...to inspire the motion picture industry. Some men who noticed the potential in cinema were the Warner Brothers. Albert, Jack, Harry and Sam Wonskolaser were born in Poland to Jewish parents and immigrated to the United States in 1888 while changing their last name to Warner. The brothers were fascinated with the nickelodeon business and purchased the Cascade Theater in 1905 (Warner & Jennings 1965). The theater turned out to be a wise purchase as it became very successful in terms of profit and even helped them buy other theaters (Bob Thomas, 1990). The success did not last long as the Thomas Edison´s Motion Picture Patents Company charged high fees for the showing of films in theaters (Warner & Jennings 1965). The patent caused the Warner bros to sell their theaters and focus solely on the making of films and distributing (Cass Warner Sperling, 2008). The company grew to become one of the biggest and most influential motion picture studios in the world. 2.2 Introduction to theme A leader possesses multiple attributes either when dealing with a multinational company or a small managing company however there is one characteristic which described...
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...Movie Production and Distribution Industry Industry Overview A major influencing factor in the general environment of the movie production industry is the implementation of new technology. The improvement of technology has always been a driving force behind the filmmaking industry. There are various kinds of technology forthcoming. A major one is the development and use of 3D, IMAX and digital film. These new developments have changed the way that movies are made and affect the cost and method of film production. New cameras and recording methods are required in production and this is forcing the directors, actors and other staff to adapt their techniques. Due to the vast array of technologies that can be utilized for movie production there are low barriers of entry for suppliers. The production industry has been able to maintain leverage over these new corporations through their economies of scale and their ability to influence the end user of the product. Another important technological development is the digital streaming and downloading of videos. This new technology is having both positive and negative effects for the filmmakers. The ease of digital proliferation has allowed production companies to widen their brands and make more films and television programs. This has created greater revenue for the industry. Digital streaming has made way for a new kind of company focused on this delivery method. The improvement of digital animation has also increased...
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...Associate Level Material 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) | | | | | | |This supply chain indicates the sourcing |Packaging, manufacturing and assembly take |This chain involves distribution – | |that is made from an external supplier. |place at the same time in the same |externally. | |The main supplier used by Warner Brothers |environment. | | |is Hewlett Packard. | |Using broadband communications links, High | | |Types of formats used are DVD, Blu-ray and |Def. Televisions and DVD’s. | |Hewlett Packard provides them with a |HD DVD, I-Tunes and mobile devices for |Creating over 6000 motion...
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...Enrico (“Rico”) Bandello who epitomized the rise and fall of the gangster. Edward G. Robinson was the first Gangster star in this genre. These career criminals live double lives as respectable business men, who defy the law, and are tough who also operate under a cloak of fear portrayed as respect. The popularity and appeal of these films during the 30’s was divided among the public. Some would see these films as a sort of participation in the rebellion against a failed government and others would see them as revenge against the bad guys. Hollywood would put the gangster in a mostly retributive frame with the negativity of the gangster myth ratifying the belief in the public enemy system. This would be seen as the result of the collapse of law enforcement in a society or loss of morality, and ultimately social disorder. William Wellman’s The Public Enemy (1931) starred James Cagney as the fast talking and cocky Tom Powers and his most famous line, “I’m on top of the world Ma!” This is an example of a well dressed man with street smarts who is a criminal bootlegger and womanizer. One of the films most controversial and pivotal scenes is when Tom Powers assaults his floozy girlfriend with a grapefruit by slamming it into her face at the breakfast table. Howard Hawkins “Scarface: The Shame of a Nation” (1932) starred Paul Muni as a Immature, power hungry, monstrous and beastly hood in prohibition era Chicago, whose character was loosely based on Al Capone. This is the first movie...
