Not exact matches
Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie
film production house with little more
than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly
successful CSI franchise.
The Harry Potter series became one of the most
successful film franchises ever, grossing more
than $ 6 billion.
Generally his
film work less
successful than this TV work, which features the fantastic Salem's Lot adaptation as well as work on Masters of Horror.
Diana
film is «completely wrong», says former lover According to the tagline on posters for the new biopic portraying Princess Diana's love Today, the tourism industry is inspired by the entertainment industry more
than ever — and Hollywood just might be the world's most
successful
Fewer follows ups have been more anticipated
than The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in a new trilogy of
films set in the much beloved Middle Earth, previously seen in the hugely
successful Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Because the
film is intended to be fun for computer - illiterates as well as techno - geeks, it's more
successful than other recent efforts to bring some digital - age updating to the familiar thriller formula.
The campaign proved to be wildly
successful, raising more
than was needed to fund the
film, which was released in 2014.
A vanity project from
successful Hollywood screenwriter Mitch Glazer, this
film should really be much funnier
than it is.
Two less
than successful film producers, approaching mid-life crisis and clinging to their nerdy sci - fi obsessions, suddenly meet their idol: William Shatner.
It's ambitious work but not always
successful, with director Eric Karson biting off a little more
than he can chew when it comes time to build momentum with such a top - heavy
film.
The
film was hugely
successful and widely praised in its time, though it's really nothing more
than the old C.B. De Mille formula of titillation and moralizing — Roman orgies and Christian martyrs — with only a fraction of De Mille's showmanship.
After a
successful outing in First Contact, Jonathan Frakes (Thunderbirds) takes the director's helm once again with a pleasant but uninvolving outing which seems more in tune with the style of the TV series
than the
film series, special effects notwithstanding.
The special effects are impressive at times but in this day and age you need more
than just special effects to make a
successful action / adventure
film.
It was by far the most commercially
successful film among Spirit Awards nominees with more
than $ 250 million in worldwide box office for Universal.
Unfortunately, Hess» debut is way more
successful than his following works of
film.
The
film reunites Lanthimos with Colin Farrell, his star from The Lobster, who plays here a much more superficially
successful character
than the sad sack he inhabited in that
film.
That
film was ultimately far more
successful than John Carter, Andrew Stanton's at times laudably, and at other times ludicrously, straight - faced interpretation of Edgar Rice Burroughs» character.
While The Time of Their Lives has its charm, the lack of kindness between its characters makes it a less
than successful road trip
film.
And as with most anthologies, some of the storylines are more
successful than others, (as suspenseful as the scenes with Foster's sex offender are, we're not entirely sure they belong in the same
film).
The entire cast of the
film (all of whom are both a lot more
successful and a lot older) is back, with Showalter again donning the short - shorts and even - tighter
than before T - shirts as Coop, Camp Firewood's resident romantic sad sack.
The
film's most
successful elements felt cribbed from the first
film and the pacing left me more
than a little bit sleepy; I also felt legitimately bad for Rose Byrne, who is basically given nothing to do aside from trip over baby toys and get smacked in the head a lot.
It's a little reactionary in a kind of «Forrest Gump» - y sort of way — the moral runs that it's better to be decent
than brilliant, happy
than successful — but the
film is well - meaning and the performances from a stellar cast (Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley's accent, Laurence Fishburne, Joan Allen, Laura Linney, William H Macy all show up) mostly walk the right side of mawkishness.
Though it isn't completely
successful, this is an entertaining
film, far more
successful than the Altman projects which immediately preceded it, A WEDDING and QUINTET.
The
film opens with a scene in which Machete (Danny Trejo) and his partner, Sartana (Jessica Alba) are fighting off some baddies and seem to have been
successful, when suddenly a masked man appears around the side of a vehicle and guns down Sartana, and then bails, leaving Machete alone and now even more morbid - looking
than he previously had been.
Both principal actors have a strong enough sense of their characters, even as they're pulled into increasingly harrowing places, to make the
film a more
successful one
than Loach's last few, but it's still schematic and predictable, and it aggressively stacks the deck against Blake and Kattie in a way that makes it more effective as social activism, and less so as drama.
