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And producers Stacey Sher and Shannon McIntosh discuss the logistics of making Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight work in glorious 70MM film using Ultra Panavision lenses that haven't seen the light of a film set since Khartoum in 1966.

Not exact matches

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

That being said, this is a beginning and hopefully I'll be able to film a holiday look for you guys, since this is the strong point of this set!

Since then, the website has continued the tradition set forth by the magazine; a lone voice shouting into the void of mainstream media, that there is more to film than summer blockbusters and celebrity gossip.

Published: 15:57 EST, 17 Anna has since moved on and is dating cinematographer Michael Barrett, who she met on the set of film Overboard.

In the seven years since that threequel set box office records and earned a Best Picture nomination, the studio has had some generally liked if not quite loved triumphs (Finding Dory, Brave, Monsters University), one film that most would agree is at least in contention of «masterpiece» status (Inside Out), and some perplexing, unprecedented misses (Cars 2 & 3 plus the aforementioned Good Dinosaur).

The look of the film is unique which is quite amazing since it is set in such a dull and uninteresting environment.

From its charming characters and amazing set design, the film has been the talk of the town since its release earlier this month.

News broke last week that James Franco was set to star in his first superhero movie (since Sam Raimi's Spider - Man) as Jamie Madrox, aka Multiple Man, in a film of the same name.

The chatter of this strange assortment of upper - middle class Brits might work better in the theater, since the action takes place in real time set wholly in an extensively furnished London home (actually filmed in a West London studio), with the women doing most of the talk and much of the witty liftings.

Since we're a couple of years out from the film's set release, Marvel is making more moves to fill out the cast by bringing back one of the most entertaining parts of the film: Michael Pena.

Knowing Martin Scorsese was a fan of Jean Renoir's India - set The River, we asked him to record an introduction when we first released it in 2004 (since then, he even included it in his Criterion Top 10, calling it «a film without a real story th...

Knowing Martin Scorsese was a fan of Jean Renoir's India - set The River, we asked him to record an introduction when we first released it in 2004 (since then, he even included it in his Criterion Top 10, calling it «a film without a real story that is all about the rhythm of existence, the cycles of birth and death and regeneration, and the transitory beauty of the world»).

I've been enjoying a lot of the Trailblazing Women programming myself but since we're in the middle of Schocktober, I thought I'd set aside some time to highlight some of my favorite horror films and thrillers directed by women who have left their macabre mark on a genre that many mistakenly assume is not very female friendly.

The entire gag takes a long while to play out (the money shot - close - up on a set of buttocks most definitely not those of the 62 year - old Willis), though it is infused with the kind of nutty energy that Willis last exhibited in his 1991 megaflop, Hudson Hawk (a film that has since acquired an army of «guilty pleasure» defenders, including yours truly).

Ever since Goldfinger set the pattern that has guided the series, the individual films have risen or fallen on the quality of the leading man and the cleverness of the execution.

The Good Time star plays a wealthy pioneer who sets out across the American frontier to marry the love of his life (Mia Wasikowska), but that logline hardly does the film justice, and since the film kind of defies description, just go in expecting a clever deconstruction of traditional gender roles.

It may not be called Infinity War, but the second film is still clearly going to be the conclusion of the fight against Thanos, who has, after all, been set up as the biggest of Big Bads ever since the stinger at the end of the first Avengers.

The Clint Eastwood - directed film about the late U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle has only been in limited release since the end of December, and is set to go nationwide Friday.

Focused only slightly differently is «San Andreas: The Real Fault Line» (6 mins., HD), which spends its opening moments very superficially discussing the real threat of earthquakes in California before delving into the production tricks behind the film's earth - shaking scenes, like a restaurant set designed so that everything visible in the frame is shaking except the floor itself, since it was being prowled by a Steadicam operator.

He's since been spotted on the set of Infinity War, which would fulfill that original four - film contract.

Watching Gangster Squad put me even more in mind of The Untouchables with a climax centered on a set of hotel steps that reminded me of The Untouchables» famous sequence in Union Station (itself an homage to the Odessa Steps sequence in Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkim), but it had been long enough since I watched The Untouchables that I didn't even realize how very many things Gangster Squad stole from DePalma's film.

But, really, even if the CAS had tossed a lifesaver to Captain Phillips, or a dollar into the hopelessly lightweight guitar case of Inside Llewyn Davis, it still wouldn't have changed our opinion that this statuette belongs to Alfonso Cuarón's minimalist, outer space - set spectacle, which is poised to pick up more technical Oscars than any film since The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King.

Setting the film at the end of the 20th century may seem kind of arbitrary, since the novel it's based on was published in 1992.

Presumably he hasn't begun shooting the past - set sequences yet, since we've only seen images of characters from the first three X-Men films.

It's more of a shock than the Ranger situation since Proyas had gathered his crew and started building a cast that included Bradley Cooper (who talked to us about the film last week), Benjamin Walker, Diego Boneta and Camilla Belle ready for a shoot set to start next month in Australia.

