Sentences with phrase «major film production»

«A new series of outdoor paintings by Julian Schnabel that will transform the Legion of Honor's courtyard into a temporary gallery, a major film production by DIS commissioned for the de Young's atrium and a new media installation by Lynn Hershman Leeson that reflects the particular history of the museums, put us at the center of artistic production and institutional reflection.»

Rumors hit over the weekend, after the Mayor of Dunkirk, France announced that a major film production was shooting in May, and now details have been confirmed.

Despite winning critical acclaim for her performance, it would be four years, save for a cameo in the Coens» Raising Arizona (1987) and various small roles, before she would be featured in another major film production.

Not exact matches

While major production companies and distributors, à la Disney, typically get most of the credit for the success of Hollywood films, there are dozens of independently run startups like Rodeo that contribute in no small part to the success of projects, and without which these films would not look as glossy as they do.

We plan to step up our production of major films.

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.

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).

Hollywood has already attracted investment from China in its films and production companies but hadn't ceded control of any major producer.

Muhoho, who has a dual career in Management Consultancy and TV / Film Production also cited lack of training centres as another major challenge facing the growth of the film industry in the region.

Netflix has become a major force in the city's TV - and film - production industry by borrowing to pay its bills.»

Donors affiliated with a major TV and film production company who never gave more than $ 250 to any city office donated thousands to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2013 — and are now dodging questions about the big - money contributions.

While getting a movie or TV show to film in your home state is competitive, critics say New York has already been a longtime on - location setting for major productions.

Three major productions are currently shooting scenes in the area and a highly anticipated movie filmed at several local sites will be released next month.

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.

For the next three years, he had little but bit parts in films, some of them major productions.

As an assistant to director Robert Altman, Rudolph worked on such major Altman projects as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Nashville (1975), ultimately getting a chance to direct his own film for Altman's production company, Welcome to LA (1977).

Upon his return from military service, Damone resumed his film career, enjoying featured or co-starring roles in major musical productions like Hit the Deck (1955) and the screen adaptation of Kismet (1955).

It take a serious pair of stones to release a production this major without warning, and their bold choice to make the film available directly after the game caught more eyeballs than a usual press cycle of screenings and reviews might have.

The film was rightly savaged by critics, made just $ 50,000 at the box office, which must be close to a record for a major studio production (it was produced by Disney subsidiary Hollywood Pictures), and essentially ended Eszterhas» career.

Get Out was released by Jason Blum's Blumhouse productions, a studio that can easily be described as the modern - day saviour of the low - budget, major - release film, even if they most recently subjected us to the latest M. Night Shyamalan misfire, Split.

In a major move for the production companies, and for super hero films in general, Sony Entertainment Pictures along with Disney and Marvel Studios have made a deal regarding a web making superhero.

A few of the film majors who interned on the Chicago production of «The Dark Knight» had started making their student films and, as...

But Marvel, like most major studios with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, is not known for calling an audible just prior to production of arguably the most massive tentpole film in their roster, any more than it's going to green - light a Black Widow film until well after Jennifer Lawrence has made one of her own.

John Thompson, a major action film producer and head of production at Millennium Films, died on Jan. 9 after a battle with leukemia.

Two weeks ago, as part of his summer - long institute, Redford held a weekend conference of most of the major exhibitors and distributors of «specialized» films - a category that includes independent U.S. features, foreign films, «art films,» cult films, revivals and almost anything else that isn't a big - budget, first - run standard Hollywood production.

Returning to the film at hand, Soul Surfer tackles Christian themes with accomplished actors, solid production values, and not a megachurch but a major Hollywood studio behind it.

The 1975 production is set in the 1920s and stars Warren Beatty as a con man trying to get his hands on the fortune of a madcap heiress (a bubbly Stockard Channing in her first major film role) and Jack Nicholson as his dim - witted stooge who slowly figures out he's really a partner in crime.

Universal Pictures released the first official trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom today, and the trailer (above) is expected to screen ahead of Rian Johnson's Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi as well as potentially other major films releasing during the holiday season, such as Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Universal's own production, Pitch Perfect 3.

