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In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...
It made $3.9 million on its first day (including $900,000 from Thursday night previews at 1,850 theaters), and ended up making $11 million over the weekend, finishing fourth, behind Black Panther, Game Night, and Peter Rabbit. [3] Its second weekend, the film's box office total dropped 49% to $5.9 million, falling to 6th place. [48]
One market niche Polaroid promoted was the field of industrial testing, where the camera would record, for example, the destruction of a pipe under pressure. This type of use was moderately price-insensitive, with the ability to get the images quickly (thus reducing wasted crew time) a very positive selling feature.
400 Days is a 2015 American science fiction film written and directed by Matt Osterman and starring Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz, Ben Feldman, and Dane Cook (also serving as executive producer) as astronauts sent on a 400-day-long simulated mission to a distant planet, to test the psychological effects of deep space travel. In the United States ...
Firelight was made on a budget of $500 (equivalent to $4,912 in 2023) and was shown at his local cinema in Phoenix, Arizona. [ 4 ] The film follows a mysterious alien encounter and invasion; Spielberg would return to the subject with Firelight as inspiration for his third major film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977.
Empire was shot on ASA 400 Tri-X stock, push-processed to ASA 1000 to compensate for the dark conditions of filming. [7] The push-processing gives the film a graininess that calls attention to the medium of the film stock itself during projection in a manner that Douglas Crimp compared to the way that ink in Warhol's silkscreen paintings is ...
The Clock is a film by video artist Christian Marclay.It is a looped 24-hour video supercut (montage of scenes from film and television) that feature clocks or timepieces. . The artwork itself functions as a clock: its presentation is synchronized with the local time, resulting in the time shown in a scene being the actual t
The Darkest Hour is a 2011 science fiction action film [5] directed by Chris Gorak from a screenplay by Jon Spaihts and produced by Timur Bekmambetov. The film stars Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor, and Joel Kinnaman as a group of people caught in an alien invasion. The film was released on December 25, 2011 in the ...