Not exact matches
While Fandango did not release specific figures for Black Panther «s
first day
of advance ticket sales, the
film's fast start should put it on the path toward a blockbuster box - office
debut next month.
First thing next month (Friday January 2) will be the primetime
debut of a
film that has been making the «under the radar» rounds
of women and
film festivals since May.
As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid
of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the
film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable
debuts for
first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling
film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.
Bacall exudes a lot
of magnetism and sensuality in her
debut on the screen, a decent sort -
of - rip - off
of Casablanca - based on Hemingway and co-written by William Faulkner no less - that relies on a strong chemistry between her and Bogart in their
first of four
films together.
The
first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director
of London's Almeida Theatre, the
film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen
debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.
Below, we recap the reactions from critics to the major
films screening at this year's Telluride, Venice, and Toronto International Film Festivals, considered the most prestigious events
of the season and the locales where many future Oscar nominees
first debut.
He made his stage
debut in the
first decade
of the 20th century and his
first film in 1911.
The
film, which was inspired by Denis» own experiences in Africa and those
of working amongst the stark Southwest landscapes
of Paris, Texas, proved to be a very auspicious
debut, screening at Cannes that year and earning both a Golden Palm nomination and a César nomination for Best New Director.Denis followed her
debut the next year with Man No Run, a documentary about Les Têtes Brulées («the Flaming Heads»), a Cameroon band on their
first French tour.
For Paul Reubens, it would mark the big screen
debut of his character Pee - Wee Herman; for Tim Burton, it would mark his feature
film directing
debut; while for Danny Elfman, it would mark the creation
of his
first Hollywood
film score.
After the release
of his
debut album Teenage Emotions last week, Lil Yachty has dropped a new single which appears on the original motion picture soundtrack for the new Dreamworks Animation and 20th Century Fox
film, Captain Underpants: The
First Epic Movie — out today.
As his English - language
debut and
first time working with Hollywood actors, The Lobster marks the beginning
of a new chapter for Yorgos, whose previous
films (My Best Friend, Kinetta, the Academy Award — nominated Dogtooth, and Alps) were each made in Greece on an extremely modest budget with a crew made up
of Yorgos's friends.
Hayley Atwell «s Agent Peggy Carter was such a scene - stealing standout in Captain America: The
First Avenger, she went from a supporting character in Captain America's
debut film to a One Shot subject to the lead
of her own TV show, Agent Carter (not to mention the fact that her cinematic arc was only just wrapped up in Captain America: Civil War).
Ahead
of a limited release in the States next month, Warner Bros. has
debuted a new banner for Paul Thomas Anderson's (The Master) new
film Inherent Vice, which we have for you here... SEE ALSO:
First poster and trailer for Inherent Vice Inherent Vice is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first -LSB
First poster and trailer for Inherent Vice Inherent Vice is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the
first -LSB
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The
first red - band trailer for the sequel Kick - Ass 2
debut this morning, and now Universal has released a batch
of high - resolution images and the
first poster for the
film.
After the premiere screening at Sundance
of his wonderful debut feature «Kings Of Summer,» director Jordan Vogt - Roberts — responsible for the short «Successful Alcoholics» and a veteran of «Funny Or Die Presents...» — told the audience his influences for his first feature included early Amblin films like «The Goonies» with «elements of [Terrence] Malick,» and most surprisingly, «Bad Boys II.&raqu
of his wonderful
debut feature «Kings
Of Summer,» director Jordan Vogt - Roberts — responsible for the short «Successful Alcoholics» and a veteran of «Funny Or Die Presents...» — told the audience his influences for his first feature included early Amblin films like «The Goonies» with «elements of [Terrence] Malick,» and most surprisingly, «Bad Boys II.&raqu
Of Summer,» director Jordan Vogt - Roberts — responsible for the short «Successful Alcoholics» and a veteran
of «Funny Or Die Presents...» — told the audience his influences for his first feature included early Amblin films like «The Goonies» with «elements of [Terrence] Malick,» and most surprisingly, «Bad Boys II.&raqu
of «Funny Or Die Presents...» — told the audience his influences for his
first feature included early Amblin
films like «The Goonies» with «elements
of [Terrence] Malick,» and most surprisingly, «Bad Boys II.&raqu
of [Terrence] Malick,» and most surprisingly, «Bad Boys II.»
