The first trailer shown in a U.S. film theater was in November 1913, when Nils Granlund, the advertising manager for the Marcus Loew theater chain, produced a short promotional film for the musical Th ...
An audience response system (ARS), or personal response system (PRS), allows large groups of people to vote on a topic or answer a question. Depending on the solution chosen, each person has a device ...
The audience response process for co-located audiences Hardware Based Audience Response: The presenter uses a computer and a video projector to project a presentation for the audience to see. In the m ...
Edgar Wright, writer and director of Shaun of the Dead, said in an interview that in test screenings done before the film's special effects were completed, audiences remarked that the ending was "a bi ...
On June 5, 1985, High school senior Ferris Bueller decides to skip school by faking an illness to his parents. He goads his depressive best friend Cameron Frye to join him, and despite Cameron's objec ...
The use of stingers may be traced back at least to 1963 with the James Bond film From Russia with Love, which was the first Bond film to show the ubiquitous "James Bond will return in..." at the end o ...
A young Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid are wannabe outlaws who find that breaking the law is not as easy as it seems.Cast Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy / Robert Leroy ParkerWilliam Katt as The Sundanc ...
ComicsPrequel OriginalAll Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder (2005) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986)Batman and the Monster Men (2005–2006)Batman and the Mad Monk (2006–2007)Batman: The Man W ...
Though the word "prequel" is of recent origin, works fitting this concept existed long before. The Cypria, presupposing hearers' acquaintance with the events of the Homeric epic, confined itself to wh ...
The Eon Productions filmsIn 1962 Eon Productions, the company of Canadian Harry Saltzman and American Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli, released the first cinema adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel, Dr. No, ...
Creation and inspirationMain articles: James Bond (literary character) and Inspirations for James BondAs the central figure for his works, Ian Fleming created the fictional character of James Bond, an ...
On a stormy night, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon) praise Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) for her story of Frankenstein and his Monster. Reminding them that her inte ...
There are a number of ways that subsequent works can be related to the chronology of the original. Various neologisms have been coined to describe them.(Simple) sequel The most common approach is for ...
Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, "highbrow" is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its meto ...
At refrigerator temperatures, the fat in a piece of cheese is as hard as unsoftened butter, and its protein structure is stiff as well. Flavor and odor compounds are less easily liberated when cold. F ...
