Sentences with phrase «of films the division»

This was the case recently when Amy Pascal, Sony's co-chairman and chief of its film division, came under intense criticism for her remarks about President Barack Obama and less than flattering statements about high - profile actors, including Angelina Jolie, Kevin Hart and Adam Sandler.

Investors miss the point when they point to the relatively small (17 % of operating income) size of the film division.

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The five films Murdoch's 20th Century Fox division put out this summer season (which runs from the first weekend in May through Labor Day in the entertainment industry) grossed $ 783 million as of earlier this week, according to film revenue - tracking website Box Office Mojo.

DreamWorks Animation, the studio behind beloved family movies like «Shrek» and «Kung - Fu Panda» that is headed by CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, will become part of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, specifically the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes Universal Pictures, Fandango, and NBCUniversal Brand Development.

One shareholder asked Iger about his plans for Fox Searchlight, the arthouse film division that on Sunday won the Academy Award for best picture for «The Shape of Water.»

The thin film solar maker is also reviving its EPC division with a goal to build 1 GW of solar projects each year, as well as increasing its presence in O&M services.

That was primarily because its film division, Paramount, had no theatrical releases in the quarter, compared with last year, when it released «Transformers: Age of Extinction.»

Fewer films, more controlled budgets, but more selective releases allowed the fimled entertainment division to post a positive operating profit of $ 7 million in the quarter - a huge improvement from a staggering loss of - $ 114 million in the prior Q2.

In addition to our core business of providing flexible film packaging solutions for a variety of industries, Temkin also has divisions featuring premium retail consumer products and digital printing services.

About Condé Nast Entertainment: Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) is a division of Condé Nast that focuses on the development, production, and distribution of original television, feature film, and digital video offerings based on the company's iconic media brands, which for more than one hundred years have created the world's greatest content for the world's most influential audiences.

«Our new film has been produced specifically for use in less extreme graphics applications where cost is more of a deciding factor,» said Kim Brewer, Marketing Manager, 3M's Commercial Graphics division.

Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Paterson, and Ed Rendell added their names to the list of lawmakers supporting the deal, which would create a new $ 30 billion joint venture by merging the Philadelphia cable giant's content division with NBC Universal's (NBCU) stable of television networks, film studios and theme parks.

Michael Novakowsky, a budget division unit chief, said Percoco pushed for the release of funds for a central New York film hub being developed by COR Development in both a phone call and a series of emails calling for the division to get money that «can be processed done asap.»

Antonacci thinks this is a case where Onondaga County legislators should get involved, clearly establishing the film commission as a division within the Office of Economic Development, with a budget and mission and accountability.

The film depicts several sperm attempting to fertilize the egg, «zooms in» on one sperm's tail to show how the dynein proteins move in sync to cause the tail to bend and flex, and ends with the sperm's successful journey into the egg and the initiation of cell division that will ultimately create a new organism.

The films are part of his groups work to understand the molecular mechanism of the nuclear division cycle in the intact living cell.

The researchers captured this on video microscopy, filming the division of a grey low - PSA cell into one copy of itself and one copy of a vibrantly green PSA - positive cell.

For the event, the Radio Astronomy Division of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) provided the images of the moon in the radio spectrum and a parabola antenna as well as a documentary film about the construction of ALMA.

As a graduate student in the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Lu worked with Boston University professor James Collins to engineer a bacteriophage that can attack films of bacteria that accumulate on surfaces.

Now comes The American, a European - set film from photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn (he made Control, about Joy Division's Ian Curtis), a thriller based on a 1990 Martin Booth novel that promises some high - toned excitement, and a chance to see the dark side of George Clooney - that is, the side that isn't being a handsome scamp or earnest humanitarian.

This is an unapologetically nerdy film, too, one that relishes the delicate grace of cell division seen under a microscope.

Sony's autonomous specialty films division was also one of eight distributors (with at least seven releases) to avoid releasing a negatively reviewed film in all of 2011.

Universal's specialty films division had a lousy 2014 (in terms of quality), and rebounded only slightly in 2015, increasing its average Metascore by over 3 points and its percentage of films with positive reviews from 25 % to 45 %.

Codeblack Films, a division of Lionsgate will release the film wide on April 20, 2018.

Universal's specialty films division, Focus Features had a wildly disappointing 2014 from a quality standpoint (especially compared to its successful 2013), despite the presence of an Oscar best picture nominee (The Theory of Everything).

A founding member of both the Drama Division of New York's Juilliard School and John Houseman's The Acting Company, she is equally at home on the Broadway stage as she is in front of film and television cameras.

He has also starred in award - winning features, including Andrea Arnold's FISH TANK, Joy Division bio-pic CONTROL, and the British cult film BROTHERS OF THE HEAD.

