Sentences with phrase «of film executives»

The list is a compilation of the «best» unproduced scripts making the rounds of Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives.

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When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

Hundreds of Chinese film industry representatives attended, as well as Hollywood executives and Chinese government officials that included the vice governor of Shandong province.

«So whoever initiated this — and was very proud of themselves to see that little dip in Iran's centrifuge numbers — should look back now and acknowledge it was a major mistake,» Emad Kiyaei, executive director American Iranian Council, says in the film.

«Age of Ultron» executive producer Jeremy Latcham talks about how the stones were adapted from the comics to film.

Guest Sharks over the years have included Nick Woodman (founder and CEO of GoPro), Steve Tisch (film producer and chairman and executive vice-president of the New York Giants), and billionaire John Paul DeJoria (co-founder of Paul Mitchell hair products and the Patrón Spirits Company).

An Indian film executive told a U.S. diplomat in 2010 that American films represent just 3 % to 6 % of the Indian market, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

After overseeing the reboot of the Star Trek film franchise, he took the reins to steer movie goers back to that galaxy far, far away, directing and executive producing Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The partnership will officially launch at the 5th Annual ARRAY Soiree at this year's Sundance Film Festival where DuVernay and Indiegogo co-founder, Danae Ringlemann, will host 50 industry influencers, executives and creatives for a discussion on the present state of diversity in film as well as brainstorming ideas for the future.

«Whether it's episodic TV, indie films or Hollywood blockbusters, video consumption is exploding across every device and brands are following those eyeballs,» said Brad Rencher, Adobe's executive vice president of digital marketing.

SQ, +1.27 % Chief Executive Jack Dorsey posted a short film detailing the small - business efforts of Syrian refugees.

Mr. Walker recently helped the organization's chairman, Jay Fishman, recruit prominent African - Americans like Debra Martin Chase (Harvard Law, 1981), a film producer who has worked with Denzel Washington; and Ursula Burns, the departing chief executive officer of Xerox.

Dissident shareholders of Twenty - First Century Fox Inc. (formerly part of the News Corp. media empire) are pushing Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch to give up the dual - class structure at the film and television company.

Meanwhile, she pops up everywhere in the gender equality world — for instance, Harnisch was executive producer of The Hunting Ground, a new film about campus sexual assault.

A sex film of Reilly and his Chinese girlfriend was sent to GSK board members — including the chief executive Andrew Witty — which blew open the scandal.

«Executives from Cambridge Analytica, hired by the Trump presidential campaign, have been caught on tape promising an extraordinary package of strategies to potential clients including filming opponents in compromising situations with Ukrainian sex workers,» The Daily Beast writes of U.K. station Channel 4's documentary.

Tull, who will remain chairman and chief executive officer of Legendary, has been seeking to expand in Asia with Legendary East and in 2013 signed an agreement with China Film Co. to jointly produce large - scale films for global audiences, such as «The Great Wall,» which will star Matt Damon.

Tied to this work, he advised Pixar Studios in the making of their Academy Award - winning animated film, «Inside Out,» and guided Facebook executives in creating their new emoticons.

She has served as executive producer of four documentary films, including Kicking It, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival; A Powerful Noise, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival; She Is the Matador; and The Other City, a critically acclaimed portrayal of the HIV / AIDS crisis in Washington, DC, which premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.

«We are in midst of working through what will happen with the movie with respect to the rights,» says Paul Davidson, The Orchard executive vp film and TV.

Elon Musk, co-founder, chief executive and product architect of Tesla Motors, poses at the premiere of the documentary film «Revenge of the Electric Car,» Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, at Tesla Motors in Los Angeles.

Moore, the Paramount executive, said focus groups had similar questions: How much of the film is from the Bible and how much was invented by Aronofsky?

The executive producers of the God's Not Dead film series have donated $ 25,000 to the rebuilding of a...

As a former executive and 20 - year veteran of the television and film industries, Brenner was familiar with the disenchantment of working in a male - dominated industry.

Bailey Pryor, Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer, began his unconventional venture into the spirits industry in 2006 while producing a documentary film, currently running on PBS, about the life of the famous prohibition era Rum Runner, Captain Bill McCoy.

