Sentences with phrase «preceded film by»

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Based on the 1975 Steven Spielberg film and preceded by a popular attraction on the back lot tour of California's Universal Studios, the ride's hybrid genetics should have made it strong.

While such differences do not seem unsolvable, one major controversy has erupted preceding the first round of negotiations in July, when the French government, supported by several other member states, insisted on a «cultural exception»: The audiovisual sector, i.e. the film and music industries, should be excluded from free trade negotiations.

Many attributes of «The Vampire» were preceded by the classic attributes of Hammer films and Italian horror films of the 1960s.

NOTE 2: The movie is preceded by a short film, «Olaf's Frozen Adventure,» a mini-sequel to «Frozen.»

But the array of PG - 13 superhero films that preceded and followed, and that all seemed hypnotized by their own ashy solemnity to one degree or another, made the original «Deadpool» feel like a necessary counterweight.

As a story in itself, it is clealy influenced by other films, but quite frankly, every movie I have ever seen is influenced by something that preceded it.

Paul is a director who, like many of the movie brats, has a reputation that precedes him — whether it be writing American cinema classics like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, directing the popular and canonized films American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or the lore surrounding the era, popularized by Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

Blu - ray extras include audio commentary by directors Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen and producer Jonas Rivera; a making - of featurette; deleted scenes; Lava, the animated short that preceded the film in theaters; and the new animated short Riley's First Date?

Logan is the third in the standalone series of Wolverine films (preceded by X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Wolverine in 2009 and 2013 respectively), and is set a year after the time - travelling X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Tuesday's sneak peak of Warner Bros upcoming films was preceded by an announcement that the studio was «celebrating 85 years and the best to come».

It doesn't exactly hew 100 % to the continuity established by the preceding three films, but as a standalone film for casual fins, it holds up relatively well, thanks in no small part to Perkins» performance.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

The series was well out front of the zombie craze that preceded The Walking Dead and WWZ, and it became one of the rare action film franchises anchored by an actress.

Alves and co-producer Debra Hill contribute an additional feature - length commentary that begins late (two minutes into the film) and overstays its welcome; an unenviable task to follow or precede the dynamic duo of Russell and Carpenter in any capacity, Hill and Alves don't exactly help their cause by rarely deviating from the monotonous topic of location scouting and the closely - related subject of set dressing.

Preceded by a media champaign that shrank noticeably before all but vanishing into thin air, the not - screening - for - critics action film grossed $ 9.9 million to land at No. 8.

Preceding the Potter stories by around seven decades, the film is set in 1926.

Instead of featuring audio commentaries from the filmmakers on each short, the dozen films are preceded (unless you manually select the «Off» option) by brief introductions by the directors, producers, and sometimes other crew members who were involved in their respective creations.

In some ways I was disappointed, because it wasn't by any means a masterpiece as the two preceding Bertolucci films certainly were.

Prince Avalanche has been preceded in the media by the kind of mood music that suggests that it is the film in which director David Gordon Green retreats / recovers from the commercial, stoner - comedy digressions of Your Highness and Pineapple Express to the artistic purity of his well - reviewed first films, George Washington and All the Real Girls.

Following a common model, Storks is preceded by a short film.

After 10 years and 18 films, we finally arrive at Avengers: Infinity War, the first in a two - part showdown between Marvel's extraordinary roster of heroes and Thanos, an intergalactic genocidal tyrant played in CGI motion capture by Josh Brolin, whose starring appearance has been seeded throughout the preceding films.

Preceded by such films as «The Meteor Man» (1993), «Blankman» (1994), «Catwoman» (2004) and the «Blade» trilogy (1998 — 2004), «Black Panther» isn't the first superhero movie with an African - American starring in the title role, but it has by far the largest number of black cast and crew members.

The first is the foolish melodrama that preceded the film's release — melodrama created by the internet when the film's original director, Edgar Wright, left the project.

The final film of CCFF is preceded by two Park City comedies, Slamdance hit «I Put a Hit on You» and Sundance fave «Obvious Child.»

The last five films to cross the $ 1 billion milestone worldwide have been Disney releases, with «Beauty and the Beast» preceded by «Zootopia,» «Captain America: Civil War,» «Finding Dory» and «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.»

