Sentences with phrase «as big studios»

California's Electronic Arts, the biggest game company in the world, counts EA Canada in Burnaby, B.C. as its biggest studio.

Not exact matches

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

So, the studio's biggest question mark of the year will be November's Justice League, which will bring together several superheroes from that universe of films, including Wonder Woman as well as Batman and Superman.

The big match - up at this year's Super Bowl won't be the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers, it will be the strange alliance of television networks and movie studios, as movie studios are now among the biggest Super Bowl advertisers.

«From the start we had a bigger vision of disrupting the digital and media industries,» says CEO Rory Armes, better known as the founder Radical Entertainment, for many years the No. 2 video game studio in Vancouver behind Electronic Arts (it was sold to Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2005 and reduced to a software support office in 2012).

Covering an area equivalent to more than 200 football pitches, the 400 - acre Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis boasts the world's biggest movie studio and has been touted as China's answer to Hollywood.

The studio does have a pair of big spring releases in Ghost in the Shell, the controversial adaptation of the popular manga comic that stars Scarlett Johansson, as well as the action - comedy adaptation of the 1990s lifeguard TV show Baywatch.

But for Paramount, the studio's success will largely be defined by movie ticket sales as well as the number of big blockbuster and tentpole film franchises it can churn out.

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

Canadians are making amazing games such as Assassin's Creed and FIFA while working at big multinational studios such as Ubisoft and EA, but ultimately those games don't belong to them or the country.

Schusser, who joined Apple in 2004, has demonstrated an ability to work with music labels, studios and publishers — the companies that determine Apple's content acquisition costs, as it seeks to compete with big spenders such as Netflix and Spotify.

CBS, home of broad - based hits like «NCIS» and «Big Bang Theory,» is exploring a tie - up with Viacom, which owns Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, as well as Paramount studios.

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...

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.

Obviously in the case of the UFC, the big money being made isn't all going back into the company (as may be the case with your studio) to pay fighters, employees and to put on bigger and bigger events.

This space can be as small as a corner in a tiny apartment to as big as a giant warehouse studio, so long as you can devote it entirely to your creative endeavors.

Look as though Pumping Iron was bought by one of the big movie studios.

30 minutes later I'll have another smaller meal that usually consists of either fish of chicken (recently I've been BBQ» ing a lot of Turkey tenders as we have a big BBQ at the studio I run in Downtown Los Angeles, so I like to make use of it as often as I can), and some more yam with a small salad.

I'm offering workshops in several new places, returning to one big and exciting event, booking some awesome vendor engagements, and starting relationships with some very special new studios as well as continuing onward at the amazing Stamford Yoga Center and Tangerine Hot Power Yoga, both of these spaces have treated me incredibly well this year.

I have been to workshops and classes in some of the countries top studios with big name teachers and have never heard rolling up taught with as much detail as some of the arguments in this comment section.

Checking in again this week from The Big Lake studio, this time to share with you some of my favorite sticker designs I've created as well as sharing a sneak peek (or two!)

The studio is just one big open room, so as a way to hide the not so pretty parts of the office like shipping supplies, etc., we cornered off the back part of the space with pottery barn linen drapes.

Yates, mostly known for his work on British television, started out as a low - cost alternative to big name Hollywood directors, with many at the studio seeing him as a stopgap until they could secure Guillermo del Toro (or whoever).

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.

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

And while it was a little exciting to see the Delorean from Back to the Future again, this particular subplot eventually leads into a Pee - Wee's Big Adventure ripoff - as the two characters are chased throughout the studio.

It will be extremely hard for the studio to match those figures in 2016, as many of its biggest franchises are sitting out the year and Universal's planned 21 - film slate doesn't feature any sure - thing blockbuster hits aside from (maybe) a still - untitled Bourne sequel.