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...Peter Lightfoot BMGT 380 REPORT A. Facts presented in the article: Time Warner Inc. won a temporary court order blocking a small production company , Global Asylum Inc., from releasing a straight-to-DVD film titled "Age of the Hobbits" four days before the theatrical release of Warner Bros. Pictures' $200 million movie "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” In early November, Warner Bros., along with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and Saul Zaentz Co., which own the movie rights to J.R.R. Tolkien's novels "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings," sued Asylum for trademark infringement and false advertising, among other complaints. Global Asylum argued that the hobbits referred to in their film were a human sub-species with the Latin name Homo Floresiensis that scientists had nicknamed hobbits. The court found, however, that Asylum's argument didn't hold up, since the subspecies was named with Tolkien's characters in mind. The company was ordered Monday by a U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles to refrain from advertising, selling or distributing "Age of the Hobbits." B. Authors’ point of view on the subject matter covered in the article: The ruling casts a spotlight on "mockbusters" or knockoff films that are typically distributed as straight-to-home-videos released to coincide with the major releases they mimic. Such movies have become a cottage industry among a handful of production houses looking to catch the crumbs of the entertainment giants' marketing campaigns. The...
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...1- How attractive is the merger of Time with Warner? b) Is the proposed exchange ratio of 0.465 per Warner share attractive? Is Time Paying the right price for Warner? c) Does the merger make sense strategically? a) What are the value enhancement opportunities? Una fusión sólo tiene sentido económico, cuando la empresa fusionada vale más que las dos empresas por separado. Generalmente hay tres razones principales que justifican una fusión. En el caso de Time- Warner y estos tres motivos están presentes: 1. fusión horizontal -se definen como "combinación de dos empresas en la misma línea de negocio". Time y Warner estan en la misma línea de negocio, la fusión puede ser considerada como horizontal. La razón principal de las fusiones horizontales es la explotación de economías de escala. "Los ahorros provienen de la consolidación de las operaciones y eliminar costos redundantes, [...] compartir servicios centrales como la gestión de oficina y contabilidad, control financiero, desarrollo directivo, y la gestión de nivel superior" . Time y Warner también están siguiendo estos objetivos. 2. fusión vertical - "Una fusión vertical implica empresas en diferentes etapas de la producción. El comprador se expande de nuevo hacia la fuente de materias primas. La materia prima en nuestro caso es el contenido, es decir, películas y series. Una forma de lograr economías de escala es difundir...
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...Andrea Carrion 07/17/2015 Second Film Scene Analysis ‘Casablanca’ Casablanca (1942) is a melodramatic film, which was directed by Michael Curtiz. The film mixes many different topics like love, politics and war. I find it to be a very interesting and amazing film, also I love the fact that it’s still in black & white. This story takes place during World War II in Casablanca, Morocco. During that time the French controlled Casablanca and in order to get out you needed a passport or permit. The main characters in the story are Rick Blaine, Ilsa Lund, Victor Laszlo, Sam (the pianist) and Captain Renault. Throughout the film the feelings between Ilsa and Rick are portrayed and it helps you understand that at some point they probably were in love, but that love didn’t consumed and the feelings between them are something that remain unsolved. On the other side of the story when Ilsa appears in Casablanca, she’s not with Rick anymore. Instead, she’s married to Victor and this is part of the drama of the story because it’s kind of a love triangle, even though nothing happens between her and Rick. But as audience you can still get the fact that they still have feelings for each other, for example when she tells Sam “Play it Sam, play our song” and at some other point she thinks about letting go Victor to stay in Casablanca with Rick. The final scene of Casablanca is the key to the melodrama in the movie, here you can finally see what happened between Ilsa and Rick and...
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...The Dark Knight is a movie in the trilogy of Batman directed by Christopher Nolan. It was produced by Legendary Pictures along with Warner Bros and distributed by Warner Bros. The Dark Knight made brilliant use of online and offline content to bring fans of the movie together before it released. The target audience for this movie was very broad. There were Batman fans, Christopher Nolan fans, and fans of the franchise. So the producers didn’t really need to hard sell the movie. The audience was teeming with anticipation already. The campaign was to generate interest, get talk going, and involve the fans into the Batman universe to provide a more enriching movie experience. This film had has one of the most elaborate marketing strategies to date. The campaign was launched 15 months prior to the release of the film and witnessed participation from millions from across the world. Warner Bros made use of all kinds of media and without the use of convergence, as we spoke about in class, this strategy would not have been as successful. Warner Bros. effectively created a viral marketing campaign for The Dark Knight, developing promotional websites and trailers. One of the first websites created was www.ibelieveinharveydent.com, dedicated solely to generating interest in “The Dark Knight”. The website focused on Aaron Eckhart’s character Harvey Dent in his efforts to bring Batman down. “I Believe in Harvey Dent” Promotional Packs were sent to those who had registered on the way page...
