Disney-Pixar’s 3D computer-animated film, Toy Story 3, topped the list of the top-earning movies released for summer 2010 and became the first animated movie to pass the $1 billion mark and became the seventh film to do so at the worldwide box office. Toy Story 3 is the third film of the Toy Story series produced by Pixar Animation Studio and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is also the second film from Walt Disney Pictures to reach $1 billion in a year, after Alice In Wonderland, and marked the first time for a studio to have two billion-dollar films within just a single year.
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The Beginnings of Moviemaking in the United States
The Great Train Robbery was a film made in 1903 and was the first American film that had a story to tell its audience. It was made by Edwin S. Porter and it lasted for eight minutes. This was a silent movie and had a "cops and robbers" plot, like a lot of films that followed it. Printed subtitles were eventually added to the silent movies in 1912. These subtitles were flashed together with the action scenes to help the audience understand what was happening. In order to add more drama and excitement to the scenes, an untiring pianist would play throughout the movie. He would switch from fast music for exciting or dramatic numbers to a more sentimental and slow music as the mood of the picture changed...
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Bit Torrent and Hollywood, where are movies and P2P headed?
While Hollywood delivers summer flops instead of money makers, i.e. Mission Impossible 3 and Poseidon, savvy people in the entertainment business seem to be moving ever closer to changing the way we go to the movies. Bram Cohen, the founder and inventor of the Bit Torrent application, which enables extremely fast downloads of large files, like movies,..
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