Nonetheless, part of the tragedy of Enron's collapse--and part of many compelling business movies--is the average Joe's often-futile quest for the American Dream.
If Amazon is getting deeper into the content distribution business (the site already sells digital downloads of movies and TV shows), that could be good news for Hollywood, according to BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield.
Ah, the emotional truth, the heart of what is arguably one of the greatest movies of all time and also happens to be about business.
"We watch business movies with our own goals in mind, " says Jack Boozer , an associate professor at Georgia State University and author of Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique (University of Texas Press, 2002).
The technology promises to morph Apple from the business of simply selling gadgets and music and movies that can be played on those devices into an intermediary in all kinds of exchanges.
The popular culture, ranging from Hollywood movies to pulp novels, invariably regards business as the font of all evil.
But when they say the film rental business has "faced increased competition from internet-based providers along with the shift to digital streaming of movies and games", that's accountants' under-statement.
We also have specialists in records and movies who enrich our overall knowledge of the entertainment business.
The business model differs from that of traditional video rental stores that typically let customers pick movies from an available physical library of titles.
Until CGI gets much better actors are necessary to make movies: thus much of the possible profit of the movie business ends up in the pockets of those few actors who are indispensable.
For Mamet, the movies aren't just a business but a culture, and therefore a way of thinking.
In another model being pushed by incumbents in the in-flight entertainment business, airlines install a plane-wide content-streaming system with an array of movies, TV shows, games and other content, generally alongside broader Internet access.
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Though she fulfills the rules of the genre, with a more or less chronological guided tour through the sites (in France and elsewhere) and the sights (her movies, photographs, and art projects) of her life, her main order of business is love.
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