Sentences with phrase «films as pirates»

Kevin Baillie has spent much of his career making super-charged effects on such franchise films as Pirates of the Caribbean and Transformers, but for The Walk he and his team instead worked to make those effects as invisible as possible.

Whether gracefully gliding across the stage in dance, pounding the boards in a play, or lighting up the screen in such popular films as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the multi-faceted Saldana seems capable of achieving anything she puts her mind to.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

Think of it as a spiderweb; the strands include a presence on BitTorrent and other peer - to - peer services, cyberlockers, websites — anywhere pirated films are likely to surface.

While Canipre's film - noir website paints the company as the scourge of pirates, the truth is murkier.

In 1995, the ship featured as a rusty tanker in Kevin Costner's film Waterworld, captained by a deranged pirate bent on locating the last bit of land on a world where climate change has melted the ice caps.

But after the massive success of the 2003 film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, based on the attraction, film characters such as Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Barbossa joined the attraction in 2006.

Harris» feature films for 2004 include the live - action remake Thunderbirds and the thriller Trauma, starring Colin Firth.Though her star was steadily rising in Hollywood, it wasn't until 2006 that Harris would really make a splash on stateside screens; and after supporting roles in Brett Ratner's After the Sunset and Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Harris took to the high seas for her role as Tia Dalma in the eagerly anticipated summer sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Actor / director James Franco has created as unique a character in The Disaster Artist as Johnny Depp did with his Jack Sparrow creation in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

Brief flashes of insecurity would add a lot to the character of Morgan, but only when added at just the right time; as is, there are moments when the façade seems to falter with the entire crew present and you have to wonder how some more ambitious pirate didn't dethrone her long before the film had ended.

But with all of the film's dark set - pieces, surrounded by dried - up corpses, I began to feel as if I was on a very long ride through Disneyland's «Pirates of the Caribbean.»

While Verbinski would make a name for himself as one of driving forces behind the titanic Pirates franchise, we can be happy that he took the time in between those films to give us such a tender, insightful, and sadly overlooked film.

After lambasting him for his disaster of an action film 12 Rounds, I now see that as a director he was hideously robbed of the fame CutThroat Island should have brought him when the box office of its time failed to recognize the greatness inherent in pirate epics.

Three - time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp («Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,» «Finding Neverland,» the «Pirates of the Caribbean» films) stars as notorious mobster James «Whitey» Bulger in the drama «Black Mass,» directed by Scott Cooper («Crazy Heart»).

«Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest» (2006) Box Office Take: $ 1,066 billion 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 12 Not as well - crafted as it predecessor, but not as bloated as the films that followed, the first «Pirates» sequel «Dead Man's Chest» was still kind of a mess, but still retained enough of the original's invention and charm to remain somewhat palatable.

Overall The Lone Ranger is sure to be another Disney blockbuster as this brings an explosive new genre alongside film juggernauts like Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure.

Beginning his career on stage, the English actor made his film debut in 1992's «Alien 3» before landing roles in such films as «Moulin Rouge,» «Doom,» «Pirate of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides» and «Dredd.»

The game was released at the same time as «Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides» and includes story content from the first 4 Pirates films.

Inspired by the popular Disney parks ride of the same name, the blockbuster «Pirates of the Caribbean» film franchise came full circle Wednesday as star Johnny Depp surprised Disneyland visitors with an appearance by Captain Jack Sparrow.

Whatever flaws Pirates of the Caribbean may have as a film, it does look and sound great.

If you haven't seen it already, I'd consider this film to be a good choice as a rental: it lacks the rewatchability to make it worth a purchase, but it's worth seeking out at your local rental store if you're in the mood for a fluffy pirate adventure film.

In other words, Boll's latest evokes the form but not the content of such film series as Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars, which means that few if any fantasy fans will be deceived into believing that Dungeon Siege is a legitimate endeavor rather than the same everything - must - go yard sale of clichés and familiar formulas the director mined for his previous work.

It may come as a surprise that the main four actors portraying the Somali pirates are all making their feature film debut.

Disney just released this awesome new movie poster featuring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in the upcoming film «Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides» coming to theaters May 20, 2011.

The film, for a May 26 release in the U.S., will see the return of Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, the amiable, garrulous pirate who always seems to be one step ahead of trouble.

What made it even more remarkable at the time was that Kline was known almost exclusively as a dramatic actor, in films like Sophie's Choice, The Big Chill, and Cry Freedom — only people who'd seen him onstage or in The Pirates Of Penzance could have anticipated such a broadly comic turn.

Older audiences may find Hook, the live action film starring Dustin Hoffman as the evil pirate and Robin Williams as a grownup Peter to be a more engaging portrayal of the story.

