Sentences with phrase «find audiences in theaters»

Instead, the two movies will go down as soon forgotten boxing films that, despite some obvious efforts and passion, failed to find audiences in theaters or attract any serious prestige.

Despite that tradition of crowd - pleasing, The Walk completely failed to find an audience in theaters.

Not exact matches

Today, Puppet Showplace Theater's success is reflected in our audience, which includes the children of children who attended shows when the theater was first founded.

Most critics found the film funny and entertaining when it screened at Toronto last fall, and audiences will finally get to see it on June 7 (and in even more theaters on June 21).

Though the teen girls in my audience were scurrying around the theater in delirious fugue states before the start of Insurgent, the sequel to last year's Y.A. adaptation Divergent, I found it hard to muster much excitement.

As the film started to elicit gasps Ramsay started to relax — the 2000 - person theater eventually breaking into a seven - minute standing ovation at the film's end — she had found a way not only to capture that storm of explosions going on in Joe's head, she had found a way to engage an audience in his story.

By the time the movie finally arrived for its single Cannes press screening — in the Salle Bazin, one of the festival's smaller theaters — some of us in the audience found ourselves torn between tempered excitement and mounting dread.

Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, Sundance Institute is a global, nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to nurturing artistic expression in film and theater, and to supporting intercultural dialogue between artists and audiences.

«Having witnessed theater - goers sitting in emotional silence well after the end credits have rolled, following the last, powerful moments of Dibb's film, we feel strongly that positive word - of - mouth in conjunction with the calculated rollout strategy we'll be executing will ensure that Journey's End continues to find and connect with its audience.»

Many of the films that premiere at the Sundance Film Festival are hoping to attract a distributor and find a bigger audience, be it in theaters around the country or distributed through digital VOD.

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.

The latter starred in director Kenneth Branagh's film reboot of the series - Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, which failed to find a large audience when it was released in theaters in 2014.

And this month, he's putting his Southern stoner act on hold in two leading roles: First up is Crown Heights, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at Sundance and hits theaters on August 18th, which finds him playing Colin Warner, a Trinidadian immigrant unjustly accused of murder in 1980.

Fo those who missed it in theaters, the Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature will surely find a whole new audience once it's available to stream.

Could «The House» be one of those films that tanked in theaters but somehow finds an audience who loves it on Blu - ray and DVD?

Some of the recurring jokes, I didn't personally care for, such as Michael Cera (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Year One) playing against public image as a coke - snorting whoremonger in a performance that seems to be channeling Neal Patrick Harris from the Harold and Kumar movies, or Danny McBride and inability to control his impulses, but there were certainly some audience members in the theater viewing I attended that found these things especially hilarious; comedy truly is in the funny bone of the beholder.

Director Jake Kasdan hasn't had much luck commercially with three fine comedies (Zero Effect, The TV Set, Walk Hard) that didn't find cult audiences until they flopped in theaters, so perhaps it isn't surprising that Bad Teacher's tone is broad, crowd - pleasing, and unapologetically commercial.

With «It Comes At Night» jangling audiences» nerves in theaters, we're counting down the 20 best horror films of the current decade and telling you where you can find them.

Hammered by critics, All Eyez nonetheless found a nice - sized audience in theaters... its opening weekend, anyway.

About Sundance Institute: Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, Sundance Institute is a global, nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to nurturing artistic expression in film and theater, and to supporting intercultural dialogue between artists and audiences.

With 53 theaters spread across the United States (though not every state), having MoviePass in their corner should really help boost attendance for movies that normally struggle to find an audience.