Sentences with phrase «of the biggest studios out»

Lobb somehow avoided all that and brings this movie to a wide audience on Tuesday with the backing of one of the biggest studios out there, its Amazon sales rank already at a most impressive low four figures.

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And while they highlight celebrity endorsements for big companies (with the exception of Rebecca Minkoff, who was making clothes out of her studio apartment at the time), the good business lessons learned from setting up and cashing in on such high - vis endorsement deals can easily be applied to small companies.

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.

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.

Since it enjoys support from many of the big studios and networks, Hulu stands out from the pack by getting most shows the day after they air.

He tried commuting but it didn't work out, so he landed at Pseudo Interactive, one of the bigger Toronto studios at the time.

We also went to a studio which made big granite sculpture out of the rock right there on the property.

The biggest reason for this is because of big - name studios pumping out sequels and spinoffs that are uninspired, poorly coded, unplayable disasters that they know people will buy just because it's got their favorite character from their childhood in it.

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.

It will be extremely hard for the studio to match those figures in 2016, as many of its biggest franchises are sitting out the year and Universal's planned 21 - film slate doesn't feature any sure - thing blockbuster hits aside from (maybe) a still - untitled Bourne sequel.

I'm happy to live in a future where studios pay big money for sexy - violent meditations on the slippery state of humanity — and there's a real promise for far - out further seasons — but right now Altered Carbon is all sleeve and no stack.

While we haven't heard a whole lot about Promised Land so far, the fact that the studios are going out of their way to ensure it has a shot at the big awards suggests they have a lot of faith in this film.

You can look at the independent heavy dramatic work that I've done or the big studio comedic work that I've done, and at the core of both are these lost souls wondering through this world, trying to figure out the funny, sad, strange, balance of their lives, and that's the story of me.

While a lot of big - name directors wiped out this year, a few filmmakers risked self - parody with projects that indulged their personal tics and obsessions with unapologetic thoroughness; the results were strange, kind of wonderful exercises in playing to a dwindling cult on their studios» dime.

As a pretty big fan of the original Neighbors, even I can admit that Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising is one of the more unnecessary sequels to come out in recent years, which is saying a lot given how quick studios have been to hit the greenlight on continuations of any movie that makes them a couple bucks lately, no matter how unwarranted they actually are.

Again, none of these are major studios in Hollywood, but these are big names who work on major projects publically coming out and not just calling for diversity and change in Hollywood, but using what power they have to make change happen.

It overstates the emotion of each scene, sticks out like a sore thumb where it should be subtle, and often sounds like something from a made - for - TV movie rather than a big studio film.

The summer months often bring a slew of prospective blockbusters, as studios trot out their annual selection of big - budget spectacles.

Generally favoring low - budget and independently - produced pictures, but not averse to working within the studio system (he had a good relationship with Daryl Zanuck), he knocked out a string of genre classics — from «Pickup On South Street» and «Forty Guns» to «Shock Corridor» and his epic autobiographical masterpiece «The Big Red One» — that quietly influenced many of your favourite directors.

Whatever the outcome of this ideological clash, it does at least point out a startling dearth of sexual diversity in big budget studio films.

We break down those nine big deals and handicap how they'll pan out — or at least what studios will need to do to give them the best shot of succeeding.

And how great for publicists and studios to be able to take critics out of the mix because then they can bring out their big stars and woo the voters without the critics coming along and spoiling all the fun.

What is making the headlines today is ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, you are all aware of the sexual accusation around Kevin Spacey, Ridley Scott decided to reshoot all the scenes of Spacey with another actor, Christopher Plummer who was the first choice of the director but the studio executives wanted a bigger name, Plummer should shoot his scenes in the comming weeks, it looks like they want to keep the december release date, and Michelle and Mark Whalberg are expected to do some reshoots, i don't think michelle began working on Venom yet, it's crazy but i think Ridley is right to cut out Spacey of his film.

At the beginning, when Belle (Emma Watson) walks out of her house and wanders through the village singing «Belle,» that lovely lyrical meet - the - day ode that mingles optimism with a yearning for something more, the shots and beats are all in place, the spirit is there, you can see within 15 seconds that Emma Watson has the perfect perky soulfulness to bring your dream of Belle to life — and still, the number feels like something out of one of those overly bustling big - screen musicals from the late»60s that helped to bury the studio system.

One truly can compare the watching of how big studios and their hired bigwigs operate as the equivalent of watching how sausage gets made, as many of us to very much enjoy the end product, but we would be less pleased if we were to know how a kernel of inspiration from the mind of a writer can be second - guessed and repackaged due to executive decisions made by relatively visionless empty suits who are in the creation process solely to make money, squeezing out all trace of artistic merit where it interferes with bottom - line profit.

It's not really all that dramatic, but after the studio made such a big deal out of the character's appearance in «Iron Man», Jackson basically wanted to make sure that he was going to be taken care of financially on a long term basis, and that the studio weren't taking it for granted that he would just show up whenever they wanted him to show up.

