Sentences with phrase «test audiences»

And the emails that were exchanged in late 2014 after the film was screened for test audiences.

It is good to have a diverse group of test audience but when choosing one try to have at least some members that match the target audience for your book.

I would go as far as even split testing the audience just to make sure I get a good ROI.

Just think, you have the perfect test audience to try your masterpiece out on — your own children!

I guess test audience must love happy ending better.

He's not afraid to test an audiences precious sensibilities, and use violence as a means to tell a story.

You know when you're kind of telling a story to somebody, you're actually test audience - ing on them.

Was the one ending shown to test audiences first?

Test audiences also have told the producers that they like the reality of the show, even if it is far from a typical reality show.

The distributor said the film is one of the company's «highest - scoring with test audiences.»

Liman had to redo the movie's entire ending after test audiences didn't like it.

So after test audiences revolted to the original ending to their movie, «The Break - Up,» cast and crew reassembled in Chicago in order to shoot a more pro-Jen ending... and audiences hated it even more than the original ending.

Capping the platter, a five - minute «Alternate Ending» sees one of Sam's compatriots getting offed; according to Frankenheimer, he was forced to elide it because test audiences hated it.

When Pixar screened a computer - animated short film called «Tin Toy» in 1988, test audiences hated the sight of the pseudo-realistic baby named «Billy» who terrorized the toys.

Although the decision to reshoot sometimes gets seen as a last - ditch effort to «save» a film that tested poorly, more often than not, these days, it's all about specifically tuning the movie to give test audiences more of what they want.

Ben's first test of sanity comes in the guise of his latest release, Fierce, which has all the makings of a box - office flop, due to its edgy ending, which leaves test audiences in tears of pain.

The scene was reportedly cut as test audiences were uncomfortable with the suggestion of Deadpool taking a baby's life... even if the baby in question was Adolf Hitler.

Don't panic and change your goals or tone mid-way through the process — let it play out, and then test your audience's reaction.

Michael Bay does this in his movies, which is why he gets 100 % test audience scores for fucking Transformers movies.

Since it is the one scare tactic featured most prominently in horror films today, it seems to be the litmus test audiences use to determine whether or not a horror film is actually scary.

The story behind Noah is threatening to become more interesting than the movie itself, as Darren Aronofksy's $ 125 million epic seems to be baffling test audiences.

Lanthimos seems to be purposely testing his audience's endurance from the start.

While its fanbase is passionate, it's difficult, some say «unfilmable» territory and the result has caused problems for Paramount, which was reportedly spooked by test audiences finding it too «intellectual» and «complicated».

Tucker Green certainly isn't shy about testing her audience's patience, and while she can sometimes get a bit too enamored with her own moody, elliptical atmospherics, there's clearly a unique imagination at work here...

And, in a way, how Metroid Prime tests its audience is what makes it so astonishingly good.

Like the rest of Lanthimos» filmography, The Killing of a Sacred Deer will likely prove divisive, as he's certainly testing the audience's patience with his deliberate pacing, making you feel the same inescapable sense of horror its doomed subjects are suffering through.

On one hand, the speech tests the audience's patience for legalese; on the other, it is a tour - de-force, a brilliant meditation on the fundamental tension between moral right and democratic law, delivered by an actor so thoroughly in command of the character that it feels almost effortlessly tossed off — one can only imagine that Lincoln, the lawyer and the president, spent many sleepless nights playing this debate out in his mind.

A flashy but hollow first directing gig for veteran screenwriter Dan Gilroy («The Bourne Legacy»), this Oct. 31 Open Road release is a star vehicle that will test audience enthusiasm for Gyllenhaal's big, mannered star turn — a feast of capital - A acting that's sometimes amusing to watch but not believable for so much as a second.

But historically «test audiences love it» and «eleventh hour reshoots» don't go hand in hand.

Whereas Drive's violence exploded like the male rage it represented, here the gore is surgically prolonged to test the audience rather than service the paint - by - numbers family feud plot.

The star of last year's consensus anti-favorite once again demonstrates his unerring talent for finding lousy material — in this case, a singularly unthrilling disaster movie that sat on the shelf for two years after test audiences interpreted «disaster movie» another way.

Hilary, by the way, briefly entertains a flirtation with handyman Gordon (Vincent D'Onofrio) that test audiences swiftly, remorselessly crushed.

(And, unlike Paul Feig, Judd Apatow, and Mike Birbiglia, they don't lean too heavily on test audience - approved punch lines.)

If Deadpool 2 does in fact suck, it's not because initial test audiences didn't like it.

But, the Hitler scene was removed based on a negative reaction from test audiences.

At 2 hours and 20 - ish minutes, War for the Planet may test some audience members» patience, thanks to a woefully slow second act that very easily could have been sliced, diced and condensed without losing its message, helping to set up what really is an incredibly thrilling finale.

And there are a few: a messy timeline and poor attention paid to supporting actors leave us with the sense that Transcendence either suffered a huge edit or was reshot after test audiences initially rejected it.

To get at raw truths, Cassavetes encouraged actors to go for broke, often testing audience endurance.

Haneke tests audience's mental thresholds through one - dimensional provocation, never allowing his vague sociological implications to even get a word in.

In a new interview, Ragnarok director Taika Waititi confirms that the original plan for Odin bothered early test audiences, resulting in a drastic change.

If you thought Anthony Hopkins «role as Odin in Thor: Ragnarok seemed a bit small, there's a reason for that: his scenes were drastically changed after test audiences reacted poorly.

Apparently test audiences became confused, thinking she was Mary Hobbes, so the subplot was dropped.

We learn that test audiences played a big role in the pilot: a few scenes of the female leads in form - fitting clothing were inputted for male reaction (apparently, the women demanded that it never happen again), and it's confirmed that the suits at Fox suggested that Brennan needed to «connect to the victim.»

Reportedly... Jesse James... spent 2 years in the editing room, with several different versions offered to test audiences over that time.

I felt like my own test audience.»

Oldroyd's radical interpretation isn't afraid to test the audience comfort level, all in a brisk edit ending this thriller under 90 minutes.