Ahead of Memorial Day this month, we look at writing for
war films with screenwriters David Broyles, Bill Broyles, Randall Wallace and Bruce C. McKenna
I'd really love to see him work on an R rated space
war film with large budget, maybe cast Stallone as the star?
Anthony Mann's Korean
War film with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray follows a doomed platoon as they try to make their way past the (almost completely unseen) enemy.
«Behind the Battle» (6:44) describes and defends the movie's design as «
a war film with aliens» and documentary style.
His trio of interweaving narratives (by land, air, and by sea) gives a unique and holistic look to
a war film with an approach not often utilized.
Obscurely sentimental and melodramatic, this is a shitty
war film with zero horror and terrible, terrible acting and plot.
We've finally gotten a Star
Wars film with an auteur's tenor (and Johnson's use of red really resonates), and not only that but The Last Jedi hosts a bevy of badass women being smart, solving problems, kicking ass, and taking names (the aforementioned Ridley is joined by the likes of Gwendoline Christie, Laura Dern Lupita Nyong» o, Kelly Marie Tran, and a stunning final bow from Carrie Fisher each memorably offset the testosterone).
A gritty
war film with a kick ass heroine (Felicity Jones), a delightful new robot (K - 2SO), and an international cast of rogues who set out to steal the plans to the Death Star.
Not exact matches
This is more than the Cold
War's simple fixation on Russian villains, however,
with StudioCanal producing, for example, «The Tracking of a Russian Spy,» which sees Logan Lerman play a journalist who travels to Russia and becomes a tool of the Kremlin, in a
film which sets out to tackle ideas of fake news and disinformation campaigns.
In collaboration
with Lynn Novick, Burns» new 10 - part documenatry
film series The Vietnam
War will debut on September 17 on PBS stations nationwide.
Her iconic Princess Leia is set to appear in the next two «Star
Wars»
films, and insiders tell The Hollywood Reporter that at least two key scenes are planned for «Episode VIII» (Dec. 15) and «Episode IX» (2019): a Leia reunion
with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and a confrontation
with Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), her son who killed Harrison Ford's Han Solo in 2015's «The Force Awakens.»
As he and collaborator Lynn Novick prepare to debut their new 10 - part documentary
film series The Vietnam
War on September 17 on PBS stations nationwide, we spoke
with the tireless documentarian about leadership, productivity, managing gigantic projects and how to achieve immortality through storytelling.
According to Headlines & Global News, the
film industry ended the year
with more than $ 11 billion in domestic box office sales, buoyed by heavy hitters like Rogue One: A Star
Wars Story, Deadpool and Zootopia.
«The Star
Wars films are so famous that it is extremely unlikely that consumers would believe that Starballz is associated
with Star
Wars or Lucasfilm,» said the judge.
«The intent
with the «Infinity
War»
films is to bring 10 years of accumulative storytelling to an incredible climax.
Netflix was also shut out in the award show's
film categories,
with the streaming service's original feature
film Mudbound failing to win either of its two nominations, while the Cambodian Civil
War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short in the foreign
film category.
The directors are going to experiment
with the technology for the action scenes in «Captain America: Civil
War,» which is currently
filming in Atlanta.
The Force remains strong
with the new Star
Wars movie, which is on track to top $ 1 billion in global ticket sales this weekend, making it the fastest - ever
film to reach that level.
There's a lot to pack into the movie, and even more will be coming next year
with an untitled fourth «Avengers» movie that was
filmed back - to - back
with «Infinity
War.»
EASTWOOD: Well that was an interesting project because Steven had asked me to do Flags of Our Fathers and so I was having a meeting
with him and we were talking about that
war and that battle and I was going off into Iceland to
film the beaches because Iceland has black sand much like Iwo Jima does.
Fans had issues
with it too, and the second installment in the trilogy, 2002's» Attack of the Clones,» won the dubious distinction of being the least commercially successful
film in the «Star
Wars» canon.
J.J. Abrams, the director of the new Star
Wars films, has shown from the beginning of the project that he himself is a big fan of the franchise and that he values and respects the responsibility that goes
with directing the movie.
«Infinity
War» will have to close the gap
with a few other
films.
Disney Infinity was never presented simply as a game but as a platform, a central interactive playground
with connected level packs featuring distinct, iconic characters from major Disney, Marvel and Star
Wars films.
The thin -
film maker topped $ 1 billion in quarterly revenue
with impressive profitability and a strong
war chest as it continues its retooling for Series 6.
Coupled
with Disney's already well - known properties, including «Star
Wars» and Marvel's hit
films, the additions create a new pipeline of content for Disney's forthcoming streaming service — a key aspect of its strategy to sell direct to consumers instead of through the pay TV ecosystem that has long fueled the media industry.
