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The information that is provided on this site on the ‘international menu’ page is where they give you quantitative information on the profits that films have made. Global films are those which make the most profit in box office as seen on the table. Films like Avatar, Titanic, Harry Potter, Frozen and The Avengers, are all those that get to the audience more, as seen in there profits. The more quantity of people came to see the film (s), the more money in Box office. Things like the narrative (and other film features) or how the marketing and franchise of the film, is how the film gets to the audience.
To into more detail, from the list in order these are the five top successful earning films from America:
- Harry Potter: (Deathly Hallows Part 2 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201607/?ref_=nv_sr_2)
They all have similar genre taste, even though their main genre would be different, their sub genres aren’t. They all seem to have adventure and drama in their films narrative and structure. With their narratives and structure revolving round those two genres, I can understand now how the profit of the box office of all these five films came to such a large amount. The reason for it is because with these two genres in the structure and narrative of the films, the audience felt more affected by the films, and then more people heard about it, then went to see it, and then more and more profit the film companies got.
In the film industry there are many rich actors and film creators. However, the most successful ones in profitable are:
1) Steven Spielberg 2) Brad Pitt 3) Hans Zimmer 4)Samuel L. Jackson 5) Johnny Depp
6) Tom Cruise 7) Tom Hanks 8) Adam Sandler 9) Leonardo Dicaprio 10) Morgan Freeman
11) Robert Downey, Jr. 12) John Lasseter 13) Stan Lee 14) Thomas Tull 15) James Newton Howard
16) Will Smith 17)Harvey Weinstein 18) Kathleen Kennedy 19) Angelina Jolie 20) Mark Wahlberg
The thing that is very noticeable on the list is the fact there is only two women in out of the 20: Angelina Jolie and Kathleen Kennedy. This expresses that the film industry is no different to other industries when it comes down to females and males equal pay roll. Some people believe that the unfairness of women getting paid less than men if doing the exact same job role has gone, but seeing from this list it proves it hasn’t. I think Angelia out of the two females on the list is lucky to even be in the twenties as you can see her husband is second, which means without him being near the top, she wouldn’t be that successful in profit wise without him since he get more than her.
Seeing from this bar chart of cinema ticket sales there are many patterns in it. First of all, they decrease and increase during the years of 1995 to 2015. Second pattern is the similarities in years. There is a similar pattern to 1996 and 2014, this is where both of them have tickets sold were the same, $1.27 billion. However their revenues are different, 1996 has 5.59 and 2014 has 10.34. They are not the only years that have that, 2009 and 1997 have the same with $1.42 billion but have different revenues which are 2009 has 10.65 and 1997 has 6.51. There are three years that have the same profit price in tickets. 2000, 2005, 2008 all have $1.39 billion, but have different revenues (again): 2000 has 7.48, 2005 has 8.93 and 2008 has 9.95. The fact is from this bar chart you can see that some years get the same in ticket prices but have more revenues, which means doesn’t matter how many revenues there are, it the matter of how the film effects more ticket to be sold.
Another thing that this time all the years have in common is the fact that none of them seemed to hit over $2.00 billion in ticket profits, they all are under $1.60 billion. Meaning either that the profit bar chart is going to carry on with being under $1.60 billion, or one year succeeds to get £2.00 billion or over.
For a filmmaker to make a high amount of profit from the film you create, the most important thing that you should always consider during planning, pre-production and production, is the audience. Even though R rated films are the most that are made for their over 18 audience which is 4,246, the most successful audience members in profit would be PG-13. Not just because they are number one on the table, but it is the reason for that. The fact is considering the films that are meant for this audience are low, they make the most profit in gross: $83,189,412,459. The total of films that are made for this audience is 2,456, but yet they seem to make more money than R and Not rated. The films for Not Rated are a total of 3,199 from the years 1995 to 2014, but are lower on the table because of there average and total gross.
