Sentences with phrase «studio opened the film»

The film, which stars Smith and Joel Edgerton as a human - orc buddy cop duo, is the streaming giant's first attempt a major tentpole release, entering the kind of waters that are normally reserved for traditional studios opening films wide across hundreds of cinema screens.

Will the studio open the film in the first half of 2011 or will it hold off until next year's awards season?

Though the studio opened the film in just five theaters and conservatively expanded to a peak of 200, Wilderpeople, with a practically non-existent marketing budget, caught on in America, grossing nearly $ 5 million here and nearly five times as much as any of The Orchard's other releases.

Not exact matches

While Sony's controversial comedy The Interview is the embattled studio's most watched online film ever (complete with an $ 18 million opening weekend), piracy certainly is still alive and well.

The film that triggered the devastating cyberattack on the studio last month, which the United States says was launched by North Korea, opened Thursday in 331 independent theaters with a $ 1 million box office and $ 1.8 million over the subsequent three days, according to Sony.

Gov. Cuomo celebrated the opening of the first film and TV studio in The Bronx Wednesday — but he left the city's most prominent political actor, Mayor de Blasio — on the cutting room floor.

Taking your date on a visit to a film studio that's open to the public, like the Warner Bros Harry Potter Studio Tour, could be a really fun date idea in bad weather.

That film was also the year's biggest box office flop from a major studio, boasting one of the worst opening weekends in history ($ 306,367) for a nationwide release.

If the trend continues, too, Garland should be embraced with open arms, as his directed films avoid many of the studio genre traps and confront challenging topics head on — whether by droids or cancerous, world - eating prisms.

Another studio that couldn't score with critics or moviegoers in 2013, Open Road managed only one positively reviewed film: Steven Soderbergh's swan song Side Effects.

While the Future of Studio Ghibli hangs in limbo, Mami Sunada's Documentary is an eye opening film delving into the mind of the studio's founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata on the verge of producing their last ever features.

Warner Brothers, which is marketing the film as a conventional thriller, recently overruled the producers» desire to show it in European festivals so that the studio could open it wide (in many theaters at once) and cash in as quickly as possible on the name value of its cast before word - of - mouth about its depressing subject matter could kill it.

If this could perform on the order of Nanny McPhee ($ 47.1 M in 2006), perhaps the last commendable family film to open in January, or The Giver ($ 45 M), Weinstein's last literary adaptation, the studio should probably be pleased.

Of course, the studios know this, and, as they did with this film, in hopes to provide reviewers with the intended environment, they schedule promo screenings that are open to the public.

The below list only includes domestic (U.S. and Canada only, unless otherwise indicated) grosses for specialty films — which we define to include independent, foreign (including Bollywood films), and / or documentary films — that opened in limited release (599 screens and under) in 2018 AND / OR were acquired or produced for 2018 distribution by an independent distributor (including STX Films, Annapurna, A24, Entertainment Studios, Amazon, Netflix, Aviron, Global Road, and Bleecker Street) or a studio or its specialty division (including Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, and Focus Features).

The studio first released a trio of your typical, grainy, bathroom - wall - scratchiti one - sheets, with the film's animal - mask - wearing killers glaring at the viewer, accompanied by blood stains and an overall aesthetic that's been rampant in this genre since Se7en's opening credits.

It might be another step in the filmmaker's traumatic and tragic battle with the studio system, and it definitely didn't open any Hollywood doors for him at that time, but it's nevertheless an undisputed, grandiose, innovative and influential piece of filmmaking that crowned the golden era of film noir.

Although prior to 2003, the Disney brand had been limited to family films rated G and PG, the hugely profitable Pirates of the Caribbean series had opened the studio's eyes both to PG - 13 fare and tentpole live - action filmmaking.

Moving away from the DC films, Lopez highlighted the studio's major summer releases, starting with the action - comedy «The Nice Guys» (opening May 20).

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Twilight Time, Blu - Ray), one of Sam Peckinpah's personal favorites of his films (and the rare Peckinpah film not to get reworked by the studio), opens on an idyllic river scene with a pregnant girl soaking her feet in the lazy current with a beatific smile on her face.

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The disc opens with the old 90 - second promo for classic live action Disney films on DVD and video, highlighting some of the studio's most popular films of the»60s and»70s.

The only other problematic area are the vintage Paramount and Warner studio logos, which open the film with a late -»60s feel but are littered with visual artifacts and flickering.

Actually the piece you should write is — why are studios so scared of not attracting an audience, they screen 3/4 of the film plot in the trailers, months before opening.

And ahead of the film's anticipated opening at the London Film Festival at the beginning of October, the studio has unveiled an all - new teaser poster for The Imitation Game which features Cumberbatch as the mathematical maestro.

Though March wasn't always known as a month where you could score big at the box office, Zack Snyder's «300» changed all that, and since then, the studios have been more open to releasing some of their higher profile films in an attempt to cash in on the pre-summer excitement.

While the festival features some major studio films — it opened this year with The Five - Year Engagement, and closes with The Avengers — the majority of films screening at Tribeca are independently produced, premièring...

