Sentences with phrase «by a studio head»

The film demonstrates how Marvel, following the overall architecture overseen by studio head Kevin Feige, ties together moments, personalities and themes from earlier films in ways beyond reheated nostalgia.

The second disc continues with five narrated storyboards that rekindle the conversation Gilliam and co - writer / co-star Charles McKeown start on the first disc's yakker — another bitter diatribe about how financiers pulled out, how evil German producers sabotaged the whole thing, and how the final vision was undermined by studio heads without vision of their own.

These comments were spoken by a studio head, making his first, multiplayer only game after a long stretch working for a company that produced some of the biggest games ever released.

The pirate - themed Sea of Thieves was called «the most ambitious game Rare has ever created» by studio head Craig Duncan.

Update: CD Projekt Red has been in touch and passed on a comment written by studio head Adam Badowski in response to this interview.

As anticipated, legendary UK studio Rare revealed its latest title, Sea of Thieves, a typically bright and brash multiplayer pirating adventure, described by studio head Craig Duncan as «By far the most ambitious game that Rare has ever created.»

Not exact matches

In an announcement unprecedented by the head of a major conglomerate, the chairman of Viacom, Sumner Redstone, publicly ripped into the star, who at the time was one of the most profitable at Viacom's movie studio, Paramount Pictures.

DreamWorks Animation, the studio behind beloved family movies like «Shrek» and «Kung - Fu Panda» that is headed by CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, will become part of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, specifically the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes Universal Pictures, Fandango, and NBCUniversal Brand Development.

Later, King and Ginola head into a swelteringly hot makeshift radio studio to be quizzed by one DJ Drifty.

A few drops of our blend in an oil diffuser will refresh any head space or living space, whether in the office, the studio, or the cramped apartment compromised by messy roommates.

If the trend continues, too, Garland should be embraced with open arms, as his directed films avoid many of the studio genre traps and confront challenging topics head on — whether by droids or cancerous, world - eating prisms.

The men in masks notice Su - man and come to his studio and kill him by smashing his head with a huge hammer.

Sony has announced a partnership with Kojima Productions (a studio headed by Hideo Kojima) for a brand new IP.

Perhaps the best way to understand the film is not as a romantic comedy but as a romantic tragedy, a sentiment matched by Beattie after learning that studio execs had added a happy ending and renamed the film Head Over Heels: «[It sounded] as if Fred Astaire should be dancing across the credits.»

Ironically for a director seldom regarded as an artist by American critics, Aldrich's union activism on behalf of directors» prerogatives alienated studio heads and cost him work at the end of his career.

Indexed by chapter headings separate from those found in the scene - selection sub-menus, Scott indelicately remembers, among other things, that David Bennent's vocals were re-dubbed by the New York - born Alice Playten because a studio stooge said he «sounds like a goddamn Nazi;» that a 10 - year - old doubled for peak - diving Cruise; and that the film's convincing fairy F / X were accomplished with fishing line and a light bulb.

Since he was comfortable working in an operetta style that studio head Louis B. Mayer found most appealing, Pasternak (seen at right) probably seemed a logical choice to produce this light little movie, which was directed by Norman Taurog.

Inside Out boasts the imaginative concept of emotions being controlled from a desk by office workers in your head (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger), which would have been enough to base a movie around for any other animation studio, but this is a Pixar production, meaning things only expand further into complexity, wowing both children and adults on different levels.

They are hired by a French movie studio head who wants to document their abilities, and who becomes increasingly obsessed with them.

«I'm super happy to be in the entertainment industry and be considered a public figure, and to be given the opportunities by leaders like our studio heads when they broaden the narrative for our stories.

That's not to say it is a bad movie by any means, it just never really had the mass fan base that the studio heads who green - lighted this project thought they would by the time of the film's release (reportedly it took four years to complete).

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Twilight Time, Blu - Ray), one of Sam Peckinpah's personal favorites of his films (and the rare Peckinpah film not to get reworked by the studio), opens on an idyllic river scene with a pregnant girl soaking her feet in the lazy current with a beatific smile on her face.

Luminous Productions is a new Square studio made headed up by FF15 boss Hajime Tabata with top - tier talent from FF15's staff.

Thanks to a recent port courtesy of Double Fine (the studio headed by Grim's original director, Tim Schafer), returning fans and newcomers alike can finally step back into Manny's bones and explore the dangerous yet breathtaking Sixth Underworld on modern machines.

Electric Entertainment is a full service film and television production and distribution company and studio headed by veteran producer Dean Devlin along with Marc Roskin and Rachel Olschan.

