Sentences with phrase «many subsequent movies»

And, as the book and subsequent movie showed, in fairly entertaining ways.

Variety says it's still unclear which characters from the books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevators, will be in the movie, but of course, if this movie is successful, it could lead to subsequent movies.

The subsequent movie adaptation of the scandal, All the President's Men, featured a dashing Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, and their exquisitely coiffed and feathered hair as they unraveled an exciting and hot - button political scandal.

After making a handful of subsequent movies, she returned to France in 1938 — but not before she found herself caught in a minor scandal involving her friend, the late composer George Gershwin.

After all, there are so many more potential disasters for Jim to face in subsequent movies.

Alas, Tetzlaff was never able to repeat this feat in any of his subsequent movies, and retired from feature films at the end of the»50s.

The plots of subsequent movies are too convoluted and downright confusing for a story that ultimately boils down to good robots trying to save the world from bad robots.

Laurie has been imitated, duplicated and replicated in the subsequent movie years but never quite as effective as in Carpenter's reign.

Written by Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra), Victor Frankenstein isn't so much a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's iconic 1818 sci - fi / horror novel, «Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus»; rather, it's an origin story for the eponymous character, as seen from the perspective of Igor (who didn't originate in Shelley's source book, but rather in a subsequent movie adaptation).

It's unfortunate that, with the possible exception of The Godfather Part III, he's never been able to be both as ambitious and personal again, his subsequent movies either being adaptations of well - known works or those little «student films» that no one much seems to notice.

Paths may not lend itself to the studious dissection that Kubrick's subsequent movies do, but it does have its fair share of interesting directorial decisions.

From the success of their novels and subsequent movie adaptations, we could predict that 2014 is the year Roth and Green take over the world.

For instance, the yellow Lab featured in the bestselling memoir and the subsequent movie «Marley & Me,» help the breed's popularity skyrocket, Peterson said.

Not exact matches

If you read through even a few of the thousands of posts and Twitter comments and related outcry about Taylor's departure, and the subsequent shut - down of popular threads or «sub-Reddits» like r / movies and r / music, it becomes obvious that for many of the site's users, the issue is about more than just the firing of one employee.

The three subsequent films in the series grossed more than $ 310 million on a total budget of $ 55 million, according to the movie finance site The Numbers.

His strange downfall and subsequent rebirth as one of the most bankable movie stars all began with an innocent act of love.

The tax, which would be levied on activities ranging from bowling to golf and from movie theater tickets to electronic games, would raise about $ 30,000 in the current fiscal year that ends May 31, 1998, and more than $ 60,000 in subsequent fiscal years, said village administrator Robert L. Nelis Sr..

The Lifetime movie, Return to Zero, was inspired by screenwriter Sean Hanish and his wife, Kiley's, stillbirth and subsequent pregnancy.

There have been many subsequent efforts to find the treasure — and even a Hollywood movie called National Treasure inspired by the tale — but Gillogly has seen nothing in the past 30 years to make him doubt his original assessment.

Instead, you should always meet for the first (and even subsequent times) in a public place, such as a restaurant, movie theater, miniature golf course, shopping mall, etc..

«In movies just for the money,» as she often stated, La Roy apparently never turned down a role, no matter how miniscule, and her subsequent career was mostly spent playing minor vamps in low - budget independent productions.

But Who Framed Roger Rabbit was different; it was, to that point and for many years subsequent, the movie.

«Tummy Trouble», «Rollercoaster Rabbit», and «Trail Mix - Up» are all included here, but while the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit functions as both wild cartoon slapstick and hyperbolic parody of same (as well as something of a precursor to the even more satiric Itchy and Scratchy of The Simpsons), the subsequent shorts, beyond lacking the deft, fluid touch of the movie's animation director Richard Williams, are less clever: orchestrations of mayhem that occasionally pause to wink at themselves.

The subsequent film, Like Water for Chocolate (1993), ended up as one of the most profitable foreign movies ever exhibited in America and won a number of international awards as well as multiple Silver Ariels, Mexico's equivalent of the Oscar.

Annihilation is a great movie; complex, polyhedral and open to new readings in subsequent viewings.

Although Chappaquiddick doesn't address Kennedy's subsequent legislative record, it's the silver - lining storm cloud that hangs over the movie.

Filmed in 2.35:1 Panavision and originally released in four - track magnetic stereo sound (a rarity in 1975, a period in which nearly all movies were mono), the movie was all but impossible to appreciate on television and even subsequent superior home video formats like laserdisc.

Sadly, Cheech & Chong would end up using their best material for this movie, and subsequent films would only offer second and third - rate regurgitations, while also injecting even more sex, drugs and tacky humor.

