Sentences with phrase «third biggest film»
(The movie ended up being the third biggest film of the year.)
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With the exception of the third film, «Tokyo Drift,» each opening weekend has been bigger than the last.
It comes right out of Disney's film productions, a place where we meet animated «real - life» versions of goodness personified (Snow White, the third Little Pig, Dumbo, Pollyanna) and the essence of evil (the Wicked Queen, the Big Bad Wolf)-- and thus learn to divide the world into good and evil, watching goodness triumph with a smile and a song.
During Wednesday's film session, he watched Virginia Tech's successful blitz pick - up, including a third - down screen breaking for big yardage.
PG - 13 films account for nearly two - thirds of the smoking scenes adolescents see on the big screen, according to the two - year study, which surveyed roughly 5,000 children ages 10 to 14 about the movies they'd seen and whether they'd ever tried a cigarette.
Series creator Chris Carter has even written a third entry in the franchise's film department and, based on what the ratings will be like, we'll probably see more X-Files in the future, whether in terms of more episodes or a big blockbuster of a movie.
Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days by Big Star Games is a third - person top - down shooter with few connections to Quentin Tarantino's film other than it being about gangsters with color - coded names; and yet Bloody Days partially succeeds in its aspiration to revive a classic for crime and gangster films, while offering a time - rewind mechanics that helps the game distinct itself from the pool of titles in the top - down shooter category.
This 1953 tear - jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big.
The film's opening scenes establish that he's welshed on many debts and unlikely to hit a big payday with any of the third - rate tin cans he puts into the ring.
Two — Guardians of the Galaxy and the animated Big Hero 6 — are riskier bets on less - proven Marvel characters, and a third (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) is a sequel to one of the worst - performing films in the new Marvel franchise.
Once the covetous pair realize the true explanation, they turn on Mary and insist that she reveal where she found the Witch's Flower, sparking a big finale in which they kidnap Peter and attempt to transform him into the kind of malevolent shape - shifter so often encountered in the third act of anime films (such as «Akira's» all - consuming atomic mass).
So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.
According to Box Office Mojo, the latest Spidey film had 2017's third biggest preview night, following Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 10, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.
Only the third film that the acclaimed actor has made as a director (after 2002's Antwone Fisher and his last, 2007's The Great Debaters), Washington certainly had familiarity with August Wilson's beloved Pulitzer Prize - winning material when he decided to bring it to the big screen; the actor won a Tony Award of his own for starring in the 2010 revival of the production, to go along with the play's Tony for Best Revival (and the many that it won during its first run on stage in 1987).
That this seems to come from nowhere is the big surprise — the disappointingly generic first two thirds of the film suggest this outcome is less than likely.
Not that I am really surprised — all great Superhero films come in threes — Marvel announced today the two writers that will be bring Mjolnir back to the big screen in the third installment of the Thor franchise!
The global cultural phenomenon of «Black Panther» has dominated the box office charts emerging as the third biggest movie of all time domestically with over $ 665 million — the first film in eight years to spend five weeks at No. 1 — and rising to the global top 10 of all time with over $ 1.3 billion.
We must also give kudos to Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who share a writing nomination for «The Big Sick,» a film that hasn't gotten enough awards season love; Kazuhiro Tsuji, who is nominated, for the third time, this year for the «Darkest Hour» makeup; and Agnès Varda and James Ivory who, at 89, are our oldest nominees this year (and the oldest on record), for the documentary «Faces Places» and adapted screenplay of «Call Me by Your Name,» respectively.
There is a bit of drama thrown in toward the last third of the movie that drags the film down a bit, but it quickly picks up once the big stunt is underway.
Friday totals for Marvel's big crossover edged «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» with $ 106 million, becoming only the third film with a $ 100 - million plus opening day
The big news this week was that Harrison Ford will join the Expendables for their third film adventure.
Avengers: Infinity War, the third entry in the Avengers cycle («the greatest cinematic event of our lifetimes» might sound like hyperbole, but it's closer to the truth than not), confirms Thanos (voiced and mo - capped by Josh Brolin), the purple - skinned, scrotal - chinned, big - muscled bodybuilder with a God Complex not just as probably the greatest supervillain put on film, but quite possibly the first Malthusian supervillain in or out of the Marvel Industrial Complex.
Some were concerned that the first part of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, which followed the tone of early chapters in Suzanne Collins» third book, was a little lacking in action for the opening half of the films» big finish.
7 — McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD), Robert Altman's third film since staking out his claim on 1970s cinema with M * A * S * H (1970), turns the western myth into a metaphor for the fantasy of the American Dream colliding with the power of big business.
