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70-457: Recorded Picture Company is a British film production company founded in 1974 by producer Jeremy Thomas . Recorded Picture Company (RPC) is an independent production company that makes feature films for worldwide theatrical release. Jeremy Thomas founded the London-based company in 1974, and remains chairman. Its first production, The Shout directed by Jerzy Skolimowski , went on to win

140-561: A "film nerd", but he has also been called "a cultural sponge" by van Wissem. This film is full of cultural references and therefore it has been praised as "intensely curated" and "an elegiac love song to aesthetic originary creation". Most of the hints are musical and others refer to science, literature or Jarmusch's work. The implicit vampires (Adam, Eve, and Christopher) are sort of "secret agents of artistic and intellectual achievement throughout history", having created art for others like William Shakespeare or Franz Schubert (for whom Adam

210-773: A "one time hit" or an ongoing "entertainment franchise " that can be continued, remade, rebooted , or expanded into other sister industries; such as the video game industry (see Star Wars , Star Trek ). Entertainment projects can be either an original or an adaptation from another industry. In rare occasional cases, a few troubled major studios would also shed their distribution and/or marketing staffs, mainly due to reduced resources, and resort to co-investing and/or co-distributing film projects with larger studios, operating as virtual, production-only movie studios. Notable examples include legendary studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , which, after many years of box office flops (mostly with low budgets), bad management and distribution, and bankruptcy,

280-630: A Samurai premiered in Competition at the Cannes International Film Festival , the first 3D film ever to do so. Recent releases include David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method , which premiered at Venice and Toronto Film Festivals in 2012, and the epic adventure Kon-Tiki , based on Thor Heyerdahl 's best-selling book, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2012. The company premiered Jim Jarmusch 's vampire opus Only Lovers Left Alive In Competition at

350-405: A contract) or as a subsidiary for an entertainment company, motion picture company, television network, or all, and are generally smaller than the company they are partnered with. A book to film unit is a unit of a book publishing company for the purposes of getting books that they published adapted into film . Films have been using books as a prime source for films for years. In 2012, six out of

420-609: A development and co-finance plan. Macmillan Films was launched by Thomas Dunne Books in October 2010 under the packaging model similar to Alloy while also moving to get film rights from Dunne's published author. Also that year, Random House changed their strategy to film development and packaging only. Condé Nast Entertainment was started by Magazine publisher Conde Nast in October 2012. In 2013, Macmillan Films became Macmillan Entertainment with an expansion to look at other divisions' book for possible films. A production company

490-439: A film to make my next film and to make profits and successful films, but I am not working in the arena of super profits. I am not working in an industrialised process. I am making global films but not films for a globalised market. RPC's releases include Bertolucci's The Dreamers , Terry Gilliam's Tideland , Wim Wenders ' Don't Come Knocking , Richard Linklater 's Fast Food Nation , and Jon Amiel 's Creation , about

560-488: A little unusual, or not predictable, or don't satisfy people's expectations of something". Jarmusch revealed in 2014 that, after seven years of frustration, Swinton said "that's good news, it means that now is not the time. It will happen when it needs to happen". Jarmusch eventually received a US$ 7 million budget from the German NRW Filmstiftung ( de ) . Producer Jeremy Thomas later said that Jarmusch

630-442: A musician and composer; he is upset when some intrepid fans turn up on his doorstep. Ian promises to discreetly spread rumours about Adam living elsewhere to draw them away. When Eve phones, she recognises Adam is despondent and decides to come to Detroit to comfort him. Soon after she arrives, Adam goes out for more blood, and she discovers his revolver hidden under the bed with the wooden bullet. Her vampire senses reveal to her that

700-407: A naïve young music fan, to procure vintage guitars and other assorted curiosities, including a custom-made wooden bullet with a brass casing he thinks of using to kill himself. Having acquired much scientific knowledge over the years, Adam has built contraptions to power his home and a vintage sports car with technology originally pioneered by Nikola Tesla . His reclusive nature adds to his mystique as

770-465: A private corporate investment entity (see Legendary Pictures ). Their only source of profit comes from the productions they produce. Because entertainment and media are currently in "high demand", a production company can profit if its management is capable of using its resources to supply good quality products and services to the public. Many entertainment production companies brand their entertainment projects. An entertainment project can either become

