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With pride last year, the Florida Film Festival trumpeted that it offered a record number of movies from female directors: 77, up from the previous year's 59, then a record.

The festival also will showcase a number of movies from prominent actors - turned - directors, organizers announced Tuesday.

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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.

The important numbers are these: Disney gets almost 45 % of its operating profit from its cable division, far more than it gets from its movies — which are great for PR, but don't do as much for the bottom line.

But the movie doesn't shy away from portraying Mr. Buffett, now 86, as something of a remarkable human computer, gifted with numbers and less so with interpersonal relationships.

An unfiltered glorification of crime, the movie is thought to have encouraged a number of copycat killings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, during which 12 people were shot dead, as the murderers supposedly yelled lines from the film.

Redstone is one of the last great media barons of the cable age, having grown a number of significant TV networks from a relatively modest chain of movie theaters.

Even if you go around with one or several fingers stuffed into each ear, you will not be able to exclude the words «Hannah Montana» from your field of consciousness, especially now that the number one movie in the United States bears that name.

Jimmy Fallon opened the show with a parody of the big opening number from La La Land — the movie that would...

The lack of emphasis on a single religion does not stop Disney from taking up a catechizing role, Pinsky notes, «In the Western world in particular, the number of hours children spend receiving moral instruction in houses of worship is dwarfed by the amount of time spent sitting in front of screens large and small, learning values from Disney movies,» Disney's evangelistic entrepreneurship has been extraordinarily successful.

(CNN)-- A letter penned by two notable scholars - a Christian and a Muslim - and sent to a number of different hotel industry executives has asked those hotels to remove pornography from their company's in - room movie selections.

Since January, Cuomo has raised substantial sums outside New York, with a number of big contributions coming from California and the movie / entertainment industry.

So Shostak — who has advised Hollywood on a number of feature films, including 1997's «Contact» — thinks this year's surge may just be part of Hollywood's regular cycle, which tends to feature waves of alien movies from time to time.

While «let's negotiate» might never be said out loud, couples negotiate the terms of their relationship on a daily basis, through big issues and smaller issues - from deciding what to eat for dinner to selecting a movie, from settling on the number of children to have to figuring out where to live.

The 2016 MTV Movie Awards delivered a number of top fashion moments from supermodels and Hollywood's elite.

There are also a number of exclusive articles and ebooks that cover everything from dating advice, creating a good online profile, sports talk, movies, music and DVD reviews.

A number of television shows, both regular series and one - off specials from around the world, have been judged to be among the worst to have ever been Find listings of daytime and primetime ABC TV shows, movies and specials.

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Patriarshy Dom Tours, a Russian - American Cultural Center in Moscow, is operating as a full service travel agency, consistently enlarging the number of It sounded like a scene from a Cold War spy movie: Donald Trump Jr. was in a helicopter flying low on the outskirts of Russia's capital city.

Though its downhome numbers are states away from the glamour of vintage Hollywood, this even manages to be the nearest thing to a real feelgood musical the movies have pulled off in years.

The movie's power comes from words and numbers, including the military's own official statistic that 20 percent of women in the services have been sexually assaulted — as well as the estimate that 80 percent of such attacks are never reported.

The movie takes a number of liberties with Wilde's play, starting with a change of location from gray London to the sunny Italian Riviera.

This approached one part of the movie from a number of different viewpoints.

Handsome enough to pass as a movie star, Henry was offered any number of film and television assignments upon his retirement from the gridiron.

From Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» as adapted by Kushner and directed by Steven Spielberg, the movie «Lincoln» focuses on one principal activity, which was the president's role in convincing a sharply divided House of Representatives to vote for the Amendment already passed by the Senate because Lincoln's party had the numbers there.

From the many live performances to the slew of Eighties tunes, the movie featured various numbers on a nearly constant basis.

The two films have in common a structural formlessness which, in Sarah Marshall's case, felt freewheeling and fun: When the boy - gets - girl plot would suddenly pause for a music - video parody or a number from a puppet musical, it was all part of the movie's loosey - goosey charm.

It is one of the most outrageously brilliant numbers in movie musical history, and one that never fails to incite a big round of applause from the audience — even audiences of the 1990s.

