Sentences with phrase «films of the year in»

The Force Awakens earned $ 124 million during its run in the country (compared to $ 596 million in the U.S.), but was only the 13th most popular film of the year in China.

The Nevada Film Critics Society began honoring the best films of the year in 2011.

Two of the biggest studio films of the year in the awards race are both from Paramount, and both will be challenging for mainstream audiences — Silence and Arrival.

In 2011, relatively unknown writer / director Jeff Nichols took a lot of people by surprise when he delivered one of the best films of the year in «Take Shelter ``.

This year, the snubs were fewer and less harsh than in years past (like that year they totally ignored three of the best films of the year in Drive, Take Shelter and Young Adult, and failed to nominate the year's best lead actress performances).

«Star Wars: The Last Jedi» — the eighth episode in the long - running space saga — overtook Disney's live - action remake of «Beauty and the Beast» on New Year's Eve to become the top - grossing film of the year in the United States and Canada.

British director Haigh, whose last film 45 Years was voted the Guardian's film of the year in 2015, receives a competition berth for Lean on Pete, an adaptation of Willy Vlautin's novel about the relationship between a young boy and a failed racehorse.

Jordan Peele delivered one of the smartest films of the year in Get Out.

Joing them in the hunt for Best European Film are «The Class» and «Happy - Go - Lucky,» which makes four of my favourite films of the year in the list.

If there was any doubt to the validity of Disney's goal to make non-family movies, 1987's numbers removed it as Disney's top four films again hailed under the Touchstone name and included the first and fourth top - grossing films of the year in holiday season releases Three Men and a Baby and Good Morning, Vietnam, each earning well over $ 100 million and easily deserving classification as a «blockbuster.»

He counts down his 25 best films of the year in a video edited together with footage and music from each of the films.

THE OVERLOOKED FILM OF THE YEAR In a World... Jack the Giant Slayer The Kings of Summer Much Ado About Nothing Short Term 12 The Spectacular Now

First animated film of the year in this category.

New Zealand's film critics have chosen their best film of the year in a poll taken across a range of outlets.

«American Hustle» is absolutely one of the best films of the year in a year packed with great films.

Check out Lee's epic Best of 2011 list starting with the intro here, then the ten best documentaries, then the top 50 fiction films of the year in five parts: 50 - 41, 40 - 31, 30 - 21, 20 - 11, and 10 - 1.

It's one of the better films of the year in my opinion.

One of the best films of the year in any language.

Mudbound — One of the most important films of the year in terms of profound message.

Not exact matches

When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

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.

This time, it's the regimen of Robert Patrick, star of the CBS series Scorpion, the new film, The Last Rampage, and a guy (if you're my age) you probably first saw twenty - five years ago as the shape - shifting T - 1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Late this year, Imax announced two big movie releases in China: Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan, promising a «thrilling story of heroism, friendship and betrayal, which has never before been depicted on film,» and John Woo's The Crossing, a two - part historical epic about the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

It's a unique opportunity for Toronto - based Canada Goose, this year's official outerwear sponsor of the festival, to clad typically fashionable film folks in arctic apparel.

The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

And many, many sequels aren't executed with the thought or care of their far - superior original films, especially in series that have stretched over many years — as one sees in the chasm of quality between «The Terminator» (1984) and «Terminator Genisys» (2015).

The direction of the «Ant - Man» film should cause some concern since Wright — who was so passionately involved in the project for nearly a decade, teasing it at Comic Con conventions for years — left when the film is due out in almost a year's time.

«The reality is that film doesn't matter nearly as much to the stocks of media conglomerates as it previously had,» wrote Barclays Capital analysts Anthony DiClemente and George Hawkey in a report earlier this year.

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 reporteIn 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 reportein $ 3 billion in domestic box office, Disney reportein domestic box office, Disney reported.

In 2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King became the rare popcorn event film to achieve mass appeal, earning $ 377 million in its theatrical run, and also emerge with the year's top Oscar honoIn 2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King became the rare popcorn event film to achieve mass appeal, earning $ 377 million in its theatrical run, and also emerge with the year's top Oscar honoin its theatrical run, and also emerge with the year's top Oscar honor.

I juxtaposed the two views a few years ago in my TEDx talk by comparing a pair of cartoons: The Jetsons, which in the 1960s proposed a Utopian future of flying cars and robot maids, to WALL - E, the 2008 Oscar - nominated film that had humans reduced by technology to useless blobs unable to walk.

The character first appeared onscreen in Civil War last year, and the new film is already generating loads of buzz thanks to director Ryan Coogler (Creed) and a loaded cast that also includes Lupita Nyong» o, Michael B. Jordan, and Angela Bassett.

The protagonist in the film, Andrew, is a drummer, and the story takes place during his freshman year at one of the most elite music conservatories in the country.

In truth, there's no way of knowing whether a film will have staying power through the years.

«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.

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

The oddity is compounded by the fact that, in recent years, the trappings of the disaster film have overtaken other genres as well.

We already know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens set records at the box office, but on Tuesday we will find out more about the blockbuster film's ultimate impact on Walt Disney's (dis) bottom line in the first quarter of the entertainment giant's fiscal year.

For years he held private screenings of the movie (it's also been shown at a few film festivals), and there was even a moment when he and Stern thought of remaking it with Hopper directing once more and a younger actor in the lead.

Rovio has in the last year or so returned to profitability, largely thanks to the success of the Angry Birds film.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

«(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».

The Justice Department said AT&T would use Time Warner's films and movies to force rival pay TV companies to pay «hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner's networks» in its lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Washington.

According to Fremaux, the film festival had wanted to screen two Netflix films this year, in particular The Other Side Of The Wind, an unfinished project by Orson Welles.

Though the Best Actor category is often brutally crowded, Spall is likely one of the year's first legitimate Oscar contenders - and, the actor admitted at the same lunch, he's also a candidate for an unlikelier honor if the film catches on after Sony Pictures Classics releases it in December.

The 40 - year - old entertainer said in a court filing late Tuesday that the stacks of cash in the photos are actually prop money, which is specially made for the studio lighting used in filming music videos and photo shoots.

Only in the past few years have a large percentage of films been shot digitally, and shooting on celluloid is still alive and well.

The user cited «Saving Private Ryan,» «Interstellar,» and this year's «The Martian» as examples of films in which Damon's character must be rescued.

Fox's decision to finally move forward with the film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie made.

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.