the film industry summary

The American film industry:

The American film industry is controlled by the big six- Warner brothers, 20^th century fox, Walt Disney, Universal pictures, Paramount, Columbia pictures.

They make up 90% of the total film industry. All of the company’s are owned by bigger companies called a conglomerate and they have other smaller companies that allow them to make films easier.

They all use either vertical or horizontal, vertical means doing all parts of the film apart from the showing of the film. Horizontal means that the whole company is used all at the same time so that they can do advertising, music and other parts of the making process as fast as possible. 

Oligopoly: where the market is dominated by a few companies.

Subsidiary: smaller arms of the conglomerate.

Synergy: promotion and sale of a product throughout the subsidiaries

Convergence: bringing together different parts of the conglomerate.

The British film industry:

Is made up of another 6 main companies that are either independent or television companies. The two biggest independent companies are big talk pictures: Paul and working title films: Billy Elliot.

Then there are four television companies these are film 4: east is east. BBC films: the damned united. Ecosse films: Mrs Brown. Uk film council: kidulthood. Most of their films that are gritty or black comedy.