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 )

The group became dormant in the following two years, and on May 24, 2002, officially announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group over their record contract.

The Universal House of Justice, the only institution authorized to adjudicate on situations not covered in scripture, later announced that it could not legislate to make possible the appointment of a successor to Shoghi Effendi.

After Shoghi Effendi's unexpected death in 1957, the Hands of the Cause directed the affairs of the religion and announced that the election of the Universal House of Justice would occur in 1963 at the end of the Ten Year Crusade, an international teaching plan instituted by Shoghi Effendi.

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

On 21 October 2011 Williams announced that he had signed with Universal Music, following his departure from his previous record label EMI in 2010.

At the end of June 2000, a strategic business alliance between Vivendi, Seagram, and Canal + was announced, and Vivendi Universal, a leading global media and communications company, was formed after the merger with Seagram ( the parent company of Universal Studios ).

On February 19, 2009, Zilog announced that it had sold off their 8-bit Crimzon Universal Remote Control infrared microcontroller product line, as well as their ARM9 32-bit microcontrollers, including the Zatara security microcontrollers and 15 patents, to Maxim Integrated Products.

In early 2007 it was announced that Difford and Tilbrook would re-form Squeeze for a series of shows throughout the latter half of the year, in support of Universal and Warner's re-issuing of the band's back catalogue and the release of a new ' best of ' album, Essential Squeeze, on 30 April.

Universal Studios announced that a new film based on the game-though not explicitly a remake of the 1985 film-was in the works ( they later dropped the film ; however, it is still in the works as Hasbro is teamed up with Gore Verbinski ( who will also direct ) and is set for release in 2013.

In July 2007, the National Archives announced it would make its collection of Universal Newsreels from 1929 to 1967 available for purchase through CreateSpace, an Amazon. com subsidiary.

In March of 2012, Universal announced that a reboot is in production, and will simply be referred to as The Black Lagoon rather than The Creature from the Black Lagoon, in order to distinguish the two versions.

NBC Universal also owned NBC Weather Plus, a rival service which was carried by and featured content from its local affiliates ; that service announced its discontinuation three months later.

In February 2006, CKX Chairman Bob Sillerman announced plans to turn Graceland into an international tourist destination on a par with the Disney or Universal theme parks, sprucing up the area mansion and doubling or possibly tripling the 600, 000 annual visitors to around 2 million a year.

On January 10, 2011, Universal Music Group, which owns the masters to Decca Records, announced that it was donating 200, 000 of its master recordings from the 1920s to the 1940s to the United States Library of Congress.

Citigroup's ownership was temporary, as it announced in November 2011 that it would sell its music arm to Vivendi's Universal Music Group for $ 1. 9 billion, and EMI's publishing business to a Sony / ATV consortium for around $ 2. 2 billion.

Since then Universal Music Group has also announced sales of DRM-free music ( which they described as an experiment ).

On 12 November 2011, it was announced that EMI would sell its recorded music operations to Universal Music Group for £ 1. 2 billion ($ 1. 9 billion ) and its music publishing operations to a Sony-led consortium for $ 2. 2 billion.

In September 2008, Hayward announced the impending release of remastered versions of Octave, Long Distance Voyager and The Present which will be released on Universal Records in the months to come.

On 26 March 1730 Zedler announced the seventh and eighth volumes of Luther's works in the journal New Learned Works, and also announced his next project: the Great Complete Universal Lexicon of Science and Art, with the first volume to be available through Praenumeration subscriptions.

After the success of The Lorax, Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment announced plans to produce a CGI adaptation of the book.

Sony announced plans to release 50 ringles in October and November, while Universal Music Group expected to release somewhere between 10 and 20 titles.

On December 23, 2005, it was announced that NBC Universal would acquire an additional 32 % share of the television channel from Microsoft, solidifying its control over television operations and allowing NBC to further consolidate MSNBC's backroom operations with NBC News and its other cable properties.