Sentences with phrase «for bigger studios»

Eons ago, I used to own a little recording studio that did duplication work for bigger studios, back in the days when you would buy your music on cassette tapes.

It's a niche of game so fresh and poorly explored for bigger studios and they made something really incredible.

«In the face of massive marketing for big studio films, it is the ultimate underdogs who have emerged as critic's darlings and fan favorites,» said Tim Gordon, president of WAFCA.

Liman, nevertheless, has proven surprisingly adept at moving from major features for big studios to smaller, more political fair like The Wall and Fair Game.

He'd done more work than a lot of the other independent directors that made the leap, having made three features (Brick, The Brothers Bloom and Looper) and directed some very well received episodes of Breaking Bad, but it's hard to imagine any of that adequately prepared him for directing the middle chapter of the new trilogy in biggest franchise in movie history for the biggest studio on the planet.

Whereas in the past game making was the recluse of a few wizard programmers doing insane things like Dwarf Fortress or large teams working for big studios, now more than ever small teams are releasing games and some of them finding success.

For every big studio that closes, a handful of new ones emerge, each focusing on fewer, smaller titles.

We were there in the early nineties, guns for hire making games for the big studios to fund our own crazy ideas.

Not exact matches

And while they highlight celebrity endorsements for big companies (with the exception of Rebecca Minkoff, who was making clothes out of her studio apartment at the time), the good business lessons learned from setting up and cashing in on such high - vis endorsement deals can easily be applied to small companies.

Add ReBoot to the mix and you've got a lot of big projects for a not - so - big studio.

«From the start we had a bigger vision of disrupting the digital and media industries,» says CEO Rory Armes, better known as the founder Radical Entertainment, for many years the No. 2 video game studio in Vancouver behind Electronic Arts (it was sold to Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2005 and reduced to a software support office in 2012).

Of course, some of the nominated films are still in theaters, and winning a big haul at the Academy Awards is known to result in a bump at movie theaters, which is all the more reason for studios to pull out all the stops in their awards - season marketing efforts.

But for Paramount, the studio's success will largely be defined by movie ticket sales as well as the number of big blockbuster and tentpole film franchises it can churn out.

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.

That's how it beat out bigger - spending studios for the rights to The Hunger Games, by letting author Suzanne Collins write the script.

Gree, a big - name Japanese mobile developer, started hiring staff for a Vancouver studio in July.

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

Its biggest studio, in Burnaby, is responsible for several of its biggest sports franchises, including FIFA and NHL.

Her studio renovates offices for Silicon Valley's biggest names, including Facebook, Yelp, Square and Evernote.

Amazon's «Transparent», a comedy - drama series about a transgender father, won the award for the Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation in 2010.

VR developers at studios big and small are speaking out against Oculus, which Facebook bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion.

For Wang, the deal is the latest example underscoring his ambitions to expand a burgeoning entertainment empire that owns the second - largest U.S. movie - theater chain and is building the world's biggest studio - plus - theme park.

In fact, Rob Norman, chief digital officer at GroupM, the world's largest media buyer, says that he doesn't know of any instances of movie studios — among the biggest spenders for both YouTube and TV advertising — pulling campaigns in the wake of the dustup.

This would be a big shift in the business model of feature - film distribution for both the major studios and the theater chains.

Isn't a room designated for creativity supposed to be messy???! I hope some day you get your dream studio, with lots of shelves, a big window with an inspirational view... each corner serving it's own purpose.

Thank you for not doing some big studio shoot for the book.

It may be just a coincidence that Arsenal put on the best away performance in a really big game for years on the same day that our former striker, record goal scorer and all round legend Thierry Henry was in the TV studio for the first time to give his verdict.

An average day for me starts at 9 am with breakfast and a big cup of tea, and usually I'll catch up on a few of my favourite blogs before settling down in the studio at around 10 am.

That's on my list of things to include in my dream house (which also includes a sauna, big windows, a pottery studio, heated floors and a room for yoga).

Tucked away in the secret studios of some of the biggest fashion houses, this young freelancer created some of Ellery's most structured jewelry and the minimal earrings for Lemaire, which we love.

Last month, MM and I were in the Big Apple for a project with Hugo Boss and we had the honor of watching Jason Wu work his magic in the design studio.

The biggest reason for this is because of big - name studios pumping out sequels and spinoffs that are uninspired, poorly coded, unplayable disasters that they know people will buy just because it's got their favorite character from their childhood in it.

I am currently in school for computer animation and hope to some day work for a big animation studio!

Even if you can meet up a weekly discrete hookup, like, yesterday, you can find a fuck my place with big ass play studio which match her clients, usually employed to rate a dating sites for those who pays a call girls and seek.

Yates, mostly known for his work on British television, started out as a low - cost alternative to big name Hollywood directors, with many at the studio seeing him as a stopgap until they could secure Guillermo del Toro (or whoever).

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

The good news is that Coogler has proven he can play in the big boys» house, and there's no excuse for studios to pass on more personal projects he has in the pipeline.

Most big studio fantasies take you out for a joy ride only to hit the same exhausted story and franchise - expanding beats.

Director Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station & Creed) enters «the big leagues» with Marvel's Black Panther, a somewhat monumental feat for the studio that has mostly featured films that skew towards the white male demographic.

That film was also the year's biggest box office flop from a major studio, boasting one of the worst opening weekends in history ($ 306,367) for a nationwide release.

Just on a technical level, the film represents such a big jump forward for Saulnier that you should expect the studios to immediately start arguing over which giant soulless franchise should occupy his time in the near - future.

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.

The big - studio romantic comedy has become so intractably set in its ways that there's no longer hope for true innovation; competent replication of clichés is now a best - case scenario.

Unless titles like the belated sequels Bridget Jones's Baby and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 and videogame adaptation Warcraft perform far beyond expectations, 2016 could be one long hangover for the studio.

On some of those fronts, the film wildly misfires, but for a wide studio release headlined by one of Hollywood's biggest stars, Red Sparrow is an admirably bold effort.

When Shrek was released, it was a big gamble for a studio that was still finding its feet in a marketplace that was still in its infancy.

I'm happy to live in a future where studios pay big money for sexy - violent meditations on the slippery state of humanity — and there's a real promise for far - out further seasons — but right now Altered Carbon is all sleeve and no stack.

The obligatory cash - in sequel is simple with animated flicks - get the big names back in the studio for a couple of days of voice work and watch the cash roll in.

Not as big a moneymaker as Harold's starring features of the 1920s, the RKO film nonetheless turned a tidy profit for the studio.

Farnsworth's studio years were fairly lucrative; in addition to working with directors ranging from Cecil B. De Mille and Sam Peckinpah, it was not unusual for the stunt man to receive a bigger paycheck than the actors for whom he doubled.