Scholastic Update articles from May 1995

Scholastic Update archives from May 1995

The power of Hollywood.(summer movies aimed at teenagers)(Cover Story)
May 5, 1995... The power, the glamour, the junk! Hollywood is rolling out its summer movies as it prepares to do battle for the teenage audience. The end of another school year is just around the corner, and you probably can't wait for that summer outing at...

Monetary Kombat: the inside story of how Hollywood makes and markets a movie for teenagers.(Cover Story)
May 5, 1995... This summer, a band of Earth's greatest martial artists, led by the mighty Thunder God Rayden, will journey to a mysterious island somewhere in the South China Sea. There, in a shadowy arena, they'll face alien combatants from Outworld, commanded...

Sex, violence and the ratings.(moral aspects of movies)
May 5, 1995... Did you see Basic Instinct, the 1992 thriller starring Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas? If you did, critics say, you've seen everything that's wrong with Hollywood today. According to its critics, the film is packed with violence; it...

Movie madness.(history of motion pictures)
May 5, 1995... In 1927, millions of Americans paid their 30 cents, entered a lavish movie palace, and witnessed a modern miracle. Al Jolson, who played the title character in a musical called The Jazz Singer, opened his mouth and uttered an audible sentence....

Hollywood rules.(international influence of American movies)
May 5, 1995... Every Saturday night, moviegoers in Paris crowd the sidewalks in front of the cinemas on the Champs-Elysees, where they wait in long lines to see the latest blockbusters sweeping France: Forrest Gump and The Lion King. From Bangkok to Berlin,...

Talking back.(teenagers' views on movies)
May 5, 1995... Every year Hollywood devotes millions of dollars very lucrative goal: getting you to the movies. Film execs decide what young people want to see and then produce big-budget movies full of violence, high-tech gadgets, and teenage rebellion. Teens...