this is a PDF talking about the economic impact the film ( and television ) industry has in our world, will be useful for talking about the future paths we might take with the film industry.
IN our book it says that usually 80 to 90 percent of movies fail to make a profit. So what are qualities of a successful movie? Article gives a brief overview.
Brief Discussion about what is taken to account in production costs. For the film to make money, they have a profit more than their costs. SO what are film industries doing now to attract people to watch their movies now? 3D movies? animation? story line? actors?
This link has imortant informationa and variety of ideas going through hollywood's studios. From making money in the future to showing how ot cost production costs. Excellnt source.
Here film giant Paramount found out that the $1 redbox rentals had minimal effects on DVD sales. Also, this tells us some information about how media giants struck deals with movie kioseks and streaming services to generate money.
This website has some good information about the history of drive in theaters through out different generations. From begining of the 30s to the 2000s, drive-in theaters still exist for the public.
This link shows some of the victims of file-sharing and illegally downloading copy-righted material from online. Hollywood tried to make examples of some individuals with hefty fines.
It could well be argued, however, that motion-picture companies’ corporate links with the wider media world and emergent communications forms such as the Internet fostered receptivity to new technologies that rapidly transformed film production in the 1990s and into the 21st century.
In the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, the idea of "synergy" dominated the motion-picture industry in the United States, and an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions pursued this ultimately elusive concept.