Sentences with phrase «from film studios»

What can we expect from film studios deeply committed to marketing pre-existing brands beyond creative death due to excessive nostalgia?

On Monday, the startup unveiled a new toy robot that former animators from film studios like DreamWorks (dwa) and Pixar helped design.

Sorry I'm Late sees work installed across the building with firstsite's galleries dramatically transformed into a series of environments — from a film studio to a restaurant kitchen.

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.

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).

Its Paramount movie studio also saw somewhat lackluster results from its recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film release.

One more thing Netflix has over traditional studios: It is so good at cloud computing that it has put its «studio in the cloud,» Hunt says, and uses cloud computing to do everything from managing logistics (like union drivers delivering cameras to a location) to film editing (uploading the footage to be edited immediately in another country).

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.

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.

In short, the studio approach to filmmaking is a far cry from the ragtag process many independent films follow.

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.

Schilowitz gave me a tour of the studios, pointing to where scenes from Spider - Man had been filmed.

Instead, black - and - white stills from Warner Bros. films adorn the walls (Cineplex struck an exclusivity deal with the studio on the decor).

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.

Sometimes, films leak straight from the studios, which send out hundreds of pre-release DVD «screeners» to awards guilds, reviewers and other industry professionals; these can be used to create high - quality bootlegs.

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

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.

The Weinstein Co's sale documents need to make clear the bankrupt film studio will defend Lionsgate Entertainment Corp in intellectual property disputes stemming from two horror movies, Lionsgate said on Thursday in court papers.

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.

If the movie theaters ever make a bigger profit, even from concessions, the studios can just raise the price of film rental.

Adding to that, Dr. Johnson said, «It is a significant and welcome development when a leading Hollywood studio like Paramount makes a major film about a story from the Bible.»

In contrast, it is a significant development when a major Hollywood studio like Paramount makes a film about a story from the Bible.

In a way, the studios pretty much decide ahead of time which films they want to push for getting those nominations from other Hollywood insiders, and as a result, some of the best films of the year can get ignored.

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

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.

Perhaps the most shocking statistic of the study was in the analysis of the speaking parts that appeared in 2014 studio films and live - action scripted TV shows from the 2014 — 15 season.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

Another stop - motion animation film released in 2016, Kubo and the Two Strings comes from the same studio that brought us The Boxtrolls, Paranorman, and Coraline.

Mark Reinfeld from Vegan Fusion has released a 14 minute pilot filmed in London, an in - studio segment from the upcoming Vegan Fusion Culinary Travel Show series.

Creativity will be the keyword of the evening as it will feature film screening and original live music with the performance of composer Pete Drungle on archive images from Gaumont film studio.

It's next door to where most of the Harry Potter scenes were filmed, and this studio holds nearly every costume, prop and set from the film.

We bring in crafting talent from all over the blogosphere frequently to film the latest and greatest quick and easy craft tutorials in our studio!

I had the privilege of watching this film on the Disney lot, and afterwards going behind the scenes at Disney Animation studios to learn a little bit about how the film was made from story to art to animation.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The state's $ 15 million film hub in DeWitt has hired a film industry veteran from China as its studio manager.

«New York is home to world - class entertainment talent and opportunities, and this historic commitment from Disney and Marvel Television studios underscores our position as the film and television capital of the world,» Cuomo said.

Cor Development Co. is seeking to evict the Central New York film hub from its building in DeWitt, saying the state - run studio has fallen nearly $ 1 million behind in its rent.

Cuomo, who has positioned himself for a potential 2020 presidential run, has raised $ 110,400 from Weinstein or his film studio.

After rehashing the movie the next day at the studio, I began working closely with our editorial team to round up all our favorite styles from films that take place in another era.

, but the decision makes you wonder if it was necessary for Warner Bros. to buy Midway Games for $ 33 million in 2009, or if this film's premise is so generic that the studio could have just made it from scratch.

While that isn't remotely surprising in 2011, when studios have been comfortable doing direct digital transfers on computer - animated films for over a decade, it still is supremely satisfying, especially since the movie is one of the nicer - looking cartoons to hail from DreamWorks (or any non-Pixar studio).

He made his first appearance in an American film in Victor Halperin's grisly thriller Torture Ship, playing one of the criminals on whom well - intentioned (but quite mad) scientist Irving Pichel plans to perform glandular experiments, but he soon moved up to higher budgeted films from the major studios, although still almost inevitably in sinister roles.

Since then, Rodriguez has become a movie factory unto himself, churning out entries in his charming Spy Kids series from a homemade studio while assuming more duties with each film.

If the pilfering of «80s films must continue (though ideally, it will stop, soon), the other studios could learn a thing or two from what Paramount did here with «Footloose.»

This is studio filmmaking 101 and needs to be abolished from todays films, there is no need for such a boring film to exist and it wastes the talents of each actor.

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.

But even at a scant 90 minutes, the film manages to cover a lot of ground, hopping around from interviews to live footage, the highlights of which are a live studio take of «Higgs Bossom Blues,» a 9 minute epic whose slithering slow build plays out uninterrupted and the finale, a blistering live performance of «Jubilee Street» featuring a string section and children's choir, intercut with scenes of Cave onstage over the years.

However, despite releasing more films than any other major studio, Lionsgate earned the bulk of that money from just one title: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which has collected over $ 850 million to date.

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.

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.

Just three of the studio's 15 films received positive reviews from critics (and one of those, only by a nose), putting Universal in the bottom half among the major distributors in terms of quality — not surprising, given that its 2014 slate wasn't exactly deep in Oscar - worthy films.