Sentences with phrase «films this year got»

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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.

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.

To pull it off, Catullo's team had to get over 180 permits to do the shoot, create a perimeter around the Acropolis that included over 400 security people, bring in their own TV truck and all key gear from the U.K., and become the first production granted permission to film at the Parthenon in almost 60 years.

It helps that Ryan Reynolds, who plays the masked hero, had been trying to get the film made for 10 years.

In addition to Bullock's win, it somehow managed to get a best picture nomination, because 2009 was not the finest year for film.

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.

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.

Like Netflix, Amazon (AMZN) is looking to get into the movie production game, promising earlier this year to eventually churn out around a dozen independent films — with budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million — every year.

Plot: After only five years since the last «Spider - Man» film, Spidey is getting a reboot.

Unlike other festivals that screen films in the hopes of getting a bigger distribution deal, Ellison's crew plans to use social media and other tech to turn these films into year round events, it says.

When Gwyneth Paltrow was 22 years old, she got a role that would take her from actress to star: The film producer Harvey Weinstein hired her for the lead in the Jane Austen adaptation «Emma.»

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.

Getting back into the consumer market, Kodak recently released the Ektra, a photography - first smartphone, and at CES this year announced the return of the Super 8 camera and film.

In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.

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.

China only allows a certain number of foreign films to showcase in the country each year, however the backing of companies in its own country could mean The Last Race is one of the select few which gets shown.

Unlike the Academy Awards, which are voted on by a huge coalition of film industry pros, the Golden Globes are determined by a tiny cabal of people who aren't really connected to the film industry and possibly not to reality either because, hoo boy, this year's nominations are in and we've got some questions.

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.

The actor who played the warden in the film still gets «a very substantial income» just from residuals from repeat TV showings and told WSJ, «I suspect my daughter, years from now, will still be getting checks.»

If you've listened to his music, including his most recent album, Darkness and Light, his Grammy - winning debut Get Lifted, his Oscar - winning single for the film Selma, «Glory,» or really any of the other releases in his 15 - year career, those deep Christian roots probably won't be a surprise.

The movie was filmed in Romania and included filming inside Jilava Prison, and that is the prison that Richard was held for three years in solitary confinement, and they actually got to film in the solitary confinement wing.

And Scorsese — who himself considered becoming a priest — has spent more than 20 years trying to get the film made.

After seeing the film «Julia & Julia» with my parents last year, my mother bought «Mastering the Art of French Cooking» by Julia Child and immediately got to work on boeuf bourguignon.

Even while I spent six years learning about film production, I was mostly thinking about what I was going to make for dinner when I finally got back to my Upper West Side apartment.

It took him four years to get a tower built on the practice field so workouts could be filmed.

Maybe their coaches were able to scheme around deficiencies early in the year, but those deficiencies became apparent once opposing coaches got a lot of film on the teams in the West and came up with schematic counters (Mississippi State had given up five - plus rushing yards per carry to the unconventional Texas A&M, Auburn, and Ole Miss offenses before facing Georgia Tech's).

He's dead now but last year I finally got round to watching the film on DVD.

His shuttle times would be much more interesting (I looked at his combine results for shuttle info but couldn't find any details) but film of him the last couple of years is all we really need to see to know what we're getting.

Markle dated film producer Trevor Engelson for six years, got engaged in 2010, married in 2011 and divorced in August 2013, citing «irreconcilable differences.»

He was responsible for getting many teenagers through their adolescence in the 1980s and his films haven't lost any of their appeal over the years.

Unlike Theresa May, I've got an enormous media profile, thanks to being portrayed as the bad guy in literally every film set in the North of England for the last 30 years.

The film follows Emma Morley, (Anne Hathaway) a working class budding writer and Dexter Mayhew, (Jim Sturgess) a rich, handsome playboy intent on a TV career, along a winding twenty - year - long path of will - they - won't - they - get - a-move-on.

Unlike previous years, Ghana recorded a lot of new faces on the nomination list; some of whom Included new actor, Joseph Otsiman who got the nod for Best Actor In Supporting Role for his performance in the drama thriller film, The Cursed Ones directed by Nana Obiri Yeboah, who was also nominated for AMAA 2016 Award For Best Director category.

But it was years before he got his mother's permission to use it and persuaded a family friend, a photographer, to give him a roll of film.

It took several years to locate the films, and when Spriggs did get his hands on the first few, he didn't have a scanner that could reproduce the optical density on the films.

Sagan was looking for a way to get the heroine of his novel Contact — Eleanor Arroway (played by Jody Foster in the film version)-- to the star Vega, 26 light - years away.

Having gotten to both film these workouts and workout to them, I can truly say I've never seen higher quality workout videos or more dynamic ones in my 15 years in the fitness world.

Unfortunately, we tried to get funding last year and were unsuccessful, likely because the film's subject matter is rather controversial.

Yes, he remains «The Incredible Hulk» more than 30 years after the world got to know him as Arnold Schwarzenegger's main adversary in the 1977 cult film «Pumping Iron.»

Five years had gone by and in 1980 during the filming of the movie «Conan», Arnold had got into fantastic shape due to the physicality of the character he was playing and also due to the training that was required to be able to complete the filming — things like running and horse riding.

The magazine will be in the Barnes And Nobles stands all over the country in the U.S. Thre is a great cover story in the issue on how he stays lean all year round and how he was able to help Morris Chestnut get in great shape for the Best Man Holiday film.

Once a year, the elite of the American film industry get together to celebrate excellence in cinematic achievements.

Haha I would film a haul but I actually only got 2 things this year!

I have really gotten into filming and video editing in the past year.

The film won this years prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and has been getting a lot of press (both positive and

As the days get darker and the nights grow colder, one of the most blissful things you can do this time of year is to spend the evening watching a classic romantic - comedy film.

A software engineer by profession but looking to get into film school early next year..

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.

In their Set Love Free promotion, Cyber-Dating Expert readers will get to attend this event for one of the best sci - fi films of the year.