$70,000,000 in revenue. Halloween was directed by John Carpenter, produced by Debra Hill and written between the both of them. The movie was set in Haddonfield, Illinois, mainly on Halloween 1978. This movie was the break for “New Hollywood” actress Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode). John Carpenter was paid $10,000 for writing, directing and composing the music, plus he gained 10% of the rights from the film’s profits. With such a low budget, the actors and actresses had to provide their own wardrobe
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Philippines: Oliver Salazar To Lead Samsung At SMG Philippines – Oliver Salazar returns to Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) in Manila as Media Director for the Samsung Account, reporting into Joanna C. Mojica, CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group Philippines. He comes from Mediacom Interaction which is the digital advertising arm of P&G, Bayer, BK/Red Ribbon and Revlon. Salazar previously worked in SMG from 2001-2003 handling Gokongwei-URC accounts. Salazar will be tasked with business growth for the
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Practices: Ted Turner Your Name Capella University Background Ted Turner who was born as Robert Edward Turner III, born on November 19, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is known as a media mogul, philanthropist, and billionaire two times over. It is well known from many sources that Teds’ father was abusive towards him, when he was young. His father who was bipolar killed himself in 1963, which led to Ted becoming president and CEO of Turner Advertising, which later he changed to Turner Broadcasting
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children’s TV channels for many years. Strategy 4: Refocusing: the spin off of AOL and TW allowed the management to focus resources on stronger segments within the own company and closing deals such as with Apple. Strategy 5: Creating subsidiaries: Turner Broadcasting runs successful cabel TV networks such as CNN, TBS, and TNT. During the playoffs TNT was #1 network on all of television and while competitors saw declines CNN ratings were up more than 30%. 3. Recommendations Strategy 1: Joint venture
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game” (Hums, Barr, & Gullion, 1999). The sport industry is growing at an incredible rate of speed. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced a new 14-year television, internet, and wireless rights agreement with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting. College games will be shown on CBS, TBS, TNT and t all four national networks. Should college sports be considered a business much like the NFL? Should it have the same ethical standards set forth for the management and players of
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In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner published his own essay entitled, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”. The first presentation of this paper was at a convocation of the American Historical Association during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. With in this paper Turner brings up topics he felt would help the American Frontier however, there are two main topics that stand out: individualism will promote democracy, shaping of american character using inventions
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In 1893, historian Fredrick Jackson Turner presented his "Frontier Thesis" at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Turner's Frontier Thesis mentioned the process of the frontier and argued about what it did. He explains the effect that the Frontier had on the development of the United States as everyone has come to learn in chronological order the different phases early America experienced. The advancement of the Frontier allowed Americans to forget old European culture and traditions to start a
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entertainment company selling magazines films television programmers and internet service all over the world. * It was formed in 1989 when the magazine company time Inc joined with the film company Warner brothers. * In 1996 it bought the turner broadcasting system which owns CNN. * Time Warne’s Magazines include time life and sports. * In 2000 it joined with American Online to from the world’s largest media company. (Source: oxford advanced learner
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The frontier as Frederick Turner put forth, varied from each period in history; Turner believed that in terms of American history, it was the birth of a nation, stating that: “...we [the reader(s)] note that the frontier promoted the formation of a composite nationality for the American people.”1 This teleological approach however is a bit slighted; while the colonists did eventually look to other settlements around them for aid rather than their parent continues overseas, the first settlers did
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Turner and the Sublime In Romantic art, nature—with its uncontrollable power, unpredictability, and potential for cataclysmic extremes—offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought. The violent and terrifying images of nature conjured by Romantic artists recalled the eighteenth-century aesthetic of the Sublime. An artist that stood out among the many individuals of this time was Joseph Mallord William Turner. Turner was one of the most influential landscape painters in England
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