Sentences with phrase «first film finance»

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Braid would be the first feature film fully financed this way, its makers say, potentially opening up film production to a wider world of emerging talents and prospective investors.

After the Jesus film, Heyman helped finance Grease, Home Alone, Saturday Night Fever, Awakenings, the first of the Star Trek movies, and others.

First released as an underground film, it was thanks to John Lennon that the film was acquired by Allen Klein of ABKCO, who bought the rights to «El Topo» and then financed Alejandro Jodorowsky's next film «The Holy Mountain.»

This film is so bad that I went through it asking myself who financed this **** in the first place.

The Scottish director had never met Phoenix before the weeks of furiously prepping her first American film — needing to take advantage of a small summer opening in Phoenix's packed schedule, just one month after having secured financing at the Cannes Film Festival — but he more than confirmed her instincts that he would be perfect for the role.

Stoppard notched another «first» when he agreed to step behind the camera as director in order to secure financing for the 1990 film adaptation of his own Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

In film school they usually advise students making first features to avoid period pieces at all costs because they're difficult to make and hard to get financing for.

The Lobster is being financed by Film4, Bord Scannan na hEireann / Irish Film Board, the BFI Film Fund (the first film through its minority co-production strand), Eurimages, Greek Film Centre, CNC, the Dutch Film Fund and Canal +.

The second one, Francis Coppola was my assistant, and I financed his first film.

Brian Oliver's new film financing and production company has a first - look co-financing deal at Paramount

We financed Blood Simple, our first film, ourselves, and Circle Films in Washington produced the three next ones.

Screen Daily reports that Millennium Films is producing and financing London Has Fallen, with Focus Features onboard to distribute the film in the U.S. Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, and Radha Mitchell will reprise their roles from the first film, with the story now revolving around a plot to strike London during the funeral of the British Prime Minister.

Hartley was encouraged by the success which he had a couple of years ago with his first Kickstarter campaign to finance the distribution for his film «Meanwhile.»

Amin eventually meets a producer who offers to finance his first film, which presents the young man with numerous choices that could change his life.

MRC is producing and financing the sequel, which is expected to be released by Universal Pictures, the distributor of the first film.

Not only did she create a sumptuous historical epic with independent financing (it marked the first film co-production with Russia), she also retained the wit and tongue - in - cheek lightness of the original, expanding Woolf's story into the 20th century as well.

In addition to discussing the origins of the film (including a funny anecdote about his first meeting with Ryan Gosling), Refn talks in length about securing independent financing, casting the actors and more.

The partnership will have the first option to provide financing for Space Rocket films.

Back when director Tom Hooper first read and fell for Lucinda Coxon «s script for The Danish Girl, it was considered a hard film to finance, but now it's as timely as ever.

It's not every television series that concludes its first season with references to a minor - key classic Francis Ford Coppola film, Randian economics, and the punk band Titus Andronicus, but Showtime's Billions is a breed apart — a complex drama about ego and obsession filtered through the world of New York high finance.

Financed by the Irish Film Board, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, RTÉ and the BBC, the film focuses on Ger McDonnell, the first Irish person to reach the top of K2.

The film came close to production with Philip Kaufman directing and David Strathairn starring, only for financing to fall apart, but it got her a job on another factually - based space movie, «Capture The Flag,» as well as a third, Neil Armstrong biopic «First Man» at Universal.

The film was one of the first financed by the South Australian Film Corporation, a government - funded entity created to give Australia's flagging film industry a shot in the arm.

On the upside, In the first major film financing deal to hit Hollywood since the economic downturn, Village Roadshow Pictures Group on Thursday closed on a $ 1 billion credit facility to finance its current and future slate of movies.

«English Teacher» marks the first pic Artina has assembled through its new financing apparatus, which includes an exclusive alliance with Procinvest, a French film financing fund.

Opening an eye to racial tensions in a small Mississippi town, this enlightening film tracks events culminating in the high school's first integrated prom, financed by actor Morgan Freeman.

- $ 80 million China - U.S. co-production - handled by Threshold Global Studios, a new banner formed by Bruno Wu and producer Larry Kasanoff - team - up between Kasanoff's Threshold Entertainment Group and Wu's Seven Star Works - Mortal Kombat producer Kasanoff is in Cannes speaking with international sales agents - team has been working with The Tetris Company for over a year - financing has been secured - plan is to film in China and other locations in 2017 - billed as a sci - fi thriller - film is seen as the first part of a trilogy - Threshold's Jimmy Lenner is executive producing with The Tetris Company and Seven Stars

(Editor's Note: The new skeptical film follows a suggestion first outlined in an internal coal industry memo in 2006 to finance and promote a film which countered «An Inconvenient Truth.»

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