Sentences with phrase «owned film studio»

Major developer and publisher Ubisoft has set up its own film studio, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, and has multiple adaptations of major franchises in development; there have also recently been rumor - mongering that Activision - Blizzard is interested in following suit.

The last few years have seen Netflix on a spending spree for original movies and shows, but the streaming video giant could soon be purchasing its own film studio.

Not exact matches

Other studios have had mixed results with the Marvel characters they own (see: Fox's 2015 Fantastic Four reboot), but Deadpool «s success could pave the way for that character to find his way into future films from the successful X-Men series, to which 20th Century Fox also holds the rights.

Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, MTV and film studio Paramount, has been struggling to turn around its declining ratings and ad revenue.

Peretti first points to a company that started more than 100 years ago, Paramount Pictures, which owned a film production studio, its own cast of talent, and its own distribution channel in the form of theaters.

Netflix signed on with the pay TV network five years ago, but it hasn't had exclusive streaming rights for those studios» films since 2012, when Amazon signed its own Epix deal.

Philadelphia - based Comcast has 22 million video subscribers and owns NBCUniversal and the Universal film studio.

The former experimental film director instills eco-kudos in her bijoux by ensuring that all her gemstones and semi-precious stones are ethically sourced, and of course she hand - makes each piece in her own New York based studio.

One studio decides to release a vigilante film and two others follow with their own takes on the same theme.

Quite possibly the goriest film ever made by a Hollywood studio, Evil Dead is a new Horror classic, a film that accomplishes the nearly impossible task of staying true to the original's roots while standing firmly on its own.

[Blu - ray Review] Looking and sounding like a million bucks (or more) and full of exhaustive bonus content new and vintage, the Blu - ray release of «The Jungle Book» is a must - own for anyone who loves animation, the Walt Disney studio, or film in general.

It's a pretty safe bet to assume that only Quentin Tarantino could convince a studio to release a film set in the slave - owning South that follows a freed slave who, under the guidance of a German bounty hunter, becomes a deadly assassin hellbent on rescuing his wife from an evil plantation owner.

But only one major - studio film of the modern era, Richard Fleischer's notorious 1975 Mandingo, dared to meet slavery on its own terms — a grind house bacchanal of sadism, incest, and miscegenation, capped by an unforgettable finale in which the eponymous bare - knuckle fighter is boiled alive by his master in a cauldron.

The Movies gives you the opportunity to run your own Hollywood movie studio, ranging from 1920's silent films through to the present day and into the future.

Whether it is the purchase of Lucasfilm, the sequel (and prequel)- isation of Pixar's earliest and best work or the Disney Infinity «multi-platform experience,» the world's most successful film studio is no longer venturing outward in search of material, but rather has turned entirely inward, and is fracking its own landscape of licenses to generate «content.»

Sony's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is officially the studio's highest - grossing film ever at the domestic box office, overtaking Sam Raimi's Spider - Man ($ 403.7 million) which has owned the title for the past 16 years.

It seems likely that other studios will follow suit, essentially creating online libraries and removing the need for «owning» a film at all.

In ways Sundance became a victim of its own success: unworthy films started getting bought up speculatively at vastly inflated prices by Hollywood studios, and big - name filmmakers began using the Sundance brand to lend credibility to their work.

If all this weren't enough, Mannix also has to contend with twin gossip columnists (played by Tilda Swinton) who are circling the studio in search of scandal; a near - fatal accident involving a film editor (Frances McDormand); an accountant (Jonah Hill) enlisted to see whether the pregnant ingénue can legally adopt her own child; and a song - and - dance star (Channing Tatum) harboring more than one Big Secret.

Not only is Netflix's reimagined «One Day at a Time» a joy to watch, it's also the first time in many years that a multicamera sitcom (the kind filmed on a set with studio - audience laughter) has seemed so instinctively comfortable in its own skin.

Taking it in context as to when this film arrived, it's no wonder the Coen Brothers took Hollywood by storm, even if they did so on their own terms and largely outside of the studio system, a move that has allowed them to keep final cut on their films ever since Blood Simple.

The studio now has its own convention, the D23 Expo, and they're using it to promote their upcoming films.

This is an incredible improvement from the studio in terms of representation, but elevating the role of women in Marvel's films is not the same as giving them films and franchises of their own.

But Marvel, like most major studios with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, is not known for calling an audible just prior to production of arguably the most massive tentpole film in their roster, any more than it's going to green - light a Black Widow film until well after Jennifer Lawrence has made one of her own.

The studio has stated that new Bond movies may be released every second year after Bond 23, and the studio aims to own 50 percent of the film.

I suppose it's ironic that a film that a a series of films that explores the values of small - time business owners and independent thinking is just a package by major studio to cash in by trying to establish its own franchise.

Sony controls the film rights to Spider - Man and related characters, but at one point the studio could have owned all of Marvel's characters.

As a supervillain, Thanos solves a problem even Marvel Studios, the Kevin Feige - led movie studio owned by Disney (aka, the «Devourer of [Media] Worlds»), has fitfully overcome over the course of 10 years, 18 films, and 30,000 visual effects (someone actually counted).

Set to star life - long comics obsessive Nic Cage (whose own son is named Kal - El), Burton's film would have followed in the footsteps of his Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), only for the director to walk away when he became exasperated by studio interference and marketing commitments.

First of all, since Frenzy was a relatively low budget project, especially compared to the earlier critical misfire Topaz, Hitchcock was spared from any studio interference and was allowed to make a film that would be truly his own.

For Levinson, who shot the film on the cheap in and around his own Connecticut home, it's a chance to free himself from the shackles of studio hack work.

The Avengers is probably the most impactful Marvel film we've seen yet, taking the studio to new heights, inspiring games from LEGO console adventures to casino titles not unlike the aforementioned Punisher game, and even earning its own sequel despite sprouting from other projects.

This is what happens when a good idea gets studio - botched by too many people with their own particular visions of what the film should be about.

How is it that a major studio film — one in which marks the first time these legendary characters meet / fight / team - up onscreen in a live - action feature — that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, has been in the planning stages for years, and is the catalyst for their own shared universe of interconnected films doesn't seem to know one thing about its title characters outside of names and costumes?

The five day «extended weekend» will feature new independent films; studio sneak previews; conversations with attending directors, actors, producers and writers; Opening and Closing Night festivities; the highly anticipated Festival Gala; Celebrity Tribute and Awards Programs; wine - tasting pavilions; film industry focused and culinary panel discussions; and VIP receptions and dinners with Napa Valley's own celebrity chefs and winemakers.

My own research reveals that by the early 1990s, most Hollywood films held the «main» credits for the end, reversing a long history of studio filmmaking that announced up - front who was responsible for the film you were about to see.

He would work in house at Warner Brothers until launching his own design company in 1962, allowing him to rapidly expand his portfolio to films from all the major studios.

Reel FX's own film slate follows almost 20 years of experience as an award - winning one - stop studio for animated content including films, special attraction / live venue projects and interactive projects for companies like Fox, Warner Bros. and Universal Studios.

When Good Machine got bought by Universal — as every studio wanted their own specialty division and folded into a new entity called Focus — Hope moved on to continue to produce films like «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.»

With two performances of seemingly equal measure, Blanchett could either find herself splitting her own votes, or both studios will race to make sure their film receives more votes in that respective category.

At the film's Los Angeles press day, Woodley talked about how Jennifer Lawrence encouraged her to take the role, what she shares in common with her character and how they differ, what inspired her to take a course in urban survival skills, what the experience was like doing many of her own stunts, her most memorable sweaty palm moments, zip - lining over the streets of Chicago and climbing the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel, her challenging fight sequence finale with Theo James, working again with Miles Teller, and what she learned about herself in the process of making her first large scale studio movie.

Acknowledging that his own left - wing political agenda informed part of the film's narrative, Liman, whose father was an interrogator in the Iran - Contra trial, praises the perqs of studio filmmaking (while toning down the anti-Universal sentiments he expressed to the media last year), illustrates the importance of directing a French crew in their native tongue, laughs at how coveted the «f» word was by the actors (the film was allowed only one because of the PG - 13 rating), and so on.

In coming to a deal with its rival studio, Warners, which maintains an overall deal with Nolan's Syncopy label, relinquished to Paramount its rights to co-finance the next Friday the 13th horror film as well as a potential future South Park movie, which are two properties that were originally owned by Paramount before being brought by Warners.

His own filmography is just as expansive and intricate, including richly woven odes to classical filmmaking and quite a few films that experienced crippling studio interventions, resulting in films that reward close readings, revisiting, and discussion.

I know each film is its own thing, but still I feel like some of these are going to be muted by all the other studios releasing their Oscar bait all at once.

Paul Austerberry gets the name of the film's own studio wrong, but that's fine, and I'm sure no awkward conversation is going to happen at the after party.

Wife Wanted, her final film, finds the actress in the midst of her three picture deal with the poverty row studio Monogram in a role that seems partially based on her own life.

As more studios attempt to remake and rebrand myths of the past — this year brought us Pan, Victor Frankenstein, and yet another Terminator — only one film, Ryan Coogler's simultaneously tender and ferocious boxing story, owned carrying a legacy as its primary theme.

I have yet to see her Spirit - nominated performance in the tiny indie «That Evening Sun,» but on the opposite end of the studio scale, I must give her respect for holding her own in Tim Burton's lumbering «Alice in Wonderland,» even as the film falls apart around her.

It's a film that, in Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige's own words, will «bring almost every single hero» that the studio has introduced on the big screen for the time.