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«This idea that like he's shooting one film while acting in a studio film while taking a cooking class while composing a sonnet, that wasn't our experience at all,» Weber says.

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It's a path that includes the relatively low overhead of shooting a film entirely via a mobile device and an app (the studio said Sickhouse «s budget was similar to that of a typical indie film) while potentially tapping into various social networking platforms» massive built - in audiences of users.

(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.)

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

The Motion Picture Production Code, introduced by the major studios in 1930, was a direct progenitor of the Comics Code, while the modern film - rating system and the Parental Advisory labels created by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1985 are all part of the same bloodline.

Amazon Video, the company's digital streaming site, launched in 2006, while the retailer's production studio — which now makes award - winning films and television shows — launched in 2010.

So Paramount, in the wake of a disappointing 2017 that saw big budget films like Transformers: The Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell underperform while the studio's would - be Oscar hopefuls Suburbicon and Downsizing were DOA at awards season, is looking to make some changes in 2018 and selling God Particle off to Netflix may be a cushy deal.

And, in November 2001, President Bush in a similar fashion to President Roosevelt during World War II, asked some Hollywood studios to create films and television programs that would help with encouragement and public morale while providing entertainment to the soldiers and the people back home.

While studios can lobby for their films to be included in that quota, there is no magic formula that guarantees distribution.

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).

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.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Orson Welles was reportedly furious when this film was cut to smithereens by his studio, and his editor, Robert Wise, while he was elsewhere, filming in South America.

While Lionsgate posted the year's highest - grossing film (domestically) in Catching Fire, that was one of only three positively reviewed films released by the studio in 2013.

The studio did manage to raise its average Metascore by 10 full points in 2013, while going 6 - for - 10 with critics; back in 2012, by comparison, Paramount released only one positively reviewed film.

Warners» success rate (of films receiving positive reviews from critics) dropped from 39 % in 2014 to just 16 % last year, while the studio's average Metascore declined by four points.

On the one hand, it's exciting to see the always envelope - pushing Lee working without a studio - or distributor - imposed safety net... But while the film never lacks for ambition, it fails to satisfy emotionally or intellectually in the ways Lee intends.

While the Future of Studio Ghibli hangs in limbo, Mami Sunada's Documentary is an eye opening film delving into the mind of the studio's founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata on the verge of producing their last ever features.

Even though Sony released only one positively reviewed film in 2010 and managed to boost that total to six films in 2011 (led by best picture nominee Moneyball), its overall Metascore still dropped nearly two points last year, while the studio's average Metacritic user score was also the lowest among the big six distributors.

While Pixar has previously replaced voice actors (Reese Witherspoon was originally be Merida in Brave), this is the first time the studio has cast an entire film, recorded dialogue, and then replaced 99 % of the cast.

«They hide in the crypt for a while, and then the studios suddenly remember they can make quick millions, because however you slice it, people love scary films.

While we haven't heard a whole lot about Promised Land so far, the fact that the studios are going out of their way to ensure it has a shot at the big awards suggests they have a lot of faith in this film.

While it is getting a huge screen count and a big studio release, the film is essentially an art film in disguise.

The entertainment industry is changing, and while Netflix has been applauded as a disruptor in the television industry, it's taken longer for the streaming platform to be appreciated as a film studio.

While it's highly unlikely that The Emperor's New Groove will ever be ranked among Disney classics such as The Lion King and Bambi, there's no denying that the film is one of the studio's more enjoyable (if entirely forgettable) efforts to come around in a wWhile it's highly unlikely that The Emperor's New Groove will ever be ranked among Disney classics such as The Lion King and Bambi, there's no denying that the film is one of the studio's more enjoyable (if entirely forgettable) efforts to come around in a whilewhile.

While both films were romantic, Spielberg's was also sentimental, perceiving the past in the same glowing soft - focus images that had marked Hollywood studio films of the 1930s and 1940s.

Prior to the 2014 announcement that the company would be making «Black Panther» and «Captain Marvel,» the studio had famously only cast straight while male leads in its films.

The studio announced a «brain trust» that would connect the films, while also assigning Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci («Transformers») and Ed Solomon («Men In Black») onto «Venom» (with Kurtzman directing) and Drew Goddard («Cabin In The Woods») onto «The Sinister Six.»

While much has been teased regarding where each character finds themselves in the film, there's still quite a bit that the studio hasn't shown.

