Sentences with phrase «years biggest films»

Not exact matches

Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.

Late this year, Imax announced two big movie releases in China: Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan, promising a «thrilling story of heroism, friendship and betrayal, which has never before been depicted on film,» and John Woo's The Crossing, a two - part historical epic about the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

So, the studio's biggest question mark of the year will be November's Justice League, which will bring together several superheroes from that universe of films, including Wonder Woman as well as Batman and Superman.

The dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won big at the Golden Globes earlier this year, but the film has also seen a sustained backlash from critics over its questionable ending and a perceived failure in fleshing out the movie's non-white characters.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Essence's wildly popular Essence Festival, held in New Orleans and featured prominently in last year's summer film Girls Trip, is the biggest magazine - sponsored festival in the world.

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

Unlike other festivals that screen films in the hopes of getting a bigger distribution deal, Ellison's crew plans to use social media and other tech to turn these films into year round events, it says.

Keep in mind last year at Sundance, we produced the film that won the jury prize [«I Don't Feel at Home In This World Anymore»], and we acquired «Mudbound» in the biggest acquisition of the festival.

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.

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The upcoming reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise features one of the funniest ensemble casts of any film this year: Along with stars Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, the sci - fi comedy will also feature appearances by Cecily Strong, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and a bunch of other big names.

Faithy films have paid off big this year at the box office.

One of the guys at the indispensable Powerline, following the lead of Big Hollywood, is saying that the new film Super 8 fits the anti-military pattern we've been seeing for years with liberal Hollywood.

The film, which stars Ruth Negga and Joel Egerton, has already become one of the year's biggest critical breakouts, earning four Critics Choice Awards nominations and recognition at the Cannes Film Festival.

But in a year that's seen a slew of big budget releases and star - powered projects from some of Hollywood's most notable filmmakers (Martin Scorsese, Kenneth Lonergan, Mel Gibson) it was a $ 5 million film with no major superstar names that brought home the night's biggest award.

The year's funniest movie is probably The Big Sick, a heartwarming romantic comedy written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon, who tell their own life story in this film about an interracial couple dealing with their cultural differences.

Amidst all the hype and debate surrounding this year's flood of faith - related films — Noah, God is Not Dead, and Heaven is For Real — a quiet Oscar winner from 2013, recently released to DVD, provides the most compelling story of faith I've seen on the big screen in years.

Hollywood's biggest names, from box office superstars to indie film up - and - comers, were delighted to discover their own box of hand - crafted John Kelly Chocolates tucked inside the coveted «swag bags» they received at an exclusive pre-Oscar gifting suite at L'Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills this year.

We started this about six years ago and it allows me to have a platform for independent films, films that we're passionate about, and find a bigger audience for great, cool emerging talent and up - and - coming movies,» League continues.

Thandie Newton (big screen films like W and Crash) is the mother of two girls, 10 - and 5 - years - old.

Records from last year show people in the film industry have been big contributors to Cuomo and to political party housekeeping accounts, which can accept unlimited donations.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

2016 was a big year for film in Western New York.

While the film likely won't hit big screens until next year (you can check out its Indiegogo campaign here), Appel says there are steps you can take to ensure your trip to Tulum — or any popular beachside tourist destination — is easy on the land.

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.

I don't think I've filmed a haul video in over two years, so this is a big deal!

Margot Robbie is poised to take over Hollywood with buzz - worthy films set for release this year and a plethora of big - name co-stars and directors with whom she's worked.

The 88th Annual Academy Awards (film's big night) marked the end of this year's award season.

(The movie ended up being the third biggest film of the year.)

«It's become more fashionable to be a geek in the past five or six years,» says Gough, citing the popularity of TV shows like The Big Bang Theory and the mainstream interest in the upcoming Star Trek film.

The South Africa - set action film, co-starring Olga Kurylenko, is set to be one of the years biggest flops after taking just 46 in the UK on its opening weekend.

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These superfit actors from across the pond may have spent a ton of time filming some of this year's biggest television and movie hits, but they also carve Directed by Shana Feste.

While I was overwhelmingly negative on the year's biggest film to date, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, I recognized that the top - shelf effects and the 3D were perfect for the material.

While «Other People» begins with a big moment — daringly, THE big moment — then flashes back to a year earlier, the film is more interested in the mundane ways the characters relate to each other and in the minutiae of their lives.

Hey, I like Turturro and all, but, as «Barton Fink» will tell you, he's not a big box office draw, and you need only look at this film's critical reception to realize that, because I'm not saying that this film was a commercial disaster, but it's become forgotten ever since it drove Refn's Jang Go Star company into bankruptcy and ostensibly drove Hubert Shelby, Jr. to death a year later.

In the ten years since Rings, cynicism seems to have grown exponentially, especially online, where fans and haters from all over the world congregate to determine the worth of a film, and certainly a big budget 4,000 - theater holiday season fantasy film.

Since winter is a slow time of year for finding big money movies, now is about the best time to release an independent film.

That film was also the year's biggest box office flop from a major studio, boasting one of the worst opening weekends in history ($ 306,367) for a nationwide release.

It will be extremely hard for the studio to match those figures in 2016, as many of its biggest franchises are sitting out the year and Universal's planned 21 - film slate doesn't feature any sure - thing blockbuster hits aside from (maybe) a still - untitled Bourne sequel.

Audiences immediately understood that Pee - Wee's Big Adventure was meant to be a nine - year - old's notion of the Perfect World; critics, to whom nothing is ever simple, insisted upon reading all sorts of motivation and subtext into the film, and suddenly Pee - Wee Herman was the darling of the wine - and - cheese crowd.

Below are 50 additional noteworthy films — including both big - budget tentpoles and smaller indie and foreign films — that either have confirmed 2013 release dates or seem extremely likely to reach theaters this year.

The biggest of the non-major distributors, TWC saw its box office receipts grow by nearly 36 % last year compared to 2014 (thanks to hits like Paddington and 2014 holdover The Imitation Game), even as the overall quality of its films declined.

But that hasn't stopped Black Panther, which may go on to be the biggest hit of the year — a prospect unheard of for a film released in the doldrums of February.

These four Oscar winners make this film one of the big events of the year.

I think we were all pretty skeptical upon hearing the announcement that James Franco would be bringing the story of the making of Tommy Wiseau's The Room to the big screen over three years ago; at least those of us familiar with the wonderfully terrible film of cult infamy.

Park has described his niche as being the little guy in the Disney - dominated world of animation, which provides rather amusing subtext to the film, which represents Aardman's biggest undertaking in its 40 - plus - year history.