Sentences with phrase «making film deal»

Meyers - Shyer tries to add momentum to Harry, George, and Teddy's half - hearted pursuit of a career - making film deal, but gives up more than halfway through.

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In addition, as Spielberg's shop moves more into the family space, it could run up against part of the deal that forbids DreamWorks from making animated films for any company other than DWA.

He made and uploaded his first, the 68 - minute Enfin l'Automne (Fall, Finally) to YouTube last year, largely just to see if he could do it, and he's now on the verge of signing a deal with a Hollywood studio to do a proper film.

Signing the Potter deal makes sense in part because NBCUniversal already has a Potter - themed attraction at its parks (it now gets access to more material from the films), and because the movies are also a huge draw with younger TV viewers.

In mid-2008, eOne made a blockbuster four - part deal largely engineered by Lantos: it bought three TV companies, two in Canada and one in the U.S., plus Lantos's boutique film distributor Maximum Films.

Now you can add the film American Hustle — which won a Golden Globe for Best Picture and picked up 10 Academy Award nominations this week — to the list, especially if you want to explain how really great salespeople find leads, draw customers, and make deals.

«It starts at the point from which the deals are made and continues to how the films are actually produced, to the way they're positioned for a release date, to the way marketing empowers people to watch — and we've seen all these elements falling into place.»

So Paramount, in the wake of a disappointing 2017 that saw big budget films like Transformers: The Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell underperform while the studio's would - be Oscar hopefuls Suburbicon and Downsizing were DOA at awards season, is looking to make some changes in 2018 and selling God Particle off to Netflix may be a cushy deal.

From the Cabaret Voltaire to Andy Warhol's Factory, from the silent film comedians to the Beatles, from the first comic - strip artists to the present managers of the Underground, the apolitical have made much more radical progress in dealing with the media than any grouping of the Left.

The Legion would expand its ratings to make them more responsive to the range of film content and viewership, but its effectiveness diminished in the 1960s (the era's various «liberation» movements saw to that), and it merged into the American bishops» office dealing with movies.

In dealing with the complexities of Hollywood the company had made some very expensive mistakes in film projects with high costs and poor box office results.

Since almost all films seen in Canada are made in the United States, the approaches here will deal with the U.S. motion picture industry:

Imaginative and exciting education, with specific courses targeted to children, youth and adults, dealing with Christian values and how they relate to current TV, film and video, is tailor - made for videocassette distribution to churches, schools and families.

We always look forward to Christmas films, it's a big deal in our house, Dan makes a list and we love thinking of what we want to watch.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

These cases are often dealt with outside the criminal justice system: a woman filmed crushing a kitten and the video's cameraman both lost their jobs following a «successful» human flesh search and a man recorded arguing with a foreigner over a traffic violation was forced to make an apology on national TV.

Desperate for funding in a world that fundamentally opposes the procedure, Xeno - Edit makes a conniving deal with a wealthy donor: They will film a television series documenting the first recipients» transplantation experiences.

While I was busy during the entire event dealing with the media, and making sure the cameras and video crew weren't filming at places they were not allowed to (e.g., media were confined to a room at the party, but some did venture out and we had the security almost kick the German TV crew out because they did not follow our rules), I did have a chance to meet many amazing Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies.

VIOLENCE / GORE 8 - A great deal of talk about violent acts which have occurred makes the film psychologically violent.

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

the script is linear and actually makes sense, but it's such a cold film that it only works as a procedural film, much in the way The Day of the Jackal (1973) dealt with icy characters from opposing sides eventually converging in a climax.

In retrospect, it is a little hard to take Hackman all that seriously in this film, when he was about three years away from getting his butt kicked by a flying alien in tights, but make no mistake, in this film, he's a good deal more groovy than Queens» «Another Bites the Dust»... if not the term «groovy».

In its use of flippant humour to deal with dark subject matter, the film has a similar tone to that of the satirical 1990s Holly Hunter drama, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader - Murdering Mom (based on a similar story about a mother accused of having her daughter's classmate bumped off to improve the daughter's chances of making the cheerleading team).

Yes, this film was made before all of these allegation stories made their way into the public eye, but I, Tonya deals with this particular notion in a very grand fashion.

Set in the world of French gangsters, the film follows François (Karim Leklou) as he tries to make a deal in Spain to earn back all of his hard - earned money that his mother (Isabelle Adjani) has gambled away.

