Sentences with phrase «film executive in»

Abandoning a planned law career, Lundigan spent thirteen years as an announcer before being discovered by a Universal film executive in 1937.

Not exact matches

When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

«So whoever initiated this — and was very proud of themselves to see that little dip in Iran's centrifuge numbers — should look back now and acknowledge it was a major mistake,» Emad Kiyaei, executive director American Iranian Council, says in the film.

An Indian film executive told a U.S. diplomat in 2010 that American films represent just 3 % to 6 % of the Indian market, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

The partnership will officially launch at the 5th Annual ARRAY Soiree at this year's Sundance Film Festival where DuVernay and Indiegogo co-founder, Danae Ringlemann, will host 50 industry influencers, executives and creatives for a discussion on the present state of diversity in film as well as brainstorming ideas for the future.

Meanwhile, she pops up everywhere in the gender equality world — for instance, Harnisch was executive producer of The Hunting Ground, a new film about campus sexual assault.

«Executives from Cambridge Analytica, hired by the Trump presidential campaign, have been caught on tape promising an extraordinary package of strategies to potential clients including filming opponents in compromising situations with Ukrainian sex workers,» The Daily Beast writes of U.K. station Channel 4's documentary.

Tull, who will remain chairman and chief executive officer of Legendary, has been seeking to expand in Asia with Legendary East and in 2013 signed an agreement with China Film Co. to jointly produce large - scale films for global audiences, such as «The Great Wall,» which will star Matt Damon.

Tied to this work, he advised Pixar Studios in the making of their Academy Award - winning animated film, «Inside Out,» and guided Facebook executives in creating their new emoticons.

They eventually were taken over by a Canadian firm (well, the Canadian assets anyway) a few years ago some time after a Veco executive was secretly filmed in a hotel room bribing some Alaska gov» t officials.

She has served as executive producer of four documentary films, including Kicking It, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival; A Powerful Noise, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival; She Is the Matador; and The Other City, a critically acclaimed portrayal of the HIV / AIDS crisis in Washington, DC, which premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.

«We are in midst of working through what will happen with the movie with respect to the rights,» says Paul Davidson, The Orchard executive vp film and TV.

The company recently hired a major Hollywood executive to develop big films in - house.

That creativity is particularly evident in the work that Oren has done recently in connection with the documentary feature film he executive produced, called «Ready, Set, Bag!»

And in London he offered Bollywood movie executives funds to insert anti-extremist content into their films, and promised to connect them to related networks in Hollywood.

Within a few weeks, the film will be available in more theatres and may quickly surpass the first Taken's revenues, a claim which analysts and film executives at 20th Century Fox are confident in making.

Elon Musk, co-founder, chief executive and product architect of Tesla Motors, poses at the premiere of the documentary film «Revenge of the Electric Car,» Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, at Tesla Motors in Los Angeles.

As a former executive and 20 - year veteran of the television and film industries, Brenner was familiar with the disenchantment of working in a male - dominated industry.

About Zero Point Zero Production: Zero Point Zero Production, Inc. is a television, film and digital media company founded in 2003 by Executive Producers Chris Collins and Lydia Tenaglia, with partner and Managing Director Joe Caterini joining in 2009.

Bailey Pryor, Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer, began his unconventional venture into the spirits industry in 2006 while producing a documentary film, currently running on PBS, about the life of the famous prohibition era Rum Runner, Captain Bill McCoy.

Washington, DC — The Grocery Manufacturers Association today released the following statement from Sean McBride, executive vice president of communications and membership, in response to the recently released film «Fed Up:»

But as a report by Sky Sports shows, the Arsenal chief executive hit back and rubbished the reports that claimed the club were sitting on some huge pile of cash like Smaug the dragon in the series of films The Hobbit.

Although the film has national reach, Lunch Line is a Chicago story through and through: at the post-screening discussion, the co-directors, Michael Graziano and Ernie Park, found themselves reunited with several of the food - service experts, policy wonks, corporate executives and community activists depicted in their film.

Nestlé Chief Executive Officer, Mr Paul Bulcke, told shareholders the film concerned matters from decades ago and was based on the allegations of just one man, although the real sick babies in the film were filmed in 2013 and the allegations are substantiated by documentary evidence, including surveys in 33 cities.

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

Britain's Channel 4 News on Monday filmed senior executives at Cambridge Analytica, including its CEO Alexander Nix, suggesting the firm could use sex workers, bribes and misinformation in order to try and help political candidates win votes around the world.

«Filmmaking and daily operations at the CNY film hub are about to enter into a new era with the hire of studio manager Huayu Xu,» said Mike Massurin, executive director of the Syracuse International Film Festival, in a prepared statement.

In his state - of - the - county address on Tuesday, County Executive Mike Hein called on the state to enact legislation that would include Ulster in a tax - credit program to encourage film production companies to work herIn his state - of - the - county address on Tuesday, County Executive Mike Hein called on the state to enact legislation that would include Ulster in a tax - credit program to encourage film production companies to work herin a tax - credit program to encourage film production companies to work here.

Silvercup executives Alan and Stuart Suna praised the states» generous tax and film tax credit subsidies for helping the film industry flourish in New York.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - New York and Onondaga County will invest in a new film house that will mix nanotechnology and the film industry with the hopes of starting up new businesses, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney announced Tuesday night.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Two years ago, as state officials laid the groundwork for a new Central New York film hub in DeWitt, Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney hired the county's first film commissioner to sell TV and film producers on the Syracuse region.

What spurred Hollywood's sudden interest in Ulster County, according to County Executive Mike Hein, was Hein's successful effort to lobby state lawmakers to extend a 40 percent film production tax credit, available in almost all upstate counties, to Ulster.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino announced today that Westchester received more than $ 30 million in revenue from the film and TV industry in 2016, almost doubling the amount from two years ago.

Kaloyeros and two Cor executives were charged in 2016 with bid - rigging in connection with the state development contract under which Cor built the film hub and a $ 90 million factory nearby.

Cineflix executive producer Jacqueline Bynon said her film crew visited the Dannemora area in February for the one - hour documentary — about two weeks before Joyce Mitchell, who was convicted of helping David Sweat and Richard Matt escape, had her first parole hearing.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Film executives, including «Breaking Bad» actor Giancarlo Esposito, are starting to scout locations in Central New York after the announcement earlier this year of the new film technology hub to be built in DeWitt.

While the Onondaga County executive was not mentioned in the criminal case, her fingerprints are all over some of the projects called into question, particularly the film hub COR built in DeWitt using $ 15 million in state money.

And last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney announced a $ 15 million investment in a DeWitt hub intended to combine the film and nanotechnology industries.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Governor Andrew Cuomo is back in New York after a rare, overnight trip to California, fundraising with Hollywood executives whose industry has benefited from New York's $ 420 million film tax credit program.

The Ulster County Executive announced Tuesday the launch of a film finance program to encourage more film, media and television productions to film in the county.

In the movie Swimming with Sharks, the cowering assistant to misanthropic film executive Kevin Spacey reaches his breaking point.

Initial funding for the program was donated by David Evans Shaw, a Maine - based entrepreneur, AAAS treasurer and executive producer of the film «Second Century Stewardship: Science Beyond the Scenery in Acadia National Park.»

In 1957, marketing executive James Vicary claimed that during screenings of the film Picnic, the words «eat popcorn» and «drink Coca - Cola» were flashed on the screen every five seconds for 1/3, 000 second — well below the threshold of conscious awareness.

Covering a span of over twenty years in the entertainment industry, Rubin Executive Produced eleven films and miniseries for television.

Terri recently wrapped up her first solo book project, «Flip Over and Float — Transform Fear into Freedom in 8 Simple Steps» and filmed «The Conversation» for Lifetime Network, executive produced by Demi Moore, in February 2012.

Years later, with dreams of starring in films, he attempted to pitch an act to Hollywood executives, but he was rejected on the spot because they felt the act itself was far too ridiculous to sell to the American public.

Joshua Safran, the show's executive producer, recalled Blake's 2011 relationship with the A-lister when they were filming in Los Angeles.

But then the film might not have been made at all; the reassuring rhythms of the courtroom drama, I imagine, are what made this material palatable to the executives in charge of signing the checks.

It was around that time that she first met Richard Zanuck, a production executive (and the son of legendary mogul Darryl F. Zanuck), who offered her the role of Nova in the film Planet of the Apes.

In 2005, Christopher Nolan, who's an executive producer on this film, made Batman Begins — a very good superhero movie!