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Independent Spirit Awards
honored visionary, innovative film-makers, and unsung actors and actresses in independent films who "embody independence and who dare to challenge the status quo." -
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John Singleton, Spike Lee and Mario Van Peebles
Made an impact as black people in film history and paved the way for many more to come -
toy story
was the highest grossing film in 1995, it also introduced pixar's 3d animation develpment -
Demanding actors
actors and actresses started demanding from their studios more free stuff in order for them to work with said studio -
Universal Studios
Seagram bought MCA/Universal from Matsushita for $5.7 billion and renamed it Universal Studios. -
Disney bought the ABC Network.
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TBS
Time/Warner acquired Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), including its cable TV stations and its extensive film library -
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Feminism in Film to Time's Up
From the 80's into the 90's females started to take charge in the film industry. Since then the idea that women be paid the same and be treated the same has only been growing. As of 2018, a lot of actors have been charged with sexual assaults witch has enforced the Time's Up movement -
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Indie movies
Independent films have become a trend since before the 90's thanks to studios like Sony Pictures Classics and Fox World Cinema. With amazing director's like Wes Anderson they have become a staple and increased in popularity to this day. Films like Call me by your name and Lady bird being nominated for Oscars proves this. -
Dogme 95
These were rules to create filmmaking based on the traditional values of story, acting, and theme, and excluding the use of elaborate special effects or technology. It was an attempt to take back power for the director as artist, as opposed to the studio -
Dead man walking
confronted the issue of capital punishment in a powerful tale with Oscar-winning Susan Sarandon portraying real-life Catholic nun Sister Helen Prejean as a death-row spiritual counselor for convicted murderer and rapist Sean Penn.
It, along with the previous years, marked the more serious topics in film in the 90's. -
First public HDTV broadcast in US
HDTV resulted in higher resolution (an increase in the number of horizontal lines on a video screen), and improved the sharpness and detail of the image. Now, feature films projected at home on HDTV screens with theater-quality audio were closer to the moviegoing experience found in commercial theaters. -
Breaking the waves
Director Lars von Trier showed how digital-video (and its hand-held cinema verite look) could be viable for dramatic feature films -
The english patient
was the first Oscar-winning American film with a digitally edited soundtrack - two of its nine awards were for Best Film Editing and Best Sound -
1rst Critic's Choice Awards
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Mission: Imposible
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Replacing VCR with DVD
featuring sharper resolution pictures, better quality and durability than videotape, interactive extras, and more secure copy-protection -
Orion Pictures was sold to MGM
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The Postman
Italy's Il Postino (The Postman) (1995) was the first foreign-language film since 1973 to be nominated for Best Picture. It became a independent film blockbuster. -
Titanic
it became the highest grossing and most successful film of all time,
it's worldwide gross was $1.835 billion, and it was the first movie to gross $1 billion not to mention it was the most expensive film in Hollywood history estimated at about $200 million. It also featured Celine Dion's "My heart will go on" -
Life is beautiful
was the most successful sub-titled, imported foreign-language film of all time - a mixed, Chaplinesque fable of courtship and the Holocaust; the film won Best Foreign Film and Best Actor Oscars -
TiVo
a personal digital video recorder (PVR or DVR) — also dubbed a hard-disc recorder (HDR). TiVo had the capability of recording broadcast movies and episodes of favorite programs, quickly skipping past the commercials, and even pausing and rewinding live TV. Within a few years, a broadband-connected TiVo DVR offered a vast library of video-on-demand choices from many online entertainment partners. -
Napster is sued
File-sharing site Napster was sued, for illegally distributing songs -
The Matrix
Comic-bookish plot, mysticism, philosophical complexity, computer-enhanced digital effects of its unbelievable action scenes, flying bullet-dodging and intriguing virtual worlds in which reality was redefined as a computer simulation deemed it a blockbuster. It helped to illustrate what the future would be of futuristic sci-fi action films with slick and smart plots, and jaw-dropping action. It won four Academy Awards all in sound, editing, and visual effects technical categories. -
Star Wars Episode 1: the phantom menace
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The blair witch project
The blair witch project become a sensation without a big production, special effects or known stars because of it's marketing through a website. It easily became the most profitable film (percentage-wise) of all time, grossing $140.5 million (domestic) and $249 million (worldwide), but budgeted at only about $60,000 [a tremendous profit-ratio!]. -
horror movies
Horror became one of the most profitable genre franchises in the new century - these films were low cost to produce; didn't require much originality, big-name actors or extensive marketing; and they were capable of attracting large audiences, often ready-made legions of faithful horror-film devotees. One thing most of the films had in common - they were not favorites of the film critics. Many were watered-down, familiar films without any further originality. -
Franchises
Whether people loved or hated them, if a movie made good money at the box-office you could guarantee there would be a sequel. -
Visual Effects: The Technique of Performance Capture
Performance capture referred to a digital blend of live performance and animated elements. Actors wore heavy, dot-sensor-covered spandex body suits and a helmet, and initially acted out their scenes in isolation. Expressions and movements were first recorded by digital cameras as 3D "moving data points" - and afterwards, the digitally-recorded performances were translated and embellished by key-frame artists and integrated into an exclusively virtual environment. -
The Expansion of 3-D and IMAX Releases: The Future of Film
The decade of the 2000s saw advancements in 3D and an explosion of releases of both 3-D films and IMAX films. There were many varieties of 3-D, including Disney Digital 3D, Real D 3D, InTru3D, D-BOX, and IMAX 3D. And with many more theatres converted to the 3D format, that meant increased demand and bookings (and ticket prices) for 3D films -
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Musicals
from High School Musical to Chicago to Burlesque, the early 2000's was filled with great live action musicals but stopped shortly after, leaving all the musicals to Broadway or animated features. However in recent years musicals are rising again with movies like La La Land and The greatest showman -
