Sentences with phrase «commercial hit film»

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Part of the performance leap required for a commercial version could be covered by new generations of more efficient lasers already hitting the market, but the film still needs to be several times more sensitive.

Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris have directed only one feature film, but it was a surprise critical and commercial hit: Little Miss Sunshine 80.

I imagine some folks at Marvel were worried if moviegoers would accept a miniature crime fighter with such a refreshingly uncool name — and the bizarre power of commanding ants — but the film was a critical and commercial hit, especially overseas.

Why It Could Fail: This does ultimately seem like more of a film looking to be a commercial hit than an awards juggernaut.

Otto Preminger's 1960 film version of Leon Uris's Exodus - about the founding of the state of Israel after the second world war - wasn't quite the critical hit its makers probably hoped for, but was certainly a commercial one and received a few awards too - including an Oscar for its music, by Ernest Gold.

Bob & Carol was Mazursky's first ever film, and was a critical and commercial hit.

Throughout the early 1980s, he appeared in commercials (including one for Coca - Cola), short films including the NFB drama One Step Away and stage work such as Brad Fraser's cult hit Wolf Boy in Toronto.

Other films meriting mention include Robert Altman «s final picture, «A Prairie Home Companion ``; Mel Gibson «s Aztec - thriller, «Apocalypto ``; Tom Tykwer «s kinetic (perhaps too kinetic) «Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ``; John Cameron Mitchell «s low - budget erotica,» Shortbus ``; Richard Linklater's live - action rotoscoped Philip K. Dick adaptation «A Scanner Darkly ``; Spike Lee «s biggest commercial hit, the entertaining heist film, «Inside Man ``; Michael Mann «s flawed, but interesting «Miami Vice ``; Bryan Singer «s unfairly maligned «Superman Returns; «Nicole Holofcener «s wryly observational «Friends with Money,» the over-estimated, but enlivening horror «The Descent,» and «13 Tzameti.»

When: June 22nd Why: Woody Allen may be coming off the biggest commercial success of his career with «Midnight in Paris» (a film that also netted him another Oscar for Best Original Screenplay), but unfortunately, that can only be seen as bad news for his next European adventure, because Allen hasn't had back - to - back hits in over a decade.

But an awards ceremony honoring 2017 films that doesn't give anything to Get Out, a critical and commercial hit of piercing relevance — and doesn't even nominate Jordan Peele's screenplay or his sterling (debut!)

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The film also boasts some great supporting performances from Willem Dafoe as Wick's friend / fellow hit man Marcus; Ian McShane as Winston, the de facto head of the New York assassins» guild; Adrianne Palicki as a rival assassin and Dean Winters, who steps out from his All State Mayhem commercials in a fun role as Viggo's right - hand man, Avi.

Though it received mixed reviews, the film still turned out to be a commercial hit.

Trailers: Super Bowl Special: Sure, the Super Bowl is still underway, but just about all of the commercials from the film industry hit the web way before the big game, or at least commercial teasers.

Anderson is one of the most amazing filmmakers around, but his recent films have not had the commercial success they've deserved and this is yet another gem like Inherent Vice, The Master and his last film with Lewis, the modern hit There Will Be Blood.

Director Doug Liman has helmed some massive hits (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith), but in 2014 is by no means a hot property, with his latest film (2010's Fair Game) well - liked by critics but a commercial flop.

The next year he'd star in Three Men and a Baby, the top - grossing film of the year, in addition to Police Academy 4, and the year before he starred in the critical and commercial hit Cocoon, where his costars were people like Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, not the guy who makes all the crazy noises with his mouth.

Aside from that pretty wonderful holiday short film / commercial released last month, things have been pretty quiet for director Wes Anderson in the wake of 2014's The Grand Budapest Hotel, which was a critical darling, a box office hit, a genuine Oscar contender, and very much the best movie released that year.

After the disastrous «Exorcist II», original «Exorcist» author William Peter Blatty came on board to both write and direct this entry, setting the series back on course with dazzling visual panache, even if the film wasn't a commercial hit.

Amazon Studios will reportedly scale back its funding of indie films, shifting its programming strategy to favor commercial hits.

A commercial and critical hit, the film posed the question what might happen if an alien virus really was brought back to Earth?

They emerged from the 1970s with classic films to their names, works that defined and altered the ways movies were made and watched; they remained figgureheads of the American industry for four decades, delivering critical and / or commercial hits again and again.

Amplifying the film's commercial disappointment are Lionsgate's extremely rapid DVD and Blu - ray releases, hitting stores Tuesday barely a month after the film opened in 25th place.

Since then, however, the film's critical and commercial prospects have taken a decisive hit, from presumed Oscar frontrunner to borderline cinematic pariah.

Director Jeff Nichols might be unfamiliar to mainstream audiences, and his previous films Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter weren't huge commercial hits, but they've fared extremely well in critical circles.

Its most recent reincarnation, Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book, is both a commercial hit and a relative critical success, as have been some of the films that have come before it, like Maleficent and Cinderella.

The festival's second prize went to a film that already is something of a commercial hit in Los Angeles and New York: John Sayles» «The Return of the Secaucus Seven», a funny melodrama about a group of friends who were young political activists in the late 1960s and hold a reunion 10 years after the end of that idealistic decade.

Many of their films have become cult hits, if not big commercial successes, but the Rough Team isn't aiming for surefire bets.

A friend recalls that when Paul Thomas Anderson's 2014 film Inherent Vice was to be shown to the media for the first time during the New York Film Festival, hacks were camping out in lawn chairs overnight to be assured a seat in the theater — for a film that, when it hit commercial movie theaters a few weeks later, turned out to be a tiresome dud.

Director Shane Meadows Cast Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley He's got some Front You could hear the British film industry breathe a collective sigh of relief when writer - director Shane Meadows got the breakthrough hit he so richly deserved after much critical but little commercial success with his previous films.

The «Hurricane Katrina» commercial was filmed at Daniel's South Beach Restaurant in Bay St. Louis, Miss., one of the hardest hit communities in the gulf region.