Sentences with phrase «films marketed as»

It was also funnier than any film marketed as a comedy I've seen in years.

Not exact matches

Mattel (mat) says that under the deal, it can market toys and other consumer products inspired by the franchise and its many feature films, as well as an upcoming sequel that's planned for 2018.

The film world will also go through major shifts, and we foresee a billion - dollar business developing in how what's known as «PVOD windowing» — that is, premium content that's behind a paywall for some time and eventually is made available to all — changes the way feature films are produced, marketed and delivered.

Any marketing major will tell you that social media marketing is just as vital to your marketing campaign as handing out fliers, sending out ads, and filming television commercials.

Then, in 1993, McDonald's allowed customers to «dino - size» their drinks with a 32 - ounce cup as part of a marketing push for the film Jurassic Park.

Even when the camera market went digital, the advantages of owning a Canon or Nikon remained, as new digital SLR models were compatible with lenses from the prior analog film models.

Avnet (whose father, Jon, is a veteran Hollywood director and producer as well as the studio's co-CEO) told Fortune the studio wanted to maintain the film's authenticity — they wanted viewers to think the horror film playing out in real - time might really be happening — so they avoided marketing the movie and, in fact, they did not even run the idea by Snapchat before proceeding.

June says Lightwave now works with several other studios, «much earlier in the creative process» — during the making of the film as well as in the formation of marketing plans.

She supplements her Social Security income by running 10 - day sales events at Costco, where she sells clothing, shoes and bedding for marketing companies, and by acting as an extra in Baltimore - filmed television shows and movies.

Scenes shown in the film are the ma - ssacre in Mumbai, the as - sas - sinations of Bhutto and Theo Van Gogh, the conduct of the seven Muslim doctors in the UK, the 9/11 terrorists, the 24/7 Sunni suicide / roadside / market / mosque bombers, the 24/7 Shiite suicide / roadside / market / mosque bombers, the Islamic bombers of the trains in the UK and Spain, the Bali crazies, the Kenya crazies, the Pakistani «koranics», the Palestine suicide bombers / rocketeers, the Lebanese nutcases, the Taliban nut jobs, the Ft. Hood follower of the koran, and the Filipino «koranics».

He emphasized that Campus Crusade's mission of getting «the message of Christ to everybody» took priority: «I think [Heyman] hoped that we would have gone on in the lucrative markets of the world to get the Genesis films and the Gospel of Luke out as teaching tools.

[5] Costumes worn by singer Carmen Miranda in several World War II - era Hollywood films featured turbans, including increasingly outrageous and oversized piles of fruit - as - headgear, supposedly modelled on those worn by Brasilian market ladies.

The marketing for the film is sickening: posited as «an incredible fairytale love story,» encouraged as a date - night movie, and set to release just in time for Valentine's Day, Fifty Shades barrels ahead without an ounce of self - awareness — or, perhaps, of conscience.

«Many years ago we came as a small company to BrauBeviale for the first time, we are now the market leader in the thickness - optimized PE film sector and are always here every year.

Packaging technologies such as nanocomposite films, intelligent packaging, electrospinning and tunable materials enable greater convenience and product presentation — particularly important for the gift - giving culture in key Asian export markets.

When rolls are being changed, say, once every 20 minutes, as may be the case with pre-applied zipper film, that time adds up — over an hour and a half of production time lost in a single 8 - hour shift on a single line,» says Chris Graff, vice-president of sales and marketing at the Massachusetts - based Butler Automatic Inc. «That's an hour and a half's worth of packages not being made, shipped and sold from that line during each shift.»

As a member, you have the expertise of our entire sales and marketing team working for you to promote your products and services to visitors, meeting professionals and travel trade, media and the film industry.

The Director of Communications and Audience Engagement will work closely with the CEO to create, curate, and market an expansive collection of film clips (full episodes and movies as well as short clips) focused on bringing light escapist pleasure to the (mostly female) masses.

In his remarks, the Chairman, House Committee in Tourism, Arts and Culture, Hon. Desmond Elliot stated that Lagos State was not just in Cannes to sell and market itself as a venue for shooting films but to tell the world that the State has a Government that is a lover of the arts and entertainment industry.

Instead, the state will market the building as open work space - analogous to a convention center - where out - of - town film companies can swoop in for a few weeks, make a film and then leave.

Scott: First, now they have four PR firms working on promoting this film for the next couple of weeks, but the initial marketer is Motive Entertainment, which is the same marketing company that promoted Passion of the Christ and Chronicles of Narnia; and the kind of pioneering approach that they instituted with Passion of the Christ was this viral marketing as they were doing with Expelled.

Yet, cadmium telluride commands only about 30 percent of the thin - film market, according to DoE statistics, compared with amorphous silicon cells (such as those produced by Sharp and ECD Ovonics), which account for more than 60 percent; CIGS cells make up just about 1 percent of this market.

Violent content was compared with that from the two top - grossing films for adults released in the same year as each of the cartoons, excluding those tagged as «action» or «adventure,» because these are often marketed to children.

Samsung marketed this camera as a selfie camera, which is fun, but it's also very convenient for filming.

Tonight, I am attending the AICP Next Awards for work, which honors marketing campaigns in categories such as integrated, viral / web film, website / microsite, product integration, social media, mobile, cause marketing, and experiential.

