Sentences with phrase «movies this year as»

And the plan would be to shoot that movie this year as well and have it come out next year.»

There will be few other movies this year as frustrating as this adaptation of Liz Tuccillo's book, a quasi - «girl power» picture that alternates between perceptive and puerile at such breakneck speed that some viewers might be tempted to sue for whiplash.

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As the year comes to a close, the domestic box office is on pace to set another new industry record just one year after topping $ 11 billion in domestic movie ticket sales for the first time ever.

2016's movie industry highlights include a monster year for Walt Disney, as the Mouse House set a new yearly global box office record, becoming the first studio to ever top $ 7 billion in worldwide ticket sales.

Although NBCUniversal's theme park revenue was strong compared to the previous year, the entertainment unit's movie business didn't do so well, thanks to some weak releases such as Ride Along 2 and Hail, Caesar!

2016 was an especially monster year for Disney at the box office distinguishing it from much of Hollywood as the movie studio continues to close ranks around its core franchises, such as Pixar and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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.

The big match - up at this year's Super Bowl won't be the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers, it will be the strange alliance of television networks and movie studios, as movie studios are now among the biggest Super Bowl advertisers.

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.

That's been true for the thrill - seeking fans of movies like «Raiders of the Lost Ark» and audiences that prefer more thoughtful releases such as «Lincoln» almost six years ago.

This year's dress - up recasts classic characters from scary movies as the personification of different social networks.

None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

China's box office revenue is still swelling at double - digit rates after years of breakneck growth and, with Hollywood know - how and bigger budgets, Chinese movies are gaining momentum as they find ways to play on domestic themes and improve production quality.

FEATURE: Having gained notoriety in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire, the phrase «show me the money» will be heard often, and loudly, in business in Western Australia in coming years as capital inflows become capital outflows and funds become harder - than - ever to raise.

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.

The uptick in the shares reflects a belief that Netflix is now in a position to sign up more subscribers this year than analysts had previously anticipated, generating additional revenue that the company can spend on TV series and movies as it bids against rivals such as HBO, Amazon.com, YouTube and Hulu for licensing rights.

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.

Seriously, just try to name a popular science - fiction movie, book, or television series released in recent years that doesn't portray the future as a stomach - dropping, throat - lumping nightmare.

Rockwell's career has been a roller - coaster ride because of Hollywood's trouble placing him as either a movie star or a character actor over the years.

In recent years, there have been claims that movie ticket sales would decline as more people opt for watching at home via streaming.

The company has reportedly shifted its TV - to - movie ratio from «20/80 to 60/40» over the last few years, and has inked exclusive deals for hot shows with networks such as AMC (home of Breaking Bad and Mad Men).

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

American movies, in consequence, were made for years as Marcus Loew, Adolph Zukor, Sam Goldwyn, Carl Laemmle, Louis Selznick, Louis B. Mayer, Jesse Lasky, and William Fox thought they should be made.

CEOs can become larger - than - life pop culture figures, as evidenced by the not one, but two Steve Jobs movies coming out this year.

Three years ago, the Saratoga, California - based company started selling remote - controlled devices that can stream online media content, such as Netflix movies and Pandora radio, to TV sets.

Sure, the actual movie isn't set for release for another year or so, but is there really such a thing as marketing a movie too soon?

In fact, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was the first woman to direct a superhero movie and the film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domestically).

To be fair, Netflix, the movie streaming service that costs $ 8.99 a month, has seen its popularity rise in recent years, particularly among the millennial generation as they unplug from traditionally expensive cable bills.

As a 21 - year Warner Bros. veteran who left Time Warner in 1999, he earns kudos for running the movie business, where he was responsible for megahits such as the Lethal Weapon serieAs a 21 - year Warner Bros. veteran who left Time Warner in 1999, he earns kudos for running the movie business, where he was responsible for megahits such as the Lethal Weapon serieas the Lethal Weapon series.

Last year, Vudu stopped making hardware and instead began offering its movie store and simple interactive service as a feature that the largest consumer electronics manufacturers could build into their devices.

Net income for the quarter rose to $ 1.3 billion from $ 754 million in the same quarter a year ago as the company saw its Home Box Office revenue grow nine percent to $ 1.3 billion and the Lego Movie and 300: Rise of an Empire brought in $ 450 million and $ 330 million, respectively at the worldwide box office.

In February, Amy Pascal, the longtime head of Sony Pictures Entertainment, lost her job as chairman of the movie studio after a hacking attack late last year, which the U.S. government blamed on North Korea, led to the disclosure of a series of embarrassing emails.

The live action Beauty and the Beast has been the top - grossing movie of the year so far, which is a good sign for the company's other live - action remakes in development such as The Lion King and Mulan.

We have all heard someone say «I remember when a new car cost...» Inflation is the reason why it cost $ 5 to see a movie when you were 18, but now it costs $ 12; or why $ 100 just doesn't seem to buy as much as it did 10 years ago.

Goods go up in price every year due to inflation (think about how we joke that movie tickets used to cost $ 2) so your money doesn't stretch as far as it used to.

Twelve years after «Titanic,» which still stands as the all - time B.O. champ, Cameron delivers again with a film of universal appeal that just about everyone who ever goes to the movies will need to see.

It's not surprising that the people who create movies are as affected by the racism, sexual abuse and violence that has pockmarked the news for the past few years as the rest of us, but Hollywood is only offering a diagnosis here.

I saw it about a dozen years ago and remembered it as an enjoyable and darkly funny action movie with an exceptional performance by James Caan.

In Mystery Men, a movie from a few years back, William H. Macy, Ben Stiller and Hank Azaria starred as a trio of lesser superheroes with fairly unimpressive superpowers.

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

There have been quite a few movies this year about young adults trying to escape small spaces, but none of them are quite as masterful and tightly paced as 10 Cloverfield Lane, the unofficial sequel to Cloverfield.

His background in the movies led many people to underestimate Reagan, says Gaddis, «for Reagan was as skillful a politician as the nation had seen for many years, and one of its sharpest grand strategists ever.

The movies are a spinoff of the Harry Potter novels and films, and stars Eddie Redmayne as a man named Newt Scamander, who unleashes all types of magical mischief into the world, 70 years before the story of Harry Potter begins.

The movie is based on what happens to him as he commits to doing this for an entire year.

He could easily spend the next few years starring in blockbuster remakes and sequels (like the upcoming Aladdin and Bad Boys movies), and and casually maintain his status as a global movie superstar.

As far as I know, this is the first really enjoyable movie of the year (CITY ISLAND is a decent but distant secondAs far as I know, this is the first really enjoyable movie of the year (CITY ISLAND is a decent but distant secondas I know, this is the first really enjoyable movie of the year (CITY ISLAND is a decent but distant second).