A 3 - minute gag reel in which Cuthbert cracks up while faking an orgasm acquaints us with a moment or two found only in the section of deleted / extended scenes (16 in all, totalling 11 minutes), wherein Greenfield, providing optional voice - over, repeats «cut for time» like a mantra and generally demonstrates — as he does in his yakker for the film proper — that he rolls over easily when confronted with studio research.

With a few exceptions, most studios haven't compromised widescreen films» intended visions on DVD in quite a while,

While the film remains in development, it has not moved forward as quickly as Paramount originally envisioned, though recent movement in the studio's executive suites has complicated matters.

While 2083 might be a bit of an exaggeration, Marvel's Phase 3 film slate does take the studio through to 2019's Avengers: Infinity War Part 2 and Inhumans, but with no Ant - Man sequel in sight.

But while Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has already expressed interest in doing a comedic film centered around Black Widow, the studio should probably opt to make the movie a, pre serious espionage thriller, and it already has the perfect directorial team in Joe and Anthony Russo.

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.»

The Oscar - nominee (for Alexander Payne's «Sideways») returns to the multiplex after a part in the hit religious film «Heaven Is for Real» from last year, while having previous appeared in a mix of indie and studio projects that range from «George of the Jungle» to «Lucky Them» and even «Spider - Man 3.»

But while the studio's marketing for the film must continually remind audiences that, yes, the movie is due in theaters in less than two months, they're fast approaching the limit of revealing things too much or too often.

While Hawke's other filmmaking endeavors (Chelsea Walls, The Hottest Scene) has been similarly produced outside of the big studios and with muted commercial prospects, he has retained star power on the opposite side of the camera with performances in big wide release films, from Training Day to Daybreakers to The Purge.

While it seemed that King Kong's new home — outside of Skull Island, that is — would be Universal thanks to the company's deal with Legendary, it would appear that the latter studios» executives want to keep the dream of a Kong Vs. Godzilla film alive and are now in talks with Warner Bros. to move the creature there.

While filmmaker Jon Favreau has been dabbling in big - budget studio fare for the past few years, his next film returns him to his indie roots.

While Timothy Green doesn't make a strong case for mid-sized, non-franchisable films, those who think of Disney as not just a brand but a movie studio have to be disappointed with the way the company has changed its priorities in recent years.

Following Castile, Prince of the Foxes was the second novel by Samuel Shellabarger the studio flipped into a film, and while less epic in scope (no globe - trotting here), the story still gave audiences solid moments of superbly crafted action in some stirring combat and battle scenes, and a nasty villain named Cesare Borgia (played with dribbling glee by Orson Welles).

Pixar has usually included a teaser trailer of its next film while its current film plays in theaters, but the studio's dinosaur film did not follow in that tradition.

While it is true there's more than one way to be funny, Deadpool 2 is not particularly so, and it contains some of the sort of material that should have been rubbed out of cinema by 2018 (a prison rape joke in a studio film isn't «politically incorrect» so much as it is tasteless).

Garland wrote the screenplay based on the bestselling novel by Jeff VanderMeer (the first book in his Southern Reach trilogy), and while it doesn't look like the studio has released an official synopsis for the film, here's the book synopsis from the publisher if you'd like more info:

He says more than once during the film that he's finally doing just what Orson Welles did — and while the first instinct is to laugh, the lingering aftertaste is a sort of tacit acknowledgement that he did exactly what Orson Welles did: he made a few movies he believed in for studios that generally didn't agree with him and mostly with the usual suspects.

Though most behind - the - scenes features showcase the production process once filming is underway, The Player gives us a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes of the behind - the - scenes process, where the only dreams that come true are for the people up top — the people who feel that anyone can make a story that will entertain millions, while the lowly creators that nurtured the initial ideas are seen as little more then expendable goods hardly worth receiving input from once the studio handlers squeeze their foots in the door, symbolically getting away with murder — the figurative death of the writer in the Hollywood production process.

Overall, Valiant is for the most part charming enough, while never approaching cinematic excellence that the ambitious design (the country's first CGI film, a World War II setting, and a low budget) might have suggested and other studios (like Pixar) might have achieved with the same elements in place.

Director David Gordon Green leaves the indie world for this studio film and excels in making a very vulgar comedy full of stylish montages and exciting chases — while Rogen and co-writer Evan Goldberg (also co-writer of This Is the End) construct a movie with a stupidly simple enough premise to knock off a slew of action cliche parodies, but also allow for a lot of improvisation along the way.

While «Avengers: Infinity War» has been 10 years in the making, selecting the greatest ensemble of Super Hero characters for the film fell squarely into the laps of directors Anthony and Joe Russo, who were tapped by Kevin Feige to helm the studio's biggest film to date.