Sentences with phrase «film studios including»

For the first time in over a decade, all the major film studios including Paramount, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Disney (and their partners at DreamWorks, Marvel Entertainment and Pixar) and Universal were represented at CinemaCon 2012, the annual convention of NATO (National Association of Theater Owners) that is the largest and most important gathering of cinema owners and operators from around the world.

Not exact matches

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

So, the studio's biggest question mark of the year will be November's Justice League, which will bring together several superheroes from that universe of films, including Wonder Woman as well as Batman and Superman.

While the studios command 80 % of Canada's roughly billion - dollar theatrical market, the remaining 20 % includes all Canadian films, plus some of the most successful recent independent releases, from The Hunger Games to The King's Speech.

It's a path that includes the relatively low overhead of shooting a film entirely via a mobile device and an app (the studio said Sickhouse «s budget was similar to that of a typical indie film) while potentially tapping into various social networking platforms» massive built - in audiences of users.

After the acquisition, DreamWorks Animation will become part of NBCUniversal's Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes its Illumination Entertainment animation business — which produced the popular Despicable Me and Minions movies — as well as the Universal Pictures movie studio.

The attack shut down most of the studio's network for more than a week and hackers have released sensitive data over the Internet, including employee salaries and Social Security numbers along with high - quality digital versions of several unreleased films.

Of course, movie studios aren't keen to see this happen, and will include anti-piracy measures with the films to try and prevent it.

Jack Horner, a spokesman for Warner Bros., the studio releasing the film, said in a statement that the company, a unit of Time Warner Co, «denounces any violent, anti-Muslim rhetoric, including that which has been attributed to viewers» of the film.

DreamWorks Animation, the studio behind beloved family movies like «Shrek» and «Kung - Fu Panda» that is headed by CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, will become part of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, specifically the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes Universal Pictures, Fandango, and NBCUniversal Brand Development.

Iger crowed about «the quality of the assets» Disney is picking up in the deal, which includes Fox's film and TV studio, along with various cable networks and regional sports networks as well as Fox's stake in Hulu (giving Disney majority control of the streaming service).

Of course, movie studios aren't happy to see these screener leaks happen — and will include anti-piracy measures with the films to try and prevent it.

The former, which sells and installs beehives at various company locations, has inked contracts with clients including Delta and Chick - fil - A, while the latter works with film studios and directors including Darren Aronofsky — charging them as much as $ 50,000 a pop — to make a film or television production more ecologically friendly.

An Orange spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday that the company denies a recent unsourced report by French magazine Challenges that Orange had reached a deal with Vivendi that would include Orange buying a stake in Telecom Italia — the Rome - based telecom in which Vivendi has a 24.9 % stake — and buying up to 20 % of the film and television production studio Canal Plus Group.

The assets on the table include the 20th Century Fox film and TV studio, the FX Networks, Nat Geo Channels group, 22 regional sports networks, Fox's collection of international channels, including Star India, and its 39 % stake in Sky.

The entertainment giant will get Fox's film and TV studios, which includes the «Avatar» franchise, its regional sports networks, its international businesses and Fox's 30 percent stake in Hulu, giving Disney a majority of the streaming service.

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.

Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

Preferring self - regulation to the threat of government censorship, studios voluntarily abided by the rules of the code, which detailed the moral obligations of film art and included guidelines on which subjects should be avoided in films and which should be handled respectfully.

Lindsay - Hogg is the eminent film, television and theatre director whose work includes the 1970 Beatles documentary Let It Be, about the band's recording of their final studio album, while Della Sciucca is a writer, director, designer and illustrator.

Her credits include a feature film released by a Hollywood studio and several documentaries about childbirth; DOULA!

The defendants in that case include Alain Kaloyeros, former president and CEO of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, who's accused of rigging bids for a $ 750,000 contract tied to that project and $ 105 million in contracts for a film studio and manufacturing plant near Syracuse.

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.

Diaz brought up several new developments on their way to The Bronx as evidence of the borough's economic potential, including the Kingsbridge National Ice Center, a new television and film studio coming to Soundview, and a $ 550 million, two million square foot office expansion at the Hutchinson Metro Center.

