Sentences with phrase «of movie studios for»

They were the faces of movie studios for much of the 20th century.

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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.

Trump voiced his opposition to the AT&T - Time Warner deal while campaigning for the White House, calling the deal «too much concentration of power» between Time Warner's media assets (which also include HBO and Warner Bros. movie studios) and AT&T's huge wireless and broadband distribution network.

The movie studio filed for bankruptcy in the wake of sexual harassment claims against co-founder Harvey Weinstein, and its assets went up for sale.

Here's an example of how it works: An investor buys a $ 20,000 credit from the movie studio for $ 17,500 before December 31, 2017.

Following a trail blazed by brands like Intel, it's redefining its offering from being a technical curiosity for movie studios to being the mark of films that matter, and a feature that consumers will demand.

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.

Of course, some of the nominated films are still in theaters, and winning a big haul at the Academy Awards is known to result in a bump at movie theaters, which is all the more reason for studios to pull out all the stops in their awards - season marketing effortOf course, some of the nominated films are still in theaters, and winning a big haul at the Academy Awards is known to result in a bump at movie theaters, which is all the more reason for studios to pull out all the stops in their awards - season marketing effortof the nominated films are still in theaters, and winning a big haul at the Academy Awards is known to result in a bump at movie theaters, which is all the more reason for studios to pull out all the stops in their awards - season marketing efforts.

Much of the money Rainmaker makes now comes from producing two Barbie movies a year for Mattel, a long fall from the days this same studio was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution, having been nominated by Bill Gates himself.

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.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

(Avnet said the studio created a real website to build a mythology for the film's titular «Sickhouse,» a fictional home they gave a frightening backstory, while encouraging the movie's stars to casually drop mentions of the fake legend in the days leading up to the Snapchat release.)

The program would be hassle - free for studios — they would only provide the names of similar movies, while Twitter would figure out which users were already talking about them, even if they weren't using the title specifically.

It's hoping that when everyone watches video on portable devices, the economic advantage of owning networks and a movie studio will be different than it has been for previous owners.

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.

Given that Parker is the star and primary creator of the movie, it would be virtually impossible for the studio to promote the film without his involvement.

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.

The company would ultimately like to be home to lots of professionally produced video, which is why it's paying publishers and movie studios to make videos exclusively for the social network.

Independent of Lucasfilm and its parent company, Disney, ILM provides visual effects services for films from all the major movie studios.

And whereas in the past eccentric billionaires looking for new ways to part with their money would usually fall prey to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, leading movie studios to become uniquely proficient in separating the wealthy from their cash, now they are falling victim to a not - so - new allure: influence.

In fact, Rob Norman, chief digital officer at GroupM, the world's largest media buyer, says that he doesn't know of any instances of movie studios — among the biggest spenders for both YouTube and TV advertising — pulling campaigns in the wake of the dustup.

Beyond that, Disney has made a $ 52.4 billion bid for a collection of 21st Century Fox's assets, including its movie and TV studios, FX and National Geographic channels, and its 61 % stake in U.K. - based TV and Internet provider Sky.

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.

The enterprise value of the Fox assets up for sale, which includes the movie studio, some cable channels and a stake in Sky, could be more than $ 60 billion, according to CNBC.

Just outside of that neighborhood, on Eighth Avenue, Lionsgate Entertainment recently inked a 45,000 - square - foot lease for a movie studio and entertainment center at SJP Properties» 11 Times Square.

Revenue at Warner Bros, the company's movie studio, also fell 13 percent, hurt by a lack of hit movie releases and a strong dollar, overshadowing a quarterly profit beat and an increased profit forecast for the year.

But now, director James Gunn — the filmmaker behind the $ 770 million hit Guardians of the Galaxy — has a message for studios looking to replicate Deadpool's success: Don't make all superhero movies raunchy, R - rated, wise - cracking rip - offs:

In a nation in which Jews constitute barely 2 percent of the population, they account for close to half its billionaires, for the leadership of all three major television networks and many movie studios, for the ownership of the nation's largest chain of newspapers, and for considerable percentages of university faculties.

