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Ex.2. Complete the extracts with words from the list. (Look at all the extracts before completing the gaps. Each word is used once only).




 

a) power с) receipts e) success

b) failure d) records f) disasters

 

1) After a promising debut in Desperately Seeking Susan, she has bombed in a string of
box office _________ including Who's that Girl and Shanghai Surprise.

 

2) Hollywood studios have yet to experience their first black-directed box office _________,

which will test their willingness to entrust big budgets to black directors.

 

3) There is still an elite of untouchables who can charge what they like. Top of this list is Arnold

Scwarzenegger who is trusted to bring in $100 million in box office with his action movies.

 

4) The gunfight itself, six minutes long, took 44 hours to film. A substantial box-office , Gunfight at OK Corral changed Hollywood's perception of the Western's potential.

 

5) Peter O'Toole, for example, could fill a theatre by reading his gas bill. The theatre needs such actors because they combine the highest artistic standards with box office_______________.

 

6) Child star Macaulay Culkin smashed all box office when his film Home Alone II took £25 million in its first live days.

 

Films buffs and cult movies

 

film buff cult movie cult film art movie art film art house art house movie art house film

 

A film buff is someone who likes films a lot and knows a lot about them.

A cult movie or cult film is one that perhaps not many people know about but that has a devoted band of followers who watch and discuss it repeatedly.

An art film, art movie, art house film or art house movie is one with artistic ambitions, and may be shown in the type of cinema known as an art house. These 'art' terms are mainly used by the media, and sometimes show disapproval.

Art house is also spelt with a hyphen

 

The novel was filmed as 'Night of the Eagle' in 1062 featuring Peter Wyngarde as a college professor. It was not much regarded at the time, but has since become a cult movie.

 

There was an implied disdain for film buffs and art movies in Shone's piece: I would remind him that 'La Dolce Vita' was one of the highest-grossing popular films made in Italy at the time, and is still the highest-grossing foreign language film ever released in the US.

 

'I hope it's an art film in the way that 'Vertigo' is an art film,' he says. 'I'm not afraid of the word 'art'.

 

You wouldn't see the amounts of money spent on these films lavished on an art movie.

 

Interscope has specialized in medium-budget commercial movies, avoiding both art house movies and huge blockbusters.

 

The book teeters on the verge of the overtly pretentious in its art-house movie atmosphere.

 


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