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POPULAR DVD TITLES – As of JULY 2014
POPULAR DVD TITLES – as of JULY 2014 POPULAR TITLES PG-13 A.I. artificial intelligence (2v) (CC) PG-13 Abandon (CC) PG-13 Abduction (CC) PG Abe & Bruno PG Abel’s field (SDH) PG-13 About a boy (CC) R About last night (SDH) R About Schmidt (CC) R About time (SDH) R Abraham Lincoln: Vampire hunter (CC) (SDH) R Absolute deception (SDH) PG-13 Accepted (SDH) PG-13 The accidental husband (CC) PG-13 According to Greta (SDH) NRA Ace in the hole (2v) (SDH) PG Ace of hearts (CC) NRA Across the line PG-13 Across the universe (2v) (CC) R Act of valor (CC) (SDH) NRA Action classics: 50 movie pack DVD collection, Discs 1-4 (4v) NRA Action classics: 50 movie pack DVD collection, Discs 5-8 (4v) NRA Action classics: 50 movie pack DVD collection, Discs 9-12 (4v) PG-13 Adam (CC) PG-13 Adam Sandler’s eight crazy nights (CC) R Adaptation (CC) PG-13 The adjustment bureau (SDH) PG-13 Admission (SDH) PG Admissions (CC) R Adoration (CC) R Adore (CC) R Adrift in Manhattan R Adventureland (SDH) PG The adventures of Greyfriars Bobby NRA Adventures of Huckleberry Finn PG-13 The adventures of Robinson Crusoe PG The adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (CC) PG The adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (SDH) PG The adventures of TinTin (CC) NRA An affair to remember (CC) NRA The African Queen NRA Against the current (SDH) PG-13 After Earth (SDH) NRA After the deluge R After the rain (CC) R After the storm (CC) PG-13 After the sunset (CC) PG-13 Against the ropes (CC) NRA Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The definitive collection (12v) PG The age of innocence (CC) PG Agent -
He's Justnotthat Into
February 2009 www.StudentFilmmakers.com The #1 Educational Resource for Film and Video Makers US$5.95 Interview with Director Ken Kwapis he’s just not that into you Filming a Key Shot for Spielberg’s Hook Backpack Journalism: Get Roadworthy Non-Dialogue Film, Begotten: Merhige Talks Ghetto Tech Dynamic Shots with the Use of Perspective Audio Recording in the Great Outdoors Publisher’s Desk Table of Contents February 2009 I am looking forward to attending the The # 1 Educational Resource for Film and Video Makers 2009 NAB show this year in Las Vegas, Publisher / Editor-in-Chief Kim Edward Welch Cinematography Nevada. It will be the third anniversary of Senior Editor Jody Michelle Solis 4 When They Look to You on the Set Filming a Key Shot for Spielberg’s “Hook” StudentFilmmakers magazine. For those who Contributing Writers by Jack Anderson don’t know, our first issue was launched Thomas Ackerman, ASC, Jack Anderson, Anthony Q. Artis, John Badham, Adam Biddle, Kevin Burke, Julia Camenisch, Steve Carlson, and distributed at the NAB show in April of 2006. If you are attending Chris Cavallari, Michael Corbett, Vanessa Daniels, Carsten Dau, Production this year, please stop by our booth at C10206 and say hello. For Todd Debreceni, Jeff Deel, Christina DeHaven, Dana Dorrity, 8 Backpack Journalism Pamela Douglas, David E. Elkins, S.O.C., Scott Essman, Bryant Falk, Get Roadworthy with Award-Winning BP Journalist Mara the latest information about the tradeshows we are attending and Carl Filoreto, Jon Firestone, Brian Flees, Jacqueline B. Frost, Schiavocampo of NBC News, and Denver Journalist Jennie updates, visit our website at www.studentfilmmakers.com for online Daniel Gaucher, Fred Ginsburg C.A.S. -
Race in Hollywood: Quantifying the Effect of Race on Movie Performance
Race in Hollywood: Quantifying the Effect of Race on Movie Performance Kaden Lee Brown University 20 December 2014 Abstract I. Introduction This study investigates the effect of a movie’s racial The underrepresentation of minorities in Hollywood composition on three aspects of its performance: ticket films has long been an issue of social discussion and sales, critical reception, and audience satisfaction. Movies discontent. According to the Census Bureau, minorities featuring minority actors are classified as either composed 37.4% of the U.S. population in 2013, up ‘nonwhite films’ or ‘black films,’ with black films defined from 32.6% in 2004.3 Despite this, a study from USC’s as movies featuring predominantly black actors with Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative found that white actors playing peripheral roles. After controlling among 600 popular films, only 25.9% of speaking for various production, distribution, and industry factors, characters were from minority groups (Smith, Choueiti the study finds no statistically significant differences & Pieper 2013). Minorities are even more between films starring white and nonwhite leading actors underrepresented in top roles. Only 15.5% of 1,070 in all three aspects of movie performance. In contrast, movies released from 2004-2013 featured a minority black films outperform in estimated ticket sales by actor in the leading role. almost 40% and earn 5-6 more points on Metacritic’s Directors and production studios have often been 100-point Metascore, a composite score of various movie criticized for ‘whitewashing’ major films. In December critics’ reviews. 1 However, the black film factor reduces 2014, director Ridley Scott faced scrutiny for his movie the film’s Internet Movie Database (IMDb) user rating 2 by 0.6 points out of a scale of 10. -
