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Making a movie entails a lot of risks.  There is not one single magic formula that determines what makes a successful movie. First and foremost it needs to be an entertaining movie.  A brood term, but what is entertaining to some may not be entertaining to others.  Star power.  Everyone has their favorite star that they will see in any movie totally disregarding the content of that particular movie.  Timing, it sounds cliché, but timing is everything.  Huge action movies do best in summer when kids are out of school and serious Oscar contenders do best around the holidays.

Movie Storyline

Script of a movie is the basic foundation.  A good movie storyline and a well-made script is at the heart of every successful movie. The script must appeal to a wide variety of audiences.  It must focus on a particular genre such as mystery, romance, horror or it could be a multi-genre. Successful movies are known to tug at the heartstrings of the audience because they are easy to relate to.

Even if Tom Cruise is your favorite actor you do not want to sit through 120 minutes watching him in a boring, with a poor movie storyline.  Granted, there are so many movies that have such a huge buzz going into their opening weekend that people will go and see the movie.  But when word gets out that people did not enjoy the movie the second week’s take will be drastically less.  If a movie can stay in the top 5 for two weeks and the top ten for 5 weeks it is a successful movie. And you cannot stay relevant when people are telling everyone they know what a bad movie it was.  Word of mouth kills a box office. Read the rest of this entry »

Technology, especially in electronics and disc technology is developing at a dazzling speed. Now we have Blu-ray versus DVD, blue laser technology versus red laser used for our DVDs. It seems that the term ‘DVD’ standing for Digital Versatile Disc will be replaced by the term ‘BD’ standing for Blu-ray Disc. It has already begun entering our lives as well as our terminology.

When we take a look at its advantages, the storage capacity of this next-generation format BD is five times more than DVD format. The capacity of a single layer is 25GB and dual-layer has 50GB capacity. Blu-ray provides read-only (BD-ROM), recordable (BD-R) and rewritable (BD-RE) formats. A dual-layer can contain 9 hours of high definition video. It supports all the codecs that DVD format supports and in addition, it supports Dolby True HD, DTS-HD and DTS Digital Surround audio codecs and MPEG-4AVC and SMPTE VC-1 video codes. Early Blu-ray disc players didn’t support Dolby True HD, but most of the current models support it and most of the blu-ray movie releases feature Dolby True HD audiotrack. The video bit rate is maximum 40.0 Mbps while DVD has only 9.8 Mbps video bit rate.

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Jim Carrey returned back to the movies world with ‘Yes Man’ to make us laugh again. During the Yes Man London premiere, the famous actor said: “I haven’t finished yet,” and he stated that he will never quit acting even though he becomes doomed to wheelchair one day.

The new Jim Carrey movie Yes Man, adopted from the work of famous Scotch writer  and cult comedian Danny Wallace, is directed by Peyton Reed, the skillful director of the movies ‘The Break Up’ and ‘Bring It On’. On the first day in Los Angeles movie theaters Yes Man grossed $18.2 million.

The Yes Man London premiere stirred up interest of Jim Carrey fans. The actors of the movie, Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel and Bradley Cooper came to Leicester Square together with the director Peyton Reed and the writer Danny Wallace to meet the fans and movie lovers in spite of the cold weather. The fans of the ‘most famous live comedian’ greeted them with enthusiasm.

The unforgettable actor of ‘The Truman Show’, ‘The Mask’, ‘Liar Liar’, ‘Man On The Moon’, ‘Bruce Almighty’ and 2 times winner of Golden Globe award and 9 times winner of  MTV movie award, Jim Carrey is now back in the movie theaters as Yes Man, Carl Allen.

Due to his long time disappearance, some people said Jim Carrey  was finished but he says he is not. He explained that he had no aim to quit acting but Read the rest of this entry »

The acting performance seen in films reflect the diversity of cinema practice over time and across the globe. Each acting performance is crucial in filmmaking and contributes to the film performances.Performances by actors, like the contributions made by other members of a film production team, are designed to be consistent with the film style as a whole.

Most often, they are crafted to convey a director’s interpretation of the narrative. Because acting performance is integral component of specific films and films themselves differ widely it is not possible to evaluate individual acting performance in relation to a fixed standard, such as the expectation that acting in the cinema should be realistic.

Instead, film performance is best understood and assessed by Read the rest of this entry »

Most of the movies have a major genre as well as sub-genres. Here are the basic movie genres and what they are mainly about.

• Action movies : Struggle between opposite physical forces

Some of the most famous action movies are; James Bond series, Die Hard, Kill Bill and Man On Fire

• Comedy movies : Cheerful, funny, hilarious stories

Some of the most famous comedy movies are; Dumb and Dumber, A Fish Called Wanda, Hot Shots and Wayne’s World Read the rest of this entry »

The ‘Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ (©A.M.P.A.S.®), publicly known as the  ’Academy Awards’ is a professional organization that represents members of the motion picture industry, both technical and artistic. The organization consists of more than 6000 members and has 14 branches, which are writers, directors, actors,  producers, film editors, cinematographers, sound, visual effects, animation, art directors, executives, music, short films and documentary.

To be a member of the Academy, sponsorship of minimum two members of the same branch is required and the candidate must have ‘achieved distinction in the motion pictures arts and sciences’. The revenue of the Academy comes from the member dues. Additional income comes from theater rentals and publication of  Players Directory’. More than 120,000 union actors from all over the world are listed in the Players Directory. The Academy sells the rights to telecast the annual Academy Award ceremonies and this makes the main financial source.

A.M.P.A.S. does not only distribute Oscar statues to people but supports training and technological advancements in motion picture industry. Academy organizes seminars for training. It has a huge library and film archive as a resource for researches. Academy encourages educational activities in several ways as well as the promotional activities. Read the rest of this entry »

We are grateful to the huge motion picture industry for the charming cinema world, in which we forget about ourselves.

Silver screen, camera, video, vcd, dvd, blu-ray… These are some of the best inventions of mankind and the best gifts of technology. Motion picture industry is huge and cinema art has a role more than entertaining. Movies give us the whole world and other lives more than we can imagine. While watching movie for a few hours we are taken to another part of the world, we become someone else living another life, we learn, relax, forget about our problems and discover different emotions. This is an incredible luxury!

However, not all movies are smartly made. Read the rest of this entry »