Sentences with phrase «find audiences for films»

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But he wanted to find a better way for films to find an audience.

We started this about six years ago and it allows me to have a platform for independent films, films that we're passionate about, and find a bigger audience for great, cool emerging talent and up - and - coming movies,» League continues.

It showcases the best of the Nigerian film industry with the aim of finding a larger audience and more sustainable distribution system for quality films.

As a documentation of these early stages, combined with a charismatic subject on the hunt for what he feels to be a matter of fundamental justice, Unlocking the Cage is sure to be a film that many audiences will find captivating.

The films of Broken Lizard are an acquired taste for some, but Super Troopers 48, Club Dread 45, and Beerfest 46 found a loyal audience, and now the comedy team, or at least a few members, are back with The Babymakers.

Writing for The Telegraph, Robbie Collin calls the film «sensational,» and defends it's methods: «Some audience members at Cannes found its unstinting earnestness, big emotions and political charge too much....

There's a ready audience for the Fifty Shades film series to be found among the readers of the wildly successful trilogy of books.

To be fair, I'm probably pretty far from the intended target audience for this movie, and I'm sure those who enjoyed the first two films will find plenty to like here.

Refreshing, in these times, to find a spoof on a genre of films that isn't just a rattling off of pop culture references and obvious sight gags, though Shaun of the Dead is still a favorite for many audiences.

Although the film didn't connect as strongly with mass audiences (although it's considered a «sleeper hit,» you have to wonder what it could have done if it had been released after Whedon's little art house film «The Avengers «-RRB- and more than a few critics found it befuddling and arch (it's neither), «The Cabin in the Woods» is the kind of movie that will ultimately live on as a deserved cult classic, perfect for drunken film studies students and bored kids at slumber parties alike.

Hollywood Reporter writer Todd McCarthy called Donovan «a sort - of Atticus Finch of the north» and Variety writer Peter Debruge wrote of the film, «[Spielberg]'s mythmaking approach makes for great Capra-esque entertainment, [though] younger audiences may find it terribly old - fashioned.»

While most adults in the audience will wonder why Mia would ever seriously consider a relationship with a guy who is so self - centered to get mad at her for desiring to relocate 3,000 miles away to go to the most prestigious music school in the country, the film seems to make the false presumption that younger girls will find it more romantic for the boyfriend to be upset that they will be apart and have to Skype to keep in touch (something he seems to think is the worst possible case scenario, even though he already spends several weeks a year on the road performing gigs).

Or maybe it's because she's married to Lou that she can't stop thinking of Daniel... Following up «Away from Her,» Polley's second film is sharply dividing critics and audience in Toronto: Many find it simultaneously exhilarating and depressing; others find it ugly and hateful; a third faction seems to be kicking against the film not for how it says what it says, but, instead, for what it says in the first place.

Recently acquired by Radius - TWC for a likely theatrical / VOD release, the film should find an audience, as it's hard to imagine that it won't ring true for anyone who's ever been on the downhill side of a formerly stable relationship.

Audiences starved for stimulation might find its mere existence a saving grace, but it elicited powerful feelings of boredom in me, matched only by one or two other films I've seen this year.

The humor for these films will always breach a certain audience, and although I wasn't laughing hysterically I found myself grinning at the bizarre moments, of which there are many.

As was the case with the first film, Deadpool 2 doesn't try overly hard narrative wise, this new jaunt sees Wilson in a state of depression and in a situation where he finds himself trying to protect Hunt for the Wilderpeople star Julian Dennisen's mutant teenager from time travelling super-soldier Cable but it's all an excuse to give audiences more of what they came to love in the first outing.

Other audiences will find some of Noé's shock tactics too contrived (a close - up on an aborted foetus feels overly calculated to offend) while some moments may elicit unintentional giggles (for example, the radical perspective used for the film's climatic shot — in two senses of the word «climactic»).

«Triple 9» may not find itself in the venerable company of those first 3 films but thankfully, for both its pedigree cast and audiences watching, neither will it find itself floundering alongside the latter 3.

A Film with Me in It's bound to find a niche audience thanks to the presence of Dylan Moran (who's sold out the Melbourne International Comedy festival here for the third year in a row), but thankfully is a strong film in its own right.

Searching for Bobby Fischer is a crowd - pleasing sports film written and directed by Steven Zaillian (A Civil Action, All the King's Men) that gets high marks from critics and audiences alike, but which I personally found to be too manipulative and contrived to swallow down in a satisfactory way.

Thirty years on since its release, the film still finds a way to make audiences reach for their blankets.

Why do film marketers sometimes find it necessary to re-cut trailers for an American audience?

But she has no interest in tilting the delicate balance she has found as a movie star with character - actor range — high - profile enough to carry studio films yet low - profile enough for audiences to believe her as everything from a magical nanny to a bloated binge drinker.

Because of this dichotomy, it's the kind of movie that has never really found an audience, save for those who enjoy quirky oddities that are, at the very least, different from any other kind of film.

