Sentences with phrase «of a movie studio as»

Do we expect the same of a movie studio as a whole?

Not exact matches

Praising the movie industry as «one of America's economic engines,» Mr Obama told studio chiefs: «Entertainment is one of the bright spots of our economy.

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

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

As a result, the industry has even seems to be gradually warming to the idea of premium streaming options, where studios release movies for customers to stream at home while they're still showing in theaters.

2016 was an especially monster year for Disney at the box office distinguishing it from much of Hollywood as the movie studio continues to close ranks around its core franchises, such as Pixar and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The big match - up at this year's Super Bowl won't be the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers, it will be the strange alliance of television networks and movie studios, as movie studios are now among the biggest Super Bowl advertisers.

It looks as if the studio undershooting how well «Wonder Woman» would perform, along with its making plans to develop «Justice League Dark» and a Batgirl movie, led to its lack of attention to a «Wonder Woman» sequel.

In the same way that a film studio can help a person with an incredible screenplay navigate the logistics of making a movie, a startup studio assists domain experts who might have a solid concept but aren't as strong on the coding side.

None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

The streaming site previously signed similar licensing deals with a range of movie studios, such as 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Viacom's Paramount, and Comcast's NBCUniversal, among others.

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.

During the last years, there has been a trend in which airlines and movie studios are teaming up together to launch movie - themed liveries as part of global marketing campaigns.

After the acquisition, DreamWorks Animation will become part of NBCUniversal's Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes its Illumination Entertainment animation business — which produced the popular Despicable Me and Minions movies — as well as the Universal Pictures movie studio.

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:

To compete, other studios could also merge — giving us essentially a movie version of the NBA's super-team syndrome — or they could amp up efforts to infiltrate streaming, leaving their movie studios as an output for major blockbusters that audiences still want to watch in theaters.

Just as studios don't let movie theaters sell DVDs of what they screen, they won't simply allow Netflix customers to make a copy for later.

However, the rest of the Getty scenes in the movie are clearly of Plummer, which Scott could pull off as they are mostly scenes shot in one exterior location or interiors, which could all have been filmed on studio sets.

His company, Magic Johnson Enterprises, has a reported net worth of $ 700 million based on the success of subsidiaries such as Magic Johnson Productions, a promotional company; Magic Johnson Theaters, a nationwide chain of movie theaters; and Magic Johnson Entertainment, a movie studio.

In February, Amy Pascal, the longtime head of Sony Pictures Entertainment, lost her job as chairman of the movie studio after a hacking attack late last year, which the U.S. government blamed on North Korea, led to the disclosure of a series of embarrassing emails.

Some of the reason is simple math: R - rated movies just don't make as much money as PG - 13 movies do, so studios are eager to chop their films into relatively tame affairs.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles...

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

Across the Nordic region, Discovery owns and operates SBS Discovery Media, a top - three portfolio of 20 television brands that feature leading nonfiction content, as well as locally produced entertainment programs, sports and the best scripted series and movies from major studios.

Hollywood writer - director Jeremy Garelick plans to transform the 89 - year - old building into a movie - based learning facility and studio, which will be known as the Liverpool School of Cinema.

They would render «decisions promptly and furnish information expeditiously» so as to avoid delays on the building of the Film Hub project, a movie production studio in Dewitt, the contract says.

Look as though Pumping Iron was bought by one of the big movie studios.

As the premiere of The Amazing Spider - Man creeps up on us, and the movie studio's publicity machine attempts to morph the new leading man into a Hollywood heartthrob, he seems to be capturing one magazine cover after the other.

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staAs schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

Given that The Peacemaker is the first ever movie from the newly formed DreamWorks movie studio, the brainchild of Steven Spielberg, it comes as a certain surprise that the plot is one of the most basic action movie plots - catching the terrorist who stole several weapons of mass destruction and intends to use them.

The dearth of positive attributes subsequently ensures that American Pie Presents The Book of Love is unlikely to appeal to even the most ardent American Pie fan, and it's finally impossible not to view the continued existence of these movies as a shameless cash - grab by the studio.

Z Channel not only played an incredibly wide selection of great movies that were swept under the rug by studios for what was considered disappointing box office performances, but it also helped institute what we know today as the director's cut.

In episode 301, the third season premiere, Bette and Tina try to rekindle their sexual groove after having a child; road rage grabs hold of Alice as she chases after Dana through the streets of Los Angeles; Helena purchases a movie studio; Jenny returns with a new girlfriend.

In 1929, Dunne was cast as Magnolia in the Chicago company production of Show Boat; her superlative performance led to a movie contract with RKO, where after a few inconsequential programmers like Leathernecking (1930), she became one of the top dramatic stars at that studio.

I spent much of the movie thinking about her Oscar - nominated turn as an intrepid Boston Globe reporter in «Spotlight» and her wrenching performance as an Orthodox Jewish woman in the upcoming drama «Disobedience,» and wondering why the studios can't give this brilliant actress something comparably rewarding to do.

For any other studio, making a movie of this size and scope would be a risky endeavor, and an unsuccessful one at that, but for Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios it's business as usual.

A product of the Indiana orphanage system, the part - Cherokee - Indian Monte Blue held down jobs ranging from stevedore to reporter before offering his services as a movie - studio handyman in the early 1910s.

Hollywood - studio movies advocating socialism are something of a rarity, but Beatty's positioning of Jay Bulworth as an amiable loose - cannon visionary - at times, the character recalls the Peter Finch «mad as hell» anchorman in Network - tempers the message somewhat.

It does eventually show its hand as a space - monster movie, but Abrams never loses his grip on the entwined stories of his hugely likeable young cast, whose wit and resilience make them the antidote to studio - brat tweeness.

With over a decade of experience in the movie industry, Ellwood survived working for two major studios, has written for Variety, MSN and the LA Times and co-founded HitFix, Inc. serving as its first Editor - in - Chief and President.

Although it's refreshing to see a major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults (even if it stars one of the most bankable actors in the world), when that movie is as passively mediocre as «Focus,» you can understand why other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.

At the moment a direct movie adaptation of the comic can't be made by any film studio due to rights issues; several major characters who appear in the comic (including Hawkeye and the Incredible Hulk) are part of Marvel's Avengers film franchise, and therefore aren't available to be used as part of the X-Men movie franchise.

Newcomer to the madness is Ricky Gervais as the smooth and smarmy studio honcho suddenly worried that the Purim theme of the film will put off the gentile movie - going public.

Explains the site: The studio and Wan had a cut of the movie, which stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as paranormal investigators, in which the antagonist was a demonic figure with horns.

Critics weren't especially kind to Bright, Netflix's big 2017 push to brand itself as a real, bona fide movie studio, complete with an awful, David Ayer - directed Will Smith blockbuster of its very own.

The movie still went on to make huge amounts of money for the studio and you can bet the Blu - ray / DVD will do gangbuster business as well.

His previous films alternate between Spanish - language dark fantasy pieces, such as The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006), winner of three Academy Awards; and American studio movies, such as the vampire superhero action pic Blade II (2002), the supernatural adventures Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008); and the sci - fi monsters - versus - robots film Pacific Rim (2013).

During his lifetime, his films were dismissively referred to as «home movies,» but in the age of iMovie his kitchen - sink production studio looks positively prescient.

In movies, Crawford made the rounds of the studios in one - off roles, usually in relatively minor films such as Submarine D - 1, Undercover Doctor, and Eternally Yours.