Sentences with phrase «film installments of»

The first of three annual film installments of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1,500 - page epic The Lord of the Rings, directed by New Zealander Peter Jackson, has many fine qualifies.

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The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

A second and third installment of Avatar are in the works, and at a recent comic convention Cameron said the films may be shot at a higher frame rate than the industry standard to make the film seem even more real.

Movie booking site Fandango told Variety that the film has become the biggest pre-seller in the history of the ticketing company, besting the inaugural installment of The Hunger Games.

Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas» Lucasfilm in 2012 for $ 4.05 billion, and has planned for a new trilogy of films as well as standalone installments through 2019.

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

Fans had issues with it too, and the second installment in the trilogy, 2002's» Attack of the Clones,» won the dubious distinction of being the least commercially successful film in the «Star Wars» canon.

Redstone was so upset about the disappointing performance of Mission: Impossible III, which grossed almost $ 100 million less than the previous installment, he blamed Cruise and his controversial behavior leading up to the film's release for costing the studio money.

An entire industry of books and films has blossomed in the red soil of the American Christian persecution complex, with the first «Gods» Not Dead» installment caricaturing and vilifying atheists and the second set to expose liberal efforts to «expel God from the classroom once and for all.»

Last week, Deadline reported that a new installment of the Chronicles of Narnia franchise will take a different direction from the earlier, Disney - influenced films.

CNN's Fredricka Whitfield speaks with the film's screenwriter and a pastor in this week's installment of Faces of Faith.

So we were watching the newest installment of the Chronicles of Narnia film series — Prince Caspian — the other night, and I found myself growing increasingly uncomfortable with the use of a Christ - figure (Aslan) in battle scenes.

Night Shyamalan's film, Devil, his latest installment in his series of mythopoeic movies, gives the viewer the opportunity to glimpse ever so briefly the reification of a theosophical speculation that may have its roots in Boehme, where evil is rendered by a very real demon grimly determined....

This Friday marks the release of the eighth installment of the Fast & Furious films, the long - running, high - octane action franchise that revolves around Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his motley crew of street racers - turned - international - crime - fighters - who - are - also - kind - of - criminals.

That statement is less of a spoiler than it seems, but is suitably Byzantine for the twists and turns of the final installment of the stupendously popular film franchise based on the even more adored book series by J.K. Rowling.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 is the eighth and final installment of the long - running film series adapted from the children's fantasy novels by British author J. K. Rowling, centering on the titular half - human boy wizard and his adventures at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Questions of horcruxes and wand ownership dominate the film, again, as they did the previous two installments, so it is a credit to Yates that he manages to steer these entries away from drowning in their own exposition.

For the rest of us - the scornful, the uninterested, those too old to fully believe - the films derived from J.K. Rowling's seven best - selling fantasy novels have waxed and waned, moving from the formulaic fun of the early entries to the darkening adolescent gloom of the middle installments to the grim Wagnerian conflict of the final haul.

At Shell Cottage, magical house elf Dobby's body had been buried on the beach after being hit by Bellatrix Lestrange's knife aimed at Harry (in the previous installment of the film).

While the life of the typical film franchise has been all squeezed out by its third installment, leaving a shattered shell of its former glory, Shrek the Third defies the odds in being as entertaining as the original animated hit and surpassing the second edition.

Nothing on Lionsgate's 2014 schedule of YA novel adaptations, horror, and other genre films suggests that the studio is going to start churning out critically praised films, but with another Hunger Games installment due this year, the studio should remain in the green financially, if not score-wise.

I predicted a leap off a cliff face with the last installment, and in that way Fifty Shades Freed did not disappoint; it's one of the worst films you will ever see.

She recently completed work on the final HUNGER GAMES installment, appearing in the role of Katniss» mother in all four films.

The lead actors fought to maintain their characters» drive to maintain their passion during times of glossed over turmoil, but the continued lack of emotional connection to each other and the scantily adapted source material made the final film installment feel anti-climatic.

While both installments were treated as thematically and stylistically separate entities, as opposed to a single finale story that was just split in half and to be continued, the exclusion of certain plot points from both books made both film adaptations feel as though they were lacking in emotion.

Director Gary Ross (Pleasantville 71, Seabiscuit 72) will be tasked with setting the visual tone of the planned three - or four - film series, whose next installment (Catching Fire) is already scheduled for release on November 22, 2013.

