Sentences with phrase «companies featured in films»

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The film featuring an all - Black cast, and a story - line set in the fictitious African nation of Wakanda, has broken so many records in just two months on the market, Disney, the parent company of Marvel Comics, released an infographic to list them all.

Several states offer tax credits to television and film production companies that make a television series or feature film in that state.

In 2011, the company released a stop - motion short film to promote organic and sustainable farming, featuring a Willie Nelson cover of Coldplay's «The Scientist.»

In a statement, Vice founder and CEO Shane Smith said the launch of Vice Studios would allow the company to «build up the largest millennial video library in the world — enabling Vice to widen our offering to include; news, food, music, fashion, art, travel, gaming, lifestyle, scripted and feature films.&raquIn a statement, Vice founder and CEO Shane Smith said the launch of Vice Studios would allow the company to «build up the largest millennial video library in the world — enabling Vice to widen our offering to include; news, food, music, fashion, art, travel, gaming, lifestyle, scripted and feature films.&raquin the world — enabling Vice to widen our offering to include; news, food, music, fashion, art, travel, gaming, lifestyle, scripted and feature films.»

The company released a short film this week featuring a Tim Burtonesque scarecrow who has a moral crisis about his part in factory farming.

He worked with stars like John Legend and Oprah Winfrey before launching his own multi-platform media company, Macro Ventures, which was behind the production of Denzel Washington's Academy Award - nominated feature film «Fences» in 2016, and more recently, the acclaimed indie film «Mudbound,» which Variety predicts may be the first Netflix feature to compete for an Oscar.

In recent months, it has struck content licensing deals with the likes of Paramount, Lionsgate and NBCUniversal and reached a multi-year extension of an agreement with Sony Pictures Television to bring even more of the company's feature films to its users.

The company envisions systems that will let consumers download a high - definition, full - length feature film in less than five minutes, allow rural health clinics to send 3 - D medical images over the Internet and let students collaborate with classmates around the world while watching live 3 - D video of a university lecture.

In 2015, the company produced and released Spike Lee's Chi - Raq as its first original feature film.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy taleIn Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy talein the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Gibson is set to produce the film through his Icon Productions company, and will decide on whether to direct or act in the feature after the script is completed.

The new feature film Tigers dramatises the story of another whistle blower, a former Nestlé baby milk salesman in Pakistan called Syed Aamir Raza who decided to take on the company with the help of IBFAN.

The forthcoming feature film Tigers, dramatises the true story of a formula company representative, who blew the whistle on Nestlé's activities in Pakistan.

This 90 - minute feature film by Oscar - winning Director Danis Tanovic is based on the true story of a former Nestlé Medical Delegate in Pakistan who exposed company marketing practices with the help of IBFAN.

Kathy's company also produced Lost in Africa, a family feature film distributed by Columbia Pictures internationally.

18:45 — 20:15 Movie: «Tigers», award - winning feature film by Danis Tanovic, dramatizing the true story of a formula company representative blowing the whistle on violations in Pakistan

The new feature film Tigers dramatises similar strategies in Pakistan, based on the true story of a Nestlé salesman who resigned and blew the whistle on the company after learning of babies dying from unsafe bottle feeding.

(The new feature film, Tigers, dramatises what happened when a former Nestlé salesman in Pakistan decided to blow the whistle on the company with the help of IBFAN).

DOWNTOWN — Three Manhattan fire companies are slated to close under the mayor's latest budget proposal, including a pair of companies located near Ground Zero and one famously featured in the film «Ghostbusters.»

Rather, it's the first feature from the fledgling Studio Ponoc, which was founded in 2015 by several Ghibli alumni amid (happily premature) speculation that the company would be shutting down its feature - film production.

Focus Features has revealed that the company is teaming up with Working Title Films for Joe Wright «s Winston Churchill project, Darkest Hour, and will release the film domestically on November 24, 2017 in the U.S.

As for The Danish Girl, his timely period drama about the first known trans person, Focus Features — the company distributing the film — has by all accounts made the surprising decision to debut the film in Venice (it's listed as making a North American premiere in Toronto).

In the wake of numerous sexual assault accusations and getting fired from his own company, though, the shamed movie producer won't be attached to Tarantino's ninth feature film.

Though immigration is an issue front and center not only in Europe, but also on these shores, the company sees the feature first and foremost as an art film as opposed to a political one.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

Yesterday in Hall H at the San Diego Comic Con, the new company FilmDistrict presented a panel featuring two films: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and Drive, the latter being the sort - of action movie that won Nicolas Winding Refn the Best Director award at Cannes this year.

Otis at Monterey, with uncompressed stereo soundtracks Alternate soundtracks for all three films featuring 5.1 surround mixes by recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in DTS - HD Master Audio Two hours of performances not included in Monterey Pop, from the Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Blues Project, Buffalo Springfield, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, the Electric Flag, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Al Kooper, the Mamas and the Papas, the Steve Miller Blues Band, Moby Grape, Laura Nyro, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simon and Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, and the Who Audio commentaries from 2002 featuring Pennebaker, festival producer Lou Adler, and music critics Charles Shaar Murray and Peter Guralnick New interviews with Adler and Pennebaker Chiefs (1968), a short film by Richard Leacock, which played alongside Monterey Pop in theaters Interviews from 2002 with Adler and Pennebaker and with Phil Walden, Otis Redding's manager 1987 interview with Pete Townshend on Monterey and Jimi Hendrix Audio interviews with festival producer John Phillips, festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby Photo - essay by Elaine Mayes Festival scrapbook Trailers and radio spots PLUS: A book featuring essays by critics Michael Chaiken, Armond White, David Fricke, Barney Hoskyns, and Michael Lydon

Santa Monica, CA, September 27, 2011 — LIONSGATE ® (NYSE: LGF), a leading global entertainment company, today announced that it has optioned film rights from Deep Silver to develop a feature inspired by Dead Island, which became a viral media sensation when its haunting, artful trailer launched in February 2011.