Kino Lorber's KL Classics division adds a new 2K Blu - ray restoration of Howard Hughes» incendiary and controversial western epic THE OUTLAW to their impressive list of film classic home video releases and to celebrate the occasion producer / host Dick Dinman revisits his previous chat with the late OUTLAW sensation Jane Russell which is presented uncut and unedited for the very first time.

Owing more to sports drama pacing than you are anticipating (the film is co-produced by ESPN's film division), the film is so vibrantly alive as to never succumb to the sluggish pitfalls of overly familiar narrative structures.

Both stars are already receiving great praise for their roles, and under the watchful eye of Anton Corbijn whose excellent Control captured later Joy Division singer Ian Curtis so profoundly, it's safe to assume we'll be getting a touching, insightful, and rather beautiful film.

Much of the rest of the film feels forced — from the preachy animated prologue, to obvious, basic themes about racial division, tension and hatred.

Adapted from the John le Carré best seller, A MOST WANTED MAN is the latest film from Anton Corbijn, a filmmaker who cut his teeth on Nineties music videos and delivered the intelligently - crafted monochromatic Control, an exploration into the life of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.

She will continue to be a key member of STX's leadership team, and will collaborate with the studio's film, digital, television and VR divisions to maximize brand equity.

Jason Blum's film division is in the midst of a 10 - year deal with Universal Pictures, which has already resulted in «Get Out» and «Whiplash,» among other movies.

It's London, 1941: The boys are off to war, the bombs are falling overhead and Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton) has landed a new gig at the Ministry of Information, film division.

Searchlight's main competition has been Focus Features, the prestige film division of Universal, which this year racked up an impressive 14 nominations for «Phantom Thread» and «Darkest Hour.»

The film doesn't get involved in Clough's personal life but focuses on his career with both clubs, starting off with Clough viewed firstly as a small - time Second Division manager then an arrogant manager on top of Division One.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

As the title implies, the focus of this hour - long live - action series is not on the larger than life costumed superheroes who turned The Avengers into the third highest - grossing film of all time, but the employees of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, the government agency of espionage and law enforcement that has worked with and sometimes against the likes of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and the Hulk.

THE DVD The kids division of MGM presents It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie in a full - frame «Special Edition» presentation all the more puzzling for the fact that a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer was prepared for the film's R2 release.

It's meticulously directed, the foley is as sharp and crowd pleasing as the finest Mamet dialogue, and Krasinski doesn't neglect the emotional core of the film — the family vying to survive, whose tensions, divisions and turmoil we experience in near silence, but with great expressivity and economy.

Prior to joining Sundance, Putnam was President of Production at Miramax films, a division of the Walt Disney Company, where she oversaw Acquisitions, Development, Production, Post-Production and Production Finance and made or acquired films including The Coen Brothers» No Country for Old Men, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will be Blood, Ben Affleck's directorial debut Gone Baby Gone, Stephen Frears» The Queen, Greg Mottola's Adventureland and Julian Schnabel's Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

It's unfortunate that the way films are being sold and marketed reinforces divisions based not so much on taste, class and culture, as on whatever notions of taste, class and culture the big studios happen to have.

Co-founded by presidents Howard Cohen and Eric d'Arbeloff, in 2016 Roadside Attractions» films out - grossed the slates of such well - established specialty divisions as Fox Searchlight, TWC, and Sony Classics.

Helmed by Oren Moverman, it explores the state of the LAPD circa the late»90s but, despite what its title suggests, the film isn't about the infamous Rampart scandal — an umbrella term for the widespread corruption that occurred inside the Division's anti-gang unit (offenses ranged from unprovoked shootings, planting of evidence, narcotics possession, bank robbery, and perjury)-- but instead it's set whilst the events were still current.

The division, part of billionaire Haim Saban's media empire, racked up five total by the end of the festival: the Gerard Butler psychological thriller «Keepers,» Keanu Reeves» romantic thriller «Siberia,» «Berlin, I Love You» with Kiera Knightley and Helen Mirren, Nicolas Cage's «Between Worlds» and the historical action film «Viking Destiny.»

Although the film's controversial nature depends in part on the explicitness of some of the unsimulated sex scenes — an ejaculation shot, for instance, and images of cunnilingus in which the labia are clearly visible — the crux of the problem for many critics has been the slender division between fiction and documentary.

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment PR bigwig 42West is expanding its below - the - line publicity group, setting Rachel Aberly to spearhead the now bi-coastal division that will focus on strategies showcasing the work of film and TV crafts artists for both awards - season and overall release campaigns.

Last year, Amazon had a huge breakthrough success in their film division, with Manchester by the Sea becoming an indie hit, followed by a bunch of Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and wins for star Casey Affleck and writer / director Kenneth Lonergan's screenplay.

In 1973, British film theorist Laura Mulvey described the «active / passive hetero sexual division of labor,» declaring that men «can not bear the burden of sexual objectification.»