The film was major flop, quite a surprise given the talent at work here, including screenwriter Carole Eastman (under the psuednym Adrian Joyce, which she also used on The Shooting) and production designer Richard Sylbert, who gives the west coast settings a low - rent, sun - baked handsomeness.

Many major production companies including Disney and Warner Bros. turned down the film but it finally found distribution through the then - small New Line Cinema.

While Deadline reports that «the script is still be worked on and that those behind the pic want to get this popular Mattel toy franchise right,» such a major delay for film's release — a few months shy of two years — normally doesn't bode well for a production.

The Paramount Pictures sequel is the second major Hollywood production to film in that country following the lifting of U.S. economic sanctions.

This work is about globally dispersed high budget film and television production, but it is not told from the perspective of the motives and strategies of the major studios.

The film, even when it slips into fiasco, has considerable polish with cinematographer Dante Spinotti's («L.A. Confidential») clever eye and a crack creative crew that includes Kristi Zea («Revolutionary Road») on production design and Mark Russell («The Adjustment Bureau») responsible for some major palm - sweating visual effects.

Though a relatively inexpensive production, Free Willy was still a major studio film and has the polished look of that.

Despite being a low - cost production lacking marquee names, «1945» has found major success at international film festivals.

The great video label Milestone has produced a great DVD set built around the half - hour documentary, adding as many surviving films (a few even restored) as possible to show just what happened, how this led to major production in Hollywood and how the truth is disappearing as the town seems to want to forget for some odd reason (speculation would require a new documentary) and we even see one of the final studios before it itself disappears.

Yet they share a certain quality of desperation: Both were produced on miniscule budgets outside of major studios, both Ulmer and Dickerson used a variety of techniques to disguise their humble production values, and both films ended up looking indelibly cheap anyway.

The socially conscious film and television production company had its hand in three major winners: «Spotlight,» «Beasts of No Nation,» and «The Look of Silence.»

Rather than a production of a major studio, Dark Odyssey was part of the innovative independent film scene of the time.

The production of the eighth film will take place primarily in Cuba, making the film the first major studio movie to be allowed to film on the island.

Production took place at the very beginning of the year with major thumbs up support from Tribeca Film Festival where the film (not yet finished) landed the IWC Filmmaker Award and this past summer, Deb Shoval «s feature debut was submitted to Champs - Elyse ́es Film Festival's US in Progress.

Now, McQueen has a film with a respectable R rating, lots of A-list stars, and a major production company in Brad Pitt's Plan B. Throw in a surprising inclusion at TIFF as well as an October 18 release date, and McQueen could be looking at a long - lasting level of exposure — perhaps through February.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center recently mounted a major retrospective of Douglas Sirk's films, which spanned his first German productions in the Thirties (The Girl from the Marsh Croft, La Habanera) and his Technicolor melodramas in the Fifties (All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind).

Add into that a compressed production schedule, and Bigelow has some major weight on her shoulders, but if her last film was anything to go by, she should be able to pull it off with aplomb.

After three years of extensive research the pair have managed to speak with almost every living major contributor to the film, among them directors John Hancock and Jeannot Szwarc, screenwriters Dorothy Tristan and Carl Gottlieb, Production Designer / Associate Producer Joe Alves, Universal Studios former chairman Sidney Sheinberg and cast members Lorraine Gary, Jeffrey Kramer, Joseph Mascolo and all (17) of the young actors who played what the authors collectively call «the Amity Kids!»

Should this be a kids film or a major production?

What You Need To Know: David Chase «s first major production since the infamous finale of his HBO show «The Sopranos» in 2007 and his first venture into the world of feature films sees the acclaimed writer / director tackle a subject dear to his heart that was one of the strengths of his long - running, critically acclaimed show: rock «n» roll music.

The film isn't shot terribly and attempts to mimic the look of a major Hollywood production.

The film also dispels many myths about food production, while also revealing some shocking facts, such as how farmers are often mistreated by the five major «big chicken» corporations.