From the very beginning, the movie establishes that it's a musical, as the audience of a Broadway show exits the theater singing a number extolling just how terrible Max Bialystock's (Nathan Lane) shows are... and that got me thinking about «Robin Hood: Men in Tights.»

One reason it's hard to believe in the Coens» characters or their surroundings is that just about everything that isn't borrowed from the original Ladykillers comes from an earlier Coen movie (except the changing expression on the painting of Munson's late husband, which can be traced back to any number of awful Hollywood haunted - house movies).

The Dogs of War is a clear product of its time and is kindred in some ways to a number of great movies from the»70s.

Olcott's «The Lad From Old Ireland» — which played especially well to the growing number of Irish immigrants in the U.S. at the time — is one of the first known examples of an American studio shooting a movie in a foreign location.

(Actually, there are different estimates of the movie's budget out there — people have cited numbers anywhere from $ 75 million to $ 85 million, but Box Office Mojo says $ 82 million, so let's go with that.)

The lead make - up artist for the upcoming movie â $ œBattle in Seattle, â $ starring Charlize Theron and Woody Harrelson, used a number of natural skincare products from the Alchemistâ $ ™ s Apprentice, an online apothecary selling 100 % synthetic and chemical - free personal care items.

And while there are a number of strong sequences sprinkled throughout (eg Cole talks to his mother (Toni Collette's Lynn) about her own deceased parent), The Sixth Sense's funereal atmosphere ultimately lessens the impact of the much - vaunted climactic twist and it is, in the end, clear that the film doesn't entirely work as either a drama or a spooky thriller - with the movie's mild success due mostly to Shyamalan's considerable talent and his ongoing ability to wring top - notch work from folks both in front of and behind the camera (ie this is an exceedingly handsome production, undeniably).

A movie that looks to be engrossing due to the dynamic of the relationship between Will and Tom, and their commitment to each other, the trailer sets up a number of questions for the potential viewer to be thinking about ahead of seeing Leave No Trace — not the least of which is why are they in the forest in the first place — and it promises excellent performances from its two leads.

The year itself was awful in an almost incalculable number of ways, but at least we had a ton of fantastic movies to distract us from the constant barrage against truth and decency.

Extras: aside from a number of trailers for cult movies coming out from Shock, there are no other extras on this release.

Fresh from the commercial success of that Montana movie, the talented Chelsom has signed to direct Last Vegas, a comedy about four older gentlemen who decamp to Sin City for a stag weekend when one of their number decides to get hitched.

On a number of occasions, the movie raises the prospect that the Autodefensas» policing tactics may not ultimately differ so much from the cartels».

It may seem like this summer has been full of disappointing movies, but that has not stopped audiences from helping it beat last year's numbers.

Alternatively, we also get to witness the fateful flight itself as shown from about 19 different angles chopped up and spliced out over the course of the movie, whether it's the actual flight as it happened or any number of reenactments that fastidiously put us through the same motions.

The winners are not the films with the largest number of votes, but the ones that received the largest percentage of votes from the total audience that saw the movie.

Blu - ray Highlight: There are a number of great extras to choose from (including one of the funnier blooper reels and a cool feature called Disney Intermission where the Muppets perform short gags and tease other bonus material whenever you pause the movie), but the commentary with director James Bobin and co-writers Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller is too much fun to ignore.

The musical parts of the movie are the best part, the soundtracks mostly made up of Dylan covers from around the world, though he gets the band together to do a few numbers himself, including a great version of Dixie.

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Gluck shoots the musical numbers with the kind of busy coverage that makes them uninviting, and his clumsy handling of the drastic tonal shifts, from self - referential comedy to political ideas to mawkish and unearned sentimentality, doesn't do the movie any favors, either.

With $ 325.1 million of that number coming from North American ticket sales, Batman v Superman lands just behind Sam Raimi's Spider - Man 3 and a few million away from the first Spider - Man movie.

Based on the number of faithfully recreated moments in the «Starsky & Hutch» movie, he must know that the show with its casual brutality and sardonic, back - alley fascism was derived from slap - happy action comedy - dramas like Richard Rush's 1974 «Freebie and the Bean» and, more specifically, Peter Hyams's 1974 «Busting.»