Sentences with phrase «film crossed over»

His experience in animation and film crossed over well to the games industry.

The film crossed over from X-rated theaters and rode a crest of curiosity into mainstream media.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 27, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Crossing Over (R for sexuality, nudity, graphic violence and pervasive profanity) «Crash» - like ensemble drama chronicles the clash of cultures in L.A. resulting from the flood of immigrants attempting to attain legal status in the U.S. Cast includes Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd and Alice Braga.

Not exact matches

This is one of those children's animated films that doesn't cross over for adult enjoyment.

The prize is Stifler, who has always had the films» best one - liners and who here borders on — but does not cross over into — the territory of being over-used.

Once he crosses over, the film becomes a cat and mouse chase in New York.

until Ashley Judd wrote a piece for Variety two years ago, no one at the Company knew that she had a complaint and she was cast in two other films by Mr. Weinstein [Frida and Crossing Over] and Mira Sorvino was always considered for other films as well.»

The ultimate goal is two-fold: package a winning family film built around The Rock that will increase his fan base, while also giving us a movie that crosses over demographics such that dads and sons, mothers and daughters, and even just the kids or adults alone can sit through the movie and be engaged enough to follow along entertained.

It's only in the last few years that he's been crossing over to film and television.

Previous conversations with 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg have taught us the events of that movie don't take place on the same exact timeline as the events of the original film, but there seem to be some aspects that do cross over into the separate films» alternate timelines.

With all the Broadway talent that is crossing over to film, surely there was available talent to actually pull this off.

Modern adventure films, some of which have been successful blockbusters, have crossed over and added resourceful action heroes (and oftentimes heroines).

He has taken over the animation world with his shows «Family Guy» and «American Dad» and recently crossed over into film with the huge summer hit «Ted».

While the film aptly reflects the reality of Chinese people from three disparate political regimes crossing paths, it mostly glosses over the language barriers they encounter while conversing with one another in three dialects.

Later, the film villain Benedict (Charles Dance) uses the ticket to cross over into the «real world», and the boy and the muscleman follow him.

But in September 1991, Nirvana released Nevermind, grunge crossed over to the mainstream, and Warner Bros delayed the film's release in order to capitalize on the new trend.

The cult filmmaker made over 200 films, editing, cutting, and repurposing movies to fit current demands and The Sadist of Notre Dame, as it had its beginnings as Exorcism and then as Sexorcism — complete with a nude woman on an upside down cross — is no different.

More broadly, he's been involved in various stuff (including playing a Zombie in Shaun of the Dead, which is documented by him in one of the DVD extras), and as far as I can tell, him and Adam are part of a loose circle of friends that includes Edgar Wright, Louis Theroux (interesting TV documentary film maker), Garth Jennings (director of Son of Rambow & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), and a few others that slip my mind — you tend to get some cross over in the work of all these guys.

Writer - director Josh Locy stages their interaction through wooden remarks that emphasize exposition over insight — a problem that recurs throughout the film, especially once Ashley crosses paths with Jeremy (George Sample III), a scrawny twentysomething who makes money as a «lab rat» for a medical science company.

The film centers on artist Touko Laaksonen, known to the world as Tom of Finland, shaped the fantasies of a generation of gay men, influencing art and fashion before crossing over into the wider cultural consciousness.

Magnolia (1999), Anderson's third film, is a sprawling ensemble epic of lonely lives and damaged souls whose paths cross (however tangentially) over the course of two days in Los Angeles.

Green was an indie icon with films like «George Washington» before crossing over to the dark side to make «Pineapple Express» and «Your Highness.»

Rounding out the top 10 you have «The Fault In Our Stars» (almost over $ 110 million domestically), «X-Men Days Of Future Past» (crossing the coveted $ 700 million mark worldwide, around $ 223m at home which suggests Brett Ratner's X - film will still hold the highest grossing Mutant film Stateside) and Jon Favreau's «Chef» which, like almost every weekend of its 8 weeks of release, had the best hold with only an 8 % drop.

Amy Seimetz («Upstream Color») Over the last few years, Amy Seimetz hasn't come anywhere near threatening to crack the mainstream, but has served as a sort of «Zelig «- figure for a particular kind of American independent film, crossing paths with many of the most notable players in the scene in some way or another.

«Until Ashley Judd wrote a piece for Variety two years ago, no one at the Company knew that she had a complaint and she was cast in two other films by Mr. Weinstein [«Frida» and «Crossing Over»] and Mira Sorvino was always considered for other films as well,» the statement said.

So far nobody else has been cast in the film that will be directed by Scott Derrickson (Deliver Us from Evil) and written by Jon Spaihts (Prometheus), though there have been rumblings (and potentially confused details) about Daniel Bruhl's character from Captain America: Civil War potentially crossing over into Doctor Strange.

