...Orson Welles: The Man, the Myth… the Communist? “One of the most promising artists of our day,” “ One of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, “ and “A major creative force and ultimate auteur,” were all praises and titles from major media moguls, publications, and critics given to Orson Welles. Not too shabby for someone who hasn’t even turned thirty yet, eh? Right out of the gate Welles proved to be an innovative and artistic force that could hold its own, and even surpass, the heavy hitters of his day. His career seemed to be on a steady incline for almost a decade; however, did his talent and work hit a plateau? Welles was always seen as an active political figure that was not afraid to voice or project his own viewpoints in the public, but did this have a negative or lasting affect on his later career? Critics argue the best work Welles produced was before he hit thirty years old, so was this a direct result from the negative attention he attracted from media magnates, specifically William Randolph Hearst, Hollywood elite, and most importantly the United States government? Also, Welles left the country at a time when the dreaded “blacklist” was starting to funnel through Hollywood (“Orson” 17). Whether this was coincidence or intentional is debatable, but either way the ramifications may have helped account for the different direction he took with his post-Hollywood career. Did Orson’s fame draw too much attention and lead to his downfall? ...
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...Appendix B Picture the Supply Chain Complete the chart below by outlining the digital content supply chain at Warner Bros. Entertainment. |Upstream Component |Internal Component |Downstream Component | |(sourcing/procurement) |(packing/assembly |(distribution) | | |manufacturing) | | | | | | |Warner Bros. is enlisting the help or |The main company Warner Bros. Entertainment| | |outsourcing to Hewlett-Packard to increase |serves as an umbrella for smaller | | |sales and give the consumer what they |companies, this becomes costly with little | | |want-digital media. |time in between productions. With three | | |Warner Bros Entertainment is responsible |types available DVD’s, HDDVD’s and Blu-ray | | |for delivering technology to the consumer. |disc’s, the alternate availability of these| | |The...
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...Slow and Steady: the next big thing after sliced bread!! He kept looking down the entire time. She was scolding him for breaking yet another picture frame. All the picture frames hung on the wall and Tunji would always climb on the chairs so that he could reach the frames, pull them down and down they came shattered and broken. She had beaten him so many times, scolded him, counselled him but nothing worked. What could be wrong with this boy, she wondered. He was ten years old and very destructive. They had nicknamed him “wrecking ball”. He wrecked everything in his way. Tools, picture frames, phones, ipads, laptops, tumblers, books etc. “Tunji why, why” she sighed and for the first time she communicated something he had not heard since he started his “wrecking ball” career “I love you son no matter how much you cause me pain but it is really unfair to repay love with this amount of pain”, “Tunji when someone shows you love, you love right back”. On this note she ended her conversation with her 10 year old son and walked away. He did not move for a while, he felt sorry that mummy did not think that he loved her. He loved her, he drew a cartoon that looked like her on Monday and gave the character super powers because mummy could do so many things at the same time. “Okay I will let her know I love her” he thought in his mind. On his Eleventh birthday, Mummy was grinning from ear to ear celebrating Tunji her sweet little boy growing up to become a man. Tunji washed her...
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...A BETTER WORLD STARTS WITH ME By: Edward Joshua L. Altavano BSM 1-B You have to admit that once in your life, you dreamt of a better world than the world that we’re seeing and living right now. But I don’t blame you. I also imagined what if I’m living in a let’s say, a perfect world. Well you know we’re human. We wasted precious hours on imagining ourselves living in a perfect life. But let’s stop dreaming right now. We must wake up because in reality, we are living in a grotesque world. For those who haven’t seen, heard, or even realized that it’s an existing word in the English language, grotesque simply means ugly. There are many negative things that happened in the world. World wars, widespread of deadly diseases, the infamous ethnic cleansing known as the Holocaust, assassination of known political leaders and notable personalities, natural and man-made calamities that claimed a million lives of helpless people, and many more. And if you thought that these were the only negative things that are happening in the world, you’re wrong in every angle! Various crimes that were committed continue to poison our world that we wanted to be perfect, safe, and peaceful. Why do people want to have a perfect world? It is because we want to feel comfortable. We want to live with no worries. We want to be safe when we go to different places. We want our family and friends to be safe, happy, and have a peaceful relationship with us. The only problem with us is that we’re just waiting...
