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Noting the dearth of black superheroes, both in comic books and the art world, Bradford points to the success of movies like «Wonder Woman» and «Black Panther» as a cultural turning point.

It does not heed Hollywood's semi-inexplicable caution over making original musicals (they're still rare, despite the financial success of movies like La La Land and The Greatest Showman).

With the success of movies like The Shape Of Water, it's interesting to have a genre movie be less about the CGI, and more about the relationships that drive the story.

After the recent success of the movies like Alice In Wonderland, Cinderella, 2016 Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast, Disney studios knows it is onto a really good thing by making its animated films into live - action movies.

(Is it just me, or does it seem as though a strange new sub-genre has been spun off the success of movies like Pulp Fiction and Fargo?)

Weinstein co-founded the Weinstein Company with his brother Bob Weinstein in 2005 after leaving Miramax Films, where the two architected the success of movies like Shakespeare in Love and Pulp Fiction.

Not exact matches

The brains behind the success of viral movie trailers like Baby Driver is Trailer Park.

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.

Phone sales are like movie premieres: There's excitement that first weekend, but success depends on the level of interest later on.

Much of the movie plays out like a thrilling — and tragic — underdog sports story, but its surprise third act shows that the real story of Bill McCartney isn't just about faith and success: It's about personal redemption.

Take, for example, foolishness like the success of the movie «God's not Dead» (see my own blog for this).

Despite being addicted to both movies and music I'm not into musicals — with very few exceptions (one that comes to mind right now is Moulin Rouge), it seems impossible for me to enjoy that kind of movie, no matter how hard I try — like the four times I tried watching Chicago with no success (the movie made me fall asleep every single time and I wasn't even tired).

So, like a movie studio that green lights two sequels after the success of the first film, I went into The Falling Star knowing how Police at the Funeral would end.

His own work has shown that over time, the initial traits that people find attractive in others — like looks, charisma, and success — lose a lot of their value while the things that make people unique — like their favorite book or movies — become more important.

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Whether the young actor really was a star in the making or not, his career had gotten off to an inarguably positive start.Over the next several years, Pepper would find success in movies like Flags of Our Fathers and True Grit, as well as the TV mini-series The Kennedys.

Taking the Eurocentric fantasies that have pretended to be integral to our collective imaginations and shoving them over to make room for the rest of the world too is a good reason to celebrate the success of this movie, even if I didn't actually like it.

The movie itself plays more like a corporate recruitment video - or an extended episode of «Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous» - than a deep, discerning dive into an American success story.

«Far above the success of blockbuster movies like «Star Wars» or «Gone With The Wind,» which both collected more than $ 3 billion, adjusted for inflation», website MarketWatch writes.

Considering how that film was not exactly a commercial success, this may not sound like a big deal to many of you but as someone who believes that bleak and bruising comedy - drama to be one of the great unsung movies of the decade — the kind of film that the great Billy Wilder might have made once upon a time — I went into the screening with the kind of over-the-top sense of anticipation that many felt as they walked into «Avengers: Infinity War.»

While everyone was excited for video game heiress Lara Croft back when Angelina Jolie made a couple of Tomb Raider movies, there was a lot left to be desired, and even with the relative success of lady action stars finally getting their due, Alicia Vikander seemed like a long shot.

I exaggerate, but Josh Gad has certainly become one of the hardest - working people in Hollywood in the past few years since he broke into mainstream success with Frozen, quickly accumulating movie credits like Beauty and the Beast and Murder on the Orient Express.

Many young independent filmmakers, inspired by the «mumblecore» movies of directors like Joe Swanberg and Andrew Bujalski, have attempted to make unscripted movies with varying degrees of success.

The First Wives Club was a major success story for so many reasons: an original mainstream comedy, a movie about women over 50, a movie that recognized the comedic potential of actresses like Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn... with every year that goes by, the movie seems more and more like a miracle.

But it looks like many of those women directors simply aren't getting opportunities to make meaningful mainstream movies, even after scoring significant critical and box - office success.

The movie's unexpectedly goofy sense of humor helps to keep things light, and the actors do a good job with the material they've been given, but «Beautiful Creatures» doesn't feel like it was made by a studio that loved the books, but rather the idea of success that a film adaptation might bring — all business and no soul.

With the success of the first Hangover movie and the tracking for The Hangover Part 2 looking like it's going to open huge, it's no surprise at today's Hangover 2 press conference that the cast and filmmakers would be asked...

