Sentences with phrase «movie industry from»

He believes such people should rather praise Kumawood for saving the country's movie industry from drowning in the influx of Nigerian movies at a time when the Ghanaian film industry was still struggling.

Elias Gwinn is president of the organization and said it fills a gap that's kept the movie industry from taking off.

Not exact matches

The top most active celeb investors hail from the music, TV, movie, sports and fashion industries, with actor Ashton Kutcher at the top of the list.

Regulators have been taking aim at industry contracts that prevent people from viewing movies and TV programs outside the country in which they are sold, focusing on Sky's deals with major motion picture studios including Walt Disney, Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Brothers unit, Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal, and Sony Pictures.

Looking to cash in on the popularity of the 7» 1» Shaq, the famed basketball star moved from the court to the screen and forever reminded viewers why athletes and the movie industry rarely mix.

Borrowing heavily from the movie industry's publicity machine, Biderman sets out to build buzz as he enters a new market.

And its response to the backlash from those who rightly felt that kowtowing to cyber bullies hurt the movie industry and American interests was that it had no choice.

The movie, told by industry pioneers Danny Sullivan, Rand Fishkin, Jill Whalen, Brett Tabke, Rae Hoffman and Barry Schwartz, covers the early days of SEO when people were «spammin and jamming,» affiliates vs. main stream, black hat vs. white hat, the unique and often rocky stories of the industry's pioneers, how Matt Cutts changed the industry, the history of Google updates and even has commentary on the future of SEO from the industry's top minds.

Oil and gas investments benefit from drilling budgets being standard in the industry as opposed to start - ups and movies which can see budgets fluctuate based on unforeseen events.

While remaining closely involved with the traditional PC and mobile industries, the gaming industry will draw from artificial intelligence, wearables, virtual reality, big data, cloud service and other emerging technologies and use animation, literature, movie & TV, live broadcasting, themed amusement park and other traditional entertainment industries to create more disruptive value.»

(CNN)-- A letter penned by two notable scholars - a Christian and a Muslim - and sent to a number of different hotel industry executives has asked those hotels to remove pornography from their company's in - room movie selections.

Trade show & local agency exhibits — learn from industry reps & peers Wellness activities, special meetings, and a movie night, too!

Since January, Cuomo has raised substantial sums outside New York, with a number of big contributions coming from California and the movie / entertainment industry.

In making her submission, the minister cum queen mother stated that the encounter with the movie producers revealed power outages, competition from foreign movies, TV stations showing recently released locally made movies and piracy as being the major factors killing the movie industry as little or no return is made on investment.

Touching on the legal rights and protection for members in the industry, she explained that a film bill has been gazetted to Parliament, adding that soon Ghana will have a film act to enable the country benefit from all the years of good movies and other creative arts we produce.

Tributes have been pouring in from both his fans and his colleagues in the movie industry since the news of his death was made known to the public.

Cynthia Nixon is calling for the big film industry tax break to be reined in as part of her run for governor — but the actress» own «Sex and the City» movies scored enough dough from the $ 420 - million program to buy a lifetime supply of Manolos.

The first tenant to sign up for the Central New York Hub for Emerging Nano Industries in DeWitt, announced Tuesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, will be the Film House, a movie production company that will relocate from Los Angeles.

Sadeghi and Bisker presented the work at SIGGRAPH and fielded many questions from researchers in the game and movie industries.

Computer scientists from Saarbrücken have now developed a novel approach that turned out to be so promising, that it was adopted by companies in record time — among others by Pixar, well - known in the movie industry for its computer animation, and now a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company.

It's so strange how things from this movie have evolved, but still stay current in todays» beauty and fashion industry.

About Blog A filmmaker who makes, distributes, promotes movies with or without assistance from the film industry, a filmmaker who makes work using means available to them if need be, a filmmaker who can not be stopped from making movies.

It has shown something your fellow associates try desperately to erase from the movie industry, imposing their own picture and image instead; an issue concerning female personalities.

After the first movie, both director Sam Taylor - Johnson and screenwriter Kelly Marcel were dropped from the series with industry press reporting continual battles over James's iron - handed insistence on adherence to her books and their stilted dialogue.

Taking a step back from leading roles, the actor then poked fun at the movie industry with a cameo in director Kevin Smith's satire Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back before playing a supporting part opposite Christina Ricci in the big - screen adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir, Prozac Nation.

One of Baldwin's most boldly digressive works, the essay shifts between recollections of childhood, accounts of the writer's own experiences in the movie industry, and unsparing interpretations of the racial knowledge inscribed in everything from the «straight, narrow, lonely back» of Joan Crawford to the respectability politics of Sidney Poitier.

A Hollywood studio executive with a shaky moral compass (Tim Robbins) finds himself caught up in a criminal situation that would be right at home in one of his movie projects, in this biting industry satire from Robert Altman.

These fans (ordinary folk as opposed to industry - insiders, authors, academics or other experts) offer extensive and elaborate arguments for their interpretations, which range from the movie being a metaphor for genocide to proof that Kubrick faked the Apollo moon landings footage.

Wade's chief rival in the treasure hunt — at least until they join forces to combat the meanies from IOI (Innovative Online Industries) and its scurvy head of operations, Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn)-- is Samantha, also known as Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), a sprite named after the Greek goddess of the hunt who zooms around on her Kaneda bike from the movie «Akira.»

At first glance, in a movie industry riddled with remakes, some filmgoers might assume that Killer Elite, is actually a reimagining of the 1975 film, The Killer Elite, starring James Caan and Robert Duvall from director Sam Peckinpah (Straw Dogs).

For someone who follows the industry, the most interesting thing about this reboot is that it comes from George Miller, who directed and co-wrote all three of the previous movies in the series originally released between 1979 and 1985.

He's obsessed with obsessives and sympathizes with their quests, like Travis's desire to rescue the teenage prostitute Iris from her pimp, or Jake Van Dorn's desperate search for his daughter through the subculture of Los Angeles's porn industry in Hardcore, which he also directed (both of these intense, unpleasant movies are made under the sign of The Searchers).

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Proceeds from the event go to the Motion Picture Pioneers Assistance Fund, an industry charity that helps movie industry veterans who are encountering an illness, injury or life - changing event.

Contributor Lesley Coffin is Editor - in - Chief of the online film journal Movies, Film, Cinema and host of the Chicago industry podcast «From Lakeshore Drive to Hollywood.»

WORST MOVIES OF THE YEAR I found the politics of «The Purge» to be odious and insincere, and its execution laughable, just another one of the horror industry's attempts to remake «Home Alone» (and another in a consistent line of garbage from Platinum Dunes).

We are calling on you, our readers, to suggest potential candidates for admission to AMPAS — qualified individuals from different guilds and areas of the movie industry who could make the group more reflective of the moviegoing public and broaden its perspective.

One reason it's hard to find much critical guidance about Hong Kong movies is that most of what's written about them in English comes from within the Hong Kong film industry, which monotonously emphasizes box - office grosses over everything else, and is in a form of English that borders on gibberish.

The slim, movie - star - handsome Oldman's transformation into a jowly Churchill is complete without being distracting, thanks to sure - footed work from makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji (who returned to the film industry after a years - long hiatus specifically to transform Oldman into the beloved P.M.) Expect Tsuji to waltz away with this one.

Even with a release date set for later this year, «Inherent Vice» was curiously absent in Warner Bros. presentation this week at CinemaCon (though we really don't see Paul Thomas Anderson being convinced by anybody to splice sizzle footage from his movie for an industry conference).

Kicking off his English - language screen career a decade ago, he's matched his considerable skills against some of the industry's most revered talents and taken direction from a vanguard of visually dynamic filmmakers with his memorable appearances in such movies as «The Dark Knight,» «Contagion,» «2012» and «Captain America: The Winter Soldier.»

But the perennial winner's break from the big screen could be ending: he's in talks to re-unite with There Will Be Blood director Paul Thomas Anderson to make a movie about the fashion industry.

Yesterday, we reported that The Wrap founder Sharon Waxman had accused The New York Times of backing down from a story she had written in 2004 that would have exposed Weinstein's alleged history of sexual abuse because of «intense pressure» from high - profile figures in the movie industry — specifically actors Matt Damon...

By Sean O'Connell hollywoodnews.com: It's a quiet Friday in Hollywood as the industry recuperates from the Critics» Choice Movie Awards and prepares for Sunday's Golden Globes.

As a 1954 movie, On the Waterfront was made right when the industry was transitioning from the long - standard Academy Ratio to widescreen formats, devised and touted in response to television's widespread popularity.

Though it's hard to choose just one, the retrospective featurette «Chinatown: An Appreciation» is an engrossing discussion about the movie by industry vets like Steven Soderbergh, Kimberly Pierce, Roger Deakins and James Newton Howard on everything from the script, to Polanski's shooting method, to its memorable score and much more.

Casting: Whether you like or dislike the man or his movies, the one thing you can't argue with is the respect he has garnered from actors, writers, directors and everybody else involved in the movie industry.

Birdman serves as a dark satire on everything about the movie biz — the bean counting deliberateness that spawns a world of superhero movies; the way talent is ignored if it comes from the wrong sources; the potential for critics to abuse their craft and the way such a nomadic industry can affect family.

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences is the organization behind the Academy Awards, and it consists of thousands of people who work in the movie industry — from actors and directors to hairstylists and PR people.

Alongside the directors themselves, the series will comprise interviews with industry experts, studio decision makers and horror movie super-fans, revealing which projects they wish had been completed — and which are in the process of being raised from the dead.