Sentences with phrase «marketed as comedy»

For a movie only really slightly marketed as a comedy, I have to tell you that it's probably one of the most genuinely funny movies I've seen in awhile.

This wouldn't really matter of course if the movie still functioned properly regardless of what genre it was operating under, but let's just say there's a reason Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was marketed as a comedy; it unfortunately fails at everything else.

What frustrated throughout however was that the film was very clearly marketed as a comedy.

It's being marketed as a comedy, but that's false advertising.

While some might be surprised to find August: Osage County marketed as a comedy, the film version directed by John Wells is laced with some very dark humor indeed.

It was also funnier than any film marketed as a comedy I've seen in years.

Although billed and marketed as a comedy, I feel the need to warn some viewers that The Ice Harvest is more of a thriller with dark comic touches rather than one that goes to tickle your funny bone.

The Five Year Engagement is being deceptively marketed as a comedy in the Bridesmaids vein.

A successful male - focused «dialog movie» (ie, lacking in explosions and not specifically marketed as a comedy) typically makes twice those numbers («Sideways», «Up In the Air», «The Descendants»).

Not exact matches

NBCUniversal has a subscription service called Seeso specifically for comedy, and the Peacock network is planning to launch as many as nine targeted services aimed at discrete markets.

Advertisers are likely to stick with proven strategies, such as comedy or positive emotions rather than controversies such as athletes kneeling during the National Anthem, marketing experts said.

Fielder's show Nathan for You, which has been picked up for a second season, follows the comedy writer as he attempts to «help» small businesses by employing insane marketing ideas.

As Jamestown officials intensify efforts to market the Southern Tier city as a hub for humor, the National Comedy Center has announced its headliner for the 2017 Lucille Ball Comedy FestivaAs Jamestown officials intensify efforts to market the Southern Tier city as a hub for humor, the National Comedy Center has announced its headliner for the 2017 Lucille Ball Comedy Festivaas a hub for humor, the National Comedy Center has announced its headliner for the 2017 Lucille Ball Comedy Festival.

Some of the script is just pure cheese and the one - liners that Defendor constantly spouts are nothing but bits of stupidity marketed as «har - har comedy».

The plot may seem at the outset little more than» «Pitch Perfect» for pensioners», and will likely be marketed as such, but «Song For Marion» is by no means a laugh out loud comedy.

The spark is gone, and nowhere is that more apparent than in «Unfinished Business,» a so - called comedy that has been marketed as a bawdy, dudes - on - a-business-trip lark, but instead plays like a largely unfunny drama that snuffs out any vitality Vaughn might have possessed.

After landing the coveted «Discovery» award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival and being courted by distributors at a loss as to how, exactly, one goes about marketing a surreal, funhouse black comedy anymore, Aaron Woodley spoke to us by telephone fresh from an animating session on a new project while planning his sophomore feature, Blueberries.

As much as I'd like to blame the trailers for misleading viewers, this is not an easy film to market, and as such, most ticket buyers walked into their screening ready for a simple, familiar formula: Seth Rogen + raunchy R - rated comedAs much as I'd like to blame the trailers for misleading viewers, this is not an easy film to market, and as such, most ticket buyers walked into their screening ready for a simple, familiar formula: Seth Rogen + raunchy R - rated comedas I'd like to blame the trailers for misleading viewers, this is not an easy film to market, and as such, most ticket buyers walked into their screening ready for a simple, familiar formula: Seth Rogen + raunchy R - rated comedas such, most ticket buyers walked into their screening ready for a simple, familiar formula: Seth Rogen + raunchy R - rated comedy.

In his review, Turan compares the film to the classic - age comedies of Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch in noting that «making an anarchic, absurdist comedy about 2008's housing market collapse and the global financial crisis that followed is as unlikely as the collapse itself.

The 3D computer animated adventure comedy, produced by Illumination Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures, chose an amusing marketing campaign to promote the movie that will soon be in theatres: a blimp disguised as a Minion, named «Despicablimp,» has been touring the United States since March 2013 in its six - month tour to advertise the film's release.

It was marketed as a formulaic romantic comedy — its theatrical trailer shows just that — despite the fact that it is anything but.

It's no coincidence this comedy drama is being marketed in the same sunny orange as the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

The 2008 housing market crash was no joke, which is why it might come as a surprise that «The Big Short» was directed by the same man responsible for goofball comedies like «Anchorman» and «Talladega Nights.»

To those who have grown weary of the CGI comedy and penguin onslaughts, the disc is worth at least a rental as a testament to how animated features can be more than shallow marketing gimmicks.

