Sentences with phrase «big movie business»

If California is going to get these jobs back, we must compete with other states and nations who are clamoring for that big movie business.»

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But the end of the one - movie - per - day plan is the big news here, and there are a few possible reads from a business perspective.

After showing footage of «Alita: Battle Angel» at CinemaCon on Thursday, Rodriguez and producer Jon Landau («Avatar» movies) sat down with Business Insider to talk about the evolution of the project and why this manga won't end up like the big - screen version of «Ghost in the Shell.»

Fast - forward a few decades, and the likes of Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Sony PS3 and Nintendo's Wii have put consoles in one of every two homes in the U.S. and helped make video games a bigger business than the entire music industry — and almost as big as the movie industry.

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As a result, Nevada has become a haven for celebrities, movie stars and other highly visible individuals (such as big company CEOs) who seek anonymity when conducting their business and investment activities.

As big of a headache as freely distributed content is for the music and movie businesses, it's even worse for adult entertainment because Web surfers have no compulsions about getting the stuff without paying for it.

Movies and other mainstream media, like music videos and TV shows, depict very lavish extravagancies as the norm in the United States American men are portrayed in the media as being very wealthy, they are also portrayed as being big travelers, jetting off here and there for business or vacation.

Moving to New York in 1980, Cruise's first big hit was Risky Business in 1982, in which he entered movie - trivia infamy with the scene wherein he celebrates his parents» absence by dancing around the living room in his underwear.

The plot follows the usual disaster movie convention of morally courageous hero attempts to alert the public to danger, hampered by the interference of big business who are afraid of the damage to their profits, but it is done in a rather more serious - minded way; there is more science and less histrionics and special effects.

Product placement in movies has become a big business as advertisers look for another way to get their merchandise in front of consumers.

For attendees, highlights of this annual 4 day event, which celebrates the movie going experience and brings together theater owners and managers with movie studios, distributors and vendors and the latest technological innovations, was getting to experience live, in person, appearances by some of the biggest stars and filmmakers in the business.

Her big - screen appearances as Lara Croft (in 2001 and 2003) weren't much as movies go — I'd actually forgotten there was a sequel — but Jolie's defiant air of confidence took care of business.

Cleese's script is a marvel of quotable lines and big surprises, but it also gives all the actors room for plenty of the ridiculous comic business that makes the movie.

Both of his older brothers had gone on to join the family business, but McConaughey was cut from a different cloth; he was the hell - raising big dreamer destined to break away from the pack and who loved movies.

In the next few years Comic book adaptations became big business becoming some of the highest grossing motion pictures of all time but to tell you the truth my peeps I have felt increasingly Jaded with the influx of every super character and their Granny getting a movie!

Parents who were dealing with the ethical issues of «good» pirates versus «bad» politicians in the first movie will find those concerns minimized in this outing which pits nasty pirates against nastier scallywags and big business playing the baddest of them all.

In 1997, Mr. Bean made a jump to the big screen in the poorly - reviewed Bean (sometimes subtitled The Movie), a film that did modest business in the States but was sensationally attended in other parts of the world.

Capra brings his familiar themes of political corruption, double - dealing big business and the ultimate wisdom of the people to this somewhat dated movie about presidential politics, adapted from the stage.

(We'll leave the business of spoiling the endings of other superhero movies to the film itself and just say that he's angling for the big leagues.)

Drawn from Bloom's 2014 memoir as well as episodes and experiences she didn't include, the movie is a big, brash tale of American striving as well as an identity - blurring, chronology - fudging bit of storytelling business.

In his review for The Times, Justin Chang called the film «an incorrigible, unapologetic blast,» before adding «the movie is a big, brash tale of American striving as well as an identity - blurring, chronology - fudging bit of storytelling business.

Proceedings turn, as they almost always do in a Coen Bros movie, more feistily satirical as we delve deeper into this fictionalised but still recognisably factual world of Big Business Movie Mamovie, more feistily satirical as we delve deeper into this fictionalised but still recognisably factual world of Big Business Movie MaMovie Making.

Female - fronted comedies have been big business in recent years, with movies like Bridesmaids pulling in huge box office and a new generation of comedy stars like Melissa McCarthy redefining what audiences expect from women comedians.

And in the modern age of Hollywood, when extended universes and multi-movie franchises are big business, there's always a possibility that successful movies will see further expansions.

The felicitously named director Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) adeptly blends the origins plot with the lizard business to make a big movie that feels intimate.