The University of Illinois and Arctic Studies Swedish Researcher Dr
Augustana College Augustana Digital Commons Scandinavian Studies: Faculty Scholarship & Scandinavian Studies Creative Works 5-2017 The hC anging View of the Arctic: The niU versity of Illinois and Arctic Studies Mark Safstrom Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/scanfaculty Part of the Scandinavian Studies Commons Augustana Digital Commons Citation Safstrom, Mark. "The hC anging View of the Arctic: The nivU ersity of Illinois and Arctic Studies" (2017). Scandinavian Studies: Faculty Scholarship & Creative Works. http://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/scanfaculty/1 This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the Scandinavian Studies at Augustana Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scandinavian Studies: Faculty Scholarship & Creative Works by an authorized administrator of Augustana Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Connecting the United States to the Arctic OUR ARCTIC NATION A U.S. Arctic Council Chairmanship Initiative Cover Photo: Cover Photo: Hosting Arctic Council meetings during the U.S. Chairmanship gave the United States an opportunity to share the beauty of America’s Arctic state, Alaska—including this glacier ice cave near Juneau—with thousands of international visitors. Photo: David Lienemann, www. davidlienemann.com OUR ARCTIC NATION Connecting the United States to the Arctic A U.S. Arctic Council Chairmanship Initiative TABLE OF CONTENTS 01 Alabama . .2 14 Illinois . 32 02 Alaska . .4 15 Indiana . 34 03 Arizona. 10 16 Iowa . 36 04 Arkansas . 12 17 Kansas . 38 05 California. 14 18 Kentucky . 40 06 Colorado . 16 19 Louisiana. 42 07 Connecticut. 18 20 Maine . -
Mark Ivanir | Biography
MARK IVANIR | BIOGRAPHY Mark Ivanir has been working as a professional film and television actor in Los Angeles since 2001. His first major film role was in Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar winning epic SCHINDLER'S LIST. He rejoined with Spielberg twice, first for a cameo appearance in TERMINAL, then again for THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN. A pivotal role in Robert De Niro's 2006 film, THE GOOD SHEPHERD, landed Mark a role in Barry Levinson's WHAT JUST HAPPENED, this time acting alongside De Niro. Many films followed. Mark has booked over 35 Guest Star and Guest Lead roles on television. Ivanir's road to Hollywood was circuitous at best. Born in the communist Ukraine, he immigrated to Israel with his family in 1972. After being cast by Spielberg in SCHINDLER'S LIST, Ivanir moved to London to study with Philippe Gaulier and the actors of the Theater De Complicite. During this stint, he landed roles in THE MAN WHO CRIED (with Johnny Depp) and SECRET AFFAIR which encouraged him to relocate to Hollywood. Ever since, Mark has been working on films in the US, in Europe and in Israel. In Germany he has been working with Dennis Gansel on THE FOURTH STATE and with Dominik Graf on the highly acclaimed mini-series IN THE FACE OF THE CRIME. In Europe, Mark was also working with Fernando Meirelles on his episodic feature film 360. Most recently, Mark co-starred alongside Catherine Keener, Philipp Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken in A LATE QUARTET. Mark currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters. -
Movie Review: Big Miracle
Movie Review: Big Miracle By Joseph McAleer Catholic News Service NEW YORK –“Free Willy,” the 1993 whale rescue film, looks like child’s play when compared to “Big Miracle” (Universal), in which not one but three giant mammals are trapped in Arctic ice, and it takes a whole lot more than a sleepy Alaskan town to save them. Directed by Ken Kwapis – and based on the real-life events recounted in Thomas Rose’s 1989 book “Freeing the Whales” – the film is an animal rights activist’s dream. Families, neighbors, corporations, and even superpowers set aside their differences for a spell and work together, seeing in the innocent cetaceans a metaphor for peace and understanding. It’s 1988, and television reporter Adam Carlson (John Krasinski) is biding his time in Alaska, hoping to land the really big story that will serve as his ticket to a better job in the Lower 48. Knocking about the desolate town of Barrow with local Inupiat boy Nathan (Ahmaogak Sweeney), Carlson stumbles on a hole in the offshore ice. Within it he finds a headline waiting to happen: Peeking out as they surface for air is the cutest family of California gray whales you’ve ever seen, a clan Carlson eventually names after television’s Flintstones: Fred, Wilma, and Bamm-Bamm (not Pebbles, as the baby is a boy, you see). Their migration south was halted due to freezing ice. Trapped five miles from open water, they’ll drown unless something is done to free them. Carlson files his story – and catches the attention of NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw who is – so Jack Amiel and Michael Begler’s script informs us – “a sucker for these animal stories.” Carlson’s piece is broadcast nationally, and overnight the world takes notice. -
Why Watching Movie Tweets Won't Tell the Whole Story?