Washington, DC — The Grocery Manufacturers Association today released the following statement from Sean McBride, executive vice president of communications and membership, in response to the recently released film «Fed Up:»

But as a report by Sky Sports shows, the Arsenal chief executive hit back and rubbished the reports that claimed the club were sitting on some huge pile of cash like Smaug the dragon in the series of films The Hobbit.

Although the film has national reach, Lunch Line is a Chicago story through and through: at the post-screening discussion, the co-directors, Michael Graziano and Ernie Park, found themselves reunited with several of the food - service experts, policy wonks, corporate executives and community activists depicted in their film.

Nestlé Chief Executive Officer, Mr Paul Bulcke, told shareholders the film concerned matters from decades ago and was based on the allegations of just one man, although the real sick babies in the film were filmed in 2013 and the allegations are substantiated by documentary evidence, including surveys in 33 cities.

CiC hosted a screening of The Mama Sherpas, a film by Brigid Maher, with executive producers Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein who are best known for The Business of Being Born, and more recently Breastmilk.

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

Winger is an executive producer of the anti-fracking film Gasland, and it's director Josh Fox also spoke to the crowd.

«Filmmaking and daily operations at the CNY film hub are about to enter into a new era with the hire of studio manager Huayu Xu,» said Mike Massurin, executive director of the Syracuse International Film Festival, in a prepared statement.

In his state - of - the - county address on Tuesday, County Executive Mike Hein called on the state to enact legislation that would include Ulster in a tax - credit program to encourage film production companies to work here.

Chris Blythe, Chief Executive at the Chartered Institute of Building said: «Our partnership with ITN Productions is about creating inspiring films with the industry.

According to the SEC complaint, the $ 100 million investment from the New York pension fund came only after the Quadrangle executive arranged for a Quadrangle affiliate to distribute the DVD of a low - budget film called «Chooch,» which was produced by the brother of former New York state deputy comptroller David Loglisci.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - New York and Onondaga County will invest in a new film house that will mix nanotechnology and the film industry with the hopes of starting up new businesses, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney announced Tuesday night.

«We believe that the film and TV production credit is already far too large and that it is a mistake to add another, politically attractive but fiscally dubious branch to it,» added John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany.

One of the companies that received the film promotion pacts, Hauppauge - based BluChip Marketing, is headed by Karin Murphy Caro, who last month was tied to County Executive Edward Mangano through reported sexually suggestive text messages.

Cineflix executive producer Jacqueline Bynon said her film crew visited the Dannemora area in February for the one - hour documentary — about two weeks before Joyce Mitchell, who was convicted of helping David Sweat and Richard Matt escape, had her first parole hearing.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Film executives, including «Breaking Bad» actor Giancarlo Esposito, are starting to scout locations in Central New York after the announcement earlier this year of the new film technology hub to be built in DeWitt.

While the Onondaga County executive was not mentioned in the criminal case, her fingerprints are all over some of the projects called into question, particularly the film hub COR built in DeWitt using $ 15 million in state money.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

Governor Cuomo now says he's returning all of the money donated to his campaign from disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein.

Over the last week, Cambridge Analytica has been accused of illegally buying data on 50 million Facebook profiles, with its executives filmed claiming to use honey traps and bribery to smear political opponents.

The Ulster County Executive announced Tuesday the launch of a film finance program to encourage more film, media and television productions to film in the county.

Weinstein, a film executive, was fired from his company after being accused of sexual misconduct.

Remarks were offered by Rush Holt, AAAS CEO executive publisher of the Science family of journals, who moderated a discussion including Rep. Jerry McNerney (D - California) as well as film director Jon Bowermaster and others.

Initial funding for the program was donated by David Evans Shaw, a Maine - based entrepreneur, AAAS treasurer and executive producer of the film «Second Century Stewardship: Science Beyond the Scenery in Acadia National Park.»

In 1957, marketing executive James Vicary claimed that during screenings of the film Picnic, the words «eat popcorn» and «drink Coca - Cola» were flashed on the screen every five seconds for 1/3, 000 second — well below the threshold of conscious awareness.