Finally, The Theory of Everything held up well enough for releasing company Focus Features, bringing in an estimated $ 2.5 million at the box office over the weekend, enough to gain a marginal profit against a $ 15 million budget... and still ahead of the critically acclaimed Wild, the Reese Witherspoon - starring film based on the memoir of Cheryl Strayed, which picked up a few theaters and some revenue in the form of an estimated $ 1.6 million.

Disney's upcoming reboot of Beauty and the Beast will feature a gay storyline in what is believed to be a first for the film company, its director has said.

Also at the festival are under - the - radar pictures like the Clive Owen / Juliette Binoche film «Words And Pictures,» Andre 3000 - starring Jimi Hendrix biopic «All Is By My Side,» comedy - drama «You Are Here,» the feature debut of «Mad Men» creator Matthew Wiener, Biafra war film «Half Of A Yellow Sun» with Chiwetel Ejiofor, the James Corden - starring «One Chance» (which has the Weinstein Company «s backing, but seems more «Unfinished Song» than «Silver Linings Playbook «-RRB- and, perhaps most importantly, Stephen Frears ««Philomena,» which could see Judi Dench being in contention.

Ava DuVernay, the director behind the Oscar - nominated Martin Luther King Jr. biopic «Selma,» will write, produce, and direct a feature film set in the time of Hurricane Katrina, the company backing the film said on Monday.

Fresh off the presses at Berlinfest, production company Worldview has released a still from David Gordon Green's next film, Manglehorn, featuring Al Pacino as an ex-con seeking a return to normal life after being in prison for many years.

Director John Wells «feature film adaptation of Tracy Letts» beloved stage play August: Osage County finally comes to theaters this Christmas, and in anticipation of the film's release (and awards campaign), The Weinstein Company is live - streaming a fan Q&A event...

His sophomore feature Boogie Nights (1997), about the adult film industry in the late 1970s (partially inspired by the life of porno star John Holmes) is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family, with Burt Reynolds as a quiet but firm director Dad and Julianne Moore as the porn star surrogate mother to the company's teen stars Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), the «natural» from the suburbs who is quickly recruited.

Stavier Films have announced that Anthony Renwick McGill, a writer living in Dublin and co-founder, along with Savio Sequeira, of Stavier Films and The Da Vinci Theatre Company, has won the 2016 FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY AWARD in the New York Short Film and Screenplay Competition for his screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970's Ireland.

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

Lee's production company, Lee Daniels Entertainment, made its feature film debut in 2001 with Monster's Ball, the dysfunctional family drama for which Halle Berry would earn her historic, Best Actress Oscar.

Well not only was New Mutants going to feature that mysterious company, but The Tracking Board has learned that Jon Hamm was originally going to appear as Mr. Sinister in a tag at the end of New Mutants, and Boone filmed material that led up to that reveal, only for Fox to change their minds after shooting had been completed.

I don't know what to say, other than, if Disney has been making a lot of steps in the right direction overall as a company, with features like Moana, and Star Wars, and (finally if late to the table) Marvel films, then asking for every movie, including period films set in Europe, might be over-correcting the ship.

American Independents Presented by the Lincoln Motor Company: Featuring powerful new voices in American cinema, these fresh, gritty films explore a variety of subjects through the filmmaker's uncompromising vision.

Of his four feature films, «Her» might be the best, which is no small feat in the company of «Being John Malkovich» and «Adaptation.»

Originally made in France featuring a French voice cast, the Weinstein Company subbed American voices for the film's release in the states.

Santa Monica, CA — April 8, 2013 — Summit Entertainment, a LIONSGATE ® (NYSE: LGF) company, announced today that principal photography has commenced in Chicago on the highly anticipated feature film adaptation of Divergent, starring Golden Globe nominated Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Academy Award ® winner Kate Winslet.

Because the picture boasts production values considerably above those usually found in AA features and, more importantly, because of the use of the new photographic technique, the film is sure to be accorded more important programming than the company's average product, an evaluation already established by initial bookings.

Back in the 1990s, when the production volume of Disney - branded live - action films was at an all - time high, the company thrice turned to old cartoons as inspirations for feature - length comedies.

The distributor said it had been tracking the feature while it was still in development and jumped to board the film after the sales company made it available to view.

Reel FX launched its feature length development and production slate in 2010 after almost 20 years of experience as an award - winning one - stop studio for the creation of animated content including films, special attraction / live venue projects, and interactive projects for companies like Fox, Warner Bros. and Universal Studios.

Oscar - nominated short film director Patrik Eklund's feature debut showcases the wry wit that made his shorts so hugely popular in this tale of a small town telecom company plagued by anti-radiowave anarchists.