Made in the wake of a spy movie boom, as the flamboyant James Bond fantasies gave way to disillusioned John Le Carre dramas and grim Cold War adventures like Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain and Topaz, The Kremlin Letter is adapted from a from a twisty best - seller by Noel Behn that (in Huston's words) «had all the makings of a success... all those qualities that were just coming into fashion in 1970: violence, lurid sex, drugs.»

A lot of horror movies look like giant successes here but then barely play foreign.

Despite the success of Adult Swim and like - minded satirical TV cartoons, adult - oriented animated movies are few and far between.

Much like its predecessor, the key to Dawn's success was always going to be the believability in the presentation of its primates, and as Caesar (a computer generated chimpanzee) is our main protagonist, it is imperative that we, the audience, believe in the character, seeing as he alone shoulders the responsibility in the success of the entire movie.

And I don't want to overstate Ragnarok's success on these fronts or make it sound like it's the most inspired and rewarding superhero movie of all time.

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Just compare the successes of «Gone Girl» and «Girl on a Train» with the anemic «profits» of movies like «Cold in July» or «Blue Ruin» for instance.

The Avengers is the most overrated movie of the year, people act like it was this big surprise, in reality the movie was going to be a big success no matter what, it was always going to make a lot money, but people kept saying how grate it was, and how it was the best movie of the year, when in reality the movie was average, it was boring, there was zero tension, the villain was weak, the dialog was annoying and the characters were unlikable.The movie have a lot of the same problems that everybody complaint in other movies like Transformers and Avatar, like to much special effects and weak story.

There is no question that Denis Villeneuve has been on a roll of late enjoying great success with movies like his Oscar - nominated foreign - language film Incendies, Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival and now Blade Runner 2049, which is earning buzz for a second consecutive Oscar Best Director nomination following last year's Arrival.

Searchlight will seek to emulate the Sundance - launched success it had in the past with the likes of «Napoleon Dynamite» and «Little Miss Sunshine» — other movies with quirky and appealing lead characters — but will need to sell a film that at heart is far more of a quiet drama than it might appear.

Take some squeaky clean young stars, add a couple of fashionable pop culture figures and throw them together into a crime - based party movie set during the annual student rite - of - passage: sounds like a sure fire recipe for success, right?

While that's been an occurrence for several years, movies like Wonder Woman and Logan are two of the biggest critical successes as well.

But the director of the Pusher trilogy and a movie about Vikings has never been at a loss for movie - movie swagger, even if the success of his films leans heavily on the sustaining of trance - like states more than moviemaking chops.

For the most part, the movies still suck, but following the box office success of films like «Taken» and «Ride Along,» the studios seem more willing to give higher - profile titles a chance to perform against the weaker competition.

Like many, I hope Aaron Paul finds success, but his post - «Breaking Bad» big screen career gets off to a lackluster start in Need for Speed, an unintelligent and underwhelming racing movie that won't do much for anyone who isn't riveted by the sights and sounds of fast cars in motion.

Applecart is one of those movies that by all means seems like it would be a success.

It is not the fault of black movies and black actors that their success and failure can feel so collectively important — but I am wondering if, in cases like Proud Mary, it might serve the movie best to measure it against the kind of goals that white action films have been aiming at for years: that is, a genre where even a bad one can be good if it manages to be entertaining.

WHY: It's always nice to see an original idea like «Now You See Me» find success amid the usual summer barrage of rehashed properties (and a sequel has since been greenlit), but unfortunately, the movie doesn't live up to its full potential.

The success of female - led action movies like Wonder Woman and Atomic Blonde have no doubt encouraged Marvel to finally get going on Black Widow.

Following the success of the original «Blade» movie, and its sequel «Blade II,» «Blade Trinity» seemed like a it was going to be horror - action comic book movie that everyone could get excited for.

Speaking on the success of the first movie, Emmerich added that: «I think it's the first movie where you saw aliens come in a total overwhelming way, and I think after that no one could do it because everyone said, «That's like Independence Day.»

Weitz and his brother, with an assist from Nick Hornby, directed a terrific manhood movie, About a Boy, and, more recently, he's written those pointed plays about the dangers of success and the hollowness of fame that successful people like to write.

Still, give the movie credit for being prescient: Given the disgusting rise and success of reality TV, it's not difficult at all to imagine fans of garbage like Survivor or Jersey Shore easily turning into the audience for a deathsport show like The Running Man, where viewers win fabulous prizes while cheering the slaughter of other humans.