Sentences with phrase «big tentpole»

The ability to control the new Apple TV with Siri's voice commands was one of the big tentpole features during September's keynote.

Consumers have been spoilt in recent years as publishers have created big tentpole franchises based on larger and larger open world gameplay.

With Avengers 4 slated to be released in May 2019 and no followup Avengers movies currently on Disney and Marvel's docket — that we know of — having a big tentpole movie like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Perhaps the biggest effect of the success of films like this and Joss Whedon's Avengers is where Hollywood finds its next big tentpole filmmakers.

Announced at E3 and instantly touted as one of Xbox One's big tentpole exclusives for 2016, ReCore is an adventure game set in a mesmerising apocalyptic world.

«Surprise» A-List celebrity cameos have become A Thing in big tentpole movies, so much so, that they're generally advertised well in advance.

In the meantime, many eyes will be focused on the box office numbers of Wonder Woman as validation that big tentpole movies and really just live - action movies in general do not have to be the sole domain of men on either side of the camera.

That is nearly an entire hour shorter than the lengths favored by the big tentpole films directed by Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich.

Anything being one of the biggest tentpoles of next year, Joss Whedon «s «The Avengers» where he'll play Bruce Banner and The Hulk alongside the all - star cast of Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson and many more.

So let's take a look at the MCU as it sits today, and identify where each Infinity Stone is currently hidden, or about where they're going as we approach the biggest tentpole film of all time.

Say, start of September, since most of the big tentpoles have been released by then.

November is universally when the fall movie season starts to unleash its biggest tentpoles, leading into both awards season and the holidays.

Not exact matches

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.

Writer / director Christopher McQuarrie takes the kind of whip smart inventiveness he provided for The Usual Suspects and ramps it up to the eleven that is necessary for a big time summer tentpole; then directs it with a lovely balance between extreme and subtle.

Below are 50 additional noteworthy films — including both big - budget tentpoles and smaller indie and foreign films — that either have confirmed 2013 release dates or seem extremely likely to reach theaters this year.

I feel that Black Panther is a big step for Marvel and a great opportunity for a filmmaker like Ryan Coogler to come into a big budget tentpole and leave his own mark, without much compromise.

Even fueled by Reynolds, whose likability is practically a super power, a new director in David Leitch («John Wick» and «Atomic Blonde»), charismatic new costars like Zazie Beetz («Atlanta») and Julian Dennison («Hunt for the Wilderpeople»), bigger stakes (and more money to execute them), «Deadpool 2,» suffers from the sequelitis that typically threatens gimmicky gambles turned tentpole franchises.

All things considered, Black Panther is both one of the best MCU movies yet and a watershed moment for big - budget tentpoles, when it comes to onscreen racial and cultural representation.

For a big - budget tentpole featuring such iconic characters and multiple planets and dimensions, Fantastic Four is strangely insular and hermetic.

The big - budget, summer tentpole release of the Fantastic Four continues our look at the Marvel movie lineup.

Bobin does nothing to prove incapable of handling a big budget tentpole, but nor does he do anything to bring the wit and humor of his best work to the proceedings.

Cooke appears on A&E's Bates Motel and came onto the scene with Sundance darling Me, Earl & the Dying Girl but gets her biggest stage yet this summer starring in Steven Spielberg's sci - fi tentpole Ready Player One.

And the lousy box office results are another example of how audiences sent Hollywood a big message this last summer that spending all that money on familiar tentpole projects isn't exactly the best investment.

Ryan Gosling is continuing to move away from indie films in favour of some bigger Hollywood paydays this week, as he is now said to be in talks for another major tentpole movie after landing the lead in a Logan's Run remake back in February.

This weekend marks the box office showdown between Disney's original animated tentpole Big Hero 6 and Christopher Nolan's outer space epic Interstellar, and a team of Marvel characters nabbed the No. 1 spot over a group of astronauts.

The movie was filmed in such places as Belgium, England, and Florida, and Burton told EW that the break away from sound stages (on big - budget tentpoles like Alice in Wonderland) was a nice change of pace of him too:

Holofcener's last film «Please Give» ended up on many of our year - end lists in 2009, so while we're not expecting «big things» exactly — that's hard to say about small scale dramas about regular people — we are, as usual, excited and grateful that we live in a world where, despite all the tentpole tendencies, there's still a very viable space for Holofcener to make movies.

