Secondary Research | Final Task

Hollywood is one of the biggest film industries in the world and is known as the ‘movie capital of the world’. The film industry produces the worlds best movies and best directors and producers of all time. However the future of film is changing in terms of the way films are produced and shown to the audiences. Hollywood produces all types of films but these films always have a enormous budget, which generally results in a blockbuster. Compared to the television industry, the budget is so much they can afford to splash out the cash in many areas. This is not just included in the production process but also the marketing, CGI of the movie, for example.

There are 6major film studios in America that make the most revenue in films. The top 6 are: Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Sony, Warner Brothers & Universal. 

Each institution aim to be unique from the others (this is why they are all so successful!) By doing this they decide on a target audience and produce films based on what they expect their audience to like. For example, 20th Century Fox mainly focuses on producing media texts for Teenagers and Young Adults. However due to their establishment and growth they have expanded into the markets that contain different types of audiences

The Money in a Movie: Hunger Games

Production company: Color Force

Distribution: Lionsgate

Director: Gary Ross

Budget: $78million

Worldwide grosses: $691million 

Starring

Jennifer Lawerece

Josh Hutcherson

The Hunger Games hit profit in the first day of Box Office. Due to the vast popularity of the movie, many of the actresses and actors, mainly Jennifer Lawrence had a pay increase from 500k to $10million for the next film.

Here shows the top grossing films of all time for Thriller - On the Run films. The top ten have made over $100million, and nearly all of them are produced by an American institute. Including a worldwide gross will almost double every films profit, which shows their popularity and establishment. Safe House (2012) made over $126million in domestic gross, and just short of $208million in worldwide sales. Films like Safe House, come under the genre of Action/Thriller, and by looking at the sales of multiple thriller films it is very clear that this genre is popular and marketable.

I also visited the website Pearl & Dean. This website differs from box office mojo and you can see in detail the viewers of a specific film, such as the percentage in age or gender. For example, the film 'Enemy' shows all of the viewing figures on the website. It says that there is a 65% viewing from males and 35% form females. Due to this film being a thriller/crime this is perfect for the development into our opening sequence as it gives us a gauge to what target audience we need to base our film on. It also shows that people from 15-24 has the most viewing figures.