Part A i.Who is the director? Yasmin Ahmad was born in Kampung Bukit Treh in Muar, Johor on 7 Jan 1958. A graduate in arts majoring in politics and psychologyy from Newcastle University in England, she worked as a trainee banker in 1982 for two weeks then working for IBM as a marketing representative while moonlighting as a blues singer and pianist by night. Yasmin began her career in advertising as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather and in 1993 she moved to Leo Burnett as joint creative director
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exhibitors – movie theaters – have seen their business decline. Movies are more available than ever, but fewer are venturing to the theater to see them. Many theaters have ceased operation, driven from the market by consolidation and as patrons stayed away. Will the marquee at the local theater exhibitor soon change to: “A Horror Show at the Cinemaplex?” How has this come to be? What can exhibitors do to respond? Use Porter’s five forces model to analyze the profit potential of the movie theater industry
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giving family’s the movie feel without the cost, or dealing with cell phone conversations, rude staff, and commercials’. C. Bargaining Power of Suppliers The bigger megaplexes do have some bargaining power as far as concession items but they still sell their concession for the same price as the average for all theaters. D. Bargaining Power of Buyers The theater is at the mercy of the studio and the consumer. There is money to made mainly in locations where going to the movie is the high light
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INTRODUCTION Objective: * To study and understand the Segmenting, Targeting & Positioning and the Price Sensitivity of cinema goers in Ranchi. * To understand the theoretical concept & it’s application to practical world. * For partial fulfillment of Masters Degree in Management. Scope: * Study is limited to the fulfillment of academic purpose only. * Help to understand the applicability of theory in cinema hall business to some extent. Limitation: * Study
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trading is growing at 16 % What is COGS for PVR’s movie exhibition business? In other words, what is it that the procuring as raw material, adding value to it, and re-selling? Do not write the number here, just the concept. COGS usually include lease expense of multiplex, labour cost, film distributor share , food expenses , entertainment tax Tied to COGS is inventory. Crudely, inventory is unsold “COGS”. What is the inventory for PVR’s movie exhibition business? Again, do not write the number
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Kent Tsao RTVF 271 The censorship in American Film The earliest motion picture was initially exposed by a Californian Eadweard Muybridge around the year of 1875 with the bet of whether or not all four hooves of a horse are off the ground during racing, which the idea was further developed by a well known inventor Thomas Alva Edison and one of his employees William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, who was an electrical engineer and photographer. After a series of experiments on the mechanics and the
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Shannel Henry Dr. Brennan HUMN 1002 4/15/2014 Baby Face In the 1930s the United States was experiencing a depression era. This era known as ,The Great Depression, had a great effect on the movie industry. Films began to focus on sex, violence, infidelity, and promiscuous ways to target new audiences, mainly the males. The other types of genres like horror, gangster, and musical were still high in Demand during this era also. Social realism came about, which is a style of art that focuses
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feels his rights were violated. He states that the movie did not started at the time the newspaper was advertising as well as it was written on the ticket. He also says that there were 20 minutes of commercials. In addition he had to wait for an extra 30 minutes till the movie started. At the end of the movie he went to talk to the owner of the theater to ask for a refund because he not only waited 30 minutes for the movie to start, but also the movie was horrible. Mr. Plex explained Tommy about the
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2(a)Buy online The term of buy online is a form of electronic commerce whereby customers purchase their goods and services from merchant who sell on the internet. Users are using an online interface instead of visiting the market. Users can visit web store from the comfort of houses and shops as they sit in front of the computer. Consumers buy a variety of items from online stores. In fact, users can purchase just about anything from companies that provide their products online. After finished purchase
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How effective is current media regulation? Media regulation is the way in which media are controlled. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) first started in 1912. It is their role to regulate the media for example they decide what age certification is suitable for films, whether a film needs to be cut or not or what type of cinema a film can be screened in. Many would argue that the BBFC are effective in what they do. At the end of each year give the general public a chance to take
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