The living inductees will include autism and livestock advocate Temple Grandin, philanthropist and makeup entrepreneur Victoria Jackson, film studio executive Sherry Lansing, actress Aimee Mullins, three - star Marine Gen. Carol Mutter and chef Alice Waters.

While studios can lobby for their films to be included in that quota, there is no magic formula that guarantees distribution.

Other large projects include York Studios» $ 59 million film and television studio at 1410 Story Avenue and Young Woo's $ 43 million revamp of the old post office at 558 Grand Concourse.

Ben Nabors is a filmmaker and founder of -LCB- GROUP THEORY -RCB-, a collaboration - driven production studio; his films include William and the Windmill, Palimpsest, and The Happy Film.

Apfel also directed films for other studios including Selig.

Like the J.G. Ballard novel that inspired it, David Cronenberg's study of the sexual dimension of man's relationship to technology was a magnet for controversy, drawing a NC - 17 rating and criticism from several sources, including studio owner Ted Turner, who attempted to prevent the film's American release.

Lee Phelps was a longtime resident of Culver City, California, the home of several film studios, including MGM and Hal Roach.

Per - Film Average is the average domestic gross for all new films released nationwide by the studio in 2013, and includes additional 2014 domestic box office grosses through January 20, 2014 for those 2013 films that are still playing in theaters.

** Per - Film is the average domestic gross per new film released nationwide by the studio in 2015, and includes additional 2016 domestic box office grosses through January 24, 2016 for any 2015 releases that are still playing in theaters.

There are no obvious hits in its lineup, though the studio has once again enlisted major or critically acclaimed directors, including Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum (for the sci - fi film Passengers), Paul Feig (for a female Ghostbusters reboot), Antoine Fuqua (a Magnificent Seven remake co-written by True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto), Ron Howard (Inferno), and Ang Lee (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk).

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.

They were also better than those of any other major studio, leaving Disney the only one of the seven majors to receive a grade higher than a C. Interestingly, Disney's three Marvel - related films (including Big Hero 6, which is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe) were not just the studio's highest - grossing releases, but were also the highest - scoring Disney films with critics.

And the studio met or exceeded the 81 mark with four films, including the year's best - reviewed foreign film, Blue Is the Warmest Color.

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.

Per - Film Average is the average domestic gross for all new films released by the studio in 2012, and includes additional 2013 domestic box office grosses through February 6, 2013 for those films that are still in theaters.

Even including the studio's few misfires (The Fifth Estate, Delivery Man, The Lone Ranger), Disney grossed on average more than $ 170 million per release in the U.S. alone; no other studio averaged over $ 100 million per film.

And, out of all distributors (including the indies), only six managed to avoid releasing a single negatively reviewed film last year — that's down from 10 such studios the previous year.

** Per - Film is the average domestic gross per new film released nationwide by the studio in 2014, and includes additional 2015 domestic box office grosses through January 19, 2015 (including estimates for the holiday weekend of January 16 - 19) for any 2014 releases that are still playing in theaters.

Per - Film Average is the average domestic gross for all new films released by the studio in 2011, and includes additional 2012 domestic box office grosses through January 31, 2012 for those films that are still in theaters.

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.

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).

That list includes the studio's unnecessary remake of Arthur, stylized action film Sucker Punch, and the animated Happy Feet Two.

The service has films licensed from major studios — Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. — as well as indie distributors including Janus Films, Flicker Alley, Icarus Films, Kino, Milestone, Zeitgeist, Film Movement, Global Lens, First Run Features, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Shout Factory.

At the moment a direct movie adaptation of the comic can't be made by any film studio due to rights issues; several major characters who appear in the comic (including Hawkeye and the Incredible Hulk) are part of Marvel's Avengers film franchise, and therefore aren't available to be used as part of the X-Men movie franchise.

Due to repeated studio interference from Miramax, including the indignity of not receiving final cut, del Toro was unhappy with the film on its initial release, but he eventually released an approved Director's Cut in 2011, the version watched for this review.

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.