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Flopped image. In photography and graphic arts a flopped image is a static or moving image that is generated by a reversal of an original image across a vertical axis, as in a conventional mirror image. This is opposed to a flipped image, which means an image reversed across a horizontal axis. Flopping can be used to improve the subjective ...
In the film and media industry, if a film released in theatres fails to break even by a large amount, it is considered a box-office bomb (or box-office flop), thus losing money for the distributor, studio, and/or production company that invested in it. Due to the secrecy surrounding costs and profit margins in the film industry, figures of ...
Swing Vote is a 2008 American comedy-drama film about an entire U.S. presidential election determined by the vote of one man. It was directed by Joshua Michael Stern, and stars Kevin Costner, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci, George Lopez and Madeline Carroll. The film was released on August 1, 2008.
Budget. $9 million. Box office. $16.4 million [1] New York, New York is a 1977 American romantic musical film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Earl Mac Rauch and Mardik Martin, based on a story by Rauch. John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote several songs for the film, including "New York, New York" which became a global phenomenon.
Casino (1995 film) Casino is a 1995 epic crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, adapted by Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi from the latter's nonfiction book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas.[ 5 ] It stars Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Don Rickles, Kevin Pollak, and James Woods. The film was the eighth collaboration between ...
Scarface is a 1983 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, and starring Al Pacino. [ 6 ] It is a remake of the 1932 film of the same name, [ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ] in turn based on the novel of the same name first published in 1930 by Armitage Trail. [ 7 ][ 10 ][ 9 ] It tells the story of Cuban refugee Tony Montana ...
Body swaps, first popularized in Western Anglophone culture by the personal identity chapter of John Locke 's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, [1] have been a common storytelling device in fiction media. Novels such as Vice Versa (1882) [2] and Freaky Friday (1972) [3] have inspired numerous film adaptations and retellings, as well as ...
The end of the movie (an homage to VH1's Pop-Up Video) reveals that the song becomes a hit for Cora and Alex, the film version of Sloan's novel flops with critics and moviegoers (destroying his career), PoP! reunites for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, after which their lead singer Colin Thompson (who left the band with ...