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Some movie executives deserve to burn in movie Hell for their actions.
Knowing they have an audience of die-hard Pinhead fans, executives at Dimension Films insist on cranking out a new direct-to-video sequel every few years.
I wish the executives would take chances with the plot lines, not be afraid to focus on action and drama.
Its feeble Hollywood remake ('The Vanishing') should serve as a warning to all European film-makers of the crassness of LA studio executives.
People with ADD/ADHD apparently make good executives, because they're impatient when other people start discussing things, and they'd rather make their own decisions, which they have sufficient confidence to feel are correct.
The general idea of this film is a good one: In the run-up to the Great Depression and stock market crash, and then in their throes and wake, high-level executives have been cutting corners and cooking the books at a financial firm, first trying to get rich and then trying to hide their titanic losses.
"Petulia" is among those motion pictures, but it is obvious Warner Brothers executives did not realize what had director Richard Lester delivered, and handled the product badly, as the original trailer eloquently shows.
When the executives watched the dailies of this film, did they really sit there and think it was good?
Put together by tobacco executives who felt that the market for cannabis threatened their tobacco crops, the film shows ordinary teenagers who go crazy on marijuana, laughing hysterically & running over people with their cars.
After I saw this film, all I could muster was a "Yeah, and...." I guess my point is that Van Peebles is trying to muster up sympathy for black cinema actors while pointing the fingers at the mostly white movie studio and casting executives of that time, and, taking from his example, I could make a film which musters up sympathy for the white actors that were portrayed as extremely racist or prejudiced landowners or business people or action stars or in any other bad light just as easily.
The executives Chad (Aaron Eckhart) and Howard (Matt Malloy) have just been rejected by their mates.
Funny that the mental processes of advertising executives was as unfathomable then as it is now.
I'm not one of those people that thinks that Caruso is a bad actor, but I certainly don't think that he is big enough from a TV show to open a film, and if I, as a casual film fan can figure that out for myself, then why can't powerful movie executives?
American white middle class kids could NEVER have been this dumb - I think that this is what the executives wanted them to be - stupid and willing to watch this rubbish.
It's obvious Universal wasn't confident A & C could carry a picture by themselves but nearly everything they do and say here is dynamite and the box office receipts helped convince the studio executives to charge future Bud & Lou endeavors at A, instead of B, rental rates.
In their heyday, Bud Abbot and Lou Costello were so often sought after for personal appearances by adoring fans, studio executives and a host of worthwhile organizations.
Studio executives were very protective of image and star-making.
Then the later advertising became annoying by using goofy reporters and very unreal Real World executives.
On the other hand, if it is important that young, impressionable citizens see how their democracy works, and that we build social solidarity by making corporate executives stand in line with jobless teenagers, it makes sense to force people to bid with their time and to make entry tickets non-transferable.
That absence of accountability, in turn, has contributed to the vertiginous rise in senior executives’ compensation and, in financial firms, to a shift away from shareholder returns and towards large payouts to insiders.
And leadership for this huge revolutionary effort will probably have to come from visionary business executives whose profits depend on education and rationality.
Gender bias, too, is a limiting factor; nearly every MENA economy fails to empower female employees and executives fully.
In office, he had intervened when the supposedly independent board for setting accounting standards tried to clean up the accounting of senior executives' share options.
The company’s skilled and experienced executives soon become frustrated with the new guard, and leave within a few months.
Both candidates are United States senators with little experience as executives, so their ability to manage the crisis has become a central issue in the election.
When things go well, executives in these firms get the upside – mostly in terms of immediate compensation, because few executives are compensated on the basis of risk-adjusted returns.
Executives in financial firms want to take big risks.
Senior executives – those who are drawn to the arguments presented in such groundbreaking analyses of the workplace as Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In – know that corporate realpolitik can include calling in a woman when the ship is sinking.
But, wherever the truth may lie, few critics take into account that he, like all former UN chief executives, has to deal with the reality that he possesses only moral power, not economic, military, or political power.
In centuries past, revolutionaries were farmers or blacksmiths or merchants; now they are Google executives and Facebook friends.
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