Sentences with phrase «life audience tales»

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Then, as the movie began, I realized that a child with a cell phone represents what DreamWorks Animation, the producer of this most lucrative of franchise animated features, envisions its audience to be — tiny, pre-corporate techies who live far from the fairy - tale emotion of enchantment.

By the end of the first episode of this utterly seductive tale about the comedy - club scene of early - 1970s Los Angeles, it's clear that the lives of these aspiring comedians with all their inexhaustible yearning, their whining, their gratitude for any spot onstage — 2 a.m., before an audience of 15, including drunken hecklers, what could be wrong with that?

Disney's «Beauty and the Beast» is a live - action re-telling of the studio's animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs.

It's an audience - approved template that Wiig (who co-wrote the screenplay with Annie Mumolo) has little problem personalizing, sincerely and ridiculously confronting issues of beauty, wealth, loyalty, monogamy, marriage, and sex through the tale of a character whose life spirals downward after her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), gets engaged and she's forced to battle for sole possession of BFF status with Lillian's glamorous and wealthy new sidekick, Helen (Rose Byrne).

Disney's «Beauty and the Beast» is a live - action re-telling of the studio's animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs composed by Alan Menken.

Essentially inspired by elements of the Motown story and the real - life rise of The Supremes, the musical tells a cynical tale of how Black music broke through to a mainstream audience, but lost its soul (as well as its Soul) in the process.

The sports - themed picture takes no dramatic license (right «down to the costumes») in bringing audiences the true - life tale of sports agent J.B. Bernstein's (played by Job Hamm)... [Read more...]

Missing the point of what true grindhouse fans are looking for, don't expect much life to be found in this stale, monotonous, mind - numbing tale, making Biehn's audience the sole victim in this whole debacle

Audiences gearing up for a similar ghostly tale were instead given a glimpse into the director's life - long passion: superheroes.

But the real «whether» that has yet to be predicted for this tale is whether or not audiences — especially those who live in storm ravaged areas — will want to pay money to see a fictional version of terrifying events that may have already struck too close to home.

Since then, Disney turned it into an epic stage musical for Broadway and now has reimagined it again turning it into a live action spectacle hoping to make audiences fall in love again with a tale as old as time.

Although the technical skill of Pixar's work is undeniable, much of their success stems from the ability to craft stories that engage audiences young and old.Whether telling tales of animated insects (A Bug's Life), superhero families (The Incredibles), talking automobiles (Cars) or lonely robots (WALL - E), their features connect with both children and adults, making for a cinema experience the whole family can enjoy.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

In 2010, a Spanish cannibal movie called We Are What We Are dazzled Fantastic Fest audiences with its crazy tale of a family of cannibals living out their traditions in an urban setting.

Oliver Stone will have to wait and see whether international audiences will embrace his true - life tale of whistleblowing and governmental spying.

CinemaScore audiences love Peter Berg's true - life tales of American heroism, this time with Mark Wahlberg as a Navy SEAL on the run from the Taliban.

The story and characters audiences know and love come to spectacular life in the live - action adaptation of Disney's animated classic «Beauty and the Beast,» a stunning, cinematic event celebrating one of the most beloved tales ever told.

Probably the victim of a poorly - cut trailer, While We're Young was sold to audiences as a lighthearted tale of a young couple breathing new life into an older one.

The festival will open with the acclaimed Pilgrim Hill, winner of the Bingham Ray New Talent Award at the Galway Film Fleadh, which beautifully evokes a tale of tough rural life in North Kerry, and will provide audiences throughout the county with unforgettable experiences in film, from unique musical accompaniments to an inflatable cinema!

• «Beauty and The Beast» Sneak Peek — An exciting first look into the live - action re-telling of «Beauty and the Beast,» which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs.

Writer / director Thomas McCarthy won the Audience Award, at Sundance, and rightly so, for this tale of three disparate people who find themselves where they least expected, thrown together in this great messy adventure called life.

He shares his own experience telling ghost stories to live audiences and how, as a storyteller, he can easily adapt the tales based on audience reaction.

If making a living, reaching people with your craft and acquiring an audience for your tales is your purpose, indie will do as well or better than traditional publishing.

An effusive storyteller, at the Art Barge in Amagansett last summer, he regaled the audience with tales of love, life and art making.

We may yet live to see the day when a comic regales an audience with his tales of woe regarding the airlines, big box stores and the like, and is summarily handed summonses by a phalanx of lawyers sitting ringside.