«The Shape of Water» leads
all films this year with 14 nominations including Best Picture, Sally Hawkins for Best Actress, Richard Jenkins for Best Supporting Actor, Octavia Spencer for Best Supporting Actress, Guillermo del Toro for both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay alongside Vanessa Taylor, Dan Laustsen for Best Cinematography, Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, and Jeff Melvin for Best Production Design, Sidney Wolinsky for Best Editing, Luis Sequeira for Best Costume Design, Best Hair and Makeup, Best Visual Effects, Best Sci - Fi or Horror Movie, and Alexandre Desplat for Best Score.
The Online Film Critics Society recognizes the best
films each year with awards in various categories.
«The Shape of Water» leads
all films this year with 14 nominations including Best Picture.
She appeared in five
films that year with nearly as many spilling into 2008, culminating with «Twilight» and Kristen in the lead role.
James Bond is the elder statesman of action movies, celebrating his 50th anniversary in
film this year with the release of his twenty - third -LRB-!)
This is his second
film this year with Sandler as the two starred in the adult comedy That's My Boy.
«La La Land» leads
all films this year with 12 nominations including Best Picture, Ryan Gosling for Best Actor, Emma Stone for Best Actress, Damien Chazelle for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Linus Sandgren for Best Cinematography, David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds - Wasco for Best Production Design, Tom Cross for Best Editing, Mary Zophres for Best Costume Design, Two Best Song Nominations for «Audition (The Fools Who Dream)» and «City of Stars,» and Justin Hurwitz for Best Score.
This week's release of «Far From the Madding Crowd» is the third period
film this year with Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts in the romantic...
After acting in several movies like It's Complicated and Happythankyoumoreplease, Kazan wrote her first feature
film this year with Ruby Sparks.
The first is to not to be unduly influenced by the studio shenanigans of backloading
the film year with their intended Oscar hopefuls.
After faltering with Green Lantern and R.I.P.D. recently, Ryan Reynolds has returned to the world of independent
film this year with The Voices.
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Not exact matches
The 4 -
year - old company emerged as the successor to News Corporation and deals mostly
with film and television.
Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this
year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman
film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand
with big events.
He made and uploaded his first, the 68 - minute Enfin l'Automne (Fall, Finally) to YouTube last
year, largely just to see if he could do it, and he's now on the verge of signing a deal
with a Hollywood studio to do a proper
film.
19 -
year - old Elle Fanning will star
with Selena Gomez in the aforementioned upcoming Woody Allen
film, which a report said will feature a sexual relationship between an older man and a 21 -
year - old girl.
And many, many sequels aren't executed
with the thought or care of their far - superior original
films, especially in series that have stretched over many
years — as one sees in the chasm of quality between «The Terminator» (1984) and «Terminator Genisys» (2015).
In 2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King became the rare popcorn event
film to achieve mass appeal, earning $ 377 million in its theatrical run, and also emerge
with the
year's top Oscar honor.
According to Headlines & Global News, the
film industry ended the
year with more than $ 11 billion in domestic box office sales, buoyed by heavy hitters like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Deadpool and Zootopia.
The very next
year, Warner released two fewer
films with only one earning at least $ 200 million at the U.S. box office.
It is true that popular opinion has shifted repeatedly
with regard to this
year's most award - worthy
films.
«The intent
with the «Infinity War»
films is to bring 10
years of accumulative storytelling to an incredible climax.
The original episodes were
filmed outdoors at a farm in England, but after the series wrapped production several
years ago, the Teletubbies house was torn down and replaced
with a pond.
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.
Last
year,
with sales of $ 821 million, Wonder Woman became the highest grossing superhero origin
film of all time.
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.
Apple's marketing through the
years may well be some of the most innovative ever, starting
with the 1984 Super Bowl commercial from
film director Ridley Scott.
For this
year's NYFW, she is working
with a partner to
film the show in virtual reality.
Fox's decision to finally move forward
with the
film followed a
years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie made.
There's a lot to pack into the movie, and even more will be coming next
year with an untitled fourth «Avengers» movie that was
filmed back - to - back
with «Infinity War.»
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.
Last
year, Fox hauled in $ 595.9 million
with six
films averaging $ 99 million each.
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.
With Mark Zuckerberg predicting Facebook content will be driven by video in five
years, storytelling through
film and photography is set to be expected by visitors to your site as a complement to the written word, especially as we're using mobile devices so much to access information and entertainment.
Like Netflix, Amazon (AMZN) is looking to get into the movie production game, promising earlier this
year to eventually churn out around a dozen independent
films —
with budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million — every
year.
But signing on for the
film meant almost a
year of traveling on location
with the cast.
«I had a meeting probably 21
years ago
with Michael Crichton [who wrote and directed the 1973 original
film] about doing this.
In fact, only one
film in recent
years saw lower ticket sales before taking home the golden statue
with the «Best Picture» inscription.
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).
After
years making slick commercials and music videos, Bay's first feature
film didn't just bring a new spice to the buddy - cop movie
with the teaming of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
In fact, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was the first woman to direct a superhero movie and the
film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along
with being last
year's third - highest grossing
film domestically).
The thin
film solar maker is also reviving its EPC division
with a goal to build 1 GW of solar projects each
year, as well as increasing its presence in O&M services.
That was primarily because its
film division, Paramount, had no theatrical releases in the quarter, compared
with last
year, when it released «Transformers: Age of Extinction.»
President Donald Trump's re-election campaign spent more than $ 1 out of every $ 5 on attorney fees this
year as the president contended
with the ongoing special counsel investigation and a new legal challenge from an adult -
film star.
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.
Netflix signed on
with the pay TV network five
years ago, but it hasn't had exclusive streaming rights for those studios»
films since 2012, when Amazon signed its own Epix deal.
Two newsubscription streaming services are in the works: ESPN Plus, expected to launch this spring, and a service
with Disney, Pixar, Lucasfilm and Marvel
films and original TV series next
year.
Already the media industry is turning fast to streaming as a way to combat cord - cutting trends and find additional revenues - Disney (DIS) launched ESPN + earlier this month, and plans to follow up
with a streaming service for its feature
films sometime in the coming
year.
Sources say Comcast's TV and
film unit has a «handshake» agreement
with BuzzFeed, which raised $ 50 million last
year at a $ 850 million valuation.