Commercially
successful, critically adored, winner of an original screenplay Academy Award, and more influential
than any other indie ever, it was enough to secure Tarantino a place in
film's history books and announce him as the writer / director to watch of his generation.
It is not nearly as
successful in its plotting and the second story would serve better on its own
than within this
film, but Amores Perros is a strong and assured debut from Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu.
If the
film does nothing else, if it delivers this theme with any results, it will ultimately prove a
successful venture, as a social catalyst much more so
than as a movie worth watching more
than once.
With so many Marvel
films in the pipeline (2017 will see three Marvel
films: Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Spider - Man: Homecoming, and Thor: Ragnarok), the comic book company will no doubt be working harder
than ever to meet ever - expanding goals when it comes to their wildly
successful cinematic universe.
«22 Jump Street» will likely be more
successful than the first
film, but an R - rated comedy just has no chance against a high quality family - friendly animated
film.
You could have referred to him as an Oscar nominee; a Shakespearean thespian; a solid supporting presence in prestige
films like 12 Years a Slave (to jog your memory: he was the one who was not Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt or Chiwetel Ejiofor); someone who has graced
successful great - man biopics and and less -
than -
successful versions of the same; a sex symbol; and the third - greatest Sherlock Holmes of all time.
Miraculously, Deakins's collaboration with the Coens — he would work on ten more of their
films after Barton Fink — proved to be even more
successful than Sonnenfeld's had been.
Johnson was much more
successful in this regard with his previous
film The Skeleton Twins, perhaps a more specifically aimed screenplay
than Clowes work here.
Yet King is more concerned with remaining faithful to the source material
than pandering to every conceivable target demographic, and in short this is a big part of what makes his
film is so
successful.
«High - Rise» was his controversial take on a cult novel that felt more ambitious
than successful, and he follows that up quickly with a
film that almost feels like a response to the scope of last year's piece in its minimalist structure.
Hollywood loves to celebrate success, and few
films were more
successful than 2009's The Hangover.
To understand why «Black Panther» is on its way to becoming Marvel's most
successful movie, look no further
than how director Ryan Coogler found small pockets of life in one of
film's biggest franchises
Played by Ryan Reynolds, (a fan's dream actor to play the role), his first appearance, like the
film, was less
than successful.
As Marvel's first
successful comic - book - to -
film adaptation, the original «Blade» instantly became an underground hit with the sleek, yet comical Wesley Snipes headlining as the title character, and even «Blade 2» was more
than a mere duplicate thanks to its thorough vampire history, but «Blade: Trinity» is nothing more
than a blended carbon copy with a bloodthirsty desire to maximize the death count.
With Your Name, the most
successful anime at the worldwide box office, Shinkai's finally made a masterpiece, marrying his long - time thematic obsessions with a much more compelling plot and characters
than his previous
films.
They'd been up late the night before doing a smashingly
successful Q&A at a preview screening of their
film and they had been doing marathon interviews in several cities across the United States for longer
than they wanted to remember before then.
While Gibson and Glover have been replaced by Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans, respectively, the energy and chemistry between the two mismatched cops is still ever - present and the series allows for even more character growth
than the
successful four
film franchise.
Easily missed among these other more
successful action
films, Dredd was a shockingly good comic book movie, and one deserving of far more praise and attention
than it received.
Each of director Ryan Coogler's first three
films — Fruitvale, Creed and Black Panther — has been not just bigger and more
successful than the one that came before — but also arguably better.
Keeping in mind that this
film has obviously gutted many of the bells and whistles that make reading a Rowling work such a pleasure for millions, as a movie — viewing it solely as a standalone cinematic work, rather
than a mere adaptation — it's probably the most
successful of the series thus far.
Although the
film was surprisingly
successful at its time of release, making more money
than anticipated considering its very low - budget and small distribution, it is still not talked about enough today.
Manglehorn is along the same lines as Green's most recent
films, a low - key character driven drama, but from the looks of the trailer it may be less
successful than his last two efforts.
True, his
films have always been more
successful critically
than commercially and his career high was the $ 40 million put up by Hannah and Her Sisters back in 1986.
The Neon Demon will prove to be just as polarizing as Refn's last
film, though it is arguably more accessible
than Only God Forgives and more
successful in getting its point across.
effectively holding the viewer's interest even through some of the
film's less -
than -
successful sequences.