Preceding shots that ratchet up the film's Carpenterian paranoia serve a dual purpose by delineating each pub's space, never letting any tussle get lost in its movement.

Director Doug Liman begins a charming commentary track (which he dedicates to the late Robert Ludlum) by making an extremely intelligent point about preserving the music that backs the studio logo preceding your film, as it cues the audience to be quiet.

Evans handles the dramatic scenes as well as he does the action later on, but ultimately this is a story nobody asked to be told, as proved by an intriguing albeit clumsy hint at a sequel that's more enticing than the entire film that preceded it.

It's a lack of currency made all the more glaring for a film, Lee Tamahori's Die Another Day, desperate to please Bond - philes (Republicans and children, literal and figurative) by being an overt rehash of every Bond entry preceding it rather than the usual unintentional rehash.

Directing with an even more restless energy than he showed in Kings and Queen, Desplechin sketches out a family tragedy, the untimely death of a first - born, that precedes the story by decades and then only overtly references it a few times, even as the shadow of that death hovers over the film: in the cancer that family matron Junon (Catherine Deneuve) has been diagnosed with, in the fragility of her teenage grandson Paul (Emile Berling), and in the odd sibling dynamics that have caused eldest daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) to, in effect, legally separate herself from her brother Ivan (Mathieu Amalric, in a mesmerizingly manic - depressive performance).

It covers its intensive rehearsal process, including a stand - up comedy tour that preceded the film's shoot, and a closer look at Apatow's comedic and filmmaking philosophies (shaped by his deep admiration of John Cassavetes and mentor, Garry Shandling)

As with many of the lo - fi road films preceding it, this sense of stasis is intentionally achieved and thematically apropos to Funny Bunny, as it's inhabited by late - blooming eccentrics attempting to emerge from their respective cocoons.

While I highly recommend the movie for its series of surefire one - liners and decent comedies, the film itself was overshadowed by the atrocity that immediately preceded it.

The film is preceded on Lionsgate's BD by a loud, showy DTS logo, which is almost funnier than anything Allen could've written.

Though Day - Lewis's reputation precedes him — as an intensely method actor who stays in character through the entirety of filming — Manville said that she was not intimidated by her Academy Award - winning co-star.

Last year's «Labor Day» was deemed to be Reitman's first major misfire by pretty much everyone, but the four films that preceded it showed such an assured ability to mix comedy and drama that we'll always be paying attention to what he's got coming, and «Men Women & Children» is no different.

[52] The painting was the subject of a BBC1 Imagine film documentary by Bruno Wollheim called «David Hockney: A Bigger Picture» (2009) which followed Hockney as he worked outdoors over the preceding two years.

In the vitrines we see, for example, Hepworth's predilection for collaging her work against cloudscapes or photographing them with vegetation; the comprehensive planning which preceded filming the sculpture in 1961; her own photographs of works by Nuam Gabo on a windowsill; her proposals for public commissions and the ensuing correspondence; and an interesting diversion into the work of Simon Nicholson, one of Barbara's triplets with Ben.

Murray Guy is pleased to present the US premiere of Electrical Gaza, a new film by Rosalind Nashashibi, which takes place in Gaza in 2014, immediately preceding the most recent bombardment, Operation Protective Edge.

Preceded and influenced by the artists of the Arte Povera, Transavanguardia, and Futurist movements, Perrone creates films, sculptures, and photographs that reference Italian culture, and use specific Italian rural traditions to reflect the primordial aspects of our human condition.

Preceded by a 12:30 pm tour of Morgan: Mind of the Collector (included with film admission).

Last year, thanks to the existence of a recently unearthed film, dancers Silas Riener and Jean Freebury embarked upon reconstructing the 1957 solo Changeling; it will be seen here for the first time in nearly six decades, preceded by a screening of Cunningham Ballett 1958, with Cunningham himself performing.

Sunday, April 21st, 7 pm, Tunbridge Library, Tunbridge 350.org «s «Do the Math» film This event is preceded by a barbecue on the Library lawn at 5 PM.