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I wish the Tribeca Film Festival could interest foreign film distributors in showing abroad what new and upcoming American directors are doing.

Not exact matches

The nation's first J - Pop mall is in the works in San Francisco, created by Japanese film distributor Viz Pictures, and will feature a Japanese - only film theater, bookstore, cafà © and fashion boutiques with the U.S.'s first boutique for Gothic Lolita fashion.

Mario Haddad Jr., a Middle East distributor for Empire International, told Variety that films shown in the region are usually cut shorter than their international releases.

Lions Gate began in Vancouver as a small distributor of low - budget films, and though technically incorporated in Canada, most of the company's operations are now in California.

Exiled from Alliance Films, Patrice Theroux helped build Entertainment One into the largest indie film and TV distributor in the world.

In mid-2008, eOne made a blockbuster four - part deal largely engineered by Lantos: it bought three TV companies, two in Canada and one in the U.S., plus Lantos's boutique film distributor Maximum FilmIn mid-2008, eOne made a blockbuster four - part deal largely engineered by Lantos: it bought three TV companies, two in Canada and one in the U.S., plus Lantos's boutique film distributor Maximum Filmin Canada and one in the U.S., plus Lantos's boutique film distributor Maximum Filmin the U.S., plus Lantos's boutique film distributor Maximum Films.

While major production companies and distributors, à la Disney, typically get most of the credit for the success of Hollywood films, there are dozens of independently run startups like Rodeo that contribute in no small part to the success of projects, and without which these films would not look as glossy as they do.

The distributor of Woody Allen's film Midnight in Paris could get dinged by the literary icon known as Pappy.

12 Years a Slave The misleading poster by Italian film distributor BIM Distribuzione featured the giant head of movie star Brad Pitt, who served only a supporting role in the film, while the movie's lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was given a tiny spot at bottom right corner.

I mean, the distributor of this film told me that all of the work we have done — the film festivals, all the press, the public appearances, the theatrical release — it all has one goal, which is to be No. 1 VOD on the first VOD weekend, because there is so much product out there on demand that if you're not in the top five it doesn't matter anymore because people can't get through it all.

As an official distributor of Ti products in the UK, Plasfilms are currently the only distributor to supply a specific film for HSF applications.

A long - standing 3M distributor, Spandex has been selling 3M window films for more than 25 years and in the past year has introduced new products as stock items, including Fasara Glass Finishes, Dichroic Glass Finishes and DI - NOC Architectural Finishes from 3M.

Since then, Markey aide Michael Armstrong says he paid $ 200 to the film's distributor for a license to show it one - time in a legislative hearing room.

A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American What: Father of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is hailed in the mainstream

After being showcased in big film festivals like Sundance, Imperial Dreams very quickly fell off the radar after it wasn't picked up by a distributor.

The distributor, Lionsgate, is the best in the business at promoting films like Saw, and the campaign might work — in the short term.

Entertainment One is one of just two distributors (with at least 7 releases) in 2015 to fail to release a single positively reviewed film.

Another distributor that goes for the quantity and quality approach, Magnolia had one of the year's most popular documentaries in Blackfish and one of critics» favorite foreign films in The Hunt, even as its percentage of films receiving positive reviews dropped from 50 % in 2012 to 45 % last year.

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.

Much like last year and the year before, this year's Movie Studio Report Card evaluates both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of 2011.

Just three of the studio's 15 films received positive reviews from critics (and one of those, only by a nose), putting Universal in the bottom half among the major distributors in terms of quality — not surprising, given that its 2014 slate wasn't exactly deep in Oscar - worthy films.

Unique because of its non-profit status, the Los Angeles - based indie distributor has never qualified for our rankings before, since 2015 is the first year in which the Collaborative released at least seven scored films.

In 2013, Paramount led all major distributors in film quality, but even that studio could muster only a C + grade, thanks to a mediocre average Metascore of 58.In 2013, Paramount led all major distributors in film quality, but even that studio could muster only a C + grade, thanks to a mediocre average Metascore of 58.in film quality, but even that studio could muster only a C + grade, thanks to a mediocre average Metascore of 58.4.

For years, IFC has released more films than any other distributor, but in 2015 it managed to outdo even itself with nearly 60 releases (though some were VOD only).

Sony's autonomous specialty films division was also one of eight distributors (with at least seven releases) to avoid releasing a negatively reviewed film in all of 2011.

Even excluding that film, however, SPC would still place 2nd among all distributors in 2013 (and maintain that A grade) with a 70.2 average.

Among the critics» favorites were the terrific Snowpiercer (a film the distributor only reluctantly released in its original form) and the Oscar - nominated documentary Citizenfour.

For the fourth straight year, we have examined both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of the past year.

Despite releasing 29 scored films (third-most among all distributors) in 2014, TWC boosted its average Metascore by over 6 points, helping to return the studio to its usual position in the top half of our rankings (following a sub-par 2013).

The VOD - dependent distributor also opted to release more films theatrically in 2015, increasing its box office rank from 106th to 58th.

The distributor released more films last year than in its previous (and only) two years of existence combined, with the best being Spain's silent - film take on Snow White, Blancanieves.

For the sixth straight year, we have examined both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six - ish major studios and a few dozen of the larger «indie» distributors in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of the past year.

And, for the second time in two years, the distributor released a negatively reviewed film (the melodrama Aloft) after going five years without releasing any.

For the seventh straight year, we have analyzed both the box office performance and overall film quality of the seven - ish major studios and a few dozen of the larger «indie» distributors in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of the past year.

Once again the most prolific distributor of the year, IFC maintained a more - than - one - film - per - week pace throughout 2013, with releases in multiple genres coming through a variety of sub-brands, including the artier Sundance Selects and the horror - oriented IFC Midnight.

VOD distributor Image is the only company here not to release a single positively reviewed film in 2014.

On the one hand, it's exciting to see the always envelope - pushing Lee working without a studio - or distributor - imposed safety net... But while the film never lacks for ambition, it fails to satisfy emotionally or intellectually in the ways Lee intends.

A few additional distributors did release at least 7 films in the U.S. last year but are not listed because most or all of their films do not have Metascores (these were mainly films in foreign languages).

A few additional distributors did release at least 7 films in the U.S. last year but are not listed because some or all of their films do not have Metascores (these were mainly films in foreign languages).

The documentary - first distributor improved the quality of its output in 2014 compared to the prior year, and cracked the top 10 in our rankings despite having just one «great» film: the art doc (or is it a «rockumentary»?)

A fairly new company (formed when distributors Variance Films and GoDigital merged in 2014), Amplify released nearly as many bad films as good in 2015, representing a slight decline from its first - year performance.

2013 brought Variance its highest - grossing film to date in the form of Dave Grohl's music doc Sound City, which, in turn, gave the tiny but innovative distributor its best - ever year at the box office.

The film was virtually thrown away by its distributor, Paramount Pictures, which was uncertain about packaging a film about a sniper in the wake of the King and Kennedy assassinations.

Sony also had the lowest per - film average gross of the six major distributors in 2011, and its foreign box office growth (which includes a nice total for The Adventures of Tintin, for which Sony held the foreign distribution rights) didn't prevent the studio from finishing fifth in global market share for the second straight year.

One of a handful of distributors to avoid releasing a bad film in 2011, indie First Run benefitted from a lineup consisting chiefly of critic - friendly documentaries.

But what Relativity lacked in quality, it made up for in ticket sales, thanks mainly to just two films: the surprise Bradley Cooper hit Limitless, and Tarsem Singh's Immortals 46, a rare big - budget film for the distributor.

Though it's been 150 years since he published On The Origin of Species (the film also marks the bicentenary of his birth) his ideas are still deemed too inflammatory in America where the film has struggled to find a distributor.

It is perhaps not surprising (although no less shameful), given the confusion over evolution whipped up and exploited by the religious right in the United States, that the film's producers had a difficult time finding a distributor for their work in the US — this, despite the fact that Creation was chosen to open the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.

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.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.