Sentences with phrase «received films dealing»

ALBANY — An anti-hydrofracking movie is apparently appropriate for the Assembly, but not well - received films dealing with sex abuse and concussions.

Not exact matches

If one had to guess why critics and audiences have responded to this movie, while Mackenzie's earlier films — which have similarly dealt with difficult interpersonal relationships and discomfiting power dynamics — were indifferently received, the answer probably lies in its subject matter.

The generous deal allows television series relocating to California and independent films to receive up to 25 percent in tax credits for filming projects in the Golden State.

Writer / director David Robert Mitchell's horror film deals with a 19 - year - old girl receiving a sexually transmitted curse (yes, you read that right).

More 80's throwback in Take Me Home Tonight should sink Just Go with It, even if it isn't well received — but the film has been in the works since 2007, and appears to have put a great deal of effort into getting the plot straightened out, so just maybe it'll come out well.

Following the success of Get Out, which grossed over $ 200 million on a $ 5 million budget and received unanimous acclaim, Peele signed a first - look deal with Universal Pictures, who will produce the director's next film, an untitled social thriller he also penned.

Blue is the Warmest Color received a great deal of critical praise on the festival circuit, but any Academy Award prospects that the film had may die with its directors words.

Greta Gerwig's much - hyped new indie film Lady Bird has received a great deal of critical acclaim and success.

Baumbach received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 2005 for the film «The Squid and the Whale,» about two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents» divorce in 1986.

Smoke Signals is the first Native - directed, - written, and - produced film to ever receive a major distribution deal.

There's a lot of Sundance news to report: a top - dollar deal was made, a film that initially sounded good wasn't received well by audiences and lots of tears were shed at another picutre.

Execs at Warner Bros. made a big deal about how they did not feel the need to cut down the film after it received remarkably high marks at its first test screening; even so, some trimming is clearly in order.

The film plays with notions of fate but only a fate that will deal out punishment and retribution no matter how much good you do or if you even receive a kindness.

Hirschbiegel, who received an Oscar nomination for his foreign language film Downfall, makes the alien takeover sound almost enticing, but that's because the movie has no idea how to portray the individuality that humans would lose in the deal.

Over in the DC realm, Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's Batman: The Killing Joke is a seminal story arc, which did see a recent R - rated adaptation, albeit animated (though both the original comic and the 2016 film have received a great deal of criticism for the portrayal of Barbara Gordon).

This film in particular has been received with a great deal of controversy, as it deals with a terrorist attack perpetuated by a group of teenagers, who spend the second half of the film hiding out in a mazelike shopping mall in the heart of Paris.

After receiving one billion reads on Wattpad, the company helped her land a six figure publishing deal and film deal with Paramount

The streaming service had previously received a good portion of the Disney catalog via a deal with Starz — a deal that came to an end earlier this year — and the influx of family films will no doubt make Netflix streaming an even more appealing proposition.