I saw a huge inflatable movie screen at the LA Film festival and was wondering if anybody knew anything more about them
Yeah. I saw one at Sams Club.
I am interested in getting advice on throwing a "Bollywood" themed prom for my senior year. I need advice on everything, design, events, colors. Everything. Can anyone help me?
Bright colors. Flowing drapes/curtains. Silks. Large pillows. Mosaic shapes/patterns. Scalloped arches. Flowers in bowls of water. Paisley designs, rangoli type designs. Maybe have someone who could do mehndi on people. Bangles. Depictions of some of the Hindu gods, photos of India and/or the Taj Mahal.
You probably need to stick more with an Indian theme, and then play modern Bollywood music. The more current stuff is more dance oriented. The older stuff might be a little bit of a turn off.
Most good movies are going to cost around $300 million to make. How does a company like Paramount, or Fox get that kind of money? I understand that they’d use money from past movies, but what if it is their first movie? Do they just go to a bank and ask if they can take out $300 million?
Investors…..when one sits at the table to hammer out a distribution and/or production deal, there better be a means to cover a portion or all costs. Studios are much more selective in the art of the deal.
*What makes it so popular and so unique than other film festivals?
*How did it become so popular around the world?
This is an article I found from the link listed below:
September 20, 1946
First Cannes Film Festival
The first annual Cannes Film Festival opens at the resort city of Cannes on the French Riviera. The festival had intended to make its debut in September 1939, but the outbreak of World War II forced the cancellation of the inaugural Cannes.
The world’s first annual international film festival was inaugurated at Venice in 1932. By 1938, the Venice Film Festival had become a vehicle for Fascist and Nazi propaganda, with Benito Mussolini’s Italy and Adolf Hitler’s Germany dictating the choices of films and sharing the prizes among themselves. Outraged, France decided to organize an alternative film festival. In June 1939, the establishment of a film festival at Cannes, to be held from September 1 to 20, was announced in Paris. Cannes, an elegant beach city, lies southeast of Nice on the Mediterranean coast. One of the resort town’s casinos agreed to host the event.
Films were selected and the filmmakers and stars began arriving in mid-August. Among the American selections was The Wizard of Oz. France offered The Nigerian, and Poland The Black Diamond. The USSR brought the aptly titled Tomorrow, It’s War. On the morning of September 1, the day the festival was to begin, Hitler invaded Poland. In Paris, the French government ordered a general mobilization, and the Cannes festival was called off after the screening of just one film: German American director William Dieterle’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany.
World War II lasted six long years. In 1946, France’s provincial government approved a revival of the Festival de Cannes as a means of luring tourists back to the French Riviera. The festival began on September 20, 1946, and 18 nations were represented. The festival schedule included Austrian American director Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend, Italian director Roberto Rossellini’s Open City, French director René Clement’s The Battle of the Rails, and British director David Lean’s Brief Encounter. At the first Cannes, organizers placed more emphasis on creative stimulation between national productions than on competition. Nine films were honored with the top award: Grand Prix du Festival.
The Cannes Film Festival stumbled through its early years; the 1948 and 1950 festivals were canceled for economic reasons. In 1952, the Palais des Festivals was dedicated as a permanent home for the festival, and in 1955, the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) award for best film of the festival was introduced, an allusion to the palm-planted Promenade de la Croisette that parallels Cannes’ celebrated beach. In the 1950s, the Festival International du Film de Cannes came to be regarded as the most prestigious film festival in the world. It still holds that allure today, though many have criticized it as overly commercial. More than 30,000 people come to Cannes each May to attend the festival, about 100 times the number of film devotees who showed up for the first Cannes in 1946.
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I’m looking for popular songs, the ones that everyone have been listening to recently and over the past summer. I need a list of 10 or more, and I want songs that other people will recognize. I’ve been googling, but does anyone know of a site that lists the top 10 or 20 Bollywood songs for the week/month?
omg i can give you a lot of them! well there are a lot of songs actually lol. but here are the best ones i thought of this summer til now. first 13 are from the summer and the next ten are recent ones that come to mind….
