Sentences with phrase «season of summer movies»

Coming after a jarringly weak season of summer movies, it's an especially welcome year - end treat.

Here is a rarity in this season of summer movie doldrums: A film that is guaranteed to elicit strong reactions.

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TORONTO — Several box - office flops and a lack of family movies left Cineplex Inc. (TSX: CGX) suffering the fallout during the first few months of the summer movie season.

The premiere of a new Marvel movie — Captain America: Civil War hits theaters next week — means that summer blockbuster season has arrived.

Even in our current age of streaming the latest movies in our living rooms, summer is still seen as the prime season for escapist blockbusters.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

Many zoos offer daily specials and money - saving admission packages during the summer season, giving you an opportunity to enjoy a day out for less than the cost of a movie.

In the thick of the summer movie - watching season, the beloved downtown anchor closed down its six screens.

If summer is the season of blockbuster movies, fall is all about the books.

Lunching in instead of at that spot around the office corner, a movie night in instead of happy hour with the girls, repurposing some of your summer dresses for a winter revival or sipping a homemade latte — are just a few ways you can save this season.

Oddly, this movie has been released as a summer family picture instead of during the holiday season, where the winter wonderland scenes would've made more sense, commercially speaking.

A big slice of «meh» dumped into the no man's land between Ready Player One and a certain high - profile Marvel movie, Rampage is an afterthought that barely qualifies as a distraction for those waiting for the summer blockbuster season to kick off in earnest.

Currently in its 21st season, The Simpsons has piled up over 440 episodes, over 20 Emmy Awards, a handful of music albums, countless endorsements and merchandise, and even made the jump to the silver screen in the summer of 2007 with The Simpsons Movie.

Constantly funny, startlingly violent, and oddly heartfelt, The Nice Guys is a grown - up delight, a perfect antidote to the nonstop barrage of effects spectacle that normally marks the summer movie season.

It's a film that you expect to open in limited release and expand, but after a Sundance premiere, Focus Features is actually debuting it wide today, the Friday that used to launch the summer movie season (which the moving of Avengers: Infinity War kicked off a week early this year).

Rampage would probably struggle to stand out in the upcoming summer movie seasons next to films that, by the look of them, are better crafted and offer more substance to go with their spectacle.

The second of the summer movie season's major releases suffers from precisely the opposite of the problem afflicting the first.

That by itself makes the movie stand out, especially as it's released in the middle of the summer movie season, which tends to favor safe movies with their edges shorn down in order to appeal to the masses.

«The industry is bracing for the record - setting debut of the highly anticipated «Avengers: Infinity War» that is expected to break through the $ 200 million opening weekend sound barrier as the summer movie season of 2018 gets off to an early and auspicious start,» mentioned comScore field place of business analyst Paul Dergarabedian.

It was only relatively recently that distributors of foreign and independent films found that, if programmed and marketed precisely, these movies can do well in the summer season.

The summer movie season is here and filmmakers anxiously wait to see which of the proffered titles will turn into box office gold.

While much of this summer's movie season will be crowded with sequels — most notably the recently released «Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Can movies that don't come as part of a recognizable franchise or ongoing story find audiences during the high - pressure summer film season?

Audiences who go to see The American expecting a conventional Hollywood spy thriller will no doubt be disappointed to find out they've stumbled into an art - house film — and an unrelentingly grim one at that — but those seeking relief from the inanity and bombast of the summer movie season will be pleasantly surprised.

While the summer movie season always comes with its slew of big blockbusters — some good, some bad, few memorable — anticipation is very high for Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation.

If that and Ocean's eight «s A-list cast of women wasn't sufficient, the movie may supply a pleasant palate cleanser in the middle of the summer season blockbuster season.

It's a sign of the changing of the times that 15 years ago this combination of A-list stars would have been one of the biggest events of the year, whereas now Money Monster is a sleeper bit of counter-programming for viewers seeking out a more adult alternative to the mammoth blockbusters flooding in for the summer movie season.

Since the unique Iron Man got here out ten years in the past, the «summer movie season» has come to surround the months of May via to August.

That approach we depart it to you, the readers, to make a decision which of them are your maximum expected releases of the Summer 2018 Movie Season.

Jon Favreau's new version of The Jungle Book is now out, and the summer movie season is only two weeks away.

We're smack dab in the middle of the summer movie season, and while we've already seen our fair share of hits and misses, it's time to take a look at what the second half of of the summer has in...

It's the opposite of an Event Movie for the summer season; instead, it's an old - fashioned star vehicle, fashioned for the particular screen persona of Al Pacino, who can usually play these roles in his sleep, but adds something special every single time.

That's certainly a shame as you would think the film's second appearance on the format would present the perfect opportunity for Disney to provide some good in - depth bonus material the way they did for their two movies and to some extent, last summer's Season One box set of «The Muppet Show.»

A big slice of «meh» dumped into the no man's land between «Ready Player One» and a certain high - profile Marvel movie, «Rampage» is an afterthought that barely qualifies as a distraction for those waiting for the summer blockbuster season...

Nevertheless, moviegoers of all kinds should find something worthwhile in the weeks ahead, as the summer movie season proper finally falls upon us.

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A generation ago, summer movie season stood apart from the rest of the release calendar as the time to see huge action blockbusters.

Given that the beginning of the summer movie season is just about here, let's take a look at the ungodly amount of films that'll be opening over the course of the next four months and see what looks good, what looks awful, and what will top the box office whether it sucks or not.

This Week: Kevin launches into the summer movie season by welcoming in the return of the Avengers with Captain America: Civil War.

Here are the rest of the movies I can't wait to see as the summer movie season heats up!

The question remains which films will manage to break through the pack in the last couple of months before the summer movie season hits.

A Columbia Pictures Sandler comedy has been something of a staple of the summer movie season since Big Daddy earned him career best totals back in 1999.

Whereas Alice and Oz took advantage of the lighter competition of March, Maleficent aimed even higher, opening the weekend after Memorial Day with the summer movie season at full throttle surrounded by other big movies with more to come every week.

It may only be February, and half of the country may still be buried under a foot of snow, but there's a decidedly pre-summer feel to this month's releases — the time of year when studios unleash a barrage of popcorn - friendly movies on audiences that aren't deemed important enough for the summer season.

Fans of Disney's original animated classic and those who appreciate big summer movies have probably circled this as one of the big must - own releases this holiday season.

The new movie, which opens Friday and kicks off the new summer movie season, assembles a whopping twelve costumed characters, although it focuses on the trials and tribulations of only three.

Not many people would have been willing to wager before the start of the summer movie season that «The Avengers» would emerge as the best superhero film of the year (especially with «The Dark Knight Rises» still to come), but Marvel's big gamble proved everyone wrong, making beaucoup bucks at the box office on its way to becoming the third highest grossing movie of all - time.

Four weeks ago, the summer movie season started off with a super-powered bang in the form of Marvel's The Avengers.