From the new Pinewood
film studio set to open in the Dominican Republic to the $ 3.4 billion mega Baha Mar resort that recently broke ground in the Bahamas, all eyes are currently on the Caribbean.
Not exact matches
Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it
set just last year, and the
studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar
films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.
Nintendo is nearing a deal with production
studio Illumination Entertainment on an animated
film set in the world of Super Mario Brothers, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday that cited anonymous sources.
However, the rest of the Getty scenes in the movie are clearly of Plummer, which Scott could pull off as they are mostly scenes shot in one exterior location or interiors, which could all have been
filmed on
studio sets.
Neil deGrasse Tyson on the
set of his new talk show series «StarTalk»
filmed with a live
studio audience in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
The
studio where «Chicago Fire,» «Empire» and other shows are
filmed is taking control of adjacent Douglas Park streets to build outdoor
sets of the sort you'd see in Tinseltown.
It's next door to where most of the Harry Potter scenes were
filmed, and this
studio holds nearly every costume, prop and
set from the
film.
It is wider than it is tall, and it is packed with an incredible amount of information about the old MGM
studio in Culver City, complete with a list of what
films and television shows were shot on which backlot
sets.
In the seven years since that threequel
set box office records and earned a Best Picture nomination, the
studio has had some generally liked if not quite loved triumphs (Finding Dory, Brave, Monsters University), one
film that most would agree is at least in contention of «masterpiece» status (Inside Out), and some perplexing, unprecedented misses (Cars 2 & 3 plus the aforementioned Good Dinosaur).
It's a pretty safe bet to assume that only Quentin Tarantino could convince a
studio to release a
film set in the slave - owning South that follows a freed slave who, under the guidance of a German bounty hunter, becomes a deadly assassin hellbent on rescuing his wife from an evil plantation owner.
The
film's European locations,
sets (in Rome's Cinecitta
studios) and photography are unusually striking; Rachel Portman contributes an elegant score; and Holm (who played the emperor once before in 1981's «Time Bandits») embodies the character with an effortlessly regal charisma.
Daniel Craig is
set to reprise the role of 007 when it starts shooting at the legendary Buckinghamshire
film studios, which has a special 007 Stage.
The Walt Disney Co. is pushing back «The Good Dinosaur,» the Pixar movie that had been
set for release in 2014, making next year the animation
studio's first without a feature
film since 2005.
Production designer Santo Loquasto created much of the
sets at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, Allen's go - to
film studio in New York.
After filling in for Orson Welles on reshoots for The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Wise became a director, and soon gained a reputation as a reliable
studio hand with
films such as The Curse of the Cat People (1944), The Body Snatcher (1945) and the seminal real - time boxing drama The
Set - Up (1949).
The chatter of this strange assortment of upper - middle class Brits might work better in the theater, since the action takes place in real time
set wholly in an extensively furnished London home (actually
filmed in a West London
studio), with the women doing most of the talk and much of the witty liftings.
2» (Blu - ray + DVD) Details: 1960 - 65, Arrow
Films Rated: Not rated The lowdown: More genre features are included in this
set that offers
films from one of Japan's oldest movie
studios.
OUR TAKE: Laika
set itself apart as an animation
studio with darkly quirky
films like Coraline and ParaNorman.
THR is reporting that, in addition to Patty Jenkins not being
set to direct Wonder Woman 2 just yet, the
studio is currently focusing on putting together the Justice League Dark and Batgirl
films, with the hopes of having them go into production next after Aquaman.
But we didn't know any of that was going to happen in April 2016, when the
studio invited us to visit the
film's Atlanta
set.
Not only is Netflix's reimagined «One Day at a Time» a joy to watch, it's also the first time in many years that a multicamera sitcom (the kind
filmed on a
set with
studio - audience laughter) has seemed so instinctively comfortable in its own skin.
It's the
set - up of
studio films like Rough Night and Game Night, which see the likes of Scarlett Johansson and Jason Bateman display increasingly absurd levels of agita.
Kobayashi shot the
film entirely in a
studio built in an airplane hanger with painted backdrops (in «The Woman in the Snow,» the clouds of the hand - painted sky become eyes watching the woodcutter) and
sets pared to their essence, like an ancient scroll painting.
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.
