Sentences with phrase «early film studios»

Early film studios had a reason for their secrecy.

Not exact matches

June says Lightwave now works with several other studios, «much earlier in the creative process» — during the making of the film as well as in the formation of marketing plans.

If Harrison Ford had listened to the advice of studio heads early in his career, he would have remained a carpenter and never gone on to star in some of Hollywood's biggest films and become one of the industry's most bankable stars.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

The film demonstrates how Marvel, following the overall architecture overseen by studio head Kevin Feige, ties together moments, personalities and themes from earlier films in ways beyond reheated nostalgia.

Whether it is the purchase of Lucasfilm, the sequel (and prequel)- isation of Pixar's earliest and best work or the Disney Infinity «multi-platform experience,» the world's most successful film studio is no longer venturing outward in search of material, but rather has turned entirely inward, and is fracking its own landscape of licenses to generate «content.»

It was a time of big budget, Oscar nominated studio films like Misery and early genre work from filmmakers who would go on to become the best in the business, like Fincher's Seven, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, Tarantino and Rodriguez's From Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder.

The documentary is accompanied by a number of interesting films: three shorts made at the Champion studio from 1910 to 1913, an early documentary short about Fort Lee by Theodore Huff and Mark A. Borgotta, a feature called The Danger Game starring Madge Kennedy, an early Mack Sennett comedy short, and a 31 - minute version of Robin Hood released by Éclair America in 1912.

Although she had appeared in several films earlier, Cheng's first starring role in a martial arts film came, like Hsu Feng's, courtesy of director King Hu during his short - lived stint with the studio.

It was a time of big budget, Oscar nominated studio films like Misery and early genre work from filmmakers who... read more →

Earlier this year, the studio announced that legendary actor James Earl Jones would be reprising his role in the 21st - century film as Mufasa.

The film plays atmospherically on genre tropes, too: a close - up of a gun in darkness (which ends up playing no role whatsoever), the moody chiaroscuro interior of Jo's apartment, which a bulky early -»80s answering machine makes look like a whole recording studio.

The British studio's first film, 2000's stop - motion Chicken Run, would have won the Best Animated Feature Oscar had that award been launched a year earlier than it was.

I felt that the early 90's showed the studio delivering some of their strongest animated films such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King since their heyday.

The studio has always had a tendency to dominate whatever month they stake their claim in, but has never released a film earlier than intended.

A handful of earlier films had examined (for some, exploited) juvenile delinquency but these productions, such as Youth Runs Wild (Mark Robson, 1944) and I Accuse My Parents (Sam Newfield, 1945), had been low budget efforts of smaller studios.

Earlier in the day, the studio also mapped out the release dates for the long - delayed Avatar sequels, as well as stationed Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers film The Post at December 22nd, 2017, setting it up for an awards season run.

Titled The Hero's Awakening, the movie is being produced through the Russos» Anthem production studio, which they founded earlier this year to focus on making films for China's massive, highly lucrative movie market.

At Searchlight Television, the early emphasis appears to be on mining the studio's feature film library for adaptations, in addition to developing original material.

The Toronto International Film Festival is known as the unofficial start of Oscar season, and early buzz on a film can make or break how a studio positions it over the coming months.

Usually the victory laps that play out on the stage of the Academy Awards are kicked into motion as early as a year prior to the ceremony, when a film, say, premieres at a festival and the media's whipped - up buzz incentivizes a studio to get to work on an awards campaign.

He also discusses his working relationship with actor Jack Nicholson, casting the future movie star in many of his early roles, making his first major studio film for Columbia Pictures Getting Straight starring Elliott Gould and Candice Bergen.

This has been on my must - see list ever since it was announced, and that excitement has only grown with each new reveal, from the casting of Chris Pratt in the lead role, to landing Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper to voice the movie's CGI characters, to the strong buzz emerging from early screenings that have pegged it as one of the studio's best films to date.

Still, part of the reason why The Big Heat looms large even in the incomparably rich spectrum of cinema that is film noir is its recognizability as a studio re-creation (specifically, mid-Fifties Columbia, as Man Hunt represents early - Forties Fox craftsmanship at its highest).

Though its summer release date is pretty ballsy for a movie that would have benefited from an early fall awards push, the studio's confidence in «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» is not only encouraging, but suggests that the rave reviews coming out of Park City wasn't just the usual film festival hyperbole.

First of all, since Frenzy was a relatively low budget project, especially compared to the earlier critical misfire Topaz, Hitchcock was spared from any studio interference and was allowed to make a film that would be truly his own.

And the arc of the movie, in which Luke is indoctrinated into an all - male world of regimentation, brutality, and the following of orders that can seem bafflingly pointless, marks it as one of the earliest American studio films to function as a sustained Vietnam War allegory.

