Sentences with phrase «as the movie studios»

2016 was an especially monster year for Disney at the box office distinguishing it from much of Hollywood as the movie studio continues to close ranks around its core franchises, such as Pixar and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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.

But none use regulation as often as the movie studios to solve a business problem.

Children, however, will gobble this up like chocolate covered raisins since, as movie studios and toy manufacturers know, kids have no sense whatsoever.

Pictures has as rich a history as any movie studio and, thanks to decades of savvy acquisitions and partnerships, the company's home video library isn't even close to being rivaled.

As a movie studio, the company is better off seeking out undervalued niche properties and talents, like Amazon Studios has done to great success.

Not exact matches

On a visit to the DreamWorks studio, which produced animated films such as Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda, Mr Obama said Hollywood was a «bright spot» in the US economy and that movies such as Star Wars were a tool for American diplomacy around the world.

Praising the movie industry as «one of America's economic engines,» Mr Obama told studio chiefs: «Entertainment is one of the bright spots of our economy.

He added that the extra revenue would wind up as a boon to filmmakers, with studios investing more money in film budgets and making more movies overall.

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).

2016's movie industry highlights include a monster year for Walt Disney, as the Mouse House set a new yearly global box office record, becoming the first studio to ever top $ 7 billion in worldwide ticket sales.

In one concept, 72andSunny pitched having Tom Cruise reprise his character from the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder as a brash, cursing movie studio executive, and equip him with a PlayBook to run his corporate fiefdom.

Viacom owns the Paramount Pictures movie studio, as well as a number of networks such as Nickolodeon and Comedy Central.

As a result, the industry has even seems to be gradually warming to the idea of premium streaming options, where studios release movies for customers to stream at home while they're still showing in theaters.

While that strategy has yet to prove itself, the focus appears to have paid off in the fourth quarter, as Time Warner's HBO and Turner cable networks pulled in more money from subscription and affiliate fees and its Warner Bros. movie studio had success with «The Blind Side» and «Sherlock Holmes.»

It looks as if the studio undershooting how well «Wonder Woman» would perform, along with its making plans to develop «Justice League Dark» and a Batgirl movie, led to its lack of attention to a «Wonder Woman» sequel.

In the same way that a film studio can help a person with an incredible screenplay navigate the logistics of making a movie, a startup studio assists domain experts who might have a solid concept but aren't as strong on the coding side.

These studios controlled the financial and technical resources necessary to create content and, as a result, had enormous leverage over distributors: the movie theaters, television channels, video sellers, and other middlemen who delivered entertainment to consumers.

None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

The streaming site previously signed similar licensing deals with a range of movie studios, such as 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Viacom's Paramount, and Comcast's NBCUniversal, among others.

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 HollyMovie Metropolis boasts the world's biggest movie studio and has been touted as China's answer to Hollymovie studio and has been touted as China's answer to Hollywood.

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.

For Disney, it is an opportunity to add movie studio and television production assets as it readies its own direct - to - consumer offering.

During the last years, there has been a trend in which airlines and movie studios are teaming up together to launch movie - themed liveries as part of global marketing campaigns.

Founded in 1994 by Jim Hale and Tim Nett (both have since left the company), the Hollywood - based studio makes promos for movies and TV shows such as Netflix's Stranger Things 2, Power Rangers and the international trailer for Patriots Day.

Disney's deal for 21 Century Fox's television and movie studio assets could be announced as early as this week

The humor was lost on Washington Post critic Michael O'Sullivan, who said that the movie «stinks like the un-refrigerated ham its studio sent me as a promotion several months ago.»

It changed the movie business forever, as studios quickly shifted their focus toward summer «tentpoles.»

Avnet (whose father, Jon, is a veteran Hollywood director and producer as well as the studio's co-CEO) told Fortune the studio wanted to maintain the film's authenticity — they wanted viewers to think the horror film playing out in real - time might really be happening — so they avoided marketing the movie and, in fact, they did not even run the idea by Snapchat before proceeding.

IMAX will also look to Hollywood studios and filmmakers to provide virtual reality movies for its six hubs, and, in its announcement, listed Hollywood director Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures as possible contributors.

CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg — who co-founded the DreamWorks movie studio with Steven Spielberg and then spun the animation unit off as a separate company in 2004 — has tried to sell the company several times.

After the acquisition, DreamWorks Animation will become part of NBCUniversal's Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes its Illumination Entertainment animation business — which produced the popular Despicable Me and Minions movies — as well as the Universal Pictures movie studio.

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.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theatres Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theatre locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Rentrak with studio estimates and actuals where available:

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.

As the movie business grows more saturated with stories about costumed vigilantes, studios are trying to find ways to differentiate their own comic book adaptations.

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.

Just as studios don't let movie theaters sell DVDs of what they screen, they won't simply allow Netflix customers to make a copy for later.

However, the rest of the Getty scenes in the movie are clearly of Plummer, which Scott could pull off as they are mostly scenes shot in one exterior location or interiors, which could all have been filmed on studio sets.

The assets include A&E and Star TV networks, as well as its regional sports operation, movie studios, and stakes in Sky and Hulu, and others.

His company, Magic Johnson Enterprises, has a reported net worth of $ 700 million based on the success of subsidiaries such as Magic Johnson Productions, a promotional company; Magic Johnson Theaters, a nationwide chain of movie theaters; and Magic Johnson Entertainment, a movie studio.

Having spent decades working as a screenwriter in the studio system — credited on recognizable titles like «Hope Floats,» «Stepmom,» and «Kate & Leopold» — in the era where studios are through making romance movies, Rogers has reinvented himself thanks to the «I, Tonya» script.

The war between Shari Redstone and Dauman comes as the company struggles to cope with declining cable TV ratings and plummeting stock prices and may impede plans to sell a minority stake in Paramount movie studio to outside investors.

In February, Amy Pascal, the longtime head of Sony Pictures Entertainment, lost her job as chairman of the movie studio after a hacking attack late last year, which the U.S. government blamed on North Korea, led to the disclosure of a series of embarrassing emails.

Viacom Inc., a media conglomerate based in New York, owns the Paramount Pictures movie studio and pay TV channels such as MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and BET.

Some of the reason is simple math: R - rated movies just don't make as much money as PG - 13 movies do, so studios are eager to chop their films into relatively tame affairs.

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.

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.

The studio, which played host to popular TV shows like «Girls» and «Madame Secretary» as well as movies like «When Harry Met Sally,» transformed an existing Port Morris warehouse into 115,000 - square foot production facility, according to the governor's office.