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...The Wolf of Wall Street. | Under the guidance of Professor – Rita Tina Olivia Limbu.Name – Abhishek Shah.Pace ID – U01285579.Submission Date – 03/31/2016. | The Wolf of Wall Street. | Under the guidance of Professor – Rita Tina Olivia Limbu.Name – Abhishek Shah.Pace ID – U01285579.Submission Date – 03/31/2016. | The Wolf of Wall Street. By – Martin Scorsese, 12/25/2013. Martin Scorsese’s Note – Martin Charles Scorsese is an American producer, director, actor, film producer and film historian. Born on 11/17/1942, Scorsese is 73 years old and belongs to Queens, New York, the United States of America. Scorsese, is the founder of “The Film Foundation” (1990), and “World Cinema Foundation” (2007). He has achieved many awards and is renowned personality in the United States of America. His awards include – AFI life achievement award, Academy Awards, Palme d’Or, Cannes film festival the Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy awards, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and DGA awards. He has directed many landmark movies and has a great name today in the world of Hollywood industry. WORD COUNT – 121 Abstract Jordan repeatedly said, “There’s no nobility in poverty” (Scorsese, M. (Director). (12/25/2013). The Wolf of Wall Street [Motion picture on DVD]. United States of America: Paramount Pictures); the research is bout a young aspiring entrepreneur Jordan Belfort and about his lifestyle, convergence in the lifestyle, ethics, business culture, addictions...
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...Case Analysis - Arundel Partners Executive Summary: A group of investors (Arundel group) is looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights are to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wants to come up with a decision to either purchase all the sequel rights for a studio’s entire production during a specified period of time or purchase a specified number of major films. Arundel's profitability is dependent upon the price it pays for a portfolio of sequel rights. Our analysis of Arundel’s proposal includes a net present value calculation of each movie production company. In order to decide whether Arundel can make money buying movie sequel rights depends on whether the net present value of the production company’s movies is higher than the estimated 2M per film required to purchase the rights. Problem Identification: How are the principals of Arundel Partners planning to make money by buying rights to sequels? They would be interested in purchasing the sequel rights for one or more studios¡¦ entire production over an extended period of not less than a year. If a particular film was a hit, and Arundel thought a sequel would be profitable, it would exercise its rights by producing the sequel. Alternatively, they can sell the rights to the highest bidder. Inevitably, the performance of the original films would not justify sequels, and for them the sequel rights would simply not be exercised...
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...Defying Society Perhaps one of the most popular books ever written by Mark Twain is Huckleberry Finn, reflecting a time of racial discrimination whose language could arguably be deemed “ inappropriate”. The Scarlett Letter published in 1850 was considered at the time sexual and overtly offensive. Pablo Picasso illustrates his view of women in the painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, where five naked prostitutes obscene postures are anything but traditional. The Color Purple directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel written by Alice Walker, displays a plot that depicts the hardships African American women went through in the 1900’s concerning racism, prejudices, and poverty. All of these works of art have been deemed as socially offensive, improper, or distasteful, however these are the exact reasons why they are so significant. Artistic endeavors, including film, do need socially unacceptable content in order to evoke emotion, fit into a specific genre, and to present familiar material in an unconventional way. Unpleasant images are a form of artistic symbolism that creates a story without any words. The audience can digest the meaning and emotion behind what is on screen without having to be told. For example, American History X displays racism through the use of symbols and colors when Derek, one of the main characters, steps out on his front porch half-naked showing his bare white skin covered in dark tattoos of swastikas and white-power...
