Sentences with phrase «of films a group»

A group of scientists from Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany recently found that they were able to identify what kind of films a group of subjects viewed — whether it was funny, sad or suspenseful — based on the different combinations of chemicals, or peaks of one in particular, such as carbon dioxide, that were found in the air in the theater.

There are films getting a ton of film group buzz that I just didn't get, and even worse, I found myself enjoying what was widely considered to be the worst movie of the year, but more on that later.

Not exact matches

I have to say that I felt that George's group of six films had more innovative visual imagination and this film was more of a retrenchment to things you had seen before and characters you had seen before.

«When the film came out, the owner of the restaurant said we're not allowed in anymore because we apparently denigrated a certain ethnic group for the picture...» Scorsese said.

Sony Pictures this week backtracked from its original decision to cancel the release of the $ 44 million film after major U.S. theater chains pulled out because of threats of violence by Guardians of Peace, a computer hacking group that claimed responsibility for a destructive cyberattack on Sony last month.

But in 2002, he lost out to Media Market Group, which had produced an animated porn parody of his film called Starballz.

Each group was then given 30 minutes to plan a university recruitment video that, at the end of the allotted time, was filmed by a research assistant.

QINGDAO, China, April 28 (Reuters)- Wang Jianlin, the billionaire boss of China's Dalian Wanda Group, said on Saturday he will turn the northern port city of Qingdao into a global film production hub as he launched a sprawling studio complex in a ceremony attended by hundreds.

The group claiming to have carried out the cybertheft also took terabytes of Sony's financial information, budgets, payroll data, internal emails and films.

In watching a group of people try to build civilization out of savagery, «The Hateful Eight» is the most optimistic film the director has ever made.

They told a group of nearby students that they were filming and asked them to cheer during the intro.

After the acquisition, DreamWorks Animation will become part of NBCUniversal's Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes its Illumination Entertainment animation business — which produced the popular Despicable Me and Minions movies — as well as the Universal Pictures movie studio.

In other words, the two groups both said they were testing Twitter's predictive ability; in reality, they both examined the accuracy of predictions using tweets and additional data sources like movie openings in theaters and film ratings on International Movie Database and Rotten Tomatoes.

Sixty - eight new participants were divided into 17 groups of four for a brief post-screening chat; in each group, one person had seen the highly rated film, while the other three had watched the not - so - great alternative.

Meanwhile, Vox recently floated the idea of Fox going all - in on Deadpool by launching a film series, similar to Disney's The Avengers series, that would see his character team up with others from the X-Men comics to form a group known in comic books as the Uncanny X-Force.

DreamWorks Animation, the studio behind beloved family movies like «Shrek» and «Kung - Fu Panda» that is headed by CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, will become part of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, specifically the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes Universal Pictures, Fandango, and NBCUniversal Brand Development.

The film «Everest,» a thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Brolin in which a group of climbers are engulfed a blinding blizzard, is currently in the top five at the North American box office.

«And the consequence of that is that the director [of the film], the person responsible, was not coming into the room in a defensive posture knowing that this group could screw him over,» Catmull said.

Filmed on location on Necker Island, Branson's private retreat in the Caribbean; at his home in Oxfordshire and in Oslo for a meeting with «The Elders» - a independent group of global leaders put together by Branson and Peter Gabriel.

Maria Contreras - Sweet said her group is pulling out of its deal to buy Weinstein Co. after an examination raised questions about the viability of the film and TV studio.

Taking place before the events of the 1977 original film, «Rogue One» follows Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and a group of Rebel fighters on a mission to steal plans for the Death Star.

An Orange spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday that the company denies a recent unsourced report by French magazine Challenges that Orange had reached a deal with Vivendi that would include Orange buying a stake in Telecom Italia — the Rome - based telecom in which Vivendi has a 24.9 % stake — and buying up to 20 % of the film and television production studio Canal Plus Group.

By the end of the film, Ziff forms the Model Alliance, a New York City — based not - for - profit advocacy group dedicated to ensuring safe, fair and healthy working conditions for girls (and they often are girls).

Wang Jianlin, the Chinese tycoon who just agreed to acquire the co-producer of «Jurassic World» for $ 3.5 billion in cash, signaled bigger deals may be in the works as he builds Dalian Wanda Group Co.'s influence in the global film industry.