But he's not got a great deal to work with and what the film crucially fails to do is fill us with that same dread that made its predecessor so gut - wrenching.

I, Tonya is unquestionably on Harding's side, though: the film makes plain that whatever poor choices she may or may not have made, and whatever she may or may not be lying about, she got a raw deal out of life at every turn.

There, he meets a fellow refugee from Asgard, Valkyrie («Creed's» Tessa Thompson), and Korg, a CGI character made out of rocks who is voiced by the film's director, Taika Waititi, in one of filmdom's most satisfying examples of self - dealing.

The film is essentially a primitive rah - rah story about an underdog's triumph over a bully, and in the times that Americans are living through now the things in it that are merely simple seem simplified to the point of odiousness... In the Heat of the Night seems to be made up of a great deal of attitudinizing and very little instinct.

As I explained, this was necessary in dealing with a lot of the baggage that comes with all the comparisons made with The Lord of the Rings, which the film inevitably invites.

Poor health dogged Ford's career during the 1950s, but he still managed to create The Sun Shines Bright (1953)-- one of his favorite films, dealing with politics and race relations in the 19th century South — Mogambo (1953), and The Searchers (1956), which is considered one of the most powerful Western dramas ever made.

Based on the Marvel comic by Stan Lee (who makes a cameo as he does in all the films based on his work), it picks up the story of those cosmic - rayed superheroes dealing with the end of the world and a fifth attempt at a wedding.

If a deal is made, he'll be shooting Goddard's film come January of next year.

WFF, is a significant player within the Canadian film fest circuit, i known for its intimate, casual environment, set by Mishaw's loyal and tireless admin team, consisting mostly of women, most of whom have been with the festival for years, setting the stage for high - quality film - centric hospitality through which filmmakers and industry honchos mingle, and deals are made not only via scheduled one - on - one meetings, but also in the hot tub or on the ski slopes.

In films dealing with sexism, a difference should be made between characters being misogynistic and the film itself being misogynistic.

For her to even consider a deal, the film will have to be made to her specific instructions, with none of Disney's magical flourishes, or worse yet — animation.

They don't even really make a big deal out of gayness in this version, which is odd, but this is a dumbed down and less interesting version of the same story, which would be fine if it took advantage of having actors who don't even have to act if they can dance in a film like this.

However, that film was a great deal like the other wise - cracking crime comedies that have come out since Tarantino's debut, often encroaching into Guy Ritchie territory, except without the skillful writing or wit required to make these eccentric oddball characters remotely appealing.

The president's big announcement at the start of the film is that he's made a deal with the Iranian president and is proceeding to withdraw all troops from the Middle East, a move that comes with a boatload of stunningly puerile speeches, and sparks the ire of right - wingers and big corporations invested in the business of war.

We discuss the women's and equal rights films that make up a good deal of contenders in this category and what impact they'll have on the race.

And it's typical of the sort of early deal - making (and passing) that happens when a big film such as this is being put together.

There is some restraint shown by not making a big deal of the 9/11 angle — and this at least works for the film.

Walker, a Sundance award - winning documentarian with two Oscar nominations, made a deal with Broad Green shortly before the 2015 Cannes Film Festival to finance her new film, a sequel to Wim Wenders» 1999 hit «Buena Vista Social Club.»

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Even when the films» stories are set in distant lands and deal with ancient empires, her cleanly organized frames (often filled with carefully spaced plants and animals) and characters» lightness of motion make the fantastical always seem within reach.

This is why Mystic River, the first great film of 2003, makes it especially difficult to deal with the numbing movie violence in Kill Bill.

Considering how that film was not exactly a commercial success, this may not sound like a big deal to many of you but as someone who believes that bleak and bruising comedy - drama to be one of the great unsung movies of the decade — the kind of film that the great Billy Wilder might have made once upon a time — I went into the screening with the kind of over-the-top sense of anticipation that many felt as they walked into «Avengers: Infinity War.»

Although the deal was initially made as a one - off, it's not hard to imagine a film franchise emerging from this happy new pairing; the baa, as it were, has been set.

It often seems to mean a director whose films have not yet made anyone a great deal of money — a hack commercial filmmaker in training.

Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana took a break from their respective multi-film, multi-year deals with Marvel Studios to make Infinitely Polar Bear, a film for the arthouse crowd with a title you could mistake for a nature documentary.