Sentences with phrase «from leading studios»

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The production studio had received an offer in March from an investor group led by Maria Contreras - Sweet for $ 500 million, but the deal fell through after raising questions about the company's financials.

An offer for the studio from a group of investors led by former Obama administration official Maria Contreras - Sweet failed to produce a deal earlier this year, after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil lawsuit against the company and demanded more compensation for Harvey Weinstein's victims.

And whereas in the past eccentric billionaires looking for new ways to part with their money would usually fall prey to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, leading movie studios to become uniquely proficient in separating the wealthy from their cash, now they are falling victim to a not - so - new allure: influence.

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.»

Across the Nordic region, Discovery owns and operates SBS Discovery Media, a top - three portfolio of 20 television brands that feature leading nonfiction content, as well as locally produced entertainment programs, sports and the best scripted series and movies from major studios.

Less than a week after the Weinstein Co. seemed destined for bankruptcy, a deal emerged for an investment group to buy assets from the troubled firm in order to launch a new movie studio that will be led by women.

The shocker came later that night when I was told that Andrew Whitman, of all people, was breathlessly introduced on FiOS1NEws with, ironically, a «First on FiOS1» report on «Major developments in race for Westchester Executive» leading off with George Latimer in studio taking questions from Whitman about my story, citing Talk of the Sound as a source, using my content and basing his questions on my reporting.

«From tiny studios to penthouse suites, New York City apartments are continually invaded by house mice,» says lead author Simon H. Williams, BSc, a research scientist at the Center for Infection and Immunity.

From owning a successful yoga studio to leading sold out retreats and teacher trainings.

This is Liz Harvey coming to you from our studios in New York City where we are dedicated to bringing you top quality advice from many of the leading expert professionals across the US.

RC: Hello everyone, this is Liz Harvey coming to you from our studios in New York City where we are dedicated to bringing you top quality advice from many of the leading expert professionals across the US.

Our studios are an oasis from the chaos and stress of the city where members leverage the leading insights on physiology to work with purpose and on purpose to cultivate the fine muscles that matter most in maintaining functional strength, balance and agility.

Since 2006, Terrence has managed two different yoga studios in New York, completed 10 different teacher trainings in areas varying from Forrest Yoga to MeditationTraining, and has led international retreats.

My favorite days are during trainings, when there are people from around the world hanging out at the studio and we do workshops on what leading is like.

Talk to students if they seem receptive find out what they love about the practice, what leads them to this studio and what teachers they take from (so much information they will share - just listen).

Her growing interest in fashion led her to New York, where she attended New York University as a studio art major but spent the majority of her time interning at Teen Vogue from her sophomore to senior years.

Shoreditch, London About Blog Latest photography news, articles, tips & tricks from Headshot London photography studio - leading London photographers.

And while it was a little exciting to see the Delorean from Back to the Future again, this particular subplot eventually leads into a Pee - Wee's Big Adventure ripoff - as the two characters are chased throughout the studio.

It looks like Sony is aiming high for the lead role in Bloodshot, the first offering from the studio's shared Valiant movie universe, with The Wrap reportedly revealing a wishlist of actors to play the title character.

Harris gives the full story and final word on why she did not return to play Jamie Lloyd for a third time, and Akkad is candid about his father's battles with the studio and the Weinstein brothers, which ultimately lead to the Akkad's (and most of the original crew) being completely excluded from any participation in the reshoots that drastically altered what would have been a game changing ending of the movie and resulted in two very different cuts.

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.

Wrestler and movie star John Cena is reportedly in negotiations to play the lead role in the unannounced movie from Michael Bay's production studio.

The chart - topping duo from Disney defies the usual trend, as Disney titles tend to take a few weeks to build momentum in the rental market as the studio has no distribution agreement with Redbox, leading the kiosk vendor to acquire its copies of Disney films as any consumer would — at retail.

Because both Rooney Mara in «Carol» and Alicia Vikander in «The Danish Girl» were perceived as leading roles there was major skepticism from said prognosticators that their respective studios, The Weinstein Company and Focus Features, could convince The Academy the roles were actually supporting.

Flickering Myth has heard a rumor that Jaden Smith (star of «After Earth,» son of Will, prolific Twitter - er) may be up for the lead role in Warner Bros. upcoming live - action digital series from the studio's Blue Ribbon Content division.

THR is reporting that Kate Winslet is set to lead the voice cast of Mary and the Witch's Flower, the first feature from Studio Ponoc, an anime studio founded by former Studio Ghibli veterans Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura.

A co-production of leading indie studio A24 and Amazon, the six - episode series is a satirical mashup of tropes aimed at our collective nostalgia, political biases, and misguided nationalism, with a solid stream of self - aware idiocy that keeps the show from becoming an obnoxious lecture on patriotism.

THR's sources say that the «heavy comedic tone» of the Channing Tatum - led film led the studio to moving it from February 14 (the same weekend Deadpool debuted in 2016) to a more traditional summer movie date.