This is phase two of Marvel's plans for cinematic domination, and it's a little scary to see the films begin to cross over just like the comics do.

Instead of pushing political boundaries a number of titles stood idly by, acting as little more than safely laid stepping - stones for television celebrities to cross over into feature film.

Some composers obsess over minimizing their scores in exchange for the drama onscreen, but Carter Burwell always leaves the moviegoer with a sense of time, place and mood, especially in such films as the Coen brothers» Miller's Crossing or Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt is a child television actor (3rd Rock from the Sun) who has made the cross over to both film and adult roles.

I lost count of the occasions I was surprised by something happening onscreen, a rare experience for someone who sees so many films — by pulling back from the brink at times when we're sure he'll cross over, and going further when we think he'll stop, his film becomes a constantly pleasurable surprise.

Snitch toes the line of what's realistic and even crosses it a number of times before hopping back over, but it's never so much as to take you out of the film completely.

Starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz, the film grossed $ 408K for a $ 17K average in two dozen locations, the weekend's second - best overall and also crossing the title over the $ 1M threshold.

The success of Shelton» 2009 film Humpday, a comedy of sexual awakening starring Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard, proved her style could cross over to general audiences, and after directing episodes of Mad Men and New Girl, Shelton's confidence in her abilities rose along with her status in the industry.

A marginal improvement over Kelly Reichardt's last film, the nigh unwatchable Meek's Crossing, Night Moves follows three radicals (Jesse Eisenberg's Josh, Dakota Fanning's Dena, and Peter Sarsgaard's Harmon) as they conspire to perpetuate an act of eco-terrorism - with the film detailing the long, slow buildup to said act and its predictably disastrous aftermath.

I hope that Daniela Vega is one of the few actresses from a foreign film to cross over into the acting category with success.

And while it doesn't really matter due to boring licensing agreements, Cable and Deadpool's partnership ran during Marvel's Civil War, but don't expect Deadpool 2 to cross over with the film version.

Wayne has directed other recent films as well including «The Cooler», «Running Scared» (also with Paul Walker) and «Crossing Over».

The events become nearly too mean spirited, and the underlying pitch black humor pulls the film back from crossing over the line with how far it pushes its characters.

This impressive feat has seen the film total over $ 27M domestically (plus another $ 11M internationally), making it Anderson's second most successful box office picture ever (The Royal Tenenbaums totaled just over $ 52M, crossing the $ 50M barrier week 12).

Whilst many have already given credit to the originality of the central plot about a curse being passed on by having sex, let us not forget the works of directors such as David Cronenberg and, if you want to go even more bizarre, Frank Henenlotter, who have both made films involving the distortion of sex and the idea of sex being the conduit for bad things to happen, And granted, the actual threat in It Follows is a supernatural one rather than one of the body turning on itself, but how many curse movies have there been since Ringu convinced us all that video tapes were credible vessels for evil beings from other dimensions to cross over and kill us?

On top of that, this film also keeps banging you over the head with the message that the royal family are just like you and I, despite the extravagant wealth, fame etc., and to that end the screenplay, easily the film's biggest weakness, keeps contriving things for Jack and Elizabeth to have in common in an attempt to have a «star - crossed lovers» element to the story — which brings me to my biggest criticism of this film, the script.

Nearly every review of George Washington so far has compared the film as a cross between Harmony Korine's Gummo (1997) and Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978), both great films that use mood and style over story and character as George Washington does.

It's a slow, unhappy film which most comes to life in the dizzying middle when the threat of legal consequences, and possibly even execution, hangs over our star - crossed lovers.

The guild, which crosses over significantly in membership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, tends to be one of the better Oscar predictors — it's only missed one Best Picture nominee in each of the last three years — and considering Deadpool also netted a surprise Writers Guild of America nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay last week, its selection certainly positions the film as a serious (if still relatively unlikely) contender.

One character from the film even crossed over: Senoh, M. Bison's bald scientist crony, pops up in one or two Alpha endings.

Well, a popular theme in most film dealing with video games that are not based upon one is the concept of video games coming alive, and asking what would happen if pixelated or polygonal character crossed over to the real world.

«I think there's a lot of cross over, there's a lot of people who work in film and interactive who are interested in games, and a lot of people that work in games who are interested in both of those things,» Warren told us, «I think for us there are a couple groups we are really interested in, students was one, I see students who are studying games or other forms of interactive design.

The game spawned countless sequels and a reboot series; gave birth to Lara Croft, one of the most recognizable protagonists in all of gaming; and even crossed over to the world of Hollywood, with the most recent Tomb Raider film having been released earlier this year.

Oh, and in the usual Marvel style in both printed page and film, you'll be able to cross characters over into each others story lines.