John Callahan was a quadriplegic, and the movie looks like it deals mostly with his recovery from alcoholism and subsequent discovery of his ability to draw cartoons by grasping a pen in both hands.

Normally this kind of documentary manipulation would raise flags for some, but given Panahi's current predicament and subsequent longing for the medium (and additionally the film's unmanufactured feeling), it comes off as an intensely personal, resonant rebellion, an incredibly beautiful movie and one of his best films to date (read our review).

But the movie failed so utterly that DC famously (if only allegedly) instituted a «no jokes» policy for all its subsequent properties (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.).

«Outrage» (1950): Introducing this little - known drama, directed by Ida Lupino, about a woman's harassment and subsequent rape, Museum of Modern Art curator Anne Morra said the movie «speaks to MeToo issues 70 years ahead of its time.»

Rating: 8/10 — a recreation of the kidnapping in 1973 of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), and the subsequent attempts by his mother, Gail (Williams), to persuade his grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom, something the then world's richest man refuses to do; Scott's best movie in years, All the Money in the World is a taut, compelling thriller that tells its story with ruthless expediency and features yet another commanding performance from Williams, something that takes the spotlight away from the presence of Christopher Plummer (who's good but not great), and which serves as a reminder that money isn't the central concern here, but a mother's unwavering love for her child.

The movie, set in 8th - century Norway, follows alien warrior Kainan (Jim Caviezel) as he crash lands on Earth along with a fearsome creature known as the Moorwen, with the bulk of the storyline detailing Kainan's efforts at insinuating himself within a local Viking tribe and leading their subsequent charge against the aforementioned creature.

He was also nominated for a directing Oscar for his subsequent film, UP IN THE AIR, for which he DID win the AFI movie of the year award.

While a landmark genre movie such as The Dark Knight is undoubtedly awesome, the subsequent desire by other franchises to duplicate that movie's tone is not.

Its portrayal of Richard Nixon (Dan Hedaya) during the Watergate break - in and subsequent investigation might have come across as a cheap caricature, but the movie gleefully turns other key players in the scandal into goofs, too.

If you consider Hoffman's career in decline since then, you'd be underestimating his subsequent contributions to good and great movies, like Finding Neverland, Sleepers, Wag the Dog, Stranger Than Fiction, Runaway Jury, and Outbreak (yeah, I said it).

Rockwell motivates Farrell even further when he takes the dog of temperamental mob boss Woody Harrelson, whose subsequent hunt for the heroes sends them out to desert, where they continue to collaborate on ideas for the movie.

The foundations of horror films in the early decades of the movie industry are what the horror of subsequent decades are built on.

Audiences gets to come to a decision for themselves what sort of film Deadpool 2 is when the movie hits theaters subsequent week on May 18.

«Good Time» is not simply a movie about a bank robbery gone amiss and subsequent attempts to get away from the law, but treats the sensitive role played by Connie Nikas (Robert Pattinson) as mentor and protector to his intellectually disabled brother Nick Nikas (Benny Safdie).

The former — the dinosaur roller - coaster Jurassic Park — saw its accomplishments eclipsed by subsequent blockbusters, while the latter — the Holocaust drama Schindler's List — has only risen in esteem and now stands as one of the most important movies ever made.

Now that it's got its Avatar sequels squared away safely in 2020 — and every subsequent December from now until the heat death of the universe — Fox has started solidifying its film schedule for the more immediate future, especially the lucrative titles in its X-Men movie franchise.

Subsequent Career: Well, aside from the small matter of having his directorial follow - up be the fourth highest - grossing movie of all time, Black had been pretty quiet on the writing front since «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» («AWOL» is his only credit in that period).

Earl Felton's indisputably sophisticated script is yet another to fall victim to the overzealous homage of subsequent entries in the underwater power - struggle genre (The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide, Atlantis: The Lost Empire (see sidebar), and even the Dark Castle Ghost Ship come to mind) that it minted; we can give a movie credit where credit is due while admitting that it sometimes exists in its own shadow.

First, a brief remembrance before we get into the year's best movies: The film world said its heartbroken goodbyes to Mike Nichols in November, an occasion for returning to the director's seismic The Graduate, along with four decades of subsequent work, much of it brilliant.

As in The Magnificent Ambersons — another of Baumbach's movie models that has an impersonal narrator — the seeds of the story are planted in the opening moments: we're told that Lester (played as an adult by Eric Stoltz) becomes obsessed with the previous sex lives of all his subsequent girlfriends.

The writers have additionally hinted that at the side of Captain Marvel, the Ant - Man movie could have ties into Avengers four which is about to unencumber subsequent spring.

Like all Edgar Wright films, The World's End is a good movie to start with, and it gets even better on subsequent viewings.