When Hughes found out about the rival film, he did everything he could to sabotage The Dawn Patrol by harassing Hawks and other studio personal, hiring a spy that was quickly caught and finally suing First National for copyright infringement.

" from rival studio Disney's Three Little Pigs, released the same year as Duck Soup.

Although the ABC's facilities and expertise enabled Countdown to present regular studio ' performances ' by local and visiting acts, rival shows like Sounds lacked the resources to present such segments, so they at first used music videos almost exclusively.

The studio did not want to make both, so the head of the studio had to choose which film to make ; he decided to make this one and let the other script go to a rival studio.

To convince theater owners to install this new process, Fox agreed to help pay conversion costs ( about $ 25, 000 per screen ); and to ensure enough product, Fox gave access to CinemaScope to any rival studio choosing to use it.

Eitoku was able to secure a steady stream of commissions and an efficient workshop of students and assistants, and at one point successfully intercepted a warlord's commission of the rival Hasegawa studio.

Having first created a film production company and having made a movie at another studio, Rank, Lady Yule and John Corfield began talking to Charles Boot who had recently bought the estate of Heatherden Hall at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, for the purpose of turning it into a movie studio that would rival those in Hollywood, California.

In one instance, it even released the highly successful soundtrack album of a film made by a rival studio, Columbia Pictures's Born Free ( 1966 ).

In 1916, William Randolph Hearst, multi-millionaire and newspaper magnate, started a rival animation studio called International Film Service and hired most of Barré's animators, including Bill Nolan, by paying them more money than Barré could provide.

In 1927, Marcus Loew, head of rival studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer died, and control of MGM passed to his longtime associate, Nicholas Schenck.

As a result of the power struggle, Torn, Southern and Nilsson cut their own version of the film, using the takes that adhered to the script, and this was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, but the studio put together a rival version using other takes and it was poorly reviewed when it premiered in January 1988.

Barré Studio was, in all probability, the first film studio dedicated to animation ( the rival for this honor is Bray Productions ).

In 1919, the rival International Film Service studio folded and owner William Randolph Hearst licensed Bray to continue the IFS series, which included Jerry on the Job films adapted from Walter Hoban's comic strip.

His success prompted Jack Warner to enforce the actor's contract with the Warner Bros. studio by banning Dot Records, the label for which Hunter had recorded the single ( and which was owned by rival Paramount Pictures ), from releasing a follow-up album he had recorded for them.

When Reni was about twenty years old, the three Calvaert pupils migrated to the rising rival studio, named Accademia degli Incamminati ( Academy of the " newly embarked ", or progressives ), led by Lodovico Carracci.

Since the studio's inception, Tatsunoko has specialized in television production ; by contrast, rival studio Toei Animation, focused chiefly on feature films and was just beginning to move into TV production when Tatsunoko was formed.

However, some pop and rock artists are known for live albums that rival or exceed the sales of their studio albums, such as Kiss's Alive!

He considered Bad Reputation as a rival to Jailbreak as the band's best studio album.

On February 6, 2006, CBS Sports announced the hiring of James Brown, who moved from studio host of rival show Fox NFL Sunday to the host of The NFL Today.

March stayed with Hughes ' Caddo Pictures studio for several years, temporarily running the office, overseeing the release of Hell's Angels, and getting into legal trouble after an attempt to steal the script for rival Warner Bros .' own flying picture Dawn Patrol.

In 1902 Smith collaborated with old friend Georges Méliès at the Star Films studio in Montreil, Paris, on a pre-enactment of the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra commissioned by Charles Urban of the Warwick Trading Company after rival company Mutoscope and Biograph acquired the rights to film the actual event.

By the 3rd century BC, the rival armies of Carthage and Rome began to invade and fight for control of the Iberian Peninsula.

In early 1569, new silver discoveries briefly revived the economy, which led to the founding of Tegucigalpa, which soon began to rival Comayagua as the most important city of the province.

Envious of Portugal's control of trade routes, other Western European nations — mainly the Netherlands, France, and England — began to send in rival expeditions to Asia.

India's policy of weaponisation via indigenous sources and self-sufficiency began in earnest under Nehru, completed by his daughter Indira Gandhi, who later led India to a crushing military victory over rival Pakistan in 1971.

He began his music career in 1982 as Kid Frost as a tribute to his rival Ice-T, whom he often battled in the music industry.

After Napoleon III's 1851 coup and the subsequent establishment of the Second Empire, Marxism began to rival radical republicanism and utopian socialism as a force within left-wing politics.

Unfortunately, National's line of instruments was not well diversified and, as demand for the expensive and hard-to-manufacture tri-cone guitars began to slip, the company realized that it would need to produce instruments with a lower production cost if it was going to succeed against rival manufacturers.

Beginning in April 1934, and at Hitler's request, Heydrich and Himmler began building a dossier on Sturmabteilung ( SA ) leader Ernst Röhm in an effort to remove him as a rival for party leadership.

During the 1960s Coronation Street ’ s main rival was Crossroads, a daily serial that began in 1964 and was broadcast by ITV in the early evening.

A later rival to Coronation Street was ITV's Emmerdale Farm ( later renamed Emmerdale ) which began in 1972 in a daytime slot and had a rural Yorkshire setting.

His administration subsequently began a working relationship with the United States, the Soviet Union's cold war rival.

When William II became emperor in 1888, he discarded Bismark, began using bellicose language, and planned to build a navy to rival Britain's.

The modern Liberal Party had been founded in 1859 as an outgrowth of the Whig movement or party ( which began at the same time as the Tory party and was its historical rival ) as well as the Radical and Peelite tendencies.

However, Kekkonen began to see Karjalainen as a rival instead, and eventually rejected the idea.

in a column titled To the Bride, and its rival Modern Bride began publishing in 1949.

After the end of hostilities, many Arab states that backed the coalition cut off funds to the PLO and began providing financial support for the organization's rival Hamas as well as other Islamist groups.

Lee began training in Wing Chun at the age of 13 under the Wing Chun teacher Yip Man in 1954, after losing a fight with rival gang members.

Beginning in 370 BC, the Molossian Aeacidae dynasty built a centralized state in Epirus and began expanding their power at the expense of rival tribes.

Mrs. Wenner-Gren, madly jealous of her rival, began to stalk Marion and was not willing to grant a divorce.

The universities developed in the large cities of Europe during this period, and rival clerical orders within the church began to battle for political and intellectual control over these centers of educational life.

The Novgorod Republic continued to prosper, however, and new entities, the rival cities of Moscow and Tver, began to flourish under the Mongols.

It became prosperous through the silk trade that began in the 11th century, and came to rival the silks of Byzantium.

The Despensers were bitter enemies of Lancaster, and with Edward's support began to increase their power base in the Welsh Marches, in the process making enemies of Roger Mortimer de Chirk and his nephew, Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, their rival Marcher lords.

Officials at the Port of Oakland and Oakland International Airport, began multimillion-dollar expansion plans to keep pace with rival shipping ports and airports on the West Coast.

As the law of equity developed, it began to rival and conflict with the common law.