Insights from the Cinematic World: Movie Production Insights

Song of Lahore

Beyond introducing Western audiences to a rich and ancient musical tradition they may not have experienced before, the film Song of Lahore presents a more nuanced story about Pakistani people than is typically depicted in the media.

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The Nice Guys

“The Nice Guys” unfolds in 1970s Los Angeles, when down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and hired enforcer Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) become the unlikeliest of partners.

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Money Monster

In the real-time, high stakes thriller Money Monster, George Clooney and Julia Roberts star as financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, who are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything (Jack O’Connell) forcefully takes over their studio.

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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Returning stars Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne are joined by Chloë Grace Moretz for Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, the follow-up to 2014’s most popular original comedy.

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High-Rise

HIGH-RISE an interpretation of J.G. Ballard’s novel written in 1975 stars Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class.

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Sunset Song is Terence Davies’ intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War.

Sunset Song

A young woman’s endurance against the hardships of rural Scottish life, based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, told with gritty poetic realism by Britain’s greatest living auteur.

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The Angry Birds Movie

The most downloaded mobile game of all time – Angry Birds and their various editions have been downloaded over three billion times – comes to the big screen and moviegoers will finally learn how the Angry Birds got their name.

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On location during the five-­week shoot, García’s key ally proved to be director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki. The Mexican cinematographer, nicknamed “Chivo,” earned Academy Awards for Birdman and Gravity, Because of Last Days in the Desert’s modest budget, Lubezki suggested using natural light whenever possible.

Last Days in the Desert

Ewan McGregor is Jesus—and the Devil—in an imagined chapter from his 40 days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis, setting for himself a dramatic test.

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Keanu

One of the trademarks of Key and Peele’s humor has been their ability to turn on a dime, changing their speech, posture and entire demeanor to go from urbane men of color in suburbia to urban African Americans in the inner city. In “Keanu,” they push the envelope on their comedy brand.

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In fact, the Morocco production involved as much “intensity” as any filmmaker could ask for. Equipment trucks broke down. The March-April rainy season caused flooding on coastal areas that were supposed to appear arid. Insects swarmed. “We had one disaster or another every other day, from sandstorms and winds to the time billions of ladybugs came down on our set in Casablanca,” recalls producer Arcadiy Golubovich.

A Hologram for the King

In recession-ravaged 2010, American businessman ALAN CLAY (Tom Hanks), broke, depressed and freshly divorced, arrives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to close what he hopes will be the deal of a lifetime.

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Term Life

Everyone wants Nick (Vince Vaughn) dead. A desperate man, Nick takes out a life insurance policy on himself, payable to his estranged daughter (Hailee Steinfeld). But the policy doesn’t take effect for 21 days and he might not live that long.

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In “A Beautiful Planet,” director Toni Myers and her team capture the gradual depletion of the Colorado River Basin, which supplies water to 40 million Americans in seven states, according to the film.

A Beautiful Planet

“A Beautiful Planet,” narrated by Jennifer Lawrence, gives moviegoers a never-before-seen glimpse of Earth from space and provides an increased understanding of our planet and galaxy.

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