Last month, Ms. Powell Jobs and Mr. Guggenheim traveled to Washington with several young immigrants and their families who were featured in the film; the purpose of the trip was to screen the documentary for a group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

The assets on the table include the 20th Century Fox film and TV studio, the FX Networks, Nat Geo Channels group, 22 regional sports networks, Fox's collection of international channels, including Star India, and its 39 % stake in Sky.

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group launched an investment spree in 2014, injecting huge amounts of capital in film and TV program production companies, including ChinaVision Media Group (renamed Alibaba Pictures Group), Huayi Brothers, state - backed digital content provider Wasu Digital TV Media, Beijing Enlight Media, and more.

Unfortunately, during Christy Clark's tenure the government began to include tax credits to favoured groups, such as the B.C. film industry, when reporting the offsetting tax cuts in the carbon tax box of the annual Budget.

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

The first in a series of Star Wars «anthology» films — which are in addition to the new Star Wars trilogy — Rogue One takes place before the events of the original film, as a group of rebels try to steal the Death Star.

Filmed with about 50 girls wearing headscarves, one girl is picked out of the group and made to speak.

From the Cabaret Voltaire to Andy Warhol's Factory, from the silent film comedians to the Beatles, from the first comic - strip artists to the present managers of the Underground, the apolitical have made much more radical progress in dealing with the media than any grouping of the Left.

Moore, the Paramount executive, said focus groups had similar questions: How much of the film is from the Bible and how much was invented by Aronofsky?

CNN: Targeting «Les Miserables» to Christians pays off at the box office In spite of tepid reviews from some film critics, «Les Miserables» is booming at the box office, and that financial success can in part be traced to a group of its biggest boosters: Christians, particularly evangelicals whom NBC Universal went after with a microtargeted marketing strategy.

Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern, a group which has been supporting the film, told Premier about the protest: «It was [peaceful], as we said it would be because we're peaceful people.

Opening weekend is critical to the success of the film, so if you're eager to support Don and Steve and all the work that went into this film, grab a group of friends and head to the theater!

His NOOMA DVDs short films reflecting on subjects such as suffering and forgiveness were being played in the living rooms of thousands of small groups.

Yes, the authors of the Gospels were a bit like a group of screenwriters fulfilling a prediction that James Bond will save the World, get the girl and kill the bad guy as the write the script for the upcoming Bond film.

The film is an incredible work of investigative journalism, centered around interviews with former members of the «church» as they painfully recount the abuse they suffered under the group's leadership.

Despite a seemingly misleading survey from a faith - based group attempting to show that Christians disapproved of the film (without even seeing it), early screenings of Noah are getting solid feedback from some Christian critics.

(CNN)- Jewish groups are upset that the initial reporting about the anti-Islam movie known as «Innocence of Muslims» depicted the film as being financed by a group of Jewish donors.

«Soul Surfer,» the feature film based on the true story of surfer Bethany Hamilton being attacked by a shark and her journey back to surfing, opened last weekend in the fourth spot on the box office charts - partly a testament to its appealing family - friendly message and a marketing campaign that heavily targeted religious groups.

The gay news website PinkNews accused the Core Issues Trust, the group which made the film, of advocating for a «gay «cure»».

In the history of film, some of this latter group might include films like The Pawnbroker (1964), which deals with the restoration of feeling in a death camp survivor who had decided that he could survive only by suppressing all feeling.

Affinity, a group of evangelical churches in the UK have responded to this case, saying they agree that prayer should not be filmed.

They're a diverse group, ranging from Esteban Pedraza's highly personal «People I Know,» a technically accomplished introduction to his mother and best friend, to «The Guide,» by Shiv Tandan, which appears to be a straightforward tourism video until Tandan reveals a surprise in the last seconds of the film.

A few days later three «film doctors» — Lois Anderson from the American Baptist Churches, John Bachman from Union Theological Seminary, and I — were ushered into a room filled with representatives of Protestant New York, forty - three people from religious organizations across the spectrum, including every group from rock - bound fundamentalists to far - out liberals.

Not only did the complexities of internationalization of the industry make this an untenable limitation; automatically excluded from the purview of the committee was an extraordinary group of films.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion