Sentences with phrase «film debuted just»

Disney makes the kind of superhero films that Captain America himself, whose first film debuted just before the 10th anniversary of 9/11, would watch and enjoy.

The fourth and final Hunger Games film debuted just a few weeks ago.

Not exact matches

In Richard Ayoade's sharp debut film, Oliver Tate is a precocious 15 - year - old Welsh virgin who has a crush on a tough girl, Johanna, and a mother who might just be cheating on his sad - sack dad.

When Wes Anderson's feature debut Bottle Rocket was released just two years after Pulp Fiction, the market had been saturated with cool, quirky, independent crime films, most of them trying to be the next Quentin Tarantino.

The film finished production almost two years ago and to avoid what was seen as a box office risk, the company ended up selling the rights internationally to Netflix, who will debut it just weeks after the US release.

More of the same can be said for Crowe's debut as a director with the excellent Say Anything, showing once again he had a knack for taking what would ostensibly be a «just another...» film and taking it to depths no one had bothered exploring before.

Writer / director Julia Ducournau certainly has talent and a natural way of handling her actors, but her film debut is just trying too hard.

Victoria's feature film debut in «Fun Size» is just not what the parents wanted the kids to see.

Sixteen months after the blockbuster's debut, director Todd Phillips has one of this year's most anticipated movies in the forthcoming buddy road comedy Due Date, all three leads have moved past their vaguely familiar stage to a reasonable degree of stardom, the savvily - greenlit The Hangover 2 has begun shooting, and Warner Home Video has just reissued the film in Extreme Edition DVD and Blu - ray sets.

Though Nashville won just a single Oscar and a single Golden Globe, each for Best Original Song (for «I'm Easy», written and performed by Carradine), it was nominated for five of the former and eleven of the latter, which even bestowed two nominations each on Tomlin and Blakley, actresses making their film debuts, while classifying the film as a drama (back when true musicals weren't so rare).

Just four years ago, in his feature film debut Crazy Heart, Cooper led Jeff Bridges to his first Oscar, and Maggie Gyllenhaal to her first nomination.

Rami Malek — who, in an amazing bit of timing, signed on to the film just before the debut of Mr. Robot — stars in a dual role as Jonah, a modest family man who works overnights at a hotel and dreams of buying a plot of land in the mountains, and as Buster, an anarchist vagrant who survives by breaking in to the empty vacation homes of wealthy part - time Montana residents.

It's been seven years since designer Tom Ford made a splash with his award - winning writing - directing debut A Single Man, and it's no surprise that his second film is just as exquisitely beautiful to look at...

Written and directed by William Savage (In Lieu of Flowers is his feature film debut), the story is inspired by personal experiences, although he is coy to say just how much.

(The film debuted in 1977, just as Star Wars was revolutionizing movie sound with a wide release in Dolby Stereo.)

Hayley Atwell «s Agent Peggy Carter was such a scene - stealing standout in Captain America: The First Avenger, she went from a supporting character in Captain America's debut film to a One Shot subject to the lead of her own TV show, Agent Carter (not to mention the fact that her cinematic arc was only just wrapped up in Captain America: Civil War).

That's where MGM and Fox's PG -13-rated horror remake «Poltergeist,» the only other wide opening film, is heading as well, after debuting just behind the leaders with $ 9.3 million Friday.

Set aesthetics aside, Boneta makes his first feature film debut as Drew and proves he's not just a very pretty face; he's got the acting and singing credentials to go with it.

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.

Murphy had scored a big hit just a few months earlier in his film debut, the buddy cop action / comedy 48 Hrs.

McGregor's film will have its debut at the Toronto Film Fest, just announced.

Say Anything... has also just made its DVD debut in the US this month, and reviews of that disc are full of praise for the new 16:9 anamorphic video transfer that's been done of the film under the director's supervision, making mention of its detail, sharpness, colour saturation and perfect black levels.

Lucky for him, he finds someone (Chiwetel Ejiofor in his film debut unbelievably at just 19 years old) to bridge the gap and unearth some understanding and common ground between the lawyer and de facto slave spokesman Cinque.

