Sentences with phrase «convinced studio head»

There had been many failed attempts to bring the material to the big screen, but somehow Stanton was able to convince the studio heads to let him be the one to make the adaptation at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Apparently, the publicity she gets on her day job (which consists of posing in lingerie and acting bitchy) has convinced studio heads that she's the most bankable star of the group.

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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.