If you've been with these films for the past a decade and a half, you will appreciate how writers Jeff Nathanson and Terry Rossio and directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg craft and execute the final hour, allowing «Pirates» to end as it began, as pure entertainment, providing the proper send - off the series so deserves.

God of War Not Rated Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88 % On DVD and Blu - ray I do love me some big Asian epics so I was ready to dive into this lavishly produced film about a 16th century war between Japanese pirates and the Chinese as the pirates attempt to invade the Chinese coastline.

More difficult to embrace is Robert De Niro as the film's Dread Pirate Roberts, a fencing mentor who happens, in this incarnation, to be a ballroom - dancing guru as well.

There are a couple of vignettes that don't play as well as they should (the disastrous school play being an example), but then the film gets back on track, and suddenly Steve Carell is wearing a pirate shirt with the sleeves catching on fire, and everyone looks around panicking, «What the heck has happened to our family?

The film stars Oscar ® nominee Johnny Depp («Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,» «Finding Neverland,» the «Pirates of the Caribbean» films) as Whitey Bulger and Joel Edgerton («The Great Gatsby,» «Zero Dark Thirty») as FBI Agent John Connolly.

PARANORMAN was named the best animated film of 2012, with FRANKENWEENIE and THE PIRATES: BAND OF MISFITS as runners - up.

I was in «Pirates Of Penzance» about the same age as the characters in the film, and my brother and I were also in Benjamin Britten's «Noah's Flood» and I subsequently became aware of the actual place in England that is Penzance and it's a sort of summer, seaside destination.

The writer / director was previously best known as a close collaborator of Gore Verbinski, co-writing «Rango» and directing a «Pirates of the Caribbean» spin - off short film, among others.

I wasn't a big fan of Richard Curtis's sappy - silly «Love, Actually,» but the writer - director's new fact - based film, «Pirate Radio» has moments of gleeful anarchism drawing on many hallowed sources of English comedy, including «The Goon Show,» the «Carry On» movies, and Ealing Studio comedies such as «The Lavender Hill Mob.»

· Johnny Depp («Pirates of the Caribbean» films, «The Lone Ranger,» «Sweeney Todd») steps in as the Wolf, who sets his sights on Little Red Riding Hood.

I think he benefits here from the clarity of animation drawings, as compared to the tendency of the «Pirates» films to get lost in frenzies of CGI.

The responsible one with the job in rundown Venice Beach circa the early -»70s, he «ain't no pirate,» says surf shop owner Skip Engblom (Heath Ledger, doing Val Kilmer on lots of ganja), who decides mysteriously one day to sponsor a competitive skateboard team with ringers Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk) and Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch) as well as a bunch of other kids the film doesn't have time for.

Telling, too, that with a cast that includes Gwyneth Paltrow as a Howard Hawksian news maven, Giovanni Ribisi as a boy - mechanical - genius, and Angelina Jolie as a one - eyed British sky - pirate (a turn that would fit comfortably with any outtake from Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso), the only thing that sparks conversation is the technology used in the film's creation — and the sources that it's cannibalized to serve as the framework for all the admittedly impressive gewgaw.

star will portray Mary in the live - action film, which features Jackman as pirate Blackbeard, Garrett Hedlund as Hook and Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily, reported Ace Showbiz.

The Netflix original film is directed by Adam Wingard (Blair Witch, You're Next) and stars Nat Wolff (Paper Towns), Margaret Qualley (The Leftovers), Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out), Paul Nakauchi (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End), Shea Whigham (American Hustle) and Willem Dafoe (Spider - Man) as the voice of Ryuk.

As a result, On Stranger Tides is more in tune with the Chronicles of Narnia movies than the other Pirates... films, with religious ethic mixing very well with box office spectacle, which should please both secular and Christian audiences.

And then, Harlin decides to make an action movie about pirates, which, as a pre-Pirates of the Caribbean concept, wasn't one that was strong (the public has never had a collective desire for more pirate films).

As has been the case so far this summer with every film that ends with a «3» or variation thereof, «Pirates» needs to call it a day.

Although Bullz - Eye had hoped to be able to speak to writer / director Richard Curtis in person whilst attending the press junket for his latest film, «Pirate Radio,» things didn't go as planned: he was called away suddenly on a family emergency, necessitating the cancellation of his interviews.

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What PIRATE RADIO does that is so remarkable is to capture as closely as a film can what it was like to be a fan of rock & roll at a time when it was considered not just noise, but actual subversion.

One of the most beloved thespians out there, Nighy is equally at home as Captain Jack's nemesis in the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN films or as a dead body talking to a pigeon in short film, THE HUNGRY CORPSE.