Sentences with phrase «film studios last»

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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.

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.

Last year, a small movie studio even released what it claimed to be the first scripted feature film ever shot and released entirely on the messaging app.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Fox is one of just two of the «Big Six» film studios that can actually boast of improving on last summer's receipts.

The film's performance all but proved that the studio's last film, «The Rise of the Guardians» low gross was an anomaly.

The film that triggered the devastating cyberattack on the studio last month, which the United States says was launched by North Korea, opened Thursday in 331 independent theaters with a $ 1 million box office and $ 1.8 million over the subsequent three days, according to Sony.

So Paramount, in the wake of a disappointing 2017 that saw big budget films like Transformers: The Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell underperform while the studio's would - be Oscar hopefuls Suburbicon and Downsizing were DOA at awards season, is looking to make some changes in 2018 and selling God Particle off to Netflix may be a cushy deal.

Redstone's move to merge CBS and Viacom, AT&T's bid for Time Warner and Disney's play for Fox's film studios are all grand, last - ditch efforts to defend against tech, not each other.

It was also the last animated feature from the studio to be filmed entirely from hand - inked cels.

Cuomo's $ 15 million high - tech film studio in Onondaga County was completed last summer, but sits essentially vacant and has exactly two employees who work full time.

Forster finds a nice way of visualizing this last quirk by showing Harold surrounded by shifting diagrams and mathematical equations, but in one of the film's many missteps, these visual effects show up only sporadically throughout the rest of the story, as if the filmmakers couldn't decide to either fully utilize them or get rid of them after paying the special effects studio a lot of money to create something so nifty - looking.

While I understand the studios desire to squeeze every last dollar out of the franchise, they should have made one exceptionally good film instead of taking the risk of separating the material.

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.

Much like last year and the year before, this year's Movie Studio Report Card evaluates both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of 2011.

And Paramount earned best picture nominations for its two highest - scoring films last year, Alexander Payne's Nebraska and Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street; in all, the studio collected 13 nominations, trailing only Warner Bros. and Sony.

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.

Pixar's last two films — 2011's Cars 2 57 and last year's Brave 69 — were the lowest - scoring and (adjusting for inflation) lowest - grossing of the animation studio's impressive history.

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.

Best animated film nominee The Croods, Fox's highest - grossing film last year (though with just $ 587 million worldwide, good for 11th place overall), was one of just two Oscar nominations for the studio (the other came for John Williams» Book Thief score).

The studio's total of four positively reviewed films last year was just half of its 2012 total.

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.

Warners» success rate (of films receiving positive reviews from critics) dropped from 39 % in 2014 to just 16 % last year, while the studio's average Metascore declined by four points.

And, though the studio was shut out of the best picture nominations for the first time since 2010, it still picked up five nominations in other categories for films such as Before Midnight (one of critics» favorites last year) and Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine.

Though he made a pair of low - budget film noirs, Kubrick made his first professional studio movie with The Killing, a tautly - paced heist thriller centered on Johnny Clay, a veteran criminal (Sterling Hayden) planning one last heist before settling down to marriage.

Ranked 8th among all studios (by average Metascore) in 2013, Fox Searchlight shot up to # 3 last year by avoiding any negatively reviewed films and impressing critics with best picture nominees Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The only good thing about this film is that it is the last in a series that was once great, but that with every film the studio made, the ideas would start to feel strained, and that simply made the series a tad too silly.

While the Future of Studio Ghibli hangs in limbo, Mami Sunada's Documentary is an eye opening film delving into the mind of the studio's founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata on the verge of producing their last ever features.

Unlike in 2010, Magnolia released a couple of critical failures last year, but the studio still scored a solid average of 60.5 despite releasing so many films.

The studio also released just one critical dud (I Am Number Four, also a bit of a box office failure) last year after releasing three such films in 2010.

Though the studio's average Metascore was actually a few points higher in 2011 than in 2010 — and though it placed third among the major studios in overall quality — Warner films generally failed to excite critics last year, with only the Harry Potter film, Steven Soderbergh's Contagion, and the Steve Carell rom - com Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Because that film business is very sick indeed; Fox was the only major studio not to reach $ 1 billion in domestic grosses last year, and its U.S. receipts dropped an astounding 34 % compared to 2010.

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.

By comparison, IFC is the only other distributor with as many high - scoring films last year, but that studio released over twice as many titles as Sony Classics.

In other Marvel news, Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon has expressed regret about comments made about the film and his relationship with the studio last year.

Allen's next - to - last movie shot in Manhattan was his last made under the auspices of DreamWorks (hence his last «studio film»).

I can't wait to write my review, but suffice it to say that it's unlike any film you'll see this year, just as its probably one of the last gasps of this kind of film from a major studio, where the shock and awe comes from expert artistry of the hand drawn variety rather than CGI (which Scorsese mastered in Hugo).

However, it's still too overly detailed with useless subplots (Dwarf / Elf love triangle), extra characters that were not in the book, and the sense that this last film was just unnecessarily stretched out just because the studio decided to make three films instead of just two.

The studio released a statement finally proclaiming that Singer will no longer direct the project after clashes with star Rami Malek («Mr. Robot») and numerous absences that shut down filming last week.

If this could perform on the order of Nanny McPhee ($ 47.1 M in 2006), perhaps the last commendable family film to open in January, or The Giver ($ 45 M), Weinstein's last literary adaptation, the studio should probably be pleased.

Secret's box office prospects are tough to read, being that it is only the second film released by STX Entertainment, a studio founded last year by Robert Simonds, a veteran producer of Adam Sandler and Steve Martin comedies.

Following the success of last year's Million Dollar Arm, which was pretty decent, and previous efforts like Cool Runnings (brilliant), Invincible (okay) and even Remember The Titans with Denzel Washington (decent), the studio presents McFarland, a film named after one of the poorest towns in California, situated just north of Los Angeles.

Last week at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, I got to attend the Universal Pictures presentation where the studio world premiered some fantastic looking footage from their upcoming slate of films.

After a breakthrough performance in the 2013 independent film «Short Term 12,» she has been making more studio films, playing Amy Schumer's little sister in last summer's comedy «Trainwreck,» and getting cast in «Kong: Skull Island,» due next March.

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.

Broad Green pulled Lucy Walker's film from Sundance at the last second, but that's one issue among many for the struggling indie studio.

The second and the last studio film was Dune, which he went into knowing that he wouldn't have final cut, but assuming it would work out okay in the end anyway.

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.

Not only are «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» and «Blade Runner 2049» some of the very best films of 2017, but from the no - budget indie realm («Prevenge,» «A Ghost Story,» «Transfiguration,» «Raw») to expensive studio epic scale («War for the Planet of the Apes,» «Kong: Skull Island») and newly blazed ground out of the predominantly formulaic superhero («Logan,» «Wonder Woman,» «LEGO Batman») and Star Wars («The Last Jedi») factory farms, fantasy filmmakers tried their hardest to be smart, visually adroit, sometimes startlingly innovative and — strangest of all for this escapist format — humanely, emotionally credible.

But first, «Paul Newman at Fox» (27 mins., HD) reviews Newman's tenure at the studio, meaning it doesn't really delve into his later years since the narrative stops at 1982's The Verdict, his last film for Fox.