The Star System was a common practice between the 1920s and 1960s and led to the immense success of Hollywood. Under this system, the stars of Hollywood were hired by the studios and were associated with them under contracts. A screening test was conducted, and as a result, promising young actors were … Read more
Hundreds of movies are released every year, among which some are remembered and praised for several years while others are forgotten sooner than ever. While some movies break records in the box office, others only manage to recover the amount invested in them. We hear all about the movies that break records … Read more
No two days in the film industry are the same. Among hundreds of movies released, some are so unfortunate that they end up in the trash and fail to earn their producers and directors any profit. A movie is known as a financial flop when it is not able to pay back … Read more
A box office bomb is a movie that has failed to cross a threshold of profit for its distributor, studio, and production company. The costs and profit margins in the film industry are often kept secret; therefore, losses are only rough estimates and not the exact amounts. There are often speculations made … Read more
Every year a multitude of films are released by numerous production houses. Some of these movies go on to create history with their success, but some drastically fail to meet the expectations. In the filming industry, such a movie is known as a movie bomb. A movie bomb is a motion picture … Read more
Few things in this world are more frustrating than buying tickets to a movie after watching trailers for months in anticipation and then getting severely traumatized by the large-scale display of heavily funded stupidity. With nothing better to do, you look around. At least others have popcorns. Your frustration turns to anger. … Read more
Hollywood, the cinema of the United States, located in Los Angeles, California, has affected the film industry to a significant extent since the twentieth century. The main style of Hollywood cinema is the classical Hollywood Cinema, the development of which took place from 1913 to 1969. Hollywood is believed to be the … Read more
The roaring twenties is the era of the 1920s in western culture. Those were good times, of economic prosperity and well-being, with an extreme cultural edge in the United States and Europe, specifically in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, and Sydney. France also saw … Read more
Annually organized by The Sundance Institute, Sundance film festival is the largest stand-alone film festival in the U.S. It takes place each January in Park City, Utah, Salt Lake City, and at the Sundance Resort. It includes various genres of movie-making, documentary and dramatic films, including feature-length and short films. The festival … Read more
The Berlin Film Festival held annually in Berlin, Germany is one of the biggest three festivals around the globe, the other two being Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. Berlin Film Festival has the largest attendance of any film festival with approximately 300,000 tickets sold, 500,000 admissions each year and 400 … Read more
Annually held every August in Locarno, Switzerland, and coming into being in 1946, Locarno film festival is one of the longest-running festivals and serves as a notable platform for art house films. The festival screens films in numerous competitive and non-competitive genres, encompassing feature-length narrative and documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective kinds. … Read more
Venice Film Festival is one of the three most significant film festivals around the globe, the other two being The Cannes Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. The Big Three film festivals are internationally recognized as giving filmmakers a platform where they can showcase and express their work without any … Read more