Sentences with phrase «into hit films»

This has given the industry hope in adapting some console favorites into hit films.

Levy is good at shaping high concepts into hit films.

Not exact matches

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.

Next up was NASA's Dryden Center, where camera crews once filmed a scene for the opening credits of the 1960s hit sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, in which astronaut Tony Nelson (played by Larry Hagman) walks into the center's main building.

The second direct - to - video sequel of the hit teen cheerleading film Bring It On, Bring It On: All or Nothing concerns one Britney Allen, who must make new friends when her rich family moves into less desirable environs.

When the film does hit its climax, the fun comes back into play, but it's been a long second act to get to it.

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.

But while that film hit every clichéd note you'd expect, despite its good intentions and great ensemble cast, «Other People» breathes new life into the formulaic, dark comedy about death.

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.

Darling Lili sent Edwards career into decline, although he came back with the 1979 comedy hit 10 and the scabrous satirical film S.O.B. (1981).

When I said that the film hits particularly bland spells, I really did mean it, though I'd be lying if I said that the film ever slips into downright dullness, thanks to an adequate degree of colorful wit within Sherriff's, West's and Maschwitz's screenplay, which, at the very least, delivers on engaging characterization that is made all the more engaging by the portrayals of the characters.

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.

With this honor to his name, Biggs segued into film a short time later, debuting in the 1997 Camp Stories.In 1999, the unequivocal hit that was American Pie came along, and Biggs, portraying Jim, one of the more perpetually humiliated members of a group of four friends trying to lose their virginity by high - school graduation, made an undeniably distinct impression on critics and audiences alike.

As the film goes, they hit the nail right on the head, but when you have all these suspects, and so much back story, squeezed into an hour and a half, it can become extremely confusing for audiences unfamiliar with the case.

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.

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.

There's a scene in Bryan Bertino's film «The Strangers» that handily encapsulates the film's nervy brand of terror, one so good and simple that it served as the film's poster image when the 2008 feature first hit theaters: it's Liv Tyler, standing alone in her kitchen, looking out into what seems to be — what should be — an empty house.

But if there is a deeper meaning — of what it means to hit the rails in the 21st century, to peer into America's de-industrialized guts — it lies well beyond the scope of this film.

In the conclusion Berg finally hits that completely over-the-top bad taste bonanza that the film has been working up to, where everyone — and I mean everyone — gets their cosmic justice and Berg finally let's his sniggering little digs at the handicapped kid blossoms into a truly tasteless foray into gimp humor.

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 Summer Blockbuster Hit, Disney • Pixar's «Finding Dory,» Swims Home on Digital HD on Oct. 25 and Blu - ray ™ on Nov. 15 Dive deep into the kelp to find out more about the making of the film with extensive extras featuring the creative talent of Pixar and the all - star cast!

Then, shortly after Batman Begins hit theaters in 2005, Warner Bros. started looking into ways to unite the character with other DC superheroes - and so began work on George Miller's unrealized team - up film, Justice League: Mortal.

It sucks it's audience in with a rote psychological thriller and twists the knife midway to turn into this pulp filled amazingly fun film where it seems a twist is going to hit us every half second.

Ridley Scott's much anticipated prequel / sequel to his hit film Alien and the polarizing Prometheus will be moved from it's October release into the summer in August while «The Predator» will come out in March 2018 with the director of The Monster Squad and Shane Black returning to pare up for the sequel to the 1987 classic.

There have been far more misses than hits from the Netflix production line since it rumbled into life in 2015, and the shelf - life for films seems to be shortening as more and more projects vie for space.

In the film, a mysterious virus hits a small Illinois town, affecting only the prepubescent population, transforming them into violent, feral little monsters.

«Moonrise» became Anderson's biggest hit in a decade, and then «Budapest» turned into his most commercially successful film, grossing $ 175 million worldwide.

The film is set to hit theaters in September of this year and be sure to keep an eye out for this one because it looks to be an unforgettable journey into the sci - fi genre.

The film opens on a hit - and - run, unseen by us but signaled by the screech of brakes intruding into the hush of night on a winding country road.

The film hits theaters in a matter of weeks, and with early buzz building for the movie, 20th Century Fox is kicking its marketing into high gear.

As daffy father Clark, Chase turned the film into a huge hit, harnessing a likable befuddlement that kept the series going even as the sequels were increasingly less well received and tiresomely slapstick.Chase's other big hit came in 1985, when he starred as the title character in Fletch, the film widely considered the actor's best and most complimentary of his sharp talent for wordplay.

He has taken over the animation world with his shows «Family Guy» and «American Dad» and recently crossed over into film with the huge summer hit «Ted».

There's a long tradition in film of comedic actors transitioning into dramatic roles with indies that gravitate towards a grey area in between the two genres, particularly in movies that make sure to hit the Sundance Film Festival before their wide release.

So if they want to hit the previously announced November 2018 and 2020 release dates, everyone involved will pretty much have to jump right back into the next film once the previous is released.

He stars in the upcoming «12 Years A Slave,» and we'd guess that after he wraps on «Slow West,» he'll get start getting into stealth mode to film «Assassin's Creed,» which is due to hit theatres in 2015.

«Brendon Walsh Suffers for His Art» (1:31) preserves multiple takes of a bit part actor hitting his head into a parking meter for one of the film's first laughs.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I (Lionsgate, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD), the number one box office hit of 2015, follows the lead of the Harry Potter and Twilight series by splitting the final book into two film installments, making this the third of four films.

Spielberg's journalistic thriller takes a screenplay written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer and manages to turn it into a hard - hitting film that ought to make people think twice about what's going on in America.

Formalist technics can be worked seamlessly into modern films, like the comic book qualities of Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, or they can be sloppy, like every time a current Top 40 hit makes its way into the soundtrack of a period piece.

The dark humor Miike injects into his film hits even harder because Lesson of Evil is actually a tasteless exploitation of American headlines, but one that manages to brutally entertaining and clever.

Indeed, the film is yet another box office win for 38 - year - old DiCaprio, who helped turn Quentin Tarantino's «Django Unchained» into a hit last winter.

Based just on the previous Teaser that hit the web for Scott Cooper's upcoming gangster film Black Mass, some have moved Johnny Depp into...

Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.

The Lyric reopened in 2015 with a hit production of «Bugsy Malone» and later produced «Ghost Stories» ahead of its West End run and adaptation into a film starring Martin Freeman.

Featuring all sorts of titles ranging from the greatest hits of Sundance, highly - anticipated studio films, art - house darlings, foreign imports, special screenings of classic films, and much more, it's slowly turning into a juggernaut that can rival the likes of Tribeca and SXSW.

Meantime, three twenty - something filmmakers from the East Coast, Harry (Pico Alexander), George (Jon Rudnitsky) and Teddy (Nat Wolff), have moved to LA in hopes of parlaying positive buzz from their hit short film into a studio deal.

Translating a hit YA book series into a hit YA film series is trickier than you might think.

Both films are critical hits so why isn't it translating into year - end awards?

The film looks at the famed tennis academy that Bollettieri built and dives into its circus - like atmosphere as he grew it into a hit factory that produced tennis greats.

Set in Los Angeles in the summer of 1969, the movie focuses on a former male TV actor who's had one hit series and is looking for a way to get into the film business.