So with the fall of the Chicago IGDA chapter in the wake of EA Chicago and
other major studio's shutting down, we decided we needed something.
I can't imagine this little film looking or sounding any better in the hands of Disney themselves or
any other major studio.
Despite releasing better films than
any other major studio, Paramount languished in seventh place in global market share for the second consecutive year, trailing upstart Lionsgate.
They were also better than those of
any other major studio, leaving Disney the only one of the seven majors to receive a grade higher than a C. Interestingly, Disney's three Marvel - related films (including Big Hero 6, which is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe) were not just the studio's highest - grossing releases, but were also the highest - scoring Disney films with critics.
However, despite releasing more films than
any other major studio, Lionsgate earned the bulk of that money from just one title: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which has collected over $ 850 million to date.
While Paramount had an incredible year (more on that in a moment), 2011 was far less rosy for
the other major studios, or the industry as a whole.
Slowly but surely, and with the careful guidance of President Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios has built itself up into a shining beacon that all
the other major studios are now scrambling to emulate.
If the theaters cave and show the film, then I would expect Disney and
the other major studios to push harder in the future on this issue and other areas that put the theaters at a further disadvantage.
With Disney Animation and
other major studios producing critically acclaimed animated films at a rate far higher than 15 years ago, the animation categories have experienced an explosive growth in competition.
After the breakout success of both PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite Battle Royale in 2017, we can expect to see a glut of
other major studios develop their own takes on the battle royale genre in 2018.
With Kojima receiving a little help from Guerilla,
other major studios and publishers have taken note and begun sending Kojima gifts.
Also, Disney has partnered with
other major studios, excluding Paramount (at least for now), to offer Movies Anywhere — a service that lets you more freely access movies you've purchased from multiple platforms.
Now, Disney has finalized agreements with four of
the other major studios — Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal, and Warner Bros. — to expand the feature into a near all - encompassing service, aptly called Movies Anywhere.
Disney has partnered with
other major studios, excluding Paramount (at least for now), to offer a service that lets you more freely access movies you've purchased from multiple platforms.
They made a deal with four
other major studios, Twentieth Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal, and Warner Bros., to make it possible for you to watch all movies you've purchased (from one of the participating studios) on all of your devices from one app instead of needing a bunch of different ones.
Not exact matches
Major League Baseball and the UFC, along with every other major sports league and entertainment studio, will demand to protect their con
Major League Baseball and the UFC, along with every
other major sports league and entertainment studio, will demand to protect their con
major sports league and entertainment
studio, will demand to protect their content.
On the
other hand, if the
major studios drop the ball and successful new
studios never materialize, we could lose out in one of the few creative tech industries where Canada is a real player.
Meanwhile, 2016 was the fifth - straight year that Paramount failed to out - gross any of the
other six
major Hollywood
studios at the domestic box office.
Viacom's Paramount is the only
major studio other than Fox to post a stronger summer this year than in 2013 and even it is only up 8 %, to $ 464.9 million, mostly on the strength of TMNT and Transformers: Age of Extinction, which had the summer's strongest opening weekend.
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.
Derek Jeter is Robin Yount with the backing of a
major studio, in
other words.
The midwives who did go to college and who now own the local birth center are very proud that one of them graduated «premed» and that the
other two
majored in religious studies and the
other had a double
major of
studio art and Asian studies.
Take away The Wind Rises, which was briefly screened in 2013 only to qualify for awards (which it did, collecting an Oscar nomination for best animated film), and Disney's 2013 average drops to 53.4 (the
studio's lowest average since 2010), though that was still higher than four
other major distributors last year.
That honor goes to Paramount — yes, the very same Paramount that also out - performed all
other studios at the box office — which became the first
major studio to receive a quality grade as high as B + in our annual evaluations.
Lionsgate's average Metascore — not very good to begin with — dropped by over 10 points last year, making it the only
major studio to finish with a red score (and putting it well behind the
other majors, as well as almost all of the smaller
studios).
Although it's refreshing to see a
major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults (even if it stars one of the most bankable actors in the world), when that movie is as passively mediocre as «Focus,» you can understand why
other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.
