Sentences with phrase «studio picture dealing»

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Regulators have been taking aim at industry contracts that prevent people from viewing movies and TV programs outside the country in which they are sold, focusing on Sky's deals with major motion picture studios including Walt Disney, Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Brothers unit, Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal, and Sony Pictures.

The studio already has co-financing and distribution deals with other companies including Village Roadshow Pictures and Alcon Entertainment.

Many movie buffs know how John Ford made a deal with low - budget «B» picture studio Republic Pictures to finance his dream project The Quiet Man in exchange for making another of his popular «Calvary» films, Rio Grande.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has closed a deal with Nancy Meyers to direct an untitled film to be produced by Matt Tolmach and Nancy Meyers, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures, and Hannah Minghella, president of Production for the studio.

A previously unthinkable deal was reached between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios that will see the former lease out the Spider - Man character to the latter, who is quite simply the most formidable superhero studio around.

The popular character will appear in a yet - to - be-confirmed Marvel film after the studio struck a deal with Sony Pictures.

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.

For the past few years, Marvel Studios has been trying to re-acquire the rights to various characters they had licensed out before the formation of Marvel Studios, with characters like Blade, Ghost Rider and Daredevil coming back to Marvel, with the studio even coming up with a joint deal to share the rights to Spider - Man with Sony Pictures.

According to Variety, both actors are in talks with Legendary Pictures, along with Aaron Johnson, but no deals will be finalized until the studio gets the new draft of the script.

Thus, independent movies and the studio both seem to benefit from such a licensing deal, like the one that will see Paramount handling the winter home video release of IFC's acclaimed Best Picture hopeful Boyhood.

Although the gritty indie aesthetic of «Diary» was a direct reaction to his experiences on «Land» — a studio effort starring Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento and Simon Baker and the most expensive film in the series — Romero always has bounced back and forth between mainstream acceptance (a few studio - funded pictures and various fruitless Hollywood production deals) and the scrappier terrain of independent financing and distribution.

Miramax and Broad Street Pictures are finally getting the ball rolling on Bad Santa 2, as the studios have just found the film's director and finalized deals with two original cast members from 2003's Bad Santa.

Black Mass will be released by Universal Pictures in the US through Cross Creek's distribution deal with the studio.

He's reportedly signed a four - picture deal with Fox, the studio behind the Deadpool and X-Men movie franchises.

«Lord of War» was a bold look into the world of arms dealing, but he followed up that excellent dark comedy with «The Host» and «In Time,» two all - around lackluster studio pictures.

Overdrive confirmed with Good e-Reader at the American Library Association 2013 conference that they have struck a deal with Criterion Pictures USA to have have a number of movies in their catalog from studios they represent.

It would require a major financial investment, corporate restructuring, and have to deal with learning how to make movies and how the motion picture industry works from absolute zero if they were to make their own studio.

Neal Moritz, who made the move to Paramount from Sony, signed a first - look deal with his studio Original Film and Paramount Pictures and the movie -LSB-...]

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.