Sentences with phrase «number of movie studios»

Celebrity houses and a number of movie studios line the route that leads to the ocean.

Not exact matches

Viacom owns the Paramount Pictures movie studio, as well as a number of networks such as Nickolodeon and Comedy Central.

But for Paramount, the studio's success will largely be defined by movie ticket sales as well as the number of big blockbuster and tentpole film franchises it can churn out.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theatres Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theatre locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Rentrak with studio estimates and actuals where available:

What you might have missed: Revenue for Disney's studio entertainment segment dipped 2 % in the quarter, to $ 1.9 billion, because of lower box - office numbers in what was a down year overall for movie - ticket sales.

Distributor Sony Pictures Classics has pulled off a number of wins in this category, and, in Andrei Zvyagintsev's «Leviathan,» which took the screenplay award at Cannes, the studio has another strong contender, a movie that weaves naturalism, allegory and dark humor into a multi-layered masterpiece.

Olcott's «The Lad From Old Ireland» — which played especially well to the growing number of Irish immigrants in the U.S. at the time — is one of the first known examples of an American studio shooting a movie in a foreign location.

Pixar continues to produce some marvelous, out - of - the - box movies — Inside Out, the underrated Brave — but Finding Dory joins a growing number of misfires, including The Good Dinosaur and Monsters University, that suggest the studio's golden era might be behind it.

British director Terence Fisher is best known for his work with Hammer Films but before he started making movies for the studio that dripped blood, Fisher edited and co-directed a number of films for Gainsborough Pictures.

There's a reason for that, as the ever more risk - averse studios have retreated into formulaic action movies and by - the - numbers superhero franchises, of which there are now a dizzying amount.

With the exception of certain word - of - mouth hits (think: Get Out), a studio movie's success is measured against its opening weekend numbers, which is why after a movie is released, the gears driving the studio's marketing push grind to a halt.

An optional French language track confirms that terrible movies are less terrible in French (and terrible actors are suddenly not - bad), and an unusual number of subtitle options clarify the broad audience the studio is targeting with this release.

You can visit any number of other sites to get the same regurgitated Top 50 Most Anticipated Movies of 2018, each of them running through the big budget films in a different order, all titles you no doubt will be actively aware of precisely when the studio giants backing them want you to.

Though an increasing number of women are directing movies today, film directing is still a male - dominated role in the industry particularly when it comes to big - budget studio movies.

And while the domestic numbers for that film are less than thrilling — only $ 67 million despite two straight weekends at the top of the box office — internationally, the film is kicking ass and with more than $ 150 million worldwide, if the movie shows some legs, the studio will at least have a blueprint to get rolling on a followup.

The Animated Feature nominees tend to lean towards studio fare (even box office failures) so expect to see the likes of Coco, Ferdinand, The Boss Baby and / or any number of sequels that hit this year like Cars 3, Despicable Me 3 or The LEGO Batman Movie.

Fast forward to Little Miss Sunshine, which played last year to a festival audience that now numbers 50,000, including «industry» denizens from studio - indie divisions, giant stand - alone indies such as Lionsgate, and a scattering of valiant unaffiliated independent companies, plus assorted lawyers, agents, producers, pr people, journalists and gossip - peddlers, fashionistas and bottom - feeders — every one of them attuned to the synergy among movies, TV, and the Web (it's all entertainment) and how that synergy serves the bottom line.

is, if nothing else, confirmation that the «magic of movies» really lies in the sequence and number of phone calls a studio exec happens to make.

uncan Jones was probably bombarded with a number of offers to direct a big studio movie following the release and cult success of his directorial debut, «Moon,» but there's something about his decision to choose «Source Code» as his follow - up that tells you a lot about the kind of filmmaker he hopes to become.

Overdrive confirmed with Good e-Reader at the American Library Association 2013 conference that they have struck a deal with Criterion Pictures USA to have have a number of movies in their catalog from studios they represent.

On Monday, it added TV shows and movies from News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox studio, bringing the total number of streaming titles to 11,000 titles.

Atomhawk's clients include a number of high profile videogame developers, movie studios and product designers, including NetherRealm Studios, CCP, Rebellion, Deep Silver, Rock Steady Studios, Square Enix, Ninja Theory, BBC, Rare and Ubisoft.

Ranked number 45 in the Forbes list of richest Americans, with a net worth of $ 4.5 bn, Geffen was one of the three founders along with Steven Spielberg of the Dreamworks movie studios.

A number of prominent U.S. industries, particularly movie studios and record labels, benefit immensely from strong copyright protection in the United States and want that same protection afforded in foreign markets.

The company has managed to rally support from a number of major Hollywood film studios — Paramount and Lionsgate are the major holdouts — and the end result is Movies Anywhere, a new service that promises glorious cross-platform support for (almost) all the digital movies that you've ever purcMovies Anywhere, a new service that promises glorious cross-platform support for (almost) all the digital movies that you've ever purcmovies that you've ever purchased.