Sentences with phrase «last films of the year»

Michael Fassbender may be able to fly and bend metal as Magneto in the X-Men movies, but he stands to pull off an even more impressive feat in his last film of the year, Assassin's Creed: convincing audiences that a video game movie can actually be good.

Not exact matches

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

2 is impressive having earned more than all the other films combined,» said Paul Degarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore, who noted that Captain America: Civil War accounted for more than half of the summer take at this point last year.

This time, it's the regimen of Robert Patrick, star of the CBS series Scorpion, the new film, The Last Rampage, and a guy (if you're my age) you probably first saw twenty - five years ago as the shape - shifting T - 1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

He made and uploaded his first, the 68 - minute Enfin l'Automne (Fall, Finally) to YouTube last year, largely just to see if he could do it, and he's now on the verge of signing a deal with a Hollywood studio to do a proper film.

Part of the problem is the copany's films disappointed at the box office last year.

Except that's not working either — newly discovered emails that were leaked as part of a hacking job on Sony last year show the company offered to pay $ 5 million for actor Daniel Craig to use a Sony Xperia as part of the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre.

The character first appeared onscreen in Civil War last year, and the new film is already generating loads of buzz thanks to director Ryan Coogler (Creed) and a loaded cast that also includes Lupita Nyong» o, Michael B. Jordan, and Angela Bassett.

Rovio has in the last year or so returned to profitability, largely thanks to the success of the Angry Birds film.

Last year, with sales of $ 821 million, Wonder Woman became the highest grossing superhero origin film of all time.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Film.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

«The commercial appeal of the films this [summer] certainly didn't have the same kind of dynamic as the commercial appeal of the films last year,» Logsdon says.

Spokespeople for the Clintons denied the various parts of the Times report, but the impasse is nevertheless notable because parts of the film were already shot over the last two years, including on Bill Clinton's philanthropic trips to Africa.

Last year, worldwide sales of Wonder Woman topped $ 821 million, making it the highest - grossing superhero origin film of all time.

In fact, the last time a year's highest - grossing film also took home the Best Picture Oscar was in 2003, when the top film was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which raked in more than $ 500 million in adjusted domestic sales.

Female leads comprised 24 % of protagonists in the 100 top domestic grossing films last year — five percentage points fewer than in 2016.

There Will Be No Stay, a documentary film released last year, profiles two former majors in South Carolina's department of corrections Swat team who sued the state for allegedly pressuring them into assisting in multiple executions with minimal training and no counselling (the case was eventually dismissed by a judge).

Keep in mind last year at Sundance, we produced the film that won the jury prize [«I Don't Feel at Home In This World Anymore»], and we acquired «Mudbound» in the biggest acquisition of the festival.

Last year, First Solar announced it could take an impairment charge of between US$ 500 and US$ 700 million in the phasing out of the thin - film solar panel model it was producing at the time, its flagship Series 4, and speed up the development of the new model, Series 6.

Sony had to cancel the much - anticipated release of the comedy film The Interview last year after hackers threatened action if the film was released theatrically.

That was primarily because its film division, Paramount, had no theatrical releases in the quarter, compared with last year, when it released «Transformers: Age of Extinction.»

Based on data from Box Office Mojo, the blog reports that «China accounted for $ 500 million or just 7.7 percent of the $ 6.5 billion worldwide net revenue» from the thirty - two films that Hollywood got into China last year on a revenue - sharing basis.

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

Despite all the attention paid lately to the lack of gender diversity in the role, the portion of films directed by women declined last year, to just 7 %.

China only allows a certain number of foreign films to showcase in the country each year, however the backing of companies in its own country could mean The Last Race is one of the select few which gets shown.

In 2018, dozens of superheroes from various movies over the last nine years will come together for Avengers: Infinity War, and supposedly connect the plots of all these movies together, making the MCU one of the most ambitious projects in film history.

Last year, just in time for Easter, Mel Gibson released an edited version of his controversial film The Passion of the Christ.

He's spent the last four years since Sleepwalk With Me, his previous film, crafting a movie about performers in New York trying to grapple with the unlikely success of one of their peers.

Thrower had been arrested after the incident on August 4 last year and officers found three further videos recorded on the phone that day, including of two men who had not noticed they were being filmed.

This year promises To the Wonder, only the fourth film in the last quarter of a century from director Terrence Malick.

The Houston Press: San Benito Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YouTube.

The movie is the brainchild of retail mogul Mart Green, who heard Steve Saint and Mincaye speak at a conference in 1999 and was so moved by the story that he decided to turn it into a film — two films, actually; the companion documentary, Beyond the Gates of Splendor, released last year.

In an interview last year for the film Lo and Behold, he discussed one possible doomsday scenario: «If you were a hedge fund or private equity fund and you said, «Well, all I want my AI to do is maximize the value of my portfolio,» then the AI could decide, well, the best way to do that is to short consumer stocks, go long defense stocks, and start a war.»

Having just sent off two rolls of film which I've been using since Autumn - ish last year, I've had film vs. digital on my mind.

After seeing the film «Julia & Julia» with my parents last year, my mother bought «Mastering the Art of French Cooking» by Julia Child and immediately got to work on boeuf bourguignon.

Each cocktail has been inspired by events from the last 18 years, such as the Oscar haul director Danny Boyle picked up in 2009 for his film Slumdog Millionaire and the death of singer Amy Winehouse in 2011.

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Chris Wormley on watching film of Rutgers fans rushing the field last year.

In the early part of last year, McLaren allowed Amazon Prime go behind the scenes and film a documentary on the team's 2017 season.

You would be hard - pressed to find film of a college offensive tackle who had more wow blocks than Greg Robinson in his last year at Auburn.

In the film Toback, who has known the fighter for 23 years, intersperses footage from the days when Tyson seemed scared of nothing with clips from an emotional interview done while Tyson was undergoing drug and alcohol treatment last year.

However, the two sets of fans have fallen foul to less regal clashes in recent years as a Newcastle fan was filmed punching a horse last season.

It was not because I was holding onto what might have been an erroneous initial impression of him a couple of years ago, but rather because I watched his film last season the cat showed a lot of growth... when he was healthy.

They'll have to watch film of Alex Smith last year to try and prepare for our new look offense.

His shuttle times would be much more interesting (I looked at his combine results for shuttle info but couldn't find any details) but film of him the last couple of years is all we really need to see to know what we're getting.

Yoenis Cespedes is a fine replacement for Torii Hunter, David Price is one of the only pitchers who could replace Max Scherzer at the top of a rotation, and Anthony Gose's talent would probably play Austin Jackson's talent in a film adaptation, so it's not as if they're that much different from last year's.

In a highlight film of his career that was shown at a testimonial dinner for him last year, Marino appears on camera, full frame, with a few earnest opening remarks about how he'd like to be remembered as a team man who worked as hard as he could, and as a team leader, etc..

Regular readers will recall last week's advance notice of the world premiere of 89, the film devoted to the Arsenal title triumph of the year of that simple title.