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...Raheem Nubin March 27, 2014 Film and Pop Culture Studies Dr. Michael Walonen The Wrestler According to makeindependentfilms.com an independent film that’s funds are less than half from one of the big six major film studios; such as MGM and UA, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios. Independent films are uniquely created by the film’s creator and usually has much less of a budget than a major motion film. In my opinion an Indie film show cases the creator’s creativity with their own signature editorial style and direction in the movie. The Wrestler is an independent film follows the life of Randy “The Ram” Robinson a well-known retired wrestler who is urged to continue living his glory days of his wrestling career. Now a retired pro-wrestler who now works part-time as a wrestler on weekends and supermarket attendant who despite has heart problems and far past his prime still wants to wrestle despite his physical condition. The film references to labor in 21st century in America is represented by Robin not wanting to do the common man job (Working the 9-5) but living the commercialized American dream as a pro-wrestler. In addition to his rematch with “The Ayatollah” he injects himself with steroids to increase his training, and that is common in America. Despite his near death heart attack Randy still stops at nothing, after rescheduling his match with his opponent after Cassidy does tells...
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...America for the American dream to be successful and become rich and have a business. As many of this business develop a lot of corruption began to happened with price fixing, monopoly pricing, market power, monopoly structure, and much more. During the early years of paramount motion picture which was owned by Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky, and W. W. Hodkinson there were only few major motion picture companies in the market and within time they had monopolized some cities in the US. Market power In the Early 1920’s there was not much competition for companies to get regulated so as time passed motion movies became a huge way of entertainment that companies like paramount began to control some cities and created small monopolies among some cities in America, I don’t think it’s okay for one company to have complete market power because that could lead to price controls, price fixing and within time the government step in to create some sort of change to allow more major motion picture companies to display any content they had. Paramount had lost a lot of profits because of the regulation by the government to allow other companies to also show motion pictures. I agree that what the government did was right by interfering with paramount because this ended all their monopolies and giving other people the chance to make a profit. Antitrust The antitrust lawsuits began by 1940’s when paramount had total control of Detroit chains of...
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...its management should be changed. Why is Viacom interested? Benefits: Create one of the world’s largest entertainment conglomerates * Create synergies among the assets—complementary and both well-known business * Lead to development of new businesses--Bring together creative talent, intellectual property, managerial resources and trademarks * Cost reductions—combination of similar businesses and economies of scale * Enhance distribution capabilities—cross-promotion and utilization of brand names, utilization of distribution capabilities * Pursue international business strategies—share knowledge of international markets and enhance international presence. Why is QVC interested? * Diller once ran Paramount Pictures * Diller may change the way Paramount did business--increase cash flows and lower average costs. Or even he would start a new television network * New television channels or fifth television network. Valuation 2) Estimate Paramount’s current value as a stand-alone on a per share basis * Comparable-based Walt Disney and Time Warner are comparable to Paramount, choose the 1993 multiples Average=(13.3+11.2)/2=12,25 1993 EBITDA of Paramount is 560.5 MV(Paramount)=560.5*12.25=6866.125 * DCF-based FCF |...
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...American studios took advantage of the opportunity, the demand for new films to cover most of themselves. The weakness of Edison's monopoly (MPPC) was the insufficient integration of the functional areas of the value chain. This is precisely what the new rendered large companies. Their economic power stemmed from the fact that they took over the production of films, the distribution and the distribution of films and the Exhibition or the operating theater itself, so the functional areas vertically integrated (Balio, 1985). The Oligopoly The oligopoly among five large companies, the majors or the "Big Five" and three smaller companies ("Little Three"). The majors were Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. and Radio Keith Orpheum (RKO Pictures). The Big Five controlled the market, because they had the largest and most beautiful movie palaces. About 15% of all cinemas were in their possession,...
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...* Among its subsidiaries are; HBO, CNN, Warner Bros., AOL, New Line Cinema, Cartoon Network. * While box office sales have been rising for Time Warner, DVD sales have been declining which affects certain growth prospects and revenues. * Recent News –Announced on Thursday April 5, 2012, Time Warner Cable will bring streaming television to Android devices running the most recent version of Google's mobile operating system. Viacom Inc. – Media Conglomerate * Founded in 1971, major operations in cinema and cable television. Owned in majority by National Amusements Inc. * As of mid-2010, it is the world’s fourth largest media conglomerate * Among its subsidiaries are; Showtime, Simon & Schuster, MTV, BET, Paramount Pictures * In 2007, Viacom filed a US$1 billion legal claim against Google and YouTube alleging massive copyright infringement. Viacom lost the case. Six Flags – Amusement park operator * Founded in 1961, is the world’s largest amusement park corporation * Fifth most popular amusement park base on attendance * Owns and operates 14 properties throughout North America, including theme parks, thrill parks, water parks and family entertainment * Recent news – March 1, 2012 Six Flags announced Lowe’s as their official home improvement retailer Fox Entertainment Group Inc * Founded in 1990s, operations in film and television * Named after William Fox who created the original Fox Film Corporation * Among its subsidiaries...
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...University Of Massachusetts – Dartmouth MGT 650 Spring 2014 Research Paper on DreamWorks Animation SKG (DWA) Submitted by: Hardik Ranpara Company Background: DreamWorks Studios SKG is a motion picture company, which was founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen on 12th October 1994. The suffix ‘SKG’ is the initials of the three founders. At the time of foundation, Jeffrey Katzenberg, not long ago, had resigned from Walt Disney Animation Studios. Currently, the company is partnered by Steven Spielberg, Stacey Snider and The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The first movie released by DreamWorks was ‘The Peacemaker’ in September 1997 and the first animated movie released was ‘Antz’ in 1998, and also ‘The Prince of Egypt’ in same year. (Our History, 2010). Both the movies were made using ‘Computer-Generated Imagery’ (CGI) technology along with traditional animation techniques. Because of great success of CGI movies, DreamWorks SKG created new division named DreamWorks Animation in year 2000. It would produce both kind of animated feature films. In year 2001, Shrek went on to win first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. After success of Shrek, Shrek 2 and Shark Tale was release in year 2004. DreamWorks Animation was the first studio to produce two CG movies in one year. (DreamWorks Animation, May 3, 2014.) With immense success, the animation division was turned into different publicly traded company named DreamWorks Animation...
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...For the exclusive use of X. Guo, 2016. 9-801-447 REV: JUNE 13, 2002 GUHAN SUBRAMANIAN Frasier (A) Just one day into his new job at the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and Mark Graboff had a problem. Graboff was leading the team that was responsible for renegotiating the rights to Frasier, a popular television show that would play a critical role in NBC’s fall 2001 programming lineup. While Paramount, the owner of the show, seemed to be demanding $8 million per episode in the press, NBC had calculated that it would have to pay under $5 million in order to make a profit on the show. Multiplying by 24 episodes per season, and multiplying again by the three-year term that Paramount was insisting on, the gap seemed insurmountable. Making matters worse, the most likely other bidder for the show was the Columbia Broadcasting th System (CBS), a rival network to NBC and Graboff’s former employer. “On November 13 [2000], my last day at CBS, I was putting the finishing touches on CBS’s contract extension to Everybody Loves Raymond,” recalled Graboff. “And I was thinking, ‘Thank goodness this deal is almost done.’ The next day I began at NBC, and I was faced with an equally arduous negotiation.” Graboff watched the sun set over the Los Angeles skyline as he began familiarizing himself with the background documents on the negotiation. Industry Background Behind the glitz and the glamour, the stars and the scandals, Hollywood is, at its core, a business. Studios...