Gudegast, making his feature directing debut after writing «A Man Apart» and «London Has Fallen,» seems to understand just enough about that element of Mann's film to recreate some of its conflicts — both in terms of crime scenarios and the characters» civilian lives — but lacks the discipline, or maybe skill, to lend them real emotional weight, much less originality.

The movie is the directing debut of Leigh Whannell, who wrote the previous two «Insidious» films (as well as «Saw»), so he knows how to deliver shocks - even if most of them are the same old «jump scares» of just having something suddenly appear in the frame.

It's not as narratively or emotionally fluent as Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios» breakout debut Güeros (2014), another Berlinale debut which won the prize for best first film that year, but looks and sounds just as gorgeous, AND it has the same kind of melancholic charm to it.

Teen film Easy A was in second place after bagging just over $ 18 million on its debut.

After making an impressive film debut in Our Song in 2000, she went on to win the NAACP Image Award just five years later for playing Ray Charles» wife, Della, opposite Jamie Foxx in Ray.

It may seem like an outspoken follow - up to his cult debut, but «Snatch» works just fine as a standalone film.

The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999) Brad Bird's feature debut was traditional 2 - D animation when computer animation was the craze, released by studio folk who didn't realize just how special a film they had on their hands.

The film has just screened for the press, and Arnold — who won the bronze - medal Jury Prize in 2006 with her debut feature «Red Road» — has evidently built on that success, but it seems the real revelation is the film's 17 year - old star, Katie Jarvis.

«Just Go with It» steals the weekend from Bieber's film debut, as animated feature «Gnomeo and Juliet» can't make the cut.

Half Magic just debuted their red band trailer and the timely film about the fight against sexism and bad men proves it's a must see!

His last film, 2008's big - budget flop «Australia,» debuted with just $ 14.8 million, while even the buzzed - about «Moulin Rouge» took in only $ 57.4 million during its entire run in the U.S. and Canada.

The holiday weekend got off to an early start on Wednesday when the long awaited third chapter of the phenomenally popular Twilight film series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, debuted with $ 68.5 million in just one day of release.

Jessie and I got to see Mike's new film Don't Think Twice at its debut screening Sunday night and didn't just like it — we loved it.

Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»

A festival trailer has debuted for the film A Quiet Passion, from director Terence Davis (whose other film Sunset Song was just released in theaters this year).

We had already reported that the film would likely debut in time for the holiday season, so this is just perfect.

Sean Baker is the top debut this month for The Florida Project, landing at # 8 — just as his film did in Best Picture.

Charlie Kaufman, the writer of «Being John Malkovich» and «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,» made his directorial debut with the thorny «Synecdoche, New York» seven years ago, and his second film (a collaboration with Duke Johnson) is a stop - motion animation production that sounds just as odd and intriguing as his past work.

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For at least the first 20 minutes I couldn't stop comparing it to a film that just debuted last month called Spare Parts that is set up the same way: poor Mexican teens in need of a role model and a way out.

M. Night Shyamalan (yes I have trouble spelling his name) burst out onto the scene with a wonderful debut film The Sixth Sense in 1999, even though (as I'm just discovering) it isn't his first film.

Following in the footsteps of Studio Ghibli (which co-produced the film), Michael Dudok de Wit's «The Red Turtle» is a surprisingly poignant feature - length debut that proves animation can be just as effective as live action when done right.

«The success of «Girls Trip,» the first R - rated film starring an all - Black female cast to surpass $ 100 million, and «Get Out,» Jordan Peele's directorial debut which surpassed $ 250 million worldwide, prove just how viable Black films are across the board.»

Not too many films serve up laughs that just keep on rolling with regularity from beginning to end, but Seth MacFarlane's directorial debut does so and without any feeling of strain.

With the actual Harry Potter sequel, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, heading to the London stage, Rowling is making her screenwriting debut with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a film set in the same universe as The Boy Who Lived, just 80 or so years earlier.

Behind every great film is an unforgettable score, and while we have yet to find out just what Oldboy director Park Chan - wook has in store for us with his English - language debut, Stoker — here's a taste of the film's score by the always excellent Clint Mansell, titled In Full Bloom.

The film will be debuting at Cannes in just a matter of weeks with Cotillard very much in the running for the Best Actress award there and we anxiously await word on the film leading up to its premiere.