Sentences with phrase «for big studio films»

«In the face of massive marketing for big studio films, it is the ultimate underdogs who have emerged as critic's darlings and fan favorites,» said Tim Gordon, president of WAFCA.

Not exact matches

Of course, some of the nominated films are still in theaters, and winning a big haul at the Academy Awards is known to result in a bump at movie theaters, which is all the more reason for studios to pull out all the stops in their awards - season marketing efforts.

But for Paramount, the studio's success will largely be defined by movie ticket sales as well as the number of big blockbuster and tentpole film franchises it can churn out.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

This would be a big shift in the business model of feature - film distribution for both the major studios and the theater chains.

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

Director Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station & Creed) enters «the big leagues» with Marvel's Black Panther, a somewhat monumental feat for the studio that has mostly featured films that skew towards the white male demographic.

That film was also the year's biggest box office flop from a major studio, boasting one of the worst opening weekends in history ($ 306,367) for a nationwide release.

Just on a technical level, the film represents such a big jump forward for Saulnier that you should expect the studios to immediately start arguing over which giant soulless franchise should occupy his time in the near - future.

It will be extremely hard for the studio to match those figures in 2016, as many of its biggest franchises are sitting out the year and Universal's planned 21 - film slate doesn't feature any sure - thing blockbuster hits aside from (maybe) a still - untitled Bourne sequel.

On some of those fronts, the film wildly misfires, but for a wide studio release headlined by one of Hollywood's biggest stars, Red Sparrow is an admirably bold effort.

Not as big a moneymaker as Harold's starring features of the 1920s, the RKO film nonetheless turned a tidy profit for the studio.

Seldom making a liveable income in films, Miller remained an unknown entity so far as the «big» studios were concerned — but his teenaged fans were legion, and he was besieged on the streets and in public places for autographs.

Ant - Man is an old fashioned heist film with an underlying message about fathers and daughters, and probably the biggest departure for the studio, which is a very, very good thing.

Two of the biggest studio films of the year in the awards race are both from Paramount, and both will be challenging for mainstream audiences — Silence and Arrival.

For those who don't know, most studios use the fall film festivals as a kind of launching pad for their big awards contendeFor those who don't know, most studios use the fall film festivals as a kind of launching pad for their big awards contendefor their big awards contenders.

The studio might easily have ignored Pym altogether: let us not forget that the comic book Thor backstory was radically adapted for the big screen, with the Norse god's human alter ego Donald Blake virtually excised from the film version.

The film is the studio's second big release of the year following the summer's Cars 3, and the new trailer comes just days after Pixar released the new poster for the upcoming motion picture.

The 2016 Deadpool film broke data and changed into an astounding essential and industrial luck, particularly for an R - rated film, which is why many studios are actually satisfied R - rated comedian e book films can paintings on a big scale.

A leviathan that has temporarily ducked back under the surface after pulverizing multiplexes all summer long, Christopher Nolan's symphonic blockbuster is not only one of the biggest studio films of the year ($ 523.7 million worldwide for a historical epic about one of modern history's greatest non-events), it's also one of the best.

In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.

Back when it sounded like Suspiria was dead in the water, Green noted that the reason was mostly because the budget was just too big for a film that a studio was essentially going to be taking a risk on.

Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Sony, Universal — all studios that have major films this year have decided to eschew the world's biggest film festival for whatever reason, giving us a much more esoteric and independent lineup.

Look, we get it: internet movie trailer culture is a problem for big film studios, since they'd presumably like to maintain at least a little bit of mystery around their high - profile films.

That's good news for Warner Bros., because the studio and author / screenwriter J.K. Rowling have big plans for Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), like four more Fantastic Beasts films.

Director Sarah Gavron is an untested entity for many, considering this is her big studio debut since her 2007 film, Brick Lane (which she worked with Morgan on).

It overstates the emotion of each scene, sticks out like a sore thumb where it should be subtle, and often sounds like something from a made - for - TV movie rather than a big studio film.

