Soon, a number of movie companies worked there year-round and, in 1911, Dwan began working part-time in Hollywood.

On November 22, 2010, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Warner Bros. had picked up the movie rights to the remake.

This factor is a natural outcome of Hollywood script development which wishes to highlight one or two major characters which can be played by major stars, and thus a good way of marketing the movie is established but that rings false upon examination.

A significant factor in the popularization of costume jewelry was the Hollywood movie.

In Hollywood movie Transformers when the Defense Purpose electronic communication fails ( mainly due to interference of the villain entities ) an officer tries to place a call back home through commercial network, but fails to get through the typical Indian call center, mainly due to the over-zealous salesmanship of the Indian operator who is more interested in advertising their new package than putting the call through.

According to The Hollywood Reporter < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s annual Star Salary Top 10, she was tied for eighth place on the top ten list of actresses ' salaries, commanding 10 to 12 million dollars per movie for 2006.

He went to Hollywood the next year to appear in the show's movie version at RKO, which starred Lucille Ball.

Conversely, BBC critic Mark Kermode believes that " the movie industries of Britain and America are inextricably intertwined ", citing numerous examples of how Hollywood provides work to British production staff and studios, whilst Britain enables Hollywood to base their prestigious productions at UK studios.

As noted above, however, most of the Hollywood films now considered classic noirs fall into the broad category of the " B movie ".

The following year, a whirlwind of rumors flew around Hollywood that Busey had been fired from horror movie Mansion of Blood from Elusive Entertainment.

In fact, Conley says, " The Producers were so happy with Gary's performance that they even called a " press conference " arranged by the movie's unit publicist, Liz Rodriguez, held by her and the " Mansion " producer team from historical Hollywood & Highland to officially exonerate Gary of any allegations that he had been fired and praised Gary's performance in the upcoming movie.

George Weiss, a Hollywood producer of low-budget films, commissioned a movie to exploit it.

Hollywood dramas used horror themes, including versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ) and The Monster ( 1925 ) both starring Lon Chaney, the first American horror movie star.

Jaws is often credited as being one of the first films to use traditionally B movie elements such as horror and mild gore in a big-budget Hollywood film.

In this Hollywood back-story movie, Bogart again is the broken-down man, this time the cynical director-narrator who saves his career by making a star of a flamenco dancer Ava Gardner, modeled on the real life of Rita Hayworth.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for television and has made several movie appearances as himself.

Opened by Charlton Heston and introduced by Frank Sinatra, the ceremony was attended by so many Hollywood stars — said to be more than for any event in history — that one columnist wrote at the time that a bomb in the dining room would have brought about the end of the movie industry.

This film was financed by Archibald MacLeish, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Lillian Hellman, Luise Rainer, Dudley Nichols, Franchot Tone and other Hollywood movie stars, moguls, and writers who composed a group known as the Contemporary Historians.

Frankenheimer's first theatrical film was The Young Stranger ( 1957 ), starring James MacArthur as the rebellious teenage son of a powerful Hollywood movie producer.

In 1976, he appeared for the last time in a motion picture, playing a movie crewman who is fired by a movie mogul, played by Art Carney, in Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, and he also made his final public appearance in that year when he was inducted into the Body Building Guild Hall of Fame.

From 1933-1947 Hollywood produced three talking films: Fighting with Kit Carson, a serial ( 1933 ), revised as a single movie: The Return of Kit Carson ( 1947 ); Overland with Kit Carson ( 1939 ); and Kit Carson ( 1940 ), starring Jon Hall in the title role.

* In Terry Bisson's Voyage to the Red Planet ( 1990 ), the first expedition to Mars is organized by a Hollywood producer so he can film a science fiction movie on location.

In many Asian countries, major Hollywood studios ( and Asian home video distributors ) have licensed companies to officially produce and distribute the VCDs, such as MCA Home Video in Pakistan, ERA of Hong Kong, Sunny Video in Malaysia, Vision in Indonesia, CVD International and Pacific Marketing and Entertainment Group in Thailand, Excel Home Videos in India, Berjaya-HVN and InnoForm Media in both Malaysia and Singapore, Scorpio East Entertainment in Singapore, as well as VIVA Video, Magnavision, and The Video to C in the Philippines.

Brown took his completed film to several Hollywood studio distributors but was rejected because they did not think it would have mainstream appeal.

They were spurred on by established Hollywood producers and distributors who were tightening their control over actor salaries and creative decisions, a process that evolved into the rigid studio system.

The Motion Picture Association of America ( and the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America before it ) cooperated with censorship boards and grassroots organizations in the hope of preserving the image of a " clean " Hollywood, but the distributors of exploitation film operated outside of this circuit and often welcomed controversy as a form of free promotion.

Hollywood distributors adopt a hard-headed business approach and consider factors such as the film genre, the target audience, the historical success of similar films, the actors who might appear in the film, and potential directors.

As of 2011, Starz, Encore and their respective multiplex movie channels have exclusive first-run premium cable rights to films from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ( including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures ), Sony Pictures Entertainment ( including Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, Screen Gems, TriStar Pictures ), Overture Films ( also owned by Starz ' parents, Liberty Media and The Weinstein Company ), Anchor Bay Entertainment, Yari Film Group, and Warren Miller Films, among other leading distributors.

* Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 327 U. S. 251 ( 1946 ), where the Supreme Court held that major Hollywood distributors had engaged in an antitrust conspiracy preventing certain independent movie houses from showing first run films.

As of 2011, Encore ( through Starz ) has exclusive first-run premium cable rights to films from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ( including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures ), Sony Pictures Entertainment ( including Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, Screen Gems, TriStar ), Overture Films ( also owned by Starz ' parents, Liberty Media and The Weinstein Company ), Anchor Bay Entertainment, Yari Film Group, and Warren Miller Films, among other leading distributors.

