Sentences with phrase «get the film made ever»

Flanagan first read King's novel when he was 19 and has been attempting to get the film made ever since, a feat that...

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That movie took a long time to get off the ground and before she ever appeared as Nova, Harrison served as a stand - in in the role of Dr. Zira (the part ultimately played by Kim Hunter) in the screen tests and extensive make - up tests through which the project evolved, even participating in a test for Edward G. Robinson in the role of Dr. Zaius (Robinson was forced to withdraw from the project because of a heart condition that prevented him from working under the heavy make - up and in the high altitude location where much of the film was to be made).

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.»

The film's playful and plentiful bonus offerings include «Piper,» the theatrical short film starring an irresistible sandpiper hatchling; an all - new mini short featuring interviews with Dory's pals from the Marine Life Institute; a behind - the - scenes look at the most challenging character Pixar has ever created; never - before - seen deleted scenes, including a digital exclusive featuring the Tank Gang from «Finding Nemo» who make it their mission to get Marlin and Nemo to the Marine Life Institute; and much, much more.

While most adults in the audience will wonder why Mia would ever seriously consider a relationship with a guy who is so self - centered to get mad at her for desiring to relocate 3,000 miles away to go to the most prestigious music school in the country, the film seems to make the false presumption that younger girls will find it more romantic for the boyfriend to be upset that they will be apart and have to Skype to keep in touch (something he seems to think is the worst possible case scenario, even though he already spends several weeks a year on the road performing gigs).

These are the films that inspire wonder — they are so profoundly misguided and egregiously off - target that you have to wonder how they ever got made.

How much better can a debut feature realistically get, and why discredit one of the greatest films ever made about race relations by attributing it to Humpty Dumpty?

During our chat we touched on why the film is only 58 minutes long and whether there was any intention to extend it, whether Refn believes he should have won the Palme d'Or, why he switched from composer Peter Peter to working with Cliff Martinez, how they had little boosts of money that helped get the film made, why the film is just now coming out instead of closer to Only God Forgives «release, whether Refn ever wanted to stop being filmed, the commercial prospects of an hour long documentary, and much more.

One gets the sense that even the Academy knows it made a mistake in overlooking Fellini for his work on «Amarcord,» «La dolce vita,» and — one of the best films ever made — «8 1/2.»

Haifaa Al Mansour («Wadjda») «Wadjda» was always going to get a certain amount of attention on the festival circuit: it was the first ever film made in Saudi Arabia, and directed by a female filmmaker, no less.

This power doesn't make women any less of a riddle to Tim, who apparently only uses his abilities to get laid, though no character ever seems to have a problem with money over the film's runtime.

A bone - crunching, testosterone - pumping freight train of destruction that barely lets you catch your breath once it gets going, «The Raid» delivers the closest thing to non-stop, wall - to - wall action that I've ever seen, and a big part of what makes it so awesome is the amazing fight choreography, including what is easily some of the best close - quarters combat committed to film.

Far from the worst vehicle Schwarzenegger has ever done, but certainly not the type of film you'd expect him to make if he plans to ever get his career back on track.

Well, it appears that Suspiria has hit a bit of a snag with a legal situation that could very well keep the film from ever getting made.

It's the only time we ever get to see things from Myers» point of view as we then spend the rest of the film trying to evade the unrelenting nature of him.Carpenter has a knack for delivering genuine chills but his real skill is in making the ordinary, «safer» moments just as scary.

If it's a fake film, than you got me, and if it's real, it's the worst thing ever made.

12:00 M — Sundance — The Discreet Charm of the Bourgiousie Luis Buñuel made a career out of making surrealist anti-bourgeois films, and this is one of the most surreal, most anti-bourgeois, and best films he ever made, about a dinner party that just can't quite get started due to completely absurd interruptions.

And now we get to be obsessed with it until he releases the next greatest film he's ever made.

But del Toro's next project as director, the period horror film Crimson Peak, looks like the closest he's ever gotten to making one of his Spanish films in English.

The first, by George A. Romero, his wife and assistant director Chris Romero (née Forrest) and Tom Savini, reveals that almost all the cast were friends, family or local Pittsburgh volunteers (even the mall was owned by personal friends of Romero), that the original script had a far bleaker ending (everybody dies) which was changed during the shoot because the film was «too much fun» for it, and that the fourth film, should it ever get made, is a larger - scale affair set in a down - town area, with lots of action sequences and an overarching theme of «ignoring the problem».

