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Is there a scientific formula to on-camera beauty? Are there common characteristics to the facial shapes of the stars we deify in the form of celebrity? The old saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” has its merits, but when it comes to Hollywood, we see a certain
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In academic circles, two of the most quoted scholars when discussing film are Harold Vogel, and Ian MacDonald. The former wrote “Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis”, which establishes many of the accepted statistics of the field, such as there been an estimated 500,000 films in existence.
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Ask any film industry veteran, and they will claim they are in any otherbusiness but film. Bruckheimer infamously claimed he was in the “transportation” business; just as the media tirelessly exhorts Hollywood is simply a marketing machine. The more cynical are far too oft to believe it is the “confectionery
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It’s a cruel irony, Aaron Sorkin cannibalised his view on artistic “recycling” from T.S Eliot’s brutal reflection of creative realpolitick: “Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.” The great scientist, Issac Newton, simply acknowledged his inspirations: “If I have seen further it
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Ian Fleming had a very interesting idea. It was an idea that lived for several books and a few films, but was thrown in the trash with his death ten years afterward. As the years have gone on, the Bond that Fleming imagined and designed from his estate in Jamaica