Sentences with phrase «major studio»

As an executive at a major studio competing with A24 in the best - picture race said before Sunday's surprise win: «Look how many theaters our movie is in.

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) was their first produced on a big budget for a major studio and included the formidable Sam Raimi as a co-writer.

uy Ritchie hasn't exactly done a great job convincing his critics that he can make something other than the hyper - stylized crime capers he's known for, so it's a bit surprising that a major studio would entrust to him one of the most popular literary characters of all time.

How is it that a major studio film — one in which marks the first time these legendary characters meet / fight / team - up onscreen in a live - action feature — that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, has been in the planning stages for years, and is the catalyst for their own shared universe of interconnected films doesn't seem to know one thing about its title characters outside of names and costumes?

While the festival features some major studio films — it opened this year with The Five - Year Engagement, and closes with The Avengers — the majority of films screening at Tribeca are independently produced, premièring...

A director, a writer, and an actress are summoned to a major studio to hear his pitch for a film.

This year it's hard to argue with the oft - repeated assertion that The Dark Knight was the best major studio film of the year.

A24, the youngest company of the bunch and one without a major studio's backing, also strongly followed up its 2017 success (the best - picture winning «Moonlight») with seven nods.

Garant and Lennon, who have made plenty of money writing major studio films like Night at the Museum, put this movie together independently on a small budget.

Like Reynolds, Miller developed a career slump after her own disastrous G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra where she played another black leather - clad dual pistol wielding character The Baroness (not unlike Domino) but managed to pick herself back up recently landing major studio roles.

Well, you can't tell from «Alex Cross,» a shockingly incompetent major studio release that strands Perry in a poorly written and poorly executed police procedural.

Gifted may be an independent film, but it still has the backing of a major studio in Fox Searchlight Pictures» parent company, so it's no surprise that the movie looks terrific on Blu - ray, its 2.40:1 picture and 5.1 DTS - HD master audio sound both meeting one's high expectations for the format in 2017.

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

There have been a few exceptions in recent years, and Warner seems to have been behind as many of them as any major studio.

The effects are also quite passable and remind you that you're watching a movie with major studio funding.

The world of reboots and remakes is plentiful at the moment, as it seems every major studio has at least one project in the hopper that would fit into either category.

2017 marked the lowest percentage of LGBTQ - inclusive major studio releases since GLAAD began tracking in 2012.

Warner Bros. has a major studio stage space located in Leavesden,...

In recent years the likes of Carol, Call Me by Your Name and A Fantastic Woman have all made significant contributions to queer cinema, and now Love, Simon sees a major studio getting involved.

Downside: there were no Asian / Pacific Islander LGBTQ characters in major studio releases in 2017.

There were several major studio films like Fury, The Theory of Everything, Interstellar, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, and The Imitation Game which didn't meet expectations and only made some Top 10 lists.

With adventure, action, intrigue, and drama in the mix, Eight Below has a little something for just about everyone that isn't completely jaded against standard commercial feel - good major studio releases.

The behind - the - scenes action of Living in Oblivion is no exception, and although we've seen many films just like it in recent years, such as Mistress and The Big Picture, Tom DiCillo's (Double Whammy, Box of Moon Light) creation distinguishes itself by being about a independent filmmaking, not greatly influenced by the dictation of a major studio or bigwig producer, but by conflicts within the filmmaker himself.

However, despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed under the weight of arguments, technical complications and illness.

But 1996 was the first year that indies dominated the Academy Awards to the point that only one major studio release, «Jerry Maguire,» was even nominated in the best picture category, which was won by «The English Patient.»

Furthermore, of the major studio releases of last year, only Pitch Perfect 2 featured a gay character of any consequence, while fan theories surrounding The Force Awakens» Poe Dameron appear to be just that at the moment.

It's rare for an actor to headline two major studio releases in two weeks, but that rare honor — if in fact, it qualifies as an honor — goes to Miles Teller, one of the hardest working performers of his generation (two films this year after four last year).

Each year at SXSW a major studio premieres a comedy at the festival.

But some of the best cinema tests boundaries and gets under the skin; for some valuable discomfort, you have to look past the major studio movies.

Also, in a weird note, Variety adds that one of the reasons Reynolds wanted to work with Netflix on this is that he won't have to deal with «the world press commitments that a major studio movie like Deadpool requires,» so he can film Six Underground and then immediately forget about it as he moves on to other projects he's more interested in.

Furthermore, in a summer filled with overblown and script - weak blockbuster fare, it's nice to see a relatively small «independent movie» (I put that in quotes because the film is from Fox Searchlight Pictures, which is, after all, a subset of a major studio), which delivers its goods without a single explosion or special effect (none visible, anyway).

Universal was the first major studio to open the door to for raunchy female comedies.

Although it's refreshing to see a major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults, «Focus» is so passively mediocre that you can understand why other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.

@rjdelight The studio would make far less from the movie because of the huge marketing costs associated with releasing a movie through a major studio.

Part of what enabled this kind of behaviour to flourish is an endemic culture of Hollywood sexism, which Ringwald exemplifies with this anecdote about an unidentified «head of a major studio» who, after she put her acting career on hold and moved to Paris, was quoted as saying «I wouldn't know [Molly Ringwald] if she sat on my face.»

With The Thing, it was the first major studio film he and Carpenter worked on which was «so full of interesting new things» for the duo in terms of the types of boundaries they were pushing with the film on top of having the backing and budget of a big studio.

The Forbes article contextualizes «It Follows» as if it were a major studio film with an enormous marketing campaign.

has become one of the rare catalog titles to recently reach Blu - ray from a major studio.

I can't imagine this little film looking or sounding any better in the hands of Disney themselves or any other major studio.

Perhaps more remarkable still is that Jonze was able to persuade a major studio, Warner Brothers, to foot the $ 80 + million bill for this beautiful, but profoundly uncommercial vision.

He also discusses his working relationship with actor Jack Nicholson, casting the future movie star in many of his early roles, making his first major studio film for Columbia Pictures Getting Straight starring Elliott Gould and Candice Bergen.

Nevertheless, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg deserve enormous credit for convincing a major studio to release an R - rated film about talking food and religion, because despite the letdown, it's so wonderfully stupid and strange that you have to see it at least once.

Bigelow and Boal would reteam three years later on Zero Dark Thirty, a film whose subject matter, major studio backing, and timing made it arrive to buzz, hopes, and expectations.

After such a strong year last year, 2017 proved something of a soft year for movies - especially on the major studio front.

It has the backing of a major studio — Paramount Pictures — with only one other serious contender (The Big Short) to promote.

Warner Bros. will become the first major studio to use the large capacity format in order to fit Zack Snyder's longer version of the film.

In 2017, there were exactly zero trans characters in any major studio film.

Though it looks good on paper, a starry prestige drama from a major studio doesn't mean the same thing it used to in the Oscar sphere.

«We are shocked that a major studio could make a film so obviously derived from my late father's work without anyone recognising it and coming to us for the rights,» the statement reads.

Infinity War is the first major studio film to be shot in its entirety with Imax cameras expanding the aspect ratio by 26 %.