Sentences with phrase «by a major studio»

These elements are typically found in smaller independent films but are incredibly rare to see in bigger budget films released by a major studio.

Was it made by a major studio, a minor studio, or an independent?

It's not hard to see a path where the number of faith - based films financed by major studios increase.

That makes this the first time that the film has been distributed on DVD by a major studio.

Most of these have already been acquired by major studios and will hopefully be making their way to a theater near you at some point this year.

A small fraction gets recruited by major studios to take on large branded entertainment.

But even those movies were rated PG and treated to wide release by major studios.

Yes, we're living in the age of height of the superhero genre but mistakes are still being made by major studios.

The other reason Horizon: Zero Dawn still holds some allure to me after so many blandly satisfactory hours is that it is unquestionably the most woke game released by a major studio in years, a «core gamer» game in which women and mothers are revered as righteous warrior goddesses and in which almost every single dude is either a maundering sad boy or an emasculated angry boy or simply a concerned bystander boy, waiting for your help.

When was the last time you saw a teen rom - com produced by a major studio with a gay protagonist?

Stealth is the type of pretentious waste of celluloid that somehow still gets funding by major studios.

The film is being heralded by some as the first of its genre to be made by a major studio with an interracial couple.

And one project Gore describes, a movie about Orson Welles's famed pro-union stage production The Cradle Will Rock, has indeed been filmed by director Tim Robbins for release this year by a major studio, at that.

The Motion Picture Production Code, introduced by the major studios in 1930, was a direct progenitor of the Comics Code, while the modern film - rating system and the Parental Advisory labels created by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1985 are all part of the same bloodline.

It's remarkable to think that this is the first film with King as the protagonist by a major studio.

There is no static or crackling, which is to be expected from a brand new movie by a major studio.

While I wouldn't want to limit his chance at a big payday, I'd rather not see him be stiffled by the major studio franchise machine.

The video provides actors with a roadmap for writing, producing and performing in a short film that is eligible for submission to the Foundation's biannual showcase, which is a great way to get noticed by major studios.

Later, when Lorentz was looking for stock footage to use in The Plow That Broke the Plains, he found himself turned away by the major studios and had to rely on his friend King Vidor to intervene.

In this case, some of these movies have already made quite a run during awards season, were distributed by a major studio and ended up with a bunch of Oscar nominations, but they were also independently financed.

I suppose it's ironic that a film that a a series of films that explores the values of small - time business owners and independent thinking is just a package by major studio to cash in by trying to establish its own franchise.

«As the vast majority of films are now financed through the independent market — not by major studios — an increasingly important source of funding is foreign pre-sales,» said Cathy Schulman, Oscar - winning producer of Crash (2004) and president of Women In Film.38 What this means is that in advance of filming, producers will sell the rights to distribute their films to international buyers.

As Hollywood touts great wins for diversity and inclusion with recent films like «Black Panther» and «Wonder Woman» shattering box office records, a new study from GLAAD asserts that representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in 2017 films released by the major studios hit a six - year low.

Although there has been a slight decline in the number of small - budget pictures produced by major studios as they increasingly focus on large productions.»

Since the MOD process began to be embraced by the major studios in 2009, many millions of MOD discs have been produced and sold.

Not only are their favorite stories being administered regularly by the major studios, dominating multiplexes and displacing a more varied mainstream cinema, their inner psychologies are now being examined in indie movies and documentaries.

Classical Hollywood cinema is the term used to describe the style of filmmaking pioneered by the major studios in the USA from the late - 1910s to the mid-1950s.

What is incredible is that it is a big budget film bankrolled by a major studio starring an A-list actor (John Travolta) and not some tax write - off.

In the 70s, he believed in the potential of creative programming in the media to counter the consumptive mode actively germinated by major studios, most of them operating out of Los Angeles.

You'll probably notice the film is a little softer and grainier than those funded by major studios.

Undeniably fine on its own terms, 2013's gristly black - and - white character study, Nebraska, looked about as artisanal a product as you could still hope to get financed by a major studio.

That goes some distance toward explaining how a gifted director (he also helmed 2011's masterful «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy») could have marshaled such a stellar ensemble, including Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Toby Jones, enlisted gifted collaborators like the cinematographer Dion Beebe, and still managed to emerge with one of the more disturbingly inept motion pictures released by a major studio this year.

Last year, only 14 films put out by major studios (12.8 % of the total films) included LGBTQ characters, down from 18.4 % the year before.

,» a movie so brazenly unhinged that you can only gape in admiration at the fact that it's being released by a major studio (Paramount Pictures).

Baker protégé Rob Bottin's work on that film was arguably equal to that of his mentor (who left Bottin in charge of The Howling «s effects after he exited the project for the bigger - budget American Werewolf), and yet the Academy couldn't even be bothered to nominate him (or, perhaps more likely, its members simply couldn't bring themselves to watch a low - budget horror movie not put out by a major studio).

The five best picture nominees, however, were (as usual) the kinds of projects passed over by the major studios.

Friedkin in command made this a major film from major talents given a major release by a major studio.

All of which brings us to The Switch, toplined by two stars, released by a major studio, and featuring an outrageous concept (unwitting sperm swap!)

«Love, Simon» is the first film about a gay teenager's coming out ever distributed in wide release by a major studio.

We seek to highlight the best films produced each year — both by the major studios and independent filmmakers — and share our love of cinema with Seattle - area residents.

Stylistically, it may seem strange that Coppola's muted depiction of jet - set ennui is the indie pick, while La Luna, a flamboyant feature even by Bertolucci standards, was released by a major studio.

The film was financed independently by the Strause brothers, rather than funded by a major studio.

It's a film released by a major studio that doesn't see a gay character as a joke, a sidekick, or an outsider.

Even more admirably seditious, Freddy Got Fingered, unlike Un chien andalou, was actually backed and released by a major studio.

Not only does the screen have higher resolution but also gives you access to Television and Movies, by major studios.

The first film by a Chicano filmmaker to have been produced by a major studio, Zoot Suit kicks off BAM's larger series «¡ Sí Se Puede!