Film Industry

Film Industry

Who's currently on top?
Frozen II as they have the greatest worldwide gross ($922,444,155)

What film is the most successful worldwide in 2019?
Avenger: Endgame ($2,797,800,564)

What films are the most successful worldwide in 2019?
Below Endgame, it was Lion King, Spiderman: Far from home, Captain Marvel, Toy story 4, Joker, Aladdin & Frozen 2

Production- the costs of production reached £200 million
Distribution-Based in the USA
Exhibition
Marketing
Regulation- Regulated by BBFC
Vertigo films: Horrid Henry

Production- Do not have a budget (not as technical as a 20th-century fox)
Distribution-based in the UK
Exhibition
Marketing- by an independent company
Regulation- Regulated by BBFC


-The Lego Movie uses the tent pole idea of tent-pole production

Tent-pole - A film which is expected to generate a lot of income for a studio, income from tent-pole can fund other releases (tent-pole supports a tent)

-Warner Bros. is a conglomerate

-The Lego Movie funded other film releases and it got the producer (Dan Lin) recognition and success

-UK own film and because of its success it was then distributed

-Targeted at British audience with British humour but it was so successful they made it globally available

-There was tension between LEGO and Warner Bros. because they both used the film to promote their own products


Postmodernism

-Challenges genre conventions and hybridising
(mixing genres appeals to more of a mass audience)
(in sequels they have more to build off e.g. exploring love relationship)

-Challenge typical character roles
(Emmet as average hero)
(Wyldstyle is the strongest of the group and she's female)
(Batman isn't as heroic

Pastiche - imitates/has similarities with other films, books etc. and has a humorous take on serious issues
(intertextuality with the matrix with a similar narrative and gives the message that you don't have to conform to rules and be individual)

Hyper-reality - makes the audience aware that they are watching a movie (breaking the forth wall)
(talking to audience like in Fleabag or Deadpool)