Sure, there are
some bigger films out there.
Not exact matches
With his latest opus due
out this month and a half - dozen more
films on the way, the director and historian Ken Burns has learned a lot about how to manage
big teams through even
bigger projects.
Of course, some of the nominated
films are still in theaters, and winning a
big haul at the Academy Awards is known to result in a bump at movie theaters, which is all the more reason for studios to pull
out all the stops in their awards - season marketing efforts.
The dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won
big at the Golden Globes earlier this year, but the
film has also seen a sustained backlash from critics over its questionable ending and a perceived failure in fleshing
out the movie's non-white characters.
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.
This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of
films likely to be among the year's
biggest releases are slated to come
out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing
film so far, came
out in early - April and the scattering of
big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014
films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all
films had last year at this point.
In the Best Picture race, the
biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror
film «Get
Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.
While I believe there will still be consumer demand to see
big, franchise
films in a glitzy theater with overpriced popcorn, the jury is still
out as to how much traffic will be affected.
Unlike other independent
films in which
big names are ridden into the ground like a sweaty mule, shoehorned into every possible scene in the movie, «Moms» Night
Out» has an ensemble cast - an amazing feat for a
film with a budget just under $ 5 million, according to Andrew and John Erwin, the brothers who directed the
film.
But unlike other
films with more direct Christian messages, churches are much less likely to buy
out theaters in bulk as they did for «Son of God» and «God's Not Dead,» a move that brought those
films big returns at the box office.
At a press event for Perry's newest
film Madea's
Big Happy Family, which came
out on Friday, Perry addressed Spike Lee's criticisms in a most unexpected fashion — by railing at me for a question I was making about a completely different kind of potential backlash.
The
film surely rightly points
out that this very speculative idea that our universe is just one of a very large number just makes the cosmos
bigger, without thereby removing the apparent need for the sustenance of God.
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.
Serving as an MP between 1987 - 2010 and 2012 - 2015 he was also a contestant on Celebrity
Big Brother and more recently brought
out a
film about Tony Blair.
But keep handing
out $ 400M to
big businesses (they give political contributions, you know) $ 420M to
film in NY, no millionaires tax....
When the lights went
out at the
big game, fans and
film crews struggled to take a decent picture in the darkness.
While the
film likely won't hit
big screens until next year (you can check
out its Indiegogo campaign here), Appel says there are steps you can take to ensure your trip to Tulum — or any popular beachside tourist destination — is easy on the land.
Therefore as they said in the old cowboy
films — this town is not
big enough for the both of us, one of us has to go — and it is the negative thoughts that are moving
out.
Then, over phone calls, not so average first dates of midnight showings of «The
Big Lebowski» (Lord knows I love a good weasel in a bathtub scene), actual theatre screenings of my favorite
film «Gone with the Wind» accompanied by my most adored meal
out — diner grilled cheese with a milkshake (Yes, really.)
Find
out and watch this enchanting short
film, if she does find her her
big love in the end!
Two
big budget
films continued to fill
out their casts this week.
As it turns
out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the
film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a
big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»»
film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.
The pressure off, they're free to make
out like teenagers and fall in love, a happy interlude the
film covers with smart economy, so as to spend more time on getting to know this «hot grandma» (she's struggling to keep her middle daughter pregnancy - free through high school), as well as the couple's first
big fight, occasioned when she wonders why he still doesn't want to sleep with her after nearly 20 dates.
One of the greatest and funniest horror
films ever made, it has a great story and a powerful scenes with great visuals and exquisite acting, I am a
big horror fan, this one is good, it is really good, although I was barging for something smaller and simpler, but it turned
out to be way too different than expected!
The
film is a lumbering, glum, cool - toned behemoth that labors to lay groundwork for a DC cinematic universe while setting up two famous characters on a collision course, and lobs
out big ideas like an underprepared undergrad sweatily pitching off - the - cuff thesis topics.
Though its Metascore was slightly below that of the first
film, Kung Fu Panda 2 was an even
bigger hit,
out - grossing all but three other
films so far in 2011.
It's just a shame that the little gems that stick
out in memory so heavily, don't reflect the end product that «Mississippi Grind» has to offer; the
film is at its core, a so - so gambler, who hits it
big but doesn't know when to walk away, overplaying his hand and leaving with a much smaller windfall.
It will be extremely hard for the studio to match those figures in 2016, as many of its
biggest franchises are sitting
out the year and Universal's planned 21 -
film slate doesn't feature any sure - thing blockbuster hits aside from (maybe) a still - untitled Bourne sequel.
This
film just doesn't have that same kind desperation, that same kind of «we're running
out of time»... even though one of the
film's main visual concepts is the
big clock counting down.
Walking
out of this
film, the
biggest positive I find myself commending this
film on, is its cast and their interaction with one another.
The
film spends enough time on building Killmonger and that includes taking T'Challa
out of the story for a while but it serves the
bigger picture.
There was a lot of secrecy surrounding the new X-Files movie... But the
film's
big secret is
out now: it sucks.
It's Howle that is the
film's
big find, and the rising star break
outs as the wounded and compelling Edward, a rough - hewed «bumpkin» who wears his heart on his sleeve.
With two Pixar
films (Inside
Out and The Good Dinosaur), an Avengers sequel, Brad Bird's Tomorrowland, and the first of many planned Star Wars sequels on the calendar for the year ahead, 2015 should easily be Disney's
biggest year to date.
But after that
film became Dreamworks»
biggest hit (which it remains to this day), Jeffrey Katzenberg and his cohorts sought to eke
out the series, providing more money at the expense of allowing genuine creativity to flourish.
I remember when this came
out it was quite a
big action flick for Snipes, its funny when you look back on these old
films and see how bad they really were hehe.
... it was Cagney's
film from beginning to end, to win or to lose, and he came
out one of the
biggest winners in Hollywood.
The creations (the
film and Django) commit to the vision / mission while the creators (Tarantino and Schultz) turn
out to be
big softies at heart despite the posturing and bravado.
It is a little
out there because it is a
film from Joel and Ethan Coen, but besides that, The
Big Lebowski was still pretty good.
It's more like «Needful Things,» another good
film of a lightweight story, with a few more servings of gore and gross -
out humor to hold us over until the next
big thing.
This obvious rip - off of the original «Jaws» was one of the
biggest cult
films to come
out of the exploitative genre, and it's even memorable enough to have been remade in 2010.
Most of the
film's subplots are inconsequential in the
big picture and really only involve stalling, the all - powerful villain is mishandled, and
big problems seem to have simple solutions that come off as cop -
outs.
The studio will be bringing
out the
big guns, as the
films...
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, Missou
Out, beating
out The Big Sick, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missou
out The
Big Sick, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Plutarch should have been in the first
film but it's not a
big deal that he was left
out, his important work is yet to come.
Yes, it is both at once, but make no mistake, the men behind the
film are mostly
out to make fun of all factions — whatever will produce the
biggest laughs is their target.
Sobering the proceedings is a look back to last Sundance, where The
Big Sick went on to gross nearly $ 40 million last year, and Wind River right behind it at $ 34 million to be the top - grossing prestige
films of 2017, with both coming
out of this festival.
At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay
films of the 1950s and»60s; his five -
film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's
films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's
bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring
out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.
While the latter focuses on the pavement - pounding reporting of its titular news team, Vanderbilt's
film is more about Mapes herself and how one of the
biggest stories of her career turned
out to be the end of it.