With Logan Lucky (2017), he shied away from
major studios so as to make a movie where he'd have full control over the trailers, advertising and
other marketing.
It has the backing of a
major studio — Paramount Pictures — with only one
other serious contender (The Big Short) to promote.
There were no
other major announcements during the presentation, but the
studio did premiere new footage from both «Wonder Woman» and «The LEGO Batman Movie.»
Although it's refreshing to see a
major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults, «Focus» is so passively mediocre that you can understand why
other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.
Also, in a weird note, Variety adds that one of the reasons Reynolds wanted to work with Netflix on this is that he won't have to deal with «the world press commitments that a
major studio movie like Deadpool requires,» so he can film Six Underground and then immediately forget about it as he moves on to
other projects he's more interested in.
At the moment, there are nine films on Amazon's slate for 2017, though it should be noted that the
studio was a
major buyer at last year's Sundance Film Festival (where they acquired Manchester, Love & Friendship, and the documentary Oscar contender Gleason, among
others), so that number could be beefed up by month's end.
uy Ritchie hasn't exactly done a great job convincing his critics that he can make something
other than the hyper - stylized crime capers he's known for, so it's a bit surprising that a
major studio would entrust to him one of the most popular literary characters of all time.
While some
major studios have gone defunct (such as RKO) and
others are no longer the powerhouses that they once were (such as MGM), there remain six
major Hollywood
studios that continue to release the vast majority of movies at your local multiplex.
In
other words, it's clear that it was produced by a
major Hollywood
studio.
Far from the consistency of
other major animation
studios, such as Pixar, Aardman or Laika, you never quite know which DreamWorks Animation is going to turn up.
Of all the
major horror franchises, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has been pretty poorly served despite being eight films in, and still filmmakers and
studios can not move away from trying to give a definitive background on main antagonist Leatherface, a fact given credence by the eponymous title which, in any
other franchise, would be seen as being definitive but this being the schizophrenic series that it is, this is the second movie in it to bear this title, the
other being 1990s Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.
However, Plan B found
major success at
other studios.
The days of direct sequels are still with us — Star Wars: The Last Jedi begins practically at the next moment after The Force Awakens concludes — but the
major studios in Hollywood have concluded that there are
other, possibly more profitable methods of bringing properties they own back to life.
Writer McQuarrie meanwhile has been on the
other end of the spectrum, writing The Way of the Gun as in - your - face as possible, a two - fingered gesture toward the
major studios who wouldn't allow him creative control.
Like so many
other major Hollywood
studios, Twentieth Century Fox has a full slate of hopeful tentpoles on the horizon.
In 1999, Paul co-starred in his first
major studio picture, «Man on the Moon,» and went on to appear in several
others like «Planet of the Apes.»
Unlike most
other superhero movies from
major studios, Deadpool had a modest budget of just $ 58 million.
Before that I had written a movie that Roland Emmerich is producing that became my writing sample that I got hired for Tomb Raider off of but, I also had just come out of the Transformers writers room which I don't know if you know much about writer rooms but basically, on some
major pieces of IT the
studio will bring together a team of writers to work, almost like they would work in a television writers room, where you work collaboratively with
other writers and you come up with ideas.
They have deals with
major studios and were showing off Spider Man, Hunger Games and many
other popular movies.
This week saw the launch of a new edition of the seminal Angry Birds franchise and
major new releases by
other big
studios.
The
other reason Horizon: Zero Dawn still holds some allure to me after so many blandly satisfactory hours is that it is unquestionably the most woke game released by a
major studio in years, a «core gamer» game in which women and mothers are revered as righteous warrior goddesses and in which almost every single dude is either a maundering sad boy or an emasculated angry boy or simply a concerned bystander boy, waiting for your help.
This years E3 is sure to be no different not only will there be
major game
studios there with announcements of upcoming projects, but also
other companies such as Nvidia and Razer that have deep ties to the video game industry.
Magne: We have worked with all the
major Japanese
studios, and many
other game
studios.
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