On the other hand, a # 1.60 m UK debut for a relatively low - budget genre
film, essentially populated by three actors, none of them marquee names, and largely
set in a basement — most
studios would like the economics of that proposition.
Earlier in the day, the
studio also mapped out the release dates for the long - delayed Avatar sequels, as well as stationed Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers
film The Post at December 22nd, 2017,
setting it up for an awards season run.
Universal has included a slightly less - boring menu than is typical of other
studios» no - frills discs, in that it includes various stills from the
film and graphics (notebook clippings and such) consistent with the
setting of the
film.
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 Jungle Book director Jon Favreau is
set to update yet another classic for the
studio with a live - action remake featuring songs from the original
film
Concurrent with the release of its sequel (which makes Miss Congeniality look like fucking solid gold) and this single - disc reissue, the
studio has decided to release yet another edition of the
film on DVD: a Deluxe Gift
Set that bestows upon us a copy of the soundtrack CD.
It's not the first time that a
studio has released a Frank Sinatra movie collection in conjunction with his birthday, but Warner Bros.» five - disc
set — which spans two decades in the singer - turned - actor's
film career — is the first one to ever be released on Blu - ray.
Major developer and publisher Ubisoft has
set up its own
film studio, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, and has multiple adaptations of major franchises in development; there have also recently been rumor - mongering that Activision - Blizzard is interested in following suit.
If we can
set that aside for a moment and pretend we don't have hindsight, it is still incredibly easy to understand why
studios and executives were hesitant to
film this series.
The two previous
films were
set - up by numerous
studios - Revolution
Studios and Columbia Pictures teamed on the 2004 original, while Relatively Media and Universal Pictures released 2008's Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
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.
Set to star life - long comics obsessive Nic Cage (whose own son is named Kal - El), Burton's
film would have followed in the footsteps of his Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), only for the director to walk away when he became exasperated by
studio interference and marketing commitments.
The arrival of the
film noir coincided with a new penchant, inspired by Italian neorealism, for moving out of the
studio on occasion and onto the great rich
set of the American city and its suburbs, a readily available
set which became, sometimes with only minimal adjustment of light and shadow, fully as «Germanic» as anything constructed at Ufa in the Twenties.
The movie: Following a disastrous experience on the
set of his first feature, Alien 3, David Fincher swore off
studio films.
Shot entirely on a
studio set, the
film takes place in a quasi-glamorous Las Vegas where pudgy, uncouth Hank (Frederic Forrest) and awkward, dreamy Frannie (Teri Garr) celebrate their fifth anniversary as boyfriend and girlfriend.
The other four
films are available exclusively in the box
set Jean Harlow 100, which also features a collection of seven 5 × 7
studio glamour portraits of Harlow.
The
films from major
studios were also put through the Vito Russo Test, a
set of criteria to analyze how LGBTQ characters are included in a
film.
Solondz takes a premise that could be some kind of Apatowian
studio comedy — overweight man child falls for pixie dream girl — and really gets into his central character's psyche, to the extent that much of the second half of the
film is
set entirely within it.
After shooting Judy Garland during
filming of A Star is Born he became the first «unit photographer» — hired specifically by movie
studios to take on -
set promotional «stills».
In response to Brian's item this week about Focus Features» animated
film slate, I've received notification from the
studio that «Coraline,» the Neil Gaiman adaptation from Henry Selick (which looks extraordinary, I might add) is
set for a February 2009 release.
The original superhero family adventure is one of the
studio's highest regarded
films,
setting expectations for a follow - up incredibly high.
One wonders if Padilha was fought by the
studio to dumb down or rush the ending, as the last act of the
film doesn't quite live up to the potential
set up in the rest of the
film.
The
studio setting allows for some large - scale pastiches of westerns, tap dancing
films, and synchronised swimming movies, which are presented with a mixture of love and sarcasm.
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.
Hosted by Christopher Husted (he of the Bernard Herrmann Estate), the analytical featurette covers the agreement
set between British and American
studios that guaranteed a
set sum of theatrical revenue be allotted towards the production of British - made
films with local crews and cast.
Although Samuel Shellabarger's novel had been bought by Fox long before the cameras rolled in 1946, it took a few years before everything was
set to begin
filming one of the
studio's costliest production (which also included, Forever Amber, shot concurrently).