Sentences with phrase «american movie business»

In today's American movie business, making or appearing in a movie about nuns may be turn out to be our modern - day equivalent.

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6) Single product strategy, lack of brand and need for local content: Netflix's business to date has been largely built on American movies and its own top - quality series such as «House of Cards» and «Marco Polo.»

See, Ricki Lake made a movie about her choice, and the ACOG and AMA aren't too happy about it: ACOG released a statement, which was in turn supported in a resolution Tuesday by the American Medical Association, which said «There has been much attention in the media by celebrities having home deliveries» and which singles out Ricki Lake's film «The Business of Being Born» as part of the problem.

German American Descent, Love City Life - Movies, Theatre Workout three times a week Love to socialize and cuddle Work in business side of theatre but still have creative aspirations 5» 9» 165 # Graying Light Hair, hazel eyes

I haven't been in the movies the last five years because I was giving the audience a break, the legendary and enigmatic Eddie Murphy tells me as we sit Eddie Murphy is the most commercially successful African - American actor in the history of the motion picture business and is one of the industry's top

Movies and other mainstream media, like music videos and TV shows, depict very lavish extravagancies as the norm in the United States American men are portrayed in the media as being very wealthy, they are also portrayed as being big travelers, jetting off here and there for business or vacation.

, but in this case don't trust your instincts; Jerry Maguire the trailer is a callous cocktail that coasts by on lowest common denominator Cruise control, while Jerry Maguire the film is among the very best contemporary movies about the uneasy intersection between sports and business as well as the human toll of this peculiarly American phenomenon.

The movie has made $ 66 million on the North American field place of business.

Where the movie works, and does so quite splendidly, is the finale's clever depiction of hologram tech as a shiny new toy; promoted by an American corporation as if it offers a time - saving and world - changing system enabling international business for the 21st century, even though it's clearly and merely another gimmicky exercise in special effects.

Designer eyewear really hit its stride in the eighties, with movies such as American Gigolo and Tom Cruise's breakthrough Risky Business (1985) selling the attitude that built the decade: conspicuous consumption was nothing to be ashamed of.

Eccentric families are also what Paul Thomas Anderson does best (the porn community in Boogie Nights, the father and adopted son of There Will Be Blood, the cult in The Master), and all his movies explore very American themes (business versus art in Boogie Nights, ambition in There Will Be Blood, self - reinvention in The Master).

We were emerging at the tail end of the»80s, which was the worst period for cinema in American history because the movie - brat generation [meaning Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, William Friedkin, and Martin Scorsese, among others — the bearded, libertine directors who were reared on Hollywood's golden age] for the most part self - destructed in the late»70s, and for a decade, the studios took the movie business back.

National Lampoon, the humor magazine that eventually jumped into the movie business, now has its own biopic courtesy of Wet Hot American Summer filmmaker David Wain.

Drawn from Bloom's 2014 memoir as well as episodes and experiences she didn't include, the movie is a big, brash tale of American striving as well as an identity - blurring, chronology - fudging bit of storytelling business.

In his review for The Times, Justin Chang called the film «an incorrigible, unapologetic blast,» before adding «the movie is a big, brash tale of American striving as well as an identity - blurring, chronology - fudging bit of storytelling business.

Like many in the film distribution business, Mimi Steinbauer has a story — «funniest example ever» — of the ingenious sleight of hand in marketing American movies to foreign lands.

In «FYC,» the subject isn't so much the movie industry (Guest already made the best American dissection of the contemporary film business back in 1989 with «The Big Picture») as the awards and publicity industry.

I keep thinking that things stated to go bad for the velvet paintings business after the 1979 release of the movie «The Inlaws» which featured a South American dictator that had the world's greatest collection of Tijuana velvet paintings.

Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

It's a sweeping narrative about fathers and sons, the movie business, and the sundry sea changes that have shaped Hollywood and, by extension, American life

Finally the first week of paying guests arrive: John, the American movie star thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian, forced into taking a holiday together; Nuala and Henry, husband and wife, both doctors who have been shaken by seeing too much death; Anders, the Swedish boy, hates his father's business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired school teacher, who criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone's relief; the Walls who have entered in 200 contests (and won everything from a microwave oven to velvet curtains, including the week at Stone House); and Freda, the psychic who is afraid of her own visions.

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Since discretionary spending — spending on things like a nice dinner out, a movie, or a luxury item like a new television — dips when people have less money, the additional taxes paid by Americans could presumable hurt business» ability to both hire new employees and be successful in the first place.

In addition to several articles written for the American Bar Association and the National Business Institute, Attorney Buck has also published a book for law students and legal professionals, Movie Therapy for Law Students.

Bucksbaum reports that the REIT has tapped the growing business, cementing deals with American Express, Pepsi, Fox Movie Studios and others.