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840-451: A production. The entertainment industry is centered on funding (investments from studios, investment firms, or individuals either from earnings from previous productions or personal wealth), projects (scripts and entertainment franchises), and talent ( actors , directors, screenwriters , and crew). Production companies are judged and ranked based on the amount of funding it has, as well the productions it has completed or been involved with in

910-445: A self-publishing vanity press which are paid services. Both large and small production studios have an editorial board or editor-in-chief , along with other forms of a command hierarchy . Entertainment companies operate as mini conglomerate , operating many divisions or subsidiaries in many different industries. Warner Bros. Entertainment and Lionsgate Entertainment are two companies with this corporate structure. It allows for

980-426: A single company to maintain control over seemingly unrelated companies that fall within the ranges of entertainment, which increases and centralises the revenue into one company (example: a film production company, TV production company, video game company, and comic book company are all owned by a single entertainment company). A motion picture company, such as Paramount Pictures , specializing "only" in motion pictures

1050-509: A typically offbeat entry to the vampire genre." Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 79 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Scott A. Gray of Exclaim! gave the film 8 out of 10, calling it "a visually poetic love story with a wry, jaded sense of humour about finding reasons to wake up every night". Calum Marsh of Slant Magazine gave it 3 out of 4 stars. Jonathan Romney of Screen International commented that it

1120-513: Is "one of the great American independent film-makers – he's the last of the line. People are not coming through like that any more". In January 2012, Tom Hiddleston replaced Fassbender prior to filming. Shooting began that June in numerous locations, the Brush Park district of Detroit, Michigan, U.S., Tangier , Morocco, Hamburg and Cologne in Germany. Filming lasted seven weeks. The film

1190-428: Is Jarmusch's most poetic film since Dead Man . Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter described the film as "the perennial downtown filmmaker's best work in many years, probably since 1995's Dead Man , with which it shares a sense of quiet, heady, perilous passage". Jonathan Hatfull of SciFiNow wrote that it is Jarmusch's best film since Ghost Dog . Robbie Collin from The Daily Telegraph awarded

1260-533: Is a 2013 gothic fantasy comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch , starring Tilda Swinton , Tom Hiddleston , Mia Wasikowska , Anton Yelchin , Jeffrey Wright , Slimane Dazi and John Hurt . An international co-production between the United Kingdom and Germany, the film focuses on the romance between two vampires and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival . In 2016,

1330-1362: Is a cultural sponge, he absorbs everything". A concert was held at the Santos Party House venue in New York City in April 2014 to celebrate the release of Jarmusch's eleventh feature film. During the Santos event, Jesus performed with van Wissem on both a "pseudo-Gregorian" piece from the film's soundtrack and an unrecorded collaboration. The list of songs: CD tracks: Detroit 1. SQÜRL – Streets Of Detroit – 0:35 2. SQÜRL – Funnel Of Love – 3:40 3. Jozef Van Wissem Et SQÜRL – Sola Gratia (Part 1) – 3:24 4. Jozef Van Wissem Et SQÜRL – The Taste Of Blood – 5:49 5. SQÜRL – Diamond Star – 1:14 6. SQÜRL – Please Feel Free To Piss In The Garden – 4:20 7. SQÜRL – Spooky Action At A Distance – 3:34 Tangier 8. Jozef Van Wissem Et SQÜRL – Streets Of Tangier – 1:35 9. Jozef Van Wissem – In Templum Dei – 2:56 10. Jozef Van Wissem Et SQÜRL – Sola Gratia (Part 2) – 5:09 11. Jozef Van Wissem – Our Hearts Condemn Us – 4:35 12. Yasmine Hamdan – Hal – 4:29 13. Jozef Van Wissem Et SQÜRL – Only Lovers Left Alive – 3:31 14. Jozef Van Wissem Et SQÜRL – This Is Your Wilderness – 3:51 Jarmusch not only sees himself as

1400-402: Is considered to be a small production company. These companies often work with up and coming talent. Small production companies will either grow to become a major production company, a subsidiary completely owned by another company, remain small, or fail. The success of an entertainment production company is centered on the projects it produces, the talent it can acquire, and the performance of

1470-440: Is kind of like a musician. He has music in his head when he's writing a script so it's more informed by a tonal thing than it is by anything else ... I feel that I'm sort of political. Jim's film is anti-contemporary-society. And the lute goes against all technology and against all computers and against all the crap you don't need. Van Wissem also described the film as "a very personal film, maybe even autobiographical" and that "Jim

