Sentences with phrase «big studio comedies»

I think they're all underrated, talented performers, and ever since seeing Barinholtz work his magic as a charmingly weird supporting character in The Mindy Project, I've been pulling for him to lock down some more starring roles in big studio comedies.

It's a misogynistic trip through a barren land of hackneyed premises, stock characters, female stereotypes and strained physical gags that exemplifies everything that is wrong with big studio comedies today.

A charismatic ensemble cast, a sharp script and a few well - placed twists make Game Night one of the more enjoyable big studio comedies in recent memory.

The House is a solid, if unremarkable, big studio comedy with fleeting moments of humor peppered throughout its runtime.

They are in control of the situation, and it is rare that we have the opportunity to see this sort of thing occur in a big studio comedy.

Whether tackling a big studio comedy like Pineapple Express, an intimate drama like Snow Angels, or outrageous characters like Kenny Powers on HBO's Eastbound & Down, Green has repeatedly shown...

Whether tackling a big studio comedy like Pineapple Express, an intimate drama like Snow Angels, or outrageous characters like Kenny Powers on...

Steadily paced and bursting at the seams with humor (shout - out to Groot's «finding Yondu's fin» montage), the film works on nearly every conceivable level, from special effects sizzle reel to big studio comedy to the aforementioned family drama that Marvel hasn't yet pulled off with its Avengers films.

Loaded with an all - star cast (Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, Bobby Cannavale, Allison Janney, Peter Serafinowicz, and Morena Baccarin), one of the main reasons Spy is so great is that each supporting character has a moment to shine, and Statham completely knocks it out of the park in his first big studio comedy.

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The studio does have a pair of big spring releases in Ghost in the Shell, the controversial adaptation of the popular manga comic that stars Scarlett Johansson, as well as the action - comedy adaptation of the 1990s lifeguard TV show Baywatch.

Amazon's «Transparent», a comedy - drama series about a transgender father, won the award for the Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation incomedy - drama series about a transgender father, won the award for the Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation inComedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation in 2010.

CBS, home of broad - based hits like «NCIS» and «Big Bang Theory,» is exploring a tie - up with Viacom, which owns Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, as well as Paramount studios.

The big - studio romantic comedy has become so intractably set in its ways that there's no longer hope for true innovation; competent replication of clichés is now a best - case scenario.

In a drastic, surprisingly smooth departure from his typical work directing major studio comedies, Adam McKay tackles the dense subject matter of The Big Short, a screen adaptation of Michael Lewis»

In a drastic, surprisingly smooth departure from his typical work directing major studio comedies, Adam McKay tackles the dense subject matter of The Big Short, a screen adaptation of Michael Lewis «best - selling book about the devastating financial collapse of the mid-aughts.

In a drastic, surprisingly smooth departure from his typical work directing major studio comedies, Adam McKay tackles the dense subject matter of The Big Short, a screen adaptation of Michael Lewis «best - selling book about the devastating financial collapse of the...

At the top of the list, the billion - dollar big guns: franchises, superhero movies, animated kid - flicks and single - serving comedies — the whole high - calorie / low nutritional monoculture diet the studios would prefer us to subsist on, like docile teenage boys easily distracted by big bangs and shiny objects.

Now that the acquisitions floodgates are open, the buys keep piling up like it's Black Friday in studio shopping baskets, and this afternoon has brought news of the biggest deal yet at the festival, with Variety the first trade to report that Relativity Media are set to put down what may be a record - breaking sum for «Don Jon's Addiction,» the raunchy comedy that marks the directorial debut of Joseph Gordon - Levitt.

Meyers has pulled - off something rare these days for a big - studio Hollywood comedy.

It may not have enjoyed quite the box office success that a wide Christmas Day release could have brought, but Sony's controversial comedy The Interview has become the studio's biggest VOD release of all time following its arrival on YouTube, Google Play and Microsoft Xbox on Tuesday evening, with the film pulling in over $ 15 -LSB-...]

Director Stoller and writers Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien are graduates of the Judd Apatow school of studio humor, and so are well - versed in cooking up a comedy that adheres to a certain recipe: bookending the picture with big set - pieces, and then linking those set - pieces with a series of fast - paced episodes that rely chiefly on sight gags and as many obscenities as possible.

«Guardians of the Galaxy» is the closest thing to a standalone movie that the studio has made since the first «Iron Man,» and Gunn absolutely nails the offbeat tone of the source material, creating a sort of punk rock «Star Wars» that delivers big on adventure and comedy with a thoroughly entertaining cast of characters.

Many scoffed when filmmaker Adam McKay transitioned from studio comedies with Will Ferrell to a baity prestige picture in «The Big Short.»

When «Rough Night» hits theaters on Friday, June 16, it will be the first big - studio hard - R - rated comedy to be directed by a woman in nearly 20 years.

Female - driven comedies have been doing big business at the U.S. box office for decades, but all too often, Hollywood studios hire male directors to tell these women - led stories.

As for 2014 premieres, we also enjoyed Singaporean Cannes prize - winner «Ilo Ilo» and legitimately hilarious and unusually well - made studio comedies «Neighbors» and «22 Jump Street,» while «Captain America: The Winter Soldier,» «The Raid 2,» «The Lunchbox,» «Big Bad Wolves,» «Like Father Like Son,» «Le Week - End,» «Godzilla» and «Nymphomaniac» all had supporters on staff.

There's a new trend emerging in studio comedies where humorous set pieces are treated almost like action sequences in comic book movies — they come early and often and there's never much time to let the characters breath and develop in between the wild hijinks that blow up the big screen.