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...------------------------------------------------- Associate Level Material Appendix B Picture the Supply Chain Complete the chart below by outlining the digital content supply chain at Warner Bros. Entertainment. Upstream Component(sourcing/procurement) | Internal Component(packing/assemblymanufacturing) | Downstream Component(distribution) | Upstream supply chain is the planning and management of the entire activities externally that involves sourcing and procurement. Hewlett-Packard is the main supplier for Warner Brothers. Hardware, software, and services are provided from Hewlett-Packard digital media platform. Hewlett-Packard brought into existence a high performance storage system for Warner Brothers and this allowed them to control the company’s speed the way the company needed. | Internal supply chain consists of packaging, manufacturing, or assembling. Warner Brothers realized the consumers growing into the digital media so they reinvented themselves with a digital-end-to-end enterprise and business. Now films are released in three different types of DVDs. DVD, HD DVD, and Blue-ray. Warner Brothers has a digital and a film version of all its films. | Downstream supply chain is where allocation or distribution is in effect. The mistakes place by external distributors. Warner Brother created and put into place digital allocations and this was done through broadband communication such as; links, high- definition television. Over 6,000 motion pictures have...
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...COMM/156 Casey Jeffers PART ONE The first thing that I would give as feedback is that the author should have gone into more detail with the paper. The introduction paragraph is ok, but it should have stated what points he wanted to go into detail with and then stated facts off those points. I felt as though the paper was all over the place. It should have more knowledge about the film The Dark Knight. By what the author has written it does not make me want to go see the film anymore than I did before I read paper. The author talks about The dark Knight in his introduction paper but the facts after that really do not match up to what I thought the rest of the paper was going to be about. Once he stated the facts he should have went into a lot more detail on what he felt about the film and why us as reader’s should go see this film. The author spoke about the film be a contender to earn an academy award nomination. I would have liked to hear more on how the film became a contender. What were the focal points of the movie that were great? Why, was the film then not picked as a nominee? The author also should have underlined the title of the movie. It would have helped the title stand out. There were some quotation marks missing from the Wikipedia. Also the conclusion of the paper did go back and restate what the introduction said in the beginning. The conclusion was very bland and not...
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...Collaboration is work in a group to complete at certain task. Collaboration is like many other things in life a skill. It comes easy to people and not as easy to others. Collaboration is used in many different settings. One is big companies big companies use collaboration to come up with ideas for new products. Students often collaborate in groups to come up with plans and insight on papers and projects. As stated earlier in this paragraph collaboration is a skill and since it is a skill if either the group or even a person or two can cause conflict. Conflict is handled in a professional manner, which will be discussed later in the paper. Collaboration is a skill that is started early in life and is continued on through executives in big companies. Young people collaborate in school to finish a project in a timely manner as well to learn the skill of working as a team. College students work together to enhance the collaboration skills learned at earlier ages as well as preparing for collaborating in the workforce. In the workforce groups are formed to do work as simple as reports or as complicated as creating a new line of products. “Improved collaboration helps to put products out to the public faster. “ Two companies can bring together ideas for new product sometimes better than just one. (Editorial, n.d.) For example soon car companies and oil companies will be tied together closer than ever before” (Blanco, 2007). Another example of big companies working together to...
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...In a competitive business enterprise such as the motion pictures industry, new ideas are always being put to use, trying to obtain more views from the population. Though the goal is to create a movie that creates the most profit, many things can affect those numbers; number of box offices it appeared in and how it ranked. From the sample provided, the following variables are taken into account; opening gross of that movie, the total gross, the number of theaters it appeared in, and how many weeks the particular movie was in the top 60. With descriptive statistics, we can gain a better understanding of how the industry is doing. Starting with the first variable of opening gross, the mean was $9.37 million. The range is at $108.427 million. The mode is $0.037 million. For the total gross, the mean is $33.04 million; with the range being $380.15 million. In the total gross, there is no mode as there isn't a repeating value. For the number of box offices, the mean is 1278 offices. The range is 3905 offices and the mode is 15 offices. Lastly for the time a movie was in the top 60, the mean is 8.68 weeks, the range is 26 weeks, and the mode is one week. Because there is such variance with these movies, there are some outliers. Motion pictures such as Star Wars: Episode III, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, War of the Worlds, and Batman Begins can all be considered high performance outliers. With the four variables, their standard deviations are $18.87 million, $63...
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