Sentences with phrase «from independent studios»

Multiple exhibitors sold out of their products, from independent studios to some of the more established creators.

Some of the best games out in the wild are those from independent studios like this, so we were happy to give this game a go and see if it was a rare gem among the larger games.

Week after week, games from independent studios are filling the gaps between Nintendo's heavy - hitters, and doing so with aplomb.

In the end, this race seems to always get back to Spotlight being the winner, even with the things about it that make it seem like it might not: 1) being released from an independent studio, which would be only the 4th time in 88 years of Oscar history.

Heavy Rain pushed the medium forward in terms of narrative, but I think its biggest achievement was being a new IP, from an independent studio, exclusive to one platform, and sell millions.

Ambiance, however, can only go so far, let alone from an independent studio anything but bursting with money.

From independent studio Pathea Games and published by Team 17, My Time At Portia has recently released via Steam Early Access, and we've set sail to Portia to [Continue Reading]

From independent studio Pathea Games and published by Team 17, My Time At Portia has recently released via Steam Early Access, and we've set sail to Portia to see what it's all about.

While the intriguing mental health story basis grabbed my interest, the feature that kept the game in the back of my mind all this time was the label «AAA quality from an independent studio».

The game's producer Tetsuya Mizuguchi went on to acquire a cult following for console games such as Space Channel 5, Rez and eventually games such as Lumines from his independent studio Q?

A lot of care has gone into this game, and it's easy to forget that it really comes from an independent studio.

Not exact matches

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.

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

Delete emails from studios begging to sign the most successful independent artist of this generation and most others?

Fantastic Fest showcases eight days of genre cinema from independents, international filmmakers and major Hollywood studios.

Horn Cable TV Is An Independent Media Institution from studios Around The World featuring The Horn Of Africa

From major studios to independents, from big budget to small, the quality of films this year was excellent and the entertainment, artistic and substantive value hFrom major studios to independents, from big budget to small, the quality of films this year was excellent and the entertainment, artistic and substantive value hfrom big budget to small, the quality of films this year was excellent and the entertainment, artistic and substantive value high.

Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola, arguably the two pivotal figures of American cinema in the 1970s, both rose from the turmoil of the transition from studio - based to independent production, to emerge as leading forces in film production as well as film style.

Players bought four - inch figures and level packs made by a range of internal and independent game studios that provided adventures in worlds based on everything from The Incredibles to The Force Awakens to Guardians of the Galaxy.

Twisted Pixel has split off from Microsoft, and is once again an independent studio, according to a report from IGN.

The studio reformed itself into an independent video game developer separate from Konami, and Kojima announced that the first title in their new franchise - Death Stranding - would be released exclusively on the PS4, which made sense since Sony Interactive Entertainment would be publishing the game.

Producer Jeremy Thomas managed to raise the $ 25 million budget for this independent production, with no help from major studios.

Furthermore, in a summer filled with overblown and script - weak blockbuster fare, it's nice to see a relatively small «independent movie» (I put that in quotes because the film is from Fox Searchlight Pictures, which is, after all, a subset of a major studio), which delivers its goods without a single explosion or special effect (none visible, anyway).

From The Exorcist to Cruising (1980) to Jade (1995), Friedkin has often pushed the boundaries in his treatment of sex and violence, and these new independent features, free of studio constraints, have allowed him to plumb the depths of his signature themes.

Kent Mackenzie's independently produced 1961 drama (when independent cinema was the realm of mavericks and dreamers working in the margins, rather than studio subsidiaries and major actors looking for a challenge) chronicled the lives of urban American Indians (all of them non-actors drawing from their own lives) on the Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles over one long, alcohol - lubricated night.

Kojima reformed Kojima Productions as an independent studio after his departure from Konami back in 2015.

A chimpanzee action / comedy from a Canadian studio fixated on animal cinema, this independent family - friendly film is merely distributed by Disney following a very limited theatrical engagement and bears none of the company's usual logos.

As the year comes to a close and moviegoers start thinking of awards, there is no clear favorite for the Best Picture Oscar, but a general acknowledgement that 2013 has seen several first - rate films, from major studio releases (Gravity) to small independent movies (Nebraska).

An in - demand destination for film lovers, drawn by unmatched locale and a diverse program of mainstream studio features and new visions from independent voices from around the world, MVFF also hosts an exciting array of filmmaker and industry conversations, panels, parties, and live music performances, featuring the most acclaimed emerging and veteran actors, filmmakers, and musicians of our time.

«The takeaway for me from Exclusive is realizing that independent films can be made as good as studio films»

Defining what is and is not a «specialty film» is murky at best so we are simply sticking to including any film released from a independent distrubutor or an indie division of a studio.

Fantastic Fest showcases eight days of offbeat cinema from independents, international filmmakers and major Hollywood studios.

On This Week's Show: Kevin and Neil brace themselves for an onslaught of films, from the big studio releases to some independent ones.

