Sentences with phrase «tent pole of»

Global warming believer - turned - skeptic Anthony Watts, a former TV meteorologist, posted a new report online questioning the reliability of weather stations in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network, a 120 - year - old weather system that forms one tent pole of climate measurements.

Anyone who has been paying attention to marketing and trailers in the past few months knows that Fox is trying something a little different with Logan, their first major tent pole of 2017 that sees Hugh Jackman play the role of Wolverine for the ninth time on film.

Firewalls, anti-virus software and spam filters are the tent poles of basic network security.

The «Potter» stories, books and movies alike, have been central tent poles of our popular culture, as critical to a young person navigating the first decade of the new millennium as post-9 / 11 anxiety and the rise of social media.

Super Mario Kart started as a goofy little side project to and has grown into one of the tent poles of the Nintendo brand.

Not exact matches

That's another tent pole in answering the question of what enabled this to happen.

Memorable campaigns from the likes of Old Spice have used commercials as tent poles for campaigns that stretched across platforms, including Internet video and even online games.

You will need to place a tent pole in the form of a date before all the planning is complete.

These tent pole events get all the attention, but in most cases, the seeds of success, or failure, were sown long before.

After critical success during the first 15 years of his career, Scorsese found the industry pivoting as tent - pole franchises like Indiana Jones and Star Wars set box - office records and turned Steven Spielberg and George Lucas into household names.

Its streets were lined with booths sheltered by striped tents, with flags of all sorts flapping from tall poles.

If you cringe at the thought of saying «shut up and eat it» to your child, then the school lunch program is not the long pole in your child's nutritional problems tent.

Our teepees and play tents are made with sturdy poles and fabrics, they pack down quickly and easily for days on the beach or in the park and they're great for piling the toys into and closing the doors after a busy day of play.

He has already pitched a very small tent for 2015 and the presence of UKIP seems to present a more significant threat to Labour than to the Conservative tent, which, whilst shrinking has poles pitched all over 2015's metaphorical political field.

Despite the worst ice conditions in years and a near catastrophic tent fire, we survived for 24 days on the ice and set the record for the first mother and son team to reach one of the Earth's poles by foot.

Labour lags behind the Tories in all sorts of areas, not least of which are the tent - pole measurements of leadership and the economy.

Made with ripstop silnylon throughout and supported by aluminum alloy poles and stakes, you'll be enjoying the comfort of this tent for years to come.

This tent's poles are made of aluminum alloy.

Equipped with anything you could ever imagine needing, including two - way inner and outer zippers, mesh pockets, a back vent with a kickstand, a pole repair splint, taped seams, and a waterproof design, the Bryce is fully loaded for a fraction of the price of a professional tent.

Need a trekking pole tent that's also one of the best ultralight backpacking tents?

This tarp can be used for a variety of different applications, such as a tent footprint, a sunshade, a pole tent tarp, picnicking, or anything else you might need while out on the trail.

While spectroscopy of extremely faint sources is not trivial the primary technology challenge, the «tall tent pole», is starlight suppression — blocking the bright light from the target star so as to capture the faint reflected light of the exoplanet.

If the collagen fibres are not optimally repaired, spaces and gaps emerge, resulting in wrinkles and ill - supported skin that's crepey and saggy (think of a tent without poles).

Like the tent poles required to hold up a tent, all your muscles must be taking equal pressure and of equal strength in order for your body to function correctly.

The seventh novel, H.P. and the Deathly Hallows, was divided into two parts for the screen, for no reason other than an entertainment conglomerate's existential terror of pulling up its «tent - pole» without a fight, and the result, HPATDH 1, felt padded.

What then to expect of Shrek the Third, a movie perhaps even more transparently than most made primarily to sustain and bolster a lucrative tent - pole merchandising franchise — already set to continue at the end of this year with an ABC TV Christmas special, Shrek the Halls, and a fourth suggested movie sequel in the early planning stages?

And yet, all of that only scratches the surface of Depp's problematic presence in The Lone Ranger, a predictably bloated tent pole from Pirates of the Caribbean maestro Gore Verbinski.

What would that mean for the future of diversity studio tent poles?

