Sentences with phrase «than movies of»

I'm trying for something more specific than movies of my everyday life: To define a feeling.»

Showcasing much more gore than the movies of old, and surprisingly good effects for such a modest budget (only $ 11 million), the look and feel of the film is appealing, while the comic overtones keep the proceedings appropriately entertaining.

In a recent article on FoxNews.com, Parents Television Council president Tim Winter comments on a 2004 study from the Harvard School of Public Health showing evidence that today's movies contain significantly more violence, sex and profanity than movies of the same rating a decade ago.

These recreations are less dramatic aids to paper over a lack of documentary footage than a movie of their own, with a screenplay that goes well beyond established facts and a full cast (including Molly Parker of Deadwood and Peter Sarsgaard of The Killing) that interprets characters rather than representing them.

Not exact matches

There is another kind of dreaming called lucid dreaming, which is more like playing a video game than watching a movie.

Of course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsOf course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsof sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsof a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsof financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviewsof money despite toxic reviews).

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

With more than 200 titles, Shudder's library is considerably smaller than the thousands of shows and movies available on Netflix, but the service does boast that 85 per cent of it is exclusive.

Prince William and his brother Harry did more than just play with lightsabers when they dropped by the set of the next «Star Wars» movie in April 2016.

The dome gives it especially good sound, one of the perks of going to a theater rather than watching a movie at home.

The movie had more problems than just its casting — like choosing to introduce the mutant in someone else's standalone movie and nearly ruining «Deadpool» forever — but that doesn't excuse the bad interpretation of a beloved hero who was much more clever in the comics.

In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever made.

Just like we're about to learn what happens when you price low - end Linux computers at less than a movie ticket, and what happens when you give millions of developers access to a few terabytes of memory.

Details of where those scenes fit into the movies remain unclear, but insiders say Leia was to have been a bigger part of «Episode IX» than «VIII.»

Fast - forward a few decades, and the likes of Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Sony PS3 and Nintendo's Wii have put consoles in one of every two homes in the U.S. and helped make video games a bigger business than the entire music industry — and almost as big as the movie industry.

Feltheimer says the drop occurred in part because the company released fewer films than usual into what it believed would be a poor economic climate for movies — not because of the quality of the films.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday that it has invited a record 683 movie industry professionals to join its membership ranks, which currently include more than 6,200 people.

«The Interview,» the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, opened in more than 300 movie theaters across the United States on Christmas Day, drawing many sell - out audiences and statements by patrons that they were championing freedom of expression.

A snapshot is not a movie any more than a misdirected throw is an entire football game or the sum total of a quarterback's career.

According to Nielsen, the movies have pulled in more than one billion viewers since they were originally shown in theaters, making it one of the most - watched movie franchises in TV history.

«It's a lot different than streaming movies [where] the traffic gets really spread out and the complexity of the workflow is a lot different,» Wagner said.

The service is promising 14,000 episodes of more than 340 TV shows, plus 1,200 movies, when it launches in November.

The fact that the body washed ashore has fueled speculation that the murder was the work of amateurs imitating something from the movies rather than professional assassins, and some have even suggested that the remains never sank at all, perhaps due to air bubbles in the concrete.

The movie business will also change and shift to something more connected, where people will want to interact a little bit — differently than with games, but they will still want to somehow be part of what's happening on the screen.

If you read through even a few of the thousands of posts and Twitter comments and related outcry about Taylor's departure, and the subsequent shut - down of popular threads or «sub-Reddits» like r / movies and r / music, it becomes obvious that for many of the site's users, the issue is about more than just the firing of one employee.

I think the economic model of the movie industry is much more challenging than the economic model of the hotel casino business.

Probably the best part (other than the movie, of course), were all the adorable photos people shared on social media of their beloved canine companions.

Rather than focusing on the inner workings of his business acumen, the HBO movie will focus on Buffet's relationships and his humble lifestyle.

Released in February, Deadpool is the biggest movie of 2016 so far with $ 330 million in domestic box office gross and a worldwide haul of more than $ 700 million.

With a shock of gray hair, oversized glasses and a messianic zeal for the future, Bre Pettis looks more like the host of a sci - fi movie channel than chief executive officer of a small manufacturing company in a gritty Brooklyn neighborhood of bricks and brownstone.

Considered a classic Christmas movie, «It's A Wonderful Life,» stars Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, a man who dreams of being more than he is and believes he has no purpose in life.

Now with a beard and long hair, Hopper seemed more interested in living the life of a vagabond than finishing a major movie.

However, DC's trio of bad movies made more domestically than the films» production budgets.

It was fun to see a modern - day interpretation of a silent film, but it didn't bring much more to the table than that gimmick, and it doesn't hold a special place as a memorable and impactful movie the way its fellow nominees «The Tree of Life,» «Midnight in Paris,» and «Moneyball» do.

«It may be that film or technology products are aiming for more breakthrough products or are offering more complicated rewards (a completed movie or gadget, rather than a band t - shirt), and are thus at a higher risk of failure,» says Mollick.

Looking out on the next decade, Jobs may well be asking himself a variation of that very question: After creating more than $ 150 billion in shareholder wealth, transforming movies, telecom, music, and computing (and profoundly influencing the worlds of retail and design), what should Steve Jobs do next?

Starting today, if you own a pair of Google Glass or other computerized glasses and wear them to the movie theater then you may be more than just a jerk.

Finally, here is a Marvel movie about something other than the destruction of worlds.

Women purchase more tablets, laptops and smartphones; download more music, movies and games; make the majority of household technology purchasing decisions; and utilize devices and services, from games to social media, more than their male counterparts, according to research over the past two years from the market intelligence firm Park Associates.

Doug Renfro, president of Renfro Foods in Fort Worth, has his public relations firm send about 200 cases a year of his salsas and dips out to movie sets in the hopes they'll do more than be scarfed down by the cast and crew.

It's hoping that when everyone watches video on portable devices, the economic advantage of owning networks and a movie studio will be different than it has been for previous owners.

Hudson Square Research analyst Jeffrey Logsdon points out that this year's movie crop is smaller than in the summer of 2013, but the bigger factor behind the current summer slump could be quality.

The three subsequent films in the series grossed more than $ 310 million on a total budget of $ 55 million, according to the movie finance site The Numbers.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

Next year, Netflix is expected to spend upwards of $ 6 billion producing more than 1,200 hours of movies, TV shows, documentaries, and children's television programs.

«We believe that movies made for the cinema are different than movies made for home content,» says Fithian, the head of the theater owners» trade group.

Walt Disney, one of the original naysayers, bought George Lucas» production company, Lucasfilm, in 2012 for over $ 4 billion, considerably more than they would have had to pay if they had just said yes to the first movie, whose budget was $ 11 million.

Anime Strike offers advertising - free streaming of more than 1,000 anime titles, including popular series from Japanese television like Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga and Scum's Wish, as well as movies like Akira and Paprika.

Of course, if they had just said «yes» to the first movie, they would have had a ground floor opportunity to own the whole enchilada, but hey — better six episodes late than never.

Case in point: a family that used to spend hundreds per month going out to the movies can now binge - watch all four seasons of House of Cards on Netflix in 30 days for less than the cost of a large popcorn.