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Easily the best debut film of the year from freshman writer / director Ryan Coogler.

Not exact matches

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Once the booze wears off from Matthew McConaughey's final «Alright, alright, alright,» of our year in film, we can get down to the really important part of the Oscars and start second - guessing the winners.

So, the studio's biggest question mark of the year will be November's Justice League, which will bring together several superheroes from that universe of films, including Wonder Woman as well as Batman and Superman.

In fact, half of the top 10 grossing films of the year came from Walt Disney Studios — which hauled in $ 3 billion in domestic box office, Disney reported.

Ken Jacowitz, a 54 - year - old librarian from the New York borough of Queens, called it «a funny film made by funny people.»

«Homecoming» may be the sixth Spider - Man movie from Sony in 15 years, but it's by far one of the top two films in the entire franchise.

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.

«(Cannes) wants to reiterate its support to the traditional mode of exhibition of cinema in France and in the world,» it continued, adding that from next year its rules would explicitly state any film entered for competition would have to «commit itself to being distributed in French movie theatres».

It's proving to be an exceptionally busy day for the 40 - year - old: He's already attended four fashion shows; later, he'll give a talk at NYU's Stern School of Business, and attend another show and a swanky after - party, all while a film crew from New York magazine buzzes around him for an online video piece.

Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Film.

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

The film looks at 150 years of history, and the leaders who came from it.

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.

Jay Chandrasekhar, the director and a star of «Super Troopers 2,» spoke to Business Insider this weekend about how the film arose, out of necessity, from a massively successful crowdfunding campaign three years ago, which netted $ 4.6 million from 54,000 donors.

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.

«After two years of developing global interest in B.C.'s LNG potential, this year's budget has selected four or five other key industries for strategic investment and growth — from the film industry to mining, aerospace, and a Maritime Centre of Excellence.»

Based on data from Box Office Mojo, the blog reports that «China accounted for $ 500 million or just 7.7 percent of the $ 6.5 billion worldwide net revenue» from the thirty - two films that Hollywood got into China last year on a revenue - sharing basis.

Many of the top - grossing films of this year have earned a significant percentage of their revenues from China.

Revenue for the first quarter of the Walt Disney Company's 2015 fiscal year jumped 9 % as sales of merchandise from the hit animated film Frozen dominated the holiday season.

The true magic of Disney is that it continues to rake in cash from its films years after they leave the box office.

The company often invests in projects that could take years to come to fruition — it's currently benefiting from early investments of films for smartphones — but when those bets start paying off 3M's investors often reap the benefits.

In 2018, dozens of superheroes from various movies over the last nine years will come together for Avengers: Infinity War, and supposedly connect the plots of all these movies together, making the MCU one of the most ambitious projects in film history.

Based on the best - selling book of the same name, the film tells the real - life story of Colton Burpo, a 4 - year - old boy who awakens from surgery with eye - popping tales of the great beyond.

That's just an aside, though, to a film that's otherwise a suspenseful thriller with some of the best performances of the year from Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman.

I had the privilege of watching the film while seated behind a family that included four boys, who ranged from about six to 14 years in age.

In a way, the studios pretty much decide ahead of time which films they want to push for getting those nominations from other Hollywood insiders, and as a result, some of the best films of the year can get ignored.

Along with promising comedies, a new David O. Russell film, the latest offering from Pixar and a documentary about Hillsong, our list of the most anticipated movies of next year is filled with reboots and remakes.

Selma, director Ava Duvernay's film about the 1965 Voters» Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, has been touted as the best film of the year, thanks in no small...

Every year, movie lovers from around the world watch the Academy Awards to celebrate the best films of the year.

But in a year that's seen a slew of big budget releases and star - powered projects from some of Hollywood's most notable filmmakers (Martin Scorsese, Kenneth Lonergan, Mel Gibson) it was a $ 5 million film with no major superstar names that brought home the night's biggest award.

The film marks a transition for actor Andrew Garfield, from blockbuster superhero, to critical darling, in a starring role that is already being called one of the year's most powerful.

A clergyman who was convicted of filming men using a public toilet in a shopping centre has been barred from ministry as a priest in the Church of England for seven years.

Truth be told, it is mysterious that DC has managed to churn out three Batman movies, two Superman movies, a Green Lantern movie, a Green Arrow TV show and a planned Flash TV show (and that's all ignoring the previous film adaptations of these characters) without turning its attention to one of its heaviest hitters (aside from a famously disastrous attempt at a television show a few years back).

Gimmick or not, this final aside reminds us that Smith, ten years on from her ordeal at Nichols» hands, is of course more than just a character in a film, and is now a married, drug - free Christian.

This year promises To the Wonder, only the fourth film in the last quarter of a century from director Terrence Malick.

Amidst all the hype and debate surrounding this year's flood of faith - related films — Noah, God is Not Dead, and Heaven is For Real — a quiet Oscar winner from 2013, recently released to DVD, provides the most compelling story of faith I've seen on the big screen in years.

Hollywood's biggest names, from box office superstars to indie film up - and - comers, were delighted to discover their own box of hand - crafted John Kelly Chocolates tucked inside the coveted «swag bags» they received at an exclusive pre-Oscar gifting suite at L'Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills this year.

Filmed over two years, Michelin Stars — Tales From The Kitchen, gives us a behind the scenes look at the lives and stresses of starred chefs with a tale woven together by food critics and diners.

The rest of the bag is a polymer film (derived from fossil fuels, unfortunately) that is supposed to take a five to ten years to degrade in a «landfill environment.»

Each cocktail has been inspired by events from the last 18 years, such as the Oscar haul director Danny Boyle picked up in 2009 for his film Slumdog Millionaire and the death of singer Amy Winehouse in 2011.

In the film Toback, who has known the fighter for 23 years, intersperses footage from the days when Tyson seemed scared of nothing with clips from an emotional interview done while Tyson was undergoing drug and alcohol treatment last year.

It's also unfair to judge Guice too much by 2017 film, as he was still recovering from injury most of this past year.

Take a look at the junior year film from Michigan LB pledge Charles Thomas out of IMG Academy: Ain't no comparison...

Yoenis Cespedes is a fine replacement for Torii Hunter, David Price is one of the only pitchers who could replace Max Scherzer at the top of a rotation, and Anthony Gose's talent would probably play Austin Jackson's talent in a film adaptation, so it's not as if they're that much different from last year's.

In the film, leaders from all sides of the school food debate, including government officials, school foodservice experts, activists, and students, weigh in on the program and discuss ways to continue nourishing America's children for another 60 years.

I, on the other hand, went into the BBC newsroom the other day to find teams of young producers laughing at archive film reports from 17 years ago of a young political correspondent looking nothing like he does now.

What's shocking is how much our political culture has changed in just 60 years — the producers of this film lived in a country that had just seen REAL despotism in the form of Nazi Germany and a military - ruled Japan (note the brownshirt - style uniforms, and also the lack of any of any depiction of their Soviet equivalents), and they pull few punches about what leads a society away from freedom.

Touching on the legal rights and protection for members in the industry, she explained that a film bill has been gazetted to Parliament, adding that soon Ghana will have a film act to enable the country benefit from all the years of good movies and other creative arts we produce.

Finally, Rosalie Burgher, who recently received a state Senior of the Year award for her years of service to the Olive Free Library and other community organizations, nominated local engineer, former film technician and anti-fracking organizer Jim Sofranko, with a second from his wife.