TSG Entertainment / Double Dare You Productions
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
"The Shape of Water" is a 2017 American romantic dark fantasy drama film directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. It stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. Set in Baltimore in 1962, the story follows a mute custodian at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Published on Dec 14, 2017
Go behind the scenes of Clint Eastwood's The 15:17 to Paris
in theaters February 9.
MOLLY’S GAME is based on the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons. Her players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars, business titans and finally, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob.
Sony / Screengems
Paramount Pictures
When a Roman General, Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son (Joaquin Phoenix), he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. In the final days of Marcus Aurelius' (Richard Harris) reign, the aging emperor arouses his son Commodus' anger when he makes known his wish that Maximus be his successor. Power-hungry Commodus kills his father and orders the death of Maximus. But the latter flees and hides his identity by becoming slave and a gladiator. Eventually, Maximus journeys back to Rome to confront his archrival.
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. "A Beautiful Mind" is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash (Russell Crowe), a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The story begins in Nash's days as a graduate student at Princeton University. Early in the film, Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on wife Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and friends.
" Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
" I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
" I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
" Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
" Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
" Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
" Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
" Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
While attending a Production Meeting
" This is no place to ask questions!!
" Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
" The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
" Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
" The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
To a young Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
" Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
" I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
" The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
" It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
" I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
" I'll give you a definite maybe.
" From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
" I'll moider da bum!
" Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
" The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
" Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
" Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
" Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
" The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
" I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
" Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
" The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
" The average American family hasn't time for television.
" The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
" What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
" If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
" We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
" No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
" When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
" All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
" Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
" I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
" Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
" The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
" My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
" You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
" Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
" No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
" The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
" It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
" I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
" The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