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Documentories
documentaries first gained attention in the 2000's and since then different interesting topics have surfaced like nature, political, crime victims, ect. To this day people want to know the reality behind certain things. -
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Books to Movies
Lacking originality, during the early 2000's people started to look at books and comics for something new that already had a steady fan-base. Twilight and Harry Potter are one of the most recognizable examples. Since then movies like The Hunger Games, The fault in our stars and Love, Simon have been released thanks to this trend. -
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War films
As often happens, war films with ties to current 'headline' events go into a period of declining popularity, especially when the country is actually fighting a long and drawn-out war. The 'Second' Gulf War was soon the source of Hollywood interpretations, but it appeared that American audiences did not want realistic war dramas -- war was the ultimate 'reality TV' -- during actual wartime. Over time however, they gained popularity -
Vidocq
director Pitof's dark 19th century crime fantasy Vidocq (2001) was the world's first-completed theatrical feature film shot entirely on Hi-Def digital video. This first full-length, all-digital film was shot using a Sony HD-CAM 24P1 (1080p, 24fps) high-definition digital camera, producing astonishing visuals. It was released a year before George Lucas' and Hollywood's first big-budget all-digital production of Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002). -
MovieLink
Movielink was a web-based video on demand (VOD) and electronic sell-through (EST) service offering movies, TV shows and other videos for rental or purchase. While it was only available to users in the United States, it was the first company in the world to offer legally downloadable movies from major studios. -
Star wars episode 2: attack of the clones
was the first major Hollywood motion picture to be filmed entirely with digital video (at 24 fps) -
8 mile
It was the first film with an Oscar-winning rap/hip-hop song "Lose Yourself". -
bowling for columbine
was the first documentary to compete in the Cannes Film Festival's main competition in 46 years, and was the unanimous winner of the festival's 55th Anniversary Prize. It was also the first documentary film to be nominated and then win in 2003 the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Original Screenplay. It was also the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award-winner. It was also the highest-grossing documentary of all time. -
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
the first Sony Pictures film, was also the first feature film to be released on Blu-Ray Disc, a next generation, high-definition optical disc format. The popularity of the new DVD format (and the start of a new optical disc format called Blu-Ray) completely doomed the once-ubiquitous VHS videotape cassette format. -
Fahrenheit 9/11
won the top prize, at the Cannes Film Festival, making it the first US documentary to win the award. It also broke the record for highest opening-weekend box-office earnings in the US for a documentary, and established a significant precedent for a political documentary by being the first ever documentary to cross the $100 million mark in the US Disney's refusal to let Miramax release it actually contributed to the film's great success. -
Youtube
The popular video-sharing website offered visitors user-generated video content alongside short clips from copyrighted movies, television shows and music videos. The site soon became the most prominent and popular participatory site for uploading, viewing, and sharing self-produced video clips. More and more, consumers were viewing ad-subsidized streaming video content from legal online sources and new-media revenue streams. -
Viacom Paramount Pictres buys Dreamworks
The stand-alone studio's demise marked the end of a Hollywood era, although it had reached a creative peak in 1998-2001 when its most popular and critically-successful films were released, including Saving Private Ryan (1998), American Beauty (1999), Gladiator (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001) - and Shrek (2001) - they had three consecutive Best Picture winners beginning in 1999. DreamWorks ended its troubled 2 1/2 year partnership with Paramount in late 2008. -
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Social Media
Since social media's release, the film and television industry has gained a effective, easy way to market themselves. This strategy still is being used today -
March of the Penguins
cost $8 million to make and earned almost $78 million - it was the highest-grossing nature documentary, and the second-highest gross for a non-IMAX documentary. -
A History of Violence
the last major Hollywood motion picture to be released in VHS videotape cassette format -
Netflix
Netflix became the first subscription service to offer ad-free, legal video streaming of movies directly onto one’s computer screen. It also teamed up with consumer electronic companies to provide a range of devices that could instantly download films or TV shows (many from the largest networks like ABC, NBC and CBS) directly to Netflix members’ television sets -
Jackass 2.5
The first broadband movie ever distributed by a major studio was Paramount's prankster sequel Jackass 2.5 (2007), marking a new age of online-first movie distribution. -
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The Writer's Guild of America went on strike
After a stalemate in negotiations occurred with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Issues included increased compensation for the film and TV writers for DVD residuals and compensation for "new media" distribution. When the 3-month strike ended in mid-February 2008, it was estimated that it resulted in a total loss of $2.5 billion show-business. -
Fire at Universal Studios
A backlot fire at Universal Studios destroyed several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour. -
Iron Man
it was the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it's success marked the beginning of the "Golden Age" of superhero movies. -
Disney buys Marvel
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domestic movie ticket sales surpassed revenue from the purchase of DVDs
The recessionary economy and the current transitionary stage from DVDs to Blue-Ray and to video-on-demand digital downloads through Internet-enabled televisions, were partially accountable for the reversal. -
Paranormal Activity
Filmed in 2007 in only ten days, it was budgeted at only $15,000. Grossed $7.9 million in box-office revenue, breaking the record for highest grossing weekend ever for a film playing in less than 200 theaters. It went on to become a surprise box office hit, due in part to a grassroots Internet campaign that included a "Tweet Your Scream" promotion. It eventually made estimated earnings of $107.9 million (to date), an almost 720K% return on investment. -
Avatar
the highest grossing (domestic) film of 2009 - and of the decade. It became only the fifth film in movie history to exceed $1 billion in worldwide grosses, and did so in less than 3 weeks. -
Disney buys Lucasfilm
