Sentences with phrase «filming a number of»

The BBC has filmed a number of pieces here over the years, including pieces on general format programmes such as Countryfile.

If you assign a film a number of stars based on quality, say 1 - 5, and then add up the total number of stars accumulated by a director in a given calendar year, I suspect that Johnnie To in 2004 earned more stars in one year than any director since John Ford in 1939.

VANESSA HUDGENS says she had to «cheat on her diet» and eat cake after filming a number of intense scenes for new movie «Sucker Punch».

What You Need To Know: August Strindberg «s «Miss Julie» is one of the most enduringly popular and most performed plays in the European canon, and has been filmed a number of times before (perhaps most notably as Mike Figgis «1999 take with Peter Mullan and Saffron Burrows).

The Stanford School of Engineering has been filming a number of their courses over the course of the last couple of years, ranging from introductory programming to more serious courses like iOS development.

Not exact matches

When a number of those types of films disappointed (or outright bombed) last summer, there was plenty of concern that moviegoers were suffering from «sequel fatigue» or «sequelitis.»

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

The company tracked the number of Internet searches across various platforms for each of the Best Picture nominees during the week before the nominations were announced last month and the week after, and then compared those numbers to the weeks around each film's initial release.

Reporters and journalists are being filmed constantly and some of them have a large number of subscribers on their personal channels, as well as their news channel.

However, while The Revenant «s search volume increased just 52 % around its nomination, but that film saw the highest number of searches overall during that period.

They're one of a team of vendors, a number of special effects companies, working together under a visual effects supervisor on the film.

The numbers are indicative of the struggle the movie industry has faced in getting film aficionados to consistently visit theatres amid the rise of streaming services such as Netflix.

The art of rhetoric — or persuasive communication — can include any number of forms: speeches, essays, tweets, images, films and more.

The list is sorted by the film's release date rather than the number of rentals in a year.

But for Paramount, the studio's success will largely be defined by movie ticket sales as well as the number of big blockbuster and tentpole film franchises it can churn out.

«So whoever initiated this — and was very proud of themselves to see that little dip in Iran's centrifuge numbers — should look back now and acknowledge it was a major mistake,» Emad Kiyaei, executive director American Iranian Council, says in the film.

The film passed the worldwide gross of 2003's «The Matrix Reloaded» ($ 742 million) for the top spot after box - office numbers came in Monday.

(A recent Los Angeles Times report revealed that Universal had an overwhelming number of male directors, 92.5 percent to be exact, helming its films between 2009 and 2014.)

Since securing a job as a writer for «30 Rock» in 2006, Glover has used his diverse talents and signature humor to find success in a staggering number of industries, including television, stand - up comedy, music, and film.

Before the study began, researchers asked 76 participants to rate the quality of a number of short films.

Those numbers took many by surprise (the film's $ 60 million opening weekend was well above early predictions of $ 40 million).

The attack shut down most of the studio's network for more than a week and hackers have released sensitive data over the Internet, including employee salaries and Social Security numbers along with high - quality digital versions of several unreleased films.

But the number of theaters alone might suggest a strong correlation to film success.

The three subsequent films in the series grossed more than $ 310 million on a total budget of $ 55 million, according to the movie finance site The Numbers.

A recent study of the top 250 grossing films found that women comprised roughly 6 percent of the directors; the number of female minority filmmakers can barely be measured.

Born: 12/31/1976 Hometown: Montreal Number of staff employed at his restaurants (Garde Manger and Le Bremner): 54 Some of Chuck's 20 - odd tattoos: Lobster, bacon, Lemon meringue pie Number of towns visited during the filming of Chuck's Week off: Mexico: 16

«Our success is primarily dependent on audience acceptance of our films, which is extremely difficult to predict and, therefore, inherently risky... Our business is currently substantially dependent upon the success of a limited number of film releases each year and the unexpected delay or commercial failure of any one of them could have a material adverse effect on our financial results and cash flows.»

Something Ventured was screened at South by Southwest and it is set to appear at a number of the country's independent film festivals this spring and summer, and the producers hope to have it broadcast on TV in 2012.

Orr's father had a number of business interests, including an antique shop, an import - export business, and a film - financing operation.

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.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

The company announced in September that Health Canada granted market authorization to formally transfer the Drug Identification Number (DIN) ownership of Belbuca (buprenorphine) buccal film in Canada to BDSI's commercial partner, Purdue Pharma in Canada.

But Facebook was also where Mr. Perry promoted his films, where he posted ads seeking help on the set, and where he communicated with colleagues and a «massive number» of his friends and relatives.

Thus far, the film's accolades include seven nominations, plus a number of wins at run - up events, including Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globes for the movie, Frances McDormand and co-star Sam Rockwell.

Known as the Covered Bridge Capital of Oregon, Cottage Grove has just under 10,000 residents and a number of films have been shot there, including Buster Keaton's «The General.»

An unfiltered glorification of crime, the movie is thought to have encouraged a number of copycat killings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, during which 12 people were shot dead, as the murderers supposedly yelled lines from the film.

While the increasing number of TV - and - film crews shooting on Brooklyn streets can sometimes feel like an invading army, the team behind Bushwick Beats brought on something more like a neighborhood love-fest.

Despite the fact that the number of screens showing 3 - D films increased to nearly 15,000 in 2012, moviegoers are showing less interest in the three - dimensional format.

A number of movies have been filmed in Deming, including «Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull» and the upcoming «Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.»

China only allows a certain number of foreign films to showcase in the country each year, however the backing of companies in its own country could mean The Last Race is one of the select few which gets shown.

The market factors all favor the production of expanded numbers of horror films: They are the perfect vehicles for entertaining the teenage and twenty - something market.

I had seen a number of his earlier films at Paris Cinematheque and was very curious to get to know a real - live Soviet artist.

Quantum effects have been recently observed using a number of fairly large things, e.g. diamond (films?)

It's not hard to see a path where the number of faith - based films financed by major studios increase.

Anyhow, one summer in the early 80's my family and I watched a number of Christian slasher films put out by Russell Doughton including «Thief in the Night,» «A Distant Thunder,» «The Rapture,» and «Image of the Beast.»

During the «50s he wrote a number of plays and published a few novels, including A Mixture of Frailties (1958), later made into a film.

Baumgarten may have been omitted, but the film tells the story of a somewhat surprising number of Jewish ballplayers who succeeded beyond the dreams of most boys, reaching the major leagues.

According to a study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, the number of women directing films may actually be declining, with the top 250 highest - grossing domestic films going from 7 percent in 2015 to 5 percent in 2016 being directed by women.

There are a number of films in this category, moving from degradation to redemption, that are my favorite genre of films, if there is such a thing.

As with a number (although not all) of the post-apocalyptic films of recent years, The Hunger Games is strikingly absent of any kind of theology.