Ahead
of its release next month, Warner Bros. has
debuted a new interactive poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming
film Inherent Vice, which offers up some information on the characters featured in the Thomas Pynchon adaptation... SEE ALSO:
First poster and trailer for Inherent Vice Inherent Vice is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson -LSB-...]
By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Much like «Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol,» which marks the feature -
film debut of animator Brad Bird, we're predominantly interested in next year's «John Carter» because it's the
first live - action effort from Andrew Stanton, the genius brain behind Pixar's masterpieces «Finding Nemo» and «WALL - E.»
Cut to this past Sunday and the saga continued its tradition
of disrupting traditional release patterns once again, not simply
debuting the
first trailer in the middle
of the Super Bowl, but by making the
film available to watch almost immediately on Netflix.
The Founder, the new
film from John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) which chronicles the rise
of the McDonald's fast food empire and its founder Ray Kroc, has a
first poster to
debut.
Kaluuya, who is hotly anticipated to be nominated for his
first ever Oscar for his performance in Get Out, saw his director Jordan Peele win Best Directorial
Debut for the satirical horror, which was also named among NBR's top 10
films of the year.
It's not as narratively or emotionally fluent as Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios» breakout
debut Güeros (2014), another Berlinale
debut which won the prize for best
first film that year, but looks and sounds just as gorgeous, AND it has the same kind
of melancholic charm to it.
Boogie Nights (1997), Paul Thomas Anderson's
first fully formed
film after the frustration and battles
of his
debut feature Hard Eight (1996), was...
The
first of three tremendous directorial
debuts on this list, Jennifer Kent «s The Babadook is the best horror
film of the year, and a solid emotional drama even beyond it's terrifying nature.
Lionsgate has
debuted the
first trailer for director Susanna Fogel's upcoming action comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me which sees Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon leading a cast that includes Justin Theroux, Sam Heughan, Gillian Anderson, and Hasan Minhaj; check it out here... The
film tells the story
of Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), thirty - year - old -LSB-...]
Although Anderson is a veteran
of music videos for artists like Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann and, most recently, Joanna Newsom, Junun marks both his
first music documentary and
debut documentary
film in general.
The 35 - year - old Oscar - winning actress
debuted her baby bump earlier in the night at the premiere
of the
film and revealed to the world that she's pregnant with her
first child.
We'll be seeing Saoirse again in January when director Josie Rourke's
debut film for Working Title, Mary, Queen
Of Scots, opens (though it will most likely play the autumn
film festivals
first).
Nyong» o (who made her feature
film debut with this movie, never mind being a
first - time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy
of Film and Television Arts prize.
No one at the end
of 1917 was debating whether the directing
debut of John Ford or the
first appearance
of Vittorio de Sica augured longer careers to come (in fact, both would be making
films for the next five - plus decades) or weighing the industry impact
of Mary Pickford's box - office smash Rebecca
of Sunnybrook Farm or (to the point
of my own research) speculating about the future
of slapstick star Roscoe «Fatty» Arbuckle's new sidekick, a vaudeville refugee named Buster Keaton.
No cast yet (and good luck strying ot out Stockard / Olivia / John) but it's aiming for 2015 Serious
Film my friend Michael liked Match, the Tribeca
film starring Patrick Stewart I reviewed yesterday, a helluva lot more than me so it's worth sharing an opposing opinion
First Showing footage from Russell Crowe's directorial
debut, The Water Diviner Empire the WB triples down on director Zach Snyder giving in both the Man
of Steel sequel and the Justice League movie (but why?
For the
first time in his career, he's made a
film that feels loose, free from the strained serious grasps at artistry that have plagued his career from the beginning, ranging from endearingly awkward in his
debut, 1995's Kicking and Screaming to really kind
of irritating in what nonetheless remains his most critically successful
film, The Squid and the Whale.
That
film is poised to grab many other nominations and a
first look
of it in its 3D, 4K, 120 fps glory is set to
debut next week at NAB Show's Future
of Cinema Conference in Las Vegas.
Fox Searchlight has
debuted the
first official trailer on Apple for the Sundance hit Martha Marcy May Marlene, which many
of my friends and colleagues referred to as their favorite
film of the 2011 Sundance
Film Festival.
First time director, Sam Esmail, may not have picked especially uncharted territory for his directorial
debut Comet, which focuses on the rocky relationship
of an oddly paired couple, but his storytelling technique reflects the perspective
of an enlightened and astute new addition to the
film scene.
