Sentences with phrase «younger audience for the film»

Bailey's co-producer Amanda Marshall told V.F. that the company actively tried to court a younger audience for the film, sending Swiss Army Man bongs and Daniel Radcliffe beach towels to members of the press.

Not exact matches

It is thrilling to see how inspired young audiences were by the spectacular technology in the film, so it's fitting that we show our appreciation by helping advance STEM programs for youth, especially in underserved areas of the country, to give them the knowledge and tools to build the future they want.

Also unlike Hollywood's current slate of animated films, this one is decidedly less for adults and geared more toward a young audience, as most scenes depict the childish adventures of Ponyo (voiced with high - pitched glee by Miley Cyrus's little sister Noah) and her new best friend.

She appeared in a number of series, including the popular crime drama Cracker and such costume extravaganzas as Jane Eyre and Emma.Morton became known to an international film audience in 1997, when she won wide acclaim for her wrenching, fearless portrayal of a young woman driven to promiscuous behavior by the death of her mother in Carine Adler's Under the Skin.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

Our best fables and fairy tales are the ones that speak truth, and this version of Pete's Dragon easily takes its place on any short list of the great films for young audiences as a result.

And you are holding back something special from your kids as well, for while these films take themselves seriously and should perhaps be screened before being shown to some younger, more sensitive audiences, they are among the most powerful animated tales being told today, and they deserve to be allowed to wow you.

Maybe very young kids don't care about subtext in films like this, but I'm not writing for kids and this film is pitched at a broad audience.

Yet The Young Karl Marx reminds one of the perils involved with making a film about brilliant obsessives: their single - mindedness, a pivotal and inescapable element of their success and talent, can grow repetitive and overbearing for audiences.

Although the film is designed primarily for a young audience, adult themes of love and loss abound in its story of mourning lovers attempting to reach out across the dimensions.

I think my disappointment comes from the fact that I believe the film was made for casual and younger audiences.

Hollywood Reporter writer Todd McCarthy called Donovan «a sort - of Atticus Finch of the north» and Variety writer Peter Debruge wrote of the film, «[Spielberg]'s mythmaking approach makes for great Capra-esque entertainment, [though] younger audiences may find it terribly old - fashioned.»

While most adults in the audience will wonder why Mia would ever seriously consider a relationship with a guy who is so self - centered to get mad at her for desiring to relocate 3,000 miles away to go to the most prestigious music school in the country, the film seems to make the false presumption that younger girls will find it more romantic for the boyfriend to be upset that they will be apart and have to Skype to keep in touch (something he seems to think is the worst possible case scenario, even though he already spends several weeks a year on the road performing gigs).

Considering that Smith claims that he made this film for teen girls, not for one moment does Yoga Hosers feel like anything other than a mid-40s writer / director shaking his fist at a younger phone - desperate generation, making inside jokes for the adults in the audience and lambasting the critics that have wronged him in the past.

Even with a PG rating, in turn telling families the film is suitable for younger audiences, families may stay away for fears that ParaNorman is too dark and could induce nightmares.

Occasionally clever, Surf's Up will no doubt please the audience for which it is intended, namely, younger viewers, as well as those who never get tired of cute animated anthropomorphic animal films that aim to entertain the whole family.

We have to look at younger audiences and cultivate them for the kind of films we release.

It was especially poignant to see Robinson, a lesbian filmmaker who's been working in the industry for years on various projects including The L Word, present such a radical film to both older audiences who were familiar to the character and young audiences who are growing up with the chance to see a complex women - centric narrative propelled by her.

Right from the get - go the film is doomed for failure because the audience must also believe the mysterious caller and the gullible young women.

As much fun as you can get watching robots hit each other but way too long for a film aimed at younger audiences.

Whether this was a conscious decision by the director to tone down the darkness and realism in the film for the younger audience is worth mention but ultimately it cheapens the feel of the movie.

The real laugh is that the film's ostensible moral is to act your age while virtually every joke is stolen from a genre intended for stars and audiences ten - plus years younger than anyone involved, meaning all the sexual insecurity and juvenilia is infected with considerably more than the usual touch of the pathetic.

Beautiful, kind, and charming, but not a complete wallflower, and a solid role model for the film's young audience.

Earlier this year, Sony Pictures chairman Tim Roth said director Ang Lee was using ultra high rate film making for certain sequences that enable the audience to, «feel the contrast between the intensity of war and the rest of life, exactly as the young soldiers do.»

«Warm Bodies received a «B +» CinemaScore from its young audiences and easily outpaced last week's No. 1 film, the R - rated 3D fantasy - action mash - up «Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,» which took in $ 3.2 million Friday and is looking at a $ 10 million second weekend for Paramount.

For all those worried about it being too juvenile and not up to the dramatic standard of Wall - E or Up... you are failing to see that the trailers are meant to sell the film to the biggest possible audience and the first people they need to rope in are the younger crowd.

This film, a likely magnet for young audiences, combines great music from Elton John with incredible animation where flowing waterfalls and lush topical surroundings look startlingly real.

, Damien Chazelle's film about a young jazz drummer and his tutor, which won the audience and jury prizes at Sundance this year and has been selected for Cannes» Director's Fortnight this year.

