Sentences with phrase «while film studios»

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While the studios command 80 % of Canada's roughly billion - dollar theatrical market, the remaining 20 % includes all Canadian films, plus some of the most successful recent independent releases, from The Hunger Games to The King's Speech.

While the studio did not name the troubled film, Variety and other outlets reported that the culprit was believed to be the live - action, computer - animated hybrid Monster Trucks, which cost more than $ 100 million to make.

It's a path that includes the relatively low overhead of shooting a film entirely via a mobile device and an app (the studio said Sickhouse «s budget was similar to that of a typical indie film) while potentially tapping into various social networking platforms» massive built - in audiences of users.

(Avnet said the studio created a real website to build a mythology for the film's titular «Sickhouse,» a fictional home they gave a frightening backstory, while encouraging the movie's stars to casually drop mentions of the fake legend in the days leading up to the Snapchat release.)

While there's no definitive plans to remake those three films, studio CEO Jim Robinson has confirmed that all three are being toyed around with for active development.

While the libraries of every film are up for grabs, the studio has retained the rights to remake certain properties in the mix.

While Sony's controversial comedy The Interview is the embattled studio's most watched online film ever (complete with an $ 18 million opening weekend), piracy certainly is still alive and well.

The former, which sells and installs beehives at various company locations, has inked contracts with clients including Delta and Chick - fil - A, while the latter works with film studios and directors including Darren Aronofsky — charging them as much as $ 50,000 a pop — to make a film or television production more ecologically friendly.

The Motion Picture Production Code, introduced by the major studios in 1930, was a direct progenitor of the Comics Code, while the modern film - rating system and the Parental Advisory labels created by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1985 are all part of the same bloodline.

Amazon Video, the company's digital streaming site, launched in 2006, while the retailer's production studio — which now makes award - winning films and television shows — launched in 2010.

So Paramount, in the wake of a disappointing 2017 that saw big budget films like Transformers: The Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell underperform while the studio's would - be Oscar hopefuls Suburbicon and Downsizing were DOA at awards season, is looking to make some changes in 2018 and selling God Particle off to Netflix may be a cushy deal.

Until the axe came down, I'm told British action game studio Ninja Theory had been working on material based on December's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, while Studio Gobo, a studio largely known for external Disney Infinity development, riffed on the upcoming Disney animated film Moana.

And, in November 2001, President Bush in a similar fashion to President Roosevelt during World War II, asked some Hollywood studios to create films and television programs that would help with encouragement and public morale while providing entertainment to the soldiers and the people back home.

Lindsay - Hogg is the eminent film, television and theatre director whose work includes the 1970 Beatles documentary Let It Be, about the band's recording of their final studio album, while Della Sciucca is a writer, director, designer and illustrator.

While studios can lobby for their films to be included in that quota, there is no magic formula that guarantees distribution.

While this seems like a poor decision on the studios part, let's take a look at the previous film.

Quite possibly the goriest film ever made by a Hollywood studio, Evil Dead is a new Horror classic, a film that accomplishes the nearly impossible task of staying true to the original's roots while standing firmly on its own.

While that isn't remotely surprising in 2011, when studios have been comfortable doing direct digital transfers on computer - animated films for over a decade, it still is supremely satisfying, especially since the movie is one of the nicer - looking cartoons to hail from DreamWorks (or any non-Pixar studio).

John Ford had several bitter disputes with RKO Pictures while making The Plough and the Stars, especially after the studio re-shot several scenes with another director to tone down the film's politics; while he distributed several independent productions through the studio, he never shot another picture for RKO.

Since then, Rodriguez has become a movie factory unto himself, churning out entries in his charming Spy Kids series from a homemade studio while assuming more duties with each film.

While I understand the studios desire to squeeze every last dollar out of the franchise, they should have made one exceptionally good film instead of taking the risk of separating the material.

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.

Orson Welles was reportedly furious when this film was cut to smithereens by his studio, and his editor, Robert Wise, while he was elsewhere, filming in South America.

While Lionsgate posted the year's highest - grossing film (domestically) in Catching Fire, that was one of only three positively reviewed films released by the studio in 2013.

The studio did manage to raise its average Metascore by 10 full points in 2013, while going 6 - for - 10 with critics; back in 2012, by comparison, Paramount released only one positively reviewed film.

Warners» success rate (of films receiving positive reviews from critics) dropped from 39 % in 2014 to just 16 % last year, while the studio's average Metascore declined by four points.

