While Dino De Laurentiis gave Raimi and his crew freedom to shoot the movie the way they wanted, Universal Pictures took over during post-production.

Army of Darkness was released by Universal Pictures on February 19, 1993 in 1, 387 theaters in the United States, grossing $ 4. 4 million ( 38. 5 % of total gross ) on its first weekend.

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Instead of producing the film himself, Chaplin signed a deal with Universal Pictures and appointed his assistant, Jerome Epstein, as the producer.

A majority of the DeMille motion picture library now resides with EMKA, Ltd. through the television division of NBC Universal, due to Paramount Pictures ' losing the rights to the DeMille films in 1958 to EMKA, so technically it is Universal Pictures that now oversees a vast part of DeMille's motion picture career as well as its related archival material.

In 2009, Universal Pictures signed music video and film director Billie Woodruff ( Barbershop, Honey ) to direct the fifth film in the Bring It On series titled Bring It On: Fight to the Finish.

* Universal Pictures released an earlier version, also titled Destry Rides Again ( 1932 ), directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Tom Mix and Zasu Pitts.

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Digital Cinema Initiatives ( DCI ) was formed in March 2002 as a joint project of many motion picture studios ( Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal, and Warner Bros. Studios ) to develop a system specification for digital cinema.

The first DCI-compliant DCP to be delivered was created by FotoKem for the Universal Pictures film Serenity, and was shown to an audience at a remote theater, although it was not distributed this way to the public.

His novel Drood was set to be adapted into a movie by Guillermo del Toro for Universal Pictures.

He was able to line up a couple of potential distributors in Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures International even before the film began production.

Beck spent roughly $ 15, 500 making his English version and sold the film to Universal Pictures International for roughly $ 200, 000 on April 29, 1963.

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In 1963, Kelly joined Universal Pictures for a two-year stint, which proved to be the most unproductive period of his career at that point.

In October, the studio lent him to Universal Pictures to conduct the screen tests and work as a dialogue director for All Quiet on the Western Front.

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During the early period of talking pictures, the American Movie studio Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series.

* 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.

IMP was absorbed into Universal Pictures in 1912, along with Majestic.

She subsequently appeared in a string of 1960s films ( after signing an exclusive contract with Universal Pictures ), including 1967's Thoroughly Modern Millie with Julie Andrews and 1968's What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

Lenneberg was also one of the first cognitive scientists to begin development of the Universalist theory of language which was finally formulated by Noam Chomsky in the form of Universal Grammar, effectively arguing that all languages share the same underlying structure.

The success of the album Paulina was so enormous that Universal Music decided it was time for Rubio to begin work on her first English-language album.

The character Ray Nicolette also appears in Leonard's novel Rum Punch, which was being produced as Jackie Brown when Universal Pictures was preparing to begin production on Out of Sight.

One month later, Apple announced the first products based on their switch from PowerPC to Intel processors, causing QSA to " switch gears " and begin the process of converting their code to Universal Binary format.

Besides rights to Universal Pictures films, Starz also initially had rights to films released by Carolco Pictures, Fine Line Features and its sibling New Line Cinema, and Disney-owned Miramax, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures ( although films from those studios did not begin to be carried on Starz!

Founded in 1995 as Rising Tide Records, the label would ultimately begin to thrive the following year when its name was changed to Universal Records to complement the branding overhaul of the Universal Studios structure since MCA Inc. was purchased from Matsushita Electric by The Seagram Company Ltd ..

* March 14, 2011: Universal announced that Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast will close August 18, 2011, to begin work on a new attraction which " is just one of many exciting things planned for the next couple of years ".

However, channel 51 would not begin its broadcasting operation until August 8, 1999, transmitting programs from the ValueVision Network, which later became ShopNBC in 2000 after NBC ( now part of NBC Universal ) acquired a 37 % ownership stake in that network.

The earliest days of the 21st Century saw the Bahá ' ís begin to pare down their administrative structures, appoint fewer committees, and focus on very specific goals outlined by the Universal House of Justice-namely the creation of small grass-roots study groups, the creation of more neighbourhood-centric children's classes, and the increase in the spiritual character of the community through small devotional gatherings.

A student of the Fravashi, Omar Narayama brought many new ideas that spelled the demise of the Order of Scientists and developed the Universal Syntax, that made holism begin to permeate and supersede science.

In 2007, Universal Pictures optioned the rights to Silva's Gabriel Allon series and it was believed they'd begin with 2005's, The Messenger.

Brown continued releasing recordings: in 1993, he issued the album, Universal James, which included Brown's final Billboard charted single, " Can't Get Any Harder ", which peaked at # 76 on the US R & B chart and # 59 on the UK chart.

In September 2002, Universal Playback ( licensed by the BBC ) began releasing boxed sets of episodes on DVD for region two.

Lantz's harmonious relationship with Universal, the studio releasing his cartoons, was interrupted when new ownership transformed the company into Universal-International and did away with most of Universal's company policies.

After releasing the career-spanning compilation Melting Pot the band's contract with Beggars Banquet was up, and they signed to Universal Records.

In 1997, Alcione signed with Universal Records, subsequently releasing a label debut named Valeu, through Polygram the next year.

However, on 23 October 2004 it was announced that Klass would not be releasing any further material through her label UCJ, Universal Classics & Jazz.

In the resulting litigation Universal was prohibited by the courts from releasing the album created with TVT's funding.

* On February 19, 2008, Universal Studios announced it would be releasing movies on Blu-ray Disc format making it the last ever Hollywood major motion picture studio to release titles on the Blu-ray disc format.

However, Universal Studios decided to break tradition by releasing the film with extensive television advertising.

In 2007, the company began releasing its titles on Blu-ray Disc, with Universal Studios doing it in 2008, which both of them will become the last remaining major Hollywood studios to enter the high-definition home video market.

In 2003, Banner signed to Universal Records releasing four albums: Mississippi: The Album ( 2003 ), MTA2: Baptized in Dirty Water ( 2004 ), Certified ( 2005 ), and The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 2008 ).