Sentences with phrase «studio film debut»

As for Prisoners, director Denis Villenevue makes his studio film debut with an incredibly tense and effective thriller.

But on Christmas day, the world will start to recognize him when he makes his studio film debut in «Les Misérables.»

Not exact matches

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

However, if it fails to meet analyst's estimates, and teeters close to DreamWorks Animation's Thanksgiving debut, the studio could have a larger problem on its hands with only one other film — about a racing snail — out later this year.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

As it happens, the Ireland - based studio was also responsible for producing world - class Oscar nominees «The Secret of Kells» and «Song of the Sea,» and though Nora Twomey worked on both films, «The Breadwinner» marks her solo directing debut, employing a similarly bold graphic style in its telling («hand - drawn» via a program called TVPaint), augmented by colorful story - within - the - story interludes designed to look like stop - motion.

Talk about redemption: After dazzling us with his debut, You Can Count on Me (2000), writer - director Kenneth Lonergan got into studio trouble with Margaret — a neutered film that triggered a massive Twitter campaign (#teammargaret).

The studio swiftly hired Hugh Hudson, hot off the Oscar - winning «Chariots Of Fire» to direct the finished film, with Christopher Lambert as the king of the swingers, along with Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm and, as Jane, a debuting Andie MacDowell, who hilariously had her voice dubbed over by Glenn Close due to her impenetrable Southern accent.

OUR TAKE: Fresh young faces starring in a movie about a board game that hinges on delusion - as directed by Stiles White, a special effects guru from the Stan Winston studio, who has written films like Knowing and The Possession, but is admittedly making his directorial debut with this movie.

Director Steven Soderbergh has averaged a film a year since his acclaimed 1989 debut Sex, Lies & Videotape, an incredible work rate by modern filmmaking standards especially for one who frequently works within the political vagaries fof the studio system.

The studio turned heads when it picked up the actor's directorial debut for a record - breaking $ 18.5 million deal, but their clear - cut plan to turn «The Birth of a Nation» into their next Oscar powerhouse was derailed after Parker's college rape allegations and subsequent trial resurfaced just ahead of the film's fall festival launch.

Born in Chicago, Leonard began as a stage actor, making his film debut in 1908 at the Selig Polyscope studios in Chicago; his directing career began in 1913 at Rex, a former independent then operating as a unit within Universal.

Adding excitement to the project beyond all the thinkpieces the media can run about what this means for diversity in cinema is the fact that Black Panther is written and directed by Ryan Coogler, a young filmmaker who followed his acclaimed debut Fruitvale Station with a successful studio film in the endearing Creed.

On the other hand, a # 1.60 m UK debut for a relatively low - budget genre film, essentially populated by three actors, none of them marquee names, and largely set in a basement — most studios would like the economics of that proposition.

Zach Synder has not made a good film since his debut, Dawn of the Dead, but between the internet buzz and a brutal studio marketing campaign I can't help but be a little swept up in the excitement.

THR's sources say that the «heavy comedic tone» of the Channing Tatum - led film led the studio to moving it from February 14 (the same weekend Deadpool debuted in 2016) to a more traditional summer movie date.

In celebration of its 60th anniversary (hardly an important milestone, but one that sounds impressive nonetheless), the studio has spared no expense for the film's Blu - ray debut, which boasts a new 4k high definition video transfer that looks amazing.

The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999) Brad Bird's feature debut was traditional 2 - D animation when computer animation was the craze, released by studio folk who didn't realize just how special a film they had on their hands.

Director Sarah Gavron is an untested entity for many, considering this is her big studio debut since her 2007 film, Brick Lane (which she worked with Morgan on).

Dark City (New Line): Like «Blade Runner,» this nightmarish bit of science fiction debuted in theaters with a studio - mandated voice - over intended to help viewers make sense of the film.

From 1927, the year of his debut for Shochiku studios, to 1962, when, a year before his death at age sixty, he made his final film, Ozu consistently explored the rhythms and tensions of a country trying to reconcile modern and traditional values, especially as played out in relations between the generations.

That time alone would not be enough to clear Warner Bros.» conscience and that the studio would be okay with a January debut drains most of the promise that lied in this film's A-list cast, historical subject matter, and Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer.

A brave ending of sorts is briefly tempted, but debut director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr (or, more likely, the studio that has been tinkering with this film for the last year) doesn't have the guts to go through with it.

«Son Of Rambow» (2007) Arguably the best film on this section of the list, «Son Of Rambow,» the impossibly charming coming - of - age tale that marked the second film from music video veteran Garth Jennings, who made his debut with studio picture «The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy,» was the big buy at Sundance 2007, selling to Paramount Vantage for $ 7.5 million.

