Sentences with phrase «by film studios»

In 2012 the Silo Saga was apart of a huge bidding war by film studios and 20th Century Fox won the rights.

In fact, The Information said that the clip was created by film studio special effects rather than being the result of internally developed optical breakthroughs.

At the moment a direct movie adaptation of the comic can't be made by any film studio due to rights issues; several major characters who appear in the comic (including Hawkeye and the Incredible Hulk) are part of Marvel's Avengers film franchise, and therefore aren't available to be used as part of the X-Men movie franchise.

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On Monday, New Form Digital, the studio formed by Discovery, Academy Award - winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer, announced that it was partnering up with a collection of YouTube stars to fund and develop 14 short films, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Following a trail blazed by brands like Intel, it's redefining its offering from being a technical curiosity for movie studios to being the mark of films that matter, and a feature that consumers will demand.

After the film's success, movie studios focused their efforts on creating summer «tentpole» releases, with buzz fueled by expensive marketing campaigns and unconventionally wide theatrical releases.

QINGDAO, China, April 28 (Reuters)- Wang Jianlin, the billionaire boss of China's Dalian Wanda Group, said on Saturday he will turn the northern port city of Qingdao into a global film production hub as he launched a sprawling studio complex in a ceremony attended by hundreds.

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.

Paramount Pictures» former CEO says that two of her greatest film triumphs were previously passed on by several studios.

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.

Avnet (whose father, Jon, is a veteran Hollywood director and producer as well as the studio's co-CEO) told Fortune the studio wanted to maintain the film's authenticity — they wanted viewers to think the horror film playing out in real - time might really be happening — so they avoided marketing the movie and, in fact, they did not even run the idea by Snapchat before proceeding.

Wang also criticized the current emphasis by U.S. studios on sequels and remakes of films that previously played well in China.

Savvy marketing, followed by strong word of mouth: The studio was smart and pushed the film with recording - industry tie - ins and social media; a «Straight Outta» meme, featuring stars like Beyonce, took over the web.

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.

The deal, expected to close by the end of the year, would give AT&T control of cable TV channels HBO and CNN, film studio Warner Bros and other coveted media assets.

By mapping those emotional responses to the corresponding plot points, the studio gleaned objective data about the film — something that would otherwise be judged subjectively.

The film that triggered the devastating cyberattack on the studio last month, which the United States says was launched by North Korea, opened Thursday in 331 independent theaters with a $ 1 million box office and $ 1.8 million over the subsequent three days, according to Sony.

Scaling up to a staff 400 strong, CORE began work on the film in 2003, and by the time it reached theatres in 2006, the studio had become the country's largest.

An Orange spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday that the company denies a recent unsourced report by French magazine Challenges that Orange had reached a deal with Vivendi that would include Orange buying a stake in Telecom Italia — the Rome - based telecom in which Vivendi has a 24.9 % stake — and buying up to 20 % of the film and television production studio Canal Plus Group.

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.

Behind the scenes, Hollywood film studios, which had never been keen on Netflix, began raising the fees to license movies for Internet streaming, or Netflix was prevented from acquiring certain titles because the Internet rights were already locked up by other outlets.

New Form Incubator, the studio's name for the creative venture, will develop and fund 14 short films, three to 10 minutes in length, produced by YouTube stars such as Joey Graceffa, Joe Penna of MysteryGuitarMan and Sawyer Hartman, who have 3.6 million, 2.8 million and 1.7 million subscribers, respectively.

By 2020, this could mean an additional $ 2 billion for the film studio industry.

Sundance bestows status to independent films; simply by being screened at the legendary venue which recognized iconic sex, lies and videotape, American Splendor, and the like; being picked up by a movie studio is a sure path to mass audiences and used to be every filmmaker's Holy Grail.

Just briefly: The Weinstein Co.: The film studio co-founded by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, says it will file for bankruptcy protection after talks on a potential sale collapsed, The Los Angeles Times reports.