Ironically, despite all of the actors, producers and studios that the movie is still making tons of money for, King never cashed the check...

Those who were lucky enough to be pulled or pushed, a year or so ago, to the Beatles» first movie, A Hard Day's Night, will recall the enchanting scene in which the four of them escape from the prison - like television studio, where worldly men are trying to get them to perform properly, and flee to an open field for a few surrealistic moments of jumping, dancing, abandon.

How is it that a group of people whose enemies have repeatedly tried to exterminate them (and still desire to do so today), who represent a mere.2 % of the world's population, account for 22 % of all individual Nobel prize recipients since 1901, 30 % of the Forbes 100 list, and control every major movie studio in Hollywood?

Movie studios provide incentives to theater chains like Malco to use «souvenir» paper cups and popcorn vessels displaying certain movie logos for promotional reasons, but it also benefits the theaters to participate since nearly half of their revenue comes from food and beverage sMovie studios provide incentives to theater chains like Malco to use «souvenir» paper cups and popcorn vessels displaying certain movie logos for promotional reasons, but it also benefits the theaters to participate since nearly half of their revenue comes from food and beverage smovie logos for promotional reasons, but it also benefits the theaters to participate since nearly half of their revenue comes from food and beverage sales.

Those principles have never wavered and have always been to build a movie studio led by a board of directors made up of a majority of independent women, save about 150 jobs, protect the small businesses who are owed money and create a victims» compensation fund that would supplement existing insurance coverage for those who have been harmed.

Mark Hallett, who has drawn and painted dinosaurs for museums, scientific publications, National Geographic, and movie studios, recently rendered a newly discovered dinosaur, Seismosaurus, on the basis of only 40 percent of its skeleton: «A few neck vertebrae, a complete pelvis, about a third of the tail, and no skull,» he says.

A. All Karma Yogi's get housing (trailer or tent accommodation) 3 meals per day, daily guided meditation or yoga class, use of yoga studio for personal practice, weekly entertainment (movie night), use of infra - red sauna, and the opportunity to live and work in a very unique way.

i am a very nice guy:) i do visual art, i work a lot in my studio, i collect music i like listening to all kind of music, I'm studying German, i read, i watch movies, i help my friends, i like to cook for myself and for..

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 star.

Every movie studio hopes for the success of a Star Trek or a Batman.

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.

While that isn't remotely surprising in 2011, when studios have been comfortable doing direct digital transfers on computer - animated films for over a decade, it still is supremely satisfying, especially since the movie is one of the nicer - looking cartoons to hail from DreamWorks (or any non-Pixar studio).

He started with hundreds of home movies when he was a kid, made «Desperado» for peanuts and somehow got a studio to buy it, and is still only 35.

The son of a movie - studio musician, John Williams was trained for the family business at UCLA and Juilliard.

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 usuFor 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 usufor Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios it's business as usual.

The movie has been on ice awaiting release for over a year, owing to the bankruptcy of its studio.

This must be the age of bliss for Harry being he loves absolutly every movie he sees... it's fairly obvious he's being paid off, after the Batman And Robin fiasco (back when the site was pure) studios realized how powerful this kinda site can be so they decided to give knowles a wad of cash to give their films a good review... Only reason Star Trek Nemesis didn't get a good review was because Moriarty and others bashed Rick Berman so much he didn't wan na give them Money he was so insulted... everyone do a favor and goto http://www.corona.bc.ca/films it's a real movie lovers site withreal reviews and NEWS... no shit about how they got the news or that they think the film reminds them of from their youth, just news..

We've already presented our list of big studio movies we're excited about for fall and winter of 2015, but there's a lot more than that set of 30 movies coming to theaters.

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.

«The Art of the Sell: Stephen Sayadian» (10:15) interviews perhaps the only remaining person of interest: Dressed to Kill poster art designer Sayadian, who explains he transitioned to movie posters from parody ads for sex toys in Hustler and the philosophies that shaped his studio's one - sheets.