Of course, superfans of the fourth wall - breaking Marvel Comics character will be delighted to see Ryan Reynolds» Merc with a Mouth back on the big screen, slicing up baddies and roasting everyone from his enemies (this time around it's futuristic soldier Cable) to his frenemies (Hugh Jackman's Wolverine) to his own studio, 20th Century Fox, just as he did in 2016's surprise smash «Deadpool.»

This led to a 15 - year association with Republic Pictures, where Judy became one of that studio's biggest moneymakers in such raucous vehicles as Sis Hopkins (1941), Sleepy Lagoon (1942), Oklahoma Annie (1946) and Carolina Cannonball (1955).

Not as big a moneymaker as Harold's starring features of the 1920s, the RKO film nonetheless turned a tidy profit for the studio.

Seldom making a liveable income in films, Miller remained an unknown entity so far as the «big» studios were concerned — but his teenaged fans were legion, and he was besieged on the streets and in public places for autographs.

Almost big enough now to qualify as a major studio, Lionsgate shouldn't be confused with some of the art house distributors on this list; its films clearly target a wide audience.

With such big - budget major studio efforts as Con Air (1997) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), the fledgling director has indeed proven his keen ability to shoot entertainingly jarring action scenes that place filmgoers in the eye of a frenzied storm of chaos with such gleeful abandon that he has become a solid staple in the Michael Bay / Jerry Bruckheimer cannon.

We know the studios pay big bucks get their ads on your site and sway your opinion about their products, but does it have to completely deteriorate your ability as a writer as well?

The film begins with a superfluous and clunky prologue, the audience regarded as complete morons by bigger morons known as studio executives.

The studio will be bringing out the big guns, as the films...

VOD companies have swiftly established themselves as viable alternatives to the traditional big film studios, but there is still the issue of distribution.

The plot is weaker than some of Marvel's more recent stories (I'm looking at you Winter Soldier), and the villain is the biggest mustache twirling megalomaniac the studio has yet produced, but what it lacks in completely solid writing it makes up for in its wonderfully charming cast, an impressive use of special effects, and at least a baby step forward as far as female supporting characters are concerned.

But it's not all sure - bets and big - spenders — the studio also takes on smaller projects, such as Alex Garland's 2015 directorial debut, Ex Machina.

Shawn also explains that Sony take a hands off approach with their big studios, such as Naughty Dog and Guerrilla.

For those who don't know, most studios use the fall film festivals as a kind of launching pad for their big awards contenders.

Seventeen years after The Shaggy Dog became one of Disney's biggest live action hits, the studio ushered into theaters a sequel, titled The Shaggy D.A., as its major Christmas 1976 release.

An attempt by director Philip Kaufman to fashion a big - screen reboot — entitled «Planet of the Titans» — had just fallen apart in the face of studio disinterest, leading to the development of «Star Trek: Phase 2», a TV series featuring the original cast with the exception of Leonard Nimoy, who didn't want to be typecast as Spock.

Critics weren't especially kind to Bright, Netflix's big 2017 push to brand itself as a real, bona fide movie studio, complete with an awful, David Ayer - directed Will Smith blockbuster of its very own.

Warner Bros. gave a big sendoff to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies at San Diego Comic - Con 2014 (as we'd hoped the studio would).

Jones had an early encounter with big - budget studio fare as Banshee in 2011's X-Men: First Class — what would be the end goal for many budding actors — but he has tended towards more sophisticated work ever since.

Picked up by Fox Searchlight following its Sundance premiere, «I Origins» is likely to perform well in limited release due to its genre hook, particularly if it's released as a form of counter-programming to bigger studio efforts in heat of the summer blockbuster season.

Familiar elements such as a dark family secret, a ghost and a Ouija board start to seem trite after a while, and the third act is a little ridiculous, but debut writer - director Nicholas McCarthy does a lot with a little and seems fully prepared to handle a big - studio horror project.

Hancock is presented in 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen, with picture as crystal clear and stunning as on any big budget studio picture.

She started out as a Scream Queen and then dabbled with big, bad studio movies.