Sentences with phrase «blockbuster years in the making»

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In the past several years, Netflix has followed the blockbuster trend of making comic - book superheroes the subject of its original programming.

The company has spent most of the past year working toward this blockbuster quarter, while making heavy investments in its manufacturing processes in preparation of the launch of the Model 3 electric vehicle, which is expected to roll out by the end of next year.

Last year, Disney benefited from the blockbuster success of the Star Wars franchise, making comparisons in fiscal 2017 difficult.

With the billowing survival - horror genre reaching a zenith in the last three years, many developers have tried to capture the slow - paced feel and scary shockorama tactics that have made Resident Evil the blockbuster franchise it is today.

Wired recently checked in with Taika Waititi, who is making the much - traveled journey of indie - to - blockbuster director this year by making his first major franchise film, Thor: Ragnarok.

That big moment charged the hype machine for the film in a way that major summer blockbusters aren't capable of achieving with an entire year of buildup and spoiler - filled trailers, making this film one of the most talked about projects in the past year simply due to the fact that no one knew what it actually was.

Long in development, the film once held the promise of standing alone, but with the passage of years and the success of Marvel's blockbuster formula, priorities changed and the decision was made to fit Ant - Man safely within the company's cinematic universe.

Not to mention, the number of alien films released in recent years — a handful of which proved to be mediocre or worse — make it harder to get enthused about yet another blockbuster that feature extraterrestrials in an apocalyptic scenario (the end - of - the - world sub-genre is, likewise, starting to feel over-saturated at this point).

In The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age, Paolo Cherchi Usai noted that the Zapruder tape sold in August 1999 for $ 16 million, at that time making it «the largest amount ever paid for a motion picture artefact» 2 Eight years earlier, Oliver Stone made this material the centrepiece of his Oscar - winning blockbuster JFIn The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age, Paolo Cherchi Usai noted that the Zapruder tape sold in August 1999 for $ 16 million, at that time making it «the largest amount ever paid for a motion picture artefact» 2 Eight years earlier, Oliver Stone made this material the centrepiece of his Oscar - winning blockbuster JFin August 1999 for $ 16 million, at that time making it «the largest amount ever paid for a motion picture artefact» 2 Eight years earlier, Oliver Stone made this material the centrepiece of his Oscar - winning blockbuster JFK.

If there was any doubt to the validity of Disney's goal to make non-family movies, 1987's numbers removed it as Disney's top four films again hailed under the Touchstone name and included the first and fourth top - grossing films of the year in holiday season releases Three Men and a Baby and Good Morning, Vietnam, each earning well over $ 100 million and easily deserving classification as a «blockbuster.»

It lacks the subversive politics of Brian DePalma's film (which corrupts the source TV franchise as much as it reboots the thing), but Bird's deft action filmmaking make it among the more visually appetizing American blockbusters released in years.

We're neck - deep in the prestige - movie season, i.e. when a handful of movies made for [gasp] adults join the usual year - round I.P. blockbusters.

2014 didn't have a cult film in the making like What We Do in the Shadows, or a true sleeper like Straight Outta Compton (or Spy, for that matter), or a blockbuster hitting the sweet spot for audiences and critics alike like Mad Max has done, or a traditional standalone nonfranchise blockbuster like The Martian, or an animated film with the acclaim of Inside Out, or a little horror movie that could like It Follows, or an unexpected independent drama that ran forever like Room....2015 was a year like 1999 or 1994.

It's that time of year again, when we review the films of the summer blockbuster season — those in theaters, those that have come and maybe gone, and those soon to be released — and make our recommendations of what to see and what to avoid.

Although Wonder Woman 2 is yet to be officially announced, we've already heard that Geoff Johns and director Patty Jenkins are hard at work on the story for the sequel to this year's DC blockbuster, and now TV's Wonder Woman Lynda Carter has revealed that she's had talks about making a cameo in the Amazon -LSB-...]

Given that a major West End musical adaptation of the film is slated for next year (making this the fourth Whoopi Goldberg blockbuster to beget a stage musical), and that 2010 also just happens to be the film's 20th anniversary, there's a safe bet that a new release will be coming down the pipe in the relatively near future.

The 36 - year - old, who started her career in the Disney blockbuster alongside Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, admitted the experience made her disillusioned about the industry.

