Sentences with phrase «when big studios»

I wonder if there will come a time when big studios like Nintendo will try to work with indies by partnering with them, providing some of their resources and funding, and letting them create what they can.

If 2011 was the year when big studios wizened up and shelved big expensive tent poles, then 2012 is the year that those same studios are cutting costs to resurrect a handful of the projects including «Wedding Crashers» helmer David Dobkin's «Arthur & Lancelot.»

Not exact matches

This, in case you are wondering, is what it looks like when the crafting urge strikes in a small house with no studio floor big enough to spread a quilt on, and a few dozen children (oh, there are only four?)

When Shrek was released, it was a big gamble for a studio that was still finding its feet in a marketplace that was still in its infancy.

The studio chose to release the film slowly on a regional basis — but when the box - offices began to bulge, Warners gave the film a major big - city push.

Perhaps when the latter flopped, however, he decided to play it safe with his first big studio picture.

Generally, when a movie studio is trying to promote an upcoming film, it doesn't make a big show of how much fun everybody had while making the movie.

Producer / star Brad Pitt (who apparently clashed with director Marc Forster on set) usually has a Midas touch when it comes to big studio properties.

Fans of Suzanne Collins» novel, of course, know that that is exactly how this movie needed to be made; it's just surprising to see a studio show that kind of discipline when they normally are, shall we say, going all Tex Avery with the big dollar sign eyeballs.

Back when it sounded like Suspiria was dead in the water, Green noted that the reason was mostly because the budget was just too big for a film that a studio was essentially going to be taking a risk on.

However, when the ambitious workaholic subsequently loses his high - paying, high - stress job, they are forced to sell the postage stamp - sized studio apartment at a big loss.

«The studio likes it when you cast big names,» said Todd, «because there's the financial end of having to sell the movies, and it's easier with people who are more well - known.

In the film, written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, Disney is faced with one of the biggest challenges of his career, when P.L. Travers (Thompson), the Australian author of the «Mary Poppins» series, is resistant to the studio's attempts to adapt her books.

«When I founded the Institute in 1981, it was at a time when a few studios ran the industry and an artist's biggest concern was whether their film would get made,» said Robert Redford, Founder and President of the InstitWhen I founded the Institute in 1981, it was at a time when a few studios ran the industry and an artist's biggest concern was whether their film would get made,» said Robert Redford, Founder and President of the Institwhen a few studios ran the industry and an artist's biggest concern was whether their film would get made,» said Robert Redford, Founder and President of the Institute.

That was also how old Chalamet was when he was cast in his first big studio movie, «Interstellar.»

Speculations over when exactly Jeff Nichols» first real big - budget studio film would premiere have been growing over the past few years.

Since 2015, when the hashtag first became a rallying cry for inclusion, most, if not all, of the big studios have reinvigorated or created diversity initiatives, agencies have taken a more active role in supporting their clients and film festivals have continued to be entrees into Hollywood for traditionally marginalized folks.

That's more than the estimated 600 who worked on Assassin's Creed 3, which was developed across multiple studios, and is pretty startling when you consider that Ubisoft Montreal — one of if not the biggest developer in the world — employed about 2,500 people during the Assassin's Creed 3, Watch Dogs and Far Cry 3 era, including non-development staff.

Director Kathryn Bigelow may produce broad, middling big - budget fare when she has a studio breathing...

That is where it started, when studios started hiring bigger name actors to do voice work.

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.

When we are given the chance, it's unlikely to be an awards contender or be positioned by a studio and or supported by a marketing team to do big numbers at the box office.

The fledgling studio caught its big break when Nintendo contracted Narihiro to port software developed for the ill - fated Famicom Disk System to ROM cartridges, the company's storage medium of choice for its NES console outside of Japan.

Naturally, we have your back when it comes to breaking down the big - budget blockbusters and big - name studio releases that will be taking over your multiplexes from Memorial Day until Labor Day — but what if you're looking for something besides the latest pop - franchise installment or A-list star vehicle to see?

