Sentences with phrase «than successful film»

The term «mogul» on the 4Runner's headliner - mounted control panel apparently refers to wandering, uneven terrain like washed - out ditches and ruts, rather than successful film or recording execs — good to know.

Two less than successful film producers, approaching mid-life crisis and clinging to their nerdy sci - fi obsessions, suddenly meet their idol: William Shatner.

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.

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.