Sentences with phrase «trilogy of films set»

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.

Not exact matches

Abrams sets about crafting a film that is, in every way, true to the spirit of what made the original trilogy such a delight.

Set 60 years prior to the beginning of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the film follows a young Bilbo Baggins (this time played by the ever likable Martin Freeman) who lives a happy and quiet life in the Shire.

American Pie Presents The Naked Mile's latter half, as a result, moves along at a plodding pace that's compounded by an episodic structure, as the movie lurches from one ill - conceived set - piece to the next with little thought towards momentum or consistency - which inevitably does confirm the film's place as just another interminable waste of time designed to cash in on the original trilogy's success.

Yet, despite the good acting, the middle section of the film, set at the Capitol, is attenuated and rhythmless — the filmmakers seem to be touching all the bases so that the trilogy's readers won't miss anything.

And the fact that the film, much like Spotlight, the Arabian Nights Trilogy, and Anomalisa, is very much pitched at an adult level, instead of going aiming for the «teenager» set (and I'm not just talking Jurassic World / Marvel / StarWars, I do believe a lot of Oscar - Bait is pitched at that simple level of easy digestion, Carol is not.

This is awesome stuff, and Nolan's trilogy is a pretty special set of films.

Based on Veronica Roth's trilogy of best - selling novels, the «Divergent» films are set in a walled, post-apocalyptic Chicago, where survivors are ritualistically sorted into five factions.

It's set to launch a new trilogy of «Fast & Furious» films, with the ninth installment due on April 19, 2019 and the tenth on April 2, 2021.

But although the film earned better than decent reviews, he returned to his home country for what is meant to be the second film of a «crime trilogy» set in Belgium.

10 Cloverfield Lane established the film's anthological style by acting as a psychological horror film set in the same universe (it's the best of the trilogy).

I'll provide a complete inventory below, but the point is that the main attraction of this set, other than the HiDef presentation of the trilogy itself, is a 7 - part, feature - length HD documentary spread across the three films / platters called Tales from the Future.

Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.&raquOf Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.&raquof the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.&raquof his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»

When Twentieth Century Fox and producer Lauren Shuler Donner brought director Bryan Singer back into the X-Men film universe with X-Men: First Class - a movie Singer was originally set to direct - little did we know that the man behind the first two X-Men films would end up working on an entire new trilogy of series installments.

«The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I,» which is the third installment in the acclaimed film adaptation series of the hit «Hunger Games» book trilogy, is set to open on November 21 in theaters nationwide.

The highly acclaimed and sparsely seen trilogy of films made by Pedro Costa in the impoverished Fontainhas neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon debuts on DVD in Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films By Pedro Costa (Criterion), a generous box set from Criterion featuring Ossos (1997), In Vanda's Room (2000) and Colossal Youth (2006).

In the new «Star Wars» spinoff film «Solo: A Star Wars Story,» in theaters May 25, Alden Ehrenreich plays a younger version of Harrison Ford's swaggering, swashbuckling smuggler in an adventure set years before the events of the original trilogy.

Having tons of tweets on Park Chan - Wook I realized that by some illogical reason I had yet to see this film that was a part of his Vengeance Trilogy, and with Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance being two of my favourite revenge / Korean films, I guessed it would a good idea to complete the set.

He's always good, and this film is no exception — but this particular role is a little too close to the corrupt Northern cop he played in the Seventies / Eighties — set trilogy Red Riding (09), which leaves the character of Browning seeming a touch ready - made.

Though it centers on people of Greek extract, little, if any, of the film actually takes place on the country's soil; instead, part two of his projected trilogy, which began with 2004's The Weeping Meadow, is set in Rome, New York, Berlin, the former Soviet Union, and various other locales around the globe.

By this point, you may well be weary of hearing about «Back to the Future,» given how much press the time - travel trilogy received when the first movie hit the big 3 - 0 earlier this year, but at some point you'll find yourself wanting to revisit the fun of these three films, and that's when you'll want to have a copy of this five - disc set in your collection.

Hitting theaters this fall on November 18th, the film is the first installment in a proposed prequel trilogy set decades before the events of the popular Harry Potter films.

