Sentences with phrase «as major studios»

The news comes as major studios have aligned to announce support for Dolby Vision Ultra HD Blu - ray discs.

As the major studios have increasingly focused on predictable mass entertainment formulas, quality and imagination have migrated to what could be called Sundance films: Lower budget, innovative projects fueled by the love of their makers, and sometimes by the determination of actors trying to break out of assembly - line fodder.

Treated by some as a major studio (and we're counting it as one this year, mainly out of sympathy) after merging with Summit and grossing over $ 2 billion worldwide for two straight years, Lionsgate regressed in 2014.

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.

Clearly whatever of interest that has kept readers returning to King's books does not translate into the film, which is as banal and unfulfilling as any major studio film released this summer.

There have been a few exceptions in recent years, and Warner seems to have been behind as many of them as any major studio.

That these kids were rejected by every university they applied to isn't nearly as surprising as a major studio accepting this shallow, underdeveloped idea for a comedy.

As a major studio movie just out of theaters, the film is treated to an expectedly great presentation.

Not exact matches

Every year, he says, there seems to be a sort of «passing of the baton» as one studio's massive year gives way to another of the major Hollywood production houses.

This is why major studios that faced very little market entry for over a century are now confronting significant threats from firms like Netflix, Amazon (via Prime), and Google (via YouTube), as well as potential content plays from Facebook (FB) and Apple (AAPL) on the horizon.

Major cities, such as New York, Los Angeles and Miami, face fierce competition from already established studios, O'Rourke says.

All along, Liongate's model was about cheap, low - risk investments, often in edgy material the major studios avoided, such as the Saw slasher movies.

As Jerry Brown, associate partner in PricewaterhouseCooper's consulting practice, recalls, «I saw a presentation given by one of the major studios where they pointed out that when they sold a [game] for a console they expected to collect $ 50 per consumer and that was it.

Such major studios as United Artists, Universal and Disney (DIS) all passed on George Lucas» peculiar little science fiction project, and finally it was 20th Century Fox that grudgingly said yes.

To compete, other studios could also merge — giving us essentially a movie version of the NBA's super-team syndrome — or they could amp up efforts to infiltrate streaming, leaving their movie studios as an output for major blockbusters that audiences still want to watch in theaters.

What started as a modest animation studio has also morphed into a major media conglomerate that includes the ABC and ESPN family of networks.

As the founder of a startup development studio, Coplex, there's one major mistake I see inexperienced entrepreneurs make time and time again: moving too slowly.

Netflix has been stocking up its portfolio of original content with an eye toward challenging major film and television studios as well as bringing home award show hardware.

The 39 - year - old native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who started as a nightclub stripper there at 17, has appeared in more than 250 X-rated films, beginning in 2000; was signed as an exclusive with major porn studio Wicked Pictures in 2002 (she's still a contract player for them); and has been inducted into multiple industry halls of fame, including the one run by leading industry trade publication Adult Video News.

Few Muslim groups engage Hollywood as much as the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which has built relationships with studio executives at all four major networks, and consulted on shows from «Seventh Heaven» to «Bones.»

Across the Nordic region, Discovery owns and operates SBS Discovery Media, a top - three portfolio of 20 television brands that feature leading nonfiction content, as well as locally produced entertainment programs, sports and the best scripted series and movies from major studios.

Right around 8 p.m. last night — just as Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross was preparing to go live from outside the Senate chamber with me back at the studio — a major argument broke out right behind her between Assemblyman Vito Lopez and Micah Lasher, the Bloomberg administration's in - house lobbyist.

The shocker came later that night when I was told that Andrew Whitman, of all people, was breathlessly introduced on FiOS1NEws with, ironically, a «First on FiOS1» report on «Major developments in race for Westchester Executive» leading off with George Latimer in studio taking questions from Whitman about my story, citing Talk of the Sound as a source, using my content and basing his questions on my reporting.

In practically all of the major cities, you can access gyms and boutique studios, just as you would in the United States, including yoga, martial arts, and even CrossFit.