Baker protégé Rob Bottin's work on that film was arguably equal to that of his mentor (who left Bottin in charge of The Howling «s effects after he exited the project for the bigger - budget American Werewolf), and yet the Academy couldn't even be bothered to nominate him (or, perhaps more likely, its members simply couldn't bring themselves to watch a low - budget horror movie not put out by a major studio).

Having rolled out three of their biggest guns in May, the studios are playing it suspiciously low - key this June; sure, we've got «Ratatouille,» «Fantastic Four 2,» «Ocean's Thirteen,» «Hostel Part II» and the fourth «Die Hard» on the schedule, but none of them carry the same expectations or anticipation as their May brethren.

Long after the form fell out of vogue — and in an era when many big - budget studio films pack the screen with saturated candy colors and in - your - face 3 - D effects — indie filmmakers and even the occasional studio - movie veteran are turning to the monochromatic.

Sean Baker, the award - winning director and co-writer of the great new movie, «The Florida Project,» joins Justin in studio to discuss the film, what drew him to tell this story, the juxtaposition of the hidden homeless living right outside of the most magical place on Earth, the importance of getting the details exactly right, how the movie was inspired by «The Little Rascals,» wanting to show how children make the most out of any situation no matter how dire, how desperation plays a big role in the film, the wonderful performance from Willem Dafoe, the relationship between Willem and the child actors, the challenge of working with child actors, the way Florida is portrayed in the film and what he plans to do next.

Along with a trade show floor that featured the the latest technological innovations and equipment, theatre seating, food concession goodies and more, the highlight for attendees was the opportunity to get a sneak peak at some of the most highly anticipated films from the major studios» upcoming product slate, attend special advance screenings of Universal Pictures» Pitch Perfect 2, 20th Century Fox's Spy, and Pixar Animation's Inside Out, and to catch in person appearances by some of the biggest stars and filmmakers.

And even though lately many of the biggest returns have gone to original, outside - the - box tales like Inside Out, Wreck - It Ralph and Zootopia, most animation studios in and outside of North America and the production companies bankrolling them still opt for tried and true comic adventures with wisecracking animals and conventional hero's journeys.

To the surprise of some, however, the honor of continuing Capcom's undead phenom fell to Blue Castle Games, a studio largely known for cracking out baseball titles like The Bigs for 2K Sports.

Like all of these big - budget, big name movies it plays by established laws carved out of a need for action, explosions, A-listers looking buff and references to other assets within the studio's ever - expanding Universe.

The Mouse House is hoping for big things, as a studio executive told Deadline's Pete Hammond at this year's Oscars that the musical will get a heavy campaign for next year's show, especially for Blunt who «knocks it out of the park».

Read the Brett Ratner sexual harassment accusations below, and find out how they could have a serious impact on one of Hollywood's biggest studios.

Loaded with an all - star cast (Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, Bobby Cannavale, Allison Janney, Peter Serafinowicz, and Morena Baccarin), one of the main reasons Spy is so great is that each supporting character has a moment to shine, and Statham completely knocks it out of the park in his first big studio comedy.

With nearly every major studio now working to turn its own comic book properties into the next big thing, and with Marvel Studios and Warner Bros. plotting out half a decade's worth of material, it's sometimes tough to keep track of what's coming out when, who's in it, and how it fits into the overall picture.

With this trio of early - to - mid -»70s blaxploitation films, Pam Grier carved out a unique niche for herself and became one of the biggest stars in America while working entirely outside the studio system.

The studios aren't rolling out their tentpole pictures yet — that's for May, June, and July — but generally speaking, there's enough of a thaw on the big screen to make you forgive the faceless greenlighters for cinematic offal like «Code Name: The Cleaner.»

The shocking change in strategy was simple math, according to the studio — the DS simply had the most units sold out of all gaming platforms, and Square Enix wanted the ambitious DQIX to have as big an audience as possible.

Beyond the fact that the blockbuster release date window is widening all around the industry, with big studio movies starting to come out in every month of the year, there is another reason why Black Panther is coming out so early in 2018: to give it some distance from Joe and Anthony Russo's The Avengers: Infinity War, which comes out on May 4, 2018.

We're still a ways off from being able to flush out a fuller picture of which films made the most money, but I suspect the studios will let the awards be their guide: what wins big at the Globes will expand and grow their box office take.

«You would find a hundred artists, give them each $ 100 grand worth of studio time and one music video, then you would throw all one hundred acts kind of out there and see which one or two began breaking big.

Movies, Video games, Anime and Books, big studios / companies / mangakas are producing so much, and so much of it looks good - ish, but turns out to be just exploitation of the market.

Sony knows there are a lot of people out there expecting big announcements from their internal studios for some odd reason.

Portal Knights comes out of a much smaller studio, yet it looks and feels like a bigger - budget title.

With E3 looming and a cavalcade of big noisy announcements from established studios around the corner, it's easy to lose sight of the passion projects eked out by a five - person team with a tiny budget.

Since then, thanks to Ubisoft's numerous global studios, it's grown into one of the biggest multimedia franchises out there, with yearly triple - A games, as well as smaller installments, not to mention comic books and even an upcoming Hollywood movie.

Founded back in 2009 and now one of the biggest social game studios in Europe, the Goodgame Studios staff has camped out their massive success and exponential growth at the very same office they started out in.