Insights from the Cinematic World: Movie Production Insights

I Smile Back

At the core of I Smile Back’s power is an indelible performance: Sarah Silverman reinvented herself as a dramatic actress in the career-defining, intensely layered and heartbreaking role of Laney.

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Woodlawn

Tony Nathan, portrayed by newcomer Caleb Castille is a gifted high school football player that must learn to boldly embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field in Woodlawn

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Crimson Peak

From the imagination of director Guillermo del Toro comes a gothic romance starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Hunnam. In Crimson Peak, they will discover the power that love has to make monsters of us all.

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Reminiscent of his use of Forrest Gump’s own, unusual, voice to augment the narrative in that film, director Robert Zemeckis has Philippe Petit himself narrate moments in The Walk to add insight—especially to his inner thoughts on the wire.

The Walk

The Walk, an epic, big-screen cinematic spectacle, gives moviegoers the chance to go where only one man has been or ever will be – 110 stories in the air, on a wire, walking between the towers of the World Trade Center.

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Steve Jobs

Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs’ career—beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998—Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the man at its epicenter.

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Knock Knock

When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.

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Freeheld

Based on true story Freeheld is about a decorated New Jersey police detective, Laurel is diagnosed with cancer and wants to leave her hard-earned pension to her domestic partner, Stacie. However the county officials, Freeholders, prevent Laurel from doing this.

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Pan

I’m going to tell you a story about a boy who would never grow up. But this isn’t the story you’ve heard before… Sometimes, to truly understand how things end, we must first know how they begin.

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The Intern

In “The Intern,” De Niro stars as Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin (Hathaway).

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Captive

When Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) – a man on the run from a city-wide manhunt – takes recovering addict and single mom Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) hostage in her own apartment, they are both thrust into a tense and emotional fight to survive the night.

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The Martian

The Martian by director Ridley Scott tells the story of Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon), During a manned mission to Mars, who is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet.

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