Sentences with phrase «time about making a movie»

Lorene Scafaria had threatened her mother for a long time about making a movie based on their relationship and calling it THE MEDDLER.

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Not only is «Blockers» one of the few women - directed movies coming from a major studios this year, but it's sex - positive message about consent and societal pressures around people losing their virginity make it an incredible feat in the midst of the #MeToo and Time's Up movement.

The movie was relatively successful at the box office — especially considering it was made on a budget of about $ 6.5 million — but it was still the lowest - grossing winner since 1987's The Last Emperor at the time.

After all, there's a reason why a movie about an eccentric scientist who transforms a beat - up DeLorean into a make - shift time machine has become one of the most iconic films of all time.

«Laurene asked me how much time I needed to make a movie, and I told her about a year and a half,» Mr. Guggenheim said.

That means there wasn't anything to those Matt Damon rumors, which would have made this movie about a hundred times better...

According to Gerwig, the only way to make an authentic movie about teenagers and not have them constantly interacting with mobile devices was simply to move the plot back in time to the pre-smartphone era when interaction had to be more face to face.

You made my week (month...) ❤️ — just loved reading about your detailed adventures in the kitchen — complete with movie time — and the frank description of your cousins reactions:) the best!!

She plugged in new x-ray snapshots of p53 fragments and beefed up her program to make a movie of the quivering activity of each of the protein's 1.6 million atoms over a full microsecond, an eternity on the atomic scale that required about a month of supercomputer time.

By the time I press «play» (and, yeah, I watch my movie about five times in a row right then and there), I feel satisfied and can't wait to share what I made with my friends.

He made movies about teenagers because that is the most scary time in our lives.

So you may talk about some topics about how to make a living, or how do they enjoy family time, hobbies, movies, celebrities and everything else that make both of you feel ease.

It is also about the time before and after the movie that make the date.

And here, as in last year's I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Sandler interestingly attempts to blend genuine social commentary with copious gross - out humor in much the same way that Mel Brooks did in Blazing Saddles (a movie that, beyond the beans - around - the - campfire gags, wore its heart so firmly on its sleeve in favor of racial brotherhood that it stopped just short of singing «Kumbaya» to its audience); Sandler, who's admirably never been shy about proudly proclaiming his Jewishness, takes on xenophobia, suggests that Israelis and Palestinians CAN get along and — most controversially of all, perhaps — makes a case that disco music CAN be enjoyable in the right time and place.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

Good: Starscream is a lot cooler in this movie, Best computer - graphics for any movie to date, Original Optimus voice, Bumblebee vs. Barricade scene was awesome, Decent story, but the Unicron story is a million times better Bad: No Hot Rod or Soundwave, Shia LeBeouf, Ending, Futile attempts to connect to classic scenes, lines and concepts, No Stan Bush soundtrack, Some immature humor ruined a lot of the movie for me, Poor dialogue I really expected a lot from this movie and am very critical about my feelings towards it - Overall Michael Bay made a good movie, but he made it appeal to the masses (immature jokes and a lot of action) and it gave up a lot of other crucial aspects to the story and quality of the Transformers franchise.

Though likely to be variously praised and pilloried as a pro-choice film, Weitz's film is really a movie about choice in both the specific and the abstract — about the choices we make, for good and for ill, and how we come to feel about them through the prism of time.

Once upon a time, a movie about the Pentagon Papers could have been framed as a cautionary tale, but now it only makes sense as an unabashed crowdpleaser.

Such are the layered joys of this exuberant — if surprisingly conventional — buddy comedy about the making of the worst movie of all time.

As Lucy's body and mind are rapidly evolving, her individual cells want to fall off on their own — bits of her start flying away in the airplane washroom — and she knows she has about 24 hours to stay alive, which makes this one of those time - ticking movies like Crank or Speed.

At times it is, yet it's also transfixing and extraordinarily touching — the most hauntingly honest movie about old age ever made.

The subtext is all about class dispossession, but a movie in which a character is stupid enough to propose a big - time bank robbery so that his gang can make it into the news («the big show») is pushing it.

This is typical bad movie, everything about it is bad, the plot ridiculously vulgar, full of holes and end meaningless horribly stereotyped characters, the abuse of the same song for several times, the glamorization of the dance scenes has no limits provalmente this is the most pointless films already made.

Other friends had made similar comments — either about the timing of the film, or whether it was right to make a movie about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing at all.