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1540-741: Is now a parking deck, and the place where Jack White grew up with his family. White previously played a Tesla expert in Coffee and Cigarettes . The film was shown in several film festivals during 2013, such as the Cannes Film Festival in the competition section in April, the September Toronto International Film Festival , four screenings at the September/October Reykjavík International Film Festival , and as an opening film for

1610-410: Is one of several Jarmusch productions, with films such as Night on Earth , in which the action mainly occurs at night. Swinton said after the film's release that "Jim is pretty much nocturnal, so the nightscape is pretty much his palette. There's something about things glowing in the darkness that feels to me really Jim Jarmusch. He's a rock star". Jarmusch 's band SQÜRL , primarily responsible for

1680-442: Is only connected with its other counterpart industries through its parent company. Instead of performing a corporate reorganization, many motion picture companies often have sister companies they collaborate with in other industries that are subsidiaries owned by their parent company and is often not involved in the making of products that are not motion picture related. A film production company can either operate as an affiliate (under

1750-410: Is owned by Paramount Global ). Alloy Entertainment while not a unit of a publisher started using a book packaging to film model of film and TV development by developing the property in-house, hire authors for the books and films, so as to own the property. Random House was the first big six book publisher to establish a book to film unit, Random House Films , in 2005 with a Focus Features deal under

1820-401: Is said to have written the famous Adagio of the cello string quintet D956 , the movement used by Jarmusch in his 2009 film The Limits of Control ). Early in the film, Adam asserts that seventeenth century musician William Lawes was known for his funeral music, perhaps confusing him with Henry Purcell . Lawes wrote no funeral music, but Purcell famously did. The title pays tribute to

1890-481: Is shown while other guitars, violins and cellos can be seen in Adam's studio. Among Adam's recording equipment is a Premier drum set, a Telefunken and Revox tape recorder, a Marshall and Fender amps. Eve and her sister are more adapted to modern technology. To communicate via Skype with her lover, Eve uses her iPhone while Adam sets up a laptop connected to a wood-cabinet tube television. Ava uses YouTube to watch

1960-448: Is usually run by a producer or director, but can also be run by a career executive. In entertainment, a production company relies highly on talent or a well known entertainment franchise to raise the value of an entertainment project and draw out larger audiences. This gives the entertainment industry a democratized power structure to ensure that both the companies and talent receive their fair share of pay and recognition for work done on

2030-580: The Dave Wallis science fiction novel of the same name from 1964, although the plots have no similarities. A film adaptation was planned in the mid-1960s for director Nicholas Ray (a picture of him can later be seen in the film) starring The Rolling Stones . The names "Adam" and "Eve" can easily be inferred to allude to the biblical creation story but Jarmusch revealed he was originally referring to Mark Twain 's satirical work The Diaries of Adam and Eve . For her flight from Tangier to Detroit Eve uses

2100-477: The concentration of media ownership , who act as the production company' s partner or parent company . This has become known as the "studio system". Independent studios usually prefer production house (see Lionsgate ), production studio (see Amazon Studios ), or production team (see Rooster Teeth ). In the case of television, a production company would serve under a television network . Production companies can work together in co-productions . In music,

2170-436: The "good stuff", for fear of blood contaminated by the 21st century environment. Adam, still a famous musician, also fears exposure, visiting a local blood bank in the dead of night in disguise as " Dr. Faust ", bribing " Dr. Watson " for his coveted O negative . Eve relies on their old friend, the author Christopher Marlowe , who faked his death in 1593 and now lives under the protection of a protégé. Despite having influenced

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2240-415: The "good stuff". Hungry for excitement, Ava persuades them to go out to a local club with Ian, where they hear Adam's music played by the band White Hills . Ava offers Ian a hit off the flask she secretly filled with blood and brought to the club, but Adam snatches it from her with supernatural speed and insists they leave. Before dawn, Ava kills Ian by drinking too much of his blood, and Adam kicks her out of

2310-644: The 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the black comedy Dom Hemingway written and directed by Richard Shepard at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival , the dark fantasy Tale of Tales by Matteo Garrone In Competition at the 2015 Cannes Film festival, the sci-fi period thriller High-Rise by Ben Wheatley at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival, and Blade of the Immortal by Takashi Miike which had its world premiere In Selection at Cannes 2017. Upcoming projects include titles from Matteo Garrone and Julien Temple . RPC's head of development Alainée Kent works closely on

