Sentences with phrase «characters in studio films»

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Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

The film's European locations, sets (in Rome's Cinecitta studios) and photography are unusually striking; Rachel Portman contributes an elegant score; and Holm (who played the emperor once before in 1981's «Time Bandits») embodies the character with an effortlessly regal charisma.

It achieved success, despite being shown in 811 theaters worldwide and having a relatively low box office gross.The film's love scenes between Colin Farrell's character and the then 14 - year - old Kilcher caused some controversy, resulting in the film studio deleting several scenes with Farrell to avoid child pornography accusations.

Yet... Hiromasa Yonebyashi's latest effort is the first film of a subsequent studio; «Studio Ponoc» founded from his former employers at Ghibli hence the character designs look so similar honoring their past legacies in this latest animated offering from the Japanese.

At the moment a direct movie adaptation of the comic can't be made by any film studio due to rights issues; several major characters who appear in the comic (including Hawkeye and the Incredible Hulk) are part of Marvel's Avengers film franchise, and therefore aren't available to be used as part of the X-Men movie franchise.

However, it's still too overly detailed with useless subplots (Dwarf / Elf love triangle), extra characters that were not in the book, and the sense that this last film was just unnecessarily stretched out just because the studio decided to make three films instead of just two.

The film assembled one of the studio's finest voice casts, led by Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres, gave them a ton of great gags and memorable characters (the surfer dude turtle and the «One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest» homage in the dentist's office first among them), and then grounded it in with a deep bass line of thoroughly relatable pathos.

Who would have dreamed that Thor, one of their most stoic characters, would star in one of the studio's goofiest films?

The film hits theaters on March 16 and is one of the few major studio films to ever feature a gay character in the lead role.

We've previously only seen the first trailer for the film, but thanks to a presentation by the animation studio today, we now have a better idea of the cast, their characters, and just how they'll look in the finished film.

While much has been teased regarding where each character finds themselves in the film, there's still quite a bit that the studio hasn't shown.

But she has no interest in tilting the delicate balance she has found as a movie star with character - actor range — high - profile enough to carry studio films yet low - profile enough for audiences to believe her as everything from a magical nanny to a bloated binge drinker.

In 2017, there were exactly zero trans characters in any major studio filIn 2017, there were exactly zero trans characters in any major studio filin any major studio film.

The young girl plays Athena with that certain Disney charm that many female characters had in the studio's past live - action films.

The characters of these films had more in common with the genially goofy, wisecracking eccentrics of Bringing up Baby and You Can't Take It with You (both 1938) than they did with real - life studio folk.

The casting choices are also a liability, with Kunis laboring to look even slightly domestic or even just lived - in as a character with a long history with a one - dimensionally self - centered husband and two precocious kids that look like they were freshly pulled from the Movie - Kid rack at the film studio prop store.

This has been on my must - see list ever since it was announced, and that excitement has only grown with each new reveal, from the casting of Chris Pratt in the lead role, to landing Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper to voice the movie's CGI characters, to the strong buzz emerging from early screenings that have pegged it as one of the studio's best films to date.

I suspect «Fast Times» couldn't be made today and remain intact, at least not in big - studio form; a character has an abortion, for example, and the film never judges her for it.

The films from major studios were also put through the Vito Russo Test, a set of criteria to analyze how LGBTQ characters are included in a film.

A film festival darling with his expressionistic character drama «George Washington» in 2000, he remained on that path with his next three features — «All the Real Girls,» «Undertow» and «Snow Angels» — only to take a hard right turn into the studio comedy arena with «Pineapple Express,» and he stayed on that route with «The Sitter» and «Your Highness.»

The drop in on - screen LGBTQ representation is a speed bump in GLAAD's call to action to have the seven major film studios to have 20 % of their major releases include LGBTQ characters by 2021 and that 50 % of films include LGBTQ characters by 2024.

Instead, Hany Abu - Assad «s film almost feels like a throwback to the golden age of the New Hollywood movement, when filmmakers and studios were interested in character - driven stories.

In the report, GLAAD urged studios to do better by including LGBTQ characters directly tied to the film's plot.

How is it that a major studio film — one in which marks the first time these legendary characters meet / fight / team - up onscreen in a live - action feature — that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, has been in the planning stages for years, and is the catalyst for their own shared universe of interconnected films doesn't seem to know one thing about its title characters outside of names and costumes?

