Film Industry Keywords

• Production: in production the film is created and shot. The film is assembled by the film editor and it is released to the cinemas and DVD.


• Distribution: is when a company or individual is responsible for releasing films to the public either theatrically or for home viewing.


• Marketing: is a campaign to maximize revenue early in the release cycle, trailers are used, television and radio to advertise, internet to advertise, posters, merchandise(promotional giveaways) and promotional tours.


• Audience: The people who buy or consume a media text .


• Institution: The organisation that create the films.


• Digital: the use of digital technology to distribute and project films. A film can be distributed via hard drives such as DVDs or satellite and projected using a digital projector.


• Ownership: a major film studio that releases a substantial numbe of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box-office revenues in the film market. The big-six majors are based in around Hollywood.


• Convergence: it is technologies coming together for example a mobile phonethat can be used as a image camera, download and watch moving images, use as an MP3 player, access the internet and use as a phone.


• Synergy: is two agents working together to produce something unattainable by any agents independently. E.g Universal pictures working with Miramax Films to produce Bridget Jones Diary.


• New Technologies: are contemporary advances and inovation in various fields of technology. Various converging technologies have in the technological convergence of different systems evolving towards similar goals.


• Hardware: is a general term for the physical artefacts of a technology.

The life of a film: The Wolfman

The Wolfman is a 2010 American remake of the 1941 classic werewolf horror film of the same name. It was directed by Joe Johnston and produced by Scott Stuber, Benicio del Toro , Rick Yorn and Sean Daniel.

Upon Lawrence Talbot's (Benicio del Toro) return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.

Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. His father sent him from the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor to an insane asylum, then he goes to America. When his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns to his father's estate to learn that his brother's mauled body has been found. Reunited with his estranged father, Lawrence sets out to find his brother's killer... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Someone or something with brute strength and insatiable blood lust has been killing the villagers, and a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline comes to investigate.

This film was distributed by Universal Pictures. The budget was $150 million and the gross was $139,789,765.

The Wolfman was distributed in 52 countries. Some of them are Italy, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, New Zealand, Brazil, UK, Canada, India,Indonesia, Egypt, Japan, Turkey and Singapore.

The film grossed $19, 850,000 in its opening day and $31,479, 235 in its opening weekend, coming in third at the box office. The film would show at the 02 because it a classic remake of the 1941 werewolf hoorror film so, because of its international significance it would show at the 02.

This film is available on DVD and on Blu-ray it was released in the US June 1, 2010 and in UK on June 14, 2010. Both editions include the theatrical version and the new director's cut, which incorprates 17 minutes of footage back into the film.

Universal pictures is a subsidiary of NBC Universal Television Distribution.

Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (sometimes called Universal City Studios or Universal Studios for short), a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios.

Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle,[1] it is one of the oldest American movie studios still in continuous production. On May 11, 2004, the controlling stake in the company was sold by Vivendi Universal to General Electric, parent of NBC.[2] The resulting media super-conglomerate was renamed NBC Universal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. In addition to owning a sizable film library spanning the earliest decades of cinema to more contemporary works, it also owns a sizable collection of TV shows through its subsidiary NBC Universal Television Distribution. It also acquired rights to several prominent filmmakers' works originally released by other studios through its subsidiaries over the years.

Universal has distributed over 2000 films since 1920.

The Millionaire (1921)

Frankenstein (1931)

The Wolfman(1941)

Touch of Evil (1958)

The Appaloosa (1966)

Diary of a mad Housewife (1970)

The Railway children (1971)

Battlestar Galactica (1979)

E.T the Extra Terrestial (1982)

Village of the Damned(1995)

The Nutty Professor (1996)

The Fast and the Furious (2001)

The Chronicles of the Ridicck (2004)

You, me and Dupree (2006)

Hellboy II (2008)

Leap Year (2010)

Case study- St Trinian's

This is the poster for the St Trinian's film released in the UK. It was directed and produced by Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson. It was released on 10 December 2007 in the UK. St Trinian's grossed 12,042,854 in the UK, surpassing its £7 million production budget. Funding for this film had to be borrowed from America because this film was also relwased in America and a poster was made. The UK poster only has three actors names;Rupert Everett, Colin Firth and Lena Headey. This is because these actors are the most popular in the UK and are more appealing to the UK audience. This poster also has a little bubble where there's soundtrack made by the girl band Girl's Aloud, again this appeals to he UK audience because this band are based in he Uk and most people in the UK will know them.

This is the poster for the St Trinian film released in America. It was directed and produced by Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson. It was released in the US on the 21 December 2007. In this poster the main actors names are Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Lena Headey, Russell Brand and Mischa Barton. In this poster Rusell Brand was added because he was getting known and becoming famous in America also they included him to attract the US audience. Also, they have included the US actor Mishcha Barton also to atract the US audience and because she is originally a US actor. The poster also has an action feel to it the colours and the effects coming from behind the actors show brightness and action.