Sentences with phrase «films this year as»

Can't wait to see what's in store for them in 2016 and excited for the next film year as a whole.

I didn't see nearly as many films this year as in the past.

But I was doing a film a year as a producer, so I didn't have time to devote to my directing career.

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.

The 4 - year - old company emerged as the successor to News Corporation and deals mostly with film and television.

Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.

Cast Martin Short as the Canadian ambassador, Molly Parker as his tart - tongued aide and Christopher Plummer as the entire nation of Iceland — you've got the opening - night film for next year's Toronto International Film Festival.

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.

Actually, Netflix, which plans to spend as much as $ 8 billion on original films and TV shows this year, reportedly had already ordered a Bright sequel before the first film premiered online.

Murphy's business, which provides accounting services for creative businesses, such as architecture and film production companies, has been around for 11 years.

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.

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 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.

Except that's not working either — newly discovered emails that were leaked as part of a hacking job on Sony last year show the company offered to pay $ 5 million for actor Daniel Craig to use a Sony Xperia as part of the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre.

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

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

The Harry Potter book series and film franchise, worth well over $ 21 billion, continues to attract avid fans — even as many as nineteen years after author J.K. Rowling penned the first novel.

I applaud the company's fearless dive into this latest storytelling technology, continuing a pioneering knack for branded content that goes back 15 years (to parent company BMW's series of short films known as The Hire).

But both Entertainment Weekly and The Guardian cite his favorite film as «Home Alone» — a selection you probably never would have guessed, especially since it didn't come out until years after he left the presidency.

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.

Jolie's film is based on the memoirs of human rights activist Loung Ung, who fled her childhood home in Cambodia during a deadly four - year Communist regime, known as the Khmer Rouge years.

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.

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.

«The commercial appeal of the films this [summer] certainly didn't have the same kind of dynamic as the commercial appeal of the films last year,» Logsdon says.

Eklund, on the heels of a controversial, year - long stint in California as an adult film star under the name Tag Eriksson, got to work taking odd jobs and hawking paninis outside the set of David Letterman's Late Show.

With Mark Zuckerberg predicting Facebook content will be driven by video in five years, storytelling through film and photography is set to be expected by visitors to your site as a complement to the written word, especially as we're using mobile devices so much to access information and entertainment.

Since launching a few years ago, the brand's products have been worn by Beyoncé and her dancers on tour, as well as by the cast of the blockbuster film Hidden Figures.

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.

For years he'd been dreaming up publicity stunts — such as offering Amanda Knox a large sum to appear in an adult film — and then enticing the likes of Gawker or TMZ to treat that stunt offer like news.

In the years leading into the recession, estimates suggest the U.S. adult entertainment industry produced as many as 6,000 films annually, or roughly 16 new releases every day.

IMDB In anticipation of breaking into online video, Amazon bought the film and TV database company, started as a pet project eight years earlier by a U.K. - based cinephile computer programmer who continued running the company under Bezos.

The partnership will officially launch at the 5th Annual ARRAY Soiree at this year's Sundance Film Festival where DuVernay and Indiegogo co-founder, Danae Ringlemann, will host 50 industry influencers, executives and creatives for a discussion on the present state of diversity in film as well as brainstorming ideas for the future.

In fact, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was the first woman to direct a superhero movie and the film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domestically).

The thin film solar maker is also reviving its EPC division with a goal to build 1 GW of solar projects each year, as well as increasing its presence in O&M services.

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.

In China, seen by analysts as overtaking the U.S. as the world's largest box office in the coming years, Wang's entertainment business spans from cinemas to film production and theme parks.

Already the media industry is turning fast to streaming as a way to combat cord - cutting trends and find additional revenues - Disney (DIS) launched ESPN + earlier this month, and plans to follow up with a streaming service for its feature films sometime in the coming year.

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 39 - year - old native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who started as a nightclub stripper there at 17, has appeared in more than 250 X-rated films, beginning in 2000; was signed as an exclusive with major porn studio Wicked Pictures in 2002 (she's still a contract player for them); and has been inducted into multiple industry halls of fame, including the one run by leading industry trade publication Adult Video News.

Twelve years after «Titanic,» which still stands as the all - time B.O. champ, Cameron delivers again with a film of universal appeal that just about everyone who ever goes to the movies will need to see.

Braid's producers aim to wrap the film in time to screen it at next year's South by Southwest festival in Austin as part of the process of getting a distribution deal.

In the event, Queen Christina was among the most successful films of the year (as were at least three others condemned that year by the Legion).

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.

Two years previously, he arranged and paid for, with what I guess counts as bohemian chivalry, a woman he impregnated to get an abortion (then illegal) from a competent doctor, and in the film we see him do the same for Jean.

Item: the film clearly portrays Llewyn as considering whether to spontaneously take the off - ramp to Akron, where he has every reason to think his two - year old child is.

It is, as well, an antidote to Mississippi Burning, a dishonest, award - winning new film in which blacks wait patiently and fearfully in the background for deliverance by two white FBI agents, played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, who zealously bend the law in the interest of justice — a film one fears will have a profound effect on the way many Americans view their nation in the King Years («The Dream Dafoed,» as the Village Voice put it).

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...

The film represents a 27 - year filmmaking journey as well as a search for the essence of his own faith.

The movies are a spinoff of the Harry Potter novels and films, and stars Eddie Redmayne as a man named Newt Scamander, who unleashes all types of magical mischief into the world, 70 years before the story of Harry Potter begins.