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Alternative Income Stream For Musicians (And Others)
What happens when you put out music that distribution companies won't touch, radio won't play, and only a small percentage of the population is interested in?
The movie industry has the same problems. The major distributors won't touch a lot of...
Banff World Television Fest, Maui Film Festival, CinemaExpo International, Music Business Conference Headline June Show Business and Media Events
At the Fifth Annual Santa Fe Screenwriting Conference on June 1-5 in Santa Fe, you can not only choose from over thirty 90-minute workshops, screenwriting competitions and pitch sessions, you can also relax at the Margarita Poolside Party featuring...
Dish Network Satellite TV -- What You Need To Know Before You Order
Launched in 1996 by EchoStar Communications, DISH Network is the second-largest satellite TV provider in the world, with 11 million subscribers and 9 broadcast satellites.
In addition to TV programming, DISH Network satellite TV also offers 50...
Film Budgets - Insider Tips For Film Students
This is my 20th year working in the film industry on over 40 film productions. Throughout that time I have never met a new film school graduate who has a clue about handling the most important aspect of ALL filmmaking - the MONEY! I had always...
Gift Ideas For Your Wife Or Girlfriend
When buying gifts for a woman you want to treat her, to buy things she normally wouldnt treat herself to or that she really wants but cant justify spending the money on.
One thing to remember when reading the gift ideas - You know your wife...
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The Fantastic Power Of Film
There was those days of Sunday prayer when you could feel the love and belonging inside the church as the choir song uplifted everyone from their chairs and had them singing and cheering along. While those days may still exist in churches, our best temples of human emotional bonding have become movie theatres.
In the last few years, there have been an array of films that have drawn large audiences into the auditoriums and halfway through the film, each person would realize that they were part of something bigger and more powerful.
At the release of Mel Gibson's biblical film The Passion of the Christ, there were several reported seizures within the audience and many more emotional breakdowns because of the powerful nature and message of the film.
Or how about the thousands of hardcore fans who camped outside the theatres for weeks at a time to be the first to see the latest installation in the Star Wars prequels, Revenge of the Sith.
Was this the beginning of a new age of cinema where the attendance was less about ht film and more about the belonging factor? Belonging to a religious group or a convention of Star Trek /Star Wars movie buffs.
Films like the Harry Potter series and more recently Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire skyrocketed box-office ticket sales to amazing new heights. The
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Powerful gusts and driving rains churned over North Carolina's Outer Banks as the storm moved up the coast. The storm has been downgraded to a Category 1 but remains a threat as it swirls toward New England.
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The president pushed again for action on legislation aimed at giving small businesses more incentives to hire.
Tax Breaks; New Poll On NYC Islamic Center; New Attack In Pakistan
'The Washington Post' reports the Obama administration is considering a package of tax breaks aimed at encouraging businesses to add workers -- and to combat GOP charges that the Democrats are anti-business.
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Most economists expect the Bureau of Labor Statistics will say that the employment picture didn't get any better last month.
word of mouth on films like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory spreads through schools and it draws every child as if it was a mandatory school project.
Then there are those fans of art house films that go see films because of a shared interest in auteur films. The more recent examples include films like Memento, Mulholland Drive, Crash and Machiavelli Hangman (http://www.hangmanmovie.com) that offer its audiences a new way of seeing films. The audiences may be completely confused by these films but they come and stay because of the atmosphere and the knowledge that the room is full of others who watch movies for the sake of being surprised at the risk of getting confused once in a while.
While watching Machiavelli Hangman an audience member offered this explanation, "Some jokes I didn't get but I still laughed out loud because everyone else was laughing. This becomes a micro-community experience and it really enhances the enjoyment factor."
About the author:
Elsa Nguyen is a movie reviewer. She likes
looking at the social factors of movies in
general, and she feels that Machiavelli Hangman
will deliver on the promise of a community of
excited fans: http://www.hangmanmovie.com
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