Sentences with phrase «film deals fall»

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He made and uploaded his first, the 68 - minute Enfin l'Automne (Fall, Finally) to YouTube last year, largely just to see if he could do it, and he's now on the verge of signing a deal with a Hollywood studio to do a proper film.

«It starts at the point from which the deals are made and continues to how the films are actually produced, to the way they're positioned for a release date, to the way marketing empowers people to watch — and we've seen all these elements falling into place.»

ALBANY — A $ 500 million deal to sell disgraced former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's old company collapsed Sunday night after state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office sued the fallen film producer and his company.

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.

After following the franchise from the beginning, falling for Edward instantly, and generally enjoying the books a great deal more than the films.

Over the film's seven days, Tracy reluctantly assists her brother in a drug deal, attempts to score drugs for Lionel, and falls back into a romance with Jonny.

With all of my complaints about how this film all too often discards promising plot areas to spark a sense of unevenness, hurrying, outside of that area of storytelling, is hardly a big deal, so what this series really has to worry about is, of course, bloating, because all of this unevenness, as well as repetition, could have perhaps been avoided if this saga wasn't just so blasted overblown, not necessarily to the point of falling flat as too sprawling to stick with, but decidedly to the point of feeling rather overambitious.

«I think Elio [the young man played Timothee Chalamet] will be a cinephile and I'd like him to be in a movie theater watching Paul Vecchiali's Once More,» a 1988 film about a man who falls in love with a man after he leaves his wife, which was the first French movie to deal with AIDS.

Before «Once» was such a big deal and became an Academy Award winning film (for Best Song «Falling Slowly» in 2007), I was already a huge fan of the film and its music.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

The studio turned heads when it picked up the actor's directorial debut for a record - breaking $ 18.5 million deal, but their clear - cut plan to turn «The Birth of a Nation» into their next Oscar powerhouse was derailed after Parker's college rape allegations and subsequent trial resurfaced just ahead of the film's fall festival launch.

Jessica Yellin presented the award to the teams involved with four films dealing with Syria: «City of Ghosts», «Cries from Syria», «Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS», and «Last Men in Aleppo.»

Petzold's period piece, now over 30 years out from its rural setting, deals directly with the now fallen Berlin Wall and lacks all the techno - attention of iPhones and laptops, yet the film feels surprisingly modern.

Based on the memoir of the same name, and adapted by Terence Winter, the film will tell the true story of Jordan Belfort, a wheeling and dealing New York stockbroker who sees his career and personal life fall into shambles thanks to sex, drugs and alcohol.

Now all three films will hit the fall circuit, along with Oscar perennial Plan B's «Beautiful Boy» (October 12), directed by Belgian Felix Van Groenigen («Broken Circle Breakdown»), adapted by «Lion» screenwriter Luke Davies from the memoirs of David and Nick Sheff about dealing with collateral damage around a recovering and relapsing meth addict («Call Me By Your Name» Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet).

Details on the film remain a mystery, but it will reportedly tell the story of the rise and fall of the American dream, dealing with race and culture from the perspective of one central character.

Based on a real - life rise - and - fall story of a pair of Miami bozos who fell into lucrative Afghanistan arms dealing, the film reunites former high - school buddies David (Miles Teller) and Efraim (Jonah Hill), currently on radically different life trajectories.

Davies» films have always supplied strong female roles (think Gena Rowlands in «The Neon Bible,» Gillian Anderson in «The House of Mirth» and Rachel Weisz in «The Deep Blue Sea») and this story, which followed an ordinary farm girl in the 1910s with a dream of being a teacher, who begins to assert her independence in the face of cruelties dealt by people ranging from her abusive father (Peter Mullan) to the initially sweet young man (Kevin Guthrie) who falls in love with her marries her, only to come back from the horrors of World War I irrevocably changed.

Sensibly entrusting the script of the film with the book's author Emma Donoghue, the story soars throughout, avoiding falling into saccharine territory and deals with post-traumatic stress disorder, the loss of innocence and the re-awakening of one self to the wonders of the world with such delicate grace and honesty that it touches the heartstrings in the most profound ways.

The deal solidifies Fox's relationship with Aronofsky, whose recent films — this fall's critically acclaimed psychological thriller, Black Swan, was produced and distributed by Fox Searchlight, which also distributed Aronofsky's 2008 award - winning film The Wrester.

The deal, which was announced in January, will cover Participant films in all territories outside of North America, including available non-output territories for films that fall under Participant's deal with Amblin Partners.

8:00 pm — TCM — The Snake Pit One of the earlier films to deal with the realities of mental illness seriously, with Olivia de Havilland as a woman in an insane asylum, brilliantly moving back and forth between lucidity and falling back in the fog of illness.

Annihilation was originally intended for a wide theatrical release but after refusals to dumb down the film after test screenings the deal with Paramount fell apart and Netflix is now distributing, something Garland is disappointed by.

The film Michael Pitt falls in love with future Bond girl Eva Green, but her brother (Louis Garrel) is part of the deal, in a romance set in the tumultuous Paris of May» 68.

During the same conversation, the filmmaker, who made a splash in the U.S. in 2008 with his stylish prison film «Bronson,» revealed that he was also set with Channing Tatum to star alongside Harrison Ford in the Paul Schrader - penned project, «The Dying of the Light,» but the deals fell apart «over a weekend» a few months earlier.

Theatrical exhibition is dying, Fox is disappearing into the Disney fold — indie arm Fox Searchlight is operating «business as usual» this year, but it could very well be their last — and Netflix, driver of big deals in the recent past, has 80 films of their own slated already, so no one knows how much they're really looking to acquire (they were relatively quiet at TIFF last fall).

His first huge success was Kinky Boots, a film about British drag queens and shoemakers which dealt with the issue of Britain's long - standing textile industry losing out to foreign competition, then there was Brideshead revisited, another story about a commoner and a member of the elite upper - classes falling in love, because apparently we can't get enough of those.

Determining which of Prinze's performances and films is the worst is an exercise both diverting and daunting; to that end, I'd have to say that Summer Catch falls squarely in the middle: it's physically impossible to sit through the whole thing without a lengthy break or some sort of medium - bore narcotic, thus making it inferior to the stolid water - torture of I Know What You Did Last Summer (that film's relative enjoyability no doubt owing a great deal to Jennifer Love Hewitt's oft - invoked bustline).

But the deal isn't just about high schoolers singing and dancing; in addition to the first season of Glee, Netflix is adding the first two seasons of FX's Sons of Anarchy (which is now on Season 3), as well as older shows like The Wonder Years and Ally McBeal as well as some film titles once they fall out of the pay TV window.