Sentences with phrase «only film opening»

Although it'll technically be the only film opening on that day, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and the Seth Rogen / Barbra Streisand comedy The Guilt Trip are due out earlier that same week on the 25th.

Not exact matches

The only other new film opening in wide release, «Tyler Perry's Acrimony,» brought in $ 17.1 million to rank No. 2.

$ 147 million is not only the biggest opening weekend for the «Fast and Furious» franchise, but it's also now the highest - grossing debut for an April film, topping 2014's «Captain America: The Winter Soldier» ($ 95 million).

The more surprising performance came from the faith - based film I Can Only Imagine, which expanded to about 600 more theaters and made another $ 13.8 million, down only 19 percent from its opening weekOnly Imagine, which expanded to about 600 more theaters and made another $ 13.8 million, down only 19 percent from its opening weekonly 19 percent from its opening weekend.

The story of a seven - month voyage at sea, Windjammer, the only feature film ever made in Cinemiracle (a wide - screen process), opened at the Roxy in New York City on a movie screen measuring 100 feet wide by 40 feet high.

During an early screening of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster flick 2012, which opens today, laughter erupted in the audience near the end of the film thanks to corny dialogue and maudlin scenes (among the biggest guffaw getters: a father tries to reconnect with his estranged son on the telephone, only to have the son's house destroyed just before he could say anything).

The kirigami cuts give the film not only stretch, but also better grip: The cuts that open release tension that would otherwise cause the entire film to peel away from the skin.

The only time he moves quickly is when his life is threatened, as in the film's opening sequence, when he and a comely Swede take a post-coital walk and chance upon an assassin's tracks in the snow.

But while the film does insist on its own irreverence a bit too much at the outset — it opens with a group of birds inspirationally singing, «You're only as small as your dreams,» before they get abruptly knocked out of the sky — it offers plenty of lively fun once it settles down, and wisely keeps the pandering to a minimum.

I am neither a Kevin Costner or a football fan and only went to see this movie because of the 3 new films opening today this was the closest and most convenient.

When the film does provide some answers, it only opens it up to even more questions and therein lies the craftsmanship and intrigue of this abstract sci - fi fantasy.

Another studio that couldn't score with critics or moviegoers in 2013, Open Road managed only one positively reviewed film: Steven Soderbergh's swan song Side Effects.

The film opens with Ellsberg, played by Matthew Rhys with a fine, forlorn rabbinical iciness, typing notes in the Vietnam combat field, then listening to McNamara on the plane ride back explain that the war is going terribly — only to watch him turn around and play the war's booster at an airport press conference.

The film opens with a fiery, asteroid - like body striking a lighthouse somewhere on the Gulf Coast, leaving not destruction and calamity in its wake, only a prismatic, oily aura.

But the dramatic strain of trying to level the playing field only makes the film's pro-Israeli bias — evident in everything from the opening text to the demonization of the PLO — feel perniciously covert.

He offers her advice, which feels as circuitous and lacking in finality as the film, the only repeated dictate being to remain «open.»

In fact, Spielberg's depiction of the wartime life of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a German entrepreneur who opened factories to help the Nazi war effort in Poland, only to staff them with Jewish workers, remains Spielberg's most personal film, but for different reasons than ancestry.

It's a film open for easy dismissal, but «Creation» is not an anti-religion screed, only an intimate drama of a man who found himself at a crossroads between the answers of science and the comfort of faith.

Williams really only had two brief appearances in the film, but that fact wasn't enough to keep people from paying their money and selling out the opening weekend performances.

The film opens with a shot of a planet being destroyed and then a look at the Silver Surfer, albeit only identifiable as a comet - like projection zooming through space.

In the meantime, Only Lovers Left Alive opens in New York and LA on April 11th in the meantime you can check out the film's newest trailer below:

The film finds Marlon Wayans reprising his role from the first film (which only opened in theaters 11 months ago), as he attempts to...

The film doesn't spend much time showing her stay at the hospital, lasting only as long as the opening credits, but cinematographer Sean Price Williams (The Color Wheel, Somebody Up There Likes Me) makes the most of it.

His last two March releases, Watchmen and 300, both had big openings, however, his latest film, the $ 80 million Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole only took in $ 16 million to start.

Sure Greg Mottola's last film, Adventureland, only opened with $ 5.7 million, but that one only showed in 1,876 theaters.

Fight fans should know, though, that bouts only make up the opening and closing rounds of the film, with the majority of Southpaw following Hope's sudden, tragic, decline and subsequent personal rehabilitation.

