Sentences with phrase «thing the movie industry»

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Speaking of the investigative journalism - focused movie to win the most recent Best Picture Oscar, Oliver said: «One of the things that made Spotlight so powerful is the knowledge that the newspaper industry today is in big trouble.»

It's so strange how things from this movie have evolved, but still stay current in todays» beauty and fashion industry.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

In many ways this is indie actor Sean Harris talking to Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise, and Ethan's reply is perfect - whether it be about the state of global power or the state of the movie industry - you can't blame The System as though it is a thing that exists outside of us.

For someone who follows the industry, the most interesting thing about this reboot is that it comes from George Miller, who directed and co-wrote all three of the previous movies in the series originally released between 1979 and 1985.

One could say rhetorically that after 1978 the movies had nowhere to go but up; but rhetoric is one thing and the art - industry's capacity for self - degradation quite another.

It's the only sensible thing anyone says in either this movie or America's Sweethearts, a clunky ribbing of the movie industry, and whoever was making the big choices about these pictures should have taken it as advice.

This is the kind of thing the industry says they want — it's original, not a superhero movie, was made on a tiny budget and succeeded beyond anyone's expectations.

Apparently, Liam Neeson's favorite new thing that doesn't involve starring in largely interchangeable action movies is making public statements that somehow walk the line between being supportive of women in the entertainment industry while also being dismissive of the issues that he seems to support.

The 32 - year - old also mentioned that when she first started out in the industry there were «very few female - led movies and even fewer female directors» - but things are changing.

Casting: Whether you like or dislike the man or his movies, the one thing you can't argue with is the respect he has garnered from actors, writers, directors and everybody else involved in the movie industry.

The film only won two Oscars, including Best Adapted Screenplay for Blatty, But it proved to be such a critical and commercial sensation that the movie overcame the industry's marginalization of stories about things that go bump in the night (and cause heads to do complete 360 - degree rotations).

I preferred the former for such self - deprecating but on - target observations from Del Toro as, «My favourite thing in life is things in jars,» but the Goyer / Snipes pairing yields its share of rewards, including Snipes's revelation that for as many movies as he's appeared in, he was still shocked to learn how the film industry operates from a producer's perspective.

But, as we know from many things, including the entertainment industry's persistent neglect of black and Latino audiences and its slowness to greenlight superhero movies with female leads, Hollywood is not the purely rational business it likes to make itself out to be.

«So not only could I teach myself his voice, but I could hear him in these very private moments talking about the things that matter to him, or being negatively singled out in acting classes, or feeling discouraged by Los Angeles and the industry, and even early plans to make a movie of his own.

«The post-Super Bowl weekend frame traditionally gets things on the right track for the industry as new titles breathe life into the typically decelerated movie marketplace, and this year will be no exception with «Fifty Shades Freed,» «15:17 To Paris» and «Peter Rabbit» all set to get people hopping off their couches and back into the movie theater,» Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with comScore, said.

Same thing with the movie industry.

Since the early days of gaming we have gotten to experience the future before anyone else, same thing with the movie industry, the future can be scary simply because it is something completely new and when you make a game within this category you are basically free to do whatever you want simply because nobody knows what the future hold.

A movie that gets so many things right, with the backing of the biggest movie studios in the world, can still fall victim to the crushing workflow of the visual effects industry.

This generation can do the same thing with social issues, products, movies, and with the real estate industry.