The only departure here is that the film only spends a third of its running time in New York, though since his most recent movies have seen his scripts relocated to Europe, this isn't that big a change, I guess.
Strange and Mordo meet because they have the same teacher, the Ancient One, and he's the third big character for the film.
Not many people would have been willing to wager before the start of the summer movie season that «The Avengers» would emerge as the best superhero film of the year (especially with «The Dark Knight Rises» still to come), but Marvel's big gamble proved everyone wrong, making beaucoup bucks at the box office on its way to becoming the third highest grossing movie of all - time.
Third biggest movie of all time domestically with over $ 665 million — the first film in eight years to spend five weeks at No. 1 — and rising to the global top 10 of all time with over $ 1.3 billion.
One of the big ones is Killing Them Softly, the third feature film from Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) that was formerly titled Cogan's Trade.
The film was a much bigger performer outside the US, where it made more than two - thirds of its money.
The third part is little more than a fight against creatures that are a bigger threat to both sides than each other, but the momentum of the first two sections carries the film through its relatively anticlimactic final act.
A big - budget, high - quality animated film this early in the year is rare, and while this third chapter of Po the Panda, Master Shifu and the Furious Five doesn't quite live - up to the original, it's fast, furry - ous, and a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.
The Moore Egyptian Theatre performed heroically and made their Third Seattle International Film Festival the biggest yet; that it wasn't the best says as much about the enervation of the international film scene as it does about the festival programming, but even at that, the Moore served up more of the year's most satisfying and / or provocative films than anyone else.
It's also surprising, since Murray has been the big hold - out on new Ghostbusters films — he famously joked about shredding a script for the third outing of the original cast and has been hesitant thanks to his misgivings over Ghostbusters II.
The film's final act sees Jep on a big assignment, in which he is supposed to get to conduct only the third ever interview with Sister Maria (Giusi Merli), a 103 - year - old missionary from Africa widely revered as «The Saint.»
Guadagnino considers Call Me By Your Name to be the third in trilogy of films he has made including I Am Love and A Bigger Splash, and in our conversation he gives the specific reasons why they are so connected.
It's likely that the third film in the Guardians trilogy will be the launchpad for what Marvel is calling «Phase 4» — this means the next big chunk of Marvel films — and to put it in context, we're about to enter the meaty bit of Phase 3, which includes Black Panther, Infinity War and the fourth Avengers film.
Mockingjay was the third volume in the Hunger Games literary trilogy but it's been turned into two films on the big screen — the second of which will arrive in theaters late in 2015.
Lubezki (who probably will and should win a third straight Oscar for his work on this film) is a big reason for the effectiveness, beautifully capturing and making you feel the harsh conditions and environments that are present.
But, beyond that, director / co-writer Ryan Coogler («Creed,» «Fruitvale Station») has created a remarkable film that stays within the strictures of the big - budget superhero movie - including a hiss - worthy villain and the dreaded, CGI - saturated third act - but athletically pushes against the boundaries with the grace and skill of a Michael Jordan layup.
Kyle Patrick Alvarez — «The Stanford Prison Experiment» While it's the third feature film from Alvarez, «The Stanford Prison Experiment,» a retelling of the infamous 1971 psychology experiment pioneered by Dr Philip Zimbardo, sees him take a big leap in terms of craft and directorial authority.
Guadagnino, who directed I Am Love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015), sees it as the conclusion of a trilogy, although its links with its predecessors are tenuous: the first film involved a wild affair, the second a charged summer in an Italian villa, and Tilda Swinton, who starred in both, helped cast the third.
It feels like something really, really big would have to come between them for their relationship to crumble, and the film fails to come up with anything special to cause the type of third quarter rift that we all expect in romcoms.
It's a big third act reveal that should have happened earlier in the film.
The third instalment of the Marvel superhero team's big screen adventures is set to hit cinemas next year — with filming taking place recently in Edinburgh.
He has been a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since he was first teased in the mid-credits scene of 2012's The Avengers, and since then he has made sporadic appearances to build up to his big arrival in the third Avengers film.
Until the surprising but inevitable third act, that's about as much plot as there is in «A Bigger Splash,» a film that's driven far more by atmosphere and character.
The third act moves us away from the love story, into bigger issues of manipulation and trust, but this 90 - minute film doesn't have the patience or the experience to tackle anything beyond a fleeting teen romance.
Instead, this languid film, known as the third and final instalment in Guadagnino's «Desire Trilogy», after I Am Love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015), is full of quiet moments and subtle gestures.