And as a person who's normally enthralled solely by history and science fiction, this Crash reminiscent film is due credit, because it's not only an eye - opening depiction of modern «ailments,» but an admirably acted film that puts other think - pieces to shame.

That's where MGM and Fox's PG -13-rated horror remake «Poltergeist,» the only other wide opening film, is heading as well, after debuting just behind the leaders with $ 9.3 million Friday.

The opening scenes of the film has a younger version of Wayans» Darryl continuously trying to string together lots of cheesy contraptions to get his antenna TV to work, ultimately only responding when he sticks his foot in the toilet.

Yet for all the set - pieces he directs the hell out of — an opening hunt; a piranha attack — it's only in its elliptical final throes that the film eclipses its surface pleasures, as the eponymous city shifts from narrative goal to vaporous MacGuffin.

Director Benoît Jacquot «s uninspiring take on the period opened the Berlin Film Festival days ago, but something about the film's lack of urgency must be contagious, and we're only getting around to reviewing it now.

The only reason he's in the film is to motivate an opening gag involving tumbleweed and to bestow some kind of authorial sanction on the hero.

In fact the people I was watching Super Troopers with went back to watch the opening sequence for a second time only minutes after the film finished.

A cringe-fest of microaggressions and eerie entrances, the film also boasts a very funny supporting performance from Thou Wast Mild and Lovely director Josephine Decker as a blithely condescending, self - styled patron of the arts who only opens her mouth to switch feet.

With Mr. Salinas and Greenberg's consent, I offer to kickoff our visit with an immediate impression during the start of the film that distinguishes it's score from Cartel Land's... it deftly emerges with warm, melodic cello and higher - notes vibraphone progessions from a dreamlike silence, and only registers as a lilting, tender counterpoint to the viscerally intense imagery of ISIS - occupied contemporary Raqqa, Syria in the picture's opening sequence well after we're already emotionally all - in invested via what will certainly be a harrowing, yet inspiring cinematic experience.

Some peaks and troughs would have been nice, particularly since the big set piece in the opening act is the only time the film truly stuns.

After what feels like years of speculation and waiting, it is exciting that Paul Thomas Anderson «s latest film, The Master, opens in only a few weeks.

And those weren't even the only films with female leads in the top 5 of this weekend's domestic box office: Underworld: Blood Wars, the fifth installment in the vampire hunter series starring Kate Beckinsale, opened at No. 4 with $ 13.1 million from 3,070 theaters.

The film opens with retired ex-CIA agent Frank Moses (Willis, GI Joe: Retaliation) and his main squeeze Sarah (Parker, RIPD) having settled in to a relatively boring life, though she is obviously only interesting in more shoot - em - up adventures.

The below list only includes domestic (U.S. and Canada only, unless otherwise indicated) grosses for specialty films — which we define to include independent, foreign (including Bollywood films), and / or documentary films — that opened in limited release (599 screens and under) in 2018 AND / OR were acquired or produced for 2018 distribution by an independent distributor (including STX Films, Annapurna, A24, Entertainment Studios, Amazon, Netflix, Aviron, Global Road, and Bleecker Street) or a studio or its specialty division (including Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, and Focus Features).

Considering the fact that Behind Enemy Lines is one of the few films to have actually had its opening date pushed forward following our declaration of war, I'm not the only person able to spot an opportunity.

Not only is this film elegantly shot, with a gorgeous sense both of internal textures and wide - open spaces, but it also features knockout performances from an especially fine cast while exploring serious issues from a...

Additionally, only two family films open wide in August and they both arrive on the same day.

I laughed at the wordplay in the film but wasn't expecting the widespread tautological eruptions that followed the film's premiere as everyone bent themselves into self - affirming pretzels to debate its portrayal of torture in the film's opening scenes as if there were only one way to look at the damn movie... as if torture were the only thing worth discussing about the film!

Opening the film this way seems strange for a comedy, but it also suggests it can only get better, right?

It's only the third film confirmed to appear at this year's LFF, with Amma Asante's A United Kingdom previously announced as the opening night gala and David Oyelowo drama Queen Of Katwe getting a European premiere.

The found footage / multiplatform approach opened up the film to creative possibilities I hadn't encountered in my previous films, and I think these sorts of films will only continue to push boundaries as the technology changes, said director Barry Levinson.

Only one new indie film opening this weekend, but plenty of good to excellent films are still waiting for you.

That leaves the field wide open for as many as four additional nominees, though if there's enough widespread support for Argo or Zero Dark Thirty the ballot could be restricted to only six or seven films (there can be anywhere from five to ten nominees, based on the number of films that achieve at least five percent of the votes.)

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.