Sentences with phrase «films a year combined»

Right around the new millennium, the major studios were releasing 200 - plus films a year combined.

Not exact matches

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.

His shuttle times would be much more interesting (I looked at his combine results for shuttle info but couldn't find any details) but film of him the last couple of years is all we really need to see to know what we're getting.

The documentary film, Lost in Living from film - maker, Mary Trunk follows four women artists over seven years as they combine motherhood with their art careers and it will be streaming for free over this Mother's Day weekend (9 - 11 May).

At last year's address, Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a surprise visit to announce a $ 15 million state investment in a DeWitt hub that combines the film and nanotechnology industries.

And last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney announced a $ 15 million investment in a DeWitt hub intended to combine the film and nanotechnology industries.

Years of experience in the entertainment, fashion, film and tv world as on - camera talent combined with a decade of exploring energy healing traditions to include Shamanic Healing, Reiki, Voice Dialogue and Yoga helped Kahshanna sink her narrative, branding and media chops into her boutique media hub Kissing Lions Public Relations.

But its breezy, wholehearted tone, combined with Franco's career - defining performance, make it one of the most enjoyable films of the year.

If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.

The distributor released more films last year than in its previous (and only) two years of existence combined, with the best being Spain's silent - film take on Snow White, Blancanieves.

«Slumdog Millionaire» is a somewhat predictable but lovely film, combining a honest look at poverty in India with one of the best love stories of recent years.

In his growing years as a feature filmmaker, Arcand would alternate between fiction films and documentaries, at times combining the two in such efforts as 1975's Gina.

With the skyscraping popular success of «Black Panther» and ticket presales for «Infinity War» surpassing the seven previous Marvel films combined, this may be the year that the Avengers crush the Rebel Alliance.

It is hard to remember how few serious film critics held podiums twenty years ago (when Time magazine carried more influence, for that matter, than all the rest of the media combined — among the handful of moviegoers who read reviews at all).

Director Kevin Chu was like the head coach leading out his Most Valuable Players (MVPs) to court, and explained that the idea for Kung Fu Dunk was actually established some 13 years back when filming martial arts movies such as Shaolin Popey (Shao Lin Xiao Zhi, starring Jimmy Lin), when he thought about whether martial arts could be combined with a ball game like basketball.

Directed with period flair and eye - catching scene transitions by Paul McGuigan (Victor Frankenstein), the film that charts her final years likewise does more than just combine a tear - inducing tale of sickness with an unlikely romance.

The buzz on the film (which premieres on Sunday at the London Film Festival) has been solid in advance, and Thompson (who like Streep, has two Oscars) has her most promising role in years as «Mary Poppins» author P.L. Travers, which combines the always awards - friendly elements of a tragic backstory and a sharp - tongued old lady (of which Thompson is the third in contention, after Streep and Dench).

Fifty years after it first appeared, Mike Nichols» film (re-released in a restored 4K digital print) makes such beguiling viewing largely because of Hoffman's performance as Benjamin, which combines humour, boredom and panic in equal measure.

Featuring the best work from Carrey and McGregor in years (and a reminder of Carrey's phenomenal and chameleonic talents when given the right material), a smart and witty script adapted by the directors from McVicker's novel, and a cracking pace that neither hurries nor languishes, it combines the highlights of the heist and escape genres with dashes of dark humour and irreverence to create a film best described as a wicked delight.

The story combines the personal back - story of Bond's childhood with his relentless pursuit of the evil empire known as Spectre... the crime syndicate that has been part of the Bond universe for many years and films.

Now, they are drawing on their combined years of experience in helping complete strangers pick out movies based on only the most vague of criteria — as well as the fact that they make their living writing about film for The A.V. Club — to put together a guide to some of the best and most interesting movies released so far this year.

This year's exclusive sneak previews include Jack Goes Boating, the directorial debut from Philip Seymour Hoffman; Cell 211, an action - packed Spanish film; Armadillo, a new documentary that asks tough questions about the «war on terror; and Sensation, a new Irish dark comedy on sex in rural Ireland combining the talents of director Tom Hall with Domhnaill Gleeson in the lead role.

The film has more horror and terror than a bunch of recent «horror» films I have seen this year combined.

Yorgos Lanthimos» name has become synonymous with contemporary absurdism; the films that have made him one of the most lauded filmmakers in recent years - Dogtooth, Alps, and The Lobster - have mixed stories of families and relationships in the most strange of circumstances, combining black comedy, violence, and the crisis of identity.

That, combined with the fact that over the years I've become unable to separate it in my mind from «Notting Hill», deemed it well worthy of another watch from my own point of view (although strangely, having now watched it another couple of times, I'm still struggling to pick out some of the differences between the two films).

Combining a mockumentary approach with unreliable narrators and a whole lot of humanity, the film showcases a best - ever performance by Margot Robbie as the gifted and star - crossed athlete Harding and an unforgettable Allison Janney supporting turn as the least - supportive mother of the year.

