Sentences with phrase «as an independent studio»

Of course, 2011 will go down as Summit's final year as an independent studio; the company was recently acquired by fellow mini-major Lionsgate, a company that had less than half the domestic box office gross (and an even lower average Metascore) than Summit last year, but one that boasts a significant home video library as well as a decent presence in television.

A Clue movie seems to fit right in, but the reality is we just don't know what is going to happen once Disney takes over and Fox ceases to exist as an independent studio.

Kojima Productions was established as an independent studio exactly 1 year ago today.

Kojima reformed Kojima Productions as an independent studio after his departure from Konami back in 2015.

In order to be successful as an independent studio I doubt he can have a game in development as long as he has.

IOI started as an independent studio and we will now return to those roots with an extremely passionate and talented team.

We recently caught up with studio head Denis Dyack to find out more about the studio, its pending legal action against Epic Games, and his views on life as an independent studio in North Americaâ?

Lucasfilm has changed a lot since George Lucas launched it as an independent studio in the 1970s.

As an independent studio in the highly competitive games business, it is crucial to constantly evaluate and define our direction.

Black Shamrock will continue to operate as an independent studio focused on core gamer strategy and RPG titles for PC and consoles, while benefitting from the expanded business development and production resources available from Virtuos.

This is something we are seeing a lot more than we used to, partly because it's now easier to get a game released as an independent studio.

Pankapu: the Dreamkeeper is our first production as an independent studio.

Armello is the latest example of a virtual tabletop game, as independent studio League of Geeks has delivered a pretty complex experience to fans on PC.

High Moon Studios is an American video game developer that started out as Sammy Studios and, after a period as independent studio in January 2006 under the current studio name, was acquired by Vivendi Games.

I'm Kickstarting this project because I believe that operating as an independent studio is the best way to produce Shackleton Crater.

Despite everything that he has been through over the past year or so, Hideo Kojima was able to humbily put everything on the line that he had worked for, quite possibly his entire legacy and decided to work as an independent studio, AND put his past behind him.

Ever since Hellblade was initially announced at Sony's Gamescom 2014 press conference, Ninja Theory has emphasized how its goal was to make a AAA quality game as an independent studio.

In 1995 Ensemble Studios formed as an independent studio and kicked out a little game franchise known as Age of Empires.

Not exact matches

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Especially as it's been developed by an independent studio, which we all need to encourage.

As an independent game developed by a little french studio, Shad» O couldn't rival the big productions that were released this last year.

Since first citing year - end cinematic achievements in 1929, NBR has recognized a vast selection of outstanding studio, independent, foreign - language, animated and documentary films, often propelling recipients such as George Miller's visionary 2015 Best Film winner MAD MAX: FURY ROAD into the larger awards conversation.

Rudolph, a gifted stylist who operates mainly as an independent, can be regarded as a child of Hollywood: he was the son of studio director Oscar Rudolph, and his style is predicated largely on a nostalgia for classic Hollywood tropes.

Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola, arguably the two pivotal figures of American cinema in the 1970s, both rose from the turmoil of the transition from studio - based to independent production, to emerge as leading forces in film production as well as film style.

Los Angeles / November 28, 2016 — The International Press Academy (IPA) announces its nominations for the 21st Annual Satellite ™ Awards and for the first time the IPA is awarding a separate independent film and major studio film as Best Picture.

Born in Chicago, Leonard began as a stage actor, making his film debut in 1908 at the Selig Polyscope studios in Chicago; his directing career began in 1913 at Rex, a former independent then operating as a unit within Universal.

In the case of «Moneyball» it's a studio film, but it's the peculiar circumstances of that arrangement that we were able to negotiate with Brad [Pitt] as a producer really made it feel like an independent film than what one might think of as the committee of studio film.

The behind - the - scenes action of Living in Oblivion is no exception, and although we've seen many films just like it in recent years, such as Mistress and The Big Picture, Tom DiCillo's (Double Whammy, Box of Moon Light) creation distinguishes itself by being about a independent filmmaking, not greatly influenced by the dictation of a major studio or bigwig producer, but by conflicts within the filmmaker himself.

