Sentences with phrase «big film studios»

Look, we get it: internet movie trailer culture is a problem for big film studios, since they'd presumably like to maintain at least a little bit of mystery around their high - profile films.

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

In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.

Cheech works for a big film studio while his spaced - out unemployed pal, Chong, keeps getting him into trouble.

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.

Of course, some of the nominated films are still in theaters, and winning a big haul at the Academy Awards is known to result in a bump at movie theaters, which is all the more reason for studios to pull out all the stops in their awards - season marketing efforts.

«The studios are doing fewer films and bigger global tent - pole films.

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.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Film studios have learned which films to release in 3D, and evidently those movies are the big action blockbusters.

Fox is one of just two of the «Big Six» film studios that can actually boast of improving on last summer's receipts.

So Paramount, in the wake of a disappointing 2017 that saw big budget films like Transformers: The Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell underperform while the studio's would - be Oscar hopefuls Suburbicon and Downsizing were DOA at awards season, is looking to make some changes in 2018 and selling God Particle off to Netflix may be a cushy deal.

This would be a big shift in the business model of feature - film distribution for both the major studios and the theater chains.

If the movie theaters ever make a bigger profit, even from concessions, the studios can just raise the price of film rental.

A decade after «The Passion of the Christ» surprised Hollywood, rankled liberals and raked in $ 600 million worldwide, big studios are backing a flotilla of faith - based films.

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.

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I think if the studio realized the film had the potential to be this big, it would have been released in lots more markets simultaneously — in the U.K. they have to wait till October!

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.

If Harrison Ford had listened to the advice of studio heads early in his career, he would have remained a carpenter and never gone on to star in some of Hollywood's biggest films and become one of the industry's most bankable stars.

The number of women directing big - studio films has finally surpassed single digits.

And looking at the trailer, this might be a big mistake by the studio, since the films looks to have a very dark palette — an unfriendly look in 3D, if you ask me.

Director Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station & Creed) enters «the big leagues» with Marvel's Black Panther, a somewhat monumental feat for the studio that has mostly featured films that skew towards the white male demographic.

That film was also the year's biggest box office flop from a major studio, boasting one of the worst opening weekends in history ($ 306,367) for a nationwide release.

Just on a technical level, the film represents such a big jump forward for Saulnier that you should expect the studios to immediately start arguing over which giant soulless franchise should occupy his time in the near - future.

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.

They were also better than those of any other major studio, leaving Disney the only one of the seven majors to receive a grade higher than a C. Interestingly, Disney's three Marvel - related films (including Big Hero 6, which is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe) were not just the studio's highest - grossing releases, but were also the highest - scoring Disney films with critics.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

On some of those fronts, the film wildly misfires, but for a wide studio release headlined by one of Hollywood's biggest stars, Red Sparrow is an admirably bold effort.

The studio chose to release the film slowly on a regional basis — but when the box - offices began to bulge, Warners gave the film a major big - city push.

Black Panther, the first big studio film from Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed) is just such a film.

And the studio scored its biggest - ever year at the box office, thanks in part to Lee Daniels» The Butler, the fifth TWC film to date to pass $ 100 million.

The film was one of MGM's biggest hits in 1942 — indeed, one of the biggest in the studio's history.

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

A big - budgeted studio film about a black action superhero with a nearly all - black cast is a huge step forward.

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.

Even though Sony released only one positively reviewed film in 2010 and managed to boost that total to six films in 2011 (led by best picture nominee Moneyball), its overall Metascore still dropped nearly two points last year, while the studio's average Metacritic user score was also the lowest among the big six distributors.

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...

It was a time of big budget, Oscar nominated studio films like Misery and early genre work from filmmakers who would go on to become the best in the business, like Fincher's Seven, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, Tarantino and Rodriguez's From Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder.

Generally, when a movie studio is trying to promote an upcoming film, it doesn't make a big show of how much fun everybody had while making the movie.

It didn't take long to deduce why the big studios didn't back this particular film — it's horrid.

Ant - Man is an old fashioned heist film with an underlying message about fathers and daughters, and probably the biggest departure for the studio, which is a very, very good thing.

Two of the biggest studio films of the year in the awards race are both from Paramount, and both will be challenging for mainstream audiences — Silence and Arrival.

From major studios to independents, from big budget to small, the quality of films this year was excellent and the entertainment, artistic and substantive value high.

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It's a tribute to stars Benson and Moorhead, who combined to direct, write, edit and shoot the film, that their micro-budget project comes off more haunting than many big - studio productions with 100 times (at least) the budget.

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