Sentences with phrase «hit films like»

The X-Men have more legs than they've ever had at the moment, with big hit films like Logan and Deadpool (itself its own franchise) and TV shows like Legion and The Gifted.

My Life as a Dog: Criterion Collection Unrated Available on DVD and Blu - ray Swedish with English Subtitles Before cranking out hit films like The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, Swedish director Lasse Holstrom hit the scene big - time with this little indie about a boy who goes on a journey of discovery when he is sent away to give his dying mother some rest.

There is much to think about and process in one viewing, as the struggle of surviving here evokes other recent hard - hitting films like Moonlight, the similarly Orlando motel - set 99 Homes, and American Honey.

But when you compare unit sales of even the biggest games to a recent hit film like Avatar, games still pale in comparison.

Not exact matches

Frozen was a huge hit but strong demand for dolls and other toys tied to the film caught Disney and manufacturers like Mattel off guard.

There are also smaller films that should have your attention like the Sundance hit «The Birth of a Nation,» the powerful «The Light Between Oceans,» and the Amy Adams sci - fi trip «Arrival.»

It's for reasons like this that a German documentarian named Ulli Wendelmann, known for hard - hitting exposés on the German prison system and Russia's oligarchy, recently filmed a documentary examining the oddball marriage between the New York startup and the former East German factory.

And for every hit like «X-Men: Days of Future Past» there were flops like the raunchy western - comedy «A Million Ways to Die in the West» and Tom Cruise action film «Edge of Tomorrow.»

Instead of taking this opportunty to impress his new coach and all the fans with his toughness, Geno instead elected to hit the emergency room over the film room even though a broke jaw is like a concusson they will naturaly both heal themselves in a few days sometimes.

But as a report by Sky Sports shows, the Arsenal chief executive hit back and rubbished the reports that claimed the club were sitting on some huge pile of cash like Smaug the dragon in the series of films The Hobbit.

After watching film, the Hornets hit the court at 10 a.m. for a 50 - minute walkthrough, which, like all NBA walkthroughs, is closed to the media.

If the store sounds like a sports version of the record shop in High Fidelity (the hit film, based on a novel by Nick Hornby, about pop - music freaks congregating in a store called Championship Vinyl), well, Hornby is a Sportspages regular.

In a film released before he hit the campaign trail, Geldof said: «I know Zac Goldsmith and I like the guy, but the plain fact is that Zac is a political failure,» he declared.

Shen's team made a thicker, atomically uniform iron selenide film and hit it with infrared laser light to excite its 5 - trillion - times - a-second atomic vibrations — like gently tapping a bell with a little hammer, SLAC staff scientist and co-author Patrick Kirchmann said.

The former star of Party of Five and films like I Know What You Did Last Summer is embarking on the fourth season of Ghost Whisperer, the creepy hit drama in which she plays Melinda, a young newlywed able to pass messages from the dead to the living.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

She was the object of Adam Sandler's misguided affection in the comedy Just Go With It and she's currently filming What to Expect When You're Expecting alongside heavy - hitters like Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, while her action / alien invasion flick Battleship is set to hit theaters next year.

It, looks like a hit — very funny film and nice placements for us — kudos to Lionsgate.

Django Unchained is an epic film with a simple and straightforward story that is as entertaining as they come; for all the hyper - explosive and bloody bullet hits, the film shines in its more quieter moments, where an actor like Christoph Waltz can excel in his charm or Samuel L. Jackson can ooze with ill - intent.

For Disney to duplicate its 2013 success, it will need films like Sleeping Beauty spin - off Maleficent, video game adaptation Need for Speed, and musical Into the Woods to be major hits, and that doesn't seem likely.

The biggest of the non-major distributors, TWC saw its box office receipts grow by nearly 36 % last year compared to 2014 (thanks to hits like Paddington and 2014 holdover The Imitation Game), even as the overall quality of its films declined.

Based on the best moments of Atomic Blonde, I would very much like to see a series of films in which Charlize Theron's ruthless, brutal and glamorous secret agent dispatches a variety of Cold War - era enemies to the accompaniment of hit songs from the 80s.

Even with the presence of a rare outright misfire (Third Person, from Crash director Paul Haggis), SPC managed to boost its already - high average Metascore by a few points last year, thanks to widely praised films like Mr. Turner (the year's # 2 drama, behind Boyhood), Leviathan (2014's best - reviewed foreign - language film), and Sundance hit Whiplash.

Only some of these digressions are funny (like the way Laura Branigan's «Gloria» becomes Stant's personal soundtrack), but Gillespie mostly lands the film's tricky tonal balancing act, hitting nostalgic pleasure points throughout even when he's underlining or undermining the cruelty of Harding's victimization.