«Joe and I always talk about it, there's this filmmaking adage that goes, «You make a movie three times over: when you write it, when you shoot it, and when you edit it,»» Anthony Russo added.

Finally, William Hurt made a stunning comeback in «A History of Violence,» all but stealing the movie in about ten minutes of screen time.

For another, it's not in the nature of movies to reflect the times so quickly: it took 15 years of development and rewriting as well as the invention of new technologies to make Benjamin Button possible, and although Milk came together with remarkable speed and focus under its producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, the idea of making a biopic about Harvey Milk, who was killed in 1978, has been around for so long that at one point, Dustin Hoffman, now 71, was touted to play the role that eventually went to Sean Penn (who is 48).

It's about time somebody made a genuinely good movie based on a video game, so why not Michael Fassbender and director Justin Kurzel?

Daveed Diggs made an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night (November 21) and dished all about his tear - jerking new movie Wonder, which caused him to cry quite a few times.

At the time, many of us knew nothing about the director other than the fact that he'd made a monster movie that was more than a monster movie but since then, he's become a recognizable name (at least among film fans) and the announcement of a new project brought much joy to my heart.

Paul and I had talked about making a movie specifically in this process for a long period of time, so the first idea that came in my mind was having him as this Alvin character and then thinking about who would be an interesting counterpart with him.

This week brings the latest Zack Snyder opus to the big screen, which led to the news that Snyder really wants to make Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead into a movie, which led all of us to talk about the last time Snyder put his id on rampant display: Sucker Punch.

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

On Robert Bresson [New York Times] The great French filmmaker Robert Bresson (1901 - 1999) not only made movies but also gave instructions about how his films might be watched and thought about.

On Episode 5, Ross and Kyle weigh their picks for the best movies of the year against the Oscar nominees, then talk about that time Paul Newman made a movie...

I know there's little to no middle - ground (Although the last time I heard this complaint, it was from Seth Rogan or Judd Apatow or someone else who isn't in any position to be complaining about not getting to make shit movies), but it's not like the five or so major studios release 60 movies a year and then act like we should be grateful for the scraps.

Deadpool was a surprise hit for the studio: After Reynolds spent years lobbying to get a standalone Deadpool movie made, the film about the «Merc with the Mouth» ended up becoming the highest grossing rated - R film of all time.

To some, James Franco's adaptation of Greg Sestero's chronicle of the making of Tommy Wiseau's The Room is a funny story about a kooky aspiring filmmaker making the worst movie of all time.

Emily Bronte's novel is one of the most unsettling books you'll ever read, so it's about time a filmmaker made a darkly disturbing movie out of it.

It would be an understatement to point out that the time is ripe for Spielberg to make a movie all about the freedom of the press, given who is sitting in the Oval Office.

Miyazaki the all time classic My Neighbor Totoro, perhaps the most universal movie about discovery and play ever made, while Takahata would make one of the greatest (and saddest) anti-war movies in the history of cinema, The Grave of the Fireflies.

When speaking about her film adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time last fall at the Vulture festival, director Ava DuVernay told a crowd, «I'm trying to make a Lynn Shelton movie, just on a larger budget.»

And Dylan Farrow's open letter, in which the 28 - year - old wrote for the first time about the allegations first made 21 years ago during a custody battle between Allen and Mia Farrow, not only opened by saying that Allen «sexually assaulted» Farrow, but it called out Blanchett by name, along with stars of other Allen movies.

«I think more than anything I've tried to use my time outside of the movies to make my friends know that it's safe to speak about the things they care about.

When a movie isn't blockbuster fodder, getting it made is all about timing.

Around the time the cast of Thor: Ragnarok was making the publicity rounds for the Marvel Studios sequel, cast member Tessa Thompson revealed that she and the rest of the female stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe talked to Kevin Feige about a possible all - female superhero team - up movie.

Fortunately for us, we made a movie that is a comedy in a time that I think a lot of people need some levity, but it's also just an unapologetic love story, a buddy story about following your dreams.

I give the team behind the new sports movie, «When the Game Stands Tall» a lot of credit for pulling - off something nearly impossible: they've made a film about the most successful high school football team of all - time that's about as exciting as a 0 - 0 tie in an NFL exhibition game.

The Time Stone is rumored to be the crux of the forthcoming Doctor Strange which makes a lot of sense; magic toys belong in a movie about magic people.

Sure, some of the jokes falter and the film pales in comparison to some of the early Farrelly productions, but this was a movie made about diehard Red Sox fans who had watched their team lose time and time again.