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 )

Warner Brothers had a major success in 2006 with the Oscar winning feature film, Happy Feet, while Universal Studios attempted several times to become a viable participant in the market, finally achieving the goal in 2010 with Despicable Me.

Later in the 1980s, after he attempted to fulfill his Rockford contract with a 1981 Maverick revival titled Bret Maverick, Garner became engaged in a legal dispute with Universal regarding the profits from Rockford that lasted over a decade, causing ( and reflecting ) significant ill will on both sides.

After leaving the WWF, Sammartino began doing commentary for Herb Abrams ' upstart Universal Wrestling Federation as it attempted to go national and compete with the WWF, the NWA, and WCCW.

She also signed an album contract with Universal International UK and attempted a comeback of sorts with Fabulous ( 2000 ), an album of classic disco covers produced by Ian Masterson of Trouser Enthusiasts fame and Terry Ronald.

She signed with Universal Studios in 1942 and acted mostly in B-movies, including Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, Arabian Nights, The Sword of Monte Cristo, and Captive Wild Woman, in which Universal attempted to create a female monster movie franchise with Acquanetta as an ape.

Dell additionally attempted to do superhero titles, including Nukla, Superheroes ( starring the Fab 4, as the group's name was spelled on covers ), Brain Boy, and a critically ridiculed trio of titles based on the Universal Pictures monsters Frankenstein, Dracula and Werewolf that recast the characters as superheroes.

For example, Leopold Von Ranke, probably the pre-eminent historian of the 19th century, founder of " Rankean positivism ," the classic mode of historiography that now stands against postmodernism, attempted to write a Universal History at the close of his career.

The Harvey-Dixmoor School District attempted to sue Universal Pictures in December 1981 for $ 87, 000, citing damage to mall property created during the movie shoot, which was never repaired.

TVT also attempted to sell artists ' back catalog, resulting in Congleton, along with labelmates The Polyphonic Spree, to file a lawsuit against the label and its parent company Universal Music Group in June 2008.

Throughout 1991 and early 1992, Universal attempted to refurbish the effects of the ride for a re-opening, but with no result.

According to the Los Angeles Times, " s part of the agreement between UMG and the library, Universal retains ownership of the recording copyrights and the right to exploit the cleaned-up and digitized files for commercial purposes.

Ufficiali di Notte – umchwasho – undescended testicle – undinism – uniform fetish – unintended pregnancy – unitypic – Universal Declaration of Sexual Rights – unnatural act – unnatural sex – unprotected sex – unrequited love – unusual sex acts – uranism – Ureaplasma urealyticum – ureter – urethra – Urethral intercourse-urethral catheterization – urethral crest – urethral foreign body insertion – urethral self-instrumentation – urethral sounding – urethral sponge – urethral stricture – urethralism – urethroplasty – urethrorectal fistula – urethrotome – urethrotomy – ' urfi marriage – urfi marriage – urinary fistula – urinary incontinence – urinary tract infection – urine – urningism – urogenital – urogenital diaphragm – urogenital folds – urogenital sinus – urolagnia – urology – urophilia – urtication – usus marriage – uterine cancer – uterine horns – uterine orgasm – uterus –

Castle of Frankenstein also carried an unusual original comic strip, Baron von Bungle, by Richard Bojarski, who gave a humorous twist to the world depicted in Universal horror films.

Except for the Superman cartoons and the features sold to MCA ( to end up with Universal ), most television prints of these films have had their titles remade to remove most traces of their connection to Paramount – the original copyright lines were left intact on Popeye cartoons ( the Popeye cartoons have been restored for DVD release with the original Paramount titles ).

* All the Harold Lloyd features ( silents and talkies ) released by Paramount are owned by the Harold Lloyd Trust except for The Milky Way ( 1936 ), acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Productions for a remake and now in the public domain ; and Professor Beware ( 1938 ), which is owned by EMKA / Universal Television.

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 ".

The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a credited comic remake released by Universal Pictures in 1981, features Lily Tomlin, as the wife of an advertising executive, and in a similar predicament as a result of exposure to chemicals from household products.

Jim Allan ( An introduction to Elvish, ISBN 0-905220-10-2 ) compared the tengwar with the Universal Alphabet of Francis Lodwick of 1686, both on grounds of the correspondence between shape features and sound features, and of the actual letter shapes.

The entrance to the park has a globe that resembles the Unisphere with " Universal Studios " on it ( although Universal Studios began using the globe as its logo decades earlier ), and an area of the park called " World Expo " that features world music and flags of many nations.

As a result of MGM's purchase of this film, it is not owned by Universal Studios, which owns most pre-1950 Paramount sound features ( and who has produced a popular line of horror films ).

Seeing the box-office for the first two CinemaScope features, The Robe and How to Marry a Millionaire, Warner Bros., MGM, Universal Pictures ( then known as Universal-International ), Columbia Pictures and Disney quickly adopted the process.

* Universal Cartoon Studios, the animation and features division of Universal Studios

Special features for the DVD include ; Jewel music video: " What's Simple Is True ", the Theatrical Trailer, Production notes, Cast and filmmakers extra, and a Universal web link.

The Spitfire films rejuvenated Vélez's career, and for the next few years she starred in musical and comedy features for RKO, Universal Pictures, and Columbia Pictures in addition to the Spitfire films.

The film was used as the basis for the attraction Twister ... Ride It Out at Universal Studios Florida, which features filmed introductions by Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton.

When Universal developed financial difficulties, Ritter moved to Producers Releasing Corporation as " Texas Ranger Tex Haines " for eight features between 1944 and 1945.

He and Joe Pasternak filmed a successful screen test for Universal's newest singing star, Gloria Jean, but Koster would never direct one of her features ; when Pasternak left Universal for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in June 1941, Koster went with him.

* Universal Access — Dozens of new features here.

In April 2007, Universal Studios began filming of " The Express " which also features several scenes in Pullman, one which includes the cast leaving the Greenstone Church ( see Ernie Davis ).

To this day, the image of Karloff's face is owned by his daughter's company, Karloff Enterprises, which is the reason Universal replaced Karloff's features with Glenn Strange's in most of their marketing.

* The novel House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds features a device called the " Universal Actuary ", which aims to predict the future of civilisations in a manner very similar to psychohistory.

The 2006 Universal Home Video DVD release features the original " Sensurround " 3. 1 audio track, duplicating the original theatrical " Sensurround " track ( but oddly in mono directed to the front 3 speakers rather than the original stereo mix ), but sadly no actual ' rumble ' generator was used and its only the two control tones that activated the generator that can be heard.

The Universal Studios Hollywood Studio Tour also contains an Earthquake sequence, which replaced The Tower of London Set in 1986, and features the tour tram entering a San Francisco subway station and experiencing a massive earthquake.

Credits on nearly every Columbia, Fox, M-G-M, Paramount and Universal features, and several independents, including Quinn Martin.

In 1991, a features war between B32 and one of its competitors, Transoft's Universal Business Basic, saw major improvements to the B32 language.