Nicole Leone asked:


Ahoy There Mates! A Pirates Birthday Party is Fun!

Most little boys go through a swashbuckler period when they love everything to do with pirates. With the popularity of the Johnny Depp Pirates of the Caribbean movies, little boys and girls love to play pretend pirates.

Decorating Ideas

Gold, black and silver balloons will look great as will crepe paper in those colors as well. Hang pirate ship pictures and include some toy parrots for an authentic feel. Why not get a big, inflatable parrot to be the mascot. Have the kids dress up as pirates or provide them with hats, eye patches and vests. Don’t forget to include a sword for each. We have great foam pirate sword crafts so that each child can create their own unique sabers. You may even want to supply some plastic hooks for kids to use as their arms just like Captain Hook.

The invitation can be bought or created. You can make a treasure map of your house, keeping the clues simple and hide things for the children to find. This will be a great activity whether indoors or out.

Tables can be decorated with gold confetti and gold coins. You can use treasure mat placemats. In the middle of the table, get a treasure chest and fill it with trinkets such as colorful beads, and colorful crinkled paper to give a really authentic look.

Serve drinks out of bottles with Poison on them with XXX. Maybe have an inexpensive scope for each of the kids. You can have them walk the plank to a treasure chest piñata filled with lots of goodies. Play music that brings to mind the days of pirates, perhaps a soundtrack from a favorite pirate movie.

Have the kids watch a movie such as Hook or Pirates of the Caribbean. They will begin acting the part of the pirate as they watch their favorite characters onscreen. Have a pirate trivia contest where the kids can win some prizes.

Food Suggestions

Have children create their own pizzas using Boboli or English muffins. Give them plenty of toppings such as pepperoni, grated cheese, and crumbled sausage. Kids love burgers and hotdogs too, and of course a pirate themed cake and ice cream is always a welcome addition.

Other Ideas

Have a pirate parade in the backyard, take digital pictures and present each child with a picture before leaving. Get affordable picture frames and decorate them with pirate paraphernalia. There is no end to the fun that can be had at a pirate themed party. Not only will boys love it, but little girls too. Use imagination and creativity and come up with some great ideas the kids will enjoy. Get dressed as a pirate yourself and join in the fun!

Victor Epand asked:


A production house refers to a company that is in charge for the development and production of films. In some cases the production house may also be responsible for raising the funds for the film. Sometimes they also sell their products to a film studio or presenting it in a theatrical venue.

In the recent times we will find that the actors, directors, producers, writers of Hollywood have started opening their own production houses because of the fact that this gives them a good opportunity of controlling their careers. Let us go through the details of these production houses of Hollywood.

In the late 1960s Francis Ford Coppola started American Zoetrope, which was considered as an early adoption of digital filmmaking. The studio had produced the films of renowned filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, etc. In fact four films produced by this production house are included in the list of top100 film by American Film Institute. Till date the films that have been produced by American Zoetrope have received fifteen Academy Awards and sixty-eight nominations.

Columbia Pictures Industries is an American production and distribution house that is a part of Columbia Tristar Motion Picture group. This production house was established in 1924 and is working in collaboration with MGM movie studio. In the year 1989 the electronic giant Sony bought Columbia Pictures. Sony spent nearly 100 million dollar and started off with Sony pictures studio. Some of the films that come under the Columbia Pictures are Batman and Robin, The Legend of Zorro, Spiderman, Anaconda, etc.

Paramount Pictures Corporation based in Hollywood, California was founded in 1912 and is one of the oldest running production houses of America. Paramount was the first successful nation wide distributor. The year 1980 and 1990 proved to be a fortune for Paramount Pictures because it generated hits like Flash dance, Raiders of the lost Ark, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Mission Impossible, etc.

Warner Brother Entertainment is the third oldest American production house meant for both film and television. In the late 1990, the Warner Brother obtained the rights to the vastly popular Harry Potter novels. The feature film adaptations were released in 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005. The final adaptations will be released in the year 2010.

A Band Apart, was a production house created by a number of famous and acclaimed movie directors. The name of the production company was derived from a play on the French New Wave classic by a filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. The members of this production house include Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, John Woo, Tim Burton, Steve Buscemi and John Landis. Producer Lawrence Bender was a cofounder of the company and presently owns and runs the business. The movies produced by this production house include Kill Bill, From Dusk till Dawn, Four Fictions, and Pulp Fiction, etc.

Taking a look at this list one can gauge the importance of production houses of Hollywood. Probably without their existence Hollywood would not have been able to organize and make movies.