Sentences with phrase «first big film»

«Witch was my first big film, but M. Night hadn't even seen it yet when he cast me in Split.»

It also feels like the first big film set in Trump's America, a savage dystopia where animosity toward certain people — in this case, mutants — runs amok.

After his discharge Harryhausen went to work on his first big film, 1947's «Mighty Joe Young,» which allowed him the chance to work with his idol, O'Brien, who went on to win that years Academy Award for Best Special Effects.

The two had previously starred together as mother and daughter in Stewart's first big film, David Fincher's Panic Room (2002).

TCM has also got one of Bette Davis's first big films Of Human Bondage early Thursday morning, Chaplin's last American film Limelight on Saturday, and Sundance has the first part of the Red Riding trilogy on Sunday.

Not exact matches

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

Having Mudbound become the first Netflix original feature film to compete at the Oscars would be a big deal for the streaming service, and a Golden Globes win (it's nominated for Best Original Song, and Mary J. Blige is nominated as a supporting actress) could be the first step.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

The acquisition gives him immeasurable power in Hollywood and is the first step in his plan to control the world's biggest film company by revenue.

Comcast and Verizon have approached Twenty - First Century Fox to express interest in buying big portions of its film and television business, Reuters reported on Nov. 16, citing unnamed sources.

Obviously, it's not the first time the book has been adapted for the big - screen: At the time, the 1927 version was one of the most acclaimed films ever made.

While Noah and the animals on the Ark have often been played for laughs on the big screen (e.g. Evan Almighty), Aronofsky considers the Flood «the first apocalypse story,» and his film underscores the psychological toll it takes on Noah (played by Russell Crowe) and his family (Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson, and Anthony Hopkins, among others).

I was starting film school, and my biggest dream was to be the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director.

they must film this scene in the first person, the applause and cheering muffled, like they do in war movies after big explosions.

The first big breakthrough came in 2003 when, in collaboration with the group of Ramamoorthy Ramesh (now at UC Berkeley), we succeeded in producing and understanding thin films of what is now the most - studied multiferroic material, bismuth ferrite.

They found that the reaction occurs without an energetic push, but the position of the water molecules as they come in to form first «puddles» of water that connect into a film as they grow bigger.

$ tatin Nation is the first film to publicly question the Big Pharma narrative on statin drugs.

Then, over phone calls, not so average first dates of midnight showings of «The Big Lebowski» (Lord knows I love a good weasel in a bathtub scene), actual theatre screenings of my favorite film «Gone with the Wind» accompanied by my most adored meal out — diner grilled cheese with a milkshake (Yes, really.)

Offering up a wide and eclectic selection of films from The Big Lebowski to The Godfather, this «cinema social» is a great place to shake up the routine of dinner and a movie, or to start things off to a fun start from the very first date.

Is my way of remembering the first ones, the trailblazers, the people that brought the Horror into the biggest media it could ever be, yes, film.

I was a big hater of the first film because I thought it was too adult for the target demo of tiny kids.

The pressure off, they're free to make out like teenagers and fall in love, a happy interlude the film covers with smart economy, so as to spend more time on getting to know this «hot grandma» (she's struggling to keep her middle daughter pregnancy - free through high school), as well as the couple's first big fight, occasioned when she wonders why he still doesn't want to sleep with her after nearly 20 dates.

More than a decade after AIDS was first identified as a disease, «Philadelphia» marks the first time Hollywood has risked a big - budget film on the subject.

121:45: Again, it just seems like a big middle - finger to fans of the first film to establish the Wayne / Vale relationship and to relatively ignore it in the second film.

While weed was a big part of the comic misunderstandings that fueled the plot of the first movie, and works in similar fashion here as well, the fact is that both films operate on a higher plane than an awful lot of sludgy spliff flicks.

Though its Metascore was slightly below that of the first film, Kung Fu Panda 2 was an even bigger hit, out - grossing all but three other films so far in 2011.

A felicitous contract at Universal led Edwards to his first big box - office successes, including the Tony Curtis film Mister Cory (1957) and Cary Grant's Operation Petticoat (1959).

As directed by Robert Zemeckis from a script he co-wrote with Christopher Browne, the film limps through its first two acts, putting in time until the big moment.

First of all, we assume the twist with the teacher is the film's big twist.

She first appeared on the big screen in 2006 with a small role in the film ACCEPTED and later had a starring role as Brooke Crawford in the primetime soap opera WICKED WICKED GAMES, which was her first appearance on the small screen.

With success on the small screen soon prompting James to try his talent in feature films, a supporting role in 50 First Dates and a co-starring role opposite Will Smith in Hitch found the television favorite's amiable humor translating well to the big screen.

Former rodeo performer Frank McCarroll made his first film, Big Calibre, in 1935.

While it's hard to be conclusive in that assessment, I can say that this film is just as big and concrete as his first.

Now I like the first Hoodwinked movie very much, and for a low budget CG film its very funny and keeps you entertained, so when I heard they were going to make a bigger budgeted 3 - D sequel I was interested, but the better CG doesn't add to how poorly this film was made, the CG may be better, but the lip synching is terrible and the voice acting isn't that good.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

With two Pixar films (Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur), an Avengers sequel, Brad Bird's Tomorrowland, and the first of many planned Star Wars sequels on the calendar for the year ahead, 2015 should easily be Disney's biggest year to date.

Black Panther, the first big studio film from Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed) is just such a film.

The first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre, the film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.

Another Saturday Night Live alumnus to make a bid for big screen stardom, Rob Schneider got his first chance to carry a film with Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (2000), a mistaken identity comedy that was as commercially popular as it was critically eviscerated.

Raimi's first film since 2009's Drag Me to Hell (and first big - budget production since his Spider - Man trilogy) is a $ 200 million, visually dazzling, 3D prequel to the story told in 1939's The Wizard of Oz, chronicling the rise of said wizard from his humble beginnings as a small - time Kansas magician.

One of the most talented — and often underappreciated — character actresses of the late 1990s, Allison Janney first began courting critical attention with roles in such acclaimed films as Big Night (1996) and American Beauty (1998).

Captain America: The First Avenger is one of the finest movies yet from Marvel Studios, and a big departure in tone and storytelling from most of the films they've made so far.

Post-apocalyptic Chicago doesn't play as big of a role as it did in the first film, but the city's devastation and decay provide an eerie backdrop for the action.

No The Interpreter «s biggest selling point is the fact it was the first time film cameras were allowed inside the inner sanctum of the United Nations.

The animation is still pretty and lushly rendered in this sequel, but my biggest complaint was one that I had for the first film and that was the terribly sped up fighting scenes.

The biggest thing i think they should've explained is that, at the end of the first transformers movie, Bumblebee starts talking again, but they just randomly in this film he stops talking for no reason.

A wonderful period film first and secondarily an interesting mystery - romance that keeps you guessing about the big questions until late in the narrative.

This was also the first time Joseph not only got top billing (his name was even bigger than the director's name in the end credits) but his character completely carried the film.

The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early»70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.

Alexander Skarsgard has been a name thrown around a lot in smaller films or supporting roles, but this seems to be his first big break, at least in my opinion.