Sentences with phrase «hit film idea»
Our first prompt this week invites you to imagine you're a movie executive looking for a hit film idea.
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From watching the film, it's clear that Bucs right tackle Gosder Cherilus, himself a backup pressed into action because of an injury, had no idea what was about to hit him.
In the 1880s inventor George Eastman hit upon an ingenious idea for making photographic film flexible so it could be stored in compact canisters instead of on heavy, fragile glass plates.
Even if you don't buy into the idea that Home Alone was an expression of libertarian, Republican values - in which poor, lazy criminals only got what they deserved - the comedy in this film is hit - and - miss precisely because we don't care enough about the fall guys.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, this Jennifer Juniper Stratford film is a «science fiction tale told in the style of classic B - movies and outfitted with practical special effects, laser beams and lunatic ideas which are guaranteed to make it the next big midnight movie hit.»
The film plays as if Payne and Taylor had a great idea for a first act, then were hit by writer's block and simply pulled a bunch of other ideas out of a hat.
This exercise in buck - passing could have lent a good deal of character tension to the film; but if your best idea for a hard - hitting piece of accusatory dialogue (Architect to Builder) is «What do they call it when you kill people?»
Director Spike Jonze has been hit with a lawsuit by two writers who claim his film Her borrows ideas from a script they penned years earlier.Sachin...
But Andrew Haigh's film hits something harder, and taps into the idea of being young, down - and - out and desperately seeking purpose in a place that seems hellbent on destroying you.
Steven Soderbergh had a good idea when he remade a Frank Sinatra / Dean Martin film that was not well received when originally debuted in 1960; «Oceans Eleven» 2001 however was a huge hit.
The film feels at times like a greatest hits compilation, with jokes that call back to the earlier Wright / Pegg / Frost movies, as well as again exploring ideas of modern small - town Englishness and the sense of the everyday being invaded by something extraordinary.
In the world of Hollywood movies, films have usually tackled such ideas in a wide variety feature films from hard - hitting dramas to more lighthearted romantic comedies.
With «The Hunger Games» hitting cinemas lots have people have been talking about the origins of the idea for a teen death match with many citing the influences of a cult Japanese film «Battle Royale».
The idea of a new indie zombie drama, then, isn't necessarily one to make you froth at the mouth — even when it's based on a hit 2013 short film, the intervening five years have seen the genre done to undeath.
So if you'd like a better idea of whatever this filming experience turned out to be, you can listen to some of Wiseau's greatest Room hits below, and then imagine Franco directing the likes of Seth Rogen, Bryan Cranston, and Sharon Stone — yes, they're all in The Disaster Artist — while attempting to create such a distinct, likely distracting impersonation.
The idea of «platform releasing» — opening a film usually just in New York and L.A., then strategically hitting other markets over multiple weeks as buzz builds, instead of a blockbuster everywhere - at - once «wide release» — long predates the internet.
The film plays like a Michael Mann police procedural action version of Ridley Scott's The Counselor, and you have no idea how hard that hits my sweet spot.
I don't know how either film is gonna sell the idea of some relatively scrawny short guy like Scott or Nicholas Braun (Scott's apparent replacement for Hit Somebody) playing a bruiser convincingly without being too derivative of Slap Shot.
, who also wrote the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award - winning play, feels too much like a «Greatest Hits of Grief» compilation, then it still manages to work due to the perceptive ideas it brings forth and the surprisingly tart one - liners that dot the film's landscape.
Even if the screenplay by David Lindsay - Abaire, who also wrote the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award - winning play, feels too much like a «Greatest Hits of Grief» compilation, then it still manages to work due to the perceptive ideas it brings forth and the surprisingly tart one - liners that dot the film's landscape.
The film hits its high point when they actually leave New York because Brooke needs a ride to convince her ex (Michael Chernus) to invest in an idea.
That remains to be seen, however, by buying indie music, watching indie films and reading indie books, we often feel as if we're «special» and part of an exclusive group that is seeing / hearing / reading ideas before they hit «mainstream.»
Vague billboards left regular members of the public with no idea of what the film was about, and in order to find out they had to head online to discover the debut trailer, which managed to excite existing Judge Dredd fans but left almost everyone else feeling underwhelmed, many seeming to arrive at the conclusion that it might be worth picking up when the DVD / Blu - ray hits the bargain bins or on Ebay for a few quid.
In 2012, the artist Loretta Fahrenholz convened with a dance crew on the streets of the Rockaways and East New York to improvise a film collaboration, and they hit upon the idea of an apocalyptic disaster movie.