Stitch! The Movie

James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity, published in 1935, was adapted into a film in the year 1944. This film brought in over $5.7 million in gross net, changed how Hollywood censored films and shaped the path for numerous controversial films to soon be produced. Although Double Indemnity left its impact, the strict Production Code prevented the film adaptation from reaching the full potential sent forth by the book. In her book, Blackout, film noir critic Sheri Chinen Biesen explains how the Motion…

Sound has been an integral part of the film storytelling process since the studio era began. Since its inception, sound has proven to be an important technical and creative innovation used by film directors to gain the attention of its movie viewers. Present day films are unbalanced because they are visually two-dimensional but use 3-dimensional (3-D) sound. Sound plays a vital role in calling the viewer’s attention to the spatial and temporal dimensions within scenes. Directors, Editors and…

are considering two options to combat the continued reduction in theatrical release windows that Cineplex is experiencing. The first is to extend Cineplex’s core business with premium offerings. The second is to vertically integrate into the digital movie download market. Cineplex has partnered with SCENE Entertainment Rewards Program to offer a customer loyalty card program. 75% of customers who enrolled in the SCENE program reported they were very satisfied. Mandryk wants to continue creating…

of the film for listening to the story in it’s natural language instead of an accented English is much more enjoyable than losing meanings of the words in translation. The words, while they are in fact Spanish, they are Cuban by nature. While this movie was produced in Spain, this film is meant to be Cuban, and the directors successfully do that by having the voice-over actors speak with the Cuban accent, instead of the Spanish one. The script utilizes slang, illustrates the proper mannerisms…

Let’s Go to the Movies! Movies are a mainstay at the Cox family household. Our family rarely sits down to watch movies, but we quote movies we have seen over and over until we watch the next movie. Some movies that have been at our house we quote for years and use witty lines whenever needed wherever a sarcastic comment may be appropriate to use in our conversations. As a young,boy my parents pushed and strived to make sure that I watched age appropriate movies that were well made. I…

The movie industry initially ignored this side of the entertainment field and television was not a major threat in the 1940’s. In 1948, 90 percent of American citizens had not seen a television program. Only 20 commercial television stations were broadcasting…

The studio system consisted of a small number of major studios (Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox and RKO) during the first decade of the 20th Century. The studio system, according to Barsham and Monahan 5th Edition the classical Hollywood studio system the actors’ box office appeal depended on their ability to project a screen image that audiences would love and aspire to look like. These actors were then signed to a studio which allowed them the opportunity to have…

It is no secret that climbing the ladder to success in any industry can be challenging. As we look at the Paramount Studios, we begin to understand the road to what some may call the “Golden Age of Hollywood.” Paramount films one of the top conglomerates in the film industry and was by far one of the most resilient studios to survive a time of great uncertainty. There were some crucial decisions that needed to be made to aid in the company’s success not just for Paramount Studio but also in…

and never let them watch it to cause that problem to never happen. You should never let your child play rated M video games either because it teaches the child the same stuff as if watching a movie. You also do not want your child to grow up to turn into a psychopath and had to be put in jail because of a movie that you let your child watch when they were younger. You should always give strict rule for your child or a babysitter in order to let them know that it is not “fun and…

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…