Sentences with phrase «major studio backing»

Project Phoenix brings together a group of world - class professionals with a unified vision of how JRPGs ought to be and are determined to bring that vision to life without major studio backing!

We are making a rich, immersive game that will set a new standard of excellence for the Japanese gaming industry, all without major studio backing!

Not having a major studio backing, release date, or Hollywood stars, means the boundaries can be pushed much further.

With a prime (albeit competitive release date), major studio backing, a proven leading lady, a frequent collaborator in the director's chair (Click and Wedding Singer's Frank Coraci), the usual PG - 13 rating, and a suitable 3,500 - theater count, this film was absolutely expected to add to Sandler's tradition of nine - figure domestic grosses.

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.

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.

They are also hinting that because of 20th Century Fox's first - look deal with Kinberg the project could get major studio backing.

Not exact matches

California - based OnLive, backed by AT&T and BT Group, launched at last year's E3 with major studios including Electronic Arts and Ubisoft supplying top - tier console games, which customers pay to access on a computer or television.

Derek Jeter is Robin Yount with the backing of a major studio, in other words.

Right around 8 p.m. last night — just as Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross was preparing to go live from outside the Senate chamber with me back at the studio — a major argument broke out right behind her between Assemblyman Vito Lopez and Micah Lasher, the Bloomberg administration's in - house lobbyist.

Matthew McConaughey may have become a star as a leading man in major - studio films like «A Time to Kill» and «The Wedding Planner,» but in the last few years the laid - back Texan has reinvented and revived his career with a string of sparkling performances in low - budget indies: Richard Linklater «s «Bernie,» Steven Soderbergh's «Magic Mike,» William Friedkin «s «Killer Joe,» Jeff Nichols» «Mud» and now Jean - Marc Vallee's «Dallas Buyers Club,» which has made McConaughey a strong favorite to land a Best Actor nomination.

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

Some of the sets seem as if they are taken from the back - lot of an old studio and not from a $ 100 million major summer draw.

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 Fury filmmaker reiterated that these mid-range films are his bread and butter and seeing as how major studios aren't making them anymore, he sees places like Netflix as a way to bring that type of filmmaking back.

Speaking of heroes, major props yet again to Harvey Weinstein and the Weinstein Co for being the only studios with big enough balls to back not just Fruitvale Station and The Butler, but August: Osage County and Philomena.

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.

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.

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.

«Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» (Nov. 18): Many major studios have been trying to replace the «Harry Potter» franchise, but the lucky folks at Warner Bros. simply went back to their source: J.K. Rowling, making her screenwriting debut with a film about a Hogwarts textbook.

With Hollywood studios backing away from even funding prestige awards films — this year the major Oscar players «Moonlight,» «La La Land,» «Manchester,» «Arrival» were all not funded by a studio — rumors of Hope and Price knocking on the door of $ 25 - 60 million films with an awards angle only seems like the natural next step.

An iconic year back in the major studio run Hollywood.

Though it had the backing of a major studio (Paramount Pictures), the film had a low budget of just $ 2 million and was not destined to be a sure thing commercially.

His newest film, Midnight Special, is also his first to receive major studio consideration, having been backed and distributed by Warner Bros..

Looking back to June 1993, seven major studio films saw wide releases, only one less than 2013.

, is also his first to receive major studio consideration, having been backed and distributed by Warner Bros..

The days of direct sequels are still with us — Star Wars: The Last Jedi begins practically at the next moment after The Force Awakens concludes — but the major studios in Hollywood have concluded that there are other, possibly more profitable methods of bringing properties they own back to life.

This heartbreaking musical remake of William Wellman's 1937 Hollywood melodrama starring Fredric March and Janet Gaynor (remade a third time in 1976 by Frank Pierson, with Babs Streisand and Kris Kristofferson), is here finally restored to its full length (casual viewers should be aware of the photo - still / audio tape reconstruction of one major sequence - after impatient studio head Jack Warner removed almost 30 minutes from its original running time back in 1954, cutting two whole numbers by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin).

Even more admirably seditious, Freddy Got Fingered, unlike Un chien andalou, was actually backed and released by a major studio.

Major studios have pulled back on such mid-budget movies in favor of tent pole franchises with characters moviegoers already know and love.

Indie films are not backed by major film studios.

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.

is gonna be the spiritual successor to Xenogears... a major part of the team were a part of Square back in the days and made Xenogears (and later Xenosaga and Xenoblade as Monolith studios).

11 AM — 11:30 AM (PT): Immediately following the Xbox press conference, we're back at our studio with major world premieres.

Not only is this major show at Tate Modern the most comprehensive Amedeo Modigliani exhibition ever held in the UK, but it also offers the opportunity to step back in time to 1900s Paris with a virtual reality experience that brings his final studio to life.