But the film still provides him a climactic moment of shading that is appreciated.
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Even once the casting had been settled, the film still caused controversy when production started in Thailand.
But see it too as an example of how powerful a feature film still can be in the hands of an impassioned filmmaker.
Notice, the film still clearly targets the female audience, but the book series has a firm foundation of male fans as well, and the film itself is tracking pretty well with male viewers.
In a blog post today (subscription required) Greenfield points out that despite Warner Bros. heavily hyping The Green Lantern in 3-D on Fandango, the film still seems to be selling more 2-D tickets.
However, how the curators feel about a film is still the most important factor.
The 18 minute 30 second film was still running without the information on Wednesday.
"It is, categorically, a financial benefit, if your film is still in release, " Fellner told me.
But even if it does only modest business outside the U.S., the film will still make money.
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Ms Mazur said the financing of the film was still facing some uncertainty.
Add in the fact that film companies still see TV as the end of the distribution chain, after theatres, and DVD.
Some might say the Abraham Lincoln we see portrayed in the film is still too much legend and too little man, but I disagree.
Even so, the region's film industry still has a long way to go before it can match the scale and reach of its Western rivals.
The cemetery seen in the film is still here but, sadly, the tombstone used in the movie is gone (it actually remained in place for many years after 1958).
However, professional and amateur photographic still film will continue to be manufactured.
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Right now the independent film world is still digesting a glut of movies financed during the easy-money era of the past three years.
Couple that with a 2011 box office that was down 4% from 2010 and it looks like the film industry is still in trouble.
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No other feature film touched me as deeply as this film did, no other film had the raw emotional honesty, no other film had characters so flawed and so desperate and so deserving of redemption, and no other film managed to still be so funny and entertaining and uplifting despite so much heartache and pain.
But as I repeatedly, clearly, in great detail explain with breakdowns of finances involved, the slopping of one or two of the three solo films combined with the third film doing only modest business would STILL not sink a JL film at all, unless Batman and Superman ALSO flopped.
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While this places a burden on theatres that still use 35 mm film for cinematic display and may force them to either go out of business or make the transition to digital projectors, it also puts pressure on some movie producers who still favor the use of traditional film in movie production.
Roland Emmerich's film career started while he was still a student of the University of Television and Film Munich.
For fans, the magic of the film endures and it still figures in many top 10 all-time movie lists.
Still the film has its moments especially those of perhaps unintended humour.
Celine Dion's performance of My Heart Will Go On from Hollywood film Titanic - a highly popular film in China - still "moved people's hearts even after 15 years", the newspaper notes.
If the film flops, Warner still takes a roughly 12% distribution fee off the top and is entitled to recoup all of the money it spent on advertising before divvying up revenue with its partner.
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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And then I went back and watched the film, I remembered how much I still loved about it and how it had been 20 years since that film was made--a generation.
Last year, Kodak says, it overtook Fuji to become the market leader in China for film and film products. (Fuji claims it still has a lead of a few percentage points for film itself.) Kodak now has 3, 700 stores to Fuji's 2, 000.
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