Not exact matches
This news
comes in the wake of a
deal that Paramount struck with the streaming service for international rights to Alex Garland's upcoming sci - fi
film Annihilation, which reportedly had some heated disagreements over the
film's commercial appeal between producers.
Psychological preparations for that first step have already been implemented with the
film, «2001: A Space Oddessy;» the StarTrek series, and «Star Wars;» all of which
deal with invasions from space and the
coming together of all nations to repel the invaders.
Right before we signed Ozil we bid 38 odd mil for him which would have broken our transfer record at the time... It was a very publicized potential
deal and Draxler was even caught on
film with a fan saying I'm
coming to Arsenal.
The Long and the Short and the Tall (released as Jungle Fighters in the USA and Canada) is a 1961 British war
film directed by Leslie Norman, which stars «Short man syndrome» is a condition in which a person has to
deal with a feeling of inadequacy which can
come from a lack of height — or a perceived lack
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).
Moreover, Spielberg's rush to shoot and release the
film by the end of 2017 apparently had a great
deal to do with Trump's
coming to power and his own support for the Democratic Party.
If nothing else, the
film is pretty entertaining, and when dramatic highlights
come into play, glimpses into what could have been sparks brightly enough to help endear, maybe not thoroughly enough for the final product to reward, but decidedly enough to hold a fair
deal of your attention in this improvable character study.
Not surprisingly, this
film stirred up a great
deal of controversy even before it aired; some Jewish leaders and prominent Holocaust survivors worried that Hitler might
come off as being sympathetic (a concern that may have dictated altering the
film's title, which was to have been Hitler: The Early Years); and one of the
film's producers was summarily dismissed after issuing a public statement which seemed to compare Germany's blind, unthinking allegiance to Hitler to America's rallying behind George W. Bush during the Iraq crisis.
The police ask questions about Nuri's religion, and the fact that he is an ex-con who used to
deal drugs — the
film's first scene shows him marrying Katja while still in prison —
comes into play briefly.
For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the
film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great
deal, but really
comes off as a non-sequitur.
Peyton honed his talent for chaos and balancing the monstrous charisma of his leading man with the pathos that
comes from
dealing with disaster in a series of
films starring Johnson that have gotten better and better as time has gone on.
The
film comes to an emotional head when N.J. goes to Japan to seal a
deal with Ota, while both business and family matters completely fall apart in Taiwan.
Most of the
film's best moments
come in this middle section, as we watch the couple
deal with the strain and anxiety of deciding whose needs should be put first, and for how long.
As I explained, this was necessary in
dealing with a lot of the baggage that
comes with all the comparisons made with The Lord of the Rings, which the
film inevitably invites.
There are science fiction
films that
deal with the subject of time travel and then there is Looper, which
comes across as refreshingly original as well as entertaining, with a story full of interesting twists.
Plutarch should have been in the first
film but it's not a big
deal that he was left out, his important work is yet to
come.
If a
deal is made, he'll be shooting Goddard's
film come January of next year.
Specifically, the piece
came a year after Depardon's police
film Faits divers (1982), and Rouch's questions are mainly
dealing with the production of Depardon's most recent work.
This
deal took time to coalesce — the
film reportedly carries a budget in the $ 50 million range, and word is this
deal comes with a P&A commitment in the $ 15 million range.
The
deal also reportedly
came with the stipulation that Amazon would secure «a significant theatrical release» for the
film, presumably something like its strategy for rolling out Spike Lee's Chi - Raq late last year.
So when a
film like The Witch
comes along — a story with such palpable horror and brutality — it's a big
deal.
All that said, how many times have we
come here with pessimism, only to watch giant
deals for
films like the $ 10 million Netflix paid for Mudbound last year, or the whopping price Paramount paid for the Chris Rock - directed Top Five several Toronto fests ago?
This news
comes in the wake of a
deal that Paramount struck with the streaming service for international rights to Alex Garland's upcoming sci - fi
film Annihilation, which reportedly had some heated disagreements over the
film's commercial appeal between producers.
However, that
film was a great
deal like the other wise - cracking crime comedies that have
come out since Tarantino's debut, often encroaching into Guy Ritchie territory, except without the skillful writing or wit required to make these eccentric oddball characters remotely appealing.
The president's big announcement at the start of the
film is that he's made a
deal with the Iranian president and is proceeding to withdraw all troops from the Middle East, a move that
comes with a boatload of stunningly puerile speeches, and sparks the ire of right - wingers and big corporations invested in the business of war.
IM Global is selling the foreign distribution rights at the Cannes
film market, and we'd expect a
deal to
come through quickly given the talent attached.
