motion picture industry

Google realizes that you don't always want to buy or rent a movie or TV show, so today it's updating the Play Movies & TV app for Android with a helpful feature that will ... Both companies are trying to act as a bridge between you and these other video apps, which sometimes have cluttered or bad interfaces.

One reason to grant tax exemptions to films is to address the dominance of the Hindi movie industry (Bollywood), which rules supreme in North India. A number of North Indian states offer tax exemptions to films made in languages other than Hindi. In 2006, the government of the state of Tamil Nadu, ...

For companies whose ethics and compliance training programs have received rave employee reviews, the secret, in part, lies in the magic of cinema, creating Hollywood-inspired movie clips or a company-tailored television series that captures the heart, engages the mind, and keeps the attention of a ...

“In the OASIS, it's this race between IOI — this very evil corporation and our High Five,” explains Sheridan in the video, who plays real-life teen Wade, ... Cooke notes that in the midst of all the virtual-reality action and stunning visuals there's a story with heart: “At the core of this movie is friendship, trying to ...

As allegations of sexual harassment sweep through the publishing industry — resulting in canceled book deals, boycotts by bookstores and expulsions ... As in the entertainment business, where celebrated actors have lost starring roles in TV shows and movies, publishing companies are facing painful ...

He has worked with companies as varied as the chip maker Intel and the augmented reality start-up Magic Leap. Backed by more than $10 million in financing from the Silicon Valley venture firm Lux Capital, SoftBank Ventures and others, Arraiy is part of a widespread effort spanning industry and academia ...

Taco Bell's marketing team released a fake movie trailer starring Josh Duhamel in anticipation for its release of nacho fries. ... came to launching nacho fries, Thalberg's team completely immersed itself in the movie-making mindset, storyboarding a thriller conspiracy around the question of why the company ...

Saudi Arabia has set up its first national film industry entity and is expected to launch it internationally at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. ... Chris Fenton, the former motion picture group president of global media and entertainment company DMG, is reportedly in advanced talks to help manage a $10 ...

... movies released by streaming services like Netflix and Amazon should not qualify for the Academy Awards. Spielberg called streaming services "a clear and present danger to filmgoers," and said that a film released by such companies should be considered a "TV movie" that could "deserve an Emmy, but not an Oscar." ...

Amazon Studios, on the other hand, has partnered with Bleecker Street, Lionsgate and other entertainment companies to give its original movies a theatrical window of several weeks ahead of their internet release. The company is now accepted in the industry as a conventional movie studio, its back ...

The producers of an upcoming film about the founding of gaming company Atari are looking to a cryptocurrency sale to lock down the movie's financing. Variety reports that media company Vision Tree plans to sell “Bushnell tokens” — named after Atari founder Nolan Bushnell — as part of an initial coin ...

“The Greatest Showman” continues to prove the critics and experts wrong: The soundtrack to the P. T. Barnum movie musical just hit No. ... Mr. Jackman, who at least until now was probably best known for his role as Wolverine in the “X-Men” movies, said that he was getting the best reviews of his life from ...

Movie and TV industry regulation in China has been moved under the direct control of the propaganda department of the Communist Party, in a further centralization of power under Chinese President Xi Jinping. The move, announced Tuesday, follows last week's news that the State Administration for Film ...

"I don't think the industry predicted this," Erwin said. "They really dismissed the film prior to opening weekend — almost called it a failure before we even got a chance to open it." The opening weekend success of "I Can Only Imagine" illustrates just how large the Christian audience is, and the movie industry ...

No not an Oscar, maybe one day, but a Razzie," Johnson says with a chuckle. The award, which is given to the industry's worst movies of the year, was awarded to Baywatch on Saturday for a special category the Razzie's and Rotten Tomatoes created called, "The Razzie Nominee So Bad You Gotta Love ...

He and his best friend, Lawrence Lamont, who has directed several of his videos, have started a film production company called Great Lakes Pictures, Anderson ... While he's still focused on his music and excited about acting – he's in Jaden Smith's new movie, “Life in a Year,” and he just played the lead ...

Director Alfonso Cuaron conceived the visceral scene, but it was London-based visual effects company Framestore that did the hard graft of turning it into reality. The firm won an ... Some have criticised the film industry for relying too heavily on digital effects, particularly in blockbuster action movies. But Sir ...

“I'm proud to have served there for 12 months with Alpha Company of the 39th Infantry. Anyone else?” Studi asked, to silence. “As a veteran, I am always appreciative when filmmakers bring to the screen stories of those who have served. Over 90 years of the Academy Awards, a number of movies with ...

Kenya has a nascent but vibrant film industry and has for decades been an important location for filmmaking. ... Watu Wote: All Of Us, a movie about a true story of terrorism in Kenya is nominated at the Live Action Short Film category— giving the relatively young film industry a boost on the global stage.

Welcome to the headquarters of Rotten Tomatoes. Even as the entertainment industry gathers tonight to see which of this year's films the Academy thought best, this company may be re-shaping the way we go to the movies -- and how we choose what we see. "Without a Rotten Tomatoes, I as an individual, ...

And then he won two — for Best Directing and Best Picture — and even Del Toro noted how strange it was that he got this movie made. During his Best Directing acceptance speech, he thanked his studio, Fox Searchlight, for thinking that his movie's weird blend of romance and fantasy and thriller and ...

“There is a strong aroma of marijuana here,” he joked. “It's true,” Gadot added, before adding with a hint of sarcasm, “I wouldn't know though…” “You're live on the Oscars right now,” Kimmel told the audience. “We were talking about our appreciation for people who go to the movies, and that is you guys.

There was zero reason to worry: “Eighth Grade,” directed by the 27-year-old comedian Bo Burnham, received sustained hoots of approval from the hipster attendees and universal raves from critics, likely setting up the film as another art house hit for A24, a little New York company that has — seemingly out ...

Contreras-Sweet released a statement that said her group planned to use the Weinstein assets to start a company "led by a board of directors made up of a ... The investors originally wanted to make Glasser the COO of the new company but Schneiderman considered him an enabler of Weinstein, and ...

They hope film companies can use their gender analyses to think harder about how male and female characters are portrayed. “The analytics aren't telling you what to do,” Landers says. “They're telling you 'this is what you're doing. Is this what you intend?'…We're here to help the movie industry to really ...