of even the smaller areas. Today‚ there are far more avenues to make money out of a movie than just its box office earnings. DVD releases‚ music launch‚ merchandise‚ overseas distribution rights etc all form a part of the earnings. This has been a slow process which has taken off only recently. For a long time‚ producers had been inconsequential in the marketing of films to consumers‚ which often resulted in many good films failing to do well. But with the entry of satellite TV and foreign films
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Miracle Miracle is a sports movie made in 2004. The movie is about the story of Coach Herb Brooks‚ and his 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team. Russia has been dominant for years on the ice‚ defeating the best teams the world has to offer‚ including the NHL All-Star team. In an attempt to beat the Russians‚ Herb is hired as the coach the US Olympic team. Brooks now must use his unique coaching method to turn a rag-tag team of hot headed college kids into a medal winning olympic hockey team‚ and finally
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five hundred years ago‚ ships began transporting millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. This massive population movement helped create the African Diaspora in the New World. Many did not survive the horrible ocean journey. Enslaved Africans represented many different peoples‚ each with distinct cultures‚ religions‚ and languages. Most originated from the coast or the interior of West Africa‚ between present-day Senegal and Angola. Other enslaved peoples originally
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Dragan Jovic Professor John Kunz English Composition II 28 February 2014 Scarface is the Greatest Movie! Scarface‚ starring Al Pacino‚ is the greatest film to ever hit the film industry. Scarface was released in December 1983 and is technically assumed to be a remake of the 1932 Scarface movie. The 1932 Scarface film was centered in Chicago during the Depression-era‚ however‚ the 1983 remake shifted the action from Chicago to Miami during the 1980s-era (Bayard). The directors did this on purpose;
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Worlds apart The movie “Worlds apart” is directed by Niels Arden Oplev‚ and produced by Thomas Heinesen. The movie is written by Sten Bille and a young girl‚ which life the movie is based on. The movie is a documentary‚ which means that the movie is based on reality‚ and reflects the world as is it. The movie is about a girl names Sara. Sara is 17 years old and lives in a family of six. The family is a part of Jehovah’s witnesses‚ and is a very religious family. The family has a close bond and
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Released in 1975‚ Jaws was probably one of the best adventure‚ action‚ and suspense films of that era. Directed by Steven Spielberg with the following staring main cast members Roy Scheider as "Martin Bordy" (chief police officer)‚ Richard Dreyfuss as "Matt Hooper" (marine biologist)‚ Robert Shaw as "Quint" (local fisherman)‚ Murray Hamilton as "Larry Vaughan" (town mayor). "Jaws" the movie‚ is not like any other any other fish story. The film is about a gigantic 26 foot shark that has an appetite
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However‚ the truth is that even though movies are a source of entertainment‚ they can also teach their viewers important lessons. For example‚ the movie Selma teaches its audience about the American civil rights movement. The movie Ex Machina teaches audiences about the dangers of artificial intelligence. In the same way as these films‚ the 2009 Star Trek movie is able to teach audiences about science and space.
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is to compare and contrast two movies made about Hamlet. I will present and discuss different aspects of the version directed by Kenneth Branagh to that of Franco Zefirelli. During this paper you will be presented with my opinions in reference to determining which version of Hamlet best reflects the original text by Shakespeare. I will end this paper with my belief and explanation of which movie is true to the original play. Normally‚ when a movie is made about a story in a book the two stories
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In the 1997 movie‚ Gattaca‚ Vincent Freeman is an invalid born into a valid world. This means his parents decided not to pick and choose the ideal genes in the process of conceiving him‚ causing Vincent to be born with heart problems‚ asthma‚ and myopia. He then makes the decision to become Jerome Eugene Morrow and pass himself off as valid in order to achieve his dream of traveling into space. In the movie‚ there is a clear divide between the valids and invalids‚ revealing many connections to sociology
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James Cameron is one of the best directors in the world. His famous Titanic‚ which was first showed in 1997‚ was made into 3D movie this year------the 100 anniversary of Titanic being sunk. The movie Titanic is close to the real accident happened on April 14th‚ 1912 and there’s a lot of physics involved in the movie. We have to admit that James Cameron really spent plenty of time on the causation of the accident. ① physics side note: Pressure (√) At the beginning of the movie‚ there is a group
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