I'm pleased to find that this film has held up well for me on each subsequent viewing from immediate revisitation in the summer of 2002 to another look in July 2004 to a review of the tardy 20th Anniversary Edition DVD in early 2009 and, now at my most critical state to date, in the summer of 2013 when Oliver & Company makes its Blu - ray debut in a 25th Anniversary Edition Blu - ray + DVD combo pack alongside two of the studio's less esteemed, sequel-less «animated classics.»

The films of Studio Ghibli, the animation studio created by Hayao Miyazaki, continue their Blu - ray rollout in the U.S. with three more debuts.

The boutique studio offers a single - disc standard definition upgrade over MGM's low - priced DVD as well as the film's debut on Blu - ray Disc, which we look at here.

Ari is now the head of a film studio and wants Vince (Grenier) to star in his film, but the actor (like many) is looking to make his directorial debut.

The few who did take an interest in the movie wondered if the low - key approach Disney took to marketing and exhibiting its film had something to do with the studio maintaining properties nearer and dearer to its heart, namely its long - promoted in - house fully - CGI debut Chicken Little and the increasingly optimistic negotiations with Pixar.

2:00 am (11th)-- TCM — Roberta Apparently the studio still didn't trust Fred and Ginger to carry a film after their debut pairing as second leads in Flying Down to Rio; this time they're second leads behind Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott, but at least Dunne and Scott are decent actors and Roberta has a fair bit of charm outside of Astaire and Rogers, due in no small part to a solid score by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach.

«Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» (Nov. 18): Many major studios have been trying to replace the «Harry Potter» franchise, but the lucky folks at Warner Bros. simply went back to their source: J.K. Rowling, making her screenwriting debut with a film about a Hogwarts textbook.

Pixar premiered its new film Inside Out at Cannes, and along with that finished debut the studio showed off footage from two other upcoming films, The Good Dinosaur and Finding Dory.

His debut is still the better film, but thanks to its excellent ensemble cast, «Don't Think Twice» continues Birbiglia's impressive form with a funny and poignant alternative from the typical studio comedy.

Rotten Tomatoes can make or break a studio release but Certified Fresh indie films debuting at the Sundance Film Festival can suffer, too, if they can't find an audience.

After making his debut with the indie film Lars and the Real Girl, episodic television work ensued, followed by a contretemps over the studio comedy Mr. Woodcock, starring Seann William Scott, Susan Sarandon and Billy Bob Thornton that saw him removed from the project.

Last but absolutely not least is Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999), her remarkable feature film debut that was one of the best releases of its year and not only does it hold up, but it has been given a top grade reissue by Criterion and Paramount (I'm still celebrating the studio finally working with Criterion on a regular basis) in a Blu - ray edition as strong as when I first saw the film theatrically.

As far as the film's DVD debut goes, for once, Disney seems to have heard the complaints of those who collect the studio's vintage live action works.

From the very beginning, Doctor Strange felt like an outlier in the interconnected men - in - capes world of Marvel Comics, though the character's debut in the equally dense Marvel Cinematic Universe follows the company's film - studio formula closely: Doctor Strange is an origin story, a love story, a framework for vintage pop songs and huge action set - pieces.

And the studio has decided to take a chance on a relative newcomer to direct the film: Chinese - American director Cathy Yan, whose debut feature, Dead Pigs, just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

Major entertainment events are often seen as the go - to place for studios to debut TV spots for films that are still several months out from seeing release.

Even Pixar, a studio that normally only releases one film each year, will have two feature films debut.

There is just very little to like about this film, an assertive, confident debut that squandered the backing of one of the world's biggest movie studios.

Other film fans will, unfortunately, remember Gordon for his studio feature debut, the rom - com Four Christmases starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon.

She made her film debut with «Persons in Hiding» before continuing onto a string of mostly forgettable roles at the studio.

Now, with the film (and its cliffhanger conclusion) debuting to surely gargantuan numbers, it's clear that Marvel's perpetual - motion machine couldn't even get that right, and the only real infinite war is the one the studio is waging against a superhero - free night at the movies.

While a film as popular as this may seem ripe for getting revisited down the line, Universal is not a studio that's especially quick to grant re-releases and Shaun of the Dead's UK - exclusive extras have remained exclusive over the past two years, even with ample opportunity to revisit the film, as on its imminent HD DVD debut.

Hill's debut, «Foot Fist Way,» got the attention of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, who launched Hill's TV career and gave him the momentum to direct his first studio film, «Observe and Report.»

Jonathan Demme wrote and directed Fighting Mad (1976), his third feature, for producer Roger Corman but it was actually produced for 20th Century Fox, which makes the film his studio debut.

The actress appeared in a number of German films before being talent - spotted by Hollywood studio MGM and making her debut in 1935.

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