result, the fabricated youth has hedge clipper - like scissors for hands.

It's a tribute to stars Benson and Moorhead, who combined to direct, write, edit and shoot the film, that their micro-budget project comes off more haunting than many big - studio productions with 100 times (at least) the budget.

dick clark productions announced today that the cast of the film The Big Sick, including Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano, will receive the «Hollywood Comedy Ensemble Award»; actor Jamie Bell will receive the «New Hollywood Actor Award» for his recent work in «Film Stars Don't Die -LSB-...]

Despite the excitement the production helped generate for the film, though, it's hard to prevent press outlets from getting the inside scoop, so 20th Century Fox went to extreme measures to preserve some of the biggest surprises in Deadpool 2.

As the first big - budget feature from director Julius Onah, he acquits himself well, and almost every single problem the film has comes down to a script that, by Uziel's own admission, was re-written on - the - fly during production.

The director's last film, Big Eyes, was refreshing in that it felt like a departure from the formulaic productions it succeeded.

3D is already being heavily pushed on every director making a bigger budget film and studios are creating small production companies to make Paranormal Activity - like films.

While English comedies of this sort can go the way of cute and light Feel Good Brit Flick (an often way too saccharine genre), they can also produce generally winning films like «Billy Elliot» and «The Full Monty,» and production company Big Talk have an excellent track record, with «Shaun Of The Dead,» «Attack The Block» and «Sightseers» among their triumphs.

Only the third film that the acclaimed actor has made as a director (after 2002's Antwone Fisher and his last, 2007's The Great Debaters), Washington certainly had familiarity with August Wilson's beloved Pulitzer Prize - winning material when he decided to bring it to the big screen; the actor won a Tony Award of his own for starring in the 2010 revival of the production, to go along with the play's Tony for Best Revival (and the many that it won during its first run on stage in 1987).

The film races through its plot so there's more time to lavish on its big - production numbers, and it's here that director Michael Gracey's comfort with tech is both a strength and a weakness.

That's nothing compared to today's biggest films and the costs are believable based on the abundance of production design and visual effects.

A Legendary Pictures production acquired by Netflix after the film parted ways with Universal earlier this year, Spectral is a big action movie with a tinge of sci - fi to it, anchored by an appealing collection of character actor or perennial supporting players at its centre (James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Stephen Root and Bruce Greenwood among them).

With another big film, Rebel in the Rye (directed and written by Danny Strong and co-starring Nicholas Hoult) coming to theaters this fall, a recent wrap on The Year of Spectacular Men (written by her sister Madelyn Deutch and directed by their mother), and production starting on the Netflix romantic comedy Set It Up, a work drought does not seem to be in Zoey's future.

He then went on to make a very big and troubled production, Bethune: The Making of a Hero [1990], with Donald Sutherland, which was at that stage the most expensive film produced in Canada, a big portion of which was shot in China.

Two weeks ago, as part of his summer - long institute, Redford held a weekend conference of most of the major exhibitors and distributors of «specialized» films - a category that includes independent U.S. features, foreign films, «art films,» cult films, revivals and almost anything else that isn't a big - budget, first - run standard Hollywood production.

Some of the other extras are more production - based, like the location featurette «James Bond in the Bahamas,» an in - depth featurette on filming the sinking palazzo sequence («Death in Venice»), and storyboards for two of the film's big set pieces.

With a solid belief from film critics that she's bound for stardom and a growing filmography of award - winning indies and big - budget productions, Emmy's success will rest on her own talents when she sets out to prove everyone right.

We talk with Re-recording Mixer Scott Millan and Music Production Supervisor Curt Sobel about the music that is featured in the film and the work that was required to prepare a wide range of archival recordings for the big screen.

Despite good production values, the film has a «primed for a TV series» feel to it, rather than the grandeur of a big screen epic.

In fact, PA3 opened bigger and though it had the series» weakest legs to date, it still ended up with a domestic gross close to the first film and a franchise - high worldwide take of $ 203 M. And while the production budget again rose, it was still kept to just $ 5 million, well under the competition and far less than the marketing costs of such a high - profile wide release.

Signatures is a short film scheme for the making of live - action, fiction films that act as a proving - ground for Irish creative talents which aims to encourage strong, original storytelling, visual flair, and production values appropriate to the big screen.

The film, meant to be a big action - oriented take on the Arthurian legend, was taken off the studio's production schedule after budget concerns arose and attached actors Kit Harington and Joel Kinnaman were freed to do other projects.

We are an un-official site sharing movies, film reviews from various productions and also Big Miracle Movies.

Having worked with filmmakers such as Wes Anderson, Lars von Trier, Abel Ferrara and Paul Schrader multiple times, Dafoe is as likely to pop up in a foreign art film as in a big - budget Hollywood production.

Following a string of fantastical films with hefty budgets (and less - than - desirable critical responses), Tim Burton takes a deep breath and a long step back with Big Eyes, his smallest, most reigned - in production since Ed Wood.

Gerwig envisions a program in which locals apprentice with seasoned crew members (if only such an agenda were in place when Memoirs of a Geisha and The Assassination of Richard Nixon were filming in the area), citing how the cult fantasy show Xena: Warrior Princess laid the groundwork in New Zealand for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, some of the biggest productions in motion picture history.

While this was also the case with many of the big films from those glory days (and perhaps is part of this production's mocking of that era), I'm not sure modern audiences will be bamboozled enough to overlook that deficiency.

We learn that one of the biggest hurdles in maintaining production designer Hans Bacher's simplified linework was deprogramming animators trained on such detail - oriented films as The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

The Big Red One is Fuller's most autobiographical film, at once an old - fashioned war thriller and a portrait of the insanity and senseless destruction of combat, and the most expensive and ambitious production of his career.

So one of the first things I did is I got the director of photography, the production designer, the visual effects supervisor — we rented a big IMAX screen and projected these films all in one day and watched as many of them as we could to immerse ourselves in the detail of it, the feeling of it.

The Big Sick is an enchanting film from the Judd Apatow comedy production line.

Production budget doesn't seem to be readily available for Blair Witch (though I haven't looked that hard), but Death Note is DEFINITELY a bigger budget film.

Screen Gems has released the first high resolution production photo of Christina Aguilera in her live - action big screen film debut Burlesque.

I suppose it's sort of damning with faint praise in a way, but it's remarkable that some composers seem to emerge from the production line formerly known as Media Ventures as excellent film composers in their own right who go on to bigger and better things.

Avengers: Infinity War is set to wrap production on July 14th, but that doesn't mean the cast and crew will be getting a big break between films.