The result is 90 minutes in the company of some of the nicest and most boring people you can imagine ever
having a movie made about them.
While these things might seem cool when you're watching on a giant theater screen with your 3 - D glasses on, watching this as a regular 2 -
D movie makes most of these shots and scenes seem awkward at best, or just downright bad filmmaking.
The granddaughter of famed filmmaker Elia Kazan, Zoe Kazan
had movie making in her blood at a young age.
With the lead actor and actress often
having a movie made specifically to get them the award, the Supporting Actor is usually the surprise success.
You have a better chance of becoming a best - selling author than of
having a movie made based on your book.
«A wonderful companion that willing does chores, looks good without his shirt, never argues, likes to travel; cash to buy and then renovate a villa in Tuscany where you live every summer and at Christmas and bottle your own olive oil from your own trees; have tons of flowers, fruit trees and terraces with lounge chairs; find Etruscan stones in your back yard; have a fabulous job as the head of the Humanities department at a major University in San Francisco when you are not in Tuscany; interesting and famous literary friends; still look good in a sun dress and gladiator sandals;
have a movie made about your life staring Diane Ladd (which is really nothing like the book, by the way); and speak Italian with a charming southern accent!
«But for us there's no burning [desire] to
have a movie made just to get it made.
Not exact matches
If this were an old Disney
movie made while Walt was at the controls, this
would be the moment in the story when a little bit of magic
would appear — perhaps in the form of a fairy godmother or some pixie dust — to
make things right.
It
makes sense, and I think maybe
movies that
have a strong message or purpose last longer — people pull them off the shelf more often, and they maintain their relevance.
He added that the extra revenue
would wind up as a boon to filmmakers, with studios investing more money in film budgets and
making more
movies overall.
Cuban is, of course, referring to the upcoming release of the
movie based on the TV series of the same name, in which Cuban
has made appearances.
MoviePass
has also
made another, smaller change, saying it will now restrict all subscribers to seeing a
movie only a single time.
But he's a family man, too, married 12 years,
has two young sons, and likes
movies that
make him cry.
But the narrative already
has the
makings of a feel - good Hollywood
movie — so it should come as no surprise that a feature film dramatizing Ma's rags - to - riches rise is already in the works.
However, Cameron
had to put the project on hold as the success of «Avatar»
has now led to him
making multiple sequels of the
movie (at the same time).
The move was
made that much more surprising by the fact that Netflix
had not previously confirmed its acquisition of The Cloverfield Paradox from Viacom's Paramount Pictures, which produced the
movie.
At 19, online sensation Jake Paul is
making a 7 - figure - salary and
has a
movie deal.
With over 80 million subscribers today, Hunt says Netflix
has an «unprecedented» level of data that «helps us decide the kinds of shows /
movies we should
make, and we can predict an audience for them with a surprising degree of certainty.»
But it's also being touted as a «geopolitical thriller,» as the documentary touches on Poitras» own experiences with government surveillance (Poitras
has been monitored by the US government since
making her 2006
movie «My Country, My Country»).
After early press screenings of the
movie, Warner Bros. shifted that date to a few days earlier,
making it clear it was confident in how the
movie would be received.
It looks as if the studio undershooting how well «Wonder Woman»
would perform, along with its
making plans to develop «Justice League Dark» and a Batgirl
movie, led to its lack of attention to a «Wonder Woman» sequel.
If we were persecuted for the amount of sh — that's been said about us that's not true, our lives
would be over... The experience of
making the
movie was so outside of that, it was fruitful for the two of us to go on with it.»
In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which
had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful
movie ever
made.
Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero
movies — they
've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time,
making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can
have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.
In the same way that a film studio can help a person with an incredible screenplay navigate the logistics of
making a
movie, a startup studio assists domain experts who might
have a solid concept but aren't as strong on the coding side.
«I
'd make a great
movie, and then I
'd want to
make more great
movies; I
'd make money, I
'd want to
make more money.
No matter how many times I
've seen it, the beginning of the
movie still
makes me feel uneasy.
Fast - forward a few decades, and the likes of Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Sony PS3 and Nintendo's Wii
have put consoles in one of every two homes in the U.S. and helped
make video games a bigger business than the entire music industry — and almost as big as the
movie industry.
Though Steven Soderbergh
has made more memorable
movies in his career, this is one where the story is perfectly delivered.
Ridley Scott's Oscar winner is one of the last epic swords - and - sandals
movies Hollywood
has made that
have been successful.
This weekend the Jobs
movie has no Hope to
make any Cash
«I mean, I thought they might
make more Star Wars
movies — not that I thought it all that much — but I doubted that I
would find myself in them.
Porn producers can get away with
making big profits through obvious copying and exploitation of the intellectual property of mainstream entertainment companies, yet those same mainstream copyright holders are going after websites that allow individuals to swap
movies and music that they probably never
would have bought in the first place.
According to Nielsen, the
movies have pulled in more than one billion viewers since they were originally shown in theaters,
making it one of the most - watched
movie franchises in TV history.
But
had Sony stuck to its guns and released the
movie as planned, it
would have made a strong statement about standing up for freedom instead of giving in to fear and threats as Ben Franklin once wrote, «Those who
would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.»
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.
Jurassic World, the latest
movie in Steven Spielberg's popular Jurassic Park franchise,
has already
made Universal Pictures a tidy profit.
Nick Fury brought the Avengers together and
has been with the MCU since 2008's «Iron Man,» so it wouldn't feel right if he didn't
make an appearance in the
movie.
At that point, I
'd be willing to bet that Sony executives — especially the ones involved in those compromising email exchanges —
had wished they
'd never
made the
movie.
Much of the money Rainmaker
makes now comes from producing two Barbie
movies a year for Mattel, a long fall from the days this same studio was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution,
having been nominated by Bill Gates himself.
The two - hour
movie, which aired Thursday night,
had 387,000 comments
made about it, mostly on Twitter, where it topped out at 5,000 tweets per minute towards its climax.
However Wanda, which
has long been luring Hollywood studios to
make movies in China,
has said its pledged 5 billion yuan ($ 790 million) «development fund» still stands.
Families traveling with children, who
have come to rely on
movie and game - filled tablets for entertainment, should
make sure to pack «some good old - fashioned unplugged entertainment, such as books, puzzle books, and coloring pads,» said Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, family travel expert at About.com.
The CEO of AMC Entertainment — you know, the world's biggest
movie theater chain —
made waves yesterday when he told Variety that he
'd be open to allowing texting or cell phone use during
movies.
One of his first acts at Pixar, he told McKinsey Quarterly, was to track down the frustrated employees who felt their unconventional ideas were not getting enough credit, and
have them
make a
movie together.
If he can convince American voters that what they're beholding
has as much to do with the egos of the actors as with the egregiousness of his acts, he
has inoculated himself against Robert Mueller, and he shapes the
movie that's
made of this.
In the
movie Knocked Up under - achieving friends talk endlessly about creating a web site that will direct people to the «good parts» (meaning nudity) in every
movie ever
made only to find out after months of planning Mr. Skin
had beat them to it.
Oculus, the Facebook - owned virtual reality company,
has partnered with 20th Century Fox to
make movies available on its new VR cinema, Oculus Video, Fast Company reports.
It is often the simple fixes (and fixers) that
make all the difference in the world: the genius who came up with giving out numbers to deli customers rather than
having them mob the counter; assigned seating in
movie theaters; E-ZPass.
She
has starred in hit
movies such as The Wedding Planner,
made a highly successful run as a judge on American Idol, and
had several hit albums.