Sentences with phrase «with film studio»

Nintendo will be partnering with film studio Illumination, who made the popular Despicable Me and Minions movies.

Director Simon West is using crowdfunding for his next movie so he can avoid drawn - out talks with film studio bosses.The Expendables 2 filmmaker is...

Nintendo will be partnering with film studio Illumination, who made the popular Despicable Me and Minions movies.

The only good thing about this film is that it is the last in a series that was once great, but that with every film the studio made, the ideas would start to feel strained, and that simply made the series a tad too silly.

The former, which sells and installs beehives at various company locations, has inked contracts with clients including Delta and Chick - fil - A, while the latter works with film studios and directors including Darren Aronofsky — charging them as much as $ 50,000 a pop — to make a film or television production more ecologically friendly.

Certainly anyone who still regards print as the core (read: best - paying) part of their practice has reasons to fret, what with film studios having largely abandoned spending on print advertising and arts sections unlikely to ever regain the pages they've shed.

Not exact matches

The company works with major film studios to create original and marketing content ahead of movie releases.

He added that the extra revenue would wind up as a boon to filmmakers, with studios investing more money in film budgets and making more movies overall.

Nintendo is nearing a deal with production studio Illumination Entertainment on an animated film set in the world of Super Mario Brothers, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday that cited anonymous sources.

On Monday, New Form Digital, the studio formed by Discovery, Academy Award - winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer, announced that it was partnering up with a collection of YouTube stars to fund and develop 14 short films, The Los Angeles Times reported.

What's ironic, however, is that Hollywood's nervousness over showing Putin on film seems at odds with its current Russian obsession, with studios searching high and low for scripts that can best capture the current political climate in all its fraught intrigue.

He made and uploaded his first, the 68 - minute Enfin l'Automne (Fall, Finally) to YouTube last year, largely just to see if he could do it, and he's now on the verge of signing a deal with a Hollywood studio to do a proper film.

In the same way that a film studio can help a person with an incredible screenplay navigate the logistics of making a movie, a startup studio assists domain experts who might have a solid concept but aren't as strong on the coding side.

For LAIKA, the animation film studio behind Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, that meant working with Talkspace.

After the film's success, movie studios focused their efforts on creating summer «tentpole» releases, with buzz fueled by expensive marketing campaigns and unconventionally wide theatrical releases.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

One more thing... Apple is in discussions to lease office space at The Culver Studios, home to the studio that was used to film Gone With the Wind, Lassie, and other movie classics.

The attack shut down most of the studio's network for more than a week and hackers have released sensitive data over the Internet, including employee salaries and Social Security numbers along with high - quality digital versions of several unreleased films.

Of course, movie studios aren't keen to see this happen, and will include anti-piracy measures with the films to try and prevent it.

Savvy marketing, followed by strong word of mouth: The studio was smart and pushed the film with recording - industry tie - ins and social media; a «Straight Outta» meme, featuring stars like Beyonce, took over the web.

Instead, black - and - white stills from Warner Bros. films adorn the walls (Cineplex struck an exclusivity deal with the studio on the decor).

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.

While there's no definitive plans to remake those three films, studio CEO Jim Robinson has confirmed that all three are being toyed around with for active development.

Seth Rogen, who co-starred in the film and has an office on Sony's lot as well as a deal with the studio, didn't fare too well this past weekend.

However, if it fails to meet analyst's estimates, and teeters close to DreamWorks Animation's Thanksgiving debut, the studio could have a larger problem on its hands with only one other film — about a racing snail — out later this year.

Iger crowed about «the quality of the assets» Disney is picking up in the deal, which includes Fox's film and TV studio, along with various cable networks and regional sports networks as well as Fox's stake in Hulu (giving Disney majority control of the streaming service).

Compared to major studio projects like the forthcoming Aaron Sorkin adaption of Walter Isaacson's popular biography of Jobs, this film was made on a shoestring, with an estimated budget of just $ 8.5 million.

Movie studios and theater partners have been grappling with ways to get more people to see their films.

While Sony's controversial comedy The Interview is the embattled studio's most watched online film ever (complete with an $ 18 million opening weekend), piracy certainly is still alive and well.

Netflix has been stocking up its portfolio of original content with an eye toward challenging major film and television studios as well as bringing home award show hardware.

Now the film studios are fighting back with new approaches to litigation.

The film that triggered the devastating cyberattack on the studio last month, which the United States says was launched by North Korea, opened Thursday in 331 independent theaters with a $ 1 million box office and $ 1.8 million over the subsequent three days, according to Sony.

June says Lightwave now works with several other studios, «much earlier in the creative process» — during the making of the film as well as in the formation of marketing plans.

Of course, movie studios aren't happy to see these screener leaks happen — and will include anti-piracy measures with the films to try and prevent it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the set of his new talk show series «StarTalk» filmed with a live studio audience in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.

A deal could combine CBS's broadcast network with Viacom's cable channels and film studios.

An Orange spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday that the company denies a recent unsourced report by French magazine Challenges that Orange had reached a deal with Vivendi that would include Orange buying a stake in Telecom Italia — the Rome - based telecom in which Vivendi has a 24.9 % stake — and buying up to 20 % of the film and television production studio Canal Plus Group.

The «Ni no Kuni» series takes traditional Japanese role - playing game tropes and combines them with the gorgeous art of Studio Ghibli, the iconic film studio behind «Spirited Away» and «Princess Mononoke.»

If the short films are successful, the studio plans to team with advertisers to create branded entertainment, Grace said.

April 30 Private equity firm Lantern Capital is nearing a deal to acquire the Weinstein Company, the TV and film studio whose former chairman Harvey Weinstein faces sexual assault claims, with a $ 310 million offer, people familiar with the matter said.

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.

The 39 - year - old native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who started as a nightclub stripper there at 17, has appeared in more than 250 X-rated films, beginning in 2000; was signed as an exclusive with major porn studio Wicked Pictures in 2002 (she's still a contract player for them); and has been inducted into multiple industry halls of fame, including the one run by leading industry trade publication Adult Video News.

A representative for Weinstein issued a statement hours later saying the onetime film studio chieftain had «neither defamed Ms Judd nor ever interfered with Ms Judd's career.»

That tension between faith and funny may not be an impossible hurdle for the film, according to Craig Detweiler, a filmmaker and communications professor at Pepperdine University who has worked with studios on direct marketing to churches.

When that mix seems uneven, we recommend that studios follow the example of DreamWorks which prefaced their 1998 film The Prince of Egypt with the following disclaimer:

Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

Baehr, who arranged Bright's meetings with studio heads, annually stages the largest film award show for moral and religious content.

The Christian audience was vast, untapped market, and film studios were sinking some serious cash into catering to them with Bible adaptations — Darren Aronofsky adapting Noah.

And, in November 2001, President Bush in a similar fashion to President Roosevelt during World War II, asked some Hollywood studios to create films and television programs that would help with encouragement and public morale while providing entertainment to the soldiers and the people back home.

Creativity will be the keyword of the evening as it will feature film screening and original live music with the performance of composer Pete Drungle on archive images from Gaumont film studio.