Sentences with phrase «than the first film in»

Although the film had a bigger opening weekend ($ 91,608,337) than the first film in this reboot ($ 62,004,688) is has underperformed in comparison to the original making $ 202,853,933 domestically.

Not exact matches

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).

Before creating the first Stars Wars movie in the 1970's, George Lucas planned for at least six films and started at episode four, rather than episode one.

It's closer to an immersive film than a fully interactive simulation, but as Fortune reported when we first checked in on StriVR in 2015, research shows that seeing real humans in action helps the brain refine its timing and stay focused.

The film, about the first caveman family, performed better than the release of «How to Train Your Dragon» back in March 2010.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Sony is already prepping a sequel, which would be the first in Washington's more than 30 - year film career.

Saudi Arabia publicly screened its first movie in more than 30 years over the weekend, but moviegoers were subjected to one of 2017's worst films.

Peretti first points to a company that started more than 100 years ago, Paramount Pictures, which owned a film production studio, its own cast of talent, and its own distribution channel in the form of theaters.

From the Cabaret Voltaire to Andy Warhol's Factory, from the silent film comedians to the Beatles, from the first comic - strip artists to the present managers of the Underground, the apolitical have made much more radical progress in dealing with the media than any grouping of the Left.

The sins revealed in these first three scripture passages are blockbusters — betrayal, idolatry, adultery and violence — the raw material for larger - than - life stories and films.

This is also the conclusion of the film — so more significant than it ending with Dylan «s first performance in Greenwich Village, is it ending (and beginning) on the evening of the day of the abortion, the one that really happens.

A: It's easy to tell on the first page if a film is taking its characters seriously, rather than as punchlines in and of themselves.

Hein added that, with the tax credit in place, Ulster County stood to be even more competitive than other Hudson Valley communities like Poughkeepsie and Newburgh due to its status as the first county beyond New York City where film productions are not subject to the state's MTA tax.

«In the fine liquid film surrounding the hyphae, bacteria can move with much greater speed and direction and cover more distance than in soil water without hyphae,» says Tom Berthold, first author of the study and a doctoral researcher at the UFZ Department of Environmental MicrobiologIn the fine liquid film surrounding the hyphae, bacteria can move with much greater speed and direction and cover more distance than in soil water without hyphae,» says Tom Berthold, first author of the study and a doctoral researcher at the UFZ Department of Environmental Microbiologin soil water without hyphae,» says Tom Berthold, first author of the study and a doctoral researcher at the UFZ Department of Environmental Microbiology.

But in an age where many films owe more to CGI wizardry than sharp camera work, requests for realistic simulations of melting, freezing, crystal growth and so on come up «more often than you might at first expect», says Christopher Batty, who researches computer graphics at Columbia University in New York City.

Betty White, credited as the first woman to produce a sitcom, has been in the film and television industry for more than 75 years.

As an actor, he continued to act or appear in more than 20 movies between 1976 and 2011 with the first film Stay Hungry released in 1976.

The film begins with the first female hominoid, treads through the egalitarian neolithic era, past the ancient age of literacy, and into the roots of the patriarchy: a world that values men on a higher level than women because of the need for physical strength in agriculture and military force.

I had thought the film was going to start two hours before it did, and it was my first week in a new role at work, so I've been doing extra hours and waking up almost two hours earlier than I normally do.

While the phrase «Netflix and chill,» may be, in some communities, a metaphor for more than movie watching, sometimes you really do want to share a first date over a great film.

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The first half of the film is an inventive, intense study of aging and class struggle in a youthocracy only just a bit more pitiless than ours today.

The troupe's first film in more than a decade, is a more aggressively absurd antidote to what it calls «a hard, cynical world.»

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.

Seldom having more than a scene or two in any film (his first was 1932's Fires of Fate, his last was 1974's 11 Harrowhouse), Morton nonetheless made the most of his limited screen time in such quality productions as Scott of the Antarctic (1949), Richard III (1956), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Young Winston (1971).

I don't know if it's the pixel count, or the rendering algorithms, or something new the animators have been smoking, but the «realism» of the characters and environments is quite strikingly more vivid than in either of the first films.

