Sentences with phrase «movie of the year in»

All this before Disney releases what is likely to be the biggest movie of the year in «Star Wars: The Force Awakens.»

We are fast approaching the release of one of the most anticipated movies of the year in Paul Feig's reboot of Ghostbusters, and today,...

This particular sport seems to produce some of the more predictable movies of the years in which they're released.

Easy correction: a Best Picture nomination for the # 1 movie of the year in North America, Finding Dory, and / or the # 3 movie worldwide, Zootopia.

Not exact matches

Despite record years in terms of total gross, the number of actual tickets sold by movie theaters has been plateauing for years.

Any chilling effect on diplomatic relations could also affect the Chinese market's strict and complicated regulatory system, which limits the number of foreign - made movies that are released in the country each year.

Meledandri founded Illumination, now owned by Universal Pictures, in 2007, and has produced some of the most popular animated movies in recent years, including Despicable Me and Minions.

Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner admitted the decline in demand for dinosaur sales was a bit of a headwind in 2016, after the movie gave that company a boost last year.

Others, like Avatar director James Cameron and Interstellar «s Christopher Nolan, have argued that the startup threatens the health of the movie industry, which turned in a record year in 2015 in terms of overall box office gross.

In 2011, while the rest of the movie crew was busy with setting up the day's shoot, 29 - year - old Emellie O'Brien was busy digging through the garbage.

BKEG was acquired in 2003 by New Wave Entertainment, a producer of marketing solutions and trailers for the movie industry that's owned by Paul Apel, who started as an editor at the company and worked his way up to owner and CEO, a spot he's had for 23 years.

With each passing year it seems yet one more gadget previously confined to the imagination of sci - fi movies becomes a real product you can buy in a store.

Late this year, Imax announced two big movie releases in China: Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan, promising a «thrilling story of heroism, friendship and betrayal, which has never before been depicted on film,» and John Woo's The Crossing, a two - part historical epic about the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

Four years after Paul Newman and Robert Redford became one of the most memorable screen duos in history with «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,» the two do it again with this «perfect con» movie.

This year's field of Best Picture nominees features eight movies with widely variant box office performances, from 20th Century Fox's (FOX) The Martian «s leading $ 228 million in domestic gross to Room, which barely cracked $ 12.5 million in ticket sales.

One of the best horror movies in the last five years.

A cheap date — defined as cab rides, dinner or lunch for two at a pub or diner, soft drinks, two movie tickets and a couple of beers — runs about $ 195.90 in Zurich, down around 7 percent from last year, the survey found.

Amazon, meanwhile, is refashioning its TV and movie production in the wake of studio chief Roy Price's departure this year, and signing Murphy could help the company develop programs that catch on more with viewers.

Netflix will release 600 hours of original shows and movies in 2016, and while Amazon is nowhere near that, CFO Brian Olsavsky has said the company is poised to triple its originals count over the rest of the year.

-- Rifat Oguz, founder and CEO of Sinemia, a global movie ticket subscription system used by five million moviegoers in five countries and named on Wired's annual list of hottest startups last year

Movie critics, awards experts, and Vegas oddsmakers alike have been weighing in on some of this year's biggest Oscars debates, from actor Gary Oldman versus Timothee Chalamet to The Shape of Water against Get Out.

Julia Roberts, 50 starred in one of the most surprising hit movies of the year: «Wonder.»

Responsible for some of the greatest visual effects pulled off on screen in the last 40 years, he's done everything from James Bond movies like «Moonraker» and «GoldenEye,» to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and «Inception» (which he won an Oscar for).

«Homecoming» may be the sixth Spider - Man movie from Sony in 15 years, but it's by far one of the top two films in the entire franchise.

The winner for a particular year is the most - rented title (of all time) among movies came out in that year.

Netflix revealed its most popular movies among DVD subscribers that were released in each of the last 20 years.

After 18 years at Alliance, eight of them as president of the movie distribution unit, Theroux was booted out in 2006 for trying to orchestrate a management buyout.

On Nov. 15 — the release date of its latest hit — Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot spoke to Canadian Business staff writer Jeff Beer about how the industry has changed in the past 25 years, where games and movies will meet and Canada's potential as a video - game powerhouse.

Marvel has a pretty well - established history of remixing and streamlining the best and most iconic of the many looks each of its characters have sported over the years for their big - screen adaptations (in a funny bit of symmetry, the movie designs usually end up influencing how a character will look in the comics afterward).

For years he held private screenings of the movie (it's also been shown at a few film festivals), and there was even a moment when he and Stern thought of remaking it with Hopper directing once more and a younger actor in the lead.

During the last years, there has been a trend in which airlines and movie studios are teaming up together to launch movie - themed liveries as part of global marketing campaigns.

Universal had heard all the stories of Hopper's erratic behavior over the years, first as an up - and - coming actor who had small parts in the James Dean movies «Rebel Without a Cause» and «Giant» (he admired Dean immensely), then as a bit player on a slew of TV shows, where he got little respect and gave even less back.

Many sports fans saw this year's rise of Leicester City as the soccer equivalent of the fictional Bad News Bears, although in the movies, the lovable losers didn't win the championship.

It is also working with the NCVC, which helped deploy funds to victims of the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting in 2012 and the Chattanooga, Tenn., military reserve shootings last year.

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.

He topped himself the next year with this imaginative sci - fi classic, which held the title of highest - grossing movie in history until Spielberg topped it with «Jurassic Park» in 1993.

«(Cannes) wants to reiterate its support to the traditional mode of exhibition of cinema in France and in the world,» it continued, adding that from next year its rules would explicitly state any film entered for competition would have to «commit itself to being distributed in French movie theatres».

The Justice Department said AT&T would use Time Warner's films and movies to force rival pay TV companies to pay «hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner's networks» in its lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Washington.

Ahead of «Avengers: Age of Ultron,» which arrives to theaters in May, «Furious 7» has a good shot at being the year's first billion - dollar movie.

Not only is «Blockers» one of the few women - directed movies coming from a major studios this year, but it's sex - positive message about consent and societal pressures around people losing their virginity make it an incredible feat in the midst of the #MeToo and Time's Up movement.

Doug Renfro, president of Renfro Foods in Fort Worth, has his public relations firm send about 200 cases a year of his salsas and dips out to movie sets in the hopes they'll do more than be scarfed down by the cast and crew.

Fox's decision to finally move forward with the film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie made.

Hudson Square Research analyst Jeffrey Logsdon points out that this year's movie crop is smaller than in the summer of 2013, but the bigger factor behind the current summer slump could be quality.

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.

Netflix has expanded in recent years becoming not only a streaming service for television and film, but also a developer of new movies and TV shows.

Lyne: I got to know a lot of people in the movie industry in the eight - plus years that I edited Premiere.

After almost a 40 - year ban, an AMC movie theater opened its doors in late April at a converted part of the district's conference center.

In a move worthy of Michael Corleone of The Godfather movie fame, the 32 - year old crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, consolidated his power, over the weekend, by trotting a tried - and - true method of vanquishing political rivals in a monarchy: charge them with corruptioIn a move worthy of Michael Corleone of The Godfather movie fame, the 32 - year old crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, consolidated his power, over the weekend, by trotting a tried - and - true method of vanquishing political rivals in a monarchy: charge them with corruptioin a monarchy: charge them with corruption.

In all, the company has said it will either fund, buy, or license hundreds of original shows, TV specials, documentaries, children's shows, and movies this year alone.