2380-613: The 4th American Film Festival held in Wrocław, Poland . The film was officially released in the United Kingdom on 21 February 2014, and opened in the United States on 11 April the same year. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 86% of 210 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "Worth watching for Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton's performances alone, Only Lovers Left Alive finds writer-director Jim Jarmusch adding

2450-554: The Grand Prix de Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978. Thomas has since produced or executive-produced over 60 films through RPC, of which all but one have obtained North American theatrical release. RPC is a director-driven company, and has close relationships with a number of leading directors including Bernardo Bertolucci , Phillip Noyce , Terry Gilliam , Stephen Frears , David Cronenberg and Takeshi Kitano . Its films have achieved commercial success and critical acclaim, with

2520-507: The best-known being Bertolucci's The Last Emperor , winner of nine Academy Awards including 'Best Picture'. Other notable productions include Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty and Little Buddha , Cronenberg's Naked Lunch and Crash , Sexy Beast by Jonathan Glazer , Brother by Kitano, and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence by Nagisa Oshima . RPC's films have garnered numerous prizes at Cannes and other major festivals and awards ceremonies. Jeremy Thomas later remembered forging

2590-425: The bullet is new, and she is worried. Eve confronts Adam when he returns, chiding him for wasting the life and opportunities he has to enjoy and appreciate the good things in the world, as well as their relationship. They spend their nights cruising the empty streets of Detroit, listening to music and playing chess. Their idyll is shattered by the arrival of Eve's younger sister, Ava, who gorges herself on their stash of

2660-440: The careers of countless famous musicians and scientists, Adam has become withdrawn and suicidal. His desire to reconnect through his music is at odds with the danger of recognition as well as his contempt for the corrupt and foolish humans he refers to as 'zombies'. He spends his nights recording his compositions on outdated studio equipment and lamenting the state of the modern world, while collecting vintage instruments. He pays Ian,

2730-455: The company's daily activities. In some cases, a production company can be run by only a handful of people. The company's funds are mainly committed towards employing talent, crew, and acquiring new updated production equipment on a regular basis. Many productions often require at least one to two cameras and lighting equipment for on location shooting. Production equipment is either leased or purchased from another production company or directly from

2800-440: The exposure, when shooting in public locations, major productions often employ security to ensure the protection of the talent and crew working on a specific production. After filming is completed, the production enters into post production, which is handled by a post production company and overseen by the production company. The editing, musical score, visual effects, re-recording of the dialog, and sound effects are "mixed" to create

2870-461: The fictional airline "Air Lumière"; the name is allusion to Auguste and Louis Lumière . While Adam often mentions that he has no "heroes", opposite his bed the wall is covered with pictures of personalities, which include: The home of Adam is originally located at 82 Alfred Street, Detroit. When the protagonists are cruising around the neighbourhood, Adam shows Eve the Michigan Theater , which

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2940-670: The film 3 out of 5 stars, pointing that Adam and Eve look more like "well-born incestuous siblings" in spite of being lovers, while the Observer' s Jonathan Romney concluded that the film is "a droll, classy piece of cinematic dandyism that makes the Twilight cycle redundant in one exquisitely languid stroke". Kurt Halfyard of Twitch Film commented: "Retro recording equipment hasn't looked this claustrophobically sexy since Berberian Sound Studio ". Alfred Joyner of International Business Times felt that "the melancholy that permeates Motown in

3010-496: The film 4 out of 5 stars and praised the performances of Swinton and Hiddleston: "In the time-honoured Jarmuschian fashion, the few things that happen in Only Lovers Left Alive happen very slowly, but the dialogue is always gloomily amusing, and Swinton and Hiddleston's delivery of the gags is as cold and crisp as footsteps in fresh snow". Jessica Kiang of IndieWire gave the film a B+ grade, saying, "The real pleasure of

3080-461: The film is in its languid droll cool and its romantic portrayal of the central couple, who are now our number one role models in the inevitable event of us turning vampiric." Tim Grierson of Paste noted that "Hiddleston and Swinton play their characters not as blasé hipsters but, rather, deeply reflective, almost regretful old souls who seem to have decided that love is about the only thing you can count on". Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave

3150-655: The film was ranked among the BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century by 177 critics around the world. In late 2019, it was named the fourth greatest film of the 2010s by The Hollywood Reporter ' s chief film critic Todd McCarthy . Married for centuries and now living half a world apart, two vampires wake as the sun goes down. Adam sits holding a lute , in his cluttered Detroit Victorian , as Eve wakes up in her bedroom in Tangier , surrounded by books. Rather than feeding on humans directly, they are dependent on local suppliers of

