Feature film

One of the biggest film sagas of all-time came to an epic conclusion over the weekend – as the Jennifer Lawrence-led sequel, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, vigorously dominated the box office. With a thunderous debut of $101 million, Mockingjay – Part 2 put an exclamation point on a masterful (and lucrative) film series. Jennifer Lawrence reprised her role as Katniss Everdeen for what could potentially be the final time (though there are prequels and sequels rumored for the future),…

and that is highly accessible nowadays. Every year hundreds of new films are released and produced by filming companies. However, not all of those films would become legends and be highly appreciated by people from various generations. Anyway, there are also films that win people's hearts and bring much happiness to them. One of such films created once by Disney that has earned recognition within different cultures is the animated film “Toy Story”. The story of a small imaginative boy Andy who…

War Horse: From the Book to the Play to the Film There are several challenges a film can face when it is adapted from a written piece. Whilst some critics will defend that film adaptation tend to vary several aspects of a story, others, may object there are techniques, which help to recreate and maintain the plot alive within audio-visual frameworks. This paper will discuss two of the main difficulties of adapting War Horse and the different methods that were used in the pursuance of visual…

fantasy drama film which is inspired by the book of the same name by J. K. Rowling, has been making a buzz around the internet because of a few terms that fans of the movie do like to conform. The film would make sense that the magic folk in the United States is hiding in New York - after all, it is a city with full of life. But it seems he is not the only hero of the Fantastic Beasts film and that there will be three more lead characters to be featured in the spin-off of the Harry Potter film…

Catherine Barton Professor Woz Finance 3770 November 28, 2015 Netflix – Friend or Foe? Netflix, created in 1997, revolutionized the way people watch movies. As Netflix began to deliver DVDs to your door, convenience overtook the trip to the video store. When their streaming infrastructure was deployed, consumers no longer needed to even visit their mailbox. This business model has transformed the home entertainment industry and has identified Netflix as the leader in this industry. The…

Main Businesses of Yash Raj Films: YRF Studios: YRF Studios is a state-of-the-art and fully integrated Film Studio. The Studio houses has three Sound Stages and it is the only complete soundproof Studio in India. These studios are built to have lowest environment noise and are built to meet the standards of international business. These studios are designed by Mr. Martin Pilchner, who is a very famous studio designer and designed Hollywood fraternity which include Steven Spielberg and others.…

post-World War II fight for land ownership in Hurry Sundown, (Courtney, 2005) both these films carry broad intimations of second-wave feminism, which focused on bodily freedoms and economic empowerment. Cast in…

Miles Lucky Miles is a 2007 Australian drama feature film based on several true stories involving people entering Australia illegally along the continent's coastline. It portrays the environment and landscape, the people and accurate stereotypes about Australians. A desperate group of refugees are dumped on the West coast Australian by smugglers. It sounds like the perfect story of misery, instead Lucky Miles is a tragic comedy. The audience at the 2016 Film Festival would have a ball watching…

Fourth Cinema as outlined by Barry Barclay in general, as well as, in relation to Taika Waititi’s Māori film, Boy (2010). First, Second and Third Cinema are all Cinemas of the Modern Nation State and from an Indigenous place of standing, these are all invader Cinemas according to Barclay (2000, p.7). Barclay (1990, p.9) suggests that over the years…

because I enjoy watching and learning from films. I have never watched a foreign film so I was intrigued to experience one. I honestly was not sure what to expect with a foreign movie, except I knew I would be reading subtitles. I presume I thought it would be about issues and situation that I could not relate to. I went in thinking that the plot would feature a lot about the culture and I would not understand parts of the movie. I expected the film to feature traditional, collectivism traits…