Sentence examples for producer options from inspiring English sources

When a producer options a show, he or she has the right to mount a Broadway production, and, often, a tour and international productions.

Though the latter sold poorly, a producer optioned the film rights.

Movie producers optioned the book soon after its publication, in 1988.

So he and his producers optioned the rights to two interlocking Dubus stories "in the belief that we were making a mainstream studio movie.

I've got just the movie for you: as Steve Zeitchik says today in his blog at The Hollywood Reporter, an adaptation of Ayn Rand's angry-rich-guys' fantasy, "Atlas Shrugged," may be moving closer to production (and that it has to since the producers' option expires "if production doesn't begin by the end of 2010").

Several studios and independent producers optioned the script, but it never found a buyer.

In 2003, two producers optioned the rights to create a live-action film based on Metroid, but the rights expired.

Next, by discouraging packer contracts, the rules will limit producer's options for managing risks, getting bank loans and, well, making money.

Movie producers bought options on his novels, but the films have not been made.

The blockbuster-film producer Dino De Laurentiis optioned the Wachowskis' next screenplay, "Assassins," while they were renovating their parents' house.

There is no commercial producer's option hanging over us, no rigid timetable, and no thought about what other Tony-eligible pieces might be arriving when.