Apart from lending his voice (a singing - one at that) to the studio's forthcoming Moana movie, Johnson will also lead the cast of a big - screen adventure based on its popular Disneyland theme park ride, Jungle Cruise.

Yet, Hollywood was still decades away from casting studio films with African - American lead actors.

The film was previously titled Alien: Lost Paradise and the studio's description does not include any of the other lead characters from Prometheus, played by Noomi Rapace among others.

This has been on my must - see list ever since it was announced, and that excitement has only grown with each new reveal, from the casting of Chris Pratt in the lead role, to landing Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper to voice the movie's CGI characters, to the strong buzz emerging from early screenings that have pegged it as one of the studio's best films to date.

Fortunately, while the studio is still apparently searching for that perfect leading lady (who many believe to be Sharon Carter, the niece of Peggy, Steve Roger's love interest from the first Captain America movie) Deadline is «hearing that Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow will be in the mix on this film.»

Talk from early in that season placed Blanchett on a lead bid for Todd Haynes» film about multiple actors playing Bob Dylan, but the studio quickly decided that a supporting run was in the cards for her.

During the panel both Hermen Hulst, Managing Director of Guerrilla Games, and Mark Cerny, Lead System Architect Of The PlayStation 4, were present and it was discussed how both studios would benefit from this sharing of technology.

Of course, this perception of a «weak» Best Actress field has already led to a couple of dubious stabs at the field from studios that smell blood.

The film itself does not rank as one of the studio's greatest, but the female character - driven story gives off a fresh feeling and provides more to look forward to from Pixar (hopefully it won't take them multiple films before getting to another female lead).

Rudin had control over final cut and was therefore able to prevent studio tampering, but unease arising from this conflict led Paramount to sell the international distribution rights to Netflix.

The film's release Friday by Warner Bros. spells not just a risk for a Hollywood studio wading into the throwback waters of a character - driven family tale, but a gamble for its director and lead actor, each of whom makes a notable departure from his comfort zone.

Chris Pratt quickly went from talented comedic actor to franchise star with this summer's Guardians of the Galaxy, and now he's poised to lead another studio tentpole film.

For his comeback movie since «retiring» from filmmaking in 2011, which led to a brilliant stint directing Cinemax's grisly medical drama The Knick, he worked outside of the major studio system by selling off overseas distribution rights before a second of Logan Lucky was in the can.

And don't even get me started on who makes sense for what category when it comes to presumptive Best Picture front - runner Spotlight, with the studio apparently pushing everyone in the Supporting categories despite Michael Keaton winning Best Actor from the New York Film Critics Circle and Mark Ruffalo arguably having just as much a say as a lead.

However, the idea to switch from Cranston's character to Taylor - Johnson's as the lead is not only miscalculated, but has a vague odor of studio heads wanting to place a 30 - something, good looking white male as the lead of their movie.

There's always something jutting or crashing into the frame as the camera follows our beset heroine through the violent maze her house has become; it's all rigorously disorienting, leading to a Grand Guignol climax of liturgical bloodletting and beastliness that constitutes the most unapologetic turn away from the real in a studio film since the frogs fell in Magnolia.

Bana performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of low - budget and major studio films, ranging from romantic comedies and drama to science fiction and action thrillers.

First he's gimped - up to satisfy the didacticism of the time (with the trucking industry presenting limited opportunity for a moral, the movie settles on putting the fear of God in us over falling asleep at the wheel), then his role is reduced to reaction shots: When Paul finally takes the stand in the courtroom climax, all Bogart manages to squeeze out is «Wull yeah, but...» This is Raft's show, despite the film's studio - sanctioned absorption into the Bogey canon, though Bogart would have his revenge by stealing the lead in High Sierra — and in theory, every one of his Midas - touched career opportunities subsequent to High Sierra — out from under him.

Not all shorts featured performers of Taylor's stature but minor players from the MGM studio were shuffled through these films, along with the occasional A-list supporting player or future lead.

EXCLUSIVE: Stuck in the Middle star Jenna Ortega has been cast in a lead role opposite Alyson Hannigan and Leslie Bibb in Man of the House, ABC's multi-camera hybrid family comedy pilot from Gail Berman's The Jackal Group, ABC Studios and Scandal star Kerry Washington's studio - based Simpson Street.

tracks a day in the life of Capitol Pictures producer / fixer Edward Mannix (Josh Brolin) as he single handedly tries to keep the massive studio from careening off the rails, whether that amounts to replacing the lead actor of a particularly particular director (Ralph Fiennes), covering up the single motherhood of one of his young starlets (Scarlett Johansson), keeping at bay a set of twin sister reporters (Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton) obsessed with digging up dirt to sell their rags, or, perhaps most significantly, solving the mysterious disappearance of the superstar lead actor (George Clooney) of their biggest picture of the year (the eponymous epic

The Konami rep went on to explain that after a massive project like Metal Gear Solid V; The Phantom Pain, Kojima was fatigued, needed a break, and that it's normal for studio leads to take a hiatus from game development after big projects.