Sentences with phrase «by studios»

The vast majority of the games produced by those studios are considered classics at best or moderate hits at worst.

With an increase in blockbuster titles being released by studios, it is proving difficult to convince retailers to move satisfactory amounts of physical media without offering costly incentives to keep their games in stock.

Producer Simon Kinberg said that Gambit's delays were due to unhappiness by the studios and those involved with the screenplay, which was being re-worked.

A key component of being a movie fan in the year 2016 is learning to shrug off remakes of your favorite movies and learn to live with the fact that bonafide classics are always going to get dusted off by studios hoping to capitalize on a familiar title.

But you have to also realise this didn't come through the Hollywood developments; this is Peter Morgan writing a spec script that was rejected by the studios in terms of financing.

No person has been more closely associated with the Academy Awards in recent decades than Weinstein, who won a best picture Oscar in 1999 for «Shakespeare in Love» and who orchestrated campaigns that resulted in more than 80 statuettes for films released by the studios he ran, including five best picture Oscars for «Shakespeare in Love,» «The English Patient,» «Chicago,» «The King's Speech» and «The Artist.»

Paramount has lagged behind the competition in box office returns and in creating the kind of global franchises that are prized by studios.

Is it true that critics are paid by the studios to write rave reviews to hype up certain movies and / or actors??? I don't know if I'm in the minority here, but I more often than not always find myself at odds with established critics (and The Academy for that matter.)

At IMDb, it carries a user rating of 7.8, a most respectable score that ranks it above most animated films made by studios other than Ghibli and Pixar.

The original mono mix was beautifully layered with sound effects, and it's worth noting that Anchor Bay didn't upgrade the film with a pseudo-stereo mix, a practice often applied by studios to older films to upgrade their elements for a surround sound setup.

During the cocktail hour and around the long dinner tables purchased by the studios to fete their Oscar contenders, attendees shared a more uncomfortable night of raised eyebrows and hushed, who - will - be-next conversations.

Between Funny People and the truly excellent Punch Drunk Love, Sandler has proven he has chops but these crappy little films he makes are geared by the studios to steal money from who they consider to be their large and unsophisticated audience.

Yes, a film needs good reviews and industry support to get noticed by the Academy, but the publicity campaigns mounted by studios are crucial as well and usually dictate whether an actor is considered for a «leading» or «supporting» role.

The first mistake seemingly always made by studios looking to make the Great American Video Game Movie is choosing a game to adapt by the financially safe arithmetic of «biggest built - in audience plus largest potential explosions equals box office gold.»

In a world in which the Academy were less amenable to bullying lobbying by the studios, this would all be moot.

The survey concluded that manipulation of the media has never been more rampant; that Disney, Miramax, and Warner Bros. are perceived by the entertainment press as the «most manipulative» studios, and 20th Century Fox and MGM the «least manipulative»; and that many in the media — including this reporter while covering film for the San Jose Mercury News — have been blacklisted by studios for «not playing by the rules.»

sent to them by the studios

Fewer booms means less bucks spent by the studios.

A cash cow by the studios, with little care or quality control involved.

I'm lucky if there's a few good Blu - ray releases worth considering for my column each week, let alone actually sent by the studios to review, but that's definitely not the case with this week's impressive haul.

3D has been much bemoaned recently and while it remains to be primarily a money - grabbing scheme by studios and cinemas, it does work in Bay's favour in this film.

The general lack of confidence by the studios suggests otherwise, but when expectations are this low, anything is possible.

Perhaps some of these directors wanted to make more films about women, and were shut down by studios — but the industry power wielded by many of them suggests that if they had really tried to make more films about women, they would have succeeded.

It was really hard to get her for the second season, not because she didn't want to do it, but because she was owned by studios at that point.

Only around twenty films (among them Showgirls, Orgazmo, Bad Lieutenant, and David Cronenberg's Crash) have ever tried to make a go of that extreme MPAA designation feared by studios and theaters alike.

That turned out to be the right decision since Straight Outta Compton was a massive hit, and put him back in demand by studios like Marvel.

It's a little silly to be preached to after you've bought or rented a legitimate disc (and one as unlikely to be copied as this), but it's part of wider efforts by all studios to discourage infringement and bootlegging.

Coogler is just the latest in an ongoing trend of indie directors (Colin Trevorrow, Josh Trank, etc.) who have been plucked by the studios to revive major Hollywood properties despite their lack of experience, though you wouldn't know it from watching «Creed.»

While they haven't yet demolished the calcified traditions clung to by studios, banks, and theater chains, they've found some gaps and cracks.

And while countless sequels are made as a pure cash grab by the studios, I'm happy to report that Paddington 2 isn't one of them.

The struggle of the individual to retain his autonomy in a corporate landscape certainly resonated in 1967, not least for the young New Hollywood auteurs who were handed the keys to the city by studios looking to innovate.

I saw 4 of them in a theater, and I watched the rest on personal screeners sent - out by the studios to BFCA members.

It seems only Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) and Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.) could make that not happen but it's going to take some heavy lifting by their studios to do it.

The multiplexes are filled with PG - 13 movies that should have been R - rated movies, released by studios that don't make adults - only genre films anymore.

Revered by actors, beloved by the studios for whom he works, and respected by his colleagues, he has quietly risen to the very peak of the directing world, sitting alongside Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.

Reflecting the decades in which the story unfolds, the assured narrative beats captured by Bernstein recall the thoughtful, expertly rendered, small - scale dramas (such as Resurrection with Ellen Burstyn or Testament with Jane Alexander) that were once produced by studios and shown by major theatrical chains.

The Toronto International Film Festival has become the showcase for ambitious autumn releases by studios hoping for Academy Awards, or at least for good reviews of movies that adults can enjoy without resorting to their child within.

At least that's what said expert will report to their followers, who'll slavishly lap up and spread the pundit's hosannas for films sight unseen — a domino - like effect of readiness and willingness perpetuated by the studios with For Your Consideration campaigns.

Misunderstood by the studios and most audiences, it was the critics who came to his defense, and today he -LSB-...]

The best new American filmmakers were hailed by the critics and welcomed by the studios not simply because they were good, but because they made money.

While some are dormant, others were developed by studios that no longer exists.

Long forgotten by the studios, Whale has retired to pursue painting and a life of...

Z Channel not only played an incredibly wide selection of great movies that were swept under the rug by studios for what was considered disappointing box office performances, but it also helped institute what we know today as the director's cut.

It's littered with far too many short clips cutting out the best stuff pushed out by the studios, and finding a good, high quality scene is getting more and more difficult.

This protects you in the case of injury to a student and is required by studios that may hire you.

The five voters who stopped by our studios are all people who responded to a recent Voice of the Voter poll.

Eventually, more than 300 artists — including directors, radio commentators, actors and particularly screenwriters — were boycotted by the studios.

The state report showed $ 645 million was spent by the studios on the projects that received tax breaks, and they hired nearly 47,000 workers.

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.

James Park, founder and CEO of the health wearable Fitbit (FIT), stops by the studio for a round of Fortune «s «Fast Five.»