Justin's Review: God bless New Line Cinema for taking chances where other film studios don't dare to tread.
Not exact matches
One more thing Netflix has over traditional
studios: It is so good at cloud computing that it has put its «
studio in the cloud,» Hunt says, and uses cloud computing to
do everything from managing logistics (like union drivers delivering cameras to a location) to
film editing (uploading the footage to be edited immediately in another country).
He made and uploaded his first, the 68 - minute Enfin l'Automne (Fall, Finally) to YouTube last year, largely just to see if he could
do it, and he's now on the verge of signing a deal with a Hollywood
studio to
do a proper
film.
«The
studios are
doing fewer
films and bigger global tent - pole
films.
While the
studio did not name the troubled
film, Variety and other outlets reported that the culprit was believed to be the live - action, computer - animated hybrid Monster Trucks, which cost more than $ 100 million to make.
Avnet (whose father, Jon, is a veteran Hollywood director and producer as well as the
studio's co-CEO) told Fortune the
studio wanted to maintain the
film's authenticity — they wanted viewers to think the horror
film playing out in real - time might really be happening — so they avoided marketing the movie and, in fact, they
did not even run the idea by Snapchat before proceeding.
Seth Rogen, who co-starred in the
film and has an office on Sony's lot as well as a deal with the
studio, didn't fare too well this past weekend.
Some of the reason is simple math: R - rated movies just don't make as much money as PG - 13 movies
do, so
studios are eager to chop their
films into relatively tame affairs.
The Act's relevance has also been called into question following a recent successful application for a court injunction by the Motion Picture Association, a group representing
film studios, forcing BT to block access to a website called Newzbin2, which
did not make use of the Act.
But the subsidies covering other costs make it easier for the
films»
studios to pay the actors and directors, and Nixon didn't even have to leave her hometown to shoot.
Youtube pros all seemed to have
studio lights, screen backdrops, fancy camera gear, background music that didn't infringe copyright laws and complicated looking
film editing tools.
Eleven hours with minimal fading is the longest I have gone, but no matter if I exercised, had
studio lights flaring at me for
filming or rested my chin in my hand for a whole workday (typical office pose), the foundation
did not budge.
Commentary 3 — The Picture - Director of Photography Darius Khondji, Prodcution Designer Arthur Max, Editor Richard Francis - Bruce, Richard Dyer and David Fincher talk about the look of the
film itself, the color processes used on the print, the locations scouted for the various shots, the detail used in the
studio backlot constructions, the style David wanted to achieve and succeeded in
doing, the clothing, the grittiness, the absolute black Fincher always wanted in Alien 3 but could achieve until now and more.
While that isn't remotely surprising in 2011, when
studios have been comfortable
doing direct digital transfers on computer - animated
films for over a decade, it still is supremely satisfying, especially since the movie is one of the nicer - looking cartoons to hail from DreamWorks (or any non-Pixar
studio).
Giving the couple free reign (as long as they don't criticize the regime, that is), Kim became a
film studio boss and his charges had what every filmmaker on the planet craves, a greenlight for every project and the best possible resources at their disposal.
If the pilfering of «80s
films must continue (though ideally, it will stop, soon), the other
studios could learn a thing or two from what Paramount
did here with «Footloose.»
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.
It will be extremely hard for the
studio to match those figures in 2016, as many of its biggest franchises are sitting out the year and Universal's planned 21 -
film slate doesn't feature any sure - thing blockbuster hits aside from (maybe) a still - untitled Bourne sequel.
Why
did the
studio behind the year's highest - scoring
film (nine - time Oscar nominee 12 Years a Slave)-- and a fairly strong overall
film slate — finish 2013 with only the eighth - highest average Metascore?
That aspect of the
film is clearly in a fight with all the «why
did you come here» Syd Field motivational padding between its troubling setpieces, and it's a very
studio - suit move to assume that the only way to give «meaning» to a
film is to have people talk about it.
The 71st edition of the Cannes
Film Festival began with another Netflix controversy, as the upstart
studio pulled its
films (including Alfonso Cuarón's Roma and Orson Welles» recently completed final feature, The Other Side of the Wind) from the competition in response to Cannes banning any
film that
does not get a theatrical release in France.
A few
studios did release at least 7
film sin the U.S. last year but are not listed because some or all of their
films do not have Metascores.
There are striking similarities between certain, um, elements in this
film and «Avengers: Infinity War» — a fluke of timing, surely; the movies don't even share a
studio (yet).