On the one hand, it's exciting to see the always envelope - pushing Lee working without a studio - or distributor - imposed safety net... But while the film never lacks for ambition, it fails to satisfy emotionally or intellectually in the ways Lee intends.

While the Future of Studio Ghibli hangs in limbo, Mami Sunada's Documentary is an eye opening film delving into the mind of the studio's founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata on the verge of producing their last ever features.

While the studio's films demonstrated plenty of comic flair right from the start of its shared - universe experiment, with 2008's Iron Man, recent efforts have veered too far into bland, jokey listlessness; frivolity has trumped lightheartedness, pandering has replaced irreverence.

Despite all of those well - reviewed films, however, the studio's overall average score dropped nearly six points from 2010, while its box office grosses declined slightly.

While I am sure the studio was still banking on the title, this film is far better than I think it had any right to be, mainly due to it's devoted cast.

The latter film earned five of Fox Searchlight's eight Academy Award nominations (tying it for fifth among all studios), while the distributor's Metascore average increased for the second straight year.

Even though Sony released only one positively reviewed film in 2010 and managed to boost that total to six films in 2011 (led by best picture nominee Moneyball), its overall Metascore still dropped nearly two points last year, while the studio's average Metacritic user score was also the lowest among the big six distributors.

While Pixar has previously replaced voice actors (Reese Witherspoon was originally be Merida in Brave), this is the first time the studio has cast an entire film, recorded dialogue, and then replaced 99 % of the cast.

Generally, when a movie studio is trying to promote an upcoming film, it doesn't make a big show of how much fun everybody had while making the movie.

«They hide in the crypt for a while, and then the studios suddenly remember they can make quick millions, because however you slice it, people love scary films.

While we haven't heard a whole lot about Promised Land so far, the fact that the studios are going out of their way to ensure it has a shot at the big awards suggests they have a lot of faith in this film.

While it is getting a huge screen count and a big studio release, the film is essentially an art film in disguise.

The entertainment industry is changing, and while Netflix has been applauded as a disruptor in the television industry, it's taken longer for the streaming platform to be appreciated as a film studio.

While those films have their share of problems, at least they didn't feel as much like a commercialized studio project to exploit the very generation that feels disenfranchised enough already by corporate manipulation.

While it's highly unlikely that The Emperor's New Groove will ever be ranked among Disney classics such as The Lion King and Bambi, there's no denying that the film is one of the studio's more enjoyable (if entirely forgettable) efforts to come around in a wWhile it's highly unlikely that The Emperor's New Groove will ever be ranked among Disney classics such as The Lion King and Bambi, there's no denying that the film is one of the studio's more enjoyable (if entirely forgettable) efforts to come around in a whilewhile.

While both films were romantic, Spielberg's was also sentimental, perceiving the past in the same glowing soft - focus images that had marked Hollywood studio films of the 1930s and 1940s.

While Jeremy has a vision (which includes killing a dog at film's end, loudly and with much blood), studio exec Lou (Catherine Keener) is bothered by newly collected, furious audience reaction cards.

While the film's concept may leave some viewers confused, given how the Joker is already an established character within the studio's other movie universe, it does leave DC with a blank canvas ripe with exciting story, creative team and casting possibilities.

While the studio attempts to get the young Han Solo spinoff film back on track with Ron Howard taking over for Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Rian Johnson's Episode VIII has been sailing smoothly from the beginning.

Prior to the 2014 announcement that the company would be making «Black Panther» and «Captain Marvel,» the studio had famously only cast straight while male leads in its films.

And while the true Oscar - eager prestige films are still mostly reserved for the colder months, independent distributors and some smaller studio sister companies have become aware of the arthouse gap that exists while sequels dominate.

The Mummy's glorious unwrapping while attached to the back of the Squad's jeep is one of the film's coolest moments, and the Gill Man's design is near - flawless, prompting one to wonder why studios are so concerned with CGI when there are people out there who can make the fantastical look incredibly lifelike using real - world tools.

The studio announced a «brain trust» that would connect the films, while also assigning Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci («Transformers») and Ed Solomon («Men In Black») onto «Venom» (with Kurtzman directing) and Drew Goddard («Cabin In The Woods») onto «The Sinister Six.»

The reason you may never have heard of this director: while he effectively served his studios, stories and stars, he never put much personality into his films.