Sentences with phrase «film hedges its bets»

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They hedge their bets by hiring Chinese stars or film sequences with Chinese actors that are only in the version released in China.

Arthur Hiller tends to hedge his «serious» film bets by covering them with near - simultaneous releases of comedies.

In a Hollywood self - congratulatory world that considers sequels, reboots and remakes as creative projects; and imitation as the most sincere form of flattery... not to mention the safest hedged bet... it's not in the least surprising that we now have a film version of «CHiPs», a lightweight and popular TV show that ran from 1977 through 1983.

Our Take: It's a great cast, but it's also a Brett Ratner film, so we're hedging our bets.

Apparently, first - time producer Cruise wanted to hedge as many bets as possible in creating a secure market niche for this film, and he has succeeded to the probable tune of at least $ 200 million, but the cost to the end product was incalculable.

And while McDonagh hedges his bets a bit here with the auto - critiques (you mention one instance, but it's hardly alone; this is the type of movie where the characters call their own speeches «corny»), this is, otherwise, a consistently downbeat film.

The eccentrics extolled in the opening scene include Michael Burry (Christian Bale), a Northern California — based MD and money manager who invents the credit default swap in the mid-Aughts, when the film's central action kicks off; Mark Baum (Steve Carell, also hideously coiffed), an obnoxious hedge fund manager whose backstory involving a dead - by - suicide brother somehow positions him as the film's most steadfast moral compass; and Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt), a onetime trader for Chase turned secular eschatologist who advises two young, aspiring operators, Jamie Shipley (Finn Wittrock) and Charlie Geller (John Magaro), how to bet against Wall Street.