Disney has one of its biggest movie slates for FY2018
with Ant Man and The Wasp, The Avengers: Infinity
War, Solo: A Star
Wars Story, The Incredibles 2 and Mulan (live action
film) around the corner.
In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World
War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror
film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk»
with $ 176 million in domestic sales.
The
film is also clear that JPII did not see the Cold
War in terms of Evil Empire A v. Evil Empire B; instead, he sided
with the Americans over the Soviets.
And the British people in May 1940, as more accurately shown in a 1958
film about Dunkirk, were filled
with doubts about the
war.
Questions such as whether torture is permissible in Tolkien's world view, whether
war is glorified (
with a side - debate about how the
films differ from the books in this respect), and how victory and defeat are characterised, are worth considering and will encourage readers to think more deeply about LOTR and appreciate how nuanced Tolkien's treatment of these issues is.
The creative team behind The
War Room are Alex and Stephen Kendrick, two Baptist minister brothers known for producing family - oriented
films with Evangelical themes.
Hollywood
films followed, along
with well - known lovers, global tours, monkey and peacock and cheetah pets, work
with the Resistance during the
war, charges of anti-Americanism and fellow - traveling, stays in Cuba as the personal guest of Castro, opposition to segregation in the United States, and a turn at the microphone at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963.
Those Star
Wars prequels — which took three
films to explain the origins of Darth Vader — couldn't escape still having a Darth Vader character, so enter new nemesis Darth Maul (just like Darth Vader, only
with a double lightsaber).
Anyone who has attended a Star Trek or Star
Wars film on opening day and then gone a few weeks later knows the difference between a piece of art viewed by cult followers and one viewed
with casual fans.
And, in November 2001, President Bush in a similar fashion to President Roosevelt during World
War II, asked some Hollywood studios to create
films and television programs that would help
with encouragement and public morale while providing entertainment to the soldiers and the people back home.
It's a quiet
film with no score and set during the height of the Civil
War, but it's masterfully edited to be a period piece that keeps you glued to your seat.
Psychological preparations for that first step have already been implemented
with the
film, «2001: A Space Oddessy;» the StarTrek series, and «Star
Wars;» all of which deal
with invasions from space and the coming together of all nations to repel the invaders.
With the new Star Wars film, Rogue One, in cinemas and the F1 2016 season having just come to an end, surely it's the perfect time to crossover the two with some epic concept rend
With the new Star
Wars film, Rogue One, in cinemas and the F1 2016 season having just come to an end, surely it's the perfect time to crossover the two
with some epic concept rend
with some epic concept renders?
This movie was
filmed in Okinawa Shima during World
War II when Dr. Maloney and his commanding officer, J.J. Cammisa, became intrigued
with the amazing psychological stamina of the Okinawan people.
This
film was made during World
War II, by Commander James C. Maloney and Commander J.J. Cammisa, two United States medical officers stationed in Okinawa during the struggle
with Japan.
Producer, director, and screenwriter, George Lucas, who rocketed to fame
with the Star
Wars and Indiana Jones
films, is a bearer of the surname.
A 2005
film would focus on the fact that V, who - like Dredd, his opposite - is never seen without his mask, was a terrorist and used it to chime
with the «
war on terror» narrative of the day.
Coinciding
with the launch of the
film, David Cameron made a speech today declaring Brexit could see Europe descend into World
War Three.
After productions of Ghost Busters, Star
Wars and Back To The Future, the latest offering from the immersive
film / theatre company tackles nuclear warfare and communist conspiracies
with the help of 35 actors in a cavernous warehouse boasting a six - screen auditorium.
And, keeping up
with the diverse schedule, Mr. Lancman is hosting a screening of Forgotten Refugees this weekend, a
film about Jews expelled from Middle East and North Africa after the Second World
War, which may help the candidate gain further traction in foreign policy - minded Jewish constituencies in the district.
Many people will be familiar
with Hawkeye, as portrayed by Jeremy Renner, from
films such as The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Captain America: Civil
War.
In the mid-1980s, Paul Moorcraft, then a
war correspondent, journeyed
with a
film crew into Afghanistan to produce a documentary about the fifth anniversary of the Soviet invasion.
Doubtless the
film will be shown once more on television, this time to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the
war with Japan.
Using a 1,600 - pound Cold
War - era camera (originally used to
film nuclear tests) retrofitted
with digital sensors and special software, Samaras strove to capture the dazzling moment a lightning strike is born, hoping these high - resolution photographs would provide insights into how lightning forms and why lightning bolts often follow an erratic path.