It's a simple
film — about a woman getting over one relationship and into another, while also
dealing with the delayed gratification that often
comes when one pursues a life in the arts — but that simplicity can be deceiving.
More and more
films dealing with the environment have
come to us.
Although the title suggests the possibility of an exercise in the pre-digested, pre-fab cynicism which seems to be a staple of contemporary American cinema, this action
film focuses on its people as much as its action, and a good
deal of its power
comes from the way its sharply etched characters develop in various convincingly observed milieux.
The much talked about mobster
film landed the most massive
deal to
come out of Cannes this year.
Even so, the biggest
deal to
come out of the festival was for an old - fashioned movie - movie, the spy thriller 355 that will star Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz and Lupita Nyong» o. Global Road Entertainment paid US$ 25 million for North American rights to the
film.
The satire
comes in the early post-war period when Americans were still not that aware of how they were being manipulated by hucksters to hawk their products on the radio and
films were just getting ready to
deal with that subject after a number of books and magazine articles were written tearing into advertisers.
And while the
film is sort of about this war of ideas, propaganda, information from these citizen journalists and ISIS» slick propaganda, it's also a story of immigrants, an exodus story, of Man's understanding,
coming to terms, and
dealing with the cumulative effects of trauma... also, rising nationalism both in Germany and around the world.
Lady Bird is every bit a charming
coming of age
film, with Saoirse Ronan as a young woman finding her own unique ways of
dealing with issues every teenager encounters.
It
comes across on screen that this shoot must have been a great
deal of fun... even when the
film takes a dark turn.
Even so, Netflix spend $ 12.5 million on the
film, making it the largest
deal to
come out of Sundance 2017.
When it
comes to debates about the quality of Netflix's original efforts, nothing is more of a punching bag than comedian Adam Sandler's
films, such as «The Ridiculous Six,» which are a part of his huge
deal with the streamer.
While director Rupert Wyatt's original
deal came with a sequel option, Serkis» did not, so, like with The Lord of the Rings
films, he winds up with a stellar payday.
More 80's throwback in Take Me Home Tonight should sink Just Go with It, even if it isn't well received — but the
film has been in the works since 2007, and appears to have put a great
deal of effort into getting the plot straightened out, so just maybe it'll
come out well.
The documentary is mainly comprised of interviews, many with the director himself in his apartment, but the highlight for most will be the scene of Tarantino and De Palma talking about the similarities in their careers of having to
deal with public attention regarding the violent content in their
films (this
comes after an extended sequence featuring Tarantino explaining his love for De Palma, which includes a personal scrapbook of printed interviews and a description of the influence that Casualties of War had on certain elements in Reservoir Dogs).
The closest that Hollywood
film comedy has
come to
dealing with a post-crash world is The Internship (Shawn Levy, 2013), which is essentially a mash - up of Wedding Crashers and a commercial for Google.
Rebecca Miller, daughter of Arthur and a future director herself, gets the leanest role of the
film as the trophy wife, which is probably why she
comes out of the
deal mostly unscathed — the less one has to say in this
film, the more intelligent they seem to be.
While it can be definitely said that Harding, both in the
film and in real life, may play the victim and fails to take personal responsibility for being lazy at times when it
came to her work ethic, it doesn't erase the fact that Harding did have to
deal with biases against her because of her background.
That's one reason why I was impressed by a
film that may not have
come on your radar yet, although it has played at various American festivals — Life and Nothing More, by Antonio Mendez Esparza, a Spanish director working in the U.S.. It's the Florida - set story of a mother - son relationship, about a teenage boy going through problems at home and at school, and his mother, who keeps their household together through a series of diner jobs while
dealing with the attentions of a fond but potentially troublesome suitor.
Paramount and Hasbro have
come to terms on an exclusive 5 - year movie
deal that includes both live - action and animated
films.
This is not only a political movie about campaigning for office: it is a study of character, specifically the character of Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock), a person who is a burnout from leading previous campaigns and who
comes across for a good
deal of this
film's 108 minutes as a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
The only thing even resembling a plot, the representative
coming to potentially sign Todd to the endorsement
deal, is completely ignored throughout 90 % of the
film, leaving the
film without a discernable build - up or climax.
The Western genre has always been pretty precise when it
comes to
dealing with the decades in which the
films were made.
Considering James Ponsoldt's first two
films (Off the Black, Smashed)
deal with alcoholism, it
comes as no surprise that the subject is also baked into his third
film, The Spectacular Now.
«The Beginning» (5:13)
deals with the pre-production process and how the makers wanted the
film to look and feel like a graphic novel
come to life.