Just when you thought we were
done with our review of the past year in
film (including our recent report on 2013's best and worst movies), we have one last look back to offer you: our annual evaluation of movie
studio performance.
Some of the idiocy that is being poked at for laughs doesn't seem so strange when you look at YouTube comments and E! Many of the things that are wrong with this
film stem from the fact that it is very low budgeted and didn't get much financing from its
studio.
The
studio did manage to raise its average Metascore by 10 full points in 2013, while going 6 - for - 10 with critics; back in 2012, by comparison, Paramount released only one positively reviewed
film.
At least that's what I assume, maybe I'm wrong, because the
studio seems to think that what we want are shots of Ana in various states of undress, which I'm all for, but I also don't think that's a great base for a
film.
The
studio did have one
film gross over $ 1 million in theaters: Kill the Irishman 50.
And the
studio was unable to launch a new superhero franchise in Green Lantern; though the
film grossed nearly $ 220 million worldwide, that didn't come close to making it profitable.
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.
This must be the age of bliss for Harry being he loves absolutly every movie he sees... it's fairly obvious he's being paid off, after the Batman And Robin fiasco (back when the site was pure)
studios realized how powerful this kinda site can be so they decided to give knowles a wad of cash to give their
films a good review... Only reason Star Trek Nemesis didn't get a good review was because Moriarty and others bashed Rick Berman so much he didn't wan na give them Money he was so insulted... everyone
do a favor and goto http://www.corona.bc.ca/
films it's a real movie lovers site withreal reviews and NEWS... no shit about how they got the news or that they think the
film reminds them of from their youth, just news..
The
studio did pick up an unexpected best picture nomination for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, however, though that
film doesn't really qualify as «good.»
Generally, when a movie
studio is trying to promote an upcoming
film, it doesn't make a big show of how much fun everybody had while making the movie.
It didn't take long to deduce why the big
studios didn't back this particular
film — it's horrid.
Due to
studio turnarounds, the
film didn't end up starting principal photography until March of 2015.
For those who don't know, most
studios use the fall
film festivals as a kind of launching pad for their big awards contenders.
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.
For Road Trip, the
studio also
does the decent thing by providing both the
film's theatrical and unrated cuts, heretofore only sold separately.
But before anyone gets ready to write off the movie, Padilha still believes he can make a good
film, but don't count on him returning to the
studio system any time soon.»
Apart from the occasional
studio interference, most
film editors are good at what they
do, hence the Academy Award in that category.
The million - dollar
film does not exist anymore; one - and - a-half to two million dollars is now the standard low - budget
film in the
studio system.
The slate of HD extra features comprises the usual
studio - sponsored assortment of interviews and B - roll highlighting what the filmmakers feel were the most impressive aspects of the production and post, plus some narrative material that didn't make it into the finished
film.
Fox announces their distrust of critics with this title by splaying «Property of 20th Century Fox Publicity Department» in huge letters across the screen for the duration of the
film on both sides of the disc (the first time a major studio has done so since DreamWorks sent out advanced copies of the Gladiator Signature Selection in 2000 — which is why you never saw a review of it at FILM FREAK CENTRAL), in turn prohibiting an ethical assessment of the im
film on both sides of the disc (the first time a major
studio has
done so since DreamWorks sent out advanced copies of the Gladiator Signature Selection in 2000 — which is why you never saw a review of it at
FILM FREAK CENTRAL), in turn prohibiting an ethical assessment of the im
FILM FREAK CENTRAL), in turn prohibiting an ethical assessment of the image.
It is a
studio film so I don't really know if there was any other way to end this
film without it feeling either farfetched or lazy or anticlimactic.
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 until a
film hits the ground
does a
studio realize a fix is needed, and finance sources inform us that with Last Knight «s reported production cost of $ 217M and a global take of $ 604M, it's generating a small loss.
Last year was the first since 2005 that Pixar
did not release a
film, but the animation
studio is making up for it 2015 with a pair of new titles: The Good Dinosaur (planned for November 25) and this month's Inside Out.
One of the
studio's bragging points that I read it in USA Today: Renée Zellweger doesn't wear the same article of clothing twice in the whole
film.
It wouldn't surprise me if that was true, because «The Legend of Tarzan» — a would - be event
film that happens to be pretty uneventful — has the air of a big budget movie whose
studio didn't realize its mistake until it was too late.
▪ Before
filming began, the actors «
did horse training, gun training, learning how to twirl and spin the guns,» director Antoine Fuqua said in a
studio statement.