He sets the stage for Mayhem by showing us how the oppressive world of big business runs, piece by piece, and sets about dismantling it using tropes from scary movies, video games, kung fu films and workplace sitcoms.

We kind of expect these concerns going into the movie, and it is perhaps to the remake's credit that we momentarily forget them whenever it gets down to the business of recreating, tweaking, and trying to top the original's big scare moments.

Strange Magic was supposed to be George Lucas» swansong, his final big budget motion picture — as a producer, mind you, not director — before his inevitable retirement from the movie business.

Written by Lauryn Kahn and directed by Alex Richanbach, the movie centers on Jacobs as «a woman who goes on a business trip to Spain to close a big deal, but instead finds herself on a wild ride of partying and clubbing, where she falls in love with a world famous DJ and realizes there is more to life than showing up to a job she hates.»

In «FYC,» the subject isn't so much the movie industry (Guest already made the best American dissection of the contemporary film business back in 1989 with «The Big Picture») as the awards and publicity industry.

The movie business is changing rapidly, and reported talks of a studio buying one of its biggest rivals could be part of an ongoing seismic shift.

But the movie has two big problems: It has no business being three hours long, and Pitt is absolutely awful.

Comic book movies continue to be big business — according to the website Box Office Mojo, the three highest - grossing movies of 2014 so far are «Guardians of the Galaxy,» which is based on Marvel characters, «Captain America: The Winter Soldier,» which tells the story of the Marvel superhero, and «The Lego Movie,» which featured comic book characters such as Batman.

Football is big business, as seen in the movie Draft Day.

The leaps of logic in the plot and farfetched ideas on the judicial system stretch the believability to its maximum proportion, and even if the underlying message of the movie is the culpability of big businesses in tainting juries for their own profits, the contortions made to hold together the story make for some rough patches.

Today in show business news: Jack Black has signed on for an HBO pilot, Chris Pratt really might become a big movie star, and Andrea Martin gets her due.

Politicos, business titans and stars gathered for a press gala in the fall of 2012 to hear the big news: Joel Silver would bring his movie company to Venice's historic post office.

Joanna: It's a really good chapter, and I think everyone should read that, because it's one of those things when a lot of authors are so grateful when they get someone going, «Ooh, we're thinking of a movie,» but you just never know, so you have to protect your rights, that's just a big deal.You have to look after your author business.

This vertically integrated media business won't suit every big author but if you've got the ingredients Rowling has, you'd have to say that no conventional publisher, movie producer, theme park operator or games developer is going to be quite right.

The concern for me is that as apps, movies, tv shows, music and games become bigger and better businesses for these players, books become less and less important.

With a full 1080p HDMI output coupled with Digital Rights Management (DRM) built directly into the IdeaPad and ThinkPad tablets, Netflix members can instantly watch movies and TV shows streaming from Netflix directly to a big screen TV, «We're very excited to see that TV shows and movies streaming from Netflix, will be available on Lenovo's family of Android tablets,» said Bill Holmes, Netflix vice president of Business Development.

I can't think of a good example in the movie business, closest I can get is Robert Rodriguez, who again started out doing his own thing and while he retains the means of production in his own hands he is very much playing with the big boys now.

Comic book movies are bigger than ever and the three largest companies in the business are all fighting to get you into the cinema to watch their...

But before gamers go crazy and start spreading false rumors and say the gaming business is bigger than film, keep in mind that Modern Warfare 2 sells for at LEAST $ 60 and a movie ticket in 2008 was $ 7.18, according to boxofficemojo.com.

Marvel's Ant - Man movie is drumming up big business in a small package at the box office this weekend in pacing for a three - day total north of $ 50 million.

The rumor stems from the fact that Sony Interactive Entertainment's gaming business is soaring as PlayStation 4 has sold over 50 million units and on the other hand Sony Pictures is not doing great despite having some big movie franchises under it.

Big business knows that we need pop stars, movie stars and supermodels to fuel the machine and make the art world feel like it's crossing over into the real world.

Hulme cites «big science» (the highly political, multi-billion dollar AGW business), sensationalism by the press (plus some scientists turned advocates) or simply «issue fatigue», but there is no doubt that Climategate was a principle factor exacerbating skepticism, as were the discredited Mann «hockey stick» and Al Gore's «IAT» movie, with all its false claims and scientific errors.

... In the end... if you believe in the cinema experience, if you believe in going out of your house and experiencing movies on the big screen, do you want to trust Sean Parker about what's good for that business or do you want to trust the movie studios and the theater owners about what's good for that business.