Sentences with phrase «film of the year for»

This has been the film of the year for me so far.

This was the best horror film of the year for me.

Nevertheless, along with Christopher Nolan's Inception and Terrence Malick's Tree of Life, this is one of my three most anticipated films of the year for me.

I had such high expectations for it and it ended up the most disappointing film of the year for me.

Not exact matches

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

2 is impressive having earned more than all the other films combined,» said Paul Degarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore, who noted that Captain America: Civil War accounted for more than half of the summer take at this point last year.

Cast Martin Short as the Canadian ambassador, Molly Parker as his tart - tongued aide and Christopher Plummer as the entire nation of Iceland — you've got the opening - night film for next year's Toronto International Film Festival.

It's a unique opportunity for Toronto - based Canada Goose, this year's official outerwear sponsor of the festival, to clad typically fashionable film folks in arctic apparel.

The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

The direction of the «Ant - Man» film should cause some concern since Wright — who was so passionately involved in the project for nearly a decade, teasing it at Comic Con conventions for years — left when the film is due out in almost a year's time.

Except that's not working either — newly discovered emails that were leaked as part of a hacking job on Sony last year show the company offered to pay $ 5 million for actor Daniel Craig to use a Sony Xperia as part of the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre.

None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

But not only is editing an integral part of digital photography, it has also been an inseparable part of film photography for 150 years.

For years he held private screenings of the movie (it's also been shown at a few film festivals), and there was even a moment when he and Stern thought of remaking it with Hopper directing once more and a younger actor in the lead.

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.

I applaud the company's fearless dive into this latest storytelling technology, continuing a pioneering knack for branded content that goes back 15 years (to parent company BMW's series of short films known as The Hire).

The website helps independent filmmakers distribute their films for a fee of $ 100 per film per year.

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.

After praising the DreamWorks brand, he said the main goal was the company's «deep library of intellectual property,» which would help NBCUniversal «grow our film, television, theme parks and consumer products businesses for years to come.»

«(Cannes) wants to reiterate its support to the traditional mode of exhibition of cinema in France and in the world,» it continued, adding that from next year its rules would explicitly state any film entered for competition would have to «commit itself to being distributed in French movie theatres».

The Justice Department said AT&T would use Time Warner's films and movies to force rival pay TV companies to pay «hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner's networks» in its lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Washington.

Though the Best Actor category is often brutally crowded, Spall is likely one of the year's first legitimate Oscar contenders - and, the actor admitted at the same lunch, he's also a candidate for an unlikelier honor if the film catches on after Sony Pictures Classics releases it in December.

The 40 - year - old entertainer said in a court filing late Tuesday that the stacks of cash in the photos are actually prop money, which is specially made for the studio lighting used in filming music videos and photo shoots.

It's proving to be an exceptionally busy day for the 40 - year - old: He's already attended four fashion shows; later, he'll give a talk at NYU's Stern School of Business, and attend another show and a swanky after - party, all while a film crew from New York magazine buzzes around him for an online video piece.

Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Fifor the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & FiFor the Study of Women in Television & Film.

These leaks are inevitably some of the best films of the year — because those are the ones sent to awards judges for consideration.

Still, while Guardians of the Galaxy has vaulted past its summer of 2014 competition, the movie is still barely inside the top 20 grossing Disney films of all - time and it entered Labor Day weekend slightly behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier for the company's (and the industry's) best - performing film of the year.

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

Netflix has expanded in recent years becoming not only a streaming service for television and film, but also a developer of new movies and TV shows.

Spokespeople for the Clintons denied the various parts of the Times report, but the impasse is nevertheless notable because parts of the film were already shot over the last two years, including on Bill Clinton's philanthropic trips to Africa.

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.

For several years, the MPAA has tracked what it calls the «piracy - free window,» the time elapsed between a film's release and the first appearance of illegal copies.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

For example, earlier this year organizers of the South by Southwest music, film and technology conference used Telemetry to monitor foot traffic and see in real time where bodies were aggregating and which venues were most popular.

But of course, at the end, that film could go on and make money for the next 20 years [through streaming] and we'll never see a statement.

For years he'd been dreaming up publicity stunts — such as offering Amanda Knox a large sum to appear in an adult film — and then enticing the likes of Gawker or TMZ to treat that stunt offer like news.

But signing on for the film meant almost a year of traveling on location with the cast.

AFTER eighteen years of writing, producing, directing and filming more than 5,000 commercials for Channel 7, Ron Reddingius has formed his own production company, Dingo Is Talent.

The president and CEO of Cineplex Entertainment has been in the film business for more than 25 years.

There Will Be No Stay, a documentary film released last year, profiles two former majors in South Carolina's department of corrections Swat team who sued the state for allegedly pressuring them into assisting in multiple executions with minimal training and no counselling (the case was eventually dismissed by a judge).

The partnership will officially launch at the 5th Annual ARRAY Soiree at this year's Sundance Film Festival where DuVernay and Indiegogo co-founder, Danae Ringlemann, will host 50 industry influencers, executives and creatives for a discussion on the present state of diversity in film as well as brainstorming ideas for the future.

Some projects have gone on to critical acclaim, too: About 10 % of the films at Sundance this year, for instance, have Kickstarter roots.

Under the terms of the agreement, said to be worth $ 1 billion to Disney, McDonald's paid $ 100 million in royalties and conducted 11 promotions a year for Disney films, videos and TV shows, with seven aimed specifically toward the young Happy Meal consumers.

«After two years of developing global interest in B.C.'s LNG potential, this year's budget has selected four or five other key industries for strategic investment and growth — from the film industry to mining, aerospace, and a Maritime Centre of Excellence.»

Based on data from Box Office Mojo, the blog reports that «China accounted for $ 500 million or just 7.7 percent of the $ 6.5 billion worldwide net revenue» from the thirty - two films that Hollywood got into China last year on a revenue - sharing basis.

The most recent film in the Fast and the Furious franchise, for example, grossed $ 1.2 billion worldwide, making it the second - highest grossing film of the year.

Revenue for the first quarter of the Walt Disney Company's 2015 fiscal year jumped 9 % as sales of merchandise from the hit animated film Frozen dominated the holiday season.

The 39 - year - old native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who started as a nightclub stripper there at 17, has appeared in more than 250 X-rated films, beginning in 2000; was signed as an exclusive with major porn studio Wicked Pictures in 2002 (she's still a contract player for them); and has been inducted into multiple industry halls of fame, including the one run by leading industry trade publication Adult Video News.

The company often invests in projects that could take years to come to fruition — it's currently benefiting from early investments of films for smartphones — but when those bets start paying off 3M's investors often reap the benefits.