Sentences with phrase «major film studios»

With Fandango's joining Movies Anywhere, «FandangoNow customers will gain simple, streamlined access to their digital movies from Hollywood's major film studios,» said Fandango chief marketing officer Adam Rockmore.

With the talents and technology being used by major film studios, game developers are looking to blend game design with the art of film - making.

UltraViolet, which is backed by five of the major film studios (that is, all but Disney), allows consumers to buy a copy of a movie or TV show that they can then stream or download onto 12 different devices.

Indie films are not backed by major film studios.

That's a concerning amount of content coming from one source, especially when you remember that the six major film studios are releasing just 150 to 175 movies per year, compared to the 200 - plus of 20 years ago.

The drop in on - screen LGBTQ representation is a speed bump in GLAAD's call to action to have the seven major film studios to have 20 % of their major releases include LGBTQ characters by 2021 and that 50 % of films include LGBTQ characters by 2024.

For the first time in over a decade, all the major film studios including Paramount, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Disney (and their partners at DreamWorks, Marvel Entertainment and Pixar) and Universal were represented at CinemaCon 2012, the annual convention of NATO (National Association of Theater Owners) that is the largest and most important gathering of cinema owners and operators from around the world.

As for the major film studios, Paramount has walked away with bragging rights for 2011, having grossed a record $ 5.71 billion worldwide.

The company works with major film studios to create original and marketing content ahead of movie releases.

It was one of those rare times when a major film studio — United Artists, in this case — allowed him to make pretty much anything he wanted, even a sophisticated and very personal British movie about an openly gay Jewish doctor sharing his lover with a woman.

Last week, Ashley Judd alleged for the first time publicly that she was sexually harassed in the 90s by a mogul for a major film studio.

Can I just waltz into a major film studio, ask for the rights to Twilight, and actually make a decent film with the concept?

Their Finest has a solid starting point, focusing on women's increased role during WWII, specifically at London's major film studio.

Striped of its international cinema release by Paramount Studios due to worries that it was too cerebral for audiences, Annihilation (based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer) comes to Netflix on more of a positive wave of critical reaction than the two sci - fi streaming flicks before it, two films which have done a great detriment to Netflix's standing as a major film studio competitor, only enforcing the notion that the streaming service is becoming a dumping ground for doomed movies.

Wholly derivative, terribly executed and disgustingly portrayed, this film is a worthless exercise in ineptitude of such magnitude it is astonishing a major film studio would invest $ 75 million dollars -LRB-!!!)

More electrifying excess from Sono (Tokyo Tribe), this time a collaboration with Nikkatsu, Japan's oldest major film studio.

Not exact matches

Compared to major studio projects like the forthcoming Aaron Sorkin adaption of Walter Isaacson's popular biography of Jobs, this film was made on a shoestring, with an estimated budget of just $ 8.5 million.

Netflix has been stocking up its portfolio of original content with an eye toward challenging major film and television studios as well as bringing home award show hardware.

Independent of Lucasfilm and its parent company, Disney, ILM provides visual effects services for films from all the major movie studios.

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 39 - year - old native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who started as a nightclub stripper there at 17, has appeared in more than 250 X-rated films, beginning in 2000; was signed as an exclusive with major porn studio Wicked Pictures in 2002 (she's still a contract player for them); and has been inducted into multiple industry halls of fame, including the one run by leading industry trade publication Adult Video News.

This would be a big shift in the business model of feature - film distribution for both the major studios and the theater chains.

It's not hard to see a path where the number of faith - based films financed by major studios increase.

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.»

In contrast, it is a significant development when a major Hollywood studio like Paramount makes a film about a story from the Bible.

He made his first appearance in an American film in Victor Halperin's grisly thriller Torture Ship, playing one of the criminals on whom well - intentioned (but quite mad) scientist Irving Pichel plans to perform glandular experiments, but he soon moved up to higher budgeted films from the major studios, although still almost inevitably in sinister roles.

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.

Take away The Wind Rises, which was briefly screened in 2013 only to qualify for awards (which it did, collecting an Oscar nomination for best animated film), and Disney's 2013 average drops to 53.4 (the studio's lowest average since 2010), though that was still higher than four other major distributors last year.

However, despite releasing more films than any other major studio, Lionsgate earned the bulk of that money from just one title: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which has collected over $ 850 million to date.

That film was also the year's biggest box office flop from a major studio, boasting one of the worst opening weekends in history ($ 306,367) for a nationwide release.

Much like last year and the year before, this year's Movie Studio Report Card evaluates both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of 2011.

Just three of the studio's 15 films received positive reviews from critics (and one of those, only by a nose), putting Universal in the bottom half among the major distributors in terms of quality — not surprising, given that its 2014 slate wasn't exactly deep in Oscar - worthy films.

In 2013, Paramount led all major distributors in film quality, but even that studio could muster only a C + grade, thanks to a mediocre average Metascore of 58.4.

For the second straight year, Disney released better films overall than any major studio — and this time, it wasn't even close.

Grades for the studios» 2015 films are listed below, and — as always — you'll find most of the majors toward the bottom of the list.

Not only were global receipts down slightly compared to the previous year, but Fox was alone among the major studios in failing to record a green Metascore — that's right, not a single Fox film earned positive reviews from critics in 2013.

There are no obvious hits in its lineup, though the studio has once again enlisted major or critically acclaimed directors, including Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum (for the sci - fi film Passengers), Paul Feig (for a female Ghostbusters reboot), Antoine Fuqua (a Magnificent Seven remake co-written by True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto), Ron Howard (Inferno), and Ang Lee (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk).

Universal also was the only major studio with just one film (Neighbors) surpassing the $ 150 million mark domestically.

Below are the films released by each individual distributor during 2015, ordered by average Metascore (beginning with the major studios as a group and then moving on to the smaller companies).

They were also better than those of any other major studio, leaving Disney the only one of the seven majors to receive a grade higher than a C. Interestingly, Disney's three Marvel - related films (including Big Hero 6, which is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe) were not just the studio's highest - grossing releases, but were also the highest - scoring Disney films with critics.

For the fourth straight year, we have examined both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of the past year.

In fact, Paramount was the only one of the six major studios to see a drop in average Metascore for its 2012 releases compared to films released the previous year.

Grades for the studios» 2014 films are listed below, and once again the major studios are not the best «students.»

The studio chose to release the film slowly on a regional basis — but when the box - offices began to bulge, Warners gave the film a major big - city push.

For the sixth straight year, we have examined both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six - ish major studios and a few dozen of the larger «indie» distributors in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of the past year.

For the seventh straight year, we have analyzed both the box office performance and overall film quality of the seven - ish major studios and a few dozen of the larger «indie» distributors in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of the past year.

None of the studio's 13 upcoming films looks likely to be a major hit, and the studio has already given up on one of them, deciding not to release Joe Carnahan's Stretch (which was to come out in March).

Despite releasing better films than any other major studio, Paramount languished in seventh place in global market share for the second consecutive year, trailing upstart Lionsgate.

Sony also had the lowest per - film average gross of the six major distributors in 2011, and its foreign box office growth (which includes a nice total for The Adventures of Tintin, for which Sony held the foreign distribution rights) didn't prevent the studio from finishing fifth in global market share for the second straight year.

But only one major - studio film of the modern era, Richard Fleischer's notorious 1975 Mandingo, dared to meet slavery on its own terms — a grind house bacchanal of sadism, incest, and miscegenation, capped by an unforgettable finale in which the eponymous bare - knuckle fighter is boiled alive by his master in a cauldron.