Often hailed as the worst film ever made, Tommy Wiseau's The Room is getting a faux behind - the - scenes look courtesy of James Franco.

This has got to be the crotchetiest, most alarmist movie ever directed by a 36 - year - old man, and would probably be the worst film released all year had Jason Reitman not also made Labor Day.

Set in 1944 New York, the film documents the final year of Jenkins» life, as she finds a dependable pianist / composer in the ever - nervous Cosme McMoon (Simon Helberg of «The Big Bang Theory»), makes a personal recording that becomes a unlikely radio hit, and even gets to perform to an enthused sell - out audience at Carnegie Hall.

In an entertainment era when the line between film and TV in particular feels like it's getting ever blurrier, it makes complete sense that the Academy would want to highlight and celebrate films that highlight and celebrate filmmaking, and all the things filmmaking is capable of that other media are not.

The 1080p 1.66 X 1 digital High Definition image transfer on Virgin Suicides has stunning color grading (also a 4K scan from the original 35 mm camera negative), making the film look as great as it ever has and not only increases its smooth density, but its realism and naturalism, no matter how dream - like it gets.

Lucy is great junk — a headrush of a film so bizarre you'll spend the entire fleeting, eighty - something - minute running time wondering how it ever got made in the first place.

Scorpion's Blu - ray of this oddball supernatural occult curiosity is pretty solid (and likely the best one this film will ever get), all of which makes a fan's decision as to whether or not to add this disc to their personal library a fairly easy one.

The Darjeeling Limited: Criterion Edition Rated R for language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Wes Anderson's film about three brothers (Owen Wilson, Adrian Brody and Jason Schwartzman) traveling through India to visit their missionary mom is getting the ultimate collectors touch with this new Criterion set which contains tons of great special features and everything you would ever want to know about what went on in the making of the surreal comedy.

The whole crew is back, and acquit themselves well for the most part — Karl Urban is as crotchety as ever as Bones, Simon Pegg gets more to do in Scotty's expanded role, Zoe Saldana manages to kick ass as Uhura (despite the unfortunate need to make much of her role in the film about her lover's quarrel with Spock), and so on.

It needs that — Get Out is already eight months old and few films released in February are ever nominated for Academy Awards, let alone those made by black first - time writer - directors like Jordan Peele, and in the horror genre no less.

The only time the film ever came close to surprising me is in this climax, mostly because the story takes roads I would have gathered to be too stupid to traverse and still get made into a major motion picture release.

What do you get when you take what is probably the greatest baseball film ever made («Eight Men Out»), a magical Irish fairytale («The Secret of Roan Inish»), a strange science fiction film about a mute, black alien who lands in Harlem («The Brother from Another Planet») and one of the best mystery / suspense films in recent years («Lone Star»)?

This is a film that is getting praise as one of the best films of the year and it's made me more excited than I ever thought I was going to be, but when the news dropped a year and some months ago about this project, the names that jumped out were Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler.

Tarantino still made no promises that the film would ever get made, even after he held a table read of the script with actors such as Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, and Michael Madsen.

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.

Tower Heist constantly makes you aware of the buttons and levers the movie is pushing and pulling: There's something artificial and plastic about the film that keeps you from ever truly getting lost into it.

When: January 13th Why: The last time Robert De Niro played a «comedian» in a film, the world got one of the best dark comedies ever made in «The King of Comedy.»

B - Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon: The Criterion Collection Available on DVD and Blu - ray Widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, Kurosawa's classic is getting a very complete treatment from Criterion in this new hi - def edition.

I wouldn't normally bother to mention film rights as books frequently get optioned and nothing is ever heard of the project again, but Eye Contact has the potential to make an exceptional movie - if strong enough child actors could be found to play the pivotal roles.

Ever wondered how an animated film actually gets made?

Last month, Rockstar got hold of our ever - wandering attention to let us know their 1940's film noir - inspired game L.A. Noire was not dead and that it was making progress in development.

The piece was one of several that made up the exhibition «If We Ever Get to Heaven,» which also included the film installation I Am Not Me, the Horse Is Not Mine (2008), created for Kentridge's production of Dmitri Shostakovich's The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera, and the charcoal - drawing animation Other Faces (2011).

It could be the equivalent of somebody looking at an old film, and realizing that the film came from a projector, and discovering that there is an image in the projector, and that it's made of molecules of grains of film - and then trying to find the mystery of the story by looking at ever more detailed molecules of film, thinking, If I finally get to the heart of that, will it tell me where my story comes from?