Sentences with phrase «of film companies»

I do nt understand the need for the region codes, there is PAL and NTSC, and nearly all forms of TV can display both formats, i think its just a way of the film companies keeping certain regions DVD prices at a very high level compared to others.

Empire State Development, the state's economic development office, released records that show the names of the film companies that benefit from tax breaks in New York.

It has been reported that Harvey Weinstein had a contract drawn up in which the board of his film company could not terminate his employment if he paid off women accusing him of sexual harassment with his own money.

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The past decade has seen a rising demand for «music supervision» of the type Grayson Matthews provides — companies and individuals dedicated to creating or finding the right song for the right moment in a piece of film.

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

Instead, the film will bear the logo of Amblin Entertainment, which preceded DreamWorks and could be an alternate name for the company.

The company works with major film studios to create original and marketing content ahead of movie releases.

SHANGHAI — A Chinese company that manufactured Ivanka Trump shoes and has been accused of serious labor abuses is being celebrated in a blockbuster propaganda film for extending China's influence around the globe.

• Finnish companies including Canatu OY, a maker of 3D formable and stretchable films; Grundium OY, a creator of a portable digital microscope scanner; and TactoTek OY, a injection molded structural electronics maker, have raised over 24 million euros ($ 28.5 million) from Ascend Capital Partners.

Since launching Raleigh Construction Company (now Raleigh Enterprises) in 1955, he has acquired, developed and managed more than 11 million square feet of real estate across the globe, reimagining dormant plots of land and run - down commercial buildings as resort hotels, residential apartments, office towers, shopping centers and film studios.

Wei said he included the company in the film because it is «introducing China's experience of prosperity to Africa.»

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.

The company's assets include the rights to some of its award - winning films it produced and distributed as well as some of the rights deals to films that are still in production, according to CNNMoney.

Pamon is now taking on the role of chief operating officer of Beyoncé's management company, Parkwood Entertainment, which encompasses artist management, production, tours, film, television, and apparel.

The film featuring an all - Black cast, and a story - line set in the fictitious African nation of Wakanda, has broken so many records in just two months on the market, Disney, the parent company of Marvel Comics, released an infographic to list them all.

What began as a film - production company blossomed into a full - fledged media organization, with a news platform, RYOT Films and RYOT Creative, which makes videos for paying clients as well as pro bono clients like Pencils of Promise, a nonprofit that builds schools.

Until then, RYOT, the media company Darg co-founded in 2012, had released just one VR film, a simulated experience of solitary confinement, which had premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival the month he left for Nepal.

At the end of the day, though, even though the company experiments with films and design sets centered around popular franchises, traditional LEGO bricks are still the main focus.

Private - equity firm Lantern Capital is the winning bidder for substantially all the assets of The Weinstein Company, the TV and film studio that filed for bankruptcy after co-founder Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault, The Weinstein Company said on Tuesday.

The company tracked the number of Internet searches across various platforms for each of the Best Picture nominees during the week before the nominations were announced last month and the week after, and then compared those numbers to the weeks around each film's initial release.

Feltheimer says the drop occurred in part because the company released fewer films than usual into what it believed would be a poor economic climate for movies — not because of the quality of the films.

Lions Gate began in Vancouver as a small distributor of low - budget films, and though technically incorporated in Canada, most of the company's operations are now in California.

Except that's not working either — newly discovered emails that were leaked as part of a hacking job on Sony last year show the company offered to pay $ 5 million for actor Daniel Craig to use a Sony Xperia as part of the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre.

They're one of a team of vendors, a number of special effects companies, working together under a visual effects supervisor on the film.

Porn companies are able to get away with strikingly similar parodies of existing IP either by cutting secret deals with the original producers or by convincing courts that their films can't possibly be confused with said content.

In 2011, the company released a stop - motion short film to promote organic and sustainable farming, featuring a Willie Nelson cover of Coldplay's «The Scientist.»