From this first round of voting, the film critics group has compiled a pair of «10 Best» lists for 2017, one for independent film defined as a budget under $ 20 million and one for studio films defined as movies with budgets over $ 20 million:

Worse yet, as movie budgets increase, marketing departments try to safeguard their investments by developing newer and more expedient ways of sorting friend from foe, the «studio shills» (as Armond White of the now - defunct City Sun in Brooklyn tarred them) from the independent - minded journalists.

Thus, independent movies and the studio both seem to benefit from such a licensing deal, like the one that will see Paramount handling the winter home video release of IFC's acclaimed Best Picture hopeful Boyhood.

Along with Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds, Reese and Wernick have been vocal about maintaining the independent direction of their series without interference from studio executives.

Maria Full of Grace was second with five nominations for the awards, which honor movies whose financing comes at least partly from independent sources outside the Hollywood studio system.

Sony's E3 2018 showcase will also highlight games from PlayStation's third - party publishing partners and independent studios, Layden said.

Paul Whitington of the Irish Independent is in studio to review this week's big releases - Oscar - nominated civil rights film Selma, the Wachowski's sci - fi Jupiter Ascending, the latest offering from Aardman - Shaun the Sheep, and Irish director Terry McMahon's Patrick's Day.

It was the final original production from BBS but the legacy of this company, an independent outfit releasing its handmade productions through a major studio, continued on through the seventies.

We had a chance to chat with Dean about this new movie and how was it shifting in scale from big studio to independent.

Fast forward to Little Miss Sunshine, which played last year to a festival audience that now numbers 50,000, including «industry» denizens from studio - indie divisions, giant stand - alone indies such as Lionsgate, and a scattering of valiant unaffiliated independent companies, plus assorted lawyers, agents, producers, pr people, journalists and gossip - peddlers, fashionistas and bottom - feeders — every one of them attuned to the synergy among movies, TV, and the Web (it's all entertainment) and how that synergy serves the bottom line.

Graduating from daytime television and bit parts in forgotten studio movies, Moore had impressed in back - to - back independent films, Robert Altman's «Short Cuts» and Louis Malle's «Vanya on 42nd Street.»

Soderbergh spent the decade after this auspicious arrival trying out many different kinds of films, from intriguingly off - kilter studio projects like King of the Hill (1993) and Out of Sight (1998) to independent experiments like Schizopolis (1996) and Gray's Anatomy (1996).

Wechsler's other producing credits are a distinctive and award - winning mix of independent and studio films including «The Road,» a Venice Film Festival Golden Lion selection; «The Time Traveler's Wife,» «We Own the Night,» a Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or selection; «The Fountain,» a Venice Film Festival Golden Lion selection; «North Country,» for which Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand earned Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominations; «Requiem for a Dream,» which earned an Independent Spirit Award Best Picture nomination and an Oscar nomination for star Ellen Burstyn; «The Yards,» a Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or selection; «Quills» a Best Picture winner from the National Board of Review; «Eve's Bayou,» an Independent Spirit Award winner for Best First Feature; «Love Jones,» a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner for Best Film; «Little Odessa,» which won the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Award; «The Player,» a Golden Globe Award winner for Best Motion Picture, Comedy; and «Drugstore Cowboy,» which took Best Film honors from the National Society of Fiindependent and studio films including «The Road,» a Venice Film Festival Golden Lion selection; «The Time Traveler's Wife,» «We Own the Night,» a Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or selection; «The Fountain,» a Venice Film Festival Golden Lion selection; «North Country,» for which Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand earned Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominations; «Requiem for a Dream,» which earned an Independent Spirit Award Best Picture nomination and an Oscar nomination for star Ellen Burstyn; «The Yards,» a Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or selection; «Quills» a Best Picture winner from the National Board of Review; «Eve's Bayou,» an Independent Spirit Award winner for Best First Feature; «Love Jones,» a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner for Best Film; «Little Odessa,» which won the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Award; «The Player,» a Golden Globe Award winner for Best Motion Picture, Comedy; and «Drugstore Cowboy,» which took Best Film honors from the National Society of FiIndependent Spirit Award Best Picture nomination and an Oscar nomination for star Ellen Burstyn; «The Yards,» a Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or selection; «Quills» a Best Picture winner from the National Board of Review; «Eve's Bayou,» an Independent Spirit Award winner for Best First Feature; «Love Jones,» a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner for Best Film; «Little Odessa,» which won the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Award; «The Player,» a Golden Globe Award winner for Best Motion Picture, Comedy; and «Drugstore Cowboy,» which took Best Film honors from the National Society of FiIndependent Spirit Award winner for Best First Feature; «Love Jones,» a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner for Best Film; «Little Odessa,» which won the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Award; «The Player,» a Golden Globe Award winner for Best Motion Picture, Comedy; and «Drugstore Cowboy,» which took Best Film honors from the National Society of Film Critics.

They represent the culmination of a cultural change that began as the 1980s indie film movement shifted control of American film production away from the major studios to the entrepreneurship of individual (not necessarily «independent») outsiders.

The Long Beach International Film Festival (LBIFF) will celebrate its 6th anniversary with an action - packed line up of independent and studio films from around the globe.

ACX connects rights holders with independent audiobook narrators who produce audiobooks, typically from a studio they've set up in their home.