Horror as a whole has been seeing a revival in the past few years, predominantly in the independent scene but even mainstream studios are getting it right every so often, and this pleases me.

As the year comes to a close and moviegoers start thinking of awards, there is no clear favorite for the Best Picture Oscar, but a general acknowledgement that 2013 has seen several first - rate films, from major studio releases (Gravity) to small independent movies (Nebraska).

According to the PGA, once a producer's work on a film is certified by the guild, the «Produced by» credit and producers name will be followed by the distinctive mark: «p.g.a.» All the major studios have signed on to the process as well as many independent producers.

«The takeaway for me from Exclusive is realizing that independent films can be made as good as studio films»

From this first round of voting, the film critics group has compiled a pair of «10 Best» lists for 2017, one for independent film defined as a budget under $ 20 million and one for studio films defined as movies with budgets over $ 20 million:

Worse yet, as movie budgets increase, marketing departments try to safeguard their investments by developing newer and more expedient ways of sorting friend from foe, the «studio shills» (as Armond White of the now - defunct City Sun in Brooklyn tarred them) from the independent - minded journalists.

It's a shame Zwick — no doubt acquiescing to studio mandate — undermines himself with Hollywood instincts (much as he did with The Last Samurai); with a more subtle, independent sensibility, Defiance could have located a greater truth and integrity.

Over the course of 10 days and 11 nights, the public is invited to take advantage of world premieres including independent films and major studio releases, as well as tribute screenings, outdoor movies, celebrity - filled red carpets and more.

With the rise of digital filmmaking, which allows producers and financiers to be more directly involved in the creative process, did you feel more independent in the past working on a studio film like «Barcelona» (for Warner Brothers) as compared to «Love & Friendship»?

An independent production, Mr. Church doesn't look quite as polished as most new studio fare, exhibiting a bit more grain than usual.

We've seen a string of directors trade their success in smaller independent features for big budget big name studio roles, and after both Creed and Black Panther, it's tough to deny that no one has been as successful in making the leap as Ryan Coogler.

The film's culmination — a big twisty sci - fi reveal — is as novelistic as any of the genre's classics and as imaginative and moving as anything I've seen in the past five years in either independent or studio film - making.

Fast forward to Little Miss Sunshine, which played last year to a festival audience that now numbers 50,000, including «industry» denizens from studio - indie divisions, giant stand - alone indies such as Lionsgate, and a scattering of valiant unaffiliated independent companies, plus assorted lawyers, agents, producers, pr people, journalists and gossip - peddlers, fashionistas and bottom - feeders — every one of them attuned to the synergy among movies, TV, and the Web (it's all entertainment) and how that synergy serves the bottom line.

The actress, who, prior to Bone, was already known in industry circles for her gritty portrayals of troubled youths in such independent films as Poker House and The Burning Plain seamlessly made the transition to big - budget studio fare playing a young «Mystique» in X-Men: First Class while still sticking to her indie roots with key roles in films like The Beaver, Like Crazy, and the forthcoming House at the End of the Street.

They represent the culmination of a cultural change that began as the 1980s indie film movement shifted control of American film production away from the major studios to the entrepreneurship of individual (not necessarily «independent») outsiders.

In this country there are five things that we particular focus on in the DfE, firstly having the best schools that we possibly can do, and yes that has meant changing the school structures, we now have academies, we now have free schools, we have UTCs, we have studio schools and of course we have the state maintained sector and the independent sector as well.»

Let's say you're a professional narrator who does work for the major studios, but you supplement that work with independent production as well.

RIM has managed to line up an impressive list of partners for the re-launch of BlackBerry World as a media and app store: all the major movie studios are on board, as are the major music labels in addition to some independents.

TVGB: Do you feel that your status as independent developers allows you to take risks that perhaps larger studios couldn't?

The problem is that as a head of GenDESIGN, his new independent studio, he needs to make sure that his projects are viable in a market that he believes is still «not very big.»

This means that effective immediately SOE will operate as an independent game development studio where we will continue to focus on creating exceptional online games for players around the world, and now as a multi-platform gaming company.