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?
List of movie genres. This is kind of important because we can start to see what types of movies are in and what aren't. You start to see that a lot of movies have all of these genre's now, they are mixes to meet a variety of audience.
I think it's interesting to read this article because it tell how much a movie star get pay. In the book, it mention that movie star only get pay about $5 to $15 weekly salaries. However, nowadays it has change, movie stars get pay more than this.
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.
Universal Pictures is one of the big six companies. Recently they made it to the top of the list on IMDB with their movie "Despicable Me 2". Also starting to notice a trend where a lot of movies are focused toward the younger audience such as children, teens, and young adults. That seems to be where most of the film income is made. Why?
An article about drinking buddies that was released in theaters and via VOD, the movie doesn't really matter but its interesting to see more movies releasing not only in theaters but in our homes on the same day.