Romero struggled to
get films made late in life.
Not exact matches
SolarWakeup's Yann Brandt notes that many thin
film makers
got into the business when polysilicon prices were high, but that the fall in silicon prices, including in
late 2011,
made most thin
film products uncompetitive.
Now, a whopping five years
later, we
get the just plainly ridiculous «Hot Tub Time Machine 2», which joins the list of «Taken 3» and (while it could turn out to be a good
film) «The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel» as 2015 sequels that had no business being
made.
Thanks to his Godfather success, he was able to
get the
film made and prevented Universal from
later demanding drastic cuts, by threatening to buy back the negative himself if they didn't comply.
A two -
film partnership with playwright Hanif Kureishi
later yielded My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie
Get Laid, and they, along with the magnificent Joe Orton biopic Prick Up Your Ears, brought Frears to the attention of Hollywood, where he's since had his share of ups (Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, and High Fidelity) and downs (Hero and Mary Reilly, high - profile flops
made back - to - back for the same studio).
Regardless of Baumbach's motives, he seems quite taken with this approach to
film -
making, as it was near impossible to
get even a morsel out of him when asked about his apparent new secretive
film, which quietly geared up
late last year.
Peter was raised in Rhode Island and went to college at Columbia University after a brief stint at UMass Amherst,
getting accepted to the program with a screenplay that would
later make the
film Outside Providence, the one where Alec Baldwin played another of his gruff father characters.
Lynne Ramsay is a tremendously talented director, as anyone who has seen her
films We Need to Talk About Kevin and Ratcatcher can tell you, which
makes the
latest ripple in her career quite a bummer: When production began Monday on her
latest film, the Natalie Portman - fronted Western Jane
Got a Gun, Ramsay was nowhere to be found.
Two
films hardly
make a trend, but take his
latest film and you've
got to sit up and take notice: The man is taking some risks with genre and succeeding in doing things a little different with his collaboration with playwright Tracey Letts.
Check out the
latest fan -
made movie poster for the upcoming
film «The Dark Knight Rises» by director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento) stars Christian Bale (Batman Begins, Terminator Salvation, The 13 Women of Nanjing), Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada,
Get Smart, Alice in Wonderland, The Silver Linings Playbook), Tom Hardy (Inception, RocknRolla, Bronson), Joseph Gordon - Levitt (Elektra Luxx, 3rd Rock from the Sun), Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption, The Dark Knight, Se7en), Gary Oldman (The Professional, The Fifth Element) and Michael Caine (Cars 2, Gnomeo & Juliet, Inception, Harry Brown).
It's very strange to me that the
latest Transformers and Pirates
films made enough on their own to
get those couples on the list.
Fashioning a tale of abuse, revenge, and guilt into a bizarre mixture of moods and influences, the
film will finally
make its way to U.S. theatres next month, and we've
got a crop of five new clips to help us
get a sense of Denis»
latest rhythms.
The 84 - year - old actress is not a fan of fake romping for the camera, unlike fellow actress Dame Judi Dench who loves
filming nude, because she had bad experiences of it in the past, including the time she had to pretend to
make out with the
late US actor George Peppard in «The Executioner», which
got awkward because they both disliked one another.
With a script by four writers — in this case not a warning sign that a committee - written story will be bland — Scardino takes us to Las Vegas, with
later film taking place in Los Angeles, but first we
get insight into what
made Burt a magician.
With a solid title and appealing DVD cover, No Solicitors is a
film that looks to attract horror fans looking to
make an impulse buy or a
late - night viewing when in the mood for something to
get the heart racing.
The
latest dramedy from the
film making siblings, Duplass Brothers, has
gotten a new trailer.
Although the Irish actor's upcoming
film schedule is still packed full of kicked doors, dead scumbags, and people
getting took, Neeson has
made a few feints in the direction of comedy of
late, appearing as the antagonist in Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways To Die In The West and throwing his gravitas behind the cameo - smorgasbord battle scene in the second Anchorman
film.
A gravelly voiceover introduces the
film and is never heard from again; the debt Albert promised to pay off to
get out of his first gunfight is somehow paid, although how is never
made clear; a gash Albert
gets on his forehead disappears the day
later.
Though not widely seen, the
film got her commissions to
make several documentaries in the
late fifties.
Perhaps that's why Blumhouse's namesake producer has taken ownership of the
film on posters and in advertising, heralding the
latest release from the person responsible for Happy Death Day and
Get Out, but the only favorable byproduct of conjuring this throughline in moviegoers» minds is
making the former qualitatively look like the latter in comparison to how awful Truth or Dare actually is.
There is a great narrative associated to Thunder Road: it serves as a brilliant proof of concept project as it was based on the Sundance Grand Jury prize winning short, and serves as a reminder that in this era, regardless of a small budget or limited means — that if you've
got a great idea and a team of creative collaborators, you can
make a feature
film in the month of November and win a major
film festival five months
later.
Though the
film doesn't have distribution in the United States yet, the star - studded cast that includes Liam Neeson, James Franco, Adrien Brody, Mila Kunis, Olivia Wilde has
made it appealing enough to
get a release in Italy and Belgium this month and Japan
later this year.
It was the role that
got her her Oscar (an achievement she
later followed up with a Tony Award for the Broadway play Good People as well as an Emmy for the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge — thus
making her one of the very few people to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting), and the
film that contains it remains to this day one of the finest examples of American movie
making.
One key difference between the book and the
film is that Pynchon doesn't push that idea to the fore until quite
late in the game,
making the pangs of romance more of a sub-conscious revelation than a concrete intent from the
get - go.
Though obviously Fosse wasn't dying when he
made the
film, he could still see the Devil looming from afar,
getting all ready to claim his due [Fosse died suddenly eight years
later, on a park bench in New York].
The goal of a
film like «Cold Rush» is the viewer will be at a cocktail party a couple days
later, someone will mention «bio-prospecting,» and the person will say, «Oh, I just saw a funny
film about that — I
got that it's about
making money off bacteria in the Arctic, but how exactly does that work?»