Sentences with phrase «film debuts this year»

This will be director Amma Asante's second film debuting this year.

Not exact matches

The Wall Street Journal report said that while the agreement includes the potential for multiple Mario - themed movies, only one film is planned, and it won't debut for several years.

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

Netflix's target for original movies next year compares with a 2017 slate of about 50 film titles that it has released or is scheduled to debut globally.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

However, if it fails to meet analyst's estimates, and teeters close to DreamWorks Animation's Thanksgiving debut, the studio could have a larger problem on its hands with only one other film — about a racing snail — out later this year.

That puts the Sony Pictures film on pace to swing to a $ 120 million opening, short of the record - breaking $ 151 million debut of 2007's Spider - Man 3 but according to Variety topping even the sunniest expectations for the film, which stars 21 - year - old actor Tom Holland in the title role.

The film debuts later this year on Netflix.

Not to mention, next year Marvel is set to debut its first female - led film, with Brie Larson as Captain Marvel.

If you've listened to his music, including his most recent album, Darkness and Light, his Grammy - winning debut Get Lifted, his Oscar - winning single for the film Selma, «Glory,» or really any of the other releases in his 15 - year career, those deep Christian roots probably won't be a surprise.

Following the earnestly simple motto of «sharing the films we love with widest audience possible,» Drafthouse Films debuted in 2010 with the theatrical release of Four Lions, which was named of Time Magazine's «Top 10 Films Of The Year.»

It has been 10 years since the first «Harry» film debuted.

Foster's London debut occurred in 1955; the following year, he made his first film.

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.

Langella made his film debut in 1970 with a supporting role in Diary of a Mad Housewife, and later that same year, scored a larger part in The Twelve Chairs, written and directed by Mel Brooks.

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.

Less than three years after the film made its theatrical debut (to many boos and jeers), the director comes back to tweak Alexander AGAIN with what I like to call the This Time for Real Cut.

In the years since Chris Columbus «sleepy debut films, the series has had its ups (Alfonso Cuarón «s immaculate «Prisoner of Azkaban «-RRB- and its downs (Mike Newell «s gonzo Bollywood «Goblet of Fire «-RRB- before settling in with its designated auteur, David Yates, who has helmed the last four films including this, the final entry, «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.»

Three years later, she made her film debut as Marmee in Little Women.

It's been almost three years since Garland's incredibly smart and impressive debut feature, and he's back with an arguably even smarter and more ambitious film — Annihilation.

Washington stayed with the ACT for a year, and, after his time there, he began acting in various television movies and made his film debut in the 1981 Carbon Copy.

That same year, she made her credited screen debut starring opposite Sammy Davis Jr. in the drama A Man Called Adam (her first uncredited film role was in 1959's Odds Against Tomorrow).

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

Hill made his film debut in 1950, then returned to the Navy for two more years before settling down to acting on a permanent basis.

Following his debut in the 1991 short film El Último Fin de Año (The Last New Year), Luna appeared opposite childhood pal Gael García Bernal in the popular television soap opera El Abuelo y Yo (1992).

Find out what critics are saying about all of the major films (and TV shows) debuting at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.

He made his screen debut in 1983 in the film comedy Baby It's You, and won the Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award that year for his work in Robert Altman's Streamers.

The question of whose disobedience, and what kind of disobedience it is, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, his English language debut, following very quickly on the heels of his film A Fantastic Woman which has been a festival - circuit hit this year.

Within three years, he had made his film debut as a hood in John Huston's «Prizzi's Honor» (1985).

Below, find out what critics are saying about all of this year's notable festival debuts, including films that screened out of competition or as part of the parallel Directors» Fortnight and International Critics» Week programs.

Many of the most controversial and exciting films of the 20th century are westerns, such the Outlaw with Jane Russell in her memorable film debut - shelved for years before finally receiving approval - to many of our Spaghetti Westerns for their portrayal of explicit violence.

In 1949, they made their film debut in George Marshall's My Friend Irma, and their supporting work proved so popular with audiences that their roles were significantly expanded for the sequel, the following year's My Friend Irma Goes West.

Below, sample the critical response to over a dozen key films (and a few TV series) which debuted at this year's festival.

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.

It's a film that you expect to open in limited release and expand, but after a Sundance premiere, Focus Features is actually debuting it wide today, the Friday that used to launch the summer movie season (which the moving of Avengers: Infinity War kicked off a week early this year).

Justin Simien's debut film — a big hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival — looks at the state of race relations on the campus of Winchester University through the lives of four black students.

The film: A few years back the Wachowski Brothers made their debut with «Bound».

Below, we recap the reactions from critics to the major films screening at this year's Telluride, Venice, and Toronto International Film Festivals, considered the most prestigious events of the season and the locales where many future Oscar nominees first debut.

Paul Haggis, who spoke with such remarkable confidence through his screenplay for Million Dollar Baby, one of the best films of the past few years, seems to be his own worst enemy in Crash, his directorial debut.

That same year, he signed a film contract with MGM, which led to his screen debut as an amorous Frenchman in pursuit of Jane Powell in Rich, Young and Pretty (1951).

Though Boys scarcely represented Cooper's cinematic debut (he appeared in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto a couple of years prior, among other films), it did prove a watershed, spurring the young actor on to additional film work.

The granddaughter of actor Melvyn Douglas and actress - turned - Congresswoman Helen Gahagan, Douglas was born July 25, 1965, in Massachusetts.After her film debut, the actress worked for years in relative obscurity, at one point dubbing a chilling scream for The Last Temptation of Christ.

Director / co-scenarist Gerard McMurray's debut isn't as striking a treatment of the same theme as last year's divisive «Goat,» a film that went out of -LSB-...]

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.

The film, which was inspired by Denis» own experiences in Africa and those of working amongst the stark Southwest landscapes of Paris, Texas, proved to be a very auspicious debut, screening at Cannes that year and earning both a Golden Palm nomination and a César nomination for Best New Director.Denis followed her debut the next year with Man No Run, a documentary about Les Têtes Brulées («the Flaming Heads»), a Cameroon band on their first French tour.

Also excluded are films that first debuted at other major festivals earlier this year; you can find reviews for those films in our Cannes Recap and our Sundance Recap.

This year's closing night film of the Overlook Film Festival was the highly anticipated feature debut by Ari Aster, Hereditary.

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.

Simmonds made her feature film debut last year in «Wonderstruck.»

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...