Sentences with phrase «for modern blockbusters»

The two - disc Batman 25th Anniversary Blu - ray set will include a featurette that shows how Tim Burton's movie paved the way for modern blockbusters.

It's Ground Zero for the modern blockbuster, logo and all.

Not exact matches

In retrospect, it's clear Lord of the Rings played a big part in paving the way for modern, serial blockbuster movies.

The modern noir — about the search for a missing child — shows that Ben Affleck isn't just a blockbuster movie star; he's also one of his generation's most notable filmmakers.

In a nod to flying creatures of our modern age, the new species has been dubbed Ikrandraco avatar — draco is Latin for «dragon,» and Ikran are the pterosaurlike flying beasts depicted in the 2009 blockbuster Avatar.

Here Whedon and Goddard look like they're abandoning their convictions for what their film should be, and pandering to modern blockbuster viewers and their incessant craving for elaborate action sequences and expensive special effects.

Even with the enormous success of Christopher Nolan's Gotham trilogy, the modern approach to the comic book blockbuster is for each film to form a mere link in a seemingly infinite chain.

It's fashionable, of course, to praise modern blockbusters for going «dark,» as if that by itself is genuine evidence of challenging an audience.

Just as they did with «21 Jump Street» and «Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs» before this most ambitious undertaking, co-helmers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller irreverently deconstruct the state of the modern blockbuster and deliver a smarter, more satisfying experience in its place, emerging with a fresh franchise for others to build upon.

It makes for populist dystopian SF fare, and serves well as a provocative modern - day blockbuster film on reality TV shows that reflects in a mild subtle way on these diabolical hard times and how gross the public's entertainment tastes have become.

A blockbuster with heart, a horror movie with bite, a child's - eye view of poverty and a romance for modern times are among the year's best movies.

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.

As is becoming increasingly common in our modern blockbuster era, superhero comedy Deadpool 2 got sent back for reshoots earlier this year.

In comparison with your average modern blockbuster, in which the story grinds to a halt every 15 minutes to make room for another eye - scorching set piece, there's very little action in the first Star Wars movie: an extended chase through the Death Star corridors, a perfunctory sword fight between two knightly codgers and a pair of space dogfights, and that's pretty much it.

Scott also noted the most troubling factor of Avengers, and indeed, the whole modern blockbuster genre: The sense that Avengers is not so much a movie as it is an annual product launch for a major corporation, featuring characters that are all «dutiful corporate citizens, serving a conveniently vague set of principles.»

As someone who always enjoyed the overly dramatic popcorn summer blockbuster stories of the Modern Combat campaigns, this is a bummer, but I also can't blame Gameloft as the online multiplayer is always the thing that brings players coming back for years in most first - person shooters anyway.

Emmerich made a name for himself with Universal Soldier in 1992, but became a staple and helped usher in the modern summer blockbuster with Independence Day.

Before Hollywood adapted Blade, Spawn, and Steel from their respective Marvel and DC Comics franchises, the black superhero tradition in TV and film was decidedly less mainstream, even as Hollywood adapted the white comic heroes Superman and Batman into blockbusters for decades before the modern superhero movie boom began in earnest.

Makin» wookiee In comparison with your average modern blockbuster, in which the story grinds to a halt every 15 minutes to make room for another eye - scorching set piece, there's very little action in the first Star Wars movie: an extended chase through the Death Star corridors, a perfunctory sword fight between two knightly codgers and a pair of space dogfights, and that's pretty much it.

It seems the film industry is finally warming to the idea of videogames as legitimate (read: not Uwe Boll directed) source material for Hollywood blockbusters, according to Modern Warfare 2 director Keith Aram.

«Video game releases such as the Call of Duty series have outperformed the launches of major Hollywood blockbusters for several years and the day - one sales for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 proved once again that video games have become cultural events in their own right,» said Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition Editor, Gaz Deaves.

Modern Warfare was a loud, bombastic spectacle with visual and auditory sensations typically reserved for big budget Michael Bay blockbusters.

Released to rival Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog, the game was met with critical acclaim and has been credited with laying the foundations for some of the modern blockbusters out today.

Video games, especially modern games, could be a great source for future blockbusters.

It also referenced blockbuster releases such as Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim and Battlefield 3 as key for the market showing strong growth.

«The Responsive Eye» was a blockbuster hit for the Museum of Modern Art, where it debuted.

For an institution with a reputation for blockbuster exhibitions and kid - friendly programming, the Gallery of Modern Art made an unusual choice when it decided to mount a Gerhard Richter retrospective — his first in AustralFor an institution with a reputation for blockbuster exhibitions and kid - friendly programming, the Gallery of Modern Art made an unusual choice when it decided to mount a Gerhard Richter retrospective — his first in Australfor blockbuster exhibitions and kid - friendly programming, the Gallery of Modern Art made an unusual choice when it decided to mount a Gerhard Richter retrospective — his first in Australia.

Tate Modern's third year was a bumper one for blockbusters: the excellent Andy Warhol retrospective was followed by a sublime exhibition that brought together two titans of 20th - century modernism, Picasso and Matisse.

After fooling everyone — including the art world itself — it was dubbed the first «Instagram masterpiece» and featured in two blockbuster shows last year in London — Electronic Superhighway at the Whitechapel Gallery and Performing for the Camera at the Tate Modern.

He also knows Tate well, having worked as a curator at Tate Modern for six years and co-curating the blockbuster Matisse cutouts exhibition with Serota.