Interesting Fact: In order to
get the film made with the studio's modest take - it - or - leave - it $ 28 mil budget, Washington and director Robert Zemeckis accepted a reported tenth of their usual salaries.
It's his third feature film as a writer - director, with his previous efforts not very successful (Wisdom, Men at Work), but Estevez had a passion to make the film, and with a good deal of monetary sacrifice, he should get some credit for
getting the film made with a very fine ensemble of actors.
Not exact matches
Black Panther was going to go
with or without me, but the
film that I wanted to
make was something that [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige and Disney and those guys
got behind.
Signing the Potter deal
makes sense in part because NBCUniversal already has a Potter - themed attraction at its parks (it now
gets access to more material from the
films), and because the movies are also a huge draw
with younger TV viewers.
Fox's decision to finally move forward
with the
film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to
get the movie
made.
We should not, perhaps, pay to see the performance of an actress who must
get herself drunk in order to act out a sex scene
with a married co-star, any more than the
film industry should allow animals to be harmed in the
making of a
film.
I actually
filmed that twice just to
make sure I
got a good angle haha And then I had two creme brûlées
with one spoonful taken out of them to devour!
not really
making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just
got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a
film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has
with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope
with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal
with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue
Marsden Wagner, MD, who is interviewed in the
film,
makes an excellent point about childbirth saying, «It's
got to be like it is when you
make love
with someone.
But all Royal Dick sucking aside, Summerhall is a terrifically cool space,
with a fascinating community of international artists lounging in the courtyard, trolling the hallways, wandering in and out of its nearly 500 rooms (some filled
with art, some abandoned, some undecided), playing music, watching
films, hanging from the ceiling fans,
getting naked, and
making art in all mediums.
If they've
got their appetite then have a
film afternoon and
make some popcorn to go
with it.
Even when
getting in a fix about young people who «
make films» in Soho - the highlight of the conference speech - he emerges
with his popularity enhanced, not diminished.
The
film only
gets going once he
makes contact
with Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), who recognises his potential and invites him to the UK.
If you
get the thickness of a metal layer right, you can
make a beam splitter that divides an incident beam of light into two equal parts,
with just a little bit of the light lost to the metal
film itself.
«The problem
with perovskite has been that when you try to
make larger
films using traditional methods, you
get defects in the
film that decrease efficiency.»
It's excellent for what he needed to do to
get ready for the movie role — a bodybuilding type workout that packed muscle where it mattered for
film (chest, shoulders, arms) while giving a good strength base
with squats and deadlifts (and
making sure Wolverine wasn't walking on chicken legs).
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Shooting
film is a bit of a guilty pleasure, the results are often hit and miss but
with just one chance to
get it right it
makes the outcome even more magical.
I want to thank Bear from Lolli & Pops for sponsoring the candy bar, Joann and Marilyn for showing up early and helping, Emily for taking these photos and helping set up and clean up, Laura for
filming the «
get ready
with me» video... (coming soon) Glam Squad for
getting me ready - specifically Erik and Christopher who
made me feel so beautiful and relieved a lot of stress, Roger for his undying support, all of my friends for coming and my beautiful mom for driving 6 hours to, not only come to my premier party, but to scrub my kitchen and help me set up... I am so grateful and genuinely touched that you all care and put so much effort into a big day for me.
Trying to
get away from the horror genre, he tried to
make a few
films with no success.
In all those great
films — as well as some good ones like A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries and Surviving Picasso — James Ivory directed
with Ismail Merchant producing; today, though, Merchant has
made an effort to
get to direct, leaving his normal collaborator as just a small credit in the «A Merchant - Ivory Production» credit.
The pressure off, they're free to
make out like teenagers and fall in love, a happy interlude the
film covers
with smart economy, so as to spend more time on
getting to know this «hot grandma» (she's struggling to keep her middle daughter pregnancy - free through high school), as well as the couple's first big fight, occasioned when she wonders why he still doesn't want to sleep
with her after nearly 20 dates.
While the previous
films in the series have been just that — parts of a sequence designed to
get us here, each
with their own beginning and end — the first and second parts of Deathly Hallows are two halves of the same
film, and to approach them as separate entities means missing just what director David Yates, writer Steve Kloves, and a host of storytellers and performers have done: They've
made a five - hour fantasy epic that balances effects - driven battles
with some very real character moments, and one that isn't afraid to have its heroes pay a high price for their convictions.
We
get that many acclaimed
films won't
make a dent
with the populous.
