‘It’s Just a Matter of Time’

2018 ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
Michael Blyth
Keyword(s):  
Film Production ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
New Ideas

This chapter discusses the cinematic horror landscape at the time John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness was first released, explaining why the film was so unfairly neglected in 1995. It is often acknowledged among horror fans that the early 1990s was not the strongest period in the genre's history. In fact, it has been argued that the first half of the decade represented one of the most significant lulls that US horror cinema has been witness to, with the volume of film production, box office takings, and overall audience interest hitting an all-time low. Of course, such lulls can only ever really come after a boom, and the previous decade had been a highly prolific and profitable time for the genre. But while the 1980s were littered with innovative horror classics, it is also recognised as the era of the sequel, a time when the franchise reigned supreme and horror cinema became less about striving for new ideas than the increasingly cynical (but lucrative) expansion of those which had come before. Ultimately, not only did In the Mouth of Madness debut during the closing moments of this significant horror depression, it came at a time when no one was expecting great things from its director.

The Italian Film Industry (1945–1985)

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Michael Guarneri
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Production History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Italian Film ◽  
Post War ◽  
Film Market ◽  
First Time

The chapter provides an overview of the history of the post-war Italian film industry from crisis to crisis, that is to say from the ground zero of 1945 (when the whole Italian film business had to be politically and economically reorganised, together with the rest of the war-torn country) to the ground zero of 1985 (the year in which, for the first time in almost three decades, Italian film production fell below the rate of 100 films made per year, as the culmination of a crisis that started in the mid-1970s). The chapter opens with an in-depth production history of I vampiri / Lust of the Vampire (Riccardo Freda, 1957), followed by an account of the 1958-1964 boom in the production of pepla, the historical-mythological adventures of the sword-and-sandal kind. Both cases (an isolated commercial failure the former; a short-lived box-office goldmine, or filone, the latter) are emblematic of the functioning of the Italian film industry between the early 1950s and the mid-1980s – a state-subsidised system mostly based on a constellation of medium, small and minuscule business ventures piggy-backing on popular genres/trends in the local and/or global film market.

Fight Club’s Production and Promotion

2012 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Mark Ramey
Keyword(s):  
Music Videos ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Big Business ◽  
Hollywood Film ◽  
Know How ◽  
David Fincher ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Fight Club ◽  
The World

This chapter identifies the key elements of Fight Club's transition from novel to film. Fight Club is in some ways a paradoxical film: both a product and a critique of big business. Fox and Regency, two big players in Hollywood film production, put 67 million dollars into Fight Club because the talent package was strong. They believed the film would do well — and despite a less-than-hoped-for initial box office run, they have been proved right. Emerging from the world of advertising and music videos, Fight Club's director David Fincher has now established himself as a modern-day auteur. The chapter then considers the performances of the film's cast, including Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It also comments on the marketing of the film. Fox did not know how to sell Fight Club and so seriously misjudged its marketing and release. Fincher's original and seditious concepts for the marketing were rejected for more conventional action-orientated fare, aimed at a male youth market. This backfired in the post-Columbine climate and failed to connect with the broader youth market, which has now found significance in the film and elevated it to cult status.

Blockbuster Outsourcing: Is There Really No Place Like Home?

Film Studies ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-93
Author(s):  
Marco Cucco
Keyword(s):  
Film Production ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Box Office Performance

The outsourcing of film shoots has long been adopted by US producers to cut costs and improve box-office performance. According to the academic literature, outsourcing is exploited mainly for low- and middle-budget films, but this article aims to demonstrate that blockbusters are also migrating towards other states and countries to take part in an even more competitive film location market. It investigates 165 blockbusters released between 2003 and 2013. The collected data show that blockbuster shoots are not an exclusive to California, but are re-drawing the map of film production in favour of an even more polycentric and polyglot audiovisual panorama.

English Gothic

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Bryan Turnock
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Horror Films ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Box Office ◽  
The World ◽  
Iconic Images ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter evaluates the British horror film industry. Given the country's input in the success of the Hollywood horror films of the 1930s, in terms of source material as well as technicians and actors, horror film production in Britain was remarkably slow to emerge. This was due in no small part to the stringent censorship rules of the British Board of Film Censorship/Classification (BBFC), who did their best to dissuade British studios from making such films. The chapter investigates how one studio took up the reins of the genre and went on to dominate it for almost two decades. Matched only by the golden age of Universal in the 1930s and 1940s, Hammer Films produced some of the genre's most iconic images and characters through dozens of productions, while breaking box-office records around the world. The chapter looks at Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), the company's first foray into the genre, one which would lay the foundations for their success and set the template for the English Gothic horror film as it flourished into the 1960s and 1970s.