3220-429: The film's score, opens the film with a version of Wanda Jackson's 1961 song "Funnel of Love". Other contributors to the soundtrack are Zola Jesus and Lebanese vocalist Yasmine Hamdan , while Dutch lute player Jozef van Wissem 's compositions formed the core of the film's aural aesthetic. During the week of the soundtrack album's release, in April 2014, Van Wissem explained: I know the way [Jarmusch] makes his films

3290-425: The final film, which is then screened at the final screening. Marketing is also launched during this phase, such as the release of trailers and posters. Once a final film has been approved, the film is taken over by the distributors, who then release the film. For legal reasons, it is common within the entertainment industry for production companies not to accept unsolicited materials from any other company, talent, or

3360-416: The general public. It is also common for filmmakers or producers to become entrepreneurs and open their own production companies so that they can have more control over their careers and pay, while acting as an "in-house" creative and business driving force for their company but continuing to freelance as an artist for other companies, if desired. Only Lovers Left Alive Only Lovers Left Alive

3430-524: The girl though." In August 2010, Jarmusch said that Tilda Swinton , Michael Fassbender , Mia Wasikowska , and John Hurt had agreed to join the film, described by Jarmusch in May 2011 as a "crypto-vampire love story", but he did not have financing yet. Financing the film was a difficult process for the director and he explained at the world premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival in May 2013 that "it's getting more and more difficult for films that are

3500-426: The guild. Productions with smaller budgets are allowed to use both guild talent and talent from the public. The majority of the talent and crew working in the entertainment industry are members of their professions guild. Most productions in the entertainment industry are guild productions. A production company is responsible for the development and filming of a specific production or media broadcast. In entertainment,

3570-544: The house. Adam and Eve dispose of Ian's corpse in an acid pool in an abandoned factory. Ian's murder and the appearance of another group of Adam's fans at the house compel the couple to hastily return to Tangier with only what they can carry onto the plane. Desperately hungry, they visit Marlowe and learn that their old friend and mentor has been poisoned by accidentally drinking contaminated blood. They tease Marlowe about his long ruse, successfully hiding that he produced most of Shakespeare 's plays, before he dies. They return to

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3640-645: The life of Charles Darwin starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly , which was the Opening Gala of the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival . 2010 saw Takashi Miike 's samurai epic 13 Assassins and Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing had their world premieres in Competition at the Venice International Film Festival , with both films going on to feature in Official Selection at Toronto. In 2012, Miike's Hara-Kiri: Death of

3710-440: The manufacturer. In the entertainment industry, in order to secure experienced professional talent and crew, production companies often become a signatory company to that talent or crew members "guild". By becoming a signatory company, it agrees to abide by the guild regulations. All big budget guild productions are exclusive to guild members and non guild members are not allowed to participate in these productions unless authorized by

3780-402: The movie on analog film; budgetary considerations however forced the use of a digital Arri Alexa Plus with Cooke S4 lenses. Only vinyl (mostly singles) are played and analogue recording is used. The film opens with a view of a ten-course renaissance lute (credited as built by Michael Schreiner of Toronto ). Adam receives four guitars in the beginning from Ian: Later, a 1905 Gibson L2

3850-626: The music video of "Soul Dracula" by the French band Hot Blood. Among the books Eve reads and packs for her trip to Detroit are: Referring to the story that Christopher Marlowe may have faked his death and then written under the pseudonym of William Shakespeare, Marlow tells Eve that Adam would have been the perfect inspiration for his Hamlet . The mentioned scientists (and one engineer) Adam adores are: Pythagoras , Galileo Galilei , Nicolaus Copernicus , Isaac Newton , Nikola Tesla , Charles Darwin , and Albert Einstein . Eve flies to Detroit on

3920-479: The nine best picture Oscar nominees were originally books. Previously, publishers did not develop their books into movie nor receive any of the profits. Neither Scholastic or Little Brown, get any box office revenue from the Harry Potter and The Twilight Saga movies just through book sales. As the publishers faced decreasing revenue due to increased competition from self-published e-books, or Amazon.com moving into

3990-424: The past. If a production company has major funding either through earnings, studio investors, or private investors, and has done or been involved with big budget productions in the past, it is considered to be a major production company. These companies often work with well-known and expensive talent. If a production company does not have much funding and has not done or been involved with any big budget productions, it

