Sentence examples for release prestige from inspiring English sources

Oscar officials say that shifting the ceremony up a few weeks might persuade studios to release prestige movies earlier in the year, rather than holding them for November and December.

(About half of them overlapped with the track listing on "The Last From Lennie's," a terrific live album from 1965, originally released on Prestige).

A similar compilation, entitled Plays for Lovers, was released by Prestige in 2003.

The tactical logic of crowding the release dates of prestige films into the fall may be obvious.

Each title contains four extended sex scenes and shifts several thousand DVDs in its first few weeks of release, but such prestige product is an endangered species.

It's probably only a matter of time before some wily studio executive comes up with a phrase to fan away some of the odor, like "pre-autumn prestige release".

In fact, there's a long-established studio history of holding a prestige release until the very end of the calendar, with premieres in New York and L.A. in the final weeks of December to qualify for the Oscars, then rolling it out to the rest of the country in the new year.

Historical visions are mainstays of end-of-year prestige releases, but "Don Verdean" (Dec. 11) promises to be a comical entry in the genre.

The Oscars are the ceremony that celebrates and sustains the nostalgia and the illusion, and most of the ostensible "prestige" releases of awards season are its totems.

Most of the season's prestige releases, the films being ballyhooed for Oscars and already racking up awards in critics' groups, fall into one of two categories.

The power of the cinema remains undiminished, but few of the directors of this year's run of "prestige" releases make much use of it.