I've done a lot of big movies but I've never done one where everyone cared so much.
Like Bateman and Reynolds, Timberlake has two big movies this summer: Bad Teacher and Friends with Benefits, which co-stars Mila Kunis.
Three big movies open Christmas day: Les Miserables, Django Unchained and the comedy Parental Guidance starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler.
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It will help that The Dark Knight has virtually no competition in terms of big movies for the rest of the summer.
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Big movies are funded by studios that are part of larger conglomerates.
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Almost all big movies now open on 2, 000 or more screens, hoping to recover a massive chunk of the budget in the first week of release.
The Ides of March, one of two big movies opening this weekend, is a political thriller starring two of the hottest movie stars around: George Clooney and Ryan Gosling.
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Michael Bay is known for his big movies.
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While there are many more big movies coming soon, including "Star Trek: Into Darkness" next week and both "Fast and Furious Six" and "The Hangover Part III" the week after, those movies will primarily target men.
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"He put together these boxes full of time lines, down to who the shah is, what's going on with Carter, what were the big movies of the time, what was in People magazine, " Scoot McNairy said.
Big studios movies were also well-represented at the awards this year, though not in the acting categories.
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If the new Bourne is a hit Renner will become a go-to guy for big action movies.
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He said that despite starring in big budget movies like Clash of the Titans, Arterton "came into her own" in the low-budget kidnap thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed.
For most big budget movies nowadays that ratio is reversed and Paramount sought to improve it this go-around with a more costly foreign marketing campaign and more extensive global publicity tour.
These days, with Hollywood churning out big budget movies based on comic book characters such as Iron Man, the Silver Surfer and the Incredible Hulk, a comics-based opera about a cute little fox may sound a bit tame.
The movies that are bringing in the big bucks are movies that are combating disinterest in films (like say The Dark Knight).
As the lights went down one last time, Ebert would have loved it if all those people sitting in the dark and hoping for the best understood that his approach to movies was big enough, openhearted enough to embrace far more than the movies he'd loved all his life.
So will studios continue to pay big names big bucks for movies that don't add to the bottom line?
Typically. big-budget movies gross far more internationally than in the U.S. and Canada.
The highlights of one's life can now be preserved in big, beautiful movies.
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Beyond big-name movies, Wall Street will be anxious to hear what the media and entertainment conglomerate says about advertising revenue and consumer spending.
If the low-budget film does well, it just might inspire more superstars to focus on smaller films, while big-budget movies are ceded to B-list actors.
Call it crowdloading, if you will -- the new model made it more feasible to grab the big stuff like movies and whole music albums.
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On another level it is one of the first big budget action movies to be filmed entirely in Africa, with African actors, using African crews.
Intel is also making a big push into movies--specifically, 3-D films.
That's why, according to Walt Disney studio chairman Dick Cook, it's unusual for a studio to make a big investment in movies that are supposed to be funny.
Jane Russell was a big name in the movies when I was a youngster.
Studios like Fox and Paramount were willing to pay him big upfront paychecks for movies like Meet Dave and Imagine That.
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