The story of a young girl (voiced by The BFG's Ruby Barnhill) who discovers that she has been born into a long traditional of witchcraft, the film — adapted by Yonebayashi and Riko Sakaguchi, with an English - language script by David Freedman and Lynda Freedman — is predicated on a sense of wonder, but so much of its world feels familiar, if comfortably so, like a favorite band playing their old hits.

Even though he's put out hits and misses, German director Wim Wenders has had an extraordinary career, balancing innovative narrative films like Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire with memorable documentaries The Buena Vista Social Club and Pina.

He went on to starring and supporting roles the independent films BLACK CLOUD and BLIND DATING with Chris Pine for director James Keach; and larger studio films like STOMP THE YARD 2: HOMECOMING, and the hit film JUMPING THE BROOM.

It also proved that R - rated superhero films can be major hits, opening the door to miracles like Logan.

If you loved the first film in this sequence, you probably have the kidlets banging on your legs to take»em to this sequel, which looks remarkably like a Tom Hanks bomb (a remake of a Cary Grant 50s hit) of a lot of years back.

Like the characters, the third film is more matured but still hits hard where it counts.

It proved to be another hit, but McTiernan's career hit the skids over the next decade, with films like The 13th Warrior and Rollerball filling his resume.

The success of the film led to a job directing the 1989 big - budget version of Batman; a darkly lavish, gothic production, the film proved to be a huge hit, securing Burton a place on the roster of A-list directors.His next film, 1990's Edward Scissorhands was the tongue - in - cheek gothic tale of an artificial boy put together by a benign scientist, who dies before he can complete the boy; as a result, the fabricated youth has hedge clipper - like scissors for hands.

Despite huge hits like the final Harry Potter film (2011's highest - grossing title) and, to a lesser extent, the second Hangover movie, Warner Bros. also experienced a surprisingly large number of flops last year.

Upon his return from military service, Damone resumed his film career, enjoying featured or co-starring roles in major musical productions like Hit the Deck (1955) and the screen adaptation of Kismet (1955).

He compared the process to Deadpool, which may have seemed like an instant, overnight success, but he reminded fans that the film was in various stages of development for a decade before it hit theaters.

Australian actor Joel Edgerton has been starring in movies for 20 years, from homegrown hits like Erskineville Kings (1999) to playing Luke Skywalker's uncle in the Star Wars prequel trilogy to acclaimed films like Animal...

Director Michael Mann does a retread and modern film version of his highly successful 1980's television series and despite his calibre, this turns out to be just like all the other poor makeovers of hit TV shows.

Fulci has a massive body of work and we'll likely never see it all get proper home video releases, but it seems like every few weeks or so an announcement of a new Fulci film hitting Blu - ray surfaces and I get giddy.

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.»

My point is a sequel should never feel like a «greatest hits» of the film before, and boy is Kingsman: The Golden Circle filled with callbacks that fall flat on their face.

Director Jonathan Jakubowicz seeks to remedy that with «Hands of Stone,» but while the film plays like a greatest hits of Duran's life, it doesn't offer anything different from the dozens of other boxing movies before it.

Known for hard - hitting screenplays for Submarino and The Hunt which he co-wrote with director Thomas Vinterberg, and for the popular Danish TV drama Borgen, Tobias Lindholm's solo directorial debut is perhaps as remarkable in the script department as his previous work, but the film itself — like the ship it depicts — sometimes goes adrift.

Lastly, the vampire genre has hit mainstream audiences with cheesy teenage romance films like Twilight, making vampire based films hard to take serious.

You saw it in 2004 when it was called «The Bourne Supremacy,» and you saw it in 2007 when it was called «The Bourne Ultimatum»... This fifth «Bourne «film (and fourth Matt Damon entry) plays like a greatest hits album of a popular franchise, with an emphasis on the two sequels that Greengrass himself directed.»

We always like to end our weekend box office reports with a little reminder to «Support your local indie theater, boys and girls,» and with the roster of films hitting art house and repertory cinemas in 2011, it was an especially great time to stray away from the sticky floors and text friendly megaplexes.

With an ensemble featuring accessible stars like Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams, along with a slew of talented actors like Michael Sheen, Tom Hiddleston, Alison Pill and Corey Stoll, Allen's film was a crossover hit that also appealed to the masses.

Often times, when an action film like this is a hit, the studio will often make a major downgrade on the director for the sequel.

Ryan Coogler's Marvel movie is drawing in audiences at a pace only a few films ever released can match, and within the next week it is likely to pass the domestic runs of some of last year's big superhero hits like «Thor: Ragnarok,» «Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

But she was hit anyway, and dragged through the mud a bit even for her past films like Lost in Translation.