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...Negotiations Frasier case A. Who are the parties in the Frasier negotiation and what are their interests? (Viacom, CBS, Paramount, Kelsey) – (NBC, NBC West Coast ((Graboff)), ABC) The parties involved in the Frasier negotiations consist of NBC, Paramount, and actor Kelsey Grammar. Paramount and Kelsey had personal interest to extend the show 3 years. Kelsey Grammar wanted to rank in history as being an actor with having the record for the longest-running primetime television character in TV. Without Kelsey Grammar (Frasier), Paramount, and NBC would not have a TV series. NBC did not view the show Frasier as having another 3 years of life and did not want to invest in another 3 years. Additionally, NBC deemed Paramount’s price per episode to high and wanted to minimize what they saw as a loss of revenue. B. What is Paramount’s BATNA? What is your estimate of their reservation price? Paramount was banking on the fact that Frasier was the flagpole show of NBC and its success in the time slot. If they quit NBC, both Paramount and NBC would suffer while Paramount would have suffered the most. Paramount best alternative would have been to shop the show around to other networks in the case that the negotiations with NBC broke down. Paramount however was limited in networks to promote the show to due to the shows high overhead cost and industry consolidation. Due to these circumstances I would estimate Paramount’s reservation price around 5.25 million as Paramount...
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...The three companies I chose to research for this assignment was Google, Zappos.com, and DreamWorks Animation SKG. Each one of these companies stood out to me for multiple reasons, but my deciding factor was how much they focus on their employees needs and satisfaction. Google who is ranked 4 on the list of the best 100 companies to work for. Google is famous for the long list of perks their employees get to enjoy, such as free food in cafeterias, a climbing wall, and free laundry. Google is a much successful company, last year alone the revenue went up more than 20%. Google sweetened their perks even more for the employees by giving every employee a 10% pay hike. Zappos.com who is ranked 6 on the list of the best 100 Companies to work for moved up 9 spots in one year, with a previous ranking at 15. The company Zappos.com cares a lot about their employees needs. They provide a happy culture, employees get to enjoy free lunches, no charge vending machines, and a full time life coach is available on hand if needed. Zappos.com thrives in the world of customer service; they are always coming up with new ways to keep their customers happy. The final company I chose was DreamWorks Animation SKG, now this to me would be an amazing place to work. DreamWorks Animation SKG is number 10 on the list of the best 100 companies to work for. The DreamWorks Animation SKG is responsible for the amazing movies such a Shrek, Kung Fu panda, Finding Nemo, and Monsters Inc, which are some of...
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...successfully under a decentralized, hands-off approach management in United States. Viacom’s strategy is to strengthen their bargaining position of its content business through a distribution monopoly and expand into international markets. However, with the limited information and rapid changes in the international markets, Viacom cannot successfully execute their strategy under a decentralized management. Viacom’s biggest challenge in any market is distribution of contents. Viacom needs to establish a dominant distribution network in Europe and with a decentralized management, operating managers cannot quickly react to the rapidly changing European market. As a centralized company, Viacom can leverage their entire company using Paramount Pictures to negotiate deals for MTV Network and Nickelodeon in Europe and react quickly to gain distribution power in Europe. Viacom is a content provider, not a distributor. Viacom needs to focus on distribution because many distributors are vertically integrated. Once they have a distribution channel established, it becomes easier for the distributors to provide and create contents. In addition, there is an increase in distribution monopolies in Europe and it can threaten Viacom’s survival if Viacom cannot successfully align a distribution channel in this market. Viacom’s bottleneck has been distribution so it is essential that Viacom has a healthy distribution channel. Therefore, Viacom must centralize their operations so they can become an...
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