One of the three films, in fact, barely qualifies as a comedy, although it was surely marketed as such.

Stiller made his directorial debut with Reality Bites, a sweet romantic comedy that had the misfortune of being marketed as the defining film of Generation X. Stiller's next film as a director, The Cable Guy, was an ambitious black comedy that was overshadowed by the hype surrounding Jim Carrey's then - unprecedented $ 20 million payday and dark role.

It is marketed as a bit of a gothic horror flick, set in England in 1899, but it's more of a dark comedy that dabbles in the «madness of one's methods» in the search for methods to cure one's madness.

It's a road movie and character piece more than the action comedy it's occasionally marketed as and Brest never lets any set pieces or gags get in the way of the journey made by the leads, physically or emotionally.

Todd Phillips» word - of - mouth monster is now habitually referred to (by its marketing team, at least) as «the highest grossing R - rated comedy of all time».

Regrettably, there is actually a market for movies like this, and the crowds of fifteen - year - old boys that manage to sneak in to the R - rated flick will enjoy every minute; including the 20 - minute party sequence that functions only as a catalyst for more marijuana - induced comedy.

WA's first movie out of the gate was a largely successful attempt to produce a straight comedy (though perfume of melancholic tragedy seen in his later films are certainly present) first made headlines as a mis - marketed box office bomb, the pundits pointing and laughing as this purported Reservoir Dogs knock - off plummeted into obscurity.

Weitz can't seem to decide whether he's making a comedy or a drama, and although it's being marketed as the former, with the exception of a few chuckles here and there, the film is almost completely devoid of laughs.

Such a disappointment: The new Jason Bateman - Rachel McAdams movie billed as «action - comedy» by the marketing department at Warner Brothers had a gorgeous package and brilliant advertising, promising some grown - up entertainment with a mischievous twist.

Director Paul Weitz can't seem to decide whether he's making a comedy or a drama, and although it was marketed as the former, the film is almost completely devoid of laughs.

But Evan is reported to have cost about $ 200 million to produce and market, making it one of the most expensive comedies ever made and about twice as costly as Bruce.

So far the Hollywood movies screening at Cannes — Woody Allen's romantic roundelay «Cafe Society,» starring Kristen Stewart, Shane Black's hit - man comedy «Nice Guys» starring Ryan Gosling, and Jodie Foster's Wall Street thriller «Money Monster» starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — have played out of competition, more as red - carpet plays and marketing junkets than surefire Oscar launches.

Cowboys & Aliens is marketed as a cheeky comedy, the kind that director Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Iron Man 2) has been very successful in bringing to the big screen in his prior films.

The trailer markets the film as a feel - good comedy, and while the source material is uplifting, hopefully the movie will capture the deeply dark and profound meditations on life that Hornby's novel offered.

It is often difficult to market such obtuse films as this historical slapstick comedy.

As for Rudd, one of the most charismatic actors in films ranging from David Wain or Judd Apatow comedies to «Ant - Man,» he was recently a punchline in a beer commercial featuring Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen, where they briefly diverged from marketing to say the truth: «Everybody loves Paul Rudd.»

Marketed as a slapstick comedy for kids!

It says a lot about the state of women and other marginalized groups in film that Trainwreck is being marketed (and praised) as «not your mother's romantic comedy.»

Based on a simple plot description, it sounds, of course, like another «down - market,» slapstick - laden comedy — a movie perhaps destined to play as part of a late - night, cable TV double feature with 2006's drab Employee of the Month, which starred Jessica Simpson as the mutual object of affection for a pair of feuding retail warehouse workers played by Dane Cook and Dax Shepard.

Last Holiday finds itself saddled with a wildly inappropriate marketing campaign that portrays the film as a generic and thoroughly silly comedy with little to offer all but the most indiscriminate viewer.

That comes as a bit of a surprise considering it is marketed as a raunchy comedy.

Though All Is Bright looks like a comedy and is marketed as one, it's as glum as holiday films get.

The red - band trailer has turned into an essential component in marketing the R - rated comedy, and when the comedy is promised as a collection of particularly dirty, foul - mouthed sketches, nothing but the red - band will do.

Instead, it is marketed as a kind of middle - of - the - road comedy - romance with horror elements, and while it does contain some rom - com and sitcom elements, the increasingly bleak nature of the storyline will probably turn off audiences for that kind of black material.

The film, which was marketed as an action flick with some light comedy definitely leaned more to the darker side.

«Three Billboards» is officially being marketed as a dramedy, but the breakdown is easily 75 % comedy, 25 % drama.