Sentences with phrase «cable tv movie»

I wish I could find images of the house from «A Cooler Climate», a made - for - cable TV movie that's probably more than ten years old now, staring Sally Field..., as well as of other homes that I remember!.

«And yes, it's also a space - laced psychiatric melodrama, not to mention media sensation of let's just say cosmic proportions, with all the right stuff for an «over-the-moon» «galactic love triangle» «astronauts gone wild,» «rocketeers behaving badly» (pick your funny headline) bizarre reality show replacement, cable TV movie, and sizzling Court TV trial, but it is not a space law case.»

Although it doesn't live up to the potential that the teaming of directors John Carpenter (Halloween) and Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) promises (also, Wes Craven, Roger Corman and Sam Raimi make cameos), this cable TV movie still proves entertaining, alternately chilling and fun.

Susann also inspired «Scandalous Me,» a down - and - dirty cable TV movie starring Michele Lee, and is now the subject of «Isn't She Great,» a feature film opening Friday that stars Bette Midler as Susann and Nathan Lane as her husband and manager, Irving Mansfield.

For the most part, this qualifies as decent feel - good entertainment, which is really the most you can ask of a basic cable TV movie.

The 1.78:1 widescreen picture is clearly the product of digital video on a budget, but it looks sufficiently polished and cinematic for a basic cable TV movie.

Interminably slow of foot, filled with static, anachronistic and politically correct sermons performed in a whisper, with bloody - minded outbursts interrupting the beautiful scenery photographed like a cut - rate cable TV movie, it is an utterly inept outing from the director who got Jeff Bridges his Oscar.

I'm not in marketing, but wouldn't it have made sense to include some trailers for some of the studio's other romantic comedies or cable TV movies instead of letting them remain obscure?

Not exact matches

YouTube announced on Wednesday that it struck a deal with Time Warner's Turner entertainment division to get access to TNT, Adult Swim, TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network, truTV, Turner Classic Movies, and other cable channels for its paid TV service.

It's been four months since Rogers and Shaw, Canada's two biggest cable companies, officially launched Shomi, a Netflix - like streaming service that delivers on - demand TV shows and movies.

But with services like Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Prime, you can now watch your favorite TV shows and movies for a fraction of the cost of cable TV.

Netflix sells a service that competes with the TV shows and movies offered by cable Internet providers, and who can forget the warm welcome it got in Canada, in the form of certain Internet providers instantly lowering customers» monthly download limits when the company announced its northward expansion.

The move would combine Time Warner's vast collection of content, from movies to cable TV networks, with AT&T's sprawling network of cable, satellite and phone subscribers.

For the better part of the last decade or so, cable and TV companies have watched the upheaval going on in the movie and music industries — not to mention the newspaper business — and felt pretty sanguine about their prospects.

The cable channel once known for its boxing and old movies did more than any other to usher in the era of prestige TV.

The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal from movie studios, TV networks and cable TV channels.

Sources told Reuters last week that Disney was in the lead to acquire the assets, which include Fox's FX and National Geographic cable channels, its movie studio, the Star network in India and stake in European pay - TV provider Sky.

Rogers was in his twenties when his first - ever screenplay was made, «Hope Floats,» the 1998 romance movie starring Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr. that has since become a staple on cable TV.

The war between Shari Redstone and Dauman comes as the company struggles to cope with declining cable TV ratings and plummeting stock prices and may impede plans to sell a minority stake in Paramount movie studio to outside investors.

It's always a risk writing about a deal before it is official: CNBC reported a month ago that Disney was in talks to acquire many of 21st Century Fox's assets, including its eponymous movie studio, TV production company, cable channels, and international assets (but not the Fox broadcast network, Fox News, FS1 — Fox's sports channel — and Fox Business).

Media companies spinning off publishing units also have included News Corp. in 2013, which split assets including The Wall Street Journal and book publisher Harper Collins from its Fox movie, TV and cable businesses.

On Nov. 6, CNBC reported that Walt Disney had held talks with Fox about buying most of its movie and cable TV assets, and its 39 percent stake in European satellite broadcaster Sky.

Redstone is one of the last great media barons of the cable age, having grown a number of significant TV networks from a relatively modest chain of movie theaters.

We really have a lean and tight budget (no cell phones, no cable TV, no eating out, no movies, etc), but there are still so many areas we could cut back, and we struggle with what is the right thing to do.

The TVs are not hooked up to cable or satellite, but they have an excellent selection of «rental» movies available in the office at no cost.

While Starz was a huge part of viewing on Netflix several years ago because it was some of the only mainstream content Netflix offered, over the years Netflix has spent more and more licensing great TV shows from all four broadcast networks and many cable networks, and we have licensed 1st run movies from Relativity, MGM, Paramount, Lionsgate and others.

And Layer3 TV has all the channels, shows and movies we love, with every major cable and broadcast channel in stunning allHD ™.

It probably plays better on independent movie channels on cable TV than it does at the theater, which is where I'd wait for it to pop up.