From the palm - prickling underworld anxiety of his Danish - language Pusher trilogy to the electro - fetish noir of his first Los Angeles - set film, Drive, sour milk and fresh meat is more or less what Nicolas Winding Refn has been serving up all along.

Many auteur directors create films that seem to exist in pocket universes as self - contained, circumscribed and minutely thought - through as the virtual - reality environment of a computer game or the fantasy setting of a paperback trilogy.

«The new film does indeed tell the same tale as J. R. R. Tolkien's lean «Rings» precursor, charting the exploits of Frodo Baggins» uncle Bilbo (Martin Freeman) some 60 years before the quest to destroy the One Ring, but the narrative soars because it also operates as something tangential to the almost - decade - old movie trilogy, setting the stage while also expanding this rich universe.

However, as The Hunger Games film series ran its course, and Divergent tanked before it could receive a final installment, The Maze Runner was originally set to debut its trilogy capper amid a dying - and incredibly narrow - genre of movies.

In setting the scene, the filmmakers take their cue from the first film in the trilogy, as Eric (Sam Rockwell) and Amy (Rosemarie DeWitt) Bowen, crippled by the financial impacts of the Great Recession, look to downsize so that they can continue adequately providing for their three kids.

Though some of the features are available on the DVD edition, the Blu - ray set The Bourne Trilogy is without doubt the best way to experience these films and to bone up before the in - development fourth entry reaches theaters.

A set of films that have to be seen to be believed, the Beaver Trilogy has become a cult classic, a password for serious film nerds.

But The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is one film for which we can't simply ask whether it lives up to expectations — by splitting the children's novel into three films, Jackson inevitably set himself up for comparison against his earlier, spectacular trilogy.

The music he created as the soundtrack to the Back to the Future trilogy remains, quite possibly, my favorite score ever set to film, while later works included the synth - heavy Flight of the Navigator, the sentimentalism of Forrest Gump & Cast Away (both part of his continued collaboration with Future director Robert Zemeckis) and more recently, heroic themes composed for Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers and the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War.

With lucrative franchise finished (for now), and with the Christopher Nolan «s Batman trilogy set to finish in 2012 with «The Dark Knight Rises,» Warner Bros. is suddenly seeing two of their biggest moneymakers waving goodbye (though yes, they do have two «The Hobbit» films in their back pocket).

The three films tell a continuous story set in Middle - earth 60 years before The Lord of the Rings, which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar ® - winning The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Give the eloquent neurotic intellectual something that will last longer than a restaurant gift card, with this copy of the Whit Stillman Criterion trilogy set, which puts the writer / director's first three films in the same box.

The they are launching this new paradigm with the three films of the Bourne trilogy, released separately for the first time on Blu - ray (the past release was as a set).

And while the conclusion to The Battle of the Five Armies ultimately feels like a bit too much table - setting for Jackson's earlier The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the ending hits a lovely, bittersweet note when Bilbo realizes, as perhaps The Lord of the Rings fans did when they came to the first two meandering Hobbit films expecting more of what Jackson had offered in his earlier trilogy, that you really can't go home again.

Disney CEO Bob Iger has confirmed the release dates for the second and third chapters of the studio's upcoming Star Wars sequel trilogy, with Get Your Geek On (via THR) quoting Iger from an annual report sent to Disney stockholders: «As one of the few people allowed to visit the set during filming... and one -LSB-...]

It is the first indication that we are in Only God Forgives or Valhalla Rising territory where static framing with and sonic force reign supereme, more - so than Drive or The Pusher Trilogy, although to be fair, both all of his films show a wonderful proficiency on setting a distinct rhythm to the storytelling.

Gore Verbinski (Pirates of The Caribbean Trilogy, The Mexican, The Ring) has been seemingly been set to direct the film.

Newly announced comic book one - shot Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Storms of Crait may sound like it's set in the era of the new films - but it's actually set during the Galactic Civil War - the original trilogy era.

Update: Australian - British film and stage actor Hugo Weaving who starred in movies such as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Little Fish, The Matrix, V for Vendetta has been cast in Jasper Jones, set to commence principal photography on 26th October in Western Australia.

The dramatic setting of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy features unspoiled awesome landscapes, lush forests, wondrous beaches, amazing wildlife and a lovely climate.

Hobbiton Tours offers the chance to see the Hobbiton Movie Set from The Lord of the Rings / Hobbit film trilogy.

