Sentences with phrase «leading big studio»

He could have easily been leading big studio tentpoles at multiple points in his career, but time and time again he's opted instead to take challenging roles...

Not exact matches

Albert Lai is the co-founder and CEO of Big Viking Games, a leading social and mobile game - development studio whose games have been played by 40 million users.

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.

This led to a 15 - year association with Republic Pictures, where Judy became one of that studio's biggest moneymakers in such raucous vehicles as Sis Hopkins (1941), Sleepy Lagoon (1942), Oklahoma Annie (1946) and Carolina Cannonball (1955).

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.

An attempt by director Philip Kaufman to fashion a big - screen reboot — entitled «Planet of the Titans» — had just fallen apart in the face of studio disinterest, leading to the development of «Star Trek: Phase 2», a TV series featuring the original cast with the exception of Leonard Nimoy, who didn't want to be typecast as Spock.

The duo decided that to direct message Donald Jr. in front of the live studio audience, leading to many big laughs.

Which leads to this year, with a Paramount representative confirming that production has already begun on DVD screeners for the studio's contender, «The Big Short.»

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.

He had been cast late last year as King Arthur in the big - budget «Arthur & Lancelot» at the studio, opposite Joel Kinnaman, but the studio got nervous about a $ 130 million tentpole led by cable TV actors, and pulled the plug.

After all, he had just produced a one - two hit of moody, studio - funded chamber dramas featuring big - name leads (Nicole Kidman, Ben Stiller) who seemed intent on stripping away their movie - star vanity to revel in warts - and - all portrayals of unglamorous, perhaps even mean - spirited, broken characters.

The Thomas Crown Affair is the latest remake being developed for the big screen with studio MGM signing up Michael B. Jordan to lead the film.

In 2000, Schafer left Lucas to found a new studio called Double Fine, where he's led design on Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, and many other games both big and small.

Long - delayed plans for a female - led Marvel superhero movie following Wonder Woman's triumph should deliver one of the studio's biggest hitters

Time Browne, the game's lead multiplayer game designer spoke at Ubisoft's Annecy studio, «You have to take into consideration that it took a very big dedicated team in Singapore about two - and - a-half years to do it for the solo [play].

Female - driven comedies have been doing big business at the U.S. box office for decades, but all too often, Hollywood studios hire male directors to tell these women - led stories.

Led by Lionsgate and Pantelion's massive Spanish - language hit «Instructions Not Included,» this year's biggest hits were a refreshingly diverse mix (certainly compared to the studios), with the top 10 including four films with female leads (two of whom were over 75 years old!)

Though it was reported this past week that Disney was having trouble finding the right actors to lead Guy Ritchie's live - action Aladdin, the studio revealed the big news today.

Though «Big Hero 6» doesn't pique my interest nearly as much as the studio's 2012 hit «Wreck - It Ralph,» here's hoping that it's a giant success, if only because it may lead to more animated versions of other forgotten Marvel properties in the future.

* Adapted Screenplay * Art Direction * Actress / Supporting Actress — Keira Knightley: She has an excellent studio for female prospects to the Oscar, but the biggest threat for her lead aspirations will be the other SPC potential actress: Jodie Foster — «Carnage».

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.

With our own in house Video & Photo editing equipment and studio & media making facilities Big Blue Movies, led by the legendary Billy Cloud, has in a very short time come a very long way.

Well, 343 did just start looking for a graphics lead for the next Halo in mid-April: «343 Industries, the studio developing Halo games, is looking for a Lead Graphics Engineer to join our team working on the next big Halo shooter experience... As the Graphics Lead, you will be leading, managing, and contributing directly on the award - winning graphics team, collaborating closely with the art teams and pushing the visual bar to inconceivable levels on future FPS Halo titles... You will drive graphical innovation and produce amazing systems and visuals for our entire future FPS Halo experienlead for the next Halo in mid-April: «343 Industries, the studio developing Halo games, is looking for a Lead Graphics Engineer to join our team working on the next big Halo shooter experience... As the Graphics Lead, you will be leading, managing, and contributing directly on the award - winning graphics team, collaborating closely with the art teams and pushing the visual bar to inconceivable levels on future FPS Halo titles... You will drive graphical innovation and produce amazing systems and visuals for our entire future FPS Halo experienLead Graphics Engineer to join our team working on the next big Halo shooter experience... As the Graphics Lead, you will be leading, managing, and contributing directly on the award - winning graphics team, collaborating closely with the art teams and pushing the visual bar to inconceivable levels on future FPS Halo titles... You will drive graphical innovation and produce amazing systems and visuals for our entire future FPS Halo experienLead, you will be leading, managing, and contributing directly on the award - winning graphics team, collaborating closely with the art teams and pushing the visual bar to inconceivable levels on future FPS Halo titles... You will drive graphical innovation and produce amazing systems and visuals for our entire future FPS Halo experiences.

After I met with him, I was slated to chat with Ashraf Ismail, who is leading development on the next big Assassin's Creed game in a studio in Montreal.

At the beginning of 2015, Goodgame Studios, the leading German games developer and producer of Goodgame Empire, Empire: Four Kingdoms, and Big Farm, reorganized its game development departments from an integrated matrix structure into an autonomous studio structure.

A games studio lead by industry veterans delivering high quality titles with some of the biggest brands & IP for mobile, pc & console.

The studio has now confirmed that its next project will be a «bigger» remake, leading to speculations for another classic title.

Inti Creates CEO Takuya Aizu talks about how the studio's development staff are big Mega Man fans and oldschool games in general, and how that led to the development of Gunvolt.

The good news is, in their more than 15 year history, developer Inti Creates have shipped over 30 different games on eight different platforms, and our project lead, Keiji Inafune, has either worked on or overseen 30 + games in this genre alone, as well as having lead one of the biggest Japanese studios, and some of the biggest AAA games ever.

With Switchcars nearing its release, Altfuture caught attention not only of the biggest PC press and indie publishers, but it was eventually funded by Vlambeer — the famous indie studio leading the action rogue - like market at that moment.

São Paulo — Brazil — BIG Festival (Brazil's Independent Games Festival), the largest independent games festival in Latin America, taking place in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro from June 23 to July 1, revealed today the attendance of four key international industry guests, scheduled to give lectures about their experience related to designing critically acclaimed video games and establishing a leading independent development studio.

Jason Schreier: Do you think that, you also have to deal with this cultural clash, I'm sure you guys experienced this: BioWare being this independent studio in Canada, does RPGs, does your own thing, [BioWare founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk] leading the charge, and then suddenly you're part of this big corporation.

Despite being an indie studio, their lunch talk led them to decide they wanted to make something really big in VR, something that would feel very immersive to the player.

The beginning of the end most likely came in 1997, when the release of An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn gave the alias (played by Eric Idle) his first leading role in a motion picture, as «a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee [who] realizes he's an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big budget action film he knows is horrible.»

My epic studio visit to Rare concluded with a big Sea of Thieves interview with Executive Producer Joe Neate and PC Design Lead Tedd Timmins to discuss future plans, Xbox Game Pass, purchasable pirate pet pals, and customizable underwear.

The studio has now confirmed that its next project will be a «bigger» remake, leading to speculations for another classic title.