Back when the studio was still in its infancy, it was still slowly working towards creating a cohesive universe where characters could pop from one film to the next, culminating in the formation of the Avengers.

At the film's Los Angeles press day, Woodley talked about how Jennifer Lawrence encouraged her to take the role, what she shares in common with her character and how they differ, what inspired her to take a course in urban survival skills, what the experience was like doing many of her own stunts, her most memorable sweaty palm moments, zip - lining over the streets of Chicago and climbing the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel, her challenging fight sequence finale with Theo James, working again with Miles Teller, and what she learned about herself in the process of making her first large scale studio movie.

While «Avengers: Infinity War» has been 10 years in the making, selecting the greatest ensemble of Super Hero characters for the film fell squarely into the laps of directors Anthony and Joe Russo, who were tapped by Kevin Feige to helm the studio's biggest film to date.

The popular character will appear in a yet - to - be-confirmed Marvel film after the studio struck a deal with Sony Pictures.

«The studio have asked me to think about writing a sequel and it is one of the ones that I might do a sequel to because I think there's somewhere more to go with it in terms of the characters,» Edgar said during an interview with Empire «s film podcast.

Case in point, the studio has recreated a collection of classic movie posters for the film, using the characters» avatars instead...

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

The erotic fascination underlying all this is constantly visible in the way that Piñeiro and DP Fernando Lockett film faces, often in long gliding takes that move seamlessly from wide shot to close - up — see the radio studio scenes in The Princess of France and the extended scene in Viola in which the camera hunkers down between three characters talking in a car at very close quarters.

From the very beginning, Doctor Strange felt like an outlier in the interconnected men - in - capes world of Marvel Comics, though the character's debut in the equally dense Marvel Cinematic Universe follows the company's film - studio formula closely: Doctor Strange is an origin story, a love story, a framework for vintage pop songs and huge action set - pieces.

Hopefully this film will earn Pixar enough goodwill to see them through next year's Cars 3 — a franchise which may make the studio a huge amount of money in merchandise, but which can't claim to have particularly endearing characters.

While its presence in the studio's films is played up largely for laughs and character work, the Walkman and the music held on its cassettes have profoundly shaped the look and feel of the movies.

Back in 2000 the Walt Disney Company's consumer products division struck gold when it launched the Disney Princess franchise, packaging classic characters from the studio's animated films into an array of dolls, games, and other products; sales for this year alone are projected at $ 4 billion.

What I find most impressive is the confidence the studio is showing in you by already planning for your character, Cyborg, to have his own stand alone film in a few years.

Lloyd ventures that the island is a character and points out that a lot of the film was shot in a studio.

and included a heap more characters, as well as plot points, and that rubbed the studio — always keen to fit in as many sessions of a film a day it can — up the wrong way.

With the film hitting the theatres this summer in the UK, the studio has released an extended TV Spot called «One Family», which introduces us to all the main characters in the movie.

Deakins showers most of the film's scenes in gold color schemes, which smartly function as a literal visual metaphor to the film's Golden Age Hollywood setting, especially in terms of the grand studio sets that introduce the professional work of several key actor characters.

In response, the advocacy group is asking studios to have 20 % of major studio releases include LGBTQ characters by 2021, with 50 % of films including such characters by 2024.

GLAAD's annual study assessing inclusion in films of 2017 found an «alarming drop» in LGBTQ characters in last year's major studio releases.

The assumption, with Larson's casting, is that the studio would likely sign her on for a multi-film deal, with her character potentially making a cameo in another Marvel film prior to Captain Marvel «s release.

The film the studio held back in development hell for years based on a character it forcefully ruined in X-Men Origins: Wolverine has become the studio's most lucrative superhero.

The studio did release a surprise today, though, in the form of a behind - the - scenes featurette, which provides us with a first look at the character Riley in whose head much of the film will take place.

The dataset is from IMDB and contains the year, title, names of the characters, actors, and actresses from 3 million films during the time period of 1894 to 2026 (films in future years are ones that have been announced by production studios or are currently in production and slated for a future release date).

Playing all the characters in the films herself, while working directly on every detail of post-production, Maclean's creative process involves studio based green - screen techniques, custom prosthetics, costume, and voice actors.

In the film, characters are played mainly by non-professional actors, and it is set in an artist's studiIn the film, characters are played mainly by non-professional actors, and it is set in an artist's studiin an artist's studio.

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