That same year, he was signed by 20th Century Fox to a seven-year motion picture contract.
The guys who produce Pure Pwnage are going to get a major motion picture contract.
Cut to reporters in the field, and the picture contracted from widescreen to the familiar squarish format with visibly poorer quality.
Beginning her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting as a chorine (a chorus girl) on Broadway, Crawford signed a motion picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925.
It was awards season, we both had multi-picture contracts with Marvel, and I was lonely and desperate for love — I guess it was just perfect timing.
By Janet Manley December 5, 2014 It was awards season, we both had multi-picture contracts with Marvel, and I was lonely and desperate for love — I guess it was just perfect timing.
They famously turned down a subsequent quarter-million-dollar one-picture contract from Universal with the telegram: "We can be bought, but we can't be bored".
Alan Jay Lerner had impressed producer Arthur Freed with the screenplay of An American in Paris (1951), and Freed subsequently signed him to a three-picture contract, the first of which was Brigadoon (1954), also directed by Minnelli.
From 1923 to 1926, he was at the Times, backing up George S. Kaufman in the drama department; while he was there, he also became the first regular theatre critic for The New Yorker, writing weekly from June , 1925 until January, 1926, when he was offered a motion-picture contract and left for Hollywood.
The company made an advertising coup that same year when it signed a 10-picture contract with the Walt Disney Company.
