Greenlighting Movies in the Tentpole Era: A Tough Numbers Game
Studios plan toy lines, video games and rides around their biggest movies, mapping out business plans that span sister divisions.
November 20, 2013
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Studios plan toy lines, video games and rides around their biggest movies, mapping out business plans that span sister divisions.
Hollywood’s hit movies haven’t connected at the overseas box office the way they did last year. The figures don’t include three movies that will have a major impact: “Thor: The Dark World,†“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire†and “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.†Disney’s Marvel superhero sequel has already taken in more than $320 million abroad, but those grosses will show up in the fourth …
Indiana State University, the Hulman Center and the ISU Foundation were not satisfied with the quality of the audio at the Honoring a Legend Scholarship Dinner on November 8 that was provided by an outside company.
Disney has settled on a brilliant business strategy — make as few movies as possible. Sure, it releases plenty of films made by Pixar, Marvel and DreamWorks. It makes nature movies through Disneynature and animated movies through Disney Animation and Disneytoon Studios.
Guillermo del Toro’s giant-robot-versus-giant-monster science fiction flick was the highest grossing original movie of the summer, yet it’s Blue-ray package art is … not all that original, it turns out.
SuperSport United midfielder David Mathebula will show no mercy to his old club Moroka Swallows, when the two sides meet on Saturday.
London, Oct 6 (IANS) Actor Jude Law says that he was so obsessed with movies that he used to bunk school and watch at least three-four films in a day.
Many filmmakers are lost, baffled by a surge of comic-book movies and special effects, hurt by the deemphasis of story and hungry for a bygone age.
Many filmmakers are lost, baffled by a surge of comic-book movies and special effects, hurt by the deemphasis of story and hungry for a bygone age.