Sentences with phrase «for audiences in theaters»

While not the travesty that Burlesque or Rock of Ages ended up being, Eastwood's adaptation is just another in a line of hit stage shows being translated to the screen and losing whatever pop made them such a treat for audiences in the theater.

Not exact matches

The audience in Manhattan exited the theater to a throng of network TV cameras and a crowd of people lined up for the next showing.

To compete, other studios could also merge — giving us essentially a movie version of the NBA's super-team syndrome — or they could amp up efforts to infiltrate streaming, leaving their movie studios as an output for major blockbusters that audiences still want to watch in theaters.

Cat joined Puppet Showplace Theater in 2012 overseeing behind - the - scenes operations and managing audience services for the theater's patrons, members, and donors.

Theater of War Productions, supported by a generous grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in collaboration with the United Service Organizations (USO), is partnering with ten prominent theaters and universities across the United States to present â $ œTheater of Warâ $ for mixed audiences comprised of military service members and civilians.

With Inside Out opening in theaters today, other animation studios have released previews for their upcoming releases, hoping to snag some of the audience for what looks to be another Pixar hit.

It would seem absurd that anyone in the theater audience would root for the Nixon government, any more than we would root that Gary Cooper's Marshall Will Kane would lose his gun battle and die by Frank Miller's six - shooter.

Their team of comedy actors has some spunk and talent, but the show more closely resembles a commercial for mystery dinner theater, complete with testimonials by real audience members about how fun it all was in the end.

There is something special about seeing a bawdy spectacle of feigned sex and quivering emotion test the boundaries of Hollywood's rigid traditionalism, and their goofy thrall over audiences make for especially fun experiences in a theater.

Although Nixon's starring role on the hugely popular series may have brought her to the attention of a new audience, observers of the New York theater had been watching the actor on and off Broadway since 1980, where she had performed in productions that included David Rabe's Hurlyburly, Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, Angels in America, and Indiscretions, for which she earned a Tony nomination.Born in New York City on April 9, 1966, Nixon made her film debut in the 1980 movie Little Darlings.

Another standout sequence in Public Enemies is more effective for comedy than suspense, and involves Dillinger's reaction in a movie theater to an on - screen announcement warning the audience to be on the lookout for him, America's «Public Enemy # 1.»

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.

Still, I suppose Mike has nothing to feel sorry for when audiences flock in droves to endure more of his visual and aural assault on their senses, in 3D IMAX no less, perhaps the cinematic equivalent of feeling shitfaced after stumbling feebly out of the theaters once it's all over.

The annual four day event is about «celebrating the movie going experience» with the movie theaters and the major studios and distributors partnering together in a continual effort to enhance that experience for their audiences.

The Room turned the real Wiseau into a cult icon, as he continues to show up at screenings for his movie as it still plays in theaters with a fair amount of audience participation.

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The festival controversy dividing audiences this year was between Netflix (which produced both Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories this year) and the professional association for movie theater owners, arguing over Netflix's refusal to open the two films in theaters as part of their «exclusive content» strategy.

I can't think of a more fitting phrase to start the film with for any audience sitting in a theater or living room where this overrated, ineptly produced bore is showing.

Along with the trade show floor that featured the latest technological advances, concession goodies, comfort seating and more to enhance the theater audience movie going experience, each of the movie studios presented a sneak peak of their upcoming films slated for release in 2012 and beyond, many which were being seen for the very first time.

Guess unsuspecting audience members who seek a new soft core experience in the theaters will be duped into playing for something that's just a relationship drama about a marriage.

Audiences will get to judge for themselves if Feige and company are starting to make good on their promises when «Doctor Strange,» also starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams and Mads Mikkelsen, hits theaters in the U.S. Friday, November 4.

The film, which was made for $ 22 million, could stand to make a profit in weeks to come when older audiences start heading to the theaters.

I'm disappointed by some of Shyamalan's choices in this film, but Split is still worth seeing in the theater for James McAvoy's brilliance in taking on multiple characters (plus thrillers are always more fun with a big audience anyway).

