Sentences with phrase «get my films made based»

In this case, I'm both writer and director, and if I'm fortunate enough to get my films made based on what I have to say, then all the better.

Not exact matches

Kirk discusses how he uses social media to capture a fan base for his brand and to get his books made into a feature film.

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).

An accident involving a fire is about as far as the film gets to explicitly revealing anything, leaving viewers to make their own conclusions based on the sometimes cryptic dialogue.

That said, after having seen the film, one should be able to parse these elements and make objective judgments about what they've just seen; not based on what they didn't get.

Based on the true story of Dutch criminal Cor Van Hout (Jim Sturgess), Mr. Heineken follows Van Hout and his gang of similarly beefcake - ey friends as they plot a get - rich - quick scheme that involves kidnapping beer magnate Freddy Heineken (Anthony Hopkins), and although Van Hout's life and the Heineken case could have made for an interesting film if director Daniel Alfredson (The Girl Who Played With Fire) had avoided editorializing, it's hard to be really be compelled by a movie that endorses crime, particularly crime committed by people with a certain amount of privilege.

For his part, Martini is clearly trying to go for a stylized, hyper - real effect in which everything looks normal but is a bit off but his results are off in all the wrong ways — the film feels as if it was made by someone who has been charged with making something in the tradition of «Blue Velvet» and «Donnie Darko» but who never actually got around to seeing them and is basing his work on what he thinks was in them.

Of course, not every movie that gets purchased at Sundance is a surefire hit, and based on the tepid reaction that the film received from attendees, it makes you question why IFC would spend a cool $ 3 million for the distribution rights.

A common mistake for a film to make that is based on improvised dialog is allowing scenes to drag on and get off topic.

«We made our selection on the basis of the quality of films that we saw, and I really hope that the film industry will get rid of all their prejudices against women, because female film - makers show the same kind of creativity and competence of their male colleagues.

Or, as I asked him, based on his Comic Con presentation, is this the sort of movie a lot of devotees of»70s genre film always talks about wanting to make, where you've got a pulpy story, but a cast that's really devoted to it?

I make films purely based on what I want to see, but if it makes money then I'm gonna get to do the next one.

Fans of Carrey will, of course, flock in numbers to see this film, and if I were to guess based on how they generally received his early work, they will probably be the most forgiving of him if he makes a bad film, as long as they get to see Jim be Jim.

But the trailers also suggest that Whedon, who made the two Avengers films and who rewrote enough of this movie to get a writing credit, may have chipped away some at the monolithic seriousness of the franchise, allowing for a little character - based levity.

Wilder had a knack for making top - of - the - line films in just about every genre, so even though I haven't gotten around to seeing this one myself yet, I'm willing to give it a shot just based on Wilder's involvement.

The group made a short film based on their idea, got support from Texas - based screenwriter L. K. (Kit) Carson, took the short to the Sundance Film Festival, and found backing from big - time filmmakers including James L. Brooks, who helped them get money for a feature from Columbia Pictures.

Based on a 1984 short film Burton made (which got him fired from his then job at the Mouse House), Frankenweenie tells the story of a young boy (voiced by Charlie Tahan) who loses his beloved dog after it runs into the street and is hit by a car.

The film (based on Amy Fox «s play) picked up decent notices, but was mostly ignored on release, but nevertheless, it managed to get Terrio more screenwriting work, even though he'd only contributed additional material to «Heights» (making «Argo» his first proper screenwriting credit).

And the story gets even stranger when you tell it, as Franco does, from the perspective of Wiseau's friend and collaborator, Greg Sestero; Franco's film is based on Sestero's memoir The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, which he co-wrote with Tom Bissell.

The film stars Emmy - nominated Dutch actor Robert de Hoog (Skin) and Pollyanna McIntosh (The Woman), and based on the Japanese novel In Love with the Dead from acclaimed author Kei Oishi (Apartment 1303, The Last Supper) and centres on an isolated and death - fixated young man who tries to make sense of the world, and his existence, in the only way he knows how... by getting closer to death.

Aja Naomi King's movie ascendancy as the slave girl Cherry in Nate Parker's blazing battle cry, The Birth of a Nation (based on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831), is a complete boomerang from the role that made her television rep.. After an assortment of credits in film («Positive Polly» in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress and Rosa in the underseen comedy The Rewrite) and in prime - time series such as Emily Owens, M.D. and The Blacklist, King was whisked aboard the mother ship of Shondaland's How to Get Away with Murder, starring the inviolable Viola Davis.

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.

It would have been so easy to make a mess of Nelle Harper Lee's slender novel based on her Alabama childhood, but Robert Mulligan's film got the balance between sweetness and pathos exactly right.

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We've been blogging a lot about books made into films lately, and today I got word of another movie to anticipate: Johnny Depp will produce (and possibly star in) a movie based on the life of Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss.

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