Point being, the second and third-place animation studios just teamed up, which automatically makes them a strong bet to challenge the Mouse House.
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Over the past two years, studios have just produced fewer movies.
In other words, have the studios basically just given up on developing movies that might be a hit for someone like Halle Berry partially because they know those actresses will find work on cable?
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Long after the record industry was shaken by Napster, the studios have only just begun to test the rental of digital movies downloaded from the Internet, via a new site, Movielink.
Cerulean Studios may have just become the first company in the world to implement some of the ideas I hatched in an editorial I wrote about a little something called the Continuous Client.
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Just look at Machinima and Maker Studios for examples of companies succeeding on YouTube.
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The MPAA has devoted years to fighting piracy in Washington, often holding private movie screenings of soon-to-be-released titles for Capitol Hill staffers at the studios' plush theater just a few blocks from the White House.
But while movie studios need to turn profits, they are not just accounting divisions of bigger companies, they are creative divisions.
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Just today, Rovio hired David Maisel, the former chairman of Marvel Studios and the executive producer behind Iron Man, to join the startup as a special advisor and act as executive producer for its future feature film.
Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, just sat down alongside Nancy Tellem, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft LA Studios, to kick off this year's rendition of D:Dive Into Media here in Dana Point, California.
But just like the movie sets that went up in flames last year at Universal Studios, the Tinseltown glamour is often no more than a flimsy facade.
Just this once, competitors from foreign countries or from America's smaller independent studios who dare to compete with the might of Tinseltown may be in with a sliver of a chance.
The studios are willing to cover the costs, but they have yet to figure out just how.
As the studios produce fewer and fewer movies and budgets get bigger and bigger, there is just that much more riding on each film.
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Some surmise that negotiated contracts are expiring and studios and networks will soon be raising fees charged to Netflix, and Netflix is just passing along the costs.
But the two films above hold more than just the success of their respective franchises in their hands, but truly the fate of the studios that produce them.
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Studios, networks and publicists say thousands of letters have been returned to sender or just set aside, and some celebrities have signed up with services that open fan mail for them or stopped opening mail altogether.
With so many options and a constant flood of information and new things flying at us daily, studios feel a need to bombard us in advance and to keep reminding us, just to get our attention.
Performing live on KEXP for the third time in a third different city, Beirut proved its tirelessness in this in-studio appearance, having arrived at Engine Studios in Chicago the morning after an overnight drive from Montreal, where it had just performed.
Despite the above red flags, the studios are confident that the story will respectfully focus on the people involved, and not just the horrific nightmare that ensued.
Second, if UltraViolet it sparks just a 7 percent increase in consumer disc buying in the years ahead, it would pay off for studios as much as a doubling of the EST business.
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Onion News Empire is set behind the scenes of the Onion News Network, a satirical daily news service, and "shows just how far journalists will go to stay at the top of their game", according to Amazon Studios.
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"I just went into survival mode, " said Haslet-Davis, a dance instructor at the Arthur Murray Dance Studios in Boston.
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Magnolia Picture's Man on Wire, which just so happened to take home an Oscar this year, is in that group of 50 along with FirstLook Studios' Transsiberian and War, Inc.. Better still, VUDU intends to make future releases available for purchase day-and-date with the DVD release, and we can only hope that major studios get with the program and follow suit.
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Anyway, he just put out his solo album this month, but way back in November, we had Peter in the BPP studios for a little solo acoustic performance.
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