Sentences with phrase «into film distribution»

American Animals was acquired by Orchard and MoviePass Ventures in an innovative $ 3M deal out of Sundance that marked MoviePass» entry into film distribution.

Not exact matches

Unlike other festivals that screen films in the hopes of getting a bigger distribution deal, Ellison's crew plans to use social media and other tech to turn these films into year round events, it says.

The report suggests that the major VR and AR areas that will be generating revenue fall into one of three categories: Content (gaming, film and TV, health care, education, and social); hardware and distribution (headsets, input devices like handheld controllers, graphics cards, video capture technologies, and online marketplaces); and software platforms and delivery services (content creation tools, capture, production, and delivery software, video game engines, analytics, file hosting and compression tools, and B2B and enterprise uses).

Leading films and distribution business, Plasfilms, has introduced polypropylene heat shrinkable film (HSF) from Taghleef Industries (Ti) into their growing films portfolio.

I am working on scheduling screenings of Handmade Nation, entering the film into festivals and working out the best options for distribution.

Heading into the holiday season, executives across distribution and film finance had a strong feeling that this reboot of Jumanji directed by Jake Kasdan would serve as strong counter-programming to Disney's Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

The studio system is in a spot of bother: twice in the past year, Paramount has put tens of millions into a science - fiction film, only to lose their distribution nerve and shunt it off to Netflix for international markets.

Even critics of last year's Amores Perros have admitted that an insurgence of Mexican productions into the highly populated art house distribution crowd is increasingly inevitable (the best simile that could be imagined is that the rise of Mexican cinema is like the push for Germany and Japan's permanent inclusion on the UN Security Counsil — hey, as art film distributors are saying, we're still working with the inclusion of Iran and Taiwan).

With that in mind, there are a number of films without current U.S. distribution that could quite easily fight their way into the Oscar season.

Independent Australian film sales agency, ScreenLaunch, has expanded into Australian theatrical distribution, offering two female focused films to Australian cinemas...

To hear Williams and Forsythe tell it, the making of the film was a dream come true, after which they continued with their careers and saw from the sidelines the heartbreak that followed the production: the death of Hayden in 1983 from a heroin overdose, the mutilation of the film for U.S. distribution, which threw director Sergio Leone into an understandable funk, and more.

The director said it was all «go go go» for the film, though he ran into a roadblock on the way to distribution.

«If I wanted to get into heaven on the basis of one movie, that's the one I would offer up,» Welles said of the film, which suffered from distribution issues, competing claims of ownership, and degraded prints almost from the time it was completed.

«Paul always puts himself into his films, but this especially so,» said Focus Features president of Distribution, Lisa Bunnell.

Streaming brands like Amazon and Netflix are continuing to try and muscle into prestige film contention by bidding high for the distribution rights to the festival's biggest hits.

Some articles about the film and its circuitous route towards wide release (after receiving generally positive reviews at the 06 TIFF, it fell into distribution hell for nearly 7 years) would have you believe that it's a sleeper indie with a sharp style, a biting wit, and surprisingly meta - ending reminiscent of Joss Whedon's much - delayed 2012 flick, Cabin in the Woods.

Late last year, they announced MoviePass Ventures as a way to expand their brand into theatrical film distribution.

Film Comment offers an additional poll ranking films currently lacking U.S. distribution, but neither tally takes into account what are often the year's most truly theatrical experiences: festival screenings.

From there, he moved into video distribution, forming Videovision Entertainment and then progressed into film production in 1984 with PALACE OF WEEPIING, the first anti-apartheid film to be made entirely in South Africa.

It is one of a handful of films like Monsters and Men which went into the festival without distribution and came out with a major distribution release.

With a $ 3 million budget, and distribution by A24, «The Florida Project» is Baker's breakout film, but he made it in much the same way he did his others, turning the Magic Castle into a giant movie set (without shutting it down), and casting Vinaite off Instagram.

Back in 2012, Ford, busy trying to finish the film, was accepted into the IFP Spotlight on Docs — essentially speed dating among filmmakers and potential financing and distribution partners.

Rauch has the chance to build a profile the way that former Saturday Night Live cast member Jenny Slate was able to do last year with Obvious Child, the Gillian Robespierre scripted and directed comedy that incorporated Slate's personality and her edgy stand up comedy style into a charming film that came out of Sundance with an A24 distribution deal.

«The filmmaker spends 5 - 6 years making their film, gets into Sundance, the fairy dust settles, and there's no distribution.

Icon Film Distribution (IFD) and FrightFest, the UK's leading horror fantasy film festival, have entered into an exclusive partnership that will see IFD releasing FrightFest curated films under the banner «FrightFest Presents».

Most likely filmed without sound and then dubbed into various tongues as distribution demanded (thank Argento scholar Mike Bracken for that information), Musante's tired, tortured performance is all the more impressive.

«Here is the new way: filmmakers doing it themselves — paying for their own distribution, marketing films through social networking sites and Twitter blasts, putting their work up free on the Web to build a reputation, cozying up to concierges at luxury hotels in film festival cities to get them to whisper into the right ears.»

This panel will explore the future of storytelling and illustrate how authors can be more involved in creation, development and publication as their stories take on new lives through innovative distribution platforms and with adaptations into film and audio.

Joanne made a career move into the film business, where she served as founder and President of a worldwide multimedia and distribution company; she was an Executive Producer / Producer of eleven feature films and multiple television and educational programs, including the acquisition and international licensing of a 60 title film library.

Investors paid significant sums into the schemes, and entered into loan agreements with the designated lending banks to buy the film distribution rights to Disney films.