Green's «Joe» didn't quite get a fair shake in theaters this year — it seemed to split the difference between the mainstream audiences who don't care for Nicolas Cage in a non-going-big performance and indie audiences who didn't know what to do with him, but it's an underrated picture, and Wingo and McIlwain can place another feather in their cap for this moody and memorable score.

Early on in the development process for this year's Logan, Hugh Jackman's swansong as everybody's favorite claw - wielding mutant, a much different version of the movie existed compared to the one audiences saw in theaters roughly two months ago.

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.

French auteur Olivier Assayas» newest film Apres mai (re-titled Something in the Air for U.S. audiences), begins its L.A. engagement this week at Laemmle Theaters.

In theaters now is the latest colorful Disney creation, Oz the Great and Powerful, returning audiences to same world as Wizard of Oz for the origin of the great wizard of Oz, played by James Franco.

But while the studio's marketing for the film must continually remind audiences that, yes, the movie is due in theaters in less than two months, they're fast approaching the limit of revealing things too much or too often.

There aren't many films made for adults these days, let alone one that features some of the best British talent in the business, so when a good movie does come along, audiences are going to flock to theaters to see it.

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A confused and uninspired rehash of a number of movies (EVENT HORIZON, GRAVITY, LIFE), it reconnects most strongly with its source (and, for those with longer memories, Paramount's PROPHECY, 1979) in an absolute groaner of an ending, which would have had theater audiences heaving with laughter.

The film is done with a high degree of respect for its audience with a stellar performance from the 66 - year - old Danish actor Jesper Christensen, whose résumé includes twenty - five years» work in his country's theater.

A little background info on lobby cards I like to regularly share for context: Back in the days before the Internet, movie lobby cards were a powerful tool used by Hollywood studios to lure audiences into the darkened theater.

It's been ten years since Toy Story took to theaters, wowed audiences, and ushered in a new age for animation.

A new clip and poster have been released for John Carney's upcoming Sundance darling Sing Street to hold over audiences until it hits theaters in a few weeks.

Reactions heard at The Paramount theater for a headlining film can never be trusted, this crowd will clap for anything, especially with the filmmakers sitting in the audience.

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.

«There's an audience out there and we want to be in the business of going to theaters with films for people who are interested.»

Worst - case scenario: The audience will start to feel like they've been trapped in the theater for as long as the heroine and her kid have been locked up.

Helen Mirren, who the best actress Oscar for «The Queen» in 2007, took top honors Sunday at London's Olivier theater awards Sunday for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in «The Audience.»

However, the makers of the movies must be mindful of how much time they take, not only because people will grow restless in the audience the longer you go, but also that, for the studio, the more showings that theaters can have in a given day, the more money they can make by striking while the iron is hot when the film opens.

Alas, the wave was but a trickle by Sunday night, and even the hope that the noise of clapping might keep the audience at home and in the theater awake, there was little of that for anything except the entrance of actors of advance age.

I saw it in a theater packed with college students who hooted and hollred during the Transformers sequel — Abrams isn't exactly going for a high brow audience.

Most odiously, the movie gave rise to the prolific shit machine of co-screenwriters Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, which for many years polluted movie theaters with its audience - insulting, pop - culture - reference - as - punchline brand of dispiritingly popular spoofery, as seen in such abominations as Date Movie, Epic Movie and The Starving Games, whose title, I would imagine, is some manner of humorous allusion to the popular book and movie franchise The Hunger Games.

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.

«We were all in from the moment we read Oren's stellar script and can't wait for audiences to experience it coming to life in theaters this fall.»

«We expect the film to stay alive in theaters for a while because it's that rare documentary where audiences feel better leaving the theater than they do going in.»

The darkly comedic, obscenity - laden first trailer for the movie, released Tuesday, makes clear that audiences should expect a complicated though ultimately redeemable protagonist when I, Tonya hits theaters in December.

Though quite obscure for those in America, where the film spent just one week in a single theater in March of 1988, When the Wind Blows appears to be somewhat well - known and appreciated by UK audiences.