Sentences with phrase «backlot productions»

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The production numbers tend to grab at a number of visual ideas, but the simpler ones hybridize an old - fashioned backlot aesthetic with newfangled special effects.

«It's a musical comedy that takes place on a Hollywood backlot, so you pass through all these pictures that are in production there,» Burwell explained, but he goes on to clarify that it's not actually a «musical comedy.»

Mendez has to set up a production office on a studio backlot (manned by a pair of old - school movie men, played with gusto by Alan Arkin and John Goodman), buy ads in the trade mags, create storyboards and a script and then make his way to Tehran, sneak into the Canadian Embassy to meet with the State Department six and prep them to act like screenwriters, producers, and cinematographers, eager to explore the exotic marketplaces of the city and the scenic desert backdrops that ring Tehran.

«It's a musical comedy that takes place on a Hollywood backlot, so you pass through all these pictures that are in production there,» he said in the spring.

Mirroring the Scream 4 film concept of a «movie - within - a-movie» theme, the Terror Tram: Scream 4 Your Life experience will introduce guests to the fictional «Stab» slasher film franchise and beckon them to visit the production of «Stab 8,» currently «shooting on location on the backlot.»

As Los Angeles lawmakers, unions and studios prepare to make the case that California needs to beef up production incentives, they are apt to be met with an obvious counterargument: Fabled Hollywood backlots aren't exactly shuttered and full of tumbleweeds.