Sentences with phrase «film studio outside»

In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.

Two Syracuse - area developers — Cor Development's Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi — are accused of paying Percoco $ 35,000 in exchange for help Percoco gave them on various state matters, including getting reversed a «costly arrangement» involving union labor on a Syracuse project and state money for a $ 15 million film studio outside Syracuse that ended up being a flop.

Not exact matches

They would be in uproar upon learning that a mob had tried to physically force its way into an American television studio and blocked the roads outside, trying to prevent the filming of a political debate which featured a robust and forthright atheist.

The studio is now the undisputed winner of the fall film festival season, thanks to Guillermo del Toro's «The Shape of Water» and Martin McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»

Outside of their historical perspective (and, some would say, overall better quality than contemporary cinema), studio era films are worth exploring for a lesson...

** Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (the studio drama was filmed in part in North Carolina).

Taking it in context as to when this film arrived, it's no wonder the Coen Brothers took Hollywood by storm, even if they did so on their own terms and largely outside of the studio system, a move that has allowed them to keep final cut on their films ever since Blood Simple.

While Hawke's other filmmaking endeavors (Chelsea Walls, The Hottest Scene) has been similarly produced outside of the big studios and with muted commercial prospects, he has retained star power on the opposite side of the camera with performances in big wide release films, from Training Day to Daybreakers to The Purge.

While it seemed that King Kong's new home — outside of Skull Island, that is — would be Universal thanks to the company's deal with Legendary, it would appear that the latter studios» executives want to keep the dream of a Kong Vs. Godzilla film alive and are now in talks with Warner Bros. to move the creature there.

Altman himself had spent many years working outside the studio system for that very reason, as they consistently requested modifications to his work because they felt audiences didn't want or care to see films that they consider to be depressing or personal.

Outside of the industry, the answer is likely very low, but Pixar, a studio that's made fewer feature films in its history than most movie studios release in a 12 - month period, either has to be the best or they automatically become the worst.

How is it that a major studio film — one in which marks the first time these legendary characters meet / fight / team - up onscreen in a live - action feature — that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, has been in the planning stages for years, and is the catalyst for their own shared universe of interconnected films doesn't seem to know one thing about its title characters outside of names and costumes?

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.

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.

This affects every unreleased live action Disney film, particularly those that the studio suspects have limited appeal outside of children.

Yet they share a certain quality of desperation: Both were produced on miniscule budgets outside of major studios, both Ulmer and Dickerson used a variety of techniques to disguise their humble production values, and both films ended up looking indelibly cheap anyway.

Sean Baker, the award - winning director and co-writer of the great new movie, «The Florida Project,» joins Justin in studio to discuss the film, what drew him to tell this story, the juxtaposition of the hidden homeless living right outside of the most magical place on Earth, the importance of getting the details exactly right, how the movie was inspired by «The Little Rascals,» wanting to show how children make the most out of any situation no matter how dire, how desperation plays a big role in the film, the wonderful performance from Willem Dafoe, the relationship between Willem and the child actors, the challenge of working with child actors, the way Florida is portrayed in the film and what he plans to do next.

The studio switch is why the film didn't come to DVD as part of the Disney DVD line but the Vista Series, a brand reserved for the studio's top hits distributed outside of the Walt Disney Pictures label.

Netflix has the funds to pay the Billy Madison star the $ 80m - per - film fee which he reportedly receives from theatrical distributors and the comic has worked outside the major studio system for some time, so will not fear reprisals.

There's a nice go at social issues, but it feels like a stretch in an attempt to give the film some sort of reason to exist outside of bringing in easy money for the studio.

Boyhood was a film they didn't have to resent because it was made outside the studio system — all the American films are outside the British studio system.

Though best film winner «Get Out» was technically released by Universal, the $ 4.5 million project was a long - gestating original idea from a new filmmaker whose sensibilities synched up with the desires of a progressive culture (and it was produced outside of the studio's clutches).

Audience member Chris Rock's question about Lee making the film outside the studio system prompted a lengthy, expletive - filled rant from a filmmaker clearly stymied by his hiatus from mainstream filmmaking (his last narrative feature, Miracle at St. Anna, came out in 2008).

With this trio of early - to - mid -»70s blaxploitation films, Pam Grier carved out a unique niche for herself and became one of the biggest stars in America while working entirely outside the studio system.

Outside the studio walls, Deakins bathes the film in classic noir, as Mannix drives the streets of LA, streetlights casting amber waves of light onto Brolin's leathery face through rain flecked windshields.

Itís fitting, though, that a film about bikers on the fringe of society, completely outcast in some places, would be made at great personal difficulty outside the studio system.

Alas, I refer not to the studio's new feature film, Finding Dory, but to the mesmerizing six - minute short that precedes it, «Piper,» about a baby sandpiper's first forays outside its coastal nest.

So, in regards to my indie feature film, that I've written, am producing, directing, taking to festivals, and self - distributing — should I not be allowed to call myself the «writer» on the project because it's outside of the studio system?

You might have seen it in films and television series, but not been sure where it is - or even if it exists at all outside a carefully constructed set in a studio.

Filmed at Nauman's ranch and studio outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the segment features several of Nauman's recent explorations into video, text, and self - portraiture — materials and themes the artist has engaged for over thirty years.

Developed in response to a new generation of filmmakers who were producing works outside the studio system, the series presented independent and experimental films that reflected many of the key issues of the day, from the Vietnam War, drugs, and the Black Panthers, to homosexuality and the women's liberation movement.