Right around then, studio heads began reading a script by Stone that I've heard is one of his stronger efforts, about a leaker some call gutsy while others call a traitor.

Redrafted as a prequel to the storyline in the game, the movie will be directed by Shawn Levy («Night at the Museum») in a starring vehicle for Holland that's said to have come together after studio head Tom Rothman saw the latest «Spider - Man» film, in which the young actor plays the title role.

The game is headed to the Wii U on August 14 in Japan and is being developed by two studios instead of one.

In fact, an earlier script draft co-written for the project by Roberto Orci - who was in line to direct the film before Lin was hired - was dropped because it was, as Pegg put it, «too Star Trek - y» for Paramount studio heads.

All the acid lines are assigned to Vince's agent - turned - studio - head Ari, gamely played by Jeremy Piven, who must now shepherd Vince's directorial debut.

«First, we will release Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z for PS3 and Xbox 360, which we joint - developed with the Inafune - led company Comcept,» Team Ninja studio head Yosuke Hayashi said as translated by Gematsu.

The Post was Hannah's first screenplay, written on spec (which means it wasn't commissioned by a studio or producer); incredibly, it landed in the hands of former Sony studio head and powerhouse producer Amy Pascal.

You can feel Joel and Ethan Coen, consummate auteurs, practically laughing aloud at the absurdity of a studio head sticking a cowboy picture star like Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) in a tux and shoving him onto the soundstage of a prestigious costume drama helmed by an artiste.

The good time came to a close with endless reshoots of a new ending conceived by RKO studio head Howard Hughes and directed by Richard Fleischer, climaxing in a violent drunken tirade from the actor, which finished with the immortal words, «Fuck you!

Valenti's ban was greeted with howls of outrage by the heads of the independent distribution companies, even while it was being greeted with joy by the heads of major studios.

The studio was founded in 2005 by Warren Spector, a well - known veteran of the industry who headed up such titles as Deus Ex and Thief in the past.

This heartbreaking musical remake of William Wellman's 1937 Hollywood melodrama starring Fredric March and Janet Gaynor (remade a third time in 1976 by Frank Pierson, with Babs Streisand and Kris Kristofferson), is here finally restored to its full length (casual viewers should be aware of the photo - still / audio tape reconstruction of one major sequence - after impatient studio head Jack Warner removed almost 30 minutes from its original running time back in 1954, cutting two whole numbers by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin).

Many of us have wasted countless hours placing buildings and defeating endless waves of enemies in tower defense games, and 11 Bit studios tries to flip the familiar formula on its head with Anomaly 2 by putting players in the attacker's seat.

The terrorist, who seems headed for the final round, is ordered by his handlers to wear a bomb into the studio.

At the end of the 60's when films like EASY RIDER and BONNIE & CLYDE were reaching new audiences, Meyer, the outlaw director of soft - core pulp films like FASTER PUSSYCAT, KILL, KILL, KILL was given the opportunity to fulfill his lifelong dream of directing a studio film by Richard Zanuck, then head of 20th Century Fox.

New Orleans native and Mount Carmel Cub Stephanie Langhoff has been named the head of Duplass Brothers Productions, started recently by Jesuit products Mark and Jay Duplass to produce everything from TV projects to microbudget indies to studio films that the brothers direct themselves, according to Deadline.

Michael McKean and Bob Balaban play the screenwriters, who have to sit by and watch as their vision is slowly compromised to accommodate the actors, director, producer, and the studio head.

The team in question is the Southern California design studio headed by Frank Saucedo, who has been in place for many years now.

The styling is the work of a team led by Infiniti's head of design Alfonso Albaisa, a Cuban - American who worked at Nissan's design studio in San Diego earlier in his career.

Dane Andrews, Co-Founder and Head of Growth at Roam (a co-living and co-working community testing the boundaries between work, travel and life adventure) joins John Matson and Nick Vivion (tnooz) in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser.

The second of the two Infinity Ward bosses suspected to be under investigation for breaches of contract and insubordination, CEO and Studio Head Vince Zampella, is no longer employed by the studio, his professional LinkedIn profile reveals.

The studio is headed up by former Sega Japan developer Jake Kazdal, whose inspiration draws from the art of games and anime from the 70s and 80s.

For those of you that are not too familiar with the studio, Terrible Toybox is headed by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick who essentially created the genre with Maniac Mansion.

Gloomywood, the new development studio headed up by the Alone in the Dark creative force Frédérick Raynal, today announced that its upcoming stealth - horror...

Infinity Ward president Jason West and studio head Vince Zampella appear to have been sacked by the studio's owner Activision amid dramatic scenes and claims of breach of contract and insubordination.