Sentences with phrase «start of the film sets»

The last moments are troubled in a way otherwise alien to the movie; where a character leaving a house at the start of the film sets the ball rolling, the same action at the end does so only for the eyes.

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The end of the film and its accompanying end - credits set up the start of «Infinity War» seamlessly.
After graduating from NYU's Tisch School of Arts in 2011, O'Brien started working in the film industry and was «appalled» by the waste epidemic on set.
The first half of the film feels strangely off — it starts with a prologue set in the»80s that introduces Michael Douglass as Hank Pym, a scientist with a remarkable formula for shrinking matter who decides to hide it from the government agents that want it as a weapon (there are also quite a few Easter eggs for Marvel fans in those first few minutes).
EASTWOOD: Anyway, it was an interesting time but if you paid attention and visited a lot of sets, which I did, you start getting interested in film.
They met on the set of 2002 film and started dating.
It's not until the second half of the film that the action and pacing start to gel, as Bilbo and company make their way through treacherous mountain passes populated with goblins, beasts, and the withered creature Gollum (Andy Serkis), original owner of the magical ring that will eventually set larger stories in motion.
Coming at the start of Creation, the request is at once typically childish, charmingly ambitious, and broadly allusive, helpfully setting up the film's version of Darwin's memories.
He buys cameras instead of renting them, creates a set of an alley way instead of just shooting in an alley, films on both 35 mm and HD at the same time, and that's before they even start actual production.
Let me start by saying that if you own the original laserdisc set or the VHS tape, you're going to have to hold on to your older copies of the film.
As the film's shooting schedule wears on, Fairbanks becomes romantically involved with her leading man, Jake Fields (Jeremy Sisto), but Fields and his friends on the production staff begin to question her stability when she starts wearing her costumes at all times, living on the sets, and tries to live as the character of Guinness.
Spielberg starts off the discussion with commentary about he didn't want to create just another «War Is Hell» film, and the featurette continues with a look at the creation of the film, from location scouting to on - set direction to costuming.
Daniel Craig is set to reprise the role of 007 when it starts shooting at the legendary Buckinghamshire film studios, which has a special 007 Stage.
The film starts promisingly, opening with a foreboding shot of a girl wandering through Griffith Park, scored with ominous guitar squalls courtesy of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, who composed the film's score, setting the tone for a film much weirder and more interesting than the one that follows.
It's not as fun as other comic book films, but we get a better sense of the man in front of the cape and an actual Superman movie throwdown that sets the stage for an exciting new chapter of DC films as we start the countdown for «Batman vs. Superman.»
Del Toro's film starts off with an origin of sorts, set back in the waning days of World War II, where the Nazi army has taken to more desperate measures to keep their mission alive, which includes opening a portal to Hell to draw darker powers.
The film starts out by examining the task of playing Kaufman, and how Jim Carrey got so immersed in the role he «disappeared from Earth» for two years and became Andy, allowing himself to only be referred to as Andy (or Tony Clifton) on set and nothing else.
The film, set in the early 1960s, tells the story of a young woman, Sister Cathleen (Qualley), who starts to question her Catholic faith as she trains to become a nun.
However, repetition sets in and the escalation of set pieces reaches some sort of a peak here: there are good - to - great action, chase and fight scenes (Bryan Singer's X-Men films still have an edge on depicting superpowers) but there's also a limit to the number of times people can be kicked through walls before the scraps start to feel samey.
Set in 1998 and derived from a news story of that time, the film starts out by focusing on twenty - four - year - old tomboy Ilana (a strikingly charismatic debut by Darya Zhovnar), who works in the garage of her mechanic father.
The 30 - year - old actor is set to helm the forthcoming film, based on the David Barclay Moore novel of the same name, after Endeavor Content acquired the big screen rights to the project - and he can't wait to get started behind the camera.
It's still the only teen - themed / aimed weekly drama that has discussed sexuality from nearly every angle (as Williamson observes on one of the DVDs, the dichotomy of the Dawson - Joey - Pacey - Jen quartet gave them the luxury of taking four unique stands at the start) without becoming salacious, and I can't help but see my washed - up self in Dawson's eagerness to become a filmmaker, from Dawson's home videos in which Joey is attacked by a lagoon creature (as you may surmise from its title, the series is set in a sun - dappled New England inlet) to his Spielberg fixation — although even as a teen, I recognized that 1941 is a better film than Hook.
But beware, this film starts really slowly, and in the first 15 minutes you wonder whether this was a good choice of movie - but the scene is being set for Wilf Ferrell's geeky / seemingly humdrum life.
Originally penned after the success of his debut film «Following,» Christopher Nolan's adaptation of the Ruth Rendell novel «The Keys to the Street» is finally set to start shooting.
