Sentences with phrase «year by a major studio»

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California - based OnLive, backed by AT&T and BT Group, launched at last year's E3 with major studios including Electronic Arts and Ubisoft supplying top - tier console games, which customers pay to access on a computer or television.

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.

Treated by some as a major studio (and we're counting it as one this year, mainly out of sympathy) after merging with Summit and grossing over $ 2 billion worldwide for two straight years, Lionsgate regressed in 2014.

In fact, the previous year's strong showing by Disney (which averaged a shocking 65.8 in 2012) proved to be an aberration; once again, no major studio has managed average Metascore of 61 or higher (the cutoff we use to indicate generally positive reviews from critics).

Lionsgate's average Metascore — not very good to begin with — dropped by over 10 points last year, making it the only major studio to finish with a red score (and putting it well behind the other majors, as well as almost all of the smaller studios).

Sony managed to place third in domestic market share among the major studios last year, and grow its foreign box office total by nearly a third compared to 2010.

Last year, only 14 films put out by major studios (12.8 % of the total films) included LGBTQ characters, down from 18.4 % the year before.

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 behind - the - scenes action of Living in Oblivion is no exception, and although we've seen many films just like it in recent years, such as Mistress and The Big Picture, Tom DiCillo's (Double Whammy, Box of Moon Light) creation distinguishes itself by being about a independent filmmaking, not greatly influenced by the dictation of a major studio or bigwig producer, but by conflicts within the filmmaker himself.

In recent years the likes of Carol, Call Me by Your Name and A Fantastic Woman have all made significant contributions to queer cinema, and now Love, Simon sees a major studio getting involved.

At the moment, there are nine films on Amazon's slate for 2017, though it should be noted that the studio was a major buyer at last year's Sundance Film Festival (where they acquired Manchester, Love & Friendship, and the documentary Oscar contender Gleason, among others), so that number could be beefed up by month's end.

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.

With Hollywood studios backing away from even funding prestige awards films — this year the major Oscar players «Moonlight,» «La La Land,» «Manchester,» «Arrival» were all not funded by a studio — rumors of Hope and Price knocking on the door of $ 25 - 60 million films with an awards angle only seems like the natural next step.

Once you get past Pixar's «Coco,» it's a weak year for major - studio animated films; that's why the Globes voters will probably give two of their nominations to smaller indie works, «The Breadwinner» (it's executive produced by Angelina Jolie!)

By the next year, most of the major studios were producing mostly sound features.

We seek to highlight the best films produced each year — both by the major studios and independent filmmakers — and share our love of cinema with Seattle - area residents.

Most of these have already been acquired by major studios and will hopefully be making their way to a theater near you at some point this year.

«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.

By contrast, this year the major studios couldn't stop making bombastic threats.

Universal, newly controlled by Comcast Corp, had the smallest market share of the six major studios last year.

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.

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.

MOCA GA supports artists by granting a major stipend to create new work; by presenting a solo exhibition of the new work; by producing an accompanying exhibition catalogue; and by providing a paid studio apprentices over the course of one year.

2016 A major award from Wellcome Trust for a new work in 2018 2013 Le Jeu de Paume production award for the Toulouse Festival, France 2012 Sharjah Artist's Production Award 2010 Paul Hamlyn Awards for Artists 2010 Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts for a residency in Tasmania 2009 Winner of Film London & Channel 4's Jarman Award (cash prize and a broadcast commission for Channel 4's, 3 Minute Wonder strand) 2009 Arts Council Individual Artist Award 2007 Wingate Scholarship at British Academy / British School at Rome 2007 British Council Award for new work 2006 AHRC Research Leave Award 2006 Arts Council National Touring Award 2005 British Council Award 2005 Arts Council Individual Artist Award 2004 Triangle International Artists Workshop, Mauritius 2003 Arts Council and Triangle Trust funded residency in Paraguay 1999 Arte Viva, residency and exhibition, Senigallia, Italy 1998 Beach Life, Public Art Project, supported by Islington Council 1997 - 2001 Residency with Acme Studios, The Old Fire Station, London 1997 Residency at The Irish Museum of Modern Art 1995 First Base Studio Award (One year studio residency at ACAVA) 1995 Ray Finnis Award (Slade) 1993 Slade Prize (Pankerd Jones Memorial Prize)

Twice a year, student artwork is exhibited: the Annual Student Exhibition features work by a range of students and the senior thesis exhibition is organized, installed, and presented each May by graduating studio art majors.