The film's narrative, set in multiple eras and told through different styles, might suggest a work aimed an audience of sophisticated film historians rather than kids, but Haynes, Lachman notes, had faith in the younger audience and he screened it for audiences of children.

This year's Sundance pick looks to be Whiplash, Damien Chazelle's film about a young jazz drummer and his tutor, which won the audience and jury prizes at Sundance this year and has been selected for Cannes» Director's Fortnight this year.

And while I'm not trying to claim that the original film was high art, I'm bothered by how the cartoon over-simplified Beetle Juice for a younger audience.

«Sometimes what are considered high - quality films that are for awards seasons overlook a younger audience, so I'm happy and honoured to fill in that space.»

Yet it will likely be the violent content that causes careful consideration of the film's appropriateness for younger audiences.

Overall this all seems like a major marketing push for a film which could grab a fair sized audience, but let's not forget the box - office disappointments of BEAUTIFUL CREATURES and THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES, showing that popular female - centric Young Adult adaptations don't always rake in big cinematic crowds.

At the film's recent press day, Shyamalan and Blum discussed their creative partnership and the most surprising aspect of working with each other, why the scares in this film are deceptively simple yet terrifying and original, how the mock documentary style format gave Shyamalan new cinematic tools for keeping the audience guessing, his directing style, what he was looking for in his young actors, why he cast experienced stage actors for the grandparents» roles, his collaboration with award - winning DP Maryse Alberti, how he recruited Oxenbould to shoot the chase sequence underneath the house, why he likes treating B genre movies like they're A dramas, and more.

And with a rapturous A + CinemaScore from younger - skewing audiences (55 percent of those polled were under the age of 25), the film will likely hover at or near the top of the U.S. box office charts for weeks to come — something that critics won't mind, for once, given that the film also sits at an impressive 96 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

For me, The Hunger Games Trilogy is part of a larger goal to introduce the ideas of just war theory to young audiences, but how much wider and more varied an audience came with the films, and the credit for that goes to all of you who contributed so much to this projeFor me, The Hunger Games Trilogy is part of a larger goal to introduce the ideas of just war theory to young audiences, but how much wider and more varied an audience came with the films, and the credit for that goes to all of you who contributed so much to this projefor that goes to all of you who contributed so much to this project.

There probably is an audience out there for a movie like The Covenant, and that audience probably consists of younger viewers that enjoy campy teen horror films like The Lost Boys and The Craft, both films from which The Covenant seems to crib without much effort to hide.

For the panda's target audience, children and younger teens, that will be just fine, and the film presents his adventures in wonderfully drawn Cinemascope animation.

Nevertheless, the film never gets too dark for its young audience and indeed it is during one of the big carnage scenes that the filmmakers very comically reveal Astro discovering that he has machine guns in his butt.

None of the rest of his films were quite up there with those three, but they were still very enjoyable fantasies that also continue to have an audience today and sell well on home video: «First Men in the Moon» (1964), based on the H.G. Wells story; another dinosaur epic, «One Million Years B.C.» (1966), most famous for the image of Raquel Welch in a fur bikini; «The Valley of Gwangi» (1969), an interesting blend of dinosaur thrills and a conventional Western; and two more «Sinbad» epics, «The Golden Voyage of Sinbad» (1974) and «Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger» (1977), the latter co-starring young Jane Seymour.

(For the record, I nearly always identify with the «victim» when watching horror films, and I think most of the audience does, too — teenaged girls, especially, flock to movies like the Scream series or I Know What You Did Last Summer for three reasons: they like to see strong actresses in the lead roles, they enjoy watching the cute young guys cast opposite the girls, and finally, they want to be scareFor the record, I nearly always identify with the «victim» when watching horror films, and I think most of the audience does, too — teenaged girls, especially, flock to movies like the Scream series or I Know What You Did Last Summer for three reasons: they like to see strong actresses in the lead roles, they enjoy watching the cute young guys cast opposite the girls, and finally, they want to be scarefor three reasons: they like to see strong actresses in the lead roles, they enjoy watching the cute young guys cast opposite the girls, and finally, they want to be scared.)

The film is almost certainly too much for very young audiences, but viewers who revel in slightly darker fare and those with fond»80s childhood memories of the film will enjoy and should be pleased with this fine DVD release, which rises above the out - of - print previous Anchor Bay release.

It's silly and obnoxious, and a little cruel of the chipmunks, but it is also a simple plot for the extra young audience the film is aimed at.

It would be very easy to accuse MGM of shamelessly attempting to aim a James Bond - like film at a younger audience, for that's exactly what they are doing.

However, for younger audiences, the film includes some graphic depictions of violence.

I actually enjoyed the last two movies, with them offering a bright and campier film for younger audiences.

Audiences not aware that «Margaret» was filmed in 2005 will be forgiven for thinking that the cast looks remarkably young.

«When the film was finally released it was forbidden to minors under the age of 18 which, in my mind, was fairly serious, because we had conceived it for an audience of young people...

This is a cheesy trailer with the music, but I have a feeling this might be a cool film - even though it's meant for younger audiences, seems like good fun.