Idiocracy a fun film for those who laugh at, or perhaps lament, the sorry state of our society, where reading is increasingly being deemed by youth culture as passé, popular entertainment has nearly no emphasis on story (Judge portrays films of the future as nothing but shots of bare asses that occasionally fart, which the audience finds consummately entertaining), and people can't speak intelligently without being labeled as uppity snobs.

If someone deliberately made a film like The Room without earnestness and sincerity it wouldn't continue to find audiences for as long as Tommy's film has and it wouldn't be nearly as much fun.

For this week's edition of Film Club, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky take a look at Transformers: The Last Knight, which finds Michael Bay, the maestro of pyrotechnic wreckage, pitting alien robots against the audience's patience for the fifth tiFor this week's edition of Film Club, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky take a look at Transformers: The Last Knight, which finds Michael Bay, the maestro of pyrotechnic wreckage, pitting alien robots against the audience's patience for the fifth tifor the fifth time.

A modest award season presence made it difficult for the film to find an audience in its New Year's Eve weekend opening and late January expansion.

It reminds of the way the Coen brothers have previously handled this type of crime film in Miller's Crossing or No Country for Old Men, where the audience has no idea who will make it out alive but can't wait to find out.

Opening Mother's Day weekend, Moms» Night Out struggled to find an audience in a little over 1,000 theaters and never really expanded any further than that, en route to a lackluster $ 10.4 million domestic gross, which probably doesn't bode well for the film's international prospects.

How I look for films I think MIGHT do well is simply by watching how the audience responds, asking around to find out what the majority of the people liked.

Luckily for the producers of this film, a PG - 13 rating was awarded, because now their target audience can be reached, namely 13 - year - old boys who find jokes about pooping, farting, belching, and urinating in one's pants to be the height of comedic glory.

The Festival programme is organised into categories clustered around the themes of Love, Debate, Dare, Laugh, Thrill, Cult, Journey, Sonic, Family and Experimenta — an approach designed to help Festival - goers find the films that appeal the most to them and to open up the Festival for new audiences.

Not with the sold out audience I saw it with, I chuckled more than anyone else in the audience and I still found the film boring and disappointing for a David O. Russell film.

«Finding Dory» (June 17): Though few specifics are known about the plot, a sequel to «Finding Nemo» is bound to pull in audiences, and Pixar is still the gold standard for animated films (yes, even despite «The Good Dinosaur»).

Scenes that find Claire hallucinating or dreaming about poor Nina (Anna Kendrick) are too brief, the film more like a showcase for Aniston's breadth than one which could actually evoke deep audience sympathy,

Obviously, the more serious overtones of Smith's last two efforts, Amy and Dogma, are nowhere to be found in Strike Back, and don't come in looking for some innovations in plotting, either; the film is simply a road / chase comedy that wants nothing more than to make the audience laugh.

We discussed their initial interest in the project, their hopes for the film as it finds its way to audiences, and more.

Although audiences may find the film slow at times or even too gory, the fantastic action sequences, visually stunning sets, camerawork, and the performance by DiCaprio make up for its shortcomings.

There is little doubt that the subject matter of this film will limit its audience, but for those brave souls who give it a shot, I believe you will find it funny, touching and insightful.

Here was a PG - 13 horror film remaking a relatively unknown Japanese movie with no big stars and a director who improbably struggled to find an audience for his 2001 Brad Pitt - Julia Roberts pairing The Mexican.

The Ellison - Rudin riff presented Paramount with two potential futures for «Annihilation»: Tamper with Garland's vision to make the movie accessible for mainstream audiences or preserve Garland's vision and find a way to minimize the financial risk of releasing an incredibly challenging studio film.

The film struggles to find a consistent logic internally, and that's going to be a tough sell for most audiences.

There is no question what DiCaprio goes through on screen is an endurance test, as it will also be with an element of the audience who may find themselves in a fight for survival just to get through what González Iñárritu and company have put on screen in a remarkable and challenging film that won't be for everyone.

But the director's recent films like «Beauties At War» and «The Suicide Shop» have struggled to find audiences at home or abroad, and so Leconte seems to have made another ploy for a bigger crowd: at the age of 66, he's made his English - language debut.

But it also inevitably overshadows the many, many worthy films that arrive here with no media profile or awards prospects of which to speak, and which have little hope of finding a commercial audience anywhere near as sizable or enthusiastic as the up - for - anything crowds packing Toronto screening venues this week.

But it's not necessarily bad news for fans of Artistic - Cred George, who can help a quiet film like Up in the Air find an audience.

«We discovered we've found a place for audiences to come and experience films that have played at other festivals, that have won awards, that they've been hearing about, that have great buzz — and they can see them in the context of a free film festival and conversations with master filmmakers.»

Fandango surveyed more than 7,000 ticket buyers to find out which film and which performances audiences would be rooting for come Oscars night.