Sentences with phrase «onto bigger films»

Thus, I'm very curious to see where the director / co-writer goes next, and if he uses this casting to try to build himself up — does working with Guy Pearce (recently of Prometheus, Lockout, and Lawless) mean that Doremus is moving onto bigger films?

Not exact matches

Presumably inspired by massive profits made by films such as the «Harry Potter» series, the written word continues to find it's way onto the big screen, regardless of how cleanly it will translate.

The movie which put Cameron Crowe onto the directorial A-list once and for all, Jerry Maguire may be his biggest commercial success to date but loses none of the warmth, humour and emotional insight that makes his films seem so, well, complete.

Much of the revulsion to the film is little more than backlash for the «American Idol» pop star oversaturation, not wanting what has become a national obsession on the small screen to start spilling over onto the big.

Noel: As much as it pains me to say it — in part because it sounds like sour grapes, and in part because it's almost too big a topic to tack onto this discussion — I think the rise of the OPs corresponds with the rapid decline of film criticism in the mainstream media.

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See the film when it flies onto the big screen in 3D this August.

The Big Short director Adam McKay looks to be transferring that former film's general mood onto his new HBO series Succession.

The film is another piece of horror - tinged, genre filmmaking — this time the main inspirations are hyper violent»80s action films like Big Trouble in Little China and The Terminator (again)-- but like the duo's preceding film, it knows what it is, recognizes the flaws of its ancestors, and tries to improve upon them while holding onto that sense of reckless abandon that makes those movies so fun.

Now, after all these years, it finally makes its leap onto the big screen in an origin story film titled «Ratchet & Clank.»

The film opens in limited release tomorrow and got a big boost from Oprah Winfrey earlier this week when she brought Guggenheim, D.C. school district chancellor Michelle Rhee (who features prominently in the film) and recent tag - along Bill Gates onto the show to spread the message to an obviously gigantic audience in her farewell season.

Now with In Bruges, McDonagh's debut feature starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two hitmen forced to take a vacation in a fairytale Belgian city after a botched job, he's transplanted his fantastic film / theater hybrid onto the big screen, canceling out his own accomplishment in the process and delivering to us what can only be described as «McDonagh lite.»

I'd say that if you're a big fan of the film and have that 2002 DVD, you might as well hang onto it.

All of those films will be struggling for a spot on the 15 - film Oscar shortlist — and observers of the category know that the biggest awards hurdle for pop - culture docs can often be making it onto that list.

Hopefully Cuthbert will be onto bigger and better things now that she has done the obligatory slasher film, as she certainly proved herself worthy in TV's» 24».

In the world of streaming media, Amazon has so far proven itself far more attractive to big - name directors, because it gives films a proper theatrical release and waits for months before moving them onto its online Prime service for viewers at home.

It begins with actor Robert Downey Jr and director Jon Favreau revealing their initial concern whether or not the audience will accept a superhero from Marvel Comics onto the big screen and how their worry vanished when they saw the fan craze on the red carpet of the first Marvel film — Iron Man a decade back.

A simple tale of two unlikely folk heroes ends being one of, if not the most likable film of the first half of 2016, indubitably launching its writer - director onto bigger (if not better) things.

The screenplay, written with Kieran Fitzgerald, isn't bashful about spelling out the film's big themes, although not without a punchy wit — as when a backyard party discussion of the Nuremberg trials ends with a toy drone malfunctioning and crashing down onto a picnic table.

The New York Times «The film rights to self - published books are getting acquired even before the big houses can get them onto bookstore shelves with their own imprints on them.»