Travis, Knight's son, serves as president and CEO of Knight's stop-motion film studio, Laika.
Knight's son Travis is president and CEO of Knight's stop-motion film studio, Laika.
It is the second time in recent years the festival has chosen a stop-motion animation film to open the gala.
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It's the latter that people will be looking out for: a 3-D motion-capture film that could set the stage for a new franchise based on the Belgian comic books.
But at a meeting of U.S. film studios organized by the Motion Picture Association of America last week, a senior executive from Fox told other international distribution professionals in attendance that China Film was attempting to reduce its payment on "Life of Pi" released last year in China due to the new value-added tax.
The moral motion of the film is fairly simple the return, and redemption, of a prodigal son but Gray steeps his tale in murky complication, and the staging of every scene, be it downbeat or frantic, is so assured that you barely notice the implausibilities. (Bobby and Joseph, for instance, hardly look like brothers.) The rain-drenched car chase, halfway through, is reason enough to see the film.
In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris.
The people who made this film have rediscovered the emotion in pure motion.
Chastain will also be up for best actress at the Oscars, one of five nominations the film has received from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Besides bringing in over a billion dollars in annual revenue into the state with motion picture production, the film industry has sparked the economy in several areas by creating thousands of new jobs, new businesses, and inspiring the growth of new industries that are both directly and indirectly associated with film.
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Although public tours are not commonplace as they are in LA, visitors can catch a glimpse of show business by driving or walking by the backlots of such bustling studios as North Shore Studios ( formerly Lion Gate Studios ), Bridge Studios, Vancouver Film Studios, Canadian Motion Picture Park and Eagle Creek Studios.
Whether the fund in question is a mutual fund for retail investors, a retirement fund for employees of a particular company or government department, a film fund looking to finance a slate of motion pictures, or a real estate fund planning to buy apartment buildings for university students, the same basic commercial logic applies.
The story of the film is closely connected with the history of the motion picture and the beginnings of Hollywood.
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Set for a March release, the film will be distributed by Viacom, whose Paramount motion picture unit handled most of the movie's production.
In 1968, the Motion Picture Association of America adopted its film-rating system, ranging from "G" for "general" audiences to "X" for adult patrons only.
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An act of pure heroism on his part sets the plot in motion, but this non-traditional film never lets us forget that it is also a violent act and, as such, has an explosive effect on everyone's life.
The 1956 sci-fi thriller Forbidden Planet was the first major motion picture to feature an all-electronic film score a soundtrack that predated synthesizers and samplers.
Freeze-frame, slow motion, colour filters and smoke give the film a distinctly undigital tone, viscous and personal, that focuses attention on the excellent performances of Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey and Fairuza Balk.
Nearly three decades later, in 1979, Wise created a new film franchise when he directed "Star Trek: The Motion Picture, " which brought Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the Enterprise crew to the big screen.
Sense8 is being produced by Georgeville Television, in association with Studio JMS. Georgeville Television is a Reliance Entertainment company and independent television studio, formed by veteran film and television producer Marc Rosen, in partnership by Motion Picture Capital's Leon Clarance and Producer Deepak Nayar.
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Adjoining rooms contain projects by the great Hollis Frampton including his motion studies inspired by Eadweard Muybridge, and his film "Gloria, " a portrait of Frampton's Irish grandmother.
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All of which makes it disappointing, to say the least, that the Motion Picture Association of America decided to give the film an R rating requiring minors to be accompanied by a parent or guardian because of the brief use of explicit language.
The film opens and closes on live action, with rubbery stop-motion animation in between.
"When we brought our 'Tron' test footage to Comic-Con, we knew that the crowd in Hall H would tell us, almost instantaneously, if there was an appetite for this film, " said Sean Bailey, president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production.
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But the film geek in me loves the intense colors and fantastic use of slow motion.
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Of course, members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences don't look at a film's balance sheet before they cast their votes.
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