Although Wonder Woman 2 is yet to be officially announced, we've already heard that Geoff Johns and director Patty Jenkins are hard at work on the story for the sequel to this year's DC blockbuster, and now TV's Wonder Woman Lynda Carter has revealed that she's had talks about making a cameo in the Amazon Princess» next solo big screen adventure.

In the nine years since that R - rated blockbuster was in theaters, Stiller has been keeping very busy, headlining as many five major movies a year and making as many cameos as anyone in his so - called Frat PacIn the nine years since that R - rated blockbuster was in theaters, Stiller has been keeping very busy, headlining as many five major movies a year and making as many cameos as anyone in his so - called Frat Pacin theaters, Stiller has been keeping very busy, headlining as many five major movies a year and making as many cameos as anyone in his so - called Frat Pacin his so - called Frat Pack.

Although it had been heavily rumoured that Brie Larson's Carol Danvers would make her first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Avengers: Infinity War, it was subsequently confirmed that she'll be sitting out next year's Marvel blockbuster, and will instead debut as Captain Marvel in her own solo movie in March 2019.

Sixty years after Godzilla made his initial screen appearance, we get a full blown Hollywood special effects blockbuster version that will eclipse the $ 100 million mark in its first weekend.

It's been tougher of late for Western movies to make a dent in China — the country's been making its own blockbusters, like this weekend's massively popular Monster Hunt 2 — but Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman won an award for the most popular U.S. actor in the country last year (Boseman was just as surprised as you are), which may be a good indicator of the movie's outlook come March.

In her long - awaited new book, seven years in the making, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in her blockbuster bestseller, SeabiscuiIn her long - awaited new book, seven years in the making, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in her blockbuster bestseller, Seabiscuiin the making, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in her blockbuster bestseller, Seabiscuiin her blockbuster bestseller, Seabiscuit.

In 2016, Hollywood movies had nothing on what got made outside of Hollywood; the year after Fury Road and Inside Out and The Martian, it's hard to think of a single truly transcendent studio blockbuster that hit multiplexes.

Just in the past year, U. Penn's Angela Duckworth authored the blockbuster Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance; Morehouse's Marc Lamont Hill published Nobody: Causalities of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond; and Sara Goldrick - Rab made it onto the late - night talk shows with her timely Paying the Price.

The island was made famous in the year 2000 by the Leonardo Di Caprio blockbuster movie «The Beach», which was largely filmed there in Maya Bay.

UT3 is being concentrated on the ps3 cus they like the mods thing and more than likely the fact than so many blockbusters are coming out for the 360 in a small time frame it makes sense for them to hold off on the 360 till next year....

After the mess with killzone, second son, driveclub, and now reports of the order being horrible it wouldnt surprise me.Sony could be giving up on first party games this gen and just try and buy 3rd party timed exclusives.Their in a hole going bankrupt and their games are suffering from it no doubt so it would be cheaper for them.I do nt believe they have the money to make a first party blockbuster game?Sony already have said they will lose another 2.1 billion next year wow

Sony Computer Entertainment Australia has today confirmed the full line - up of industry experts, who will participate in «The Making of... a blockbuster game «panel which will be held at this year's Vivid Sydney festival.

From indie games made by a team of four people to giant blockbusters of epic proportions, there were surprises to be found in every corner — leading to one of the most varied and interesting game of the year lists in Gaming Trend history.

Releasing a blockbuster title like The Legend of Zelda on the next platform thus makes absolute sense for its success of the forecaster 20 million copies in the first year, especially if the NX is far superior in - terms of hardware and features to the Wii U.

The answer is long and complex, and has much to do with the radical shifts in culture that have occurred over the past 25 years or so, both in Britain and the world: the unstoppable rise of art as commodity and the successful artist as a brand; the ascendancy of a post-Thatcher generation of Young British Artists (YBAs) who set out, unapologetically, to make shock - art that also made money; the attendant rise of uber - dealers such as Jay Jopling in London and Larry Gagosian in New York; and the birth of a new kind of gallery culture, in which the blockbuster show rules and merchandising is a lucrative sideline.

The Times of London had a blockbuster of an item in its reporting of ClimateGate: The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man - made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails.