Sentences with phrase «films of the year made»

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He made and uploaded his first, the 68 - minute Enfin l'Automne (Fall, Finally) to YouTube last year, largely just to see if he could do it, and he's now on the verge of signing a deal with a Hollywood studio to do a proper film.

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

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.

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.

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

But of course, at the end, that film could go on and make money for the next 20 years [through streaming] and we'll never see a statement.

Last year, worldwide sales of Wonder Woman topped $ 821 million, making it the highest - grossing superhero origin film of all time.

After years making slick commercials and music videos, Bay's first feature film didn't just bring a new spice to the buddy - cop movie with the teaming of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

Nolan made his first film, «Following,» on $ 6,000 over the course of a year, shooting perhaps 15 minutes of footage each Saturday.

The most recent film in the Fast and the Furious franchise, for example, grossed $ 1.2 billion worldwide, making it the second - highest grossing film of the year.

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.

«I know I'm biased because I'm their friend, but I think it'll be something that will live on for generations because it's done with excellence, not knocking anything else, it's just this is production 50 years past where some of the other films were made,» he said.

Moore pointed to the $ 14 million his film has made in Mexico and South Korea, two of the more than 20 countries where «Noah» will run this year.

Forty - five years after I directed The Exorcist, there's more acceptance of the possibility of possession than there was when I made the film.»

In the fall of 2005, the headlines were made in Belfast, where Tutu, former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, was filming Facing the Truth, three programs for the Northern Irish BBC that aired in Britain on three consecutive days in March of this year.

But we will never reverse that stereotype by only buying tickets to the dozens of films made specifically for a Christian audience every year.

What really underlay the attack was a massive rage that such modest artistic statements were made in the year of the bypassing of the most expensive ($ 20,000,000) attempt yet made in a genre of film that had outlived the sophistication of our culture and the churches.

Jonathan Nossiter is a film - maker who first came to the attention of wine lovers when he released his epic hand - made documentary Mondovino about five years ago.

ASIMO has attended a huge number of public events over the years, such as making appearances at Disneyland and film premieres.

If you watch his film all year, you see a lot of that kind of thing when he makes plays.

Before he ever made a Lord of the Rings movie, Peter Jackson shot Bad Taste over four years on weekends and nights, played two roles himself, and spent only $ 25,000 total to make the film.

We were inspired to make the film by the injustice happening to Anna's home birth midwife, Agnes Gereb, who had been imprisoned and at the time of filming was under house arrest and facing multiple criminal charges (and even today, four years later, Agnes is still facing multiple charges).

Alba was the name of a character in the 2009 film The Time - Traveler's Wife, and was used for over 150 babies in the United States last year, making it another name that may take up a permanent spot on baby name lists of the future.

The theme of parental responsibility comes up over and over in the film, which begins with his son's birth and a quick slideshow of his development during his first few years of life (we learn, for example that Jason enjoys dancing, being a ninja, making films and sand angels).

Ulrich, a 32 - year - old Republican who represents a district in Southern Queens and has been filming a prospective reality television series about his potential run, didn't answer the question of whether he actually will run against de Blasio, telling WNYC's Brian Lehrer he'll make that decision in «a couple of weeks.»

The Tibetan film director Dondup Wangchen was jailed for eight years for making a film in 2008 which was mildly critical of the Beijing Olympic Games.

That year Cuomo signed legislation expanding the state's film and television tax credit program, making New York's one of the largest such programs in the nation.

This is an important and well - made film although considering the final fates of the main three players, it's not exactly upbeat and it is a work that will be discussed for years to come.

Cuomo made a last - minute trip to Mahoney's State of the County speech last year to announce the film hub, a $ 15 million facility that the governor will visit on Thursday.

Tom, a 22 - year - old student, was re-creating a version of the diet made famous in the film Supersize Me.

He was initiated into life in a laboratory in the final year of his degree, spending 6 months designing laser ablation experiments to make thin films of superconducting materials.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

But now he stood charged with trying to transfer designs for a proprietary technology to China — a device called a pocket heater, produced by Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI) of Austin, that makes thin films of the superconductor magnesium diboride — and faced 80 years in prison and a $ 1 million fine.

Electronics companies have been working for years to replace ITO with transparent conductors made from films of carbon nanotubes.

Last year, Kaili and his colleagues placed electrodes on opposite ends of a 10 - centimeter - wide film, switched on an electric current, and were flabbergasted when it made noise.

More than four years in the making, the 11 - episode series is crafted from more than 3,000 days of film shoots utilizing state - of - the - art equipment and techniques, and it shows.

This gap is expected to close over the next few years, making thin - film cells — which cost half that of silicon - wafer cells — a better bet.

In recent years, the lab has developed and expanded upon its method to make graphene foam by using a commercial laser to transform the top layer of an inexpensive polymer film.

A family of compounds known as perovskites, which can be made into thin films with many promising electronic and optical properties, has been a hot research topic in recent years.

The idea of commissioning working cell biologists to make a film about their own research was a bold break this year for Celldance, explained PIC Chair Simon Atkinson.

Uni-Solar — A wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion, Uni-Solar makes about 28 MW of thin - film, peel - and - stick triple junction amorphous silicon PV a year from their one production plant.

June of last year, MM and I made a short film called Be Your Shoeself.

Between Glamour's annual Women of the Year awards, the Dior - hosted Guggenheim International Gala and the premiere of Tom Ford's latest film, «Nocturnal Animals,» this past week served up a lot of great fashion moments, making it pretty difficult to narrow our list of the best dressed celebrities.

Perth - born Gemma Ward, one of the top models of the 2000s, who subsequently took a 6 - year hiatus, has made her long - awaited return first on the Prada catwalk and, then, in a major campaign (and accompanying film) for classic Australian brand, Country Road.

I am crazy enough to decide after many years of work for the same company that life is about making dreams come true - which led me to becoming a film school student at the age of 30; — RRB - This is what I am actually loo..

After years of running a talent agency, Sasha Madarasz felt ready to get out of the fast - paced film industry and make more of a difference in the world.

I'm 21 years old, I live in New York City, I like to make short films and I'm a fan of zombies.

Any horror movie fan can see that this film has been made with a gleeful love of the genre, flaws and all, and the final half - hour delivers one of the greatest visually spectacular finales I have seen all year (even compared to that of another Joss Whedon project, The Avengers).

Wes Bentley was a relative newcomer to film when he starred in Sam Mendes» American Beauty (1999), but his haunting portrayal of the battered, enigmatic Ricky Fitts made him one of the most talked about young actors of the year.