Black Panther,
the first big studio film from Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed) is just such a film.
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).
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.
The video (shown above), titled 10 Years of Fandom, takes a look at the growing fan - base of the MCU, with footage from some of the
studios»
biggest hits — starting with Tony Stark's very
first Iron Man armour shown in his
first solo
film and jumping to the latest Marvel release, Black Panther.
With The Thing, it was the
first major
studio film he and Carpenter worked on which was «so full of interesting new things» for the duo in terms of the types of boundaries they were pushing with the
film on top of having the backing and budget of a
big studio.
I am excited to see what he does with his
first really
big studio film, though.
Speculations over when exactly Jeff Nichols»
first real
big - budget
studio film would premiere have been growing over the past few years.
Apparently the
studio is satisfied enough with Trank's
first film, but they want to put things on another level, making the Fantastic Four just as
big as their X-Men franchise.
Since 2015, when the hashtag
first became a rallying cry for inclusion, most, if not all, of the
big studios have reinvigorated or created diversity initiatives, agencies have taken a more active role in supporting their clients and
film festivals have continued to be entrees into Hollywood for traditionally marginalized folks.
What is making the headlines today is ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, you are all aware of the sexual accusation around Kevin Spacey, Ridley Scott decided to reshoot all the scenes of Spacey with another actor, Christopher Plummer who was the
first choice of the director but the
studio executives wanted a
bigger name, Plummer should shoot his scenes in the comming weeks, it looks like they want to keep the december release date, and Michelle and Mark Whalberg are expected to do some reshoots, i don't think michelle began working on Venom yet, it's crazy but i think Ridley is right to cut out Spacey of his
film.
It was the
studio's
first film to earn a «PG» rating and it was their
first and last
big - budget no - holds barred futuristic sci - fi epic.
In 2013, he traveled to the former plantation where «12 Years a Slave» was
filmed with director Steve McQueen, and more recently charted how the story of Columbine came to a stage in New York and watched Angelina Jolie take on her
first big studio directing job, the «Unbroken» story of Olympian and USC alumnus Louis Zamperini.
Big Hero 6 is the venerable
studio's
first animated Marvel adventure, which means it's the
film we've been waiting for pretty much since the moment Disney bought Marvel.
Ever since the
first film hit it
big in 2008,
studio executives have been snapping up young adult novels in the hope of hitting the same vein, but, aside from «The Hunger Games» the handful of attempts that have hit theaters so far, like «Beastly» and «I Am Number Four,» mostly disappeared without a trace, and not just because they starred Alex Pettyfer.
The
first news about the supernatural science fiction thriller
film Spectral started to come out over three years ago, and
big studios including Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures were involved, yet it is only now that the
film is seeing a release — and on Netflix, at that.
Ever since Samuel L. Jackson
first popped up at the end of Iron Man (2008) ten years ago and revealed to Tony Stark that he was a part of a
bigger universe, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has sat on top of the
film landscape that every movie
studio envies.
In addition to being the last, The Switch also gets to be the
first, the
first Miramax
film distributed on home video by Lionsgate, the
bigger of the two
studios assigned to handle the indie - heavy 800 - title Miramax library in the US.
Having just made one smaller feature and independent shorts prior, how different of an experience was it for you to make your
first big budget
studio film?
The actress, who, prior to Bone, was already known in industry circles for her gritty portrayals of troubled youths in such independent
films as Poker House and The Burning Plain seamlessly made the transition to
big - budget
studio fare playing a young «Mystique» in X-Men:
First Class while still sticking to her indie roots with key roles in
films like The Beaver, Like Crazy, and the forthcoming House at the End of the Street.
Selma, the
first studio film to center around Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is the
big winner among the critics representing the African - American
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They were the last line of enticement — and sometimes the
first — alongside carpet - bombing consumers with coming attractions, movie posters, marquees, publicity stunts, movie program books, and newspaper advertisements for their newest
big - screen sensation.With no entertainment websites or blogs available to tease audiences with stills from their
films, lobby cards served that purpose for the
studio publicity machine.
The beginning of the end most likely came in 1997, when the release of An Alan Smithee
Film: Burn Hollywood Burn gave the alias (played by Eric Idle) his
first leading role in a motion picture, as «a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee [who] realizes he's an unwitting
studio puppet, being forced to make a
big budget action
film he knows is horrible.»
Instead of tasking an actual person with the assignment, the American
film studio trusted IBM's supercomputer Watson to put together the trailer for the movie, making it the
first - ever artificial intelligence system to produce a promo video for the
big screen.