Why Watching Movie Tweets Won’t Tell the Whole Story? Felix Ming Fai Wong Soumya Sen Mung Chiang EE, Princeton University EE, Princeton University EE, Princeton University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT other online rating sites (e.g., IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes) Data from Online Social Networks (OSNs) are providing an- by introducing the metrics of inferrability (I), positiveness alysts with an unprecedented access to public opinion on (P), bias (B), and hype-approval (H). elections, news, movies, etc. However, caution must be Twitter is our choice for this study because marketers con- taken to determine whether and how much of the opinion sider brand interaction and information dissemination as a extracted from OSN user data is indeed reflective of the opin- major aspect of Twitter. The focus on movies in this paper ion of the larger online population. In this work we study is also driven by two key factors: this issue in the context of movie reviews on Twitter and (a) Level of Interest: Movies tend to generate a high in- compare the opinion of Twitter users with that of IMDb and terest among Twitter users as well as in other online user Rotten Tomatoes. We introduce metrics to quantify how populations (e.g., IMDb). Twitter users can be characteristically different from gen- (b) Timing: We collected Twitter data during the eral users, both in their rating and their relative preference Academy Awards season (the Oscars) to obtain a unique for Oscar-nominated and non-nominated movies. We also dataset to analyze characteristic differences between Twit- investigate whether such data can truly predict a movie's ter and IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes users in their reviews of box-office success. -
Cliff Eidelman
CLIFF EIDELMAN SELECTED CREDITS BIG MIRACLE (2012) HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (2009) SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS (2005) ONE TRUE THING (1998) STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991) BIOGRAPHY Composer Cliff Eidelman’s breakthrough came with his score ‘Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country’ (1991), a stylish and powerful score that elicited a great deal of attention and acclaim. ‘Star Trek VI’ continues to not only be a favorite among fans but is rated in the top 30 best film scores on Filmtracks.com, which has a viewer rating of 1,500 film scores spanning several decades. By the age of 24, Eidelman had composed a number of epic symphonic scores including the powerful Holocaust drama ‘Triumph of the Spirit’ (1989) and ‘Christopher Columbus’ (1992). Eidelman first ventured into comedy with back-to-back films ‘Crazy People’ (1990) and ‘Delirious’ (1990). Later, he explored different approaches, often using a pared down orchestra, chamber orchestra, or a few chosen instruments to capture the intricacies of such character driven films as: ‘Untamed Heart’ (1992), ‘Leap of Faith’ (1992), ‘A Simple Twist of Fate’ (1994), ‘Now and Then’ (1995), the highest rated HBO film ‘If These Walls Could Talk’ (1996), ‘One True Thing’ (1998), ‘Witness Protection’ (1999), ‘An American Rhapsody’ (2001), the IMAX film’ Ocean Men’ (2001), ‘Harrison’s Flowers’ (2001), ‘Sexual Life’ (2004), ‘The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants’ (2005), ‘Open Window’ (2006), ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’ (2009) and ‘Big Miracle’ (2012) which is Eidelman’s fifth collaboration with director Ken Kwapis. Eidelman’s concert works include Night in the Gallery, which was written for chamber ensemble and inspired by masterwork paintings, a large-scale new Symphony for Orchestra and Two Pianos and The Five Tales, a set of new piano pieces. -
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Working Title Films and Transatlantic British Cinema Nathaniel
Working Title Films and Transatlantic British Cinema Nathaniel Townsend PhD University of York Theatre, Film and Television September 2014 2 Abstract This thesis presents a business history of the London-based film production company, Working Title Films. The focus is on the creative and business structures and processes through which Working Title has operated and, in turn, the individual and collective agency of the key players responsible for developing and maintaining these institutional determinants. The same set of research questions are applied to the principal filmmaking institutions with which Working Title has collaborated, and, more particularly, examines how Working Title has negotiated