Everybody put your hands together- De Taali
Mast Kalandar- Heyy Babyy
Kabhi Kabhi – Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na
Pappu Can’t Dance- Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na
Mauja Hi Mauja- Jab We Met
Yeh Ishq Hai- Jab We Met
Nagada Nagada- Jab We Met
Aai Paapi- Kismat Konnection
Krazzy 4- Krazzy 4
Milo Na Milo Main Milane- Love Story 2050
Dard-E-Disco- Om Shanti Om
Pheli Nazar Mein- Race
Race ki sasoon- Race
Bang Bang Bang- Hello
baje speaker- CK kompany
Hey Ya – Kidnap
Desi Girl- Dostana
Drona Redux- Drona
Jee Karda- Singh Is Kinng
Aksar- Hijack
Tujhe Aksa Beach Ghuma hoon- God Tussi Great Ho
Pichle Saat Dinon Mein-Rock ON!
Lazy Lamhe- Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic
Lucky Boy- Bachna Ae Haseeno
Karle Gunaah- Ugly Aur Pagli
Aaja Milke-Chamku
if you want more just ask me!
When I dowload films etc, only mpegs work on my laptop. Do you know how I reformat them to play on my dvd player? Thanks!
I have avi files, but when I burn them to dvd, they wont play on my player. However, my dvd player does play copies. Friends have said I need a program to convert the file, does anyone have any links to free downloads they can recommend?
Since you have not said what type of file format you are downloading the answer is endless…there are many programs to convert movie files to different movie files….example if you are downloading .avi files then try ConvertxtoDVD it is the best I have found! Also if you can not watch a movie on your computer you probably don’t have the right codec for it go to http://www.free-codecs.com to update your computer hope this helps some!
I plan on sending an indie film to the 2011 Sundance Film festival in Utah and need to know some details about its procedures and regulations. What is the most films any ONE person can send in? Is the director of the film required to attend the screening? And if so how many tickets do they give you? Is the cast and crew allowed to attend? Also what is the absolute dealine for submitting your film? Please no links to the official Sundance website because I have spent hours searching for these answer there with no luck. Thanks for your help.
You can submit as many films as you like. You do not need to attend the screening. Anyone is allowed to attend as long as they have tickets.
The answers are on the website:
Deadlines to submit U.S. and International films for the 2009Sundance Film Festival are:
August 18, 2008 – EARLY SUBMISSION DEADLINE (ALL FILMS)
September5, 2008 – OFFICIAL DEADLINE,SHORT FILMS
September 8, 2008 – OFFICIAL DEADLINE, FEATURE FILMS
All filmmakerapplications must be submitted online and must arrive in the Los Angelesoffice by August 18, 2008 for early consideration and a reducedsubmission fee of $35.00 for U.S. and international short films or$45.00 for U.S. and international feature films and documentaries.
Made and produced by the British, the only thing "bollywood" was the dance number at the end.
because of the actors that are from bollywood, and the dance number in the end.
I’m looking for some good sites where I can download movies.
You can watch free movies on http://www.bnwmovies.com/ It’s only old movies (my favorites =>) and all are free to watch. Most movies on the site can also be downloaded in high quality for free. It’s a legal site so you don’t have to worry about that.
An HP 24 inch glossy monitor is about 300 bucks….
so is the Apple Cinema just another piece of overpriced hardware?
It’s overpriced hardware with a purpose– The 24-inch Apple LED Cinema Display is designed specifically for their miniDisplayPort-equipped Macbook laptops, which is why it includes features like a built-in iSight webcam and Macbook magsafe power adapter. It will not work with any other brand of PC (because nobody else uses miniDisplayPort).
So if you don’t have a newer Apple computer (with miniDisplayPort), don’t even think about getting that monitor. It will not even work with whatever computer you are using.
Personally I like the Dell 24-inch LED display. http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Monitors/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=320-7956 It doesn’t have a webcam and isn’t designed for a specific laptop, but the LED-backlit panel’s image quality I feel is comparable to the Apple LED Cinema Display, and it has standard DVI and VGA inputs for use with any PCs. The Dell LED display costs $300.
I’d get the Dell rather than an HP (HP doesn’t have an LED display available yet).