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performance in the market and surpass investment goals we must strive to offer top decile entertainment and blockbuster movie offerings. To guide us in developing a higher level of entertainment and potential blockbuster production we compiled data from the top 50 movies during the years of 1937 - 2012. Box office receipts can give us insight into what is happening in the theater market and how manage our finances in our production. Adjusting for inflation, the box office receipts appear to…

• The availability of the movie as it was available in many cinemas • The use of the The Dark Knight's opening sequence and teasers The Dark Knight was distributed US Opening to 4,366 theaters and had a gross of $158,411,483. The number of theaters also included 94 IMAX theaters, with the film estimated to be played on 9,200 screens in the United States and Canada. It also premiered in the later on…

The performing arts hold a historic grip on the American entertainment industry. With its initial burst of popularity in 1917, Hollywood cinema paved its way to becoming a dominant force in the entertainment industry. Most Americans take personal interest in performing arts, whether it be in film or live theatre. Despite this, a rift had formed with some critics of theatre expressing their concern for the shift in demand toward cinema. This raises an issue in examining the difference between…

making a fortune with it. With a combined total of 149.5 million, the two biggest hits are the top of the charts. The movie It is a remaking of the old 1990 movie, which was based on Stephen King’s book It. Happy Death Day is a new twist on the idea of recurring days; which was originally seen in Groundhog Day. Both movies are filled with many frightening scenes, sure to keep the theater-goers on their shoes; however, one is far better than the other. Happy Death Day is superior to It. First,…

Film noir, a genre of darkness, of shadows, of hardboiled loners and bottom-feeders. The term noir was coined by French film critic Nino Frank in 1946 that literally means “Black Film”. This essay will discover how film noir is affected by the context of history as well as its course of evolution to reach its state nowadays. This would collectively enhance my degree of understanding of this influential genre of filmmaking. The origin of film noir dates back to the 1930s, the great depression…

films: in my bedroom, in the living room, and especially in the theater. It allows one to leave the real world for a little while and explore an entirely new existence, even if it may be a mirror of our own world. That being said, there are bad movies, the kinds of movies that make you want to gouge out your eyes, plug your ears, and lock yourself in a Turkish prison for the remainder of your cold, dead life. When I see an ad for a new movie on television and it doesn't appeal to my pseudo…

This excerpt from Thomas Doherty’s “Properly Direct Hatred” explains the urgent nature of America’s need for unity through the media during World War II, through particularly cinema. In this passage he explains that domestic issues of race, class, and ethnicity were eclipsed by the need to unify the heterogeneous population of the American ‘melting pot’ in order to fight in the war, not only militaristically and industrially, through the draft and increased production required by war, but also…

which plays an active role in continuing the expansion and survival of real art and culture of a society. It can be said that cinema is a polyhedral phenomenon which is affected by human culture and influences more cultures. Cinema and watching movie in theaters or in another words going to cinema is one of the most important options for passing leisure time in the societies in which politicians of public culture section encourages and strengthens cinema by relaying on different and diverse…

and Warner brothers had an increase in net income at about 3.55%. Lions Gate, on the opposite, faced a tremendous loss in that period, its net income decreased 52.68%. Due to the development of eBooks, online games and other forms of entertainment, movie industry can, in some level, be replaced. The majority of Lions Gate's productions are R rated or PG 14A movies. Because of the nature of these movies, they can be banned in some countries. For example, due to the lack of a motion picture rating…

and how they were seen. Compare what technology is today to what it used to be. Imagine watching a black and white movie with no talking nor outside sounds. Watching a movie today at the movie theater you can almost feel the vibration from how loud it is. Chaplin was able to produce and star in silent films and he still was able to get his point across. Today when people watch a movie, there are multiple colors and sounds. It would be weird to people if it was how it used to be because people…