The familiarity of the clothes could
make you miss how well they are worn the first time you watch the
film, the way it did
with me, but try it again, you'll start to
get it the second time around.
It
makes me even angrier after I read the above referenced LA Times interview
with Jackson who promotes the
film thusly:... I'm also aware that audiences are
getting fed up
with the lack of original ideas and original stories.
This may be Alvarez's greatest accomplishment
with the
film —
getting the kind of emotionally potent performances that
make it a powerful and visceral
film to watch.
It was
made in 1979 and followed 1973's Stacey (hopefully we can
get a Blu - ray release of that one soon too) and it is a bit more grounded than some of the
films he'd
make in the eighties starting
with Malibu Express and peaking
with Hard Ticket To Hawaii.
These are simple but compelling
films about people who
get in over their heads, who
make poor choices consistent
with their human flaws and suffer the consequences.
However, a combination of some nifty directing, winsome acting, and some genuine laughs
make Game Night as entertaining a
film as one
with such limited goals can
get.
One of the overriding questions one has while enduring a particularly awful
film is,
with all of the talented out - of - work
film - makers in Hollywood, just how on earth did this
get made?
This
film does seem a lot more pointless and the ending
gets racked up into a silly hollywood - like chase, and
with some gratuitous cinematic and editing decisions
made that shows this
films wants to be something new but can't let go it's predecessor.
Having never read the book I'm rating it as just a
film and it's really a
film that starts well then
gets predictable then
got silly and confusing, The story was not new but it had a different take on it, It wasn't acted very well but it had some good intense scenes that were done well,
With a good cast the story should of been told more deeper and we never really know how it all started which was quite annoying, I did like the ending but the scenes before that completely ruined the
film as they didn't
make sense or were done that well, It's not a bad
film it's just poor for what was on offer.
A native of Garden City, Long Island, NY, who was a mere four years old when he
got his start in the
film industry as a child model, Masterson subsequently moved to Los Angeles, where he
made the leap to television
with appearances in numerous commercials.
Another Saturday Night Live alumnus to
make a bid for big screen stardom, Rob Schneider
got his first chance to carry a
film with Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (2000), a mistaken identity comedy that was as commercially popular as it was critically eviscerated.
But he's not
got a great deal to work
with and what the
film crucially fails to do is fill us
with that same dread that
made its predecessor so gut - wrenching.
I really want to see Bay
make an Avatar styled alien
film in another world
with shit
getting demolished left and right.
Racism was highlighted in the
film in connection
with the priorities of police work, and Ms Johanson's point about the treatment it
got on release is well
made.
Many people
get frustrated
with this
film with the fact that the story does not
make sense or goes anywhere.
The case and
film kicks off
with an announcement that already
got the legal team
making headlines: David Boies and the traditionally conservative Ted Olsen — who previously were on opposite legal sides during the contentious recount of the 2000 Bush / Gore election — were going be working together on the case.
Finkel had a book and
film made and didn't have to share any of it
with Longo, and Longo
got to be famous.
What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll
get Pompeii, a
film that is so utterly derivative of all
films that have gone before it, but somehow
made with such enthusiasm by Paul W.S. Anderson, the king of «schlock» cinema that you'll find it somewhat enjoyable.
What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll
get Pompeii, a
film that is so utterly derivative of all
films that have gone before it, but somehow
made with such enthusiasm by Paul
With a $ 40 million budget, the
film will
make a profit, but this seems a case where a potentially profitable
film suffered from the misfortune of
getting caught in the wave of a massive event
film.
With a number of actress - driven
films getting awards attention, voters had to
make tough decisions to narrow down the field to 5.
Maybe they want a particular thing in line
with a particular other thing, but if you hire a director who has a particular vision, you've
got to expect him or her to
make a «such and such
film».
And if that
makes them «boutique
films,» let's be clear: Only one of those four movies ever connected, in a major way,
with a popular audience, and that was «
Get Out.»
One quibble I have
with the
film is that it occasionally
gets confused whether it wants to be a serious drama or a comedy - but that's just a minor complaint to be
made about an otherwise tremendously effective
film.
At the
film's press day, actor Paul Giamatti, who's also an executive producer on the movie, talked about what drew him to John Dies at the End, his most memorable experience of the shoot, working
with such new actors, how he sees the industry now, and that he doesn't think a
film like Sideways would even
get made today.
Not everything he's
made has been a hit, but the last few years have seen Nicholas Stoller establish himself as one of the more reliable comedy directors in the business,
with films like «Forgetting Sarah Marshall,» «The Muppets» (which he co-wrote) and «
Get Him To The Greek.»