Best actor in a TV movie or limited series Robert De Niro, «The Wizard of Lies» (HBO) Jude Law, «The Young Pope» (HBO) Kyle MacLachlan, «Twin Peaks» (Showtime) Ewan McGregor, «Fargo» (FX) Geoffrey Rush, «Genius» (National Geographic) IMMEDIATE REACTION: This category shaped up as expected, with movie stars on premium cable along with a nod for MacLachlan in the highly anticipated return of «Twin Peaks.»

The old joke about cable TV providing «52 channels and there's nothing on» has been replaced with «5,000,000 movies and nothing I want to watch.»

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From the cable network that consistently brings you bad made - for - TV movies comes yet another sequel to fall into the compost pit: Lake Placid 2.

Because the rise of the cable channel is making a liar out of every whiner who ever said TV was lame, or didn't go as far as the movies.

Ryan Murphy) Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parson, Julia Roberts, Jonathan Groff, Alfred Molina With TV no longer seen as a second - class medium, Cannes have embraced the premium cable revolution: 2012 saw the premiere of HBO's «Hemingway And Gellhorn,» while last year saw no fewer than three movies from the network, with «Behind The Candelabra» in competition, and special screenings of «Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight» and «Seduced And Abandoned.»

But the movie shouldn't be dismissed as just another real - life drama to catch on cable TV someday; Stronger is a profound, sensitively made gem.

Based on a simple plot description, it sounds, of course, like another «down - market,» slapstick - laden comedy — a movie perhaps destined to play as part of a late - night, cable TV double feature with 2006's drab Employee of the Month, which starred Jessica Simpson as the mutual object of affection for a pair of feuding retail warehouse workers played by Dane Cook and Dax Shepard.

It would be like, movie, then, let's say, cable, to TV, whatever, and then a play; it goes straight online, and it finishes like that.

He's made mincemeat out of most other movie genres since day one: the musical (Popeye), the detective film (The Long Goodbye), the war film (M * A * S * H), the western (McCabe and Mrs. Miller), the sci - fi film (Quintet) as well as skewering politics with his cable - TV series Tanner»88 and Hollywood with The Player.

Everything about it screams «niche,» from the budget ($ 4.5 million, which is what its studio, Universal, spent to make approximately two - and - a-half minutes of The Fate of the Furious), to the first - time director - writer, Jordan Peele, a cable - TV star whose show ended and who was looking to branch out, to the complete lack of movie stars (although now, Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams are nicely on their way), to the genre: horror cut with more than a dash of comedy and of pointed sociopolitical commentary.

But with this cable you can connect the Kindle Fire HD to a big TV so kids can watch a Netflix movie or play a game using the big screen.

The internet was pretty obviously in competition with a few obvious industries at that point — like meatspace book stores — but caught (and is still catching) others off guard: cable TV, movie companies, music companies, FedEx / USPS / UPS, movie theaters, desktop software makers, book publishers, magazine publishers, shoe / apparel stores, newspaper publishers, video game console makers, libraries, grocery stores, real estate agents, etc. etc....

With an MHL cable, you can also mirror your tablet's full user interface on your TV and enjoy movies, games, and more while charging.

Additional features: · Powered by Android ™ 2.3 Gingerbread · Mirror mode allows you to view and share photos, videos and movies on a larger TV via HDMI output (requires HDMI cable) · Global ready, allowing customers to enjoy wireless voice and data service in more than 200 countries, including more than 125 with 3G speeds · Enterprise ready with advanced security policies, device and SD card encryption, complex password support, remote data wipe of device and SD card; document and presentation viewing and editing with Quickoffice ® · Citrix ® GoToMeeting ® for Android, gives users the ability to attend online meetings while on - the - go, and Citrix Receiver ® for Android, a universal software client that allows companies to deliver corporate apps, desktops and data to any corporate - or employee - owned device · ESP smart dock technology for a tailored experience based on whether DROID 3 is docked in home, office or car settings · Adobe ® Flash ® Player 10 · Front - facing camera for still shots and video chat · Video playback in 1080p HD in mirror mode

Granted, Apple has my ID and tailors its presentation, but among the dozens of musicians, TV shows and movies on that front page, I recognized 90 percent as major releases (and I don't keep up with music, and don't even have cable TV).

Plus with apps like HBO NOW and SHOWTIME, customers no longer need a cable subscription to access their favorite TV shows and movies on Fire tablets.

The mini HDMI output lets you output this video playback to a TV simply and easily (no cable is included), and the 4 GB of internal memory will store 2 - 5 movies at standard definition quality.

Cut back on cable if you're already watching movies and TV shows in Netflix.

That meant no movies, no TV, no cable, and no eating out.

The «essential categories» number fifteen, and include gas, grocery and drug stores, as well as telecommunication charges, cable / satellite TV / Internet Service Providers, utility payments, gym / health club memberships, spas / salons, quick service payment / fast food restaurants, video rentals, department stores, dry cleaners, movie theatres, local and suburban commuter passenger transportation (including ferries, bridges, tolls, parking garages, taxis / limos), and pet supply stores / veterinary services.

You might have categories for auto (fuel, repairs, insurance), groceries, debt repayment (credit cards, loans), entertainment (cable tv, newspapers, books, movies, dining out), utilities (electricity, phone, water, gas), household (lawn, garbage disposal, repairs), pets, personal grooming, clothing, and other categories.