I'm pleased to find that this film has held up well for me on each subsequent viewing from immediate revisitation in the summer of 2002 to another look in July 2004 to a review of the tardy 20th Anniversary Edition DVD in early 2009 and, now at my most critical state to date, in the summer of 2013 when Oliver & Company makes its Blu - ray debut in a 25th Anniversary Edition Blu - ray + DVD combo pack alongside two of the studio's less esteemed, sequel-less «animated classics.»

Joss Whedon showed what can happen when an insanely passionate filmmaker / creative mind takes control of a superhero property earlier this year with The Avengers, and Marvel smartly locked him down to consult on the studio's other films through at least 2015.

Despite some intriguing early looks at both films, the studios backing them have decided to pull them from their original release dates later this year and move them to 2014.

Written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, the film tells the story of P.L. Travers, the author of «Mary Poppins,» who in the early 1960's met with Walt Disney and his creative team to decide whether to sign the rights of her beloved book to the magic studio.

This is supposed to be an exploration into preserved Republic Pictures films, one of the legendary «poverty row» studios, with a Paramount Archivist showing selected scenes from their westerns, cliff - hangers, serials and early work from John Wayne, Allan Dwan and Anthony Mann.

Despite what you might have read up to this point (the studio uncharacteristically lifted the «no - review» embargo on this latest film, allowing early reviews to post several weeks ago), X-Men:

My own research reveals that by the early 1990s, most Hollywood films held the «main» credits for the end, reversing a long history of studio filmmaking that announced up - front who was responsible for the film you were about to see.

Whereas Warner Bros.» early DVD for Shaft contained just a vintage promo featurette, Superfly is given the deluxe treatment by the studio, sporting numerous featurettes on the cast, style, the loud and flashy clothes, and the film's stature as one of several key African - American film works that revitalized Hollywood's production arm when revenues from more standard fodder were once again ebbing low.

The studio announced earlier this week the fourth film will bring back Chris Hemsworth, who played Kirk's father, George, in 2009's «Star Trek.»

The sophomore film from Damien Chazelle, whose forthcoming ode to the Hollywood studio musical La La Land is already the early - buzz frontrunner for 2017's Oscar race, Whiplash comes after 2009's jazz - infused micro budget musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, and doubles as a courageous confessional, of sorts.

In fact, an earlier script draft co-written for the project by Roberto Orci - who was in line to direct the film before Lin was hired - was dropped because it was, as Pegg put it, «too Star Trek - y» for Paramount studio heads.

Talk from early in that season placed Blanchett on a lead bid for Todd Haynes» film about multiple actors playing Bob Dylan, but the studio quickly decided that a supporting run was in the cards for her.

The Metal Gear film is in the very early stages yet and expects it won't arrive for at least 3 years, depending on communications between studios.

At a news conference earlier this year for «Behind the Candelabra,» Soderbergh and company expressed their gratitude to HBO for picking up the film when major studios balked at funding it, reportedly because the gay content was too much to handle.

I had interviewed the stars and the director Sean Baker (of Tangerine fame) earlier in the day, where I nerded out HARD and told every A24 rep I saw that they were my all - time favourite studio in the game right now (I was really into New Line in elementary school and tried to see EVERY Focus Features film in high school.

Though there's no touching the early wave of classic Disney animated features, when the studio reinvented its animation department in the late 1980's they had a run of successful and impactful films that deserve to be shelved near those great...

Over the last few years, though, Hollywood has started breaking from its annual tradition of dumping their stragglers in the winter graveyard and saving their best films for the warmer months, and while 2011's early film slate still contains its share of obvious duds, the studios have seen fit to bring us plenty of movies worth getting excited about, from animated and / or family - friendly fare to comedies, dramas, and action.

That's because the studios wait until the Holiday Season to release their best films in theaters, given how Academy voters tend to forget pictures and performances from earlier in the year.

And the studio has decided to take a chance on a relative newcomer to direct the film: Chinese - American director Cathy Yan, whose debut feature, Dead Pigs, just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

Walt Disney Studios will be distributing director Hayao Miyazaki's final film The Wind Rises to domestic audiences early next year, and today the studio has unveiled the voice talent that will be dubbing the English - language version of the Studio Ghibli...

The studio probably won't be happy with the comparison, but the film it reminded me most of was last year's John Carter, another go - for - it film that was drawn from earlier works, but didn't come across as the result of a committee or some grand marketing exercise.

Executive Producer Simon Kinberg reveals the studio hopes to finally begin production on the Channing Tatum film early next year.

Soderbergh caused consternation earlier this month when he revealed that Hollywood studios refused to fund the latter film over concerns that it might be «too gay» for audiences.