It was easily my favourite year for movies overall since I started this blog, because for the first time ever there were so many high quality films from which to choose that I could genuinely ignore all those awkward
early year films that technically count as 2013 movies in the United States.
Earlier this year his film, Birth of a Nation, made impact at Sundance Film Festival 2016, sending shockwaves throughout the world with his riveting performance leading to many accolades at the film festival.
Not exact matches
Revenue from Viacom «s
film business increased 24 % to $ 758 million in the quarter from a
year earlier.
«The reality is that
film doesn't matter nearly as much to the stocks of media conglomerates as it previously had,» wrote Barclays Capital analysts Anthony DiClemente and George Hawkey in a report
earlier this
year.
The dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won big at the Golden Globes
earlier this
year, but the
film has also seen a sustained backlash from critics over its questionable ending and a perceived failure in fleshing out the movie's non-white characters.
I wrote about the power of «no»
earlier this
year, when über - successful
film star Tom Hanks expressed similar sentiments.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this
year's top - grossing
film so far, came out in
early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014
films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all
films had last
year at this point.
In the
film Snowden, released
earlier this
year, Woodley plays Lindsay Mills, girlfriend of the former National Security Agency contractor, who leaked details about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs and was granted asylum in Russia after fleeing the United States in 2013.
Parker faces renewed criticism after details of his 2001 trial on charges of raping a college classmate resurfaced
earlier this week, and it was disclosed that the 18 -
year - old woman who accused Parker and the
film's co-writer, Jean Celestin, of raping her had committed suicide in 2012.
For example,
earlier this
year organizers of the South by Southwest music,
film and technology conference used Telemetry to monitor foot traffic and see in real time where bodies were aggregating and which venues were most popular.
Like Netflix, Amazon (AMZN) is looking to get into the movie production game, promising
earlier this
year to eventually churn out around a dozen independent
films — with budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million — every
year.
Natalie Molnar set up the petition
earlier this
year after it was revealed that the 1998 Disney animated
film will be remade by Sony.
IMDB In anticipation of breaking into online video, Amazon bought the
film and TV database company, started as a pet project eight
years earlier by a U.K. - based cinephile computer programmer who continued running the company under Bezos.
Eastman Kodak, the 131 -
year - old
film pioneer that has been struggling for
years to adapt to an increasingly digital world, filed for bankruptcy protection
early on Thursday.
We first alerted you to the project
early in 2010, when it was thought that the
film may actually be released that
year; but it wasn't.
Already the media industry is turning fast to streaming as a way to combat cord - cutting trends and find additional revenues - Disney (DIS) launched ESPN +
earlier this month, and plans to follow up with a streaming service for its feature
films sometime in the coming
year.
The company often invests in projects that could take
years to come to fruition — it's currently benefiting from
early investments of
films for smartphones — but when those bets start paying off 3M's investors often reap the benefits.
Among the materials they sought were communications between the two men about efforts to tamp down negative publicity about Trump during the campaign and details about a payment Cohen made to an adult -
film star who alleged she had a sexual relationship with Trump
years earlier.
Earlier this
year, Cypress - Medicine Hat UCP MLA Drew Barnes helped fund a
film promoting climate science skepticism.
Any doubts of whether the 34 -
year - old was ready to handle directing solo — a role that often comes much later in the
film industry — have been silenced by
early buzz around the
film mixed with Lady Bird's current score of 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The show will begin
filming early next
year as a four - part miniseries.
In the
early part of last
year, McLaren allowed Amazon Prime go behind the scenes and
film a documentary on the team's 2017 season.
Maybe their coaches were able to scheme around deficiencies
early in the
year, but those deficiencies became apparent once opposing coaches got a lot of
film on the teams in the West and came up with schematic counters (Mississippi State had given up five - plus rushing yards per carry to the unconventional Texas A&M, Auburn, and Ole Miss offenses before facing Georgia Tech's).
In truth, this news should come as no great surprise, considering Fury was
filmed singing about «sniffing gear» with a group of England football fans
earlier this
year.
(Luke and I both remember having to watch these
films every
year in school from Kindergarten through 3rd grade — late 60's,
early 70's).
The Tory veteran was
filmed earlier this
year making disobliging comments about four top Tories, apparently unaware that the camera was rolling.
Adult
film star Stormy Daniels, who is alleging she had an affair with Trump during the
early days of his marriage to first lady Melania Trump, has no plans to attend this
year's White House Correspondents» Dinner.
Romine, who was among numerous speakers opposing «Smart Meters» at the County Legislature's October meeting and is credited by Gregorius with supplying helpful information including, at his own expense, DVD copies of the Take Back Your Power smart meter expose
film released
earlier this
year.
Earlier this
year, he was
filmed calling Theresa May «a bloody difficult woman» and declaring that Andrea Leadsom had been saying «extremely stupid things».
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -
Film executives, including «Breaking Bad» actor Giancarlo Esposito, are starting to scout locations in Central New York after the announcement
earlier this
year of the new
film technology hub to be built in DeWitt.
Earlier this
year the backbencher denied likening the coalition to the gay cowboy
film Brokeback Mountain when it was reported he had been overheard making the comparison in a London bar.
Coss, who taught drawing classes
early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and
film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000
years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.
But when a Second Lifer who calls himself Nimrod Yaffle tried to log in to the community
earlier his
year, he discovered his avatar had been sequestered in a surreal, isolated landscape: infinite rows of corn, spread out under a dark sky, with nothing else in sight except a small red tractor and a black - and - white television set playing the 1940
film Boy in Court.
The
film was released
early this
year and has inspired thousands of people to go vegan.
Arguably one of the most influential actors during the
early years of
film, Charlie Chaplin was no stranger to being told he would never accomplish anything.
Earlier this
year a 6 minute clip from that
film started circulating around social media and I was reminded of its brilliance.
A software engineer by profession but looking to get into
film school
early next
year..
After the mid»40s he played character roles, appearing in
films every few
years until the
early»70s.
Although allegedly located in the wheat - growing area of World War I Texas in the
early part of the 20th century, the
film was shot on location in Alberta, Canada over a two -
year period.
While «Other People» begins with a big moment — daringly, THE big moment — then flashes back to a
year earlier, the
film is more interested in the mundane ways the characters relate to each other and in the minutiae of their lives.
Rodgers and Hammerstein returned to Hollywood in 1955 with their own production company, overseeing the movie adaptations of Oklahoma (1955) and South Pacific (1958); three
years earlier, R and H played cameo roles in the New York -
filmed Main Street to Broadway, for which they contributed one forgettable number.
This
film chronicles Carlito's
early years, and as the name suggests, his rise to power.
We know, however, that the Captain Marvel in these
films is Carol Danvers, a cosmically powered hero who will be played by Brie Larson in a solo movie
early next
year, before Avengers 4 drops.
However, Bill taking up with a barnstorming aerial circus always reminds me, bizarrely, of a movie released three
years earlier: George Roy Hill's The Great Waldo Pepper, one of the most utterly forgotten
films of 1970s Hollywood.
Early on in the
film, he sustains the plot build - up with a series of innovative sequences that look great even thirty
years later.
A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the
year's
early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the
film).
Set in an unnamed South American country, the
film centers around Paulina Escobar (Weaver), a woman who, 15
years earlier, was tortured and raped by the since - deposed governmental regime.
In
films from 1921 through 1952, white - maned American character actor Erville Alderson was most closely associated with D.W. Griffith in his
early movie
years.
An Argentine native who spent her formative
years exiled to Spain, Cecilia Roth was a regular in Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's
early films and a star in Argentina long before she became an international critics» darling as the title character in Almodóvar's Oscar - winner All About My Mother (1999).
Miles ahead of the average teen
film, Flirting is a most agreeable sequel to John Duigan's
earlier pic The
Year My Voice Broke.