1The All-Around Gem The all-around gem By Arielle Poblete He’s adaptable and an idealist. Jade Castro is the person behind numerous blockbuster hits of the contemporary Philippines cinema. He has won awards for such unique directorial and writing capability. As a director in the Rom-com phase of the Philippine cinema, Mr. Castro has helped revolutionize and create different kinds of plots through unique kinds of approaches, not only in rom -coms, but also for independent films. A bright future
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age in the 60’s. During her speech for best actress in a musical or comedy, Emma Stone highlighted the importance of “dreaming” by stating, “I think that hope and creativity are two of the most important things in the world, and that’s what this movie is about.” Despite six
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still cameras were invented, as people realised that they could easily be adapted to produce stereoscopic images. The first major film 3D film release was Man in the Dark on April 9th, 1953, but it did not receive much of a positive response from critics nor the general population. However, since then 3D technology has improved massively. It could be argued that watching a film in 3D has many advantages over 2D. For studios, 3D films generally make more money ($381m) when compared to 2D ($89.5m)
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2008. Netflix is a online video store, which allows customers to choose from over 100,000 movies, helping customers to narrow their choices by genres, new releases, top 100, critics’ picks, award winning movies and giving customers suggestions based on movies that they have recently viewed. Netflix has become a pioneer in movie rentals making it easier for the customer to sit at the comfort of their own home and enjoy a flick. One important tool that companies may use is a S.W.O.T analysis, which
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Research Findings The following research findings are intended to provide with actionable insights into how to reach movie consumers. Nearly 180 students participated through undergraduate student survey in Carnegie Mellon Univ. and 81 moviegoers in target age group answered questionnaire through online survey – ‘Mechanical Turk Survey’ between Oct 5 and Oct 7. These survey questionnaires shed light on the behaviors and habits that drive moviegoer awareness and decision-making and also ask the interest
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agreement to purchase AMC Entertainment for $2.6 billion creates the largest theater chain in the world and marks China’s biggest acquisition of a U.S. company, therefore it has some industry watchers wondering what the ramifications might be for the movie exhibition industry. One high-ranking executive said his initial reaction to the May 21 announcement was 100 percent positive, given that AMC’s private-equity owners – Bain Capital, Apollo Global Management, the Carlyle Group and others – had allowed
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significant. Along with the changes in the content and the way moves are made so has the movie ratings have changed over the last 30 years. The standards on what children are allowed to see have been relaxed a PG twenty years ago and a PG today are different. The culture of our country has changed and so has the standards in which the movies and rating viewed. In the early 1900s, filmmakers had to tailor their movie to the requirements of more than 40 local, city and state censorship boards across
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in film technology (Movie History). The Kinetograph was the first motion picture camera, and was combined with the Kinetoscope which housed a lamp and film to record on. A viewer could look through the eyepiece of the Kinetoscope and see the images on the fifty-foot reel of film that was inside. Kinetoscope parlors soon became popular in the United States and Europe where people could view entertainment sequences of acrobats, music hall performers and boxing demonstrations (Movie History). However
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passionately want to support the industry they will still pay. Although people primarily now use Netflix to view unlimited amounts of films and television shows for free, some people still value hard copies of films such as DVD’s if they enjoyed the movie and would watch it multiple times (Stewart 2015). The most successful DVD distributer to Australia is Madman Entertainment, originally used for
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2008. Netflix is a online video store, which allows customers to choose from over 100,000 movies, helping customers to narrow their choices by genres, new releases, top 100, critics’ picks, award winning movies and giving customers suggestions based on movies that they have recently viewed. Netflix has become a pioneer in movie rentals making it easier for the customer to sit at the comfort of their own home and enjoy a flick. One important tool that companies may use is a S.W.O.T analysis, which
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