Not exact matches
(Avnet said the
studio created a real website to build a mythology for the
film's titular «Sickhouse,» a fictional home they gave a frightening backstory, while encouraging the movie's stars to casually
drop mentions of the fake legend
in the days leading up to the Snapchat release.)
The excellent blog China
Film Insider (if you want to know what is happening
in the
film scene
in China, this is the blog to read) reports that net box office revenue from China is still a «
drop in the bucket» for the
studios overall compared to revenues from North America and international markets ex China.
Take away The Wind Rises, which was briefly screened
in 2013 only to qualify for awards (which it did, collecting an Oscar nomination for best animated
film), and Disney's 2013 average
drops to 53.4 (the
studio's lowest average since 2010), though that was still higher than four other major distributors last year.
In fact, Paramount was the only one of the six major studios to see a drop in average Metascore for its 2012 releases compared to films released the previous yea
In fact, Paramount was the only one of the six major
studios to see a
drop in average Metascore for its 2012 releases compared to films released the previous yea
in average Metascore for its 2012 releases compared to
films released the previous year.
Warners» success rate (of
films receiving positive reviews from critics)
dropped from 39 %
in 2014 to just 16 % last year, while the
studio's average Metascore declined by four points.
Because that
film business is very sick indeed; Fox was the only major
studio not to reach $ 1 billion
in domestic grosses last year, and its U.S. receipts
dropped an astounding 34 % compared to 2010.
Even though Sony released only one positively reviewed
film in 2010 and managed to boost that total to six
films in 2011 (led by best picture nominee Moneyball), its overall Metascore still
dropped nearly two points last year, while the
studio's average Metacritic user score was also the lowest among the big six distributors.
GLAAD's annual
Studio Responsibility Index study of the major
studio films of 2017 found a significant
drop in LGBTQ representation.
The
drop in on - screen LGBTQ representation is a speed bump
in GLAAD's call to action to have the seven major
film studios to have 20 % of their major releases include LGBTQ characters by 2021 and that 50 % of
films include LGBTQ characters by 2024.
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 head
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 head
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.
* It must be noted that, at no point during the actual
film does anyone call Devereaux «The November Man»; it's only name -
dropped at the very end by the
film's villain, a sad - looking Bill Smitrovich, visibly thankful to have such a big part
in a
studio film despite half his dialogue being clumsily misogynistic cracks like «Show me your tits»).
GLAAD's annual study assessing inclusion
in films of 2017 found an «alarming
drop»
in LGBTQ characters
in last year's major
studio releases.