Though Ng dropped out of film school with one semester left for the chance to document Willard's journey to the screen, I can't imagine she'll live to regret it: She's the best I've seen at compiling on - set footage with momentum since David Prior and should find steady employment in the specialized field of DVD production.

It's a ballsy move by Marvel, especially since Warner Bros. has the Batman / Superman film set for July 17 across the pond that year; Marvel will be hoping that everyone flocks to that in the first two weeks and is ready for something different by the end of the month.

This is amazing news for fans of the cult 80's film who have been clamoring for new stories set in the Starfighter universe ever since its original release.

Since most of the film is set up to explore tangential story elements, I think the plot summary is practically superfluous.

Although they do love each other, tensions between the two set in regarding the casting of the film adaptation of Joe's latest bestselling book, as Sally think she would be the natural woman for the role, since she believes it is based on her.

I am guessing that the mention of «rural Middle America» is what brought David Gordon Green into the picture, since that's where he likes to set most of his films.

Among the highlights include the world premiere of Chris Evans» directorial debut «Before We Go» (formerly «1:30 Train»), dueling Anna Kendrick films in dark drama «Cake» and musical adaptation «The Last Five Years,» ensemble comedy «This is Where I Leave You» starring Corey Stoll, Adam Driver and more, Jason Reitman's «Men, Women and Children» with Ansel Elgort, Kaitin Dever and others, and «99 Homes,» Ramin Bahrani's financial world set drama which also serves as the first film outside of «The Amazing Spider - Man» franchise for Andrew Garfield since «The Social Network.»

Though associated with heritage films set in Britain's imperial past, producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala have collaborated on a variety of masterfully constructed literary adaptations since the early 1960s.

At face value KHNH does indeed have a fairly rote Hindi film set - up with three central players: Naina Catherine Kapur (Preity Zinta), a sullen twentysomething whose life and household has been in disarray since a devastating family tragedy; her best friend Rohit Patel (Saif Ali Khan), would - be slick ladies» man but all - around good guy; and Aman Mathur (Shahrukh Khan), Naina's freshly - arrived neighbor, whose upbeat and generous nature will come to affect the lives of all he encounters in his new community, not least of which Rohit and especially Naina.

In The Director and the Jedi, by filmmaker Anthony Wonke, he places the spotlight on director Rian Johnson, and his process as a director new to the franchise, as Johnson has been a fan of the film since childhood, and sets out to make the most powerful Star Wars movie he can.

Since that auspicious debut, he has continued to collaborate with Anderson on «The Darjeeling Limited» (which the pair wrote with Roman Coppola); the short film «Hotel Chevalier»; his animated feature, «Fantastic Mr. Fox» (for which he contributed his vocal talents); «Moonrise Kingdom» (part of Anderson's stellar ensemble cast of Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand), which set a new record at the specialty box office over Memorial Day weekend for best limited indie debut of all time, and, the Academy Award nominated film, «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» whose eclectic cast brought back thespians Murray, Norton and Swinton, along with Willem Dafoe, Soirsae Ronin, Ralph Finnes, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson and Adrian Brody.

His films since then have all come up just a bit short of that very high bar he set 13 years ago.

Inaugurating the MPAA's ambiguous PG - 13 rating, its relentless but bloodless bloodletting set against not a whisper of sex or nudity established the tone for PG - 13 films in Puritanical America ever since.

I think it's interesting that McCarthy's follow - up, The Road, is set in the post-apocalypse — in a broad sense, all of his books since All the Pretty Horses have been roughly chronological, making No Country for Old Men (and the film of it, and all the great films of 2007) a chronicle of Armageddon: all whimpers and no bang; I hardly noticed it happening, and now it's done and there's no helping it.

What it attempts is no more offensive than trying to glom together A Few Good Men with The Usual Suspects while returning McTiernan to the jungle setting of his Predator and reuniting the two stars of Pulp Fiction, neither of whom frankly has been in a film nearly as good as that in the nine years since.

The film has been in the works since 2010 when, says The Wrap, «Disney set the project up in the wake of its success with Alice in Wonderland.»

Over a year has passed since Deadpool lit up the box office, setting records for the month of February, R - rated films, and the X-Men franchise as a whole.

Since his 2007 debut with Shotgun Stories, starring Michael Shannon, Jeff Nichols from Little Rock, Arkansas, still only 38, has made a whole series of stunningly good indie films set in the American South.

Like most one night present action films, Superbad sets itself up for needing some real resolution and — since it's already running 110 — it hurries it through in three minutes, sucking a lot of the interesting possibilities from what it previously established.

Director Guillermo del Toro has described the script for his upcoming film Crimson Peak, his first ghost - themed horror film since The Devil's Backbone, as a classic Gothic romance with a mix of kinky and scary moments, set in a haunted house in England.

The production designer met his wife, Sissy Spacek, on the set of Badlands in 1972, and since then has worked on every single Terrence Malick film.

However, a report from Variety suggests that there had been tension on the set of the Han Solo film since it commenced production in February.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

Since then, he has served in a variety of roles, including sets shading supervisor, sets shading technical director, senior shading artist on many of their films like Cars, WALL • E, Toy Story 3, Monsters University, and Inside Out.