The way Edgerton sees it, «Bright» also bombed with critics because it represented a big step forward for Netflix and proved tentpoles can exist when released only to streaming.

For example, because this is DreamWorks» / Universal's Oscar tentpole, the running time falls safely in the «adult contemporary holiday respectable» range of 130 - 145 minutes, and it features a big name actor in a role that requires him to be some combination of mentally disabled (I Am Sam, Forrest Gump, Rain Man), insane (As Good As It Gets), or that delicate combination of the two: a genius (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester).

Disney is betting big on Gore Verbinski's $ 260 million tentpole based on the radio and TV western hero «The Lone Ranger».

He could have easily been leading big studio tentpoles at multiple points in his career, but time and time again he's opted instead to take challenging roles...

With 2018 shaping up to be a year when multiple blockbuster tentpoles and franchise sequels are set to be hitting the big screen, Universal's planned sequel to Jurassic World is shaping up to be the most anticipated.

That may not be the word that those releasing a $ 190 million effects - heavy movie want to hear, but it actually makes this a more enjoyable viewing than the previous Warner tentpole it most resembles (The Legend of Tarzan) and a lot of big movies that are content to just be loud, busy, and dumb.

Paramount Pictures, the fourth distributor to handle this series and one of today's biggest believers in tentpoles, already has untitled, uncast sequels scheduled for May 2017 and June 2018, although those plans seem impossibly optimistic and very much subject to cancellation.

For Riseborough, this is a big career leap into a major tentpole project.

He had been cast late last year as King Arthur in the big - budget «Arthur & Lancelot» at the studio, opposite Joel Kinnaman, but the studio got nervous about a $ 130 million tentpole led by cable TV actors, and pulled the plug.

There are two major female roles in «Horizon» — which makes it unusual for a big budget tentpole release, a sad commentary itself.

It was clear that Blakeson was set for a Christopher Nolan - style career path, moving from low - budget indie thriller to bigger - scale films, but, like fellow Brit Rupert Wyatt, who went straight from the excellent «The Escapist» to the mega-budgeted «Rise of the Apes» without passing Go, Blakeson seems to be skipping a few steps, and going straight for the tentpole.

Still, it's a fine send - off for a series that redefined the look and feel and ambition of the super-hero genre, the summer blockbuster and the big - budget studio tentpole all in one go.

Of the big studio tentpoles, «Rise of the Planet of the Apes» was easily the best, showing Rupert Wyatt to be a rare talent, and Andy Serkis an even rarer one, even if the film flatlines whenever an ape isn't on screen.

It's the genuine article, an engrossing tentpole with serious themes, complex moral conflicts and emotional stakes, and one that doesn't feel as if it was written by committee or structured around big and familiar action set pieces.

The Ryan Coogler - directed movie — unprecedented in being a big - budget studio tentpole featuring a virtually all - black cast — secured the fifth - biggest domestic opening of all time after blasting past all expectations.

If you look beyond the big franchises, movies such as «RBG» and «Book Club» show there's an audience beyond the tentpoles.

Directed by Ryan Coogler, Black Panther is the first big - budget studio tentpole to feature virtually an all - black cast.

December is always a big month for movies, a time when studios release tentpole pictures and Oscar hopefuls before the «dump months,» a.k.a. January and February, when commercial and critical expectations are much lower.

Though the director doesn't make very many films, when Tarantino does release a new one, it's always met with the same kind of crazed excitement usually reserved for summer tentpoles, and that's because his movies are practically big events themselves.

Though Quentin Tarantino doesn't make very many films, when he does release a new one, it's always met with the same kind of crazed excitement usually reserved for summer tentpoles, and that's because his movies are practically big events themselves.

Nolan's name appears to be a very big draw, especially on Inception, which behaved like a tentpole without any established branding or source material.

A huge success at the box office (read our review), earning more than big - budget tentpoles Tomorrowland and Terminator Genisys, it was also Apatow's biggest critical hit since Knocked Up.

Now, a number of the major studios dabble primarily or even exclusively in tentpoles, costly films expected to perform big.