The rise of domestic popular film production with new audience and changing industry structure: The case of popular cinema in Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 565-579
Author(s):  
Zeynep Cetin-Erus ◽  
Burcay Erus
Keyword(s):  
Industry Structure ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Popular Film ◽  
Popular Cinema ◽  
Popular Films ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Cultural Markets ◽  
Complex Development ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
Ticket Prices

Transformation of cultural markets is a complex development that relates to both the audience and the industry. During the last decade, domestic popular films in Turkey increased their share of box office significantly. This study analyses socio-economic developments along with monopolization of exhibition sector to understand the change. While factors such as higher income level, relatively lower ticket prices, higher proportion of population in education and urbanization created a new potential audience for domestic films, rise of a dominant player in exhibition sector broke the hegemony created by foreign distribution companies.

scholarly journals EMI and the ‘Pre-heritage’ Period Film

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-76
Author(s):  
Claire Monk
Keyword(s):  
Film Studies ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Industry Conditions ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
English Heritage

First coined in the UK in the early 1990s as a new label for an ostensibly new, post-1979 kind and cycle of period cinema, the ‘heritage film’ is now firmly established as a widely used term and category in academic film studies. Although the heritage film’s defining features, ideological character and ontological coherence would remain debated, its status as a ‘new’ category hinges, self-evidently, on the presumption that the films of post-1979 culturally English heritage cinema marked a new departure and were clearly distinct from their pre-Thatcher-era precursors. Yet, paradoxically, the British period/costume films of the preceding decade, the 1970s, have attracted almost no scholarly attention, and none which connects them with the post-1979 British heritage film, nor the 1980s cultural and industry conditions said to have fostered these productions with those of the 1970s. This article pursues these questions through the prism of Britain’s largest film production and distribution entity throughout 1970–86, EMI, and EMI’s place as a significant and sustained, but little-acknowledged, force in British period film production throughout that time. In so doing, the article establishes the case for studying ‘pre-heritage’ period cinema. EMI’s period film output included early proto-heritage films but also ventured notably wider. This field of production is examined within the broader terrain of 1970s British and American period cinema and within wider 1970s UK cinema box-office patterns and cultural trends, attending to commercial logics as well as to genre and the films' positioning in relation to the later heritage film debates.

scholarly journals Arte, cultura o entretenimiento en el cine: ¿Qué modelo cinematográfico prefieren los espectadores para tomar la decisión de asistir a ver una película?

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fernando Lozano Treviño
Keyword(s):  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Film Model ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Mexican Film ◽  
Para Determinar ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cultural Tools ◽  
Linear Regressions

Keywords: arts, consumption, entertainment, film production organizations, LozanoBarragan syndromeAbstract. This research paper has as main purpose to determine which film model is more convenient for the Mexican film production organizations in the search of increasing the possibilities of spectators to attend and watch their movies. The character that the films have as popular and academic arts and the elements that compose it is analyzed. We study the way in which motion pictures work as cultural tools. We highlight the importance of movies as an entertainment product and how this aspect impacts in the consumption of movie tickets in the box office. Lozano-Barragan syndrome is detailed and how filmmakers can suffer this artistic, marketing and economic discomfort. Finally, we make some linear regressions to determine the impact that the film models inclusions have on increasing the possibilities of spectators attending to the films.Palabras clave: arte, consumo, entretenimiento, organizaciones de producción cinematográfica, síndrome Lozano-Barragán.Resumen. Este artículo de investigación tiene como finalidad determinar qué modelo cinematográfico es más conveniente para las Organizaciones de Producción Cinematográficas Mexicanas en la búsqueda de aumentar las posibilidades de que los espectadores asistan a ver sus películas. Se analiza el carácter que el cine tiene como arte popular y académico, así como los elementos que lo conforman. Se estudia la manera en que las películas funcionan como herramienta cultural. Se resalta la importancia del cine como producto de entretenimiento y cómo esta cualidad impacta en el consumo de boletos en taquilla. Se detalla el síndrome Lozano-Barragán y cómo los cineastas pueden padecer este malestar artístico, mercadológico y económico. Finalmente, se efectúan regresiones lineales para determinar el impacto que tiene la inclusión de los modelos cinematográficos en el incremento de las posibilidades de asistencia para ver las películas.

scholarly journals Cómo afecta el síndrome Lozano-Barragán y el efecto Sharknado a las organizaciones de producción cinematográficas: Analizando la trayectoria de M. Night Shyamalan

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fernando Lozano Treviño ◽  
José Nicolás Barragán Codina
Keyword(s):  
Film Production ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Economic Values ◽  
Box Office ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values

