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.

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 HERO System itself was not released as an independent entity until 1989, as Steve Jackson Games ' GURPS ( Generic Universal Roleplaying System ) became more popular.

According to its constitution, the Universal House of Justice itself states that " The provenance, the authority, the duties, the sphere of action of the Universal House of Justice all derive from the revealed Word of Bahá ' u ' lláh which, together with the interpretations and expositions of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and of Shoghi Effendi ... constitute the binding terms of reference of the Universal House of Justice and are its bedrock foundation.

Universal Studios promptly countersued, claiming that Star Wars itself had stolen many ideas from its motion picture Silent Running ( 1972 ) ( notably the robot " drones ") and the Buck Rogers movie serial of the 1930s.

Most of the British members of the committee were drawn from the Universal League for the Material Elevation of the Industrious Classes and were noted trade-union leaders like Odger, George Howell ( former secretary of the London Trades Council ( LTC ) which itself declined affiliation to the IWA ( although remaining close to it )), Osborne, and Lucraft and included Owenites and Chartists.

Among larger dictionaries during this period was ( non-Merriam ) Webster's Universal Dictionary ( also published as Webster's Twentieth Century Dictionary ) which traced its roots to Noah Webster and called itself " unabridged ", but had less than half the vocabulary and paled in scholarship against the Merriam editions.

Now headquartered in New York City, Motown is a subsidiary of The Island Def Jam Music Group, itself a subsidiary of the French-owned Vivendi subsidiary, Universal Music Group.

The album was released in the US on A & M Records ( now owned by MCA successor Universal Music Group, while the MCA label itself has been absorbed into Geffen Records, which like A & M is currently a subsidiary of Interscope Records ) in late 1975.

The second marker is transmitted with an accuracy better than ± 1 ms relative to Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ), which is itself always within ± 1 second of Greenwich Mean ( solar ) Time ( GMT ).

In response to a cease-and-desist letter from Universal Edition demanding that certain scores still covered by Austrian copyright be removed, IMSLP closed itself voluntarily, amidst controversy that UE's demands lacked reasonable legal grounds.

They brought with the company the whole Leyland wheeled tractor range which had previously been built at Bathgate ( which itself had started out as a Nuffield Universal tractor site ).

The Armenian Church began to distance itself from the Roman concept of the Universal Church when, in 373, King Papas ( Pap ) appointed Catholicos Husik without first sending him to Caesarea for commissioning.

In addition to the Paramount film, television, home video, and music publishing divisions, the company continued to own the Madison Square Garden properties ( which also included MSG Network ), a 50 % stake in USA Networks ( the other 50 % was owned by MCA / Universal Studios, which incidentally became the owner of the Famous Music Group catalog when it bought ABC Records in 1979 and a majority of the pre-1950 Paramount sound feature film library when it bought it in 1958 ) and Simon and Schuster ( which itself acquired Prentice Hall a few years before, and later Gousha ).

While Christian based on Gnosis not creed / belief, the church considers itself part of the fellowship of Universal Christendom, that is part of the One Holy Catholic ( Universal ) and Apostolic Church.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights includes rights that are thought of as second generation as well as first generation ones, but it does not make the distinction in itself ( the rights listed are not in specific order ).

The Verve imprint itself manages much of the jazz catalog that once belonged to PolyGram ( not including recordings by Herb Alpert for his A & M Records label which Alpert acquired in a legal settlement with Universal Music and are licensed to Shout!

For example, Universal Studios Home Entertainment owns the UK rights ( they also own UK DVD rights to the TV series Twin Peaks, despite other Spelling / Republic shows being distributed by Paramount there ), and Paramount itself handles distribution in Australia and New Zealand.

She is sometimes identified with the Holy Spirit itself but, according to her various capacities, is also the Universal Mother, the Mother of the Living or Resplendent Mother, the Power on High, She-of-the-left-hand ( as opposed to Christ, understood as her husband and he of the Right Hand ), as the Luxurious One, the Womb, the Virgin, the Wife of the Male, the Revealer of Perfect Mysteries, the Holy Dove of the Spirit, the Heavenly Mother, the Wandering One, or Elena ( that is, Selene, the Moon ).

Many scenes from the film, especially those featuring the destruction of Los Angeles, have appeared in other productions, often those of Universal Studios itself.

Universal Teichmüller space is defined to be the space of real analytic quasiconformal mappings of the unit disc D, or equivalently the upper half-plane H, onto itself, with two mappings considered to be equivalent if on the boundary one is obtained from the other by composition with a Möbius transformation.

* Universal set, a set which contains all objects, including itself

After being dormant since 2001, the brand was re-activated for low-budget genre films, similar to Dimension Films ( once a Disney division itself, now part of The Weinstein Company ) or Sony Pictures ' Screen Gems ( part of Columbia Pictures ), News Corporation's Fox Atomic ( part of Fox Searchlight Pictures ) and Relativity Media's Rogue Pictures ( distributed by former parent Universal Studios ).