As Hice takes us on a tour through his Brooklyn studio and lengthy designer collections, he offers up major keys on how he found success in the industry through trial and error.

Her growing interest in fashion led her to New York, where she attended New York University as a studio art major but spent the majority of her time interning at Teen Vogue from her sophomore to senior years.

Wicked Pictures produces quality erotica for couples while staying true to its vision and status as the only major adult studio producing co. web www.wicked.com.

A consummate sampler platter of the bounty of state - of - the - art animation currently available as alternatives established major - studio house styles.

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.

That honor goes to Paramount — yes, the very same Paramount that also out - performed all other studios at the box office — which became the first major studio to receive a quality grade as high as B + in our annual evaluations.

While Paramount had an incredible year (more on that in a moment), 2011 was far less rosy for the other major studios, or the industry as a whole.

Grades for the studios» 2015 films are listed below, and — as always — you'll find most of the majors toward the bottom of the list.

Below are the films released by each individual distributor during 2015, ordered by average Metascore (beginning with the major studios as a group and then moving on to the smaller companies).

Lionsgate's average Metascore — not very good to begin with — dropped by over 10 points last year, making it the only major studio to finish with a red score (and putting it well behind the other majors, as well as almost all of the smaller studios).

But Coco certainly stands out in the sea of talking animal buddy comedies / rescue adventures that most major studio animated features can be categorized as.

As a whole, though Paramount's revenues were up slightly in 2014, the studio still placed sixth among the major distributors in domestic market share.

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.

The film, which stars Smith and Joel Edgerton as a human - orc buddy cop duo, is the streaming giant's first attempt a major tentpole release, entering the kind of waters that are normally reserved for traditional studios opening films wide across hundreds of cinema screens.

With over a decade of experience in the movie industry, Ellwood survived working for two major studios, has written for Variety, MSN and the LA Times and co-founded HitFix, Inc. serving as its first Editor - in - Chief and President.

Although it's refreshing to see a major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults (even if it stars one of the most bankable actors in the world), when that movie is as passively mediocre as «Focus,» you can understand why other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.

The service has films licensed from major studios — Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. — as well as indie distributors including Janus Films, Flicker Alley, Icarus Films, Kino, Milestone, Zeitgeist, Film Movement, Global Lens, First Run Features, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Shout Factory.

At the moment a direct movie adaptation of the comic can't be made by any film studio due to rights issues; several major characters who appear in the comic (including Hawkeye and the Incredible Hulk) are part of Marvel's Avengers film franchise, and therefore aren't available to be used as part of the X-Men movie franchise.

I can't wait to write my review, but suffice it to say that it's unlike any film you'll see this year, just as its probably one of the last gasps of this kind of film from a major studio, where the shock and awe comes from expert artistry of the hand drawn variety rather than CGI (which Scorsese mastered in Hugo).

HollywoodNews.com: The Hollywood Reporter uh, reported (sorry) yesterday that Sony Pictures will be the first of the major studios to no longer pay for the 3D glasses in the Real - D format (as opposed to specialized IMAX 3D glasses), but rather demand that exhibitors pay for the $ 3 - 4 glasses themselves.

If major US studios think they can churn out substandard films, using product - placement to cover the cost of scatter - shot television advertising as a route to box office success, then they, like the Spartans themselves, are doomed.

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.

In this way, as with major studio films, a television series is a global product and streaming services are just a few more potential buyers in a broad marketplace.

Companies on the hook could be any major entity responsible for hiring directing talent, and, as Goodman noted, the agencies responsible for signing and selling directors to networks and studios.

Get Out was released by Jason Blum's Blumhouse productions, a studio that can easily be described as the modern - day saviour of the low - budget, major - release film, even if they most recently subjected us to the latest M. Night Shyamalan misfire, Split.

That leaves among the major studios only Fox Searchlight and Sony Pictures Classics as bastions still nurturing movies that are more difficult for some — like this year's «12 Years a Slave» — but enduring.