Sentences with phrase «about films studios»

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Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

However, if it fails to meet analyst's estimates, and teeters close to DreamWorks Animation's Thanksgiving debut, the studio could have a larger problem on its hands with only one other film — about a racing snail — out later this year.

Iger crowed about «the quality of the assets» Disney is picking up in the deal, which includes Fox's film and TV studio, along with various cable networks and regional sports networks as well as Fox's stake in Hulu (giving Disney majority control of the streaming service).

By mapping those emotional responses to the corresponding plot points, the studio gleaned objective data about the film — something that would otherwise be judged subjectively.

Maria Contreras - Sweet said her group is pulling out of its deal to buy Weinstein Co. after an examination raised questions about the viability of the film and TV studio.

Redstone was so upset about the disappointing performance of Mission: Impossible III, which grossed almost $ 100 million less than the previous installment, he blamed Cruise and his controversial behavior leading up to the film's release for costing the studio money.

Adding to that, Dr. Johnson said, «It is a significant and welcome development when a leading Hollywood studio like Paramount makes a major film about a story from the Bible.»

In contrast, it is a significant development when a major Hollywood studio like Paramount makes a film about a story from the Bible.

Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

The studio execs at Fox were wrong about what their market demographic would find acceptable, and the bottom line of their film may have even paid a price.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

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.

I had the privilege of watching this film on the Disney lot, and afterwards going behind the scenes at Disney Animation studios to learn a little bit about how the film was made from story to art to animation.

Her credits include a feature film released by a Hollywood studio and several documentaries about childbirth; DOULA!

«Filmmaking and daily operations at the CNY film hub are about to enter into a new era with the hire of studio manager Huayu Xu,» said Mike Massurin, executive director of the Syracuse International Film Festival, in a prepared statement.

Ken Clarke and Malcolm Rifkind filmed in Sky News Westminster studio making remarks about Tory leadership candidates https://t.co/SywJXdMvH6

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Keira «s film Laggies, about a woman stuck in permanent adolescence who lies to her fiance, was just given a release date of September 26, 2014 by its studio, A24.

Raleigh, NC About Blog Nancy Ray Photography is a film photography studio based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

History of BBC studios in London offers news, comment and features about british arts scene sections books, films, music, theatre, art architecture.

New Jersey About Blog Television and film studio that revolutionized the way America watches NFL pro football.

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

It is wider than it is tall, and it is packed with an incredible amount of information about the old MGM studio in Culver City, complete with a list of what films and television shows were shot on which backlot sets.

Commentary 3 — The Picture - Director of Photography Darius Khondji, Prodcution Designer Arthur Max, Editor Richard Francis - Bruce, Richard Dyer and David Fincher talk about the look of the film itself, the color processes used on the print, the locations scouted for the various shots, the detail used in the studio backlot constructions, the style David wanted to achieve and succeeded in doing, the clothing, the grittiness, the absolute black Fincher always wanted in Alien 3 but could achieve until now and more.

This has never stopped and will never stop studios from making more well - written and well - acted films about men.

That aspect of the film is clearly in a fight with all the «why did you come here» Syd Field motivational padding between its troubling setpieces, and it's a very studio - suit move to assume that the only way to give «meaning» to a film is to have people talk about it.

But those two films, along with Paul Feig's summer comedy hit Spy, were about all that went right for the studio in 2015.

It is this ability to crossover from potential niche status - a huge risk for a film with a mammoth budget - to billion dollar behemoth should light a fire under the asses of studios to show them that stories about anyone can be successful as long as they are well made and engaging.

Even though the studio literally made a movie about feelings, Coco ranks among its most heartfelt and emotional films.

The only good thing about this film is that it is the last in a series that was once great, but that with every film the studio made, the ideas would start to feel strained, and that simply made the series a tad too silly.

A big - budgeted studio film about a black action superhero with a nearly all - black cast is a huge step forward.

Warner Brothers, which is marketing the film as a conventional thriller, recently overruled the producers» desire to show it in European festivals so that the studio could open it wide (in many theaters at once) and cash in as quickly as possible on the name value of its cast before word - of - mouth about its depressing subject matter could kill it.

This must be the age of bliss for Harry being he loves absolutly every movie he sees... it's fairly obvious he's being paid off, after the Batman And Robin fiasco (back when the site was pure) studios realized how powerful this kinda site can be so they decided to give knowles a wad of cash to give their films a good review... Only reason Star Trek Nemesis didn't get a good review was because Moriarty and others bashed Rick Berman so much he didn't wan na give them Money he was so insulted... everyone do a favor and goto http://www.corona.bc.ca/films it's a real movie lovers site withreal reviews and NEWS... no shit about how they got the news or that they think the film reminds them of from their youth, just news..

Talk about redemption: After dazzling us with his debut, You Can Count on Me (2000), writer - director Kenneth Lonergan got into studio trouble with Margaret — a neutered film that triggered a massive Twitter campaign (#teammargaret).

In other Marvel news, Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon has expressed regret about comments made about the film and his relationship with the studio last year.

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.

Ant - Man is an old fashioned heist film with an underlying message about fathers and daughters, and probably the biggest departure for the studio, which is a very, very good thing.

Johnson turned in a piece of studio entertainment that for the first time in its franchise's ten - film history was actually about something, yet never skimps on entertainment.

OUR TAKE: Fresh young faces starring in a movie about a board game that hinges on delusion - as directed by Stiles White, a special effects guru from the Stan Winston studio, who has written films like Knowing and The Possession, but is admittedly making his directorial debut with this movie.

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.

The most fundamental and essential extra all films should get, I wish Warner and other studios were better about including trailers on their new films.

Ryan Reynolds, celebrity and manufacturer of Deadpool 2, unearths the film at the beginning contained a specific funny story about movie studio Walt Disney Pictures, however 20th Century Fox made him reduce it.

Throughout the film's production, Reynolds and Deadpool 2 studio 20th Century Fox have been very crafty about not revealing any potential spoilers for the film, and in fact, made normal procedures such as casting announcements - like the addition of Cable (Josh Brolin) and Domino (Zazie Beetz) to the film - feel like pop culture events.

by Bill Chambers As with most «origin» Tarzan films, Tarzan himself is an off - screen promise for the first third of Tarzan the Ape Man, though his famous yodel (which the studio maintains was artificially created) portends his appearance about ten minutes before he actually materializes.

I'm not exactly sure why Sony would want to remind moviegoers about the original «Spider - Man» trilogy when the studio is only weeks away from rebooting the lucrative superhero franchise, but if you never got around to buying the films on Blu - ray, it's as good a time as any to get them now.

But I kept telling the studio, and I kept telling Ryan, I'm like, «No, the director's cut going to come in at like 2:12,»» Leitch explained about his rough cut of the film before elaborating that the extended version contains a montage of Deadpool attempting suicide, some extra material with Domino and alternate takes of existing scenes with different dialogue.

There is so much money on the line with this film — especially considering that parent studio Lionsgate bid a reluctant farewell to the «Saw» franchise only a little over a year ago, and could use another cash cow — and yet nearly everything about its execution flies in the face of standard Hollywood protocol.

And of course, Pixar isn't even the first animation studio to make a film about Dia de Muertos: 20th Century Fox Animation beat them to the punch with 2014's Book of Life.

It takes its core components (pigs, explosions, slingshots, rage) and combines them in a way that checks all the boxes you would expect a film like this, an ambitiously chirpy product of the tentacular Hollywood studio system of 2016, to check: It layers kid - friendly gags with subtler, for - adult jokes; it offers, along the way, several unobjectionable lessons about life and those who live it; it has really good animation.