Sentences with phrase «world center of movie»

Best known as the world center of movie - making, LA is also a center for shipping (its port and adjacent Long Beach make up the fifth busiest port in the world).

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But the size of the market we're pursuing — data centers, autonomous driving, video games and virtual reality, industrial design — our technology is being used by almost every car company, movie... so almost every data center in the world will be accelerated by GPUs.

Finally, NASA knew the importance of education along with ballyhoo, and a huge Space Center was erected at Cape Kennedy (just a few miles from Disney World) where families could see a super-wide-screen movie celebrating the technological marvels of the space program, tour actual rockets and historic space capsules, and on occasion even see a blast - off of one of the many space launches.

Jennifer Hudson and Brittany Snow at the world premiere of the Lifetime Original movie event «Call Me Crazy: A Five Film» at Pacific Design Center Silver Screen Theater in Los Angeles on April 16, 2013

Black Panther is a political movie, in the sense that much of it centers on questions of political succession in Wakanda, and that means everybody in the cast has to have a perspective on the question of how Wakanda should deal with both its succession problem and its relations to the outside world.

But it is the feeling that suffuses Robert Zemeckis's latest movie, which tells the tale of what was arguably the third-most famous day in the history of New York's World Trade Center, and far and away its top non-terror-related moment.

(Or maybe it wasn't so skewed — as we see from some of their vintage home movies, their apartment gave a good view of the World Trade Center circa 2000, scene of the century's most cinematic catastrophe.)

Although «The Walk» succeeds mainly as a slice of popcorn entertainment rather than a potential Oscar contender, it's a really well - made movie that works both as a celebration of Petit's once - in - a-lifetime performance and a tribute to the World Trade Center.

«And with this pencil stroke, my fate was sealed,» the narration tells us, over images of Petit drawing a line between the towers as depicted in a magazine ad that he peruses while waiting to see a doctor — as if we couldn't figure out why that moment is important, in a movie about a guy who tightrope - walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

Ben Stiller, center, uses the world's longest selfie stick to take a picture of «Zoolander 2» cast and crew members and guests at the London premiere of the movie.

Beginning as documentation of the terror attacks on America in 2001 (United 93 and World Trade Center), movies are now venturing into speculative fiction.

Early in the movie a shot of the World Trade Center in flames, introduced as a portent of Armageddon, sharpens this remake's sour tang of exploitation.

Here's the synopsis: «The Netflix road movie centers on Matt Ryder (Sudeikis), who is talked into driving his estranged and dying father, Ben (Harris), across the country on a quest to get four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the one lab left in the world where it can be developed before that location closes down for good.

This week the crew sit down to discuss children's movies and Philippe Petit's story of how he managed to walk a wire across the World Trade Center Towers in 1974.

It would be nearly impossible to see a movie about the World Trade Center and not think about the tragic events of 9/11.

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Directed by Miyazaki protégé Hiromasa Yonebayashi (The Secret World Of Arrietty, When Marnie Was There), the movie centers on a clumsy young girl who stumbles upon a witch's broomstick and a magic flower in the woods, and gets whisked away to a Hogwartsian sorcering academy.

«United 93» As with any grieving process, Hollywood's response to the terrible events of 9/11 was gradual — from removing the World Trade Center from the likes of «Zoolander» and «Spider - Man,» to the displaced anger of revenge movies like «Kill Bill» and «Man on Fire.»

Meanwhile, «Children of Men» is a pretty bleak Christmas movie, centering around a world where women have stopped giving birth.

Director Lone Scherfig («An Education») returns with a period rom - com centered on the making of an inspirational movie amid the Blitz of London in World War II.

Now this furry, funny avenger — voiced by bona fide movie star Bradley Cooper — is front and center in a space opera that takes the multibillion - dollar Marvel movie megafranchise far away from the Earthbound world of Iron Man and The Avengers.

A number of movies helmed solely by men are also tackling feminist themes, as with Lelio's «Disobedience,» or Aaron Sorkin's «Molly's Game,» in which the Oscar - winning screenwriter makes his directorial debut with a poker - world drama centered on real - life competitor Molly Bloom, played by Jessica Chastain.

The structure of their command center, their biology, weapons and transportation are just a few of the categories that have been uncovered and they all hint at a world that is way more dense for one movie to handle.