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 suspect «Fast Times» couldn't be made today and remain intact, at least not in big - studio form; a character has an abortion, for example, and the film never judges her for it.

The studio has been trying to court some of the biggest names in Hollywood for their films as proven with them courting Mel Gibson for Suicide Squad and having Ridley Scott (The Martian, Alien Covenant) along with Fede Alverez (Don't Breathe) in the wings to hopefully sign on for The Batman.

«Son Of Rambow» (2007) Arguably the best film on this section of the list, «Son Of Rambow,» the impossibly charming coming - of - age tale that marked the second film from music video veteran Garth Jennings, who made his debut with studio picture «The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy,» was the big buy at Sundance 2007, selling to Paramount Vantage for $ 7.5 million.

But then, the Big studios buy out independent film and well, independent filmmaking for shoestring filmmmakers was a fairytale.

and champion the studio's ability to come up with children's films that also hold appeal for adults and tackle bigger themes than your usual computer - animated monstrosity.

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.

While filmmaker Jon Favreau has been dabbling in big - budget studio fare for the past few years, his next film returns him to his indie roots.

THE DVD by Bill Chambers Sort of inevitable that Warner / Morgan Creek's DVD release of Exorcist: The Beginning doesn't, despite rumours promising the contrary, contain the Paul Schrader incarnation of the film (which will premiere at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (click here for a link to the trailer)-RRB-, so perhaps the bigger letdown of this disc is the coyness of its supplementary material, which alludes to Schrader's version only in terms of the unusual duress that replacement director Renny Harlin was under in helming a prequel to one of the biggest breadwinners in the studio stable.

The thing cost $ 60 million to make, the studios likely had their fingers crossed for it to become the next big YA film franchise and then...

«Atomic Blonde» is being distributed by Focus Features, a studio best known for their indie, arthouse films and awards season contenders that don't usually make big bucks at the box office.

Cheech works for a big film studio while his spaced - out unemployed pal, Chong, keeps getting him into trouble.

While «Avengers: Infinity War» has been 10 years in the making, selecting the greatest ensemble of Super Hero characters for the film fell squarely into the laps of directors Anthony and Joe Russo, who were tapped by Kevin Feige to helm the studio's biggest film to date.

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.

Baker protégé Rob Bottin's work on that film was arguably equal to that of his mentor (who left Bottin in charge of The Howling «s effects after he exited the project for the bigger - budget American Werewolf), and yet the Academy couldn't even be bothered to nominate him (or, perhaps more likely, its members simply couldn't bring themselves to watch a low - budget horror movie not put out by a major studio).

Aside from Manchester and Love & Friendship, none of Amazon's films has been a big earner yet, although films like Chi - Raq, Paterson, and Park Chan - wook's The Handmaiden got the kind of critical acclaim the studio was looking for.

Until a year ago, Pixar's film The Good Dinosaur was planned as the studio's big offering for 2014.

With all parties involved moving on, and with Warner Bros. eager to continue the Batman saga with a likely sunnier reboot within the next few years, «The Dark Knight Rises» is a pivotal film for those intrigued by the successes and fallacies of big studio sequential filmmaking.

For this is a Sundance film gussied up with studio production values and big stars.»

On This Week's Show: Kevin and Neil brace themselves for an onslaught of films, from the big studio releases to some independent ones.

He followed it up by jumping to a big Hollywood production — Blade II, starring Wesley Snipes — and stuck with studio fare for his next film, Hellboy, in 2004.

Overall, it's just the type of well - done sound mix that you'd expect from a new big - budget studio film, but not as active as you might expect or hope for.

The trailer for Amazon's new Woody Allen film had me scratching my head: This is meant to be the studio's big Best Actress hope, yet the teaser curiously deemphasized Winslet, spending more of its capital on her co-stars Justin Timberlake and Juno Temple.