In July 2009, it was revealed that Universal Studios had won the rights to adapt the game into a film.

The film was produced as part of a production deal with Universal Studios after the financial success of Darkman.

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

The second season episode, " Steel ," includes a scene at Universal Studios where Face is seen looking bemused as a Cylon walks by him-an in-joke to his previous role in Battlestar Galactica.

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.

She was currently under contract to Universal Studios, mostly co-starring in low budget westerns opposite Buck Jones.

Universal Studios itself released the English-language version of the film on DVD in widescreen as part of a 2-pack bundle with King Kong Escapes in 2005.

The powerful imagery of horror films began in German expressionist cinema after the first world war and then passed onto the Universal Studios films of the twenties and thirties, and then to the horror films of the English Hammer Studio.

Including Journey's End ( 1930 ), Whale directed a dozen films for Universal Studios between 1930 and 1936, developing a style characterized by the influence of German Expressionism and a highly mobile camera.

Universal Studios signed Whale to a five-year contract in 1931 and his first project was Waterloo Bridge.

The movies were filmed simultaneously and produced and distributed by Universal Studios.

** MCA Home Video, former name of Universal Studios Home Entertainment

MIDI Show Control is used to cue and synchronize lighting and effects for theatrical events, such as the Waterworld: A Live Sea War Spectacular | Waterworld attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood.

United States fair use law, as interpreted in the decision over Betamax ( Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios ), dictates that consumers are fully within their legal rights to copy videos they own.

The Bates Motel set at Universal Studios

In 1970, Paramount teamed with Universal Studios to form Cinema International Corporation, a new company that would distribute films by the two studios outside the United States.

In 2002, Paramount, Buena Vista Distribution, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, and Warner Bros. formed the Digital Cinema Initiative.

Grey also broke up the famous UIP international distribution company, the most successful international film distributor in history, after a 25-year partnership with Universal Studios and has started up a new international group.

MCA later purchased the US branch of Decca Records, which owned Universal Studios ( now a part of NBCUniversal ), and thus Universal now owns these films, though EMKA continues to hold the copyright and technically are part of the television unit of NBC Universal.

Yet a few other films became adapted by Revue Studios ( now Universal Television ) as television series.

Even as DreamWorks switches distribution of live-action films that are not part of existing franchises to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Paramount will continue to own the films released before the merger, and the films that Paramount themselves distributed ( including sequel rights ; such films as Little Fockers will be distributed by Paramount and DreamWorks, since it is a sequel to an existing DreamWorks film – in this case, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, though Paramount will only own international rights to this title, whereas Universal Studios will handle domestic distribution ).

** USA Networks ( also including what is now called Syfy ) – Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50 % owner ( with Universal Studios ) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount / Viacom sold their stake to Universal ( now part of NBCUniversal )

Universal Studios Home Entertainment released a " Collector's Edition " DVD on October 18, 2005 with extra features that included an " introduction by Mortimer Young ", " Jeff Bridges ' Photography ", " Making of The Big Lebowski ", and " Production Notes ".

On January 12, 2010, Universal Studios Home Entertainment announced that they plan on re-releasing Xena: Warrior Princess on DVD.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released all four seasons of Knight Rider on DVD in regions 1, 2 & 4.

Universal Home Video released Duck Soup on DVD, unrestored but uncut, as part of a six-disc box set The Marx Brothers: Silver Screen Collection, which includes also the Brothers ' other Paramount films, The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, and Horse Feathers.

The network also has rights to many films not released by Disney ( either because the studio does not have a children's network or has one that is incompatible with their focus ), such as Warner Bros .' ( Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ( known in the US as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ), Universal Pictures ( Beethoven, An American Tail, The Land Before Time ), The Weinstein Company ( Hoodwinked, The Magic Roundabout ), Sony Pictures ( Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, Hook ), Lionsgate ( Happily N ' ever After ), 20th Century Fox ( Ice Age, the Home Alone film series, Catch That Kid ), Paramount ( Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown ( and Don't Come Back !!)).

Universal Home Video re-released the film on DVD in 2006, following the dismissal of the lawsuit.

A very select amount of films by Walt Disney Pictures are distributed in Canada by another billion-dollar franchise known as Alliance Films with DVD rights to Universal Studios Home Entertainment, typically for films under Miramax Films, which was recently sold by Walt Disney Studios to Filmyard Holdings.

In June 1924, Wakatsuki was named Home Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Katō Takaaki, and worked to enact the Universal Manhood Suffrage Law and the Peace Preservation Law in 1925.

In July 2007, Universal Studios Home Entertainment released The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection, a three-disc DVD box set compilation of Lantz Cartunes.

Universal Home API, or UHAPI, is an application programming interface ( API ) for consumer electronics appliances, created by the UHAPI Forum.

* Many DVD releases that contain versions of films different from the theatrical releases, such as Universal Studios Home Video's Legend director's cut DVD will have: " This film has been modified from its original version to include additional material not in the original release.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released all six seasons of Emergency !, and the six post-series tele-films ( as The Final Rescues ), on DVD in Region 1.

In 2007, Universal Studios Home Entertainment released The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection, a three-disc DVD boxed set compilation of Walter Lantz " Cartunes ".

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released all six seasons on DVD in Regions 1, 2 & 4.

The film was later released on VHS and laserdisc in 1983 by MCA / Universal Home Video and by Goodtimes Home Video in 1996.

The film was also released on Blu-ray on June 4 in the UK by Universal UK Home Video, although it has been reported that the release suffers from defects in the audio track .< ref >

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released the first three seasons of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on DVD in Region 1 & 2.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released the first 3 seasons of Airwolf on DVD in regions 1, 2 & 4.

On December 23, 2008, Universal Studios Home Entertainment announced the 13 episodes comprising the first season of Exosquad would be published on DVD on April 14, 2009.

Alliance Atlantis and Vivafilm home video releases were, and continue to be, manufactured and distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.