Arrive into Matamata and meet your guide who will escort your group on a fun and interesting Hobbiton Movie Set and Farm Tour, providing a deeper look behind the scenes of the filming for The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

* Three Star Wars (tm) Play Sets, one set in the timeline of Episodes I - III, the second set during the original trilogy, Episodes IV - VI, and the third available this winter based on Star Wars (tm): The Force Awakens (tm) * Additional Play Sets offering distinct gameplay and environments, including a Disney * Pixar Play Set based on the upcoming film Inside Out and a Marvel Play Set featuring Hulkbuster Iron Man, Ultron, and other Marvel characters * A fully enhanced Toy Box with two new multiplayer Toy Box Expansion Games, Toy Box Speedway (kart racing) and Toy Box Takeover (action - adventure) * More figures of fan - favourite characters from across The Walt Disney Company, like Mickey and Minnie, Sam Flynn and Quorra from Tron: Legacy, Mulan and Olaf, among many othset in the timeline of Episodes I - III, the second set during the original trilogy, Episodes IV - VI, and the third available this winter based on Star Wars (tm): The Force Awakens (tm) * Additional Play Sets offering distinct gameplay and environments, including a Disney * Pixar Play Set based on the upcoming film Inside Out and a Marvel Play Set featuring Hulkbuster Iron Man, Ultron, and other Marvel characters * A fully enhanced Toy Box with two new multiplayer Toy Box Expansion Games, Toy Box Speedway (kart racing) and Toy Box Takeover (action - adventure) * More figures of fan - favourite characters from across The Walt Disney Company, like Mickey and Minnie, Sam Flynn and Quorra from Tron: Legacy, Mulan and Olaf, among many othset during the original trilogy, Episodes IV - VI, and the third available this winter based on Star Wars (tm): The Force Awakens (tm) * Additional Play Sets offering distinct gameplay and environments, including a Disney * Pixar Play Set based on the upcoming film Inside Out and a Marvel Play Set featuring Hulkbuster Iron Man, Ultron, and other Marvel characters * A fully enhanced Toy Box with two new multiplayer Toy Box Expansion Games, Toy Box Speedway (kart racing) and Toy Box Takeover (action - adventure) * More figures of fan - favourite characters from across The Walt Disney Company, like Mickey and Minnie, Sam Flynn and Quorra from Tron: Legacy, Mulan and Olaf, among many othSet based on the upcoming film Inside Out and a Marvel Play Set featuring Hulkbuster Iron Man, Ultron, and other Marvel characters * A fully enhanced Toy Box with two new multiplayer Toy Box Expansion Games, Toy Box Speedway (kart racing) and Toy Box Takeover (action - adventure) * More figures of fan - favourite characters from across The Walt Disney Company, like Mickey and Minnie, Sam Flynn and Quorra from Tron: Legacy, Mulan and Olaf, among many othSet featuring Hulkbuster Iron Man, Ultron, and other Marvel characters * A fully enhanced Toy Box with two new multiplayer Toy Box Expansion Games, Toy Box Speedway (kart racing) and Toy Box Takeover (action - adventure) * More figures of fan - favourite characters from across The Walt Disney Company, like Mickey and Minnie, Sam Flynn and Quorra from Tron: Legacy, Mulan and Olaf, among many others

Lego Force Awakens» levels which do turn to the wider Star Wars canon are brief but enjoyable exceptions from this lack of story, as they adapt novels and comic books set between the classic film trilogy and Force Awakens itself.

The LEGO Star Wars series began in March 2005 with the release of LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game on PS2 based upon the story of the prequel trilogy, while a sequel was released on PS2 and PSP in September 2006 which told the story of the original trilogy followed by LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga on PS3 in May 2007 that bundled the first two LEGO Star Wars games together, although LEGO Star Wars would return in March 2011 with a tie - in to the animated film and television series The Clone Wars on PS3 and PSP, but does LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens set a new level of quality for the LEGO Star Wars series and Star Wars focused gaming?

In April, The Criterion Collection will release a box set of Stillman's beloved trilogy of films, Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco.

Set in Paris in 1860 the film is part of a trilogy with Vexation Island, 1997 and How I became a Rambling Man, 1999.