Motion picture industry

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of motion pictures, and the effect they had on people\u27s lives, particularly America\u27s troops during wartime. First day covers are envelopes or postcards with a stamp canceled on the first day the stamp is available for purchase and use. Often the postmark is a special pictorial cancellation indicating the city and date of issue. First day covers often include a cachet or illustration on the envelope that explains or compliments the stamp.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/firstdaycover/1054/thumbnail.jp

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entertainment?

This comment focuses on the case Arizona ex rel Goddard v. Harkins Amusement Enterprises and uses it to explore whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) is being distorted and misused if theater owners are required to install and provide equipment so as to fully accommodate hearing- and vision impaired customers. The comment begins by outlining the ADA using case examples and detailing the analytical framework courts use to evaluate claims asserted under the Act. It then discusses the accommodations the motion picture industry currently provides disabled patrons, and, after evaluating these existing accommodations, outlines the financial and technical effect full compliance under the ADA would have on the motion picture industry. Lastly, the article suggests possible action for courts and the public to take in order to balance the interests of disabled Americans and the motion picture industry, ultimately concluding that full compliance under the ADA would place an undue burden on the motion picture industry

Online Review Analysis TriggeringHype in the Motion Picture Industry

Competition in the motion picture industry continues to intensify at a very rapid pace. This phenomenon makes the production house continue to try to look for new ways to maximize revenue from the short life cycle of a film. One of the variables currently playing a larger role in decision-making to watch a film is a review. Two types of reviews are often used in the motion picture industry, namely the reviews from critics and fellow consumers. This study tries to see whose review will trigger a hype or buzz that much needed in the motion picture industry. Data from 219 respondents were collected to see their response regarding a review and whose review will encourage them to talk about a film to their peers and ultimately create the hype needed by a film. There are different perceptions for reviews given by critics, and fellow consumers with reviews from fellow consumers have greater potential to create and ignite hype in the motion picture industry

Demand Shifts and Second Degree Price discimination - the Impact of DVDs on the Motion Pictures Industry

This paper applies models of price discrimination to the motion picture industry. Movies are durable goods with no resale market. Therefore, price discrimination using time can be used. The distributors release the movie in two different periods: theaters and video. The first is a high quality product and the second is a low quality product issued in a later point in time. The quality gap between the two versions of the product has shrunk as the DVD technology penetrated the market. This paper compares two years: 1995 and 2000. Initial results show a difference between the two years. The most evident one is a shrinkage of the time between the theatrical release and the video releaseprice discrimination, motion picture industry, time consistency

Accounting for motion picture films (1973); Industry accounting guide; Audit and accounting guide: motion picture industry

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Nature; Motion-picture industry; Animal

Escaping Davy Jones' Locker: How the Motion Picture Industry Can Stop Digital Piracy Without Unnecessary Litigation

Contrary to popular belief, motion picture piracy is not a modern phenomenon.2 Indeed, Hollywood studios have been engaged in a continuous battle against pirates ever since theatres began showing films in the late nineteenth century.3 One of the earliest methods of motion picture piracy, for example, was the “bicycling of prints,” a practice by which a theatre operator would literally transport film reels between multiple theatres by bicycle to avoid the cost of licensing reels for each.4 With the advent of the Internet, however, the rate of motion picture piracy has increased exponentially. While truly measuring the extent of such illegal activity is impossible, recent estimates by the Motion Picture Association of America (“MPAA”) suggest that somewhere between 300,000 and 350,000 motion pictures are illegally downloaded from the Internet every day.5 With Hollywood studios already losing four billion dollars in potential profits each year to analog piracy,6 the continuous growth of digital piracy threatens the very existence of the motion picture industry. It is no surprise, then, that industry trade organizations like the MPAA are now feverishly searching for an effective way to address the problems posed by digital piracy

Wolves of Labrador script, final draft.

Nature; Motion-picture industry; Animal