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The script makes reference to sci - fi author Jules Verne, whose stories are the inspiration behind Journey to the Center of the Earth (the prequel to this movie), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days (and the remake from 2004).

Malin Akerman and Taissa Farmiga are starring in the meta movie which centers on a girl who, along with her friends, is mysteriously transported into the world of an iconic»80s horror flick, which starred her recently deceased mother (Akerman), a famous scream queen.

This Canadian actress once starred in such extreme indie movies as The Center of the World and Kissed.

Here's a synopsis of the movie: As a darkness builds at the center of a world - renown dance company, its artistic director (Swinton), a young American new to the troupe (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist become entangled in a bloody, sighing nightmare.

«Chungking Express was the Masculin Féminin of the 1990s, a pop art movie about cool twentysomethings looking for love in the city that has replaced Paris as the center of the world - cinema imagination.

This was a heroic action, yet in the movie there's something unnerving about this man, and the main thing is that he's played by Michael Shannon, a character actor who specializes in wild - eyed zeal, whether he's saving cops in World Trade Center, attempting to work as a punk - rock Svengali in The Runaways, hunting down Superman in Man Of Steel, or warning his community about the coming apocalypse in Take Shelter.

World Trade Center «The brilliance of this film is how it subverted expectations that it might have been a movie with some kind of ideological agenda.

The Hollywood Director of the Year Award was won by Oliver Stone for his work on the film «World Trade Center», which also won for movie of the year.

Written by Lauryn Kahn and directed by Alex Richanbach, the movie centers on Jacobs as «a woman who goes on a business trip to Spain to close a big deal, but instead finds herself on a wild ride of partying and clubbing, where she falls in love with a world famous DJ and realizes there is more to life than showing up to a job she hates.»

As Logan draws closer and closer to its release date, the cast and crew of the Wolverine solo movie are out doing the press rounds, and speaking to We Got This Covered, Logan director James Mangold spoke about the possibility of further developing the future X-Men world by doing a film centered the young mutant X-23.

Here's his last seven (yes, SEVEN) movies: Comandante, America Undercover, Alexander, World Trade Center, W., South of the Border, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

They probably aren't the priorities of Oliver Stone, whose ruthlessly circumscribed World Trade Center isn't about the 2,749 citizens of 87 countries who got killed in the 9/11 assault on the Twin Towers and who are mentioned only in a title when the movie's over.

Kathryn Jean Lopez contrasts World Trade Center with another recent treatment of the 9/11 attack, a film about the United flight that crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers struggled with the terrorists: «Tasteful and well done as United 93 was, there was something about the movie that bothered me.

Although the movie world's center of gravity shifts every January to Park City, Utah, cinema buffs no longer have to attend Sundance in person to see world premieres.

Chungking Express (1994) was the Masculin féminin of the 1990s, a pop art movie about cool twentysomethings looking for love in the city that has replaced Paris as the center of the world - cinema imagination.

Oliver Stone's last few movies received mixed reviews, from W. to World Trade Center to Alexander, and despite the fact that these are not subjects that many directors would be willing to touch, Stone has been accused of playing softball with them and perhaps starting to lose his edge.

The closest the movie comes to achieving an affecting moment with the scenario is during the opening credit sequence in which two beams of light subtly form almost angelic representations of the World Trade Center.

The movie centers on a young couple living in a world following the spread of a virus that has killed all of the world's women.

A dedicated movie - polymath, effortlessly bilingual and scooping the best of both Old and New World, Delpy resembles a bizarre version of Miranda July: Instead of celebrating lonely quirks of a self - centered sensibility, she throws herself (and the viewer) into a comic vortex of agitated, super-busy scenes of noisy familial squabbles and cerebral lovers» quarrels, which seems a projection of her own coyly humane view of life.

The Center of the World moves slowly, never making the viewer feel as uncomfortable as he / she should with a movie like this.

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The nearly dialogue - free movie centers on a family (led by Krasinski and his real - life wife, Emily Blunt) as they struggle to survive in a world of monsters that hunt by sound.

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Oliver Stone's World Trade Center and Paul Greengrass» United 93 are two of the most popular movies to recreate that day.

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