Sentences with phrase «same number of movies»

And as a special Christmas gift to Kevin, he has seen the same number of movies this week.

Not exact matches

Ongoing ticket - price inflation has kept box office revenues climbing the past couple of years, but the fact remains that the number of people actually going to the movies each year has not shown the same growth.

The 1959 version of «Ben - Hur,» already a remake of a 1925 silent movie of the same name, won a record number of Oscars and is most famous for its epic chariot race.

Interestingly, that is the same number of alters purportedly possessed by Shirley Ardell Mason, the woman known as Sybil in the 1973 best - selling book and two made - for - television movies that popularized the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder.

Not only was it due to Sandra Bullock's, the female lead of The Gravity movie which bagged endless number of Oscar statutes, and Best Actress nominee Amy Adams's same choice of dark blue, but that Best Supporting Actress winner Lupita Nyong» o also wore a grecian - style blue gown that compliments her skin tone too well.

But given that those are both ways of saying more or less the same thing — and that, not incidentally, I happen to have the number eight slot out of 16 open — I'm going to punt for now and place the movie smack dab in the middle (a spot, as I hope is clear by now, of lofty respect).

There is less detail and clarity than many Blu - rays offer, but it's important to remember that the film is 25 years old and had a production budget of just $ 6 million (to put the latter number into context, fellow 1986 Charlie Sheen movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off cost the same amount).

While Hollywood has a history of portraying the American hero as the victim of suffering and torture due to his mysterious superiority (Clint Eastwood's Western heroes come immediately to mind), the past three decades of war and growing social crisis, and accompanying ideological confusion and disorientation, have played at least an indirect role in the increasing number of movies based on the same theme.

Alternatively, we also get to witness the fateful flight itself as shown from about 19 different angles chopped up and spliced out over the course of the movie, whether it's the actual flight as it happened or any number of reenactments that fastidiously put us through the same motions.

Here is Tony Scott's remake of the 1974 film of the same name, except that one had words instead of numbers in the title, and I must say that Mr. Scott had a tough job to update this movie without making it completely ridiculous.

Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.

Both appear to be agents» packages first and movies second, so that even though they're trying hard to recapture the feel of Hollywood standbys — the heist thriller and the satiric screwball comedy — they seem to proceed from the premise that all that's required is to throw the right number of «talented» elements in the same direction.

In the last few years, there have been a number of movies that fit into the same mold as «The Hunger Games.»

The movie explores the lack of empathy for one another, while at the same time operates on many levels including as a suspense thriller, a character - driven piece, a musical (there's a even great dance number) and finally a story of love, grief and loss.

Since 2008, Marvel Studios has made a dozen movies that are cut from the same cloth, presenting an optimistic universe filled by an increasing number of bright and friendly superheroes putting down a variety of challenges that threaten mankind.

This year's lineup includes a number of movies based on real people and events, including films about Lyndon Baines Johnson (Rob Reiner «s «LBJ,» which stars Woody Harrelson as the U.S. president and covers some of the same events as Jay Roach «s recent Emmy - nominated «All the Way»), Edward Snowden (Oliver Stone «s «Snowden,» with Joseph Gordon - Levitt as the whistleblower), Pablo Neruda (Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain «s «Neruda,» with Gael Garcia Bernal) and Barack Obama (Vikram Gandhi's «Barry,» about the president's college days).

You can visit any number of other sites to get the same regurgitated Top 50 Most Anticipated Movies of 2018, each of them running through the big budget films in a different order, all titles you no doubt will be actively aware of precisely when the studio giants backing them want you to.

When it comes to executing the movie's jump scares, Robitel and his collaborators use a number of the same filmmaking tricks that Wan employed in the original Insidious and even rehash some of that movie's infamous bits of camera trickery, to diminished effect here.

Under the leadership of president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy has undergone an aggressive push for more diversity among its ranks, an initiative that has seen a large number of women (46 percent of a record 683 movie professionals in 2016) and racial minorities (41 percent of that same figure) asked to join the prestigious industry group in recent years.

Numbers like that usually lead to more movies, but Fifty Shades creator EL James has given producers a unique challenge in the form of a «sequel series» that's the same damn story told from a different perspective.

Heroes of Normandie [$ 14.99], the digital port of the Devil Pig Games» board game with the same name, is precisely the kind of wargame that creates stories not only because it usually has you command a very small number of units over a pretty small battlefield, but also because the game is constantly celebrating its inspiration: the classic, bombastic WWII movies like The Dirty Dozen and A Bridge Too Far...

The digital speedometer makes things clearer, but it is — no joke — the same tall, gray numbering used on a slew of schlocky action movie posters, especially «2012.»

That's the same number of maps that The Force Awakens had — a single movie.

Heroes of Normandie [$ 14.99], the digital port of the Devil Pig Games» board game with the same name, is precisely the kind of wargame that creates stories not only because it usually has you command a very small number of units over a pretty small battlefield, but also because the game is constantly celebrating its inspiration: the classic, bombastic WWII movies like The Dirty Dozen and A Bridge Too Far...

A number of prominent U.S. industries, particularly movie studios and record labels, benefit immensely from strong copyright protection in the United States and want that same protection afforded in foreign markets.

In a number of past posts over at Coyote Blog, I have noticed the phenomenon of published studies whose data does nothing to bolster the theory of anthropogenic global warming adding in a line or two in the article saying that «of course the author's support anthorpogenic global warming theory» in the same way movies routinely assure audiences that «no animals were hurt in the filiming of this movie.»

Anyway, I guess it should still boil down to the same normal distribution, with most of the movies having a moderate difference between the number of positive reviews and the negative ones (rendering many ratings of 30 % — 70 % positive reviews), and a few movies having a significantly bigger difference, in one way or the other.

And despite changes in Pixar's team, criticism about recent films, and an increased number of movies on its slate, it's clear that the team clearly feels they're following the same creative process that worked for them in the first place.

While it doesn't have a retina display, its not as cumbersome, has better battery life and can, at least for the time being, access the same number of applications and movies, books and music as the more expensive iPad can.»

Popularized by movies like As Good As It Gets, Jack Nicolson's portrayal of a man who has to turn the lock on his door the same number times each time he touches it and can't step on sidewalk cracks, is actually a pretty narrow view of the condition.