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Disney has teamed up with four big movie studios to make sharing movie downloads between ecosystems as simple as possible.

Here's a true story... executives at Hollywood's big movie studios typically get hundreds of movie ideas pitched to them.

I purchase both self - published and trade - published books, indie films as well as films from the big movie studios, and both indie music and music produced by large studios.

The Seven Book Marketing Mistakes That Authors Make (Part 2 of 8) Executives at Hollywood's big movie studios typically get hundreds of movie ideas pitched to them.

This time around, the filmmaker's surrogate is Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg), a young, neurotic, Jewish New Yorker who moves out to Hollywood and becomes an assistant to his uncle Phil Stern (Steve Carell), a busy, important agent who is well - connected to all the big movie studios and stars.

Look as though Pumping Iron was bought by one of the big movie studios.

Napster co-founder Sean Parker's proposal to sell first - run movies to home viewers at $ 50 a pop has stirred up various corners of Hollywood, with big movie studios and theater chains up in arms over the Screening Room idea while multiple major filmmakers have landed on opposing sides of the argument.

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 Hollywood.

Japan's big movie studio Toho produced that new live - action Godzilla movie Shin Godzilla in 2016, and followed it up with this new anime movie.

Mike Flanagan is going to become a hot director at some point, it's just a matter of the bigger movie studios catching on.

There is just very little to like about this film, an assertive, confident debut that squandered the backing of one of the world's biggest movie studios.

Ouarzazate hosts the famous ATLAS Film Studios claimed to be one of the biggest movie studios in the word.

A movie that gets so many things right, with the backing of the biggest movie studios in the world, can still fall victim to the crushing workflow of the visual effects industry.

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).

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.

(Fortune already wrote about the companies and movie studios that are behind this year's biggest Academy Award nominees.)

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.

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.

But the reality in Hollywood is that with the Disney - Fox deal the era of the «big six» movie studios of Disney, Fox, Universal, Warner Bros., Sony, and Paramount is over — now it's time to adapt.

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.

For Wang, the deal is the latest example underscoring his ambitions to expand a burgeoning entertainment empire that owns the second - largest U.S. movie - theater chain and is building the world's biggest studio - plus - theme park.

In fact, Rob Norman, chief digital officer at GroupM, the world's largest media buyer, says that he doesn't know of any instances of movie studios — among the biggest spenders for both YouTube and TV advertising — pulling campaigns in the wake of the dustup.

If Kickstarter were like the media institutions that dominated the 20th century — book publishers, movie studios, record companies — the crowdfunding site's revenue would derive mostly from a few big hits, like the Oculus Rift virtual - reality visor and the Pebble smartwatch.

This would only add to Walt Disney Co.'s scale and breadth, and it would also put the company in control of two of the «Big Six» domestic movie studios.

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

This is why movie studios screen movies before finalizing production, or why restaurants do soft launches before the big openings.

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.

Look at Hollywood: Movie studios have made a fortune selling us miraculous stories that we watch on the big screen with... maybe not belief but hope in our eyes.

Looper is his first big studio movie, and he seems to the manner born.

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.

Between highly forgettable vanity projects, which he's been churning out at a torrid clip, Franco has essentially been playing an indifferent actor giving indifferent performances in terrible big - studio movies like «Oz the Great and Powerful» and «The Interview.»

We've already presented our list of big studio movies we're excited about for fall and winter of 2015, but there's a lot more than that set of 30 movies coming to theaters.

The studio behind «The Expendables» and «Saw» wanted «Beyond Deceit», tyro director Shintaro Shimosawa's movie about a young lawyer (Josh Duhamel of «Safe Haven») who who takes on a big case against a ruthless executive of a pharmaceutical company (Hopkins), only to find himself drawn into a murder case in which he is the prime suspect.

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.

«Hollow Man» is one of the nastiest big - budget movies ever made in the Hollywood studio system, and considering that the director is Paul Verhoeven, the filmmaker behind the original «RoboCop» and «Total Recall,» «Basic Instinct» and «Showgirls,» that's saying a lot.

Hutcherson said the big studio movies give them opportunities to do smaller movies.

Gravity is a rarity, a big - budget studio movie that feels utterly personal.

In the making of «The Big Short,» which is essentially about educating, what made you personally believe that people can learn from a studio movie?

Sure, you don't want the studios to cut corners to the point where movies start looking cheap and silly — a big reason why superheroes and aliens have been making such a huge impact on movie screens in recent years is that we can finally make them look cool instead of tacky.

Critics weren't especially kind to Bright, Netflix's big 2017 push to brand itself as a real, bona fide movie studio, complete with an awful, David Ayer - directed Will Smith blockbuster of its very own.

Scoring noticeably fewer films than before, he has concentrated on big - budget studio material at the expense of everything else, seeming to leave behind the smaller movies with which he attracted much of the praise afforded him over the years.

It wouldn't surprise me if that was true, because «The Legend of Tarzan» — a would - be event film that happens to be pretty uneventful — has the air of a big budget movie whose studio didn't realize its mistake until it was too late.

She started out as a Scream Queen and then dabbled with big, bad studio movies.

Fans of Suzanne Collins» novel, of course, know that that is exactly how this movie needed to be made; it's just surprising to see a studio show that kind of discipline when they normally are, shall we say, going all Tex Avery with the big dollar sign eyeballs.

Which is more nerve - jangling, the festival premier or opening day of a big studio movie?

What separates «Black Panther» from the Batmans, Spidermans and Iron Mans of the creaky, big studio superhero genre is that it looks and, more important, feels nothing like the usual bloated franchise movie that takes no chances and plays by genre rules.

After a summer slew of big - budget studio films, it can be difficult to find, sit down and watch a movie with more modest origins.