There's an amusing love triangle (certainly more involving than what was witnessed in the recent «Twilight» saga), commentary on waning humanism through tyrannical rule, and an unveiling of the supremely negative influences of politically slanted media, primarily as it defines celebrity — but it's all buried deep beneath basic adventures of wilderness survival that are curiously manipulated back into the script for a twist and return to the first film's plot.

Freeman (director Jackson's first choice for the title role) is inspired casting as Bilbo Baggins, and makes for a more likeable protagonist than Wood's rather other - worldly Frodo (who, along with Holm as the older Bilbo, makes an appearance in the film's opening framing story).

The scariest thing to be found in this pointless horror film is that its director, Rob Schmidt, has less prowess as a genre filmmaker in his third film than Eli Roth did in his first.

Originally planned as a single film, Kill Bill grew into an epic - scale two - part project totaling more than four hours in length; as with the first film, Kill Bill Vol.

Colin Farrell stars as Doug Quaid — the role originally played by Arnold Schwarzenegger — while Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel are also along for a sci - fi story about implanted memories that says earthbound, rather than venturing to Mars as in the first film.

There should be a little more horror than a couple of shots in the first hour and then a few poorly filmed kill scenes at the end.

While weed was a big part of the comic misunderstandings that fueled the plot of the first movie, and works in similar fashion here as well, the fact is that both films operate on a higher plane than an awful lot of sludgy spliff flicks.

The Hangover series comes to a merciful close with an installment that's at least a slight improvement over its immediate predecessor, with the narrative, thankfully, going in a slightly different direction than the first two films (ie there's no actual hangover this time around).

This is, in some ways, more powerful than the book, as the first film was.

But she also felt she had found a calling greater even than her earliest wish, to be the first black American woman to play classical piano at Carnegie Hall: «I could sing to help my people,» she says in the film, «and that became the mainstay of my life.»

The very first image in the film is of the blood - sprayed bathroom wall of one evictee who preferred to take his life rather than exit his property.

In fact, the first half of «Mississippi Grind» almost plays out as an unofficial remake of the 1974 film, sharing more than a few character traits and story beats in commoIn fact, the first half of «Mississippi Grind» almost plays out as an unofficial remake of the 1974 film, sharing more than a few character traits and story beats in commoin common.

Considerably tamer than previous Nymphomaniac chapter previews, this tease for «Chapter 7: The Mirror» is described thusly on the film's website, «The image you see in a mirror will at first glance seem like an exact replica of the object you're looking at.

This film is funnier than the first, but in no way is it better.

First, by focusing on Graham and her Post rather than the actions of Daniel Ellsberg (played here by Matthew Rhys), who leaked the Pentagon Papers, or the New York Times, which initially published them, the film opens itself up to dissect gender roles in the power structures of that time.

The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.

Possibly one of the most uncalled for sequels in history, «Madagascar: Ecape 2 Africa» is a much better film than the first, and not just slightly.

The first spoken word is almost a half hour into the film, and there's less than 40 minutes of dialogue in the entire film.

The three strangers each play a different role in their game — Dollface interacts with the family first, knocking on the door and entering the home at lot earlier than in the original film.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, kicks Paths of Glory off with an admittedly less - than - engrossing stretch, as the movie boasts (or suffers from) a somewhat talky first act that doesn't contain much in the way of compelling elements - although, by that same token, it's clear that the film benefits substantially from Kubrick's stellar directorial choices and a host of above - average performances.

It's ultimately clear, however, that Fear and Desire simply isn't able to justify its feature - length running time (ie the whole thing feels padded - out even at 61 minutes), with the movie's less - than - consistent vibe paving the way for a second half that could hardly be less interesting or anti-climactic - which does, in the end, confirm the film's place as a fairly ineffective first effort that does, at least, highlight the eye - catching visual sensibilities of its preternaturally - talented director.

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

At the center of the film, however, is a story that not only functions as true continuation of the events in the original, allowing the characters to grow and change in different ways than the first chapter, it's surprisingly emotionally engaging and resonant.