Three weeks of film festivals and hundreds of movies later, one stands as the clear winner. Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” won a prize for Emma Stone in Venice, wowed Telluride, and walked away with the Audience Award in Toronto —and by the end of that festival, people paid “Hamilton”-premiums for tickets to the last screening,
Now, that’s word of mouth.
Of course, “La La Land” isn’t alone in its accolades. Here’s how the players came out at the end of the three festivals.
Winners
A24
Established studio players like Sony Pictures Classics aim their sights at the loyal theatergoers who tend to be older; getting younger cinephiles to come to a theater is harder than ever. Nevertheless, A24 seems to have figured out a way. They acquire movies like excoriated Cannes entry “The Sea of Trees” to go out via their deal with DirectTV and iTunes,...
Now, that’s word of mouth.
Of course, “La La Land” isn’t alone in its accolades. Here’s how the players came out at the end of the three festivals.
Winners
A24
Established studio players like Sony Pictures Classics aim their sights at the loyal theatergoers who tend to be older; getting younger cinephiles to come to a theater is harder than ever. Nevertheless, A24 seems to have figured out a way. They acquire movies like excoriated Cannes entry “The Sea of Trees” to go out via their deal with DirectTV and iTunes,...
- 9/20/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Three weeks of film festivals and hundreds of movies later, one stands as the clear winner. Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” won a prize for Emma Stone in Venice, wowed Telluride, and walked away with the Audience Award in Toronto —and by the end of that festival, people paid “Hamilton”-premiums for tickets to the last screening,
Now, that’s word of mouth.
Of course, “La La Land” isn’t alone in its accolades. Here’s how the players came out at the end of the three festivals.
Winners
A24
Established studio players like Sony Pictures Classics aim their sights at the loyal theatergoers who tend to be older; getting younger cinephiles to come to a theater is harder than ever. Nevertheless, A24 seems to have figured out a way. They acquire movies like excoriated Cannes entry “The Sea of Trees” to go out via their deal with DirectTV and iTunes,...
Now, that’s word of mouth.
Of course, “La La Land” isn’t alone in its accolades. Here’s how the players came out at the end of the three festivals.
Winners
A24
Established studio players like Sony Pictures Classics aim their sights at the loyal theatergoers who tend to be older; getting younger cinephiles to come to a theater is harder than ever. Nevertheless, A24 seems to have figured out a way. They acquire movies like excoriated Cannes entry “The Sea of Trees” to go out via their deal with DirectTV and iTunes,...
- 9/20/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Two boys, river-rats on the mighty Mississippi, run smack into adulthood when they encounter and befriend a fugitive from the law. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn echoes throughout every frame of Jeff Nichol’s Mud, the festival hit that became one of the summer’s under-the-radar hits. An Arkansas native, Nichols was mesmerized by the river and all that it represents, both in literature and its geographic importance, and his modern-day tale conjures up all the the familiar rhythms, drawls, and characters that filled Twain’s pages. Matthew McConaughey stars as the mysterious rascal whose name is literally Mud,...
- 8/5/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Warrior is out on Blu-ray & DVD Double Play, DVD and download to own from February 20, 2012.
Two of cinema’s hottest rising stars collide in this gripping and blistering combination of classical storytelling and 21st century combat. Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) stars alongside Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom, The Thing) and Oscar nominee Nick Nolte (The Thin Red Line, Hotel Rwanda).
The ultimate test of a fighter becomes the ultimate test for a family when ex-wrestler Tommy (Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the help of his estranged father (Nolte) to win a coveted Mixed Martial Arts tournament. By chance, Tommy’s fighter-turned-teacher brother Brendan (Edgerton) has also entered the tournament in a desperate bid to provide for his family and the stage is set for a climactic confrontation between the two brothers.
A staggering and rousing look at one of the fastest emerging modern sports,...
Two of cinema’s hottest rising stars collide in this gripping and blistering combination of classical storytelling and 21st century combat. Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) stars alongside Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom, The Thing) and Oscar nominee Nick Nolte (The Thin Red Line, Hotel Rwanda).
The ultimate test of a fighter becomes the ultimate test for a family when ex-wrestler Tommy (Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the help of his estranged father (Nolte) to win a coveted Mixed Martial Arts tournament. By chance, Tommy’s fighter-turned-teacher brother Brendan (Edgerton) has also entered the tournament in a desperate bid to provide for his family and the stage is set for a climactic confrontation between the two brothers.
A staggering and rousing look at one of the fastest emerging modern sports,...
- 2/16/2012
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
To mark the release of Warrior on DVD and Blu-ray 20th February, Lions Gate Home Entertainment have given us three copies of this awesome movie to give away on Blu-ray. It’s directed by Gavin O’Connor and stars Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) stars alongside Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom, The Thing) and the legendary Nick Nolte.
Two of cinema’s hottest rising stars collide in this gripping and blistering combination of classical storytelling and 21st century combat. Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) stars alongside Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom, The Thing) and Oscar nominee Nick Nolte (The Thin Red Line, Hotel Rwanda). Warrior is out on Blu-ray & DVD Double Play, DVD and download to own from February 20,2012.
The ultimate test of a fighter becomes the ultimate test for a family when ex-wrestler Tommy (Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the...
Two of cinema’s hottest rising stars collide in this gripping and blistering combination of classical storytelling and 21st century combat. Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) stars alongside Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom, The Thing) and Oscar nominee Nick Nolte (The Thin Red Line, Hotel Rwanda). Warrior is out on Blu-ray & DVD Double Play, DVD and download to own from February 20,2012.
The ultimate test of a fighter becomes the ultimate test for a family when ex-wrestler Tommy (Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the...
- 2/15/2012
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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