Sentences with phrase «into bigger film»

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But that narrative went away when the film took in $ 27.7 million in its Thursday - preview screenings, the biggest preview - day figure ever going into Easter weekend.

Going into the weekend the big news was the almost universal bashing of the film by critics.

Then again, Smith may not care, since he'll be cashing an enormous check — thanks to Netflix's next big programming push, into feature films.

Heading into the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards this weekend, the popular streaming service has a big lead on its digital rivals, with a dozen Golden Globe nominations overall across the event's television and film categories.

Unlike other festivals that screen films in the hopes of getting a bigger distribution deal, Ellison's crew plans to use social media and other tech to turn these films into year round events, it says.

On Tuesday, Wanda announced it would buy Burbank, California - based Legendary Entertainment, China's biggest investment into Hollywood, to create the world's biggest film company by revenue.

Unlike other independent films in which big names are ridden into the ground like a sweaty mule, shoehorned into every possible scene in the movie, «Moms» Night Out» has an ensemble cast - an amazing feat for a film with a budget just under $ 5 million, according to Andrew and John Erwin, the brothers who directed the film.

It comes right out of Disney's film productions, a place where we meet animated «real - life» versions of goodness personified (Snow White, the third Little Pig, Dumbo, Pollyanna) and the essence of evil (the Wicked Queen, the Big Bad Wolf)-- and thus learn to divide the world into good and evil, watching goodness triumph with a smile and a song.

Considering the film is deep into production, it isn't a big surprise that they brought in a seasoned pro like Howard, with tons of blockbuster experience under his belt.

The Big Sick was written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon (Kumail portrays himself in the film), two halves of an interracial couple whose relationship grows more complicated when one of them goes into a coma.

Once the dough is all clumped together form a big dough ball and wrap it into cling film.

While the media and the film industry would have women believe this tends to occur spontaneously in one big gush just before a woman goes into labor, the reality is that it usually doesn't happen until she's well into contractions.

A trendy - specs - wearing Martin Smith from the UAF was filmed (35 seconds into the clip) milling with the rioters with a big grin on his face.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

In a Daily Politics film, Giles Dilnot looks into the archives at how some big names decided to call it a day, with some of Westminster's more memorable departures.

To achieve the high - definition needed for the big screen, Domino takes images which have been shot on movie film and converts them into a video format by breaking each of the 24 frames per second into a mosaic of 3000 × 2000 picture points.

Hard drives store data on discs coated with a metallic film divided into tiny magnetic regions, each of which stores a single bit — the more regions you can squeeze on to a disc, the bigger the capacity.

They found that the reaction occurs without an energetic push, but the position of the water molecules as they come in to form first «puddles» of water that connect into a film as they grow bigger.

This tutorial was filmed back at my old apartment, when I was getting ready to vacate and move into a bigger one.

I want to thank Bear from Lolli & Pops for sponsoring the candy bar, Joann and Marilyn for showing up early and helping, Emily for taking these photos and helping set up and clean up, Laura for filming the «get ready with me» video... (coming soon) Glam Squad for getting me ready - specifically Erik and Christopher who made me feel so beautiful and relieved a lot of stress, Roger for his undying support, all of my friends for coming and my beautiful mom for driving 6 hours to, not only come to my premier party, but to scrub my kitchen and help me set up... I am so grateful and genuinely touched that you all care and put so much effort into a big day for me.

Is my way of remembering the first ones, the trailblazers, the people that brought the Horror into the biggest media it could ever be, yes, film.

It's difficult to discuss what's good about the film without treading into spoiler territory, since many of its biggest laughs are predicated on the sheer unlikeliness of certain events or images — or the seemingly bottomless depth of its special - guest cameo roster (suffice it to say that at least one world - famous Torontonian shows up to get in on the fun).

After an apprenticeship with the Republic western and serial units, Webb moved into the big leagues at Warner Bros., where he scripted such adventure films as South of St. Louis (1949), The Big Trees (1952) and The Iron Mistress (195big leagues at Warner Bros., where he scripted such adventure films as South of St. Louis (1949), The Big Trees (1952) and The Iron Mistress (195Big Trees (1952) and The Iron Mistress (1953).

Hey, I like Turturro and all, but, as «Barton Fink» will tell you, he's not a big box office draw, and you need only look at this film's critical reception to realize that, because I'm not saying that this film was a commercial disaster, but it's become forgotten ever since it drove Refn's Jang Go Star company into bankruptcy and ostensibly drove Hubert Shelby, Jr. to death a year later.

Unfortunately, the film runs into big trouble with its actors.

The film's opening scenes establish that he's welshed on many debts and unlikely to hit a big payday with any of the third - rate tin cans he puts into the ring.

