Sentences with phrase «movie industry take»

The movie industry takes even fewer chances then the Publishing Industry.

Not exact matches

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.

The principles of investment are simple, says Bernstein, so he takes a long view of the financial industry, dedicating half the book to investment history and theory (in a manner accessible to the math - challenged among us) in the hopes of giving his readers «the ability to coolly observe extraordinary current events and say «I've seen this movie before, and I know how it ends.»»

In China, a whole new industry chain surrounding online literature IPs is taking form and now involves music, games, TV dramas, and movie production.

Instead of advancing storytelling toward greater self - awareness (and self - examination), a 3 - D spectacular like Avatar relies on the same naivete of once neo-genre movies like The Time Machine, Dances with Wolves, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, and Rapa Nui, which took a nostalgic, unsophisticated view of industry and colonial expansion; this time Cameron pretends to introduce modernity and globalization to his naive audience.

If this can become standard practice in the movie business, it could cause sea changes in the industry, but it takes the right stars and the right figures.

Mr. Amissah - Arthur congratulated him for his feat in the global movie industry and encouraged the teenage star to sharpen his talent by taking his academic work seriously.

Speaking to the host Onantefour Addae Mununkum in response to Agya Koo's assertion that, President Mahama and his NDC have made Ghana too difficult to live in and that, ever since the NDC took over this country, the movie industry has vertually collapsed, Asare Bediako told Onantefour, he was surprised with the statement Agya Koo has made.

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

Jaga Pee was one of the leading actors and made a tremendous contribution to the Ghanaian movie industry until an unfortunate situation took him to prison in 1996.

The Hollywood press corps began touting Cruise as one of the «Brat Pack,» a group of twenty - something actors who seemed on the verge of taking over the movie industry in the early»80s.

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.

Despite his enormous success, Eszterhas seemingly felt slighted by the industry in which he made his living, and decided to bite the hand that fed him with Hollywood satire «An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn,» in which director Eric Idle makes a $ 200 million action movie (starring Sylvester Stallone, Jackie Chan and, um, Whoopi Goldberg) and tries to take his name off of it after studio interference, but is unable to because his name is actually Alan Smithee.

This movie really takes you into the lives of workers who work in the train based industries.

After a night of celebrating the best the movie industry has to offer, the big winners have Oscars to take home and the slew of films in the works have something to aspire to achieve in the years to come.

Thus, the reference to Birdman: a movie about an actor attempting to erase the memories of his superhero alter ego by staging a serious play; a movie in which an actor's superhero alter ego follows him like a ghost, reminding him it's the hero people want to see, not the washed - up actor and his play; a movie that exists as a rebuke to the tights - clad tentpoles that have taken over the industry.

In interviews with the Los Angeles Times, six women — including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge — accused filmmaker Brett Ratner of a range of sexual harassment and misconduct that allegedly took place in private homes, on movie sets or at industry events.

It's the only sensible thing anyone says in either this movie or America's Sweethearts, a clunky ribbing of the movie industry, and whoever was making the big choices about these pictures should have taken it as advice.

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.»

In a World... sees Bell taking the lead as a vocal coach, struggling to prove her talents as a movie trailer voiceover performer to an industry dominated by males, including her discouraging father (Fred Melamed) and cocky rising star Gustav (Ken Marino).

You'll encounter: foul - mouthed industry veteran DOTTY (Jacki Weaver); the sinister FINANCIER (Danny McBride); sexy femme fatale SOLEDAD (Megan Fox)-- a haunted «dame», the electric charge to trigger Vikar's breath - taking dive into the captivating world where movies are made.

But seen all together, it becomes clear that the movie industry isn't willing to take any risks, choosing over and over again to tell weepy historical dramas over original stories, and choosing over and over again to focus only on the stories of white people.

Earlier this month, The Envelope gathered some of the industry's top actors not just to talk about their current, award - contending films but to take the temperature of a community rattled by revelations of sexual harassment and assault claims against the likes of movie titan Harvey Weinstein and others.

Noel's Take: The recent documentary Films Of Fury noted that when Kung Fu Panda was released a few years back, it shook up the Hong Kong movie industry a little, that such an internationally successful and high - quality martial arts movie came out of Hollywood, not China.

High stakes duly established, Villeneuve, production designer Dennis Gassner and genius cinematographer Roger Deakins (if he doesn't finally win an Oscar for this, the film industry is truly blind) take full advantage of the mega-budget that franchise filmmaking provides to craft some of the most striking visuals ever put on film, building on Scott's ruined future in ways that — ironically given the themes of the movie — feel absolutely real and lived in, even as that world is occasionally revealed to be less than authentic.

The grape industry is a fashionable movie for celebrities nowadays, though some take it more serious than others.

Stiller said the sequel would take place 10 years after the first movie and said that in Derek and Hansel's industry, «ten years is a thousand years.

It is interesting then that Del Toro decided to take on the project of Pacific Rim (2013), a movie centered on industry.

Earlier this month, The Envelope gathered some of the industry's top actors not just to talk about their current, award - contending films but to take the temperature of a community rattled by revelations of sexual harassment and assault claims against the likes of movie titan Harvey Weinstein and...

First he's gimped - up to satisfy the didacticism of the time (with the trucking industry presenting limited opportunity for a moral, the movie settles on putting the fear of God in us over falling asleep at the wheel), then his role is reduced to reaction shots: When Paul finally takes the stand in the courtroom climax, all Bogart manages to squeeze out is «Wull yeah, but...» This is Raft's show, despite the film's studio - sanctioned absorption into the Bogey canon, though Bogart would have his revenge by stealing the lead in High Sierra — and in theory, every one of his Midas - touched career opportunities subsequent to High Sierra — out from under him.

In his new horror movie The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) takes on the vicious side of the fashion industry, telling the story of an...

It is interesting though, to see several movie directors taking on that challenge though, of taking movie audiences behind the scenes of the old Hollywood movie making industry.

If you are not a baseball fan, the movie works very well as a metaphor for any business maverick who takes a risk and analyzes their company or industry from an entirely new perspective.

If we take lessons from the music and movie industries, we see that if there is a demand for digital versions of a product, then piracy will gladly fill the supply.

The real secret is that without the risk - taking, bankroll, support and distribution clout of the movie industry the most talented actor would be perhaps a summer stock theatre actor, with a precious few making it to broadway plays.

The movie, music, and video game industry are all taking large losses due to the mass sharing of the internet, it only makes sense that ebooks will follow this same course.

Many industry experts believe that Amazon is taking their Instant Video service for renting and buying television shows, movies and original content and bringing it to a dedicated set - top box.

The film industry has taken part with the obvious acceptance of 50 Shades of Grey, but long before that movies were revamping the original stories.

To help Best Western Rewards ® stand out among hotel industry loyalty programs, engage guests at the property, and offer even more rewards for its members, Best Western took a unique approach by strategically partnering with Disney Media as they readied the summer launch of the Disney Channel Original Movie, Zapped.

It's been getting some pretty good reviews, but one of the big criticisms of the movie is that it doesn't take too much of a critical look at the industry like a hardcore Michael Moore type documentary and I'm okay with that.

But as the gamer's age demographic continues to widen and those with narrow windows of opportunity for play time are continually recognised as a viable market, movie - sized games will take root deeper into the industry.

But with UTA Fine Arts, the old - world apparatus that inflates the fortunes of bona fide movie stars is taking contemporary artists into its purview, making the collision — or collusion — of two disparate industries all the more inevitable.

Further, take the family to a hotel outfitted by DECE member LodgeNet, a provider of media and connectivity solutions to the hospitality industry, and you can access your movie collection from your room.

From taking on powerful politicians to wealthy movie moguls, no industry is excluded from #MeToo.