Sentences with phrase «major studios like»

The company has distribution deals in place with major studios like Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate that allow them to offer their films for rental soon after they're released on home video.

The rental service has distribution deals in place with major studios like Warner Bros., which allow Redbox to purchase physical DVDs and Blu - rays of popular movies that it then offers for rental at its standalone kiosks.

There's also the likelihood of major studios like EA, Activision and Ubisoft telling them both to release more powerful hardware since the PS4 and Xbox One took so long to replace their predecessors.

«The budget for those games has become higher and higher,» said Morin, a veteran of major studios like Ubisoft and Naughty Dog who left behind the AAA world to work on smaller titles.

Since November, the platform was in closed beta, where it allowed authors to publish their works and sell them side by side with major studios like Marvel and DC.

A well - budgeted release from a major studio like Warner Bros. has no such excuses.

Even if you have the deep pockets of a major studio like Disney.

Not exact matches

She's worked with major motion picture studios including Paramount and Warner Bros., and technology leaders like Microsoft.

The quarter was crowded with major studio titles like «The Amazing Spider - Man 2» and «Godzilla,» but none of them attracted the kinds of crowds that packed theatres beyond the opening weekend.

This is why major studios that faced very little market entry for over a century are now confronting significant threats from firms like Netflix, Amazon (via Prime), and Google (via YouTube), as well as potential content plays from Facebook (FB) and Apple (AAPL) on the horizon.

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.

Republicans in the House also set up studios on Capitol Hill for camera crews behind a «House Republicans» backdrop, which they typically reserve for major events like the president's annual State of the Union address.

You can't imagine a major studio making such a cartoon today, nor Italians being lynched, nor the Times and a governor talking about them like that, nor a Harvard professor telling a student that an academic field is closed to Jews.

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.

, and follows a Hollywood fixer in the 1950s who pulls the strings of major studios to get what they want (if it sounds like the Coens want to brutally bite the hand that feeds, remember that Inside Llewyn Davis got stood up for any Oscar nominees last year, so Hollywood sort of asked for it).

At this stage my intention is to run the show something like the Guardian's «Football Weekly» podcast, meaning two or three people in a studio discussing the major Arsenal talking points for the week.

I think a minority government is most likely - with co-operation on issues like civil liberties, the environment and localism — but touring TV studios both John Major and William Hague said that David Cameron would accept Liberal Democrat members of the Cabinet.

It seems like a new yoga studio is popping up on every corner in major cities these days.

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.

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.

The remainder of the studio's slate flopped with critics and / or moviegoers, including major disappointments from previously acclaimed directors like Chappie (Neill Blomkamp), Ricki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme), and Aloha (Cameron Crowe).

Though still considered by some to be an «indie» studio, since Lionsgate acquired rival Summit Entertainment in 2012, it has looked more and more like a major distributor.

Prodded into existence by Steven Spielberg, one of the few filmmakers capable of making the studio system do his bidding and of convincing major players like Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks to go along with him, «The Post» takes on a particularly counterintuitive subject.

This movie's dramatic failings make it look like the crowd - pleasing Creed, the unlikely revival of an old Sylvester Stallone franchise, may be the most productive major studio's most likely ticket to the Best Picture and acting category races that have consistently featured its output.

If major US studios think they can churn out substandard films, using product - placement to cover the cost of scatter - shot television advertising as a route to box office success, then they, like the Spartans themselves, are doomed.

Often times, when an action film like this is a hit, the studio will often make a major downgrade on the director for the sequel.

An October release date could go either way, but if the studio was incredibly high on its prospects, they'd probably be shooting for a release closer to a major moviegoing holiday like Thanksgiving or Christmas.

That leaves among the major studios only Fox Searchlight and Sony Pictures Classics as bastions still nurturing movies that are more difficult for some — like this year's «12 Years a Slave» — but enduring.

Would such a narrative still have emerged with major studio fare like «Evita» and «The Crucible» crowding the field?

The highlights come from major 3rd parties studios like Capcom with Dead Rising 2 and Lost Planet 2.

This is definitely more interesting, I'd really like to see more major studios push to film sequences in IMAX and explore the possibilities of shooting at a higher framerate in the future.

I know there's little to no middle - ground (Although the last time I heard this complaint, it was from Seth Rogan or Judd Apatow or someone else who isn't in any position to be complaining about not getting to make shit movies), but it's not like the five or so major studios release 60 movies a year and then act like we should be grateful for the scraps.

The major studio head - scratcher of its year, the ultimate distillation of Michael Mann's brand of clean sheen noir, and the most authentically auteurist film of the aughts, Miami Vice was the movie offspring of a successful and ever - parodied 80s TV series that was nothing like the original.

This is excellent news for major studios, which crank out a steady diet of scare - tactic thrillers like last weekend's Universal release «Ouija: Origin of Evil,» which did screen for critics and got a middling Metascore of 65.

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.

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.

For as long as the studio takes between major patches like Path Finder and November's Foundation Update, this is an example of a very quick turnaround that's responding to an immediate request from the No Man's Sky community.

At a time when the major studios increasingly function more like IP management companies, the role of patrons like Kao, Megan Ellison (daughter of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison), Molly Smith (daughter of FedEx CEO Frederick Smith), and Teddy Schwarzman (son of Blackstone Group founder Stephen A. Schwarzman) becomes increasingly important.

In the wake of digital script leaks, Hollywood studios are stepping up the levels of security and secrecy surrounding major movie scripts like «Interstellar» and «Hunger Games: Catching Fire».

Word on the street is that Gilroy's top choice for the role was Oscar Issac (Sucker Punch) but the studio did not think that he could carry a major blockbuster like this.

Contrary to the fact the ambitious animation studio is consistently held to a higher standard than the likes of DreamWorks, Blue Sky, Fox and Warner Bros. (to name a few), such an impressive track record has earned it the luxury of being able to crank out the occasional less - ambitious production without fearing a major media storm in which words like «disaster,» «major setback» or «uninspired» could comprise the headlines of the day.

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.

Who would have guessed that the rather resolute contrarian Herzog would end up with a major role in a studio film like this?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Liman, nevertheless, has proven surprisingly adept at moving from major features for big studios to smaller, more political fair like The Wall and Fair Game.

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.