The ending can be faulted for telling about some things that should have been shown, but it's intriguing — and will of course build audience appetites for the last installment in the series, the which will be broken into two films — to wonder what's happening in the world outside the Hunger Games arena as Things spin madly out of control.

2, Spider - Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther, which leaves many threads to be picked up and resolved, since Avengers: Infinity War is the concluding installment of Marvel's so - called «Phase Three» of film productions based on their comic book characters.

That said, this is very much her film, and Fifty Shades Freed — written, like the last installment, by James's husband, Niall Leonard — demonstrates a genuine self - awareness of the strange hypocrisies she's forced to submit to as she attempts to drag Christian out of the Victorian era and pull him into an age of nontraditional gender roles, just as she's also prodding him to what's posited as his ultimate relinquishment of power and dominance: fatherhood.

But of course this film, the 19th installment in a series, was never meant to be viewed or judged in isolation.

One of the most thought provoking films of the entire saga, The Empire Strikes Back twice as hard in this second installment and truly solidifies Star Wars place in film history.

The next installment of the Saw film series proved to be a very bad one for very boring people.

These films tend to be long and boring, but this latest installment beefs up the action and takes up the bulk of the film with it, which is great when your characters are trying to be funny but coming off as idiots that you'd rather watch burn to death via the Decepticons.

Starred in two installments of the Saw film series.

Bardem recently finished filming «Eat, Love, Pray» with Julia Roberts, while Cruz is working on «Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides», the fourth installment of the popular Disney franchisOf The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides», the fourth installment of the popular Disney franchisof the popular Disney franchise.

The second film in the series, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, raised the ire of Potter - heads around the world when producers declined to recast the role of the villainous wizard Gellert Grindelwald, whom Depp portrayed in the first installment.

He is the latest new face to sign up for the next installment of the popular film franchise - Kurt Russell, Jason Statham and Nathalie Emmanuel have also landed roles in the forthcoming release.

The film was the opening installment of this year's Movie City News Screening Series.

It's less tightly constructed than the film before, but it's still a superhero movie of rare craft and heft, rightly returning the focus to its hero after a Joker - centric installment and wrapping up his story in a definitive and satisfying manner.

With today's debut of the official trailer for «Star Wars: Rogue One,» a standalone installment of the intergalactic franchise about the events leading up to the original film, we've got lightsabers on the brain.

Fans of the two Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants films are growing excited by the news that a third installment is in the works.

And so over the next couple of weeks the Film Ireland collection of filmaholics shed their dignity, hide their shame and open their bins to reveal their trashiest films in the latest installment of...

The 18th installment from the famed Marvel Cinematic Universe, the film directed by Ryan Coogler reunites us with Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa as he begins his stint as the new monarch of Wakanda.

Much like Universal's other prominent awards hopeful Unbroken (which was covered in our previous installment), a trailer for Get On Up has been released, which provides us some insight on the tone of the film and how it will portray Brown.

This installment clocks in as the shortest Harry Potter film yet, but it sacrifices little in terms of thrills and tears, and has some seriously cool special effects.

For one thing, the recent track record of these late summer dramas is decidedly mixed - while The Help indeed connected with Oscar, Lee Daniels» The Butler's summer box office went unrecognized by the Academy, and it is the latter film that Get On Up seems to resemble more, what with it being a biopic that attempts to tell the entire life story of its subject, which, as discussed in the previous installment in regards to Unbroken, is a questionable proposition with today's Academy.

In fact, if you stripped the film of all its comedic elements, you'd have the basis for another installment in Takashi Shimizu's «Ju - On» series.

It's set to launch a new trilogy of «Fast & Furious» films, with the ninth installment due on April 19, 2019 and the tenth on April 2, 2021.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 19, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (PG - 13 for intense violence, frightening images and brief sensuality) First half of the final installment of J.K. Rowling's series has Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) joining forces to wrest control of Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic back from evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and his minions.

After one month in theaters, Wonder Woman broke the $ 700 million barrier at the worldwide box office this past weekend, thereby becoming one of the top 100 highest - grossing movies ever released; the news came mere days after the film surpassed all three previous installments to become the largest DCEU release at the domestic box office.