The film doesn't come alive as a thriller, with big reveals limping into the light, and resolutions lacking significant punch.

My biggest criticisms are that the film doesn't really provide any other greater insight into the experiment that we don't already know (because it's a real experiment we're all familiar with already).

Doug, a groom - to - be, and his three groomsmen pile into a car and head to Vegas for a night on the town before the big day, and the film's slightly unexpected sense of detail emerges once they hit the road.

It should be, because big Hollywood names aside, this Michigan - filmed family movie overcomes an initially harebrained - sounding story line with just enough thrill, modern - day ocular wizardry and even fragments of heart - warming emotion to convert most initial skeptics into believers.

Franco's film dives into the insane folly of Tommy's passion project, how he buys, not rents, all of his shooting equipment, incurring massive costs for no other reason than to look like a big shot, or how he has a fake alleyway constructed to look exactly like the one outside the shooting stage.

Cabral's character is a wealth of clichés, the overdone big bad that drags the entire film too deep into darkness.

Annihilation, like Alex Garland's previous endeavor (and directorial debut), Ex Machina, falls into the category of films that embrace Big Ideas in ways that presuppose viewers are intelligent and attentive.

Audiences immediately understood that Pee - Wee's Big Adventure was meant to be a nine - year - old's notion of the Perfect World; critics, to whom nothing is ever simple, insisted upon reading all sorts of motivation and subtext into the film, and suddenly Pee - Wee Herman was the darling of the wine - and - cheese crowd.

McEwan's understandable dedication to the source material also leads to some pushy, unnecessary inclusions, from a scene that dramatizes Edward's apparent «coarseness» in a way that's in direct opposition to everything else we've learned about the character, to a heartbreaking insight into Florence's family life that should either be much bigger or totally excised from the film.

These performers keep you mesmerized, making the most of what they're given even when the film sinks into a swamp of whose - dick - is - bigger competitions and sports clichés about product endorsements.

Critics have fallen over themselves praising the film and I went into the theater expecting very big things indeed.

Once the covetous pair realize the true explanation, they turn on Mary and insist that she reveal where she found the Witch's Flower, sparking a big finale in which they kidnap Peter and attempt to transform him into the kind of malevolent shape - shifter so often encountered in the third act of anime films (such as «Akira's» all - consuming atomic mass).

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo (Captain America: Civil War) have managed to take their balanced approach from Civil War and The Winter Soldier and inject even more characters into the mix; we're talking well over 30 big names all mashed into one nearly three hour film that briskly flies by as characters we've grown to love over the years embark on their most important (and personal) battle yet.

But while this comment may be true of some Carpenter films - like Big Trouble in Little China - it does not take the context into account.

Earl, a big fan of the film becomes so enraged he Morphs the school into an Egyptian tomb.

That's precisely what has made many of the better Marvel films, which feel like small pictures blown up into big ones, work so well.

Stone's misguided efforts to turn Alexander into a drama of Shakespearean proportions undoubtedly plays a big role in the film's wildly uneven tone, which flits wildly between talky period piece and flamboyant melodrama (often within the space of a few scenes).

A few scenes are a bit coy and the «big secrets» threaten to pitch into melodrama, but Birmingham keeps bringing the film back to the delicate dynamics of the relationships at its heart.

I like how they have engineered the plot from part three and the franchise as a whole into a bigger picture, all these films are prequels and the finale here does tie that up nicely.

But the film also has too many memorable vignettes to count: Haven Hamilton's prickly recording session, where he mercilessly browbeats a hippie pianist; Barbara Jean's squirmily uncomfortable, rambling psychological meltdown while performing live for an impatient, unforgiving audience; Sueleen's conflicted ambitions when her «big break» devolves into a cheap striptease act; gentle Mr. Green's quiet suffering at the hands of his flakey niece; John Triplette's negotiations with various talent, buttering each of them up with compliments while at the same time insulting the musical form (and its admirers) in which they practice.

X - Men's Big Themes are too overstated at times, but dammit if Fassbender and Bacon don't carry a lot of energy into the film.

The scene effectively conveys the king - of - the - world high of a solid drug rush, and the film has just enough of an edge that I winced each time they hit the glass, convinced that one of them would take that big fall into the canyons of L.A. Elizabeth Hurley, meanwhile, is very pretty and sports a lovely English accent but seems to have been airlifted in from an entirely different movie.

The film does show more bravado about attacking relatively safe targets (like big insurance companies) than venturing into an interracial May - November romance.

Here's an entirely respectable film about Johnny Cash that begins in his childhood, proceeds into the Big Break, then segues from there into the euphoria of fame; the drug abuse and the groupies; the «Come to Jesus»; the rehabilitation; and the closing obituary.