The Wrestler is a better film than Milk and Frost / Nixon combined, two films which will be forgotten in a few years... Aronofsky will probably be recognised in ten years time once all his best work is behind him (Scorcese, anyone?)

And yet these are two directors whose films have combined for 37 nominations and nine wins in the last seven years, so it would be fairly absurd to underrate their chances too much.

We've waited 33 years since Peter Greenway's The Draughtsman's Contract for another film combining romance, intrigue and 17th century landscape gardening.

Nominated for a combined (22) Academy Awards and winner of (9) Oscars, including (2) for Best Picture, «The Godfather» and «The Godfather: Part II» are still considered, forty - years after their release, to among the greatest American films ever made.

The flagship of the Festival, section Oficial Fantàstic, presents some of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year, such as Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn - director of Valhalla Rising and Drive; Jim Jarmusch's latest film Only Lovers Left Alive, an eternal love story between two vampires; A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III, a surrealist comedy by the hand of Roman Coppola; The Congress, a spectacular adaptation of Stanislaw Lem directed by Ari Folman - responsible for Vals with Bashir -, that combines animation with a science - fiction story starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel; Sitges 2013 will also represent the return of Kiyoshi Kurosawa to the fantastique genre with Real.

Who we want to win: Ve Neill and Martin Samuel were nominated for a Best Makeup Oscar for the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, and while they didn't win that year, it would seem only fair that their combined efforts (in hair and makeup, actually) over the course of the hugely popular trilogy should finally be rewarded.

The film, which combines hypnotic digressions into visual poetry with bellicose wit and the youthful energy of abandon and excess, won her a Special Jury award for her directing approach at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival earlier in the year.

One of the most original and charming films of the year, it is an imaginative interpretation of the Snow White fairy tale that combines the visual power of silent cinema with the dramatic force of an orchestral score to create an entirely unique method of storytelling.

Especially when you consider the fact that sold separately 8 years ago, the two films carried a combined retail price of $ 59.98.

Nominated for best screenplay at the Gotham Awards, this self - reflective film combines themes and notions of Lost in Translation with last year's Patterson.

The Bottom Line: The Shape of Water is a great visual treat and a pleasant score combined make for a film you'll likely revisit every few years.

Sorkin's words combined with Fassbender's performance (and Boyle's largely understated direction) makes for the most layered film character of the entire year — quite a feat considering that Jobs brings so much viewer baggage to the table.

The way screenwriter Luke Davies and first - time feature film director Garth Davis («Top of the Lake») have adapted «Lion» from the page (the 2013 memoir, A Long Way Home) to the screen is nothing short of fascinating, boldly combining all the basic human emotions — love, sadness, grief, anger, joy and hope to produce one of the year's best films.

But despite these growing pains, proponents of serious games often compare their fledgling industry with documentary film in its early years; it combined an entertainment medium with weighty topics, and today produces influential blockbusters such as An Inconvenient Truth.

Now with two years of teaching under her belt, Groves said she sees this film as evidence of how hard teachers work combined with the highs and lows of being a teacher.

As a child I was raised on The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, and when the Lord of Rings film came out (Yes, the trilogy is one big film, in my eyes) it immediately went to the top of my list of favorite movies, while the LEGO games have provided me with many happy hours of play over the years, so combining these things was always going to be a recipe for fun.

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The 35 - year - old was shortlisted for an installation — a diorama - like work that combined collage and film — at the Whitechapel Art Gallery; and a work she made in response to the artist Kurt Schwitters who, exiled from his native Germany under the Nazis, spent the last years of his life in rural Cumbria.

While he has continuously in the past 50 years been recognized and singled out with important museum shows and distinctions, in the past three years alone, he has had a major presence in Venice Biennale (2011), Documenta 13 (2012), Punta della Dogana (2013), Pacific Standard Time (2011), combined with a critical mass of press, and a new documentary «Llyn Foulkes: One Man Band,» that is touring film circuits also bringing to light Foulkes's musical practice.

Combining his love of lighting and directing talent, Kelvin moved into film three years ago with great success and continues to shoot film as «standalone» projects alongside his stills shoots.

For more than 40 years, Robert Bibler (American, born 1948) has combined a fascination with cinematic storytelling, classic film, and Renaissance art to create a beautifully rendered and thoughtful body of work.

As the sister event of Switzerland's Art Basel, the most prestigious art show worldwide for the past 40 years, Art Basel Miami Beach combines an international selection of top galleries with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design.

Last year's prize went to the Irish artist Duncan Campbell, for a video work that combines dance by the British choreographer Michael Clark with film clips that evoke a mid-20th-century educational reel on African art.

As the sister event of Switzerland's Art Basel, one of the most prestigious art fairs worldwide for the past 38 years, Art Basel Miami Beach combines an international selection of top galleries with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design.