His achievement marked the
first time in Cinema Eye history that a
debut film was awarded the title
of outstanding direction.
The Toronto International Film Festival announced its
first wave
of gala premieres and special presentations this week and as we've seen over the past decade it was a coded reveal
of where some
of the more anticipated
films of the fall season will
debut.
Following the
debut of its
first official trailer, Disney Pixar releases another animated short for its new
film Coco.
Summer camp was an exhausted genre when the
film first debuted; now it's as relevant as a spoof
of 1950s monster movies.
Misher's previous credits include It's Kind
of a Funny Story and The Scorpion King, while Muschietti is coming off his feature directorial
debut with Mama (after
first directing a short
film of the same name).
Andrew Stanton, a writer on Pixar's
first five hit
films, the director
of the biggest
of those hits (Finding Nemo) and a Burroughs fan from childhood, successfully pitched the project at Disney, which would become his live - action directing
debut.
A year after reissuing it on DVD in an apparently barebones platter, Echo Bridge gave the
film its Blu - ray
debut, initially as a Best Buy exclusive in January but one that moves to general retail on the
first Tuesday
of May.
The five
films in this eccentric collection are the hipster youth generation satire Getting Straight with Elliot Gould; the Jeff Goldblum psychics - on - the - run comedy Vibes (notable as the feature
debut of Cindi «She - Bop» Lauper); Stephen Frears»
first film Gumshoe with Albert Finney; and the
first - ever home video releases
of Arch Oboler's 1951 end -
of - the - world drama Five and Carol Reed's 1959 spy satire Our Man in Havana.
Disney makes the kind
of superhero
films that Captain America himself, whose
first film debuted just before the 10th anniversary
of 9/11, would watch and enjoy.
After growing up in the political tumult
of France in the sixties and seventies, Assayas followed a path similar to the one traveled by several titans
of the French New Wave,
first working as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma, then moving on to
film projects, including collaborations with André Téchiné and his own feature directorial
debut, the 1986 Disorder.
It's her Oscar - nominated
debut as a standalone director, but not her
first rodeo: on top
of the starring roles she took in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha (2012) and Mistress America (2015), she wrote those
films with him, and collaborated early in her career on several shoestring productions by Joe Swanberg.
Now comes A Kind
of Murder, from
first - time screenwriter Susan Boyd and veteran television director Andy Goddard (Downton Abbey), whose
debut feature
film, Set Fire to the Stars, came out in 2014.
Of the six features on this set, all but Playtime make their respective American Blu - ray debuts and two appear on disc for the first time in the U.S.. From his debut feature Jour de Fête (1949) to the birth of both M. Hulot and the distinctive Tati directorial approach in his brilliant and loving Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) through the sublime Playtime (1967) to his post-script feature Parade (1974), this set presents the development of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his films like works of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personalit
Of the six features on this set, all but Playtime make their respective American Blu - ray
debuts and two appear on disc for the
first time in the U.S.. From his
debut feature Jour de Fête (1949) to the birth
of both M. Hulot and the distinctive Tati directorial approach in his brilliant and loving Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) through the sublime Playtime (1967) to his post-script feature Parade (1974), this set presents the development of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his films like works of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personalit
of both M. Hulot and the distinctive Tati directorial approach in his brilliant and loving Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) through the sublime Playtime (1967) to his post-script feature Parade (1974), this set presents the development
of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his films like works of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personalit
of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his
films like works
of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personalit
of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines
of personalit
of personality.
Many
of the rules that Jamie Kennedy jokes about in «Scream» came to being here — both Annie (Nancy Loomis, oxford and undies) and Lynda (P.J. Soles, «totally» topless, also in «Carrie») are sexually active and ultimately die, and Lynda's boyfriend Bob may be the
first on record to say «I'll be right back» and not make it back — but there are also some classic hair raising quick - take shots
of Michael Meyers across a street, in the backyard, and especially the one
of him rising in the background after Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis, in her feature
film debut) thinks she's killed him once and for all.
On the heels
of this morning's announcement that Terrence Malick's Knight
of Cups will have its world premiere at the Berlin International
Film Festival in February, FilmNation Entertainment has
debuted the
film's
first trailer.
Boogie Nights (1997), Paul Thomas Anderson's
first fully formed
film after the frustration and battles
of his
debut feature Hard Eight (1996), was conceived when he was 17 years old.