creative and business relationships with various larger film businesses. By taking a chronological approach to Working Title’s evolution, a detailed account of the company’s years as an independent production company (1984-1990), a subsidiary of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (1990-1998) and a subsidiary of Universal Pictures (1998-present) is provided. The thesis also offers a historical and conceptual framework through which the business history of Working Title is analysed. In the first instance, this involves a reconsideration of the relationship between the film industries and cultures of Britain and Hollywood which combines the discourses of national cinema with more recent scholarship about transnational cinema. This conceptual reinterpretation is subsequently applied to three indicative business histories from the 1930s and 1940s: London Films, MGM-British and the Rank Organisation — and then to Working Title itself. The central concept of the thesis — ‘Transatlantic British Cinema’ — describes a type of cultural production that challenges orthodox accounts of British cinema as national cinema and indicates the ways in which representations of Britain and ‘Britishness’ function within transnational film culture. -
Popular DVD Titles - As of July 2017
Popular DVD Titles - as of July 2017 PG-13 A.I. artificial intelligence (2v) (CC) PG-13 Abandon (CC) PG-13 Abduction (CC) PG Abe & Bruno PG Abel’s field (SDH) PG-13 About a boy (CC) R About last night (SDH) R About Schmidt (CC) R About time (SDH) R Abraham Lincoln: Vampire hunter (CC) (SDH) R Absolute deception (SDH) R Absolutely fabulous, the movie (CC) (SDH) PG-13 Accepted (SDH) PG-13 The accidental husband (CC) PG-13 Accidental love (SDH) PG-13 According to Greta (SDH) R The accountant (SDH) NRA Ace in the hole (2v) (SDH) PG Ace of hearts (CC) NRA Across the line PG-13 Across the universe (2v) (CC) R Act of valor (CC) (SDH) NRA Action classics: 50 movie pack DVD collection, Discs 1-4 (4v) NRA Action classics: 50 movie pack DVD collection, Discs 5-8 (4v) NRA Action classics: 50 movie pack DVD collection, Discs 9-12 (4v) PG-13 Adam (CC) PG-13 Adam Sandler’s eight crazy nights (CC) R Adaptation (CC) PG-13 The Addams family (CC) PG=13 The Addams family values (CC) R The Adderall diaries (SDH) NRA Addiction: A 60’s love story (CC) PG-13 The adjustment bureau (SDH) PG-13 Admission (SDH) PG Admissions (CC) R Adoration (CC) R Adore (CC) R Adrift in Manhattan R Adventureland (SDH) PG The adventures of Greyfriars Bobby NRA Adventures of Huckleberry Finn PG-13 The adventures of Robinson Crusoe PG The adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (CC) PG The adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (SDH) PG The adventures of TinTin (CC) NRA The affair: Season one (4v) (CC) Popular DVD Titles - as of July 2017 NRA The affair: Season two (5v) (SDH) NRA An -
A BUG's LIFE Big Miracle
A BUG’SBig Miracle LIFE Synopsis Inspired by the incredible true story that touched the world, the rescue adventure Big Miracle tells the amazing tale of an animal-loving volunteer (Golden Globe winner Drew Barrymore) and a small-town news reporter (John Krasinski) who are joined by a native Alaskan boy (new- comer Ahmaogak Sweeney) to rally an entire community—and eventually rival world super- powers—to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. As the world’s attention turns to the top of the globe for two weeks, saving these endangered animals becomes a shared cause for nations entrenched against one another and leads to an unexpected, momentary thaw in the Cold War. Discussion Questions • What is Rachel’s job? What does Greenpeace do? Thinking about her goals in the film, what do you think are her primary motivations for helping to save the whales? • What is J.W. McGraw’s job? What are his main goals in running his oil company? What are his motivations for changing his mind and helping to save the whales? • What is Adam’s job? Why is he so excited, at first, about the story of the whales? Do you think that his moti- vations change as the film progresses, from only wanting a great story so he can get a better job to actually caring about the animals? • What is it about the whales that make the people in the film want to help them? Why does Rachel care so much about the animals? Why do people and families across the country become emotionally involved in the outcome of the story? Do you think people would have been so involved if a different kind of animal were trapped in a similar way? • The importance of media plays a very big role in the movie.