In short, the rise of the four-quadrant mega-budget boy-centric fantasy picture coincided with the general demise of the female-driven genre film.
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It will be a testament to the idea that a female-driven genre film can be just as successful as the same sort of film featuring male movie stars.
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One proved that women and men would flock to a broad character comedy about women while the other proved that a genre film seen almost exclusively by female audiences could still pull in blockbuster numbers.
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Plenty of suspenseful grit interspersed with intriguing sound-bite treatises on that particular film genre.
The other factor that I think will ultimately cease to matter is the continued backlash against the superhero film genre by a little group of the usual suspects.
Listening to the entirety of The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull, it's clear that Earth should score Hollywood's next revenge-fueled Western, a film genre finally returning to its doomsday-themed origins.
Whereas the classics it emulates sought authenticity by filming on overseas locations, Mr Soderbergh flaunts the artifice of the genre we call film noir, recreated in the appropriate colours: blacks darker than night and whites that give off an infernal glare.
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Kevin Costner revitalised the Western genre when his 1991 film Dances with Wolves won the best picture Oscar.
The international art film is a genre with as many conventions as the most commercial products, and the Argentinean writer and director Lucrecia Martel fulfills them with practical craft but little originality.
He believes that the role of his company should not be to create content, but rather to find the "hit makers" of the short film and animation genre, and then distribute and market them through the Web.
Thirty-four years later, it remains one of the most perfect superhero origin stories put to film, and Christopher Reeve is still one of the most brilliant casting choices of the genre (this is really the only film that rivals the casting of Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man).
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Film noir is the genre that perhaps most clearly bears the traces of Weimar cinema, and MoMA has selected two of the genre's finest representatives for screening, Welles's "The Stranger" (1946) and Charles Laughton's "Night of the Hunter" (1955).
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Tarantino is said to be intrigued by the prospect of building a new film around one of the horror genre's most recognised figures.
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Anyway, all fans should remember, these are all great films and the success of each film is a success for the genre, and we should all be excited when one or another does well.
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"It is an expensive genre, " says David Hancock, head of film and cinema at IHS Screen Digest.
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People call it espionage or thriller, but I think it's a mixed genre, perhaps most close to old-fashioned film noir.
She believes the essential element of any Bollywood film, and the key to the genre's success, is the iconic song and dance routine.
To promote the film, Magnolia targeted the smaller festival and genre circuits, including the Cleveland, Florida, Hawaii and Washington, D.
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They were able to recapture and translate a genre onto tablet with the power of video, old film noir footage, archived interviews, music, and more.
This weekend two genre films hit theaters: The Rite, a horror film starring Anthony Hopkins as an exorcism priest, and The Mechanic, the latest in a long line of action films starring Jason Statham.
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Ms. Bocco picked up one film for IFC Midnight, the distributor's genre label: Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia's "As Luck Would Have It, " a bleak satire starring Salma Hayek as the wife of an advertising executive who becomes a celebrity after a catastrophic accident.
Both TV show ideas have multiple genre attractions and broad target audience potential, while of course the film series will have clear built in potential as a Batman franchise.
You have mastered every medium -- stage, film, television and concert hall -- and every theatrical genre: comedy, drama and musical.
"We have a film that has pushed the boundaries with Nollywood and introduced a new genre in Nollywood filmmaking, " he says.
Silver, who has a 15-picture guaranteed deal with Warner Bros through his genre production company, Dark Castle, quickly decided to create a martial arts film as a vehicle for Rain.
Blending the romantic-comedy genre with zombies could have resulted in all sorts of bad cheesiness, but the film manages to be refreshingly original and funny without laying on too much cheese.
His next film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a parody of music biopic genre, stars John C.
The first film, which was written and directed by James Cameron, is one of the genre-movie classics of the eighties: a lean, witty science-fiction movie without great pretensions to significance.
In these films, "female friendship supersedes heterosexual romance, " says Leger Grindon, a professor of film and media culture at Middlebury College and the author of a 2011 book about the genre.
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