4060-574: The play The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus ). During his visits, Watson jokingly calls him "Dr. Strangelove" (the eponymous character in Stanley Kubrick 's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove ) and "Dr. Caligari" (an homage to the German silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ). Parallel to Adam's fondness for vintage instruments and audio equipment, Jarmusch originally planned shooting

4130-464: The production or may accomplish this through a parent company , partner, or private investor. It handles budgeting, scheduling, scripting, the supply with talent and resources , the organization of staff, the production itself, post-production , distribution, and marketing . Production companies are often either owned or under contract with a media conglomerate , film studio , record label , video game publisher , or entertainment company, due to

4200-416: The production process begins with the development of a specific project. Once a final script has been produced by the screenwriters, the production enters into the pre-production phase, most productions never reach this phase for financing or talent reasons. In pre-production, the actors are signed on and prepared for their roles, crew is signed on, shooting locations are found, sets are built or acquired, and

4270-486: The production's shooting locations for both privacy and safety reasons. In many cases, the director, producers, and the leading actors are often the only people with access to a full or majority of a single script. Supporting actors, background actors, and crew often never receive a full copy of a specific script to prevent leaks. Productions are often shot in secured studios, with limited to no public access, but they are also shot on location on secured sets or locations. Due to

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4340-552: The proper shooting permits are acquired for on location shooting. Actors and crew are hand picked by the producer, director, and casting director, who often use collaborators or referenced personnel to prevent untrusted or unwelcomed people from gaining access to a specific production and compromising the entire production through leaks. Once a production enters into principal photography, it begins filming. Productions are almost never cancelled once they reach this phase. Codenames are often used on bigger productions during filming to conceal

4410-517: The publishing field, publishers have started to enter the film and TV production business to boost their net income with Amazon attempting to compete there too. More screenwriters are turning to book publishers to get their screenplay published as a book, so as to have a boost in their attempt to have the screenplay turned into a movie, given that it is a known product after the book. Publisher Simon & Schuster , though not involved with film and TV, shares possible film and TV deals with CBS (S&S

4480-442: The reputation of the company in the 1970s: At the beginning I didn't really understand what I was doing. I didn't understand business terms and I probably didn't understand taste or cultural terms, but it was about now I was beginning to refine what I was trying to do. I was trying to think what sort of films that I wanted to make, what sort of audiences I was trying to find. And I am the type of independent producer, I am looking for

4550-522: The slate with Thomas. Production company Generally the term refers to all individuals responsible for the technical aspects of creating a particular product, regardless of where in the process their expertise is required, or how long they are involved in the project. For example, in a theatrical performance, the production team has not only the running crew , but also the theatrical producer , designers , and theatrical direction . The production company may be directly responsible for fundraising

4620-421: The streets with the last flask of the "good stuff". When Eve takes Adam's cash and promises to return with a gift, he is captivated by the music from a nearby club, where Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan is finishing a haunting song. Eve reappears with a beautiful oud , and as they sit together contemplating their likely demise, they spot a pair of young lovers kissing. "What choice do we have?" Adam remarks; "I get

4690-552: The surname "Fibonacci", taken from the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci . On their flights to Tangier they use the names Stephen Dedalus (from James Joyce 's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses ) and Daisy Buchanan (from F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby ). On his two visits to Dr. Watson ( Jeffrey Wright ) Adam's name tag shows "Dr. Faust" (from the German legend of Faust , from which Marlowe wrote

4760-415: The talent. Marketing is also a major factor. All films, as a tradition, are often marketed around the image and the performance of the actors; with an option of marketing the behind the scenes crew such as the directors and screenwriters. Unlike many other businesses, a production company does not rely on an ongoing revenue stream , they operate on ongoing investments; this often requires a parent company or

4830-615: The term production team typically refers to a group of individuals filling the role of " record producer " usually reserved for one individual. Some examples of musical production teams include Matmos and D-Influence . The aforementioned publishing conglomerates distribute said creative works, but it is not uncommon for production companies to act as a publication . For example, The Walt Disney Company and Nintendo act as publisher for Walt Disney Animation Studios and Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development respectively. Self-publishing , in this case, should not be confused with

4900-630: Was restructured at the end of 2010 under new management and currently struck deals with some of the Big Six studios (most notably the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group and Warner Bros. ); Miramax , which was downsized by former owner Disney into a smaller division. Because a production company is only operational when a production is being produced and most of the talent and crew are freelancers , many production companies are only required to hire management staff that helps to oversee

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