Sentences with word «tentpole»

Two of the oldest and most accomplished studios — Disney and Paramount — have essentially given up on small and mid-sized movies in favor of tentpole franchises and brands.

The Ryan Coogler - directed movie — unprecedented in being a big - budget studio tentpole featuring a virtually all - black cast — secured the fifth - biggest domestic opening of all time after blasting past all expectations.

By the same token, if you're someone who always prefers to show up in a jabbering throng at your local megaplex for tentpole movies on their first day — especially in IMAX — instead of arriving full of hope at small art houses, this list isn't for you, either.

Consumers have been spoilt in recent years as publishers have created big tentpole franchises based on larger and larger open world gameplay.

Audiences have seen quite a few big movies may their way into theaters over the past two months, but the onslaught of summer tentpole films isn't even close to over.

Paramount Studios just set the dates for a slew of new tentpole films for the coming years, all of which are themed to Hasbro properties.

But we hope it's more than just an audition for tentpole blockbusters too — we enjoyed the script, which is twistier and less generic than the trailer lets on, and the cast assembled, which also includes Andrea Riseborough, David Morrissey, Peter Mullan, Jason Flemyng, Daniel Kaluuya, Daniel Mays and Johnny Harris, is a who's who of British character actor greats.

«Surprise» A-List celebrity cameos have become A Thing in big tentpole movies, so much so, that they're generally advertised well in advance.

No surprise, then, that pretty much every major production house has kept superhero movies in tentpole release dates over the last decade - and - a-half.

Watts also co-wrote the superhero tentpole with Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna, and Erik Sommers.

Saddled with a staggering amount of material (over 4,000 pages from the novels alone), Nikolaj Arcel's film attempts the unenviable task of wrangling the material through a double - barreled approach to screenwriting, including a streamlined script from Arcel, producer Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, and Anders Thomas Jensen that results in the rare studio tentpole feature that clocks in under 100 minutes.

The big - budget, summer tentpole release of the Fantastic Four continues our look at the Marvel movie lineup.

This summer was the worst - attended movie season of the past 25 years, with tentpole films such as «The Dark Tower,» «The Mummy» and «King Arthur» tanking at the box office — and with critics.

Trevorrow has proven himself competent at movies big and small, but this is a misfire that suggests his anointment as tentpole filmmaker of the highest order may just be a premature reaction to the fact that the world was hungry for a Jurassic Park reboot.

It's a rarity nowadays for a major tentpole like this to debut in under 4,000 theaters.

For a big - budget tentpole featuring such iconic characters and multiple planets and dimensions, Fantastic Four is strangely insular and hermetic.

Hatched by a team of industry veterans who previously worked on tentpole franchises in the vein of Fallout and Gears of War, the horror - tinged RPG is pitched as a psychedelic experience based on Francis Ford Coppola's seminal Vietnam masterclass.

By tying such games into tentpole events, such as movie releases but also sporting events, for instance, is very tempting.

In an awards season stacked with big tentpoles like Dunkirk and Blade Runner 2049, The Florida Project is perhaps the smallest contender, but the passion it evokes from audiences should not be underestimated.

So what could have been a Werner Herzog - quoting battle of futility against the forces of nature, couched in myth but disguised in tentpole blockbuster scale, becomes an episodic series of CGI - disasters with little shape beyond its adherence to the «facts» of the matter.

December is always a big month for movies, a time when studios release tentpole pictures and Oscar hopefuls before the «dump months,» a.k.a. January and February, when commercial and critical expectations are much lower.

This is not the first Disney tentpole film that Nyong» o has signed onto, though it might be the first one in which we'll actually see her face.

That serves as the backstory, not the main narrative of The Legend of Tarzan, a new big - budget, live - action tentpole from Harry Potter director David Yates.

He's said to be eyeing a few other tentpole projects, but the WME - repped filmmaker, now 42, has yet to take the studio plunge.

For Riseborough, this is a big career leap into a major tentpole project.

MOST LIKELY TO FIND: An array of pictures of art on the High Line, natural beauty on the High Line, stunning vistas from the High Line, and events on the High Line, plus copious images from tentpole art events around the world that most of us can never make it out to, most recently Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg, the Berlin Biennale, and Art Basel.

Gareth Edwards, Marc Webb, Colin Trevorrow, Jon Watts, Ryan Coogler, and now Taika Waititi have all been scooped up after auspicious Sundance bows to take on massive tentpole titles.

This may be a low - budget film, but it looks every bit as terrific as a brand new tentpole in Sony's first - rate Blu - ray transfer.

And the film counts as a major, important victory for representation — not just as a rare, series - launching vehicle for a black superhero, but also as a mega-budget Hollywood tentpole starring mostly black actors, one that's explicitly about black (and African) identity.

Marvel is releasing four tentpoles starring all - new characters in Phase Three.

Charlie's Angels at least has the presence of mind to spoof its excesses and those of the summer tentpole genre, such excesses proving dead weight in the latter Matrixes and Kill Bill.»

First up, hot on the heels of yesterday's excellent banner comes a new poster for Guillermo del Toro's Warner Bros. tentpole Pacific Rim.

That brought Singer to the attention of studios, but before he went into tentpole territory, he helmed an adaptation of Stephen King's short story «Apt Pupil,» about a young man who finds out his neighbor was a concentration camp guard, for mini-major Phoenix Pictures.

And since Forbes» Mark Hughes — who somehow got his hands on the script — is raving about what a strong adaptation this is and how it's «a potential tentpole picture capable of spinning off a whole expanded universe of franchises,» you have to wonder if maybe Warner Bros. didn't want this to look like Machete Kills In Space (which, if you'll recall, is a real movie that's actually happening).

Then again, the tone of the presentation suggests that pretty much every idea has huge tentpole franchise potential.

What's it like to be a part of the first tentpole superhero movie whose cast is almost entirely people of color?

Viggo can be a bit of a drag on screen but Jackman has a more relaxed, fun presence that should serve a holiday tentpole well.

Spielberg's attachment makes a lot of sense, given that he helped pave the pop - culture landscape on which the novel is built, and we'd never dream of skipping a new sci - fi tentpole from the director of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and E.T..

Billed as a low budget film by tentpole director Michael Bay (the movie is estimated to have only cost $ 25 million to make), Pain & Gain still looks like a bloated budget Hollywood picture.

Among the many tentpole features Apple demonstrated, Notification Center, Newsstand, Reminders, iMessage and Siri were the standouts, along with integration with iCloud, Apple's new cloud - based service model.

X-Men: Apocalypse is one of several upcoming tentpole films with the potential to knock Deadpool from atop 2016's box office rankings.

Zombies would be the latest tentpole project to feature Stone, following in the wake of next summer's The Amazing Spider - Man — which features the actress with her natural blonde locks as classic Peter Parker love interest, Gwen Stacy.

Warner Bros. have released a new «alternate 3D» theatrical trailer for their summer tentpole flick, Green Lantern, and it actually seems pretty good.

He could have easily been leading big studio tentpoles at multiple points in his career, but time and time again he's opted instead to take challenging roles...

And after sixteen years of big time tentpole superhero flicks, and eight years of almost suffocating omnipresence of these films in pop culture, the time certainly feels right for a movie to come along and knock them down a few pegs from the inside.

Though familiarity fills in for originality, that's not the stuff big tentpole series should depend on for long futures.

I'd take it over a great many American tentpole pics any day.