Sentences with phrase «for film studios»

One room represents the nineteenth century, with a contemporary interior design and two cannons and a rifle from the Napoleonic era (props for film studios from Bapty & Co. Ltd., Stage and Film Warlike Stores).

If consumers embrace Premium Video On Demand, there could be significant upside for film studios.

«If consumers embrace Premium Video On Demand, there could be significant upside for film studios,» he says.

By 2020, this could mean an additional $ 2 billion for the film studio industry.

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.

Paramount Pictures today named highly regarded film marketing executive David Sameth as President of Worldwide Marketing for the film studio.

In it, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige basically gives his own, and Marvel Studios» origin stories, providing context for the film studio's rise and giving a glimpse into where Marvel is headed.

To make ends meet, he has a day job as a sales analyst for a film studio, but he thinks he may become a real estate agent if his music career doesn't take off.

Not exact matches

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.

On a visit to the DreamWorks studio, which produced animated films such as Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda, Mr Obama said Hollywood was a «bright spot» in the US economy and that movies such as Star Wars were a tool for American diplomacy around the world.

YouTube hasn't just been a place to upload amateur videos for some time now — currently the platform boasts a fleet of wildly profitable multi-channel networks that could very well become the film studios of the future.

This year, the studios are poised to release several films that should boost sales and profits for Hasbro, Mattel (MAT), Lego, and their smaller competitors.

Following a trail blazed by brands like Intel, it's redefining its offering from being a technical curiosity for movie studios to being the mark of films that matter, and a feature that consumers will demand.

What's ironic, however, is that Hollywood's nervousness over showing Putin on film seems at odds with its current Russian obsession, with studios searching high and low for scripts that can best capture the current political climate in all its fraught intrigue.

Private - equity firm Lantern Capital is the winning bidder for substantially all the assets of The Weinstein Company, the TV and film studio that filed for bankruptcy after co-founder Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault, The Weinstein Company said on Tuesday.

None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

The film rights for Marvel characters have long been divided between studios, as Polygon notes.

For LAIKA, the animation film studio behind Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, that meant working with Talkspace.

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.

Wang, whose group controls U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc and U.S. studio Legendary Entertainment, promised generous subsidies for film makers but indicated a focus on China's domestic film market.

Meanwhile, Paramount is already off to a rough start this year after the studio said in the fall that it would need to take a whopping $ 115 million writedown on its earnings for an unnamed 2017 film.

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.

This morning, Marvel, IMAX and Joe and Anthony Russo revealed that the studio's two - part «The Avengers: Infinity War» will be shot «in their entirety» using IMAX cameras, a first for the film industry.

Killer Content said on Monday that a bankruptcy may be the best way forward for the U.S. film and TV studio.

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.

The 40 - year - old entertainer said in a court filing late Tuesday that the stacks of cash in the photos are actually prop money, which is specially made for the studio lighting used in filming music videos and photo shoots.

This season brings box office mega-bucks for movie studios, but you too can cash in on the film industry's marketing tactics.

(Avnet said the studio created a real website to build a mythology for the film's titular «Sickhouse,» a fictional home they gave a frightening backstory, while encouraging the movie's stars to casually drop mentions of the fake legend in the days leading up to the Snapchat release.)

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.

Around this time, business magnate Marcus Loew and film producer Samuel Goldwyn merged companies to form Metro - Goldwyn film studios for which Mayer was asked to head.

Other studios have had mixed results with the Marvel characters they own (see: Fox's 2015 Fantastic Four reboot), but Deadpool «s success could pave the way for that character to find his way into future films from the successful X-Men series, to which 20th Century Fox also holds the rights.

While there's no definitive plans to remake those three films, studio CEO Jim Robinson has confirmed that all three are being toyed around with for active development.

While the libraries of every film are up for grabs, the studio has retained the rights to remake certain properties in the mix.

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.

On Thursday, Deadline cited a Hollywood consultant who suggested that the studio needs to screen The Birth of a Nation for as many viewers as possible so that the public can judge the film based on its content more than its creator.

Given that Parker is the star and primary creator of the movie, it would be virtually impossible for the studio to promote the film without his involvement.

His $ 37 - billion deal in 2009 to combine General Electric Co's NBCUniversal business and Comcast's cable networks put him in charge of more than 20 million subscribers of video, internet and voice services, the broadcast network known for «Friends» and «Seinfeld,» plus theme parks and the film studio.

Independent of Lucasfilm and its parent company, Disney, ILM provides visual effects services for films from all the major movie studios.

The trigger for the latest Redstone family feud, according to several sources, was a dispute over corporate governance issues — such as Shari's effort to more closely tie executive compensation to performance — at Viacom (viab) and CBS (cbs), a media empire that encompasses MTV, the CBS broadcast network, the Paramount film studio and the pay - TV channel Showtime.

Behind the scenes, Hollywood film studios, which had never been keen on Netflix, began raising the fees to license movies for Internet streaming, or Netflix was prevented from acquiring certain titles because the Internet rights were already locked up by other outlets.

New Form Incubator, the studio's name for the creative venture, will develop and fund 14 short films, three to 10 minutes in length, produced by YouTube stars such as Joey Graceffa, Joe Penna of MysteryGuitarMan and Sawyer Hartman, who have 3.6 million, 2.8 million and 1.7 million subscribers, respectively.

Redstone was so upset about the disappointing performance of Mission: Impossible III, which grossed almost $ 100 million less than the previous installment, he blamed Cruise and his controversial behavior leading up to the film's release for costing the studio money.

Until the axe came down, I'm told British action game studio Ninja Theory had been working on material based on December's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, while Studio Gobo, a studio largely known for external Disney Infinity development, riffed on the upcoming Disney animated film Moana.

Soon - to - be actor Sara Ali Khan was spotted during a look test for her upcoming film at a Goregaon film studio yesterday

Private equity firm Lantern Capital is the winning bidder for substantially all the assets of the Weinstein Company, the TV and film studio that filed for bankruptcy after co-founder Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault, the Weinstein Company said on Tuesday.

The excellent blog China Film Insider (if you want to know what is happening in the film scene in China, this is the blog to read) reports that net box office revenue from China is still a «drop in the bucket» for the studios overall compared to revenues from North America and international markets ex China.

Netflix signed on with the pay TV network five years ago, but it hasn't had exclusive streaming rights for those studios» films since 2012, when Amazon signed its own Epix 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.

(Reuters)- Private equity firm Lantern Capital is the winning bidder for substantially all the assets of the Weinstein Company, the TV and film studio that filed for bankruptcy after co-founder Harvey..

Just like film studio distribution now puts extra emphasis on a film's overseas take, international markets may be crucial for investors looking for returns to supplement domestically driven ones.