But the way the network makes prestige shows has calcified into a formula.
This film essay on race, inequality, and gentrification failed to please R.K.O., whose strategy of making "prestige" pictures was foundering in wartime.
Obviously none of us (Eddie Izzard possibly excepted) wishes to see a class emerge of globetrotting internationalist comics making prestige work exclusively for the moneyed festival circuit, as happens to some degree in the other performing arts.
If 11/22/63 succeeds, credit will be partially due its main competitor: Hastings, programming head Ted Sarandos and others at Netflix made prestige television not merely appealing but vital for the internet age.
The former teeny bopper heartthrob of "Titanic" fame has spent the past decade making prestige films with some of Hollywood's greatest directors, teaming up with Martin Scorcese, Sam Mendes, Christopher Nolan, amongst others.
It came as little surprise to me that two of my favorites among the traditional wines I tasted — Vieux Donjon and Vieux Télégraphe — came from producers that have bucked the trend, choosing not to make any prestige wines.
It's glossy and stodgy, almost as though Jolie were self-consciously trying to make a prestige picture rather than something personal and passionate.
To make more money and earn prestige, Ashenfelter noted, the good winemakers need to shift the attitude of tastemakers (critics, sommeliers, distributors) about New Jersey wines.
But there is money to be made and prestige to be fought for in the so-called Supercopa.
Made by Prestige, it had a chromed steel serrated blade with a tiny length of tang stuck into a wooden handle.