Except for a few months he would spend in Clinton, Wisconsin, following his divorce, and his time in Hollywood while he was the head of TSR's entertainment division, Lake Geneva would be his home for the rest of his life.

Stone remembers, " I was warned by everyone in Hollywood that Michael couldn't act, that he was a producer more than an actor and would spend all his time in his trailer on the phone ".

From the early days of her career, Garbo avoided the social functions in Hollywood, preferring to spend her time alone or with friends.

In February, 2004, Mattel announced a split for Ken and Barbie, with Russell Arons, vice president of marketing at Mattel, saying that Barbie and Ken " feel it's time to spend some quality time – apart ... Like other celebrity couples, their Hollywood romance has come to an end ", though Arons indicated that the duo would " remain friends ".

During this period, Van Sant began to spend time observing the denizens of the more down-and-out sections of Hollywood Boulevard.

Initially, he arranged to split his sentence and spend 18 days in jail during 24's winter break in late December and early January 2008 ; the Hollywood writers ' strike interrupted production, allowing him to serve his sentence in 48 consecutive days.

From this point on he would spend most of his life in Hollywood.

Based on the 1929 Vicki Baum novel and play, Menschen im Hotel ( People in a Hotel ), and the subsequent 1932 MGM feature film, the musical focuses on events taking place over the course of a weekend in an elegant hotel in 1928 Berlin and the intersecting stories of the eccentric guests of the hotel, including a fading prima ballerina ; a fatally ill Jewish bookkeeper, who wants to spend his final days living in luxury ; a young, handsome, but destitute Baron ; a cynical doctor ; and a typist dreaming of Hollywood success.

During the 1950s, he only worked on two Broadway musicals — choreographing Make a Wish in 1951 and directing, staging and starring in 3 For Tonight in 1955 — preferring to spend most of his time in Hollywood.

After writing ( along with Keenan Ivory Wayans ), producing, directing, and starring in his first film Hollywood Shuffle, Robert Townsend had attained near-cult status among independent filmmakers due to his dedication to that film — a project which caused him to max out all his credit cards and spend nearly $ 100, 000 of his own money raised through savings and various acting jobs in order to produce the film.

The digger, thrusting about with his shovel, now raised into view a package crudely wrapped in one of the murderer's Hollywood sport shirts.

The first awards were presented on May 16, 1929, at a private brunch at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people.

cosmetics, Morris told the TV program Access Hollywood that she was aware of her apparent consideration for the role and was excited about it.

The scholar Kenneth Billingsley found that Trumbo wrote The Daily Worker about films which he said communist influence in Hollywood had prevented from being made: among them were proposed adaptations of Arthur Koestler's anti-totalitarian works Darkness at Noon and The Yogi and the Commissar, which described the rise of communism in Russia.

During the McCarthy Era in 1947, when US Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin claimed that the federal government and other institutions were riddled with Communists, the US House began hearings about purported communist influence in Hollywood.

" Many studio heads agreed nor did they want negative feelings about Hollywood to be instilled in political leaders.

Various rumors about the reasons behind his dismissal circulated throughout Hollywood.

It was an open secret in Hollywood that Cukor was homosexual, although he was discreet about his sexual orientation and " never carried it as a pin on his lapel ", as producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz put it.

" Maybe nobody in Hollywood ever heard of the Shubert Theatre in New York, but everybody certainly knows about the Mercury Theatre in New York.

Brando made a similar comment on Larry King Live in April 1996, saying " Hollywood is run by Jews ; it is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of — of people who are suffering.

On April 4, 2006, Abdul filed a report at a Hollywood police station claiming she had been a victim of battery at a private party at about 1 a. m. April 2, according to L. A. P. D.

He was responding to coverage about whether Hollywood was responsible for school shootings.

Christopher Frayling, in his noted book on the Italian Western, describes American critical reception of the spaghetti Western cycle as, to " a large extent, confined to a sterile debate about the ' cultural roots ' of the American / Hollywood Western.

Under the rubric Profiles, it publishes articles about notable people such as Ernest Hemingway, Henry R. Luce and Marlon Brando, Hollywood restaurateur Michael Romanoff, magician Ricky Jay and mathematicians David and Gregory Chudnovsky.

Hollywood was instrumental in producing dozens of classic films during the 1940s, several of which were about the war and some are on most lists of all-time great films.

became the first Hollywood film to contain an entirely black cast, and Atlantic, a German film about the Titanic, was the first sound-on-film movie, signaling the beginning of the end for silent films.

Peckinpah became Akkad's mentor in Hollywood and hired him as a consultant for a film about the Algerian revolution that never made it to the big screen, but he continued to encourage him until he found a job as a producer at CBS.

" Martin reprised the song in Night and Day, a Hollywood film about Cole Porter, in which she played herself auditioning for Porter ( Cary Grant ).

In a January 1994 Premiere magazine interview about the film The River Wild, Kevin Bacon commented that he had worked with everybody in Hollywood or someone who's worked with them.

The climax of Weir's early career was the $ 6 million multi-national production The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1983 ), again starring Mel Gibson, playing opposite top Hollywood female lead Sigourney Weaver in a story about journalistic loyalty, idealism, love and ambition in the turmoil of Sukarno's Indonesia of 1965.

It has been suggested that remarks Burton made about blacklisting Hollywood while filming The Robe may have explained his failure to ever win an Oscar, despite receiving seven nominations.

As a response to an industry recession brought about by the popularity of television, the Hollywood studios turned to large format movies in order to regain audience attendance.

He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl.