But even those movies were rated PG and treated to wide
release by major studios.
As Hollywood touts great wins for diversity and inclusion with recent films like «Black Panther» and «Wonder Woman» shattering box office records, a new study from GLAAD asserts that representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in 2017 films
released by the major studios hit a six - year low.
That goes some distance toward explaining how a gifted director (he also helmed 2011's masterful «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy») could have marshaled such a stellar ensemble, including Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Toby Jones, enlisted gifted collaborators like the cinematographer Dion Beebe, and still managed to emerge with one of the more disturbingly inept motion pictures
released by a major studio this year.
These elements are typically found in smaller independent films but are incredibly rare to see in bigger budget films
released by a major studio.
«Love, Simon» is the first film about a gay teenager's coming out ever distributed in wide
release by a major studio.
It's a film
released by a major studio that doesn't see a gay character as a joke, a sidekick, or an outsider.
Even more admirably seditious, Freddy Got Fingered, unlike Un chien andalou, was actually backed and
released by a major studio.
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.
Not exact matches
The foreign market share percentages include only the seven
major studios listed above, but the domestic market share percentages include all domestic box office figures, including
releases by independent
studios not included in this table.
Below are the films
released by each individual distributor during 2015, ordered
by average Metascore (beginning with the
major studios as a group and then moving on to the smaller companies).
The Foreign Market Share percentages include only the big six
major studios, while the Domestic Market Share percentages include all domestic box office figures, including
releases by independent
studios.
Get Out was
released by Jason Blum's Blumhouse productions, a
studio that can easily be described as the modern - day saviour of the low - budget,
major -
release film, even if they most recently subjected us to the latest M. Night Shyamalan misfire, Split.
In an era where every
major studio doggedly chases the nostalgia dollar, Deakins actually conjured that rarest of feelings, but alas, the February
release had fallen off everyone's radar
by ballot - casting time.
As a result, the LGBTQ media advocacy group is calling on the seven
major studios to make at least 20 % of their annual
releases LGBTQ - inclusive
by 2021 and 50 %
by 2024.
But 1996 was the first year that indies dominated the Academy Awards to the point that only one
major studio release, «Jerry Maguire,» was even nominated in the best picture category, which was won
by «The English Patient.»
The drop in on - screen LGBTQ representation is a speed bump in GLAAD's call to action to have the seven
major film
studios to have 20 % of their
major releases include LGBTQ characters
by 2021 and that 50 % of films include LGBTQ characters
by 2024.
Either a terrible A-list movie or a great B - movie, depending on your point of view, Anaconda is
by all accounts one of the schlockiest large budget
releases to ever come from a
major studio.
The Ross has become the Lincoln theater for a majority of the prestige
releases, especially those
released by independent companies or specialty branches of
major studios, like Sony Pictures Classics and Fox Searchlight.
Lastly, it casts Julianne Moore for the second straight time in a
major studio release, after The Forgotten (coincidentally also produced
by Joe Roth), as a similarly grieving mother searching for a missing son, while everyone she turns to doubts her story.
Striped of its international cinema
release by Paramount Studios due to worries that it was too cerebral for audiences, Annihilation (based on the novel
by Jeff VanderMeer) comes to Netflix on more of a positive wave of critical reaction than the two sci - fi streaming flicks before it, two films which have done a great detriment to Netflix's standing as a
major film
studio competitor, only enforcing the notion that the streaming service is becoming a dumping ground for doomed movies.
In response, the advocacy group is asking
studios to have 20 % of
major studio releases include LGBTQ characters
by 2021, with 50 % of films including such characters
by 2024.
«Only 3 % of this year's film
releases by the six
major Hollywood
studios are directed
by women — the lowest percentage in five years,» said Laura Florence, vice president of marketing and sales at Gravitas Ventures.
Yeah, even if
studios like to play the «let's stick movies we don't want to bank on in January» baloney, this year actually started with two female helmed
major releases which we dug and has us excited for the year in movies not directed
by dudes.
Okay, it's official — Apple not only knows how to generate hype for one of their signature product
release events, they also know how to close out a keynote address: with a performance
by a legendary rock band and the
release of a
major studio album... for free.
This week saw the launch of a new edition of the seminal Angry Birds franchise and
major new
releases by other big
studios.
In 2005, Bohemia Interactive
released Operation Flashpoint: Elite * for Xbox — followed
by Arma in 2007, which marked the
studio's first full independent
release without support from a
major publisher.