As a result, the image has a vibrancy and liveliness that's rarely matched by transfers of indie genre pics, let alone big - studio Blu - ray titles, and the grain structure holds up, even when scrutinized on a frame - by - frame basis.

The payoff finally came when Marvel confirmed the coming of Infinity War, the studio's biggest movie yet, named for the comic series in which Thanos united the Infinity Stones to take over the universe.

You can visit any number of other sites to get the same regurgitated Top 50 Most Anticipated Movies of 2018, each of them running through the big budget films in a different order, all titles you no doubt will be actively aware of precisely when the studio giants backing them want you to.

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.

December is always a big month for movies, a time when studios release tentpole pictures and Oscar hopefuls before the «dump months,» a.k.a. January and February, when commercial and critical expectations are much lower.

Though an increasing number of women are directing movies today, film directing is still a male - dominated role in the industry particularly when it comes to big - budget studio movies.

Though, I don't know how or why they are doing it while all the big studios just continue to sit on their catalogs, Blu - ray enthusiasts ought to take notice and give them some business when interested.

The big Hollywood studios who have in years past brought their splashy summer offerings to the Croisette — like 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road or 2016's The BFG — are staying home this year, leaving room for the usual roster of international auteurs and some choices that would have been unimaginable when Sofia Coppola first attended the fest as a child.

It was my good fortune to be working at Microsoft when the big announcement was made in March of 1995: Microsoft was entering into a joint venture with DreamWorks SKG, the new film studio and entertainment company founded the previous year by mega-moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen (the «SKG» in the company's original moniker).

Many scoffed when filmmaker Adam McKay transitioned from studio comedies with Will Ferrell to a baity prestige picture in «The Big Short.»

The studio hyped up the Wii U version of the game several times until 2015 when it was released on other platforms, but was outright canceled for Wii U. Had Slightly Mad actually honored their initial promise, that would have been a pretty big deal.

20th Century Fox released this little movie in July of 1979 when the studio's big summer movie, Alien, was still dominating at the box office a couple of months into its long run.

It's really when Sherlock Gnomes comes closest to contemporary big - studio animation that it starts to feel lacking.

When «Rough Night» hits theaters on Friday, June 16, it will be the first big - studio hard - R - rated comedy to be directed by a woman in nearly 20 years.

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.

I'm usually not a huge fan of studios giving their series to new developers, especially when I'm a big fan of...

Now, studios don't make big - budget movies, they make big - budget universes; now, fans engage with franchises year - round and absorb every pixel of trailer footage like a sponge; now, joining these franchises has become a rite of passage for young stars, a career plan; and now, movies don't end when the credits start rolling.

Back in the 1990s, when I still read the Village Voice, I could predict what their reviews were going to say, because their critics hated every mainstream studio film, especially if it looked like it was going to be a big hit.

Beauty was a big enough deal for Criterion to revisit in February 2003, when DVD sales were soaring and every studio was into giving their most treasured films the deluxe treatment.

Kia has been flying high since 2008, when its big push into the U.S. began with a $ 1.4 billion investment in an Irvine, CA, design studio and headquarters and a 360,000 - unit capacity assembly plant in West Point, GA..

Still, even though I'm prepared for the BMW 8 - series concept to look vast, when I arrive at the rented studio to interview the car's designer, John Buckingham, I can't help but be surprised at just how big it seems.

When the news broke that he was working on a small independent title at the newly formed EatSleepPlay studio, fans were waiting for something big.

It has risen from humble origins in 1986, when five brothers decided to handle the distribution of third - party games, to owning 26 studios across 19 countries producing some of gaming's biggest franchises.

That was the studio big wigs response when asked if the British outfit were ready to undertake another Total War.

Just when you thought this year's E3 couldn't get crazier, Sony brought out some of the biggest reveals of the show so far, including the return of a classic franchise, a long - rumored remake and some new projects from Sony's internal studios.

Am pretty sure, if they manage to pull of Resistance 2, other big developing studios will probably try to gobble them up and that is when Sony might step in and make them theirs.