This seems to be the first of many studio tent - pole disaster movies heading our way this summer, with the likes

Apparently, just like one of the other summer tent pole franchise films, Transformers, Pirates apparently has run out of decent stories to tell.

While Buchanan's logic with regard to the summer tent pole is sound, there's one glaring omission from his article: the outstanding box - office performances of The Purge and The Conjuring, two original works, both horror films.

However, what keeps Suicide Squad on the level of being merely «passable entertainment at best» is the choppy and stuttering nature of the ill - defined plot, perhaps undone by yet another instance of nervous studio meddling, ostensibly to try to not stall momentum for their young universe of tent - pole films meant to keep them in the black for years to come.

If 2011 was the year when big studios wizened up and shelved big expensive tent poles, then 2012 is the year that those same studios are cutting costs to resurrect a handful of the projects including «Wedding Crashers» helmer David Dobkin's «Arthur & Lancelot.»

The Coen Bros return to the 1950s (Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Hudsucker Proxy) to recount a batty tale of a Hollywood fixer and a tent - pole star gone missing.

While most of Robbie's money is made from acting in tent - pole films such as The Wolf of Wall Street and Suicide Squad, the actress has also made the move into the lucrative producing side.

«It was such a tent pole joke of the first movie, us being the underdog, the studio would never throw us any other X-Men except the minor characters,» observed Reese on adding the cameo.

Not one to let a potential tent - pole franchise go to waste, Disney Studios and producer Jerry Bruckheimer (On Stranger Tides, Prince of Persia) dust off the white cowboy hat in order to try to bring the iconic lawman into the modern era with The Lone Ranger, which is crafted by the creative team behind the first three Pirates of the Caribbean flicks, director Gore Verbinski (At World's End, Dead Man's Chest), and writing team Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (Shrek, Small Soldiers), plus Justin Haythe (Snitch, The Clearing).

Without those two tent - pole presences holding it up, Behanding would fold like a cheap house of cards.

Perhaps a more beneficial release date would have positioned this as the perfect antidote to the mind numbing onslaught of super hero franchise tent poles, though the highly enjoyable title should eventually find z wider, deserving audience in home entertainment venues.

There's been a trend in Hollywood of hiring young, up and coming talent bred in independent pictures to helm huge tent pole blockbusters for the big six studios.

Of course, A24's appeal relies on its smaller, more personal films that stand as proud counterpoints to the blockbuster end - of - the - world tent poles that dominate cinemaOf course, A24's appeal relies on its smaller, more personal films that stand as proud counterpoints to the blockbuster end - of - the - world tent poles that dominate cinemaof - the - world tent poles that dominate cinemas.

The difference here is that we have perhaps one of the most enjoyable films of the year so far in terms of studio tent - poles, arguably Johnson's best movie outing so far, and the feature to finally break the video game to cinema curse.

Here is another example of a studio taking a director with little to no experience and shoving him behind one of the summer's biggest tent - pole action flicks.

This being a summer tent pole, many of the expected complaints still stick: Much of the dialogue is too average to be memorable yet too obvious to go unnoticed, and nearly every one of the film's game - changing plot pivots takes conspicuous place at the worst time possible.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: With «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2» tearing up box office records and the last of the summer blockbusters preparing to drop — «Rise of the Planet of the Apes» appears to be the last major tent pole on the horizon — now seems like -LSB-...]

In a joint press release, Universal Pictures Chairman, Adam Fogelson and Co-Chairman, Donna Langley said, «Alex and Roberto are extraordinarily talented writers and producers who know the value of a great story in building successful tent pole films,»

It is the wonderful product of a studio more concerned with making an enjoyable movie than sticking to an increasingly exhausting tent pole formula.

The tent - pole relationship between Xavier and Magneto is nearly non-existent, taking with it the themes of discrimination and segregation that have powered the best X-Men films.

A vintage «Making - of Lifeforce» featurette serves a similarly sentimental intention, allowing viewers to see how a big movie was promoted back before «tent - pole» was a word uttered casually at the breakfast table and event movies could be counted on to arrive on schedule twice every week.

Major studios have pulled back on such mid-budget movies in favor of tent pole franchises with characters moviegoers already know and love.