Fixer Upper's fourth season is shooting now and, as reported by Joanna in a filming update from the Magnolia Market blog, you can expect some new and different things in the coming episodes.

No doubt, there is an uncomfortable number of logos being marketed to kids in the The Lego Movie, along with the obvious one that's in the title, but the film as a whole is very much in the spirit of Cloud Cuckooland: It's a place where the use of X-Acto blades and Krazy Glue breaks the rules but almost everything else goes.

But in living up to its marketing aphorism of «It All Ends,» and hurling as many familiar images and faces at us that it can muster, Deathly Hallows: Part 2 feels very self - aware as to its role as the conclusion of an eight - film journey.

Being marketed as a generic, run - of - the - mill horror film is the worst thing that can happen to you from a critical standpoint, but from a commercial point of view, there

Maybe at this point it's too much to hope for an animated film like The Angry Birds Movie to exist as anything other than marketing fodder, but hopefully it's not too much to ask for that #content to have a shred of substance to it.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.

For those expecting the Ferrell versus Pitt showdown marketed heavily in the ad campaigns for the film, they will be sorely disappointed as that's probably the most dishonest marketing we've seen for a film in a while.

The inevitable development of a Strangers sequel (it made $ 82m from a $ 9m budget) has been plagued with setbacks and now, 10 years later, it creeps into cinemas, marketed largely as The Strangers and acting as a standalone film.

Going in step with the film's game vs. reality plot, several establishing shots have a tilt - shift effect, as if beginning as miniature diorama models on a game board, and a continuous shot of the group of friends playing a game of keep - away with a black - market Fabrege egg — a McGuffin — through every room of a mansion is a tense, energetic, elaborately choreographed bit of showing off.

Marketing this film as a horror film was a major misstep and will likely account for much of the negativity this film received.

Paramount have been fools in their handling and marketing of this and can only hope that the film's reception doesn't suffer as a result.

However a perhaps unintentional reading as a Brexit metaphor — the plucky but slightly rubbish Brits are pitted against the slick Europeans — might hamper the film's potential in some markets.

This is not, as the marketing department of Universal Pictures would have one believe, a kick - ass superhero film.

Warner Brothers, which is marketing the film as a conventional thriller, recently overruled the producers» desire to show it in European festivals so that the studio could open it wide (in many theaters at once) and cash in as quickly as possible on the name value of its cast before word - of - mouth about its depressing subject matter could kill it.

For a film heavily marketed as an archetypal, heartwarming tale of a boy and his horse, Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete is welcomingly less saccharine than its trailer suggests.

The film has been criticized as an apology for the people behind the market crash, but I don't see Chandor's sympathy for the various individuals on display — notably Kevin Spacey as a career company man disgusted by the corporate behavior — as any kind of apology.

Marketed on the shoulders of big names that are little more than extended cameos in the film (Jonah Hill feels more featured in the trailer than the actual film, if you can believe it), there are bit players given as much room to play as the stars.

A better route would have been using the imagery to cover the ad space, as Universal did beautifully with their respective campaigns for Cinderella Man and Jarhead, but even still, Warner Bros. had their thoughts together for marketing this film throughout the summer and into the awards season.

As much as I'd like to blame the trailers for misleading viewers, this is not an easy film to market, and as such, most ticket buyers walked into their screening ready for a simple, familiar formula: Seth Rogen + raunchy R - rated comedAs much as I'd like to blame the trailers for misleading viewers, this is not an easy film to market, and as such, most ticket buyers walked into their screening ready for a simple, familiar formula: Seth Rogen + raunchy R - rated comedas I'd like to blame the trailers for misleading viewers, this is not an easy film to market, and as such, most ticket buyers walked into their screening ready for a simple, familiar formula: Seth Rogen + raunchy R - rated comedas such, most ticket buyers walked into their screening ready for a simple, familiar formula: Seth Rogen + raunchy R - rated comedy.

Not long ago, what with the housing market on the fritz and certifiable capitalistic ruin staring down the face of America, not to mention stoke brokers being painted as the devils of the earth, it seemed a great time to revisit Oliver Stone's 1987 film «Wall Street,» the Michael Douglas starrer that put «greed is -LSB-...]

design as the American marketing of the film (toning down the clutter and hi - lighting the hearts and sunshine) but have curiously re-branded the film to a more «straight - forward» title for their own audience.

In his review, Turan compares the film to the classic - age comedies of Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch in noting that «making an anarchic, absurdist comedy about 2008's housing market collapse and the global financial crisis that followed is as unlikely as the collapse itself.

The disillusion was siphoned off to political thrillers of the period, leaving car chases, hot vehicles and anti-authoritarianism as key elements and adding country & western soundtracks and a small - business, individualist streak, in line with their appeal to the southern and midwest markets where these films were proving highly successful in drive - ins.

Harry Shearer is the classically trained co-star who makes his living as talking wiener, Parker Posey and Christopher Moynihan are the lovebirds playing brother and sister, and Jennifer Coolidge is the moneyed and overdressed producer whose insights into marketing involve telling people to NOT see the film.

By contrast, every single «chills over kills» horror film on the list is generally regarded as either an outright blockbuster (Paranormal Activity 1 and 2), a hit relative to its budget and marketing visibility (Insidious, The Last Exorcism) or a minor success (Devil, which grossed over three times its $ 10 million budget domestically).