The 39 - year - old native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who started as a nightclub stripper there at 17, has appeared in more than 250 X-rated films, beginning in 2000; was signed as an exclusive with major porn studio Wicked Pictures in 2002 (she's still a contract player for them); and has been inducted into multiple industry halls of fame, including the one run by leading industry trade publication Adult Video News.

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

Furthermore, the highly rated CBS program Touched by an Angel and the DreamWorks animated film Prince of Egypt have demonstrated a friendlier attitude by studios toward religious and family themes.

19 Dr. Bill Bright, of Campus Crusade for Christ, said «Universal Pictures will always be remembered as the studio that launched an attack on the sanctity of all religions by making a film which blasphemes and demeans our Lord Jesus Christ.

Preferring self - regulation to the threat of government censorship, studios voluntarily abided by the rules of the code, which detailed the moral obligations of film art and included guidelines on which subjects should be avoided in films and which should be handled respectfully.

Their adventure is a great introduction to Celtic folklore as well, similar to another recent film by the studio, The Secret of the Kells.

Her credits include a feature film released by a Hollywood studio and several documentaries about childbirth; DOULA!

Percoco said in a financial disclosure that he was paid by CHA, an engineering firm that worked on SUNY Poly's solar panel factory in Buffalo, and COR, which has built an under - utilized film studio and an LED factory for SUNY Poly near Syracuse.

Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Paterson, and Ed Rendell added their names to the list of lawmakers supporting the deal, which would create a new $ 30 billion joint venture by merging the Philadelphia cable giant's content division with NBC Universal's (NBCU) stable of television networks, film studios and theme parks.

The Act's relevance has also been called into question following a recent successful application for a court injunction by the Motion Picture Association, a group representing film studios, forcing BT to block access to a website called Newzbin2, which did not make use of the Act.

Screen icon Meryl Streep, who like countless performers has appeared in films produced or distributed by The Weinstein Company, called revelations that studio co-founder Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed women for decade «disgraceful.»

But it has made a difference for Cuomo: In emails revealed by the Sony hack, studio execs urged donations to the gov's campaign because he's a «strong protector of the film incentive.»

To see if entertainment could offer a solution to this challenge, Ingber teamed up with Charles Reilly, Ph.D., a molecular biophysicist, professional animator, and Staff Scientist at the Wyss Institute who previously worked at movie director Peter Jackson's Park Road Post film studio, to create a film that would capture viewers» imaginations by telling the story of a biological process that was accurate down to the atomic level.

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Located in the town of Pranburi, surrounded by 20 acres of lush tropical gardens and lotus ponds, Inner Sanctuary features a spacious group yoga and fitness space, meditation room, filming studio, and private yoga facility.

All - natural studio session photographed on film by Emmet Green.

Our drive to Hollywood was really scenic; we drove by Sony's and Fox's studios where their films are made.

«My studio next to Portobello Road was very similar to the studio of John Cowan (the photographer whose studio was used by Michelangelo Antonioni's for his era - capturing film Blow - Up).

The former experimental film director instills eco-kudos in her bijoux by ensuring that all her gemstones and semi-precious stones are ethically sourced, and of course she hand - makes each piece in her own New York based studio.

Keira «s film Laggies, about a woman stuck in permanent adolescence who lies to her fiance, was just given a release date of September 26, 2014 by its studio, A24.

A semi-autobiographical examination of the impact of James Dean's death on a group of Arkansas teens (and Dennis Quaid's first film), 9/30/55 was dumped by its studio despite earning critical accolades.

The film was restored and re-edited by Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope studio.

Forster finds a nice way of visualizing this last quirk by showing Harold surrounded by shifting diagrams and mathematical equations, but in one of the film's many missteps, these visual effects show up only sporadically throughout the rest of the story, as if the filmmakers couldn't decide to either fully utilize them or get rid of them after paying the special effects studio a lot of money to create something so nifty - looking.

The film is bound by studio convention and thus operates much more simply, but intelligently, as a grim summer disaster flick.

Quite possibly the goriest film ever made by a Hollywood studio, Evil Dead is a new Horror classic, a film that accomplishes the nearly impossible task of staying true to the original's roots while standing firmly on its own.