Abstract: The main purpose of this document is to state the importance of taking into consideration the desires and needs of the spectators by the film production organizations in their mission of reaching the economic success. It establishes the importance that the economic values and aesthetic values plays in the films. It locates the different degrees of the dissatisfaction in which a spectator can falls into when he or she does not like the movie. Likewise, this paper analyze the filmmaking development of M. Night Shyamalan as well as his rise, fall and new arise by suffer and then eradicate the Lozano-Barragan Syndrome and the Sharknado Effect conditions; concepts that distinguish, first: those film production organizations that blame the dissatisfied spectator, for the box office failure, as well as, they argued that those spectators did not understand the movies nor nature of it; and the second one refers the consequences that meaningless movies, more than just entertain, cause in spectators. Finally, it make some recommendations that could be followed by personal from film production organizations to avoid these Lozano-Barragan syndrome and Sharknado effect in the pursuit of the spectator satisfaction and the increase of the income in the ticket office and the aesthetic values.Keywords: consumers, cultural industry, film production organizations, Lozano-Barragan syndrome, satisfaction, Sharknado effectJEL: Z11, M310Resumen: El presente documento tiene como finalidad plasmar la importancia que tiene el tomar en cuenta los deseos y necesidades de los espectadores en la misión de alcanzar el éxito económico que las organizaciones de producción cinematográfica se han impuesto. Se establece la importancia que los valores económicos y valores estéticos juegan en las películas. Se ubican los diferentes grados de insatisfacción en los que puede caer un espectador cuando no le agrada la película. Igualmente, esta investigación analiza el desarrollo cinematográfico de M. Night Shyamalan así como su crecimiento, caída y resurgimiento sufridos al padecer y, posteriormente, erradicar el Síndrome Lozano-Barragán y el Efecto Sharknado, conceptos que distinguen; primero: aquellas organizaciones de producción cinematográfica que culpan a los espectadores del fracaso en taquilla al argumentar que estos consumidores no supieron entender la película o la naturaleza del cine; el segundo hace referencia a las consecuencias provocadas en el espectador por las películas sin sentido más que sólo entretener. Finalmente, se hacen recomendaciones que pueden ser consideradas por el personal de las organizaciones de producción cinematográficas para evitar el síndrome Lozano-Barragán y el efecto Sharknado en la búsqueda de provocar satisfacción en los espectadores e incrementar los ingresos en taquillas así como los valores estéticos.Palabras clave: consumidores, efecto Sharknado, industria cultural, organizaciones de producción cinematográfica, satisfacción, síndrome Lozano-Barragán

scholarly journals The Product of Film Industry - a Cultural Good in Commodity Form

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Mikhail I Zhabsky
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
Cultural Good ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Commodity Form

In consideration are the essence characteristics of a theatrical feature as a product of film industry. The focus of attention is a contradiction between the psychic-cultural use value of film-industry products and the commodity form of their production and consumption. As the object of spectatorship needs, the product of film industry distinguishes itself in the capacity of a story narrated in the language of cinema, interestingly to the targeted movie-goer. Spectatorship needs are emotional, intellectual and other psychic impetuses of the individual, requiring satisfaction through ones immersion in the image world of cinema. A difference is drawn between the spectators needs toward cinema and those of society as a whole. The film production aimed at a profitable satisfaction of individual needs is incapable of explicating and meeting certain societal needs. Psychological mechanisms of immersing spectators in a film world are the processes of empathy and identification, regression and projection, imparting cinema with some sort of magic. The modern film industry has grown on the soil of commodity film production to which some essential demerits are endemic. Picture of the world created by it is a function of the films commodity form, thus rendering the picture mongrel in many respects. The magnitude of the box office, functioning as a code for establishing and maintaining interaction between the societys cultural highs and lows, entails certain dysfunctional consequences. In the modern conditions of globalization the national commodity-film production is forced to adapt to the demands of Americanized mass audience. With the irreversibility of an objective law, there crops up a certain loss of the national productions own face. In this regard, consideration is given to the issues of authentically expressing and reproducing the nations identity by the means of cinema.

Audiences

Blade Runner ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 67-70
Author(s):  
Sean Redmond
Keyword(s):  
Cable Television ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Late Night ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Blade Runner ◽  
Video Rental ◽  
History Of ◽  
Time Distance ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks at how audiences, through their choice of screenings and their response to films, can transform production trends and the decisions made about which films are made at the planning stage of film production. It analyses the production and early distribution history of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner that bear classification struggles encountered during its production, which were driven by a fear that it wouldn't be a suitable vehicle for mainstream audiences. It also confirms the way audiences are more active, appreciative, and diverse in their consumption of a film once the tag of mainstream flop has been removed by time, distance, and context. The chapter describes how Blade Runner audiences are sovereign and not purely connected to shaping production trends. It recounts how Blade Runner immediately found a cult audience on a late-night cable television, and in terms of video rental became a home box-office smash.

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