With another big film, Rebel in the Rye (directed and written by Danny Strong and co-starring Nicholas Hoult) coming to theaters this fall, a recent wrap on The Year of Spectacular Men (written by her sister Madelyn Deutch and directed by their mother), and production starting on the Netflix romantic comedy Set It Up, a work drought does not seem to be in Zoey's future.
The film starts off gloriously enough with a brilliantly filmed action piece set in Mexico City's Day of the Dead parade, but Mendes and crew soon settle into a muddled, anti-climactic mishmash of old tropes and familiar ideas.
When we last checked in on Sony's long - gestating adaptation of the popular video game Uncharted, they had set a release date for June 10, 2016 with Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) with an eye to start filming in early 2015.
But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.
However, with a film like this where even though each of these set pieces start out with these songs they always expand into these elongated tap dance sequences which I'm sure are fantastic for dance films, but something about them just feel repetitive.
Well, after starting life in seeming «Development Hell» floating around Hollywood for years, then somehow lucking into two of Hollywood's biggest box office names, Passengers is finally set for release in December, and we now have a first glimpse of the film thanks to Entertainment Weekly.
That a tiny British film — with no big stars, no high concept, no flashy source, a story most appreciated by thirtysomethings but featuring tweens, released in no more than 152 theaters during the start of summer blockbuster season — didn't set the States ablaze?
The Appendices — The Appendices Parts IX and X showcase an immersive multi-part history of the filming of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, covering pre-production in the various departments of the film in the months leading up to the start of principal photography, training, the work done on set and in the world of its digital effects.
My head start began earlier this year, when I was invited (along with several other members of the online press) to spend a day on the Baton Rouge set of LaGravenese's film.
The non-horror elements of the film are uneven in general: The score, so effective in the fright scenes, suddenly evokes eye rolls when things start to get sentimental, and there's one scene of unintentional comedy where the film's retro»70s setting — another element downplayed in the first film but foregrounded here — collides with its demonic imagery in an honestly pretty silly way.
I'm starting to notice a trend in indie horror movies today - With the shots being perfectly set up and the very little use of light that really adds to the atmosphere to this film.
We went in order of the films (actually, I guess that's controversial in itself), starting with Anakin Skywalker, Obi - Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano in «Twilight of the Republic», a Play Set that takes place not only across Star Wars» first three films, but the Clone Wars television series as well.
It's more of a shock than the Ranger situation since Proyas had gathered his crew and started building a cast that included Bradley Cooper (who talked to us about the film last week), Benjamin Walker, Diego Boneta and Camilla Belle ready for a shoot set to start next month in Australia.
Whether this film provides some new start for the brothers Smith will remain to be seen, but this film sets them free of convention and, like its wandering hero, on a path perhaps all their own.
I'm not a fan of reset films in general, I don't like paying to watch a film that should start when it ends, nor any film that narratively treads water to set up a next entry.
The film, set at the dawn of time, explains that the origins of the sport came with an asteroid that hit Earth and started getting kicked around like a ball.
Starting with a painful sequence featuring Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan, the scene sets the tone for the rest of the film, showcasing one of many jokes that continuously miss and go on for longer than they need to.
A film that hold the audience's attention from start to finish and will play very well on both sides of the pond.The authenticity of the sets and period detail compliment the superb acting performances especially by Colin Firth.I previously thought Colin Firth lacked depth - how wrong I was!
Our setting is a small backwater community, yet catastrophes and contretemps fairly tumble over one another within minutes of the film's start: two members of the local constabulary gone missing, the several - days - ripe corpse of a young woman turned up at lakeside, another cop shot in the foot by a whacked - out hermit, and wait, is there yet one more dead woman to be discovered out there?
From the start, the film sweeps away the period choreography of the conventional literary adaptation, sweeps it away so thoroughly that for the first few minutes I thought that this Wuthering Heights must be set a hundred years after a nuclear strike.
The sequel to The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones was set to start filming in the next few months, but now Constantin Films has put the brakes on the project.
Set just before the start of World War II, the film chronicles the complicated web of conflicts and romances that emerge when a group of upper - class acquaintances gather for a weekend at a French château.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 3, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Adventureland (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Retro romantic comedy, set in Pittsburgh in 1987, revolving around the plight of a grad school - bound virgin (Jesse Eisenberg) forced by his family's financial woes to take a minimum - wage job at an amusement park the summer before he's supposed to start at Columbia.
Then Twohy starts layering in flashbacks to fill in the back - stories, up to an extended black and white sequence that sorts out the loose ends and sets things up for the frantic, action - charged climax.The first half of the film builds the atmosphere perfectly, establishing the characters with economy thanks to a clever script and an especially strong cast.
The film might be set some years before the final, devastating burst of an economic bubble, yet Lady Bird's family already starts to feel the consequences of a world collapsing into disarray, hopelessness and depression.
When Ben Affleck came on the film as the director, he suggested that if they start with the Iranian Revolution, it would set a serious tone which would provide a little more heft to the film and which the comedy could play off of.
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