Malcolm-Jamal Warner

The film industry has endured many changes throughout time. 2 significant changes that would go on and alter the business direction from being on a rise to taking a steep fall were the Hollywood Blacklist and the United States v. Paramount Pictures case; which greatly impacted the revenue earned by studios and the employment of many film professionals. To understand the Hollywood black list, what was happening in American history must be understood first. With the fall of Nazism and…

Previous decades have been plagued with slavery and civil rights, but injustices still exist in today’s society such as prejudice based on social class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, occupation, education and religion. Although civil rights movement was seen as a heroic and victorious episode in the U.S.’s history about equal citizenship rights between African-American and whites, the inequality and prejudice about African-American is still a painful blain. It’s not hard to find various…

Perez, but the world needs more heroes and less cowards. For me, the question remains: How can we as organizers, activists and artists cultivate courage? First, by telling the stories of genuine heroes like Manning, Perez, Kathy Kelly, Mumia Abu Jamal, and others. After all, if we don't tell their stories, who will? PBS and NPR? I don't know about you, but I'd rather not watch or listen to another milquetoast presentation on radical political movements or figures. Save that bullshit for the…

Ideal Relationships Companies look for ideal partners that will increase their competitive advantage and secure their leadership in the market. Despite what everyone thinks about the business relationship, what it is important are the seven characteristics the potential candidate possess that Kwicien (2012) said an ideal partner should hold some or all as follows: • “Complementary domain expertise • Synergistic products or services • Carrier relationships (preferably not of the duplicative…

they are a fan of, and sometimes even take terms from the shows they are a devoted fan of for use in their everyday lives. A fan culture differs greatly from the casual fan, and that definitely proves to be the case with the Warner Brother’s popular 2000’s television…

numerous “God damn” phrases in Elizabeth Taylors’ character dialogue for Virginia Woolf. (Nichols, 1966) As stated beforehand, the economic pressures from foreign movies pushed big studios, like Warner Bros to create movies like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. In the case of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Warner bros. was prepared to create and market the film, whether or not the MPAA placed their arbitrary seal of approval. Furthermore, Jack Valenti implies that he, as well as the MPAA…

On the other hand, DC Entertainment is currently owned by Warner Brothers, which is a subsidiary to Time Warner. Time Warner is broken up into 3 main segments, which includes Turner, Home Box Office and Warner Bros. As of the 2015 - 2016 television season, Warner Brothers was ranked as the number 1 producer of primetime television series in the United States. The Warner Brothers segment consists primarily of the production, distribution, licensing of television series and feature films. In…

The movie industy is a huge industy with three groups of players in the value chain. First, the production studios who create the content. Second, the movie exhibitors who provide a place for movie goers to watch the content. Third, the distributors who bring the content from the studios to the exhibitors. Being lower in the value chain, the movie exhibitors bear the risk of poor movie attendance, and incur high cost of renting the content from the studios. In this case study, the market…

Introduction: When Hollywood makes a movie that becomes and instant sensation, the studio often decides to continue the story in hopes that there is more cash to be milked out of it. This results in sequels of varying quality which may sour some opinions of the original film. Fortunately, this is not the case with Pixar’s beloved Toy Story franchise. Both sequels add a new spin on the story of toys who have a life of their own when humans cannot see them. In particular, Toy Story 3 deals with…

In the opening sequence of the 1979 film, Apocalypse Now, the technique of double exposing film is used repeatedly. The origins of the technique date back to early photographers in the late 1800’s and the technique was translated into filmmaking very soon after the birth of cinema. The first use of the double exposure in film was in The Great Train Robbery, which was released in 1903, but the technique exploded in the 1920’s when cinema became a more well-known art form. The double exposure…