Sentences with phrase «even movie studios»

Likewise, it's been suggested that even movie studios themselves are complicit in file sharing activities.

It shouldn't be a surprise that government agencies are targeted, but even movie studios aren't immune.

Not exact matches

Even with the potential for major flops, Hollywood's movie franchise model is here to stay, but history shows us that the studios that aim for critical success with their sequels tend to land more hits at the box office.

As a result, the industry has even seems to be gradually warming to the idea of premium streaming options, where studios release movies for customers to stream at home while they're still showing in theaters.

The memory may have faded, but movie studios can still feel the sharp barb left behind by 2014's release of «The Interview,» the James Franco and Seth Rogen - starring slapstick comedy that saw the duo assassinate Kim Jong - un; hundreds of Sony's e-mails were leaked by hackers in the aftermath, causing their own controversies, while even the brief threat of all - out war seemed to hang strangely in the air.

But even though users liked Scour, movie studios and record labels did not.

(So even before a movie opens, the studio might be over a third - of - a-billion in the hole.)

Last year, a small movie studio even released what it claimed to be the first scripted feature film ever shot and released entirely on the messaging app.

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.

The program would be hassle - free for studios — they would only provide the names of similar movies, while Twitter would figure out which users were already talking about them, even if they weren't using the title specifically.

Ambitiously, Frank's global team, which totals 385, thinks it can reconfigure — or even upend — the traditional Los Angeles television and movie studio model.

If the movie theaters ever make a bigger profit, even from concessions, the studios can just raise the price of film rental.

The movie studio even asked a theologian to provide sermon notes for pastors who want to preach about Superman on Sunday.

BOISE, ID, Feb. 11, 2005 - The familiar phrase «you'd look good even in a potato sack» originated from a stunt pulled off by 20th Century Fox in 1952: Marilyn Monroe was under contract with the movie studio then and the studio wanted to showcase Monroe's beauty and prove that she didn't need to be dressed in gowns, furs and jewels to look good.

Albany, NY - New York state would give even more taxpayer money to movie and television studios that film in Upstate New York under the budget up for a vote in the Senate and Assembly.

The past few years, the major studios and production companies that create movies, broadcast television, streaming content, and even online and video games have been under cyber attack.

Last year alone, China managed to grab Ingram Micro, Strategic Hotels & Resorts, General Electric Appliances, Carmike Cinemas, movie studio and even the AskMen's Top 10 Channel offers you top 10 lists on a variety of topics: dating, entertainment, travel, fitness, video games, celebrity, sports and more.

Last year alone, China managed to grab Ingram Micro, Strategic Hotels & Resorts, General Electric Appliances, Carmike Cinemas, movie studio and even the Neil Strauss & The Game book changed the dating world.

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

The studio may not have been able to keep the behind - the - scenes drama under wraps, but it doesn't seem to have affected the final product, because you honestly wouldn't know there was even a problem to begin with from watching the movie.

The dearth of positive attributes subsequently ensures that American Pie Presents The Book of Love is unlikely to appeal to even the most ardent American Pie fan, and it's finally impossible not to view the continued existence of these movies as a shameless cash - grab by the studio.

There are striking similarities between certain, um, elements in this film and «Avengers: Infinity War» — a fluke of timing, surely; the movies don't even share a studio (yet).

Even though the studio literally made a movie about feelings, Coco ranks among its most heartfelt and emotional films.

Had Ferrell and his collaborators Adam McKay and Judd Apatow (who has never believed a movie could be too long) and their studio, Paramount, been thinking of their audience above all, they would have needed only one version of their film; given how great the first Anchorman was, that version may even have been good.

Although it's refreshing to see a major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults (even if it stars one of the most bankable actors in the world), when that movie is as passively mediocre as «Focus,» you can understand why other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.

He also wrote one of the best letters I've ever seen to a studio executive when trying to get the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas up and running, telling her, «We are not even spinning our wheels aggressively.»

Long before the Noir period started, sound on film ushered in several great series of detective movie series where the lead was usually a bright crime solver, but the gumshoe, gritty detective was not far behind and Noir kicked in just in time for that kind of investigator as the classical detectives (Charlie Cahn, Mr. Moto, Sherlock Holmes, The Thin Man) were on a roll that even defied studio expectations.

As a pretty big fan of the original Neighbors, even I can admit that Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising is one of the more unnecessary sequels to come out in recent years, which is saying a lot given how quick studios have been to hit the greenlight on continuations of any movie that makes them a couple bucks lately, no matter how unwarranted they actually are.

Jumping back to the decade before, Linklater's 1996 teen movie SubUrbia isn't even mentioned, let alone discussed, with the doc skipping ahead to The Newton Boys for a reflection on the director's working within the studio system.

Even though we have still a little under 11 months away from the release of Justice League, the studios included mention of the movie in their 2017 movie preview press kit.

The image is splendid, on a par with the studio's glowing remaster of 1985's Pee - Wee's Big Adventure; the age of Innerspace is mostly in evidence in composite shots (that optical particulate that accompanied Spielberg - era movie magic), as even the soundtrack is rich and full, though wanting in the lower octaves.

But even those movies were rated PG and treated to wide release by major studios.

The casting choices are also a liability, with Kunis laboring to look even slightly domestic or even just lived - in as a character with a long history with a one - dimensionally self - centered husband and two precocious kids that look like they were freshly pulled from the Movie - Kid rack at the film studio prop store.

As a supervillain, Thanos solves a problem even Marvel Studios, the Kevin Feige - led movie studio owned by Disney (aka, the «Devourer of [Media] Worlds»), has fitfully overcome over the course of 10 years, 18 films, and 30,000 visual effects (someone actually counted).

Edward Gardiner ranks Pixar's movies from worst to best... Studio Ghibli runs them close, and even Dreamworks can come out with some crackers, but it's hard to argue that Pixar isn't the world's greatest animation studio.

It was one of those rare times when a major film studio — United Artists, in this case — allowed him to make pretty much anything he wanted, even a sophisticated and very personal British movie about an openly gay Jewish doctor sharing his lover with a woman.

Pixar gets away with some heady and daring stuff, but even they can hit resistance; for all the praise adults heaped on WALL • E, the movie had the weakest legs of all the studio's pre-Cars 2 output.

It never pays to bet that a major movie studio is going to behave in a way that seems logical or even beneficial to outsiders and fans, but even for an unfathomable studio decision this seems particularly bad.

Neither do we — because, at the time, movie studios didn't feel compelled to announce parts like that — even if a great character actors like Cullen or Ellis were attached to the roles.

Every single ounce of the film's budget is splashed colorfully (but modestly) on the screen, Krasinski and Co. adding even more fuel to the raging appeal of highbrow horror movies, for both studios and audiences alike.

Even if there isn't a twist, the idea of a studio - backed Nazi zombie movie certainly sounds awesome.

«The Muppets» may not be great storytelling, or acting, and even the new songs written for the movie will never replace «Movin» Right Along» or «The Rainbow Connection» — truth be told, this is a three - and - a-half-star movie, with an extra half star for heart — but it's nice to see a studio bank on a property that dares to be high - minded without getting its hands dirty.

By the late Seventies, Corliss had become open to covering films ensconced in studio politics, messy interpretational questions, even violent controversy: see Wood's defense of The Last House on the Left, or Roger Greenspun's cover story on movie violence and Carrie.

Blockbuster directors demand movies large enough to house their egos; the studios are in a state of near - constant panic (and theater owners even more so); genuine storytelling is migrating to television; a lengthy series of explosions translates seamlessly in Beijing or Rio de Janeiro; and on and on.

Pictures has as rich a history as any movie studio and, thanks to decades of savvy acquisitions and partnerships, the company's home video library isn't even close to being rivaled.

After all, he had just produced a one - two hit of moody, studio - funded chamber dramas featuring big - name leads (Nicole Kidman, Ben Stiller) who seemed intent on stripping away their movie - star vanity to revel in warts - and - all portrayals of unglamorous, perhaps even mean - spirited, broken characters.

Baker protégé Rob Bottin's work on that film was arguably equal to that of his mentor (who left Bottin in charge of The Howling «s effects after he exited the project for the bigger - budget American Werewolf), and yet the Academy couldn't even be bothered to nominate him (or, perhaps more likely, its members simply couldn't bring themselves to watch a low - budget horror movie not put out by a major studio).

The studio went even deeper back down the well for the next movie, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later by bringing back Jamie Lee Curtis.

First launched in 1986, they have consistently been one of the most successful movie studios producing consistently outstanding content that wins over audiences of all ages, critics and even The Academy (26 Oscars!).

Still, some of the novel's even weirder ideas (Henry having a sexual experience with himself, for example) are too provocative for this studiously smooth studio movie to handle.