Action and adventure are two of the most successful genres compared to comedy and drama as the two least profitable genres have to produce more films compared to the two top genres. Action and adventure produce less films than the rest which means that their films gather more success with their audience amount, which explains their high amount of profit: more audience members, more money in box office. I think that even though a lot of the genres seem to make a lot of films and end up underneath the two top genre which are action and adventure, the other film genres are successful as they look like they have the money to produce a these films yet still get a descent amount from box office. E.g. Thriller produces 73 films a year and earns $1,143,923,960 which is still a lot for box office profit.
From the creative type table, you can see that what I said before is proven to be correct in that making more movies still gain the genre’s films more profit in box office. Comtemporay Fictions shows the prof, it has made 5,044 films from 1995-2015 and yet has gained $76,937,877,439 in box office profit and sold 12,592,442,441 tickets. Even though this is the top genre in the creative table that makes more films and gets more profit, there are film genres that make a lot of films but don’t get a lot of profit from it, like Factual which makes 1,590 films yet gets $2,532,001,690 in box office. So this table is in support to both my believe in making more films still gets the genre enough profit in box office, and also that least amount of films in a genre gets the genre more money. What this has taught me about marketing is the fact that it is what the audience loves the most about film genres, most of them love action, contemporary fiction and adventure because of the special effects, good looking main actors and etc.
In film there are production ways of creating your film. From the table you can tell that live action is the most profitable in making a film since it makes $142,161,001,132, whilst the least profitable way of making a film would be rotoscoping, making $8,393,627. Here are two examples of films done in each of the production methods:
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
- Pirates of the Caribbean: the curse of the black pearl
These two films are said to have been made with the production method of live action which is true as both films do have a lot of action in their scenes. I don’t think I’m that surprised that both films are in the most successful production method. This reason for this is because both films have made a massive success in box office in America alone, that it is from the production method that the films got the huge amount of profit in box office. Star War’s 3rd film got $380,262,555, whilst Pirates of the Caribbean first film got $305,388,685. Proving that the production method helped those two films gain their success in profit.
These two films were created in rotoscoping production method, and does surprise me as they are two very known films that were popular when released and still are. Lady and the Tramp made $93,600,000 in box office in America and $5,232,000 was made by Alice in Wonderland in America as well. Both films made a successful amount at the time of their release, but are still part of the production method that is at the bottom of the table. However, it does make since with all four films why they got the amount in their box office. The two that are part of the highest earning production method got more money in box office than the ones that are part of the production method at the bottom.
In this table you can clearly see three columns beside the most production made films: production budget, Domestic gross and worldwide gross. Production budget means how much the films had spent on making themselves, and domestic gross means the profit made from the film in the made country borders. World wide gross just means the profit made across the world. So with this table is well defined in the difference between profit spent and earned as it includes both the film made origin country profit earnings and the whole world.
The dates of when the films were released is an exception to the table as filmmakers who were to research this would find the differences in the profit that were spent and made during different years, so then they know what to do better than those films. For example, Avatar spent $425,000,000 in production, but got $2,783,918,982 in worldwide gross. If a filmmaker was to discover that then they would need to find out more on how the film was such a success and make a more advance film to make it a successful and profitable film.
The table is in reasonable order as it depends on all three of the columns results. The Avengers spent $225,000,000 on budget but made $1,514,276,457 in worldwide profit. It would of been at the top with Avatar and the Dark Knight Rises, but since it spent less on the production budget it goes down the table. Showing that the table depends on all three columns in order of what the film spent first in budget, then earned in the made country, and last world wide.
The numbers of the amount of money in each three columns are truthful. This is because if you were to see the domestic gross and world wide gross column, then you would see the amount of money is not just ‘0’ after a number to make a million/trillion, they are actual numbers. Say like The Hobbit: An unexpected journey made worldwide profit by making $1,014,703,568, which is believable as it looks more realistic than say if the made exactly “$1,000,000,000”.
In total, market research is