The five day «extended weekend» will feature new independent films; studio sneak previews; conversations with attending directors, actors, producers and writers; Opening and Closing Night festivities; the highly anticipated Festival Gala; Celebrity Tribute and Awards Programs; wine - tasting pavilions; film industry focused and culinary panel discussions; and VIP receptions and dinners with Napa Valley's own celebrity chefs and winemakers.

Analysts and the studio said the difference can be attributed to the first film opening on a holiday weekend, and could easily be made up with Memorial Day coming, despite the looming competition from «Solo: A Star Wars Story.»

That would put the film on par with the massive opening of the first film, and certainly give Fox an extra shot of confidence as it preps Deadpool's entry into the studio's X-Force movie.

By the late Seventies, Corliss had become open to covering films ensconced in studio politics, messy interpretational questions, even violent controversy: see Wood's defense of The Last House on the Left, or Roger Greenspun's cover story on movie violence and Carrie.

These visual properties combine with other elements like the evocative sound design and carefully detailed locations to generate what is perhaps the film's most exceptional quality: a true sense of being somewhere — with actual people in actual places, whether they be as loudly wide - open as a rock band's studio loft show or as comfortably intimate as a suburban basement - turned - practice - space.

However, the makers of the movies must be mindful of how much time they take, not only because people will grow restless in the audience the longer you go, but also that, for the studio, the more showings that theaters can have in a given day, the more money they can make by striking while the iron is hot when the film opens.

The studio is placing a lot of confidence in the comedy starring Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Leslie Mann and Chris Hemsworth because THR reports they've just bumped up the film from its original release date in October to a much better opening on July 31st this summer instead.

Say what you will the R - rated superhero flick — like for instance that it falls in line with many of the same familiar tropes it purports to mock — but the gleefully violent and «adult» - oriented box office smash opened the flood gates for more of its R - rated ilk, showing studios through the ever influential power of green (not Green Lantern mind you), that audiences were more than receptive to «mature» content in their superhero films.

Most movies from the big U.S. studios would doubtlessly provide responses in short order, but «The American» is content to leave many things — including a clearer explanation of what unfolds in the film's opening frames — left unsaid and unanswered.

It was a time when the studios, reeling from their failure to attract the new generation of filmgoers, briefly threw their gates open to outsiders — mainly young directors formed by film schools and highly conscious of the European art film tradition.

Since Infinity War arrived, the major studios have released just two movies: Warner Bros.» Melissa McCarthy comedy Life of the Party, which made $ 18.5 million in its opening weekend, the lowest total for a McCarthy vehicle since she became a movie star; and the $ 16.5 million - earning Breaking In, a Gabrielle Union thriller from Universal and Will Packer Productions, the company that has delivered two textbook counterprograms, Girls Trip and the Ride Along films.

The film is the fourth installment in the studio's DC Extended Universe, which launched with 2013's «Man of Steel» with an opening weekend of $ 116.6 million, followed by last year's «Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice» with $ 166 million, and «Suicide Squad» with $ 133.6 million, and it's credited with getting film series back on track after its last couple of installments received mixed reviews.

As Ian Olney explains in his recent book Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture, Hollywood stole distribution tactics from B - film production studios, such as saturated openings, while also recognizing the viability of cheap sequels to accompany these methods, where films could make so much money in one weekend, as to become profitable, that whether or not audiences actually liked the film ended up being an afterthought.

After all, what studio wouldn't want to team up with Waititi, given that his most recent film opened to solid reviews and $ 121 million in its first weekend?

The reason for the impromptu switch is unclear, but with Deadpool 2 opening May 18 and Disney's other hotly anticipated film, Solo: A Star Wars Story, flying into theaters on May 25, it's possible that the studio wanted to distance Infinity War from the overstuffed month of May altogether.

Fox, as it happens, was the only studio to open another new wide - release film against «The Last Jedi.»

Directed by Ponoc's co-founder Hiromasa Yonebayashi, the film marks the Japanese studio's inaugural production, following its opening in April 2015.

Note this article only includes North American grosses for specialty films — indie, foreign and / or documentary — that opened in limited release (initially under 500 screens — so that's why «The Butler» or «Don Jon» aren't included, for example) in 2013 and were released by an independent distributor or a studio specialty division.

Civil War's generally higher pre-release reviews, and the fact that Civil War is the only major 2016 summer film opening with no major studio competition are factors in it possibly eclipsing Age of Ultron by Sunday.

Note this list only includes North American grosses for specialty films — indie, foreign and / or documentary — that opened in limited release (initially under 500 screens) in 2013 and were released by an independent distributor or a studio specialty division.

It's still a bit puzzling why the studios would opt to open such an action - heavy film a week after Rogue One hit theaters, but here we are.

Earlier rumors suggested the delay was due to Disney waiting for the hype of The Last Jedi to wear off, but considering we live in an age where studios are promoting films several installments down the line (Disney's already releasing trailers for the Marvel films to come after Black Panther, which doesn't open until later this week), many fans believed Solo should have been capitalizing on the critical and financial success of Rian Johnson's movie in order to increase its own buzz.

Late in post-production on The Last Stand, the studio changed their mind, and tasked Ratner with re-editing and re-shooting scenes to make the film more open - ended.