Warner Bros. allegedly obtained the rights to the story from the Perron family,
a family featured in the film.
What makes the case worse is that although Warner Bros. obtained the rights to the story from the Perron family —
the family featured in the film — Sutcliffe did not even know about the film's existence until a friend mentioned it was in production.
Not exact matches
Not only does the
feature have a good deal of franchise history behind it, but it also has the same advantage that all
family films have,
in that kids going to see the
film will be dragging along their parents, ensuring extra ticket sales.
Last month, Ms. Powell Jobs and Mr. Guggenheim traveled to Washington with several young immigrants and their
families who were
featured in the
film; the purpose of the trip was to screen the documentary for a group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
«Soul Surfer,» the
feature film based on the true story of surfer Bethany Hamilton being attacked by a shark and her journey back to surfing, opened last weekend
in the fourth spot on the box office charts - partly a testament to its appealing
family - friendly message and a marketing campaign that heavily targeted religious groups.
Capturing three generations
in the one picture by taking a photo that
features a grandmother, daughter and granddaughter for example, makes the age difference become quite clear and
in doing so, creates a wonderful
family memory on
film.
The DVD bonus
feature also brings us up to date on the
families in the
film.
Kathy's company also produced Lost
in Africa, a
family feature film distributed by Columbia Pictures internationally.
By Brandy black Raising kids
in a modern
family with two moms, it is often difficult — okay, near impossible — to find children's TV programs or
films that
feature families like ours.
Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the
feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and
featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette
in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper
family film Holes.
Other previous projects include NBC's medical drama TRAUMA, Millennium Films» PRIVATE VALENTINE, opposite Jessica Simpson,
FAMILY GUY, and GARY UNMARRIED with Jay Mohr, Adam Sandler's SPANGLISH, Sony's LIES & ALIBIS, starring John Leguizamo, DIRTY, opposite Cuba Gooding Jr., DRAGON WARS, the highest - grossing
film in South Korea's history, and the Lionsgate
feature, GO FOR IT!
A vengeful ghost, a mysterious killer, and a
family where everyone has a secret converge
in one night of terror
in this remake of Francis Ford Coppola's first
feature film.
The
film features some of the earliest screen appearances of Emmy - nominated sitcom veteran Ed O'Neill («Married... With Children», «Modern
Family»), playing a mercenary reluctant to go on the mission, and a young Jim Broadbent, who is lowly credited but instantly recognizable
in a brief background role.
At the same time, DreamWorks still has yet to make a
film to put them on a par with Pixar
in terms of being able to make animated
family films that will last the test of time as classics
in their genre, rather than populist
features that work primarily
in the here and now.
Sony Pictures Animation,
in conjunction with Aardman Animations, has produced two critically acclaimed
feature films: the CG - animated
family comedy Arthur Christmas (3D); and the stop - frame animated high - seas adventure, The Pirates!
Actor Jason Segel («How I Met Your Mother»), seemingly noticing the rash retirement forced onto The Muppets back
in 1999 (when their last
feature film, the slipshod «Muppets from Space», was released) and the lack of good old
family humour and fozzie fuzzy, pitched a relaunch of the
film franchise to Disney (who now have the rights to the characters).
Theo Taplitz,
in a remarkably mature, nuanced
feature film debut, plays Jake, an introverted thirteen - year - old with dreams of being an artist who moves with this
family from Manhattan to Brooklyn when his father inherits an apartment and a storefront there.
Other
films that
feature families reuniting are Evelyn and Down
in the Delta.
Director Fabien Constant,
in his narrative
feature debut, finds a momentum
in that knowledge that propels the
film forward, as Vivienne explores her fate (while never disclosing it)
in encounters with friends,
family and strangers.
These most recent four animated
features are once again true «
family films,»
in that they entertain adults as well as children.
Fox issued the
film on disc
in December of 2002, but as is not uncommon for
family films, it was treated with little regard, receiving a fullscreen and dubbed - only presentation and being accompanied by no bonus
features.
«Coco,» the Disney - Pixar
film celebrating
family and the Day of the Dead tradition
in Mexico, earned the award for animated
feature.
There are several special
features, one of which details the real life
family who inhabited the house the Perron's buy
in the
film.
In addition, Dennis has one of the steadiest hands to ever operate a camcorder and «he» gives us unbelievably clear access to candid
family life, at least as edited by whoever it is that's supposed to have found and compiled these weeks of footage into standard
feature film length.
Particularly notable are the obsession with technology and surveillance from Benny's Video, here updated from VHS to smartphones and the Internet; the racial suspicion of Code Unknown; the revenge nightmare from Hidden; the euthanasia theme from Amour (which also
featured Trintignant and Huppert as father and daughter, suggesting a sequel of sorts), as well as more general themes of
family dysfunction and the obliviousness of the well - to - do towards immigrants — it's no coincidence that the
film takes place
in Calais, yet never once shows the Migrant Jungle.
The first standalone
feature film for the character, Black Panther will take place
in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, as the royal Wakandan
family politics is under threat.
Disney's latest Pixar
film, Coco, may
feature gorgeous visuals and shambling skeletons, but as shown
in the final trailer for the upcoming
film, the heart of Coco is
family.
In the
feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing
films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another
film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000
family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his
feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular
film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.
His sophomore
feature Boogie Nights (1997), about the adult
film industry
in the late 1970s (partially inspired by the life of porno star John Holmes) is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking
family, with Burt Reynolds as a quiet but firm director Dad and Julianne Moore as the porn star surrogate mother to the company's teen stars Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), the «natural» from the suburbs who is quickly recruited.
As a
family drama, The Black Balloon is a strong
feature, though I am getting slightly tired of the genre's preponderance
in the Australian
film industry.
A much better rare treat was the definitive British
film noir «It Always Rains on Sunday,» (1947, Robert Hamer), set
in London's East End,
featuring a Jewish
family and starring John McCallum as prison escapee Tommy Swann and tough yet oddly dainty Googie Withers as his ex-gf.
Very much a kitchen - sink drama — the
family kitchen is the dramatic hub for much of the
film — shot
in a more or less documentary style and
featuring terrific performances by nonprofessionals, the
film takes a no - frills dramatic approach that could be roughly located on a Cassavetes - Dardennes spectrum, and uses it to intensely revealing and moving effect.
In addition to his stupefying output (180 feature films, 70 in his native Hungary and 110 in Hollywood) he lived and breathed moviemaking, to the detriment of his family and the despair of many coworkers who considered him a brut
In addition to his stupefying output (180
feature films, 70
in his native Hungary and 110 in Hollywood) he lived and breathed moviemaking, to the detriment of his family and the despair of many coworkers who considered him a brut
in his native Hungary and 110
in Hollywood) he lived and breathed moviemaking, to the detriment of his family and the despair of many coworkers who considered him a brut
in Hollywood) he lived and breathed moviemaking, to the detriment of his
family and the despair of many coworkers who considered him a brute.
Lee's production company, Lee Daniels Entertainment, made its
feature film debut
in 2001 with Monster's Ball, the dysfunctional
family drama for which Halle Berry would earn her historic, Best Actress Oscar.
Other titles
in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE
IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
IN A HOLE, about a couple living
in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first
feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of
family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift
family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity
in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay
film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN —
IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father
in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu
in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.
Certainly, his latest
film exhibits many of his most characteristic
features: an early static shot of a concert audience once again emphasises spectatorship as a primary concern; we meet, as so often, a bourgeois
family about to experience severe suffering; Emmanuelle Riva follows Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche and Naomi Watts
in giving an extraordinary performance
in response to psychological terror; and violence, with its attendant guilt, comes as a shocking intrusion into this world.
Just this evening at the San Diego Comic - Con I caught up with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (review) helmer Troy Nixey, who made his
feature - length directing debut with the
film, a remake of the 1973 made - for - TV movie of the same name about a
family that discovers murderous tiny creatures living
in the basement of their new home.
Again directed by James Wan («Furious 7,» «Saw»), the followup
film features returning stars Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as they come to the aid of a single mother
in London whose
family is haunted by evil spirits.
The
feature films nominated for Best Film this year are «Frank» which gives an insight into the weird and wonderful world of the enigmatic musician; the gritty urban
family drama of «Glassland»; the raw, moving and honest «I Used to Live Here»; the feel good true - life story of «Noble»; the poignant and sensitive exploration of mental health
in «Patrick's Day», and the beautiful Irish animated fantasy «Song of the Sea»; Three of the Best
Films also get nominations for Best Director; Lenny Abrahamson for «Frank»; Gerard Barrett «Glassland» and Terry McMahon for «Patrick's Day», with John Carney also
in that category for the musical drama «Begin Again».
The Academy has regularly nominated international works with minimal commercial prospects for Best Animated
Feature, but since Miyazaki's Spirited Away won
in 2002 - 03, the actual award has almost exclusively gone to computer - animated,
family - friendly American
films with nine or even ten - figure domestic grosses.
Bill Taylor's
feature film debut Don't Get Killed
In Alaska is an intriguing melodrama that depicts a young woman's attempt to carve out her own path in life and make amends with her fragmented family member
In Alaska is an intriguing melodrama that depicts a young woman's attempt to carve out her own path
in life and make amends with her fragmented family member
in life and make amends with her fragmented
family members.
The reclusive American
film - maker is expected
in town to promote The Tree of Life, an intergenerational
family saga that is only his fifth
feature in 40 years.
Durkin's first
film since the critically - acclaimed drama Martha Marcy May Marlene will
feature Law as a businessman who brings his American wife and kids home to Britain to pursue new business opportunities, only to be plunged into the despair as their unaffordable new life
in an English manor house threatens to destroy the
family.
With lackluster acting and stiff drama, the momentum of the
film as a whole drags whenever the Burnford
family is
featured in their plight to find their beloved pets.
Marvel's first superteam, that yammering surrogate
family of Silver Age aberrations, has now appeared
in as many
features as it has members, and each
film is embarrassing
in its own special way.
The movie
features two Nick Drake tracks, which calls to mind the tragic - romantic folk singer's music
in The Royal Tenenbaums and Garden State, two
films very much about
families in crisis and their failure to adapt to change.
After working
in film criticism and commencing his filmography
in the docu form, Massoud Bakhshi saw his
feature debut land a spot at the Cannes
Film Festival's Directors» Fortnight with 2012's A Respectable
Family.
Accordingly, his first three
films feature twentysomethings marooned
in their post-college years, realizing that converting their youthful potential into an actual career, a
family life, or a long - term relationship may not be so easy after all.
Featuring never - before - seen Coltrane
family home movies, footage of John Coltrane and band
in the studio — discovered
in a California garage during production of this
film — along with hundreds of never - before - seen photographs and rare television appearances from around the world, Coltrane's story is told by the musicians that worked with him including Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Reggie Workman, musicians that have been inspired by his fearless artistry and creative vision like Common, John Densmore, Wynton Marsalis, Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, Kamasi Washington, along with Coltrane's children and biographers,
in addition to well - known admirers such as President Bill Clinton and philosopher Dr. Cornel West.
Shults takes what on the surface is just another indie drama about
family dysfunction, but he seems to have filmmaking instincts
in his bones, even for his first
feature, that it is no surprise the
film received the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award
in the narrative
feature competition at the 2015 SXSW
Film Festival.