In a statement, Vice founder and CEO Shane Smith said the launch of Vice Studios would allow the company to «build up the largest millennial video library in the world — enabling Vice to widen our offering to include; news, food, music, fashion, art, travel, gaming, lifestyle, scripted and feature films.»

Movie booking site Fandango told Variety that the film has become the biggest pre-seller in the history of the ticketing company, besting the inaugural installment of The Hunger Games.

The Toronto - based company announced Wednesday that the hit superhero film accounted for 22 per cent of its box office revenue in the first quarter.

With sales of recorded music withering, the hot idea among record labels was to sign artists to so - called 360 deals, where a company didn't just release a band's recordings, but promoted the concerts, sold the merchandise, and shared in profits from websites, fan clubs and film deals.

The combined company, which will retain the eOne name, will hold about a 20 % share of the distribution market for independent films in Canada and will have significantly expanded its footprint in international territories.

With the addition of Alliance's 90 - film output, the total will climb to over 200 and Throop said the company plans to maintain that pace.

Independent from any marketing and advertising arms within the company, the Lab's «Creative Five» is a mix of selected technologists and creatives from various fields: designers, mobile - developers, film producers, animators, writers, etc..

While major production companies and distributors, à la Disney, typically get most of the credit for the success of Hollywood films, there are dozens of independently run startups like Rodeo that contribute in no small part to the success of projects, and without which these films would not look as glossy as they do.

Yet the technology news site Re / code reported that Sony was investigating to determine whether hackers working on behalf of North Korea were responsible for the attack as retribution for the company's backing of the film «The Interview.»

At the time of departure, Favreau told MTV he was under the impression Marvel wasn't sure of the direction in which the company wanted to take the film.

The film company is doing very well, and of course it's got a bonus now with the Netflixes and the Amazons coming in buying programs.

I applaud the company's fearless dive into this latest storytelling technology, continuing a pioneering knack for branded content that goes back 15 years (to parent company BMW's series of short films known as The Hire).

Suntory Holdings Limited, the parent company of the whisky and the new owner of American bourbons and whiskeys, doesn't mind the film's connection to the spirit.

So, at the recommendation of the company, Ahrendts traveled to Minneapolis to meet with a coach, where she would be filmed and critiqued.

After praising the DreamWorks brand, he said the main goal was the company's «deep library of intellectual property,» which would help NBCUniversal «grow our film, television, theme parks and consumer products businesses for years to come.»

The Justice Department said AT&T would use Time Warner's films and movies to force rival pay TV companies to pay «hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner's networks» in its lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Washington.

And while it likely earns a handsome payday from The Hunger Games — Color Force has been paid an undisclosed fee for its services and given a share of the profits — those funds don't last forever for an ambitious, growing company in the fickle film industry.

Netflix's notable success with «Mudbound,» however — its first non-documentary feature to earn an Oscar nod — comes amid a huge push for the company into the realm of original film.

Still, while Guardians of the Galaxy has vaulted past its summer of 2014 competition, the movie is still barely inside the top 20 grossing Disney films of all - time and it entered Labor Day weekend slightly behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier for the company's (and the industry's) best - performing film of the year.

The success of Guardians, no matter how relative, has helped Disney settle into second - place, behind Fox, in the summer box - office race as the company's five summer films have made a total of $ 624.6 million, at an average of almost $ 125 million per film.

Carey filmed his segment in April, pitching for what he calls «the largest legitimate ask in reality TV history»: $ 2 million for four per cent of his company, for a $ 50 million valuation.

Jack Horner, a spokesman for Warner Bros., the studio releasing the film, said in a statement that the company, a unit of Time Warner Co, «denounces any violent, anti-Muslim rhetoric, including that which has been attributed to viewers» of the film.

Something Ventured, a new documentary film directed by husband - and - wife team Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, explores the lives of the men who, in the early 1960s when the venture capital industry was just beginning to take shape, risked social status (and their money) to back the companies they truly believed in.

«These pioneers laid the groundwork for our start» up economy, providing not just capital but guidance to help fledgling companies grow into global powerhouses,» noted the filmmakers in a description of the film posted on their website.