Sentences with phrase «film led the studio»

THR's sources say that the «heavy comedic tone» of the Channing Tatum - led film led the studio to moving it from February 14 (the same weekend Deadpool debuted in 2016) to a more traditional summer movie date.

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.)

Redstone was so upset about the disappointing performance of Mission: Impossible III, which grossed almost $ 100 million less than the previous installment, he blamed Cruise and his controversial behavior leading up to the film's release for costing the studio money.

The 39 - year - old native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who started as a nightclub stripper there at 17, has appeared in more than 250 X-rated films, beginning in 2000; was signed as an exclusive with major porn studio Wicked Pictures in 2002 (she's still a contract player for them); and has been inducted into multiple industry halls of fame, including the one run by leading industry trade publication Adult Video News.

Adding to that, Dr. Johnson said, «It is a significant and welcome development when a leading Hollywood studio like Paramount makes a major film about a story from the Bible.»

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 58.4.

This led to a Warner Bros. contract for D'Andrea; he went on to play supporting roles in a number of the studio's films, the best of which was the sympathetic cabbie in Dark Passage (1948).

Fox had seven films surpass the $ 300 million mark globally (more than any other studio), led by X-Men: Days of Future Past, the fifth - highest grossing movie of 2014 worldwide.

Only three of the six studios were able to capitalize on growing foreign appetites for American films, however, with Paramount leading the pack with a 60 % increase in foreign receipts compared to the previous year.

Astin moved to feature films in the 1990s with a spate of roles in Hollywood studio films, including the lead in the Disney adventure Iron Will (1994).

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.

The studio A24 has another critically acclaimed film on their hands in the Scarlett Johansson lead Under the Skin.

Oscar ® - winning visual effects studio Weta Digital is again handling the visual effects for the film, led by senior visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri.

The film assembled one of the studio's finest voice casts, led by Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres, gave them a ton of great gags and memorable characters (the surfer dude turtle and the «One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest» homage in the dentist's office first among them), and then grounded it in with a deep bass line of thoroughly relatable pathos.

And now, the film has been without a director for over a year, which led many fans to believe that the project wasn't going to happen at all, despite it being on the studio's official DCEU slate.

The «Power Rangers» actress joked her «timing was terrible» when it came to launching her movie career, as at a time when she wanted to make romantic comedies, studios were taking a different approach to the light - hearted films they wanted to produce, leading her down a different path.

For the past 7 years, she led media engagement and social impact initiatives supporting documentary film and is now bringing her expertise to narrative projects as Advisor on Impact & Social Innovation for Killer Content and their new creative studio venture Level Forward in partnership with filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail Disney.

Performed by THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYMPHONY led by ENDRE GRANAT and THE HOLLYWOOD FILM CHORALE Conducted by PETE ANTHONY MARCO BELTRAMI

Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola, arguably the two pivotal figures of American cinema in the 1970s, both rose from the turmoil of the transition from studio - based to independent production, to emerge as leading forces in film production as well as film style.

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.

New York Times bestselling children's author Tony DiTerlizzi (The Spiderwick Chronicles) details the precedent - setting augmented reality used in his new Simon & Schuster novel The Search for Wondla; LAIKA president / CEO Travis Knight (lead animator on the Oscar - nominated stop - motion movie Coraline) explains how his studio will continue to take bold chances in the animated feature film world; and graphic novelist and Comic - Con special guest Douglas TenNapel (Earthworm Jim) describes exactly how a blank page comes to be inhabited with his compelling imagery.

The chart - topping duo from Disney defies the usual trend, as Disney titles tend to take a few weeks to build momentum in the rental market as the studio has no distribution agreement with Redbox, leading the kiosk vendor to acquire its copies of Disney films as any consumer would — at retail.

Prior to the 2014 announcement that the company would be making «Black Panther» and «Captain Marvel,» the studio had famously only cast straight while male leads in its films.

Indeed, the studio have already set the movie for a May 2014 release for «Belle,» in part to try and replicate the impressive success of «Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,» and in part because there are internal worries that between McQueen's film and TWC's «Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom» and «Fruitvale Station,» there are too many films with black leads for «Belle» to get traction (We'd argue there's room for them all, but you can see the logic, given the Academy's tastes).

The film hits theaters on March 16 and is one of the few major studio films to ever feature a gay character in the lead role.

Odds are, 20th Century Fox will opt to continue the story of the first film and that means the studio will require the involvement of the lead.

Matthew McConaughey may have become a star as a leading man in major - studio films like «A Time to Kill» and «The Wedding Planner,» but in the last few years the laid - back Texan has reinvented and revived his career with a string of sparkling performances in low - budget indies: Richard Linklater «s «Bernie,» Steven Soderbergh's «Magic Mike,» William Friedkin «s «Killer Joe,» Jeff Nichols» «Mud» and now Jean - Marc Vallee's «Dallas Buyers Club,» which has made McConaughey a strong favorite to land a Best Actor nomination.

The trio will lead Hollywood's largest film studio, a unit of Time...

Yet, Hollywood was still decades away from casting studio films with African - American lead actors.

Beyond that, a «Fox Movietone News: Cavalcade Wins First Honors is a 1 - minute, standard - def newsreel that sees a studio executive offer public, calculated praise to the film's two lead actors and someone else.

The film was previously titled Alien: Lost Paradise and the studio's description does not include any of the other lead characters from Prometheus, played by Noomi Rapace among others.

She's got supporting roles in starry films «Jupiter Ascending» and «Concussion» coming up, but someone needs to step up and give her a studio lead ASAP.

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).

«Coco» again easily led all films with $ 26.1 million in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates Sunday.

According to the studio's press release, the film — written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman — chronicles the «true story of Olympic Wrestling Champion brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their relationship with the eccentric John du Pont, heir to the du Pont Chemical fortune, that led to murder.»

This has been on my must - see list ever since it was announced, and that excitement has only grown with each new reveal, from the casting of Chris Pratt in the lead role, to landing Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper to voice the movie's CGI characters, to the strong buzz emerging from early screenings that have pegged it as one of the studio's best films to date.

The film was set to co-star THE GREY's Frank Grillo, with the director looking at Russell Crowe or a reuniting with Liam Neeson for the lead, but the studio financing the project wanted a more action - orientated effort and were pushing for Bruce Willis as the antihero.

Two films the studio will be pushing through the awards season — Alexander Payne's «The Descendants» and Sean Durkin's «Martha March May Marlene» — lead the pack with -LSB-...]

Black - led movies do travel when studios put the same massive marketing and production budgets behind those movies that they do for white - led films.

Speaking to Deadline today, Walt Disney Studios President of Theatrical Distribution Dave Hollis stated that the studio is not concerned whatsoever with the low audience scores, and think that the conversations this film sparks will lead to good word - of - mouth for the holiday weekend next week:

Fortunately, while the studio is still apparently searching for that perfect leading lady (who many believe to be Sharon Carter, the niece of Peggy, Steve Roger's love interest from the first Captain America movie) Deadline is «hearing that Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow will be in the mix on this film.»

This year's OSKFF will be celebrating the films of Golden Harvest, Hong Kong's leading studio in the second half of the century.

The studio is also developing multiple female - led Batman adjacent projects with a Harley Quinn solo film and Gotham City Sirens, but those haven't seen much movement in recent months.

With over a hundred films in his C.V. (including silents), King remained one of the studio's leading directors for decades, and though he worked with superb cinematographers, his films consistently show a dramatic visual style that maximizes elements within a single shot, plus a knack for crafting kinetic action scenes — particularly the storming of the fortress at the end of the film.

Elite's transfer is very nice, and along with deleted scenes and trailers, the commentary track (which includes two of the film's lead actors) also provides a rather vivid portrait of the horror genre at the time, which, for many burgeoning filmmakers, was the only way to enter the film business before the larger studios devoured the remaining independents.

6:30 am — TCM — Roberta Apparently the studio still didn't trust Fred and Ginger to carry a film; this time they're second leads behind Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott, but at least Dunne and Scott are decent actors and Roberta has a fair bit of charm outside of Astaire and Rogers, due in no small part to a solid score by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach.

The great video label Milestone has produced a great DVD set built around the half - hour documentary, adding as many surviving films (a few even restored) as possible to show just what happened, how this led to major production in Hollywood and how the truth is disappearing as the town seems to want to forget for some odd reason (speculation would require a new documentary) and we even see one of the final studios before it itself disappears.

2:00 am (11th)-- TCM — Roberta Apparently the studio still didn't trust Fred and Ginger to carry a film after their debut pairing as second leads in Flying Down to Rio; this time they're second leads behind Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott, but at least Dunne and Scott are decent actors and Roberta has a fair bit of charm outside of Astaire and Rogers, due in no small part to a solid score by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach.

A24 lead all film studios with an impressive 18 nominations, with Paramount also earning 10 nods.

Now the studio is starting to address the lack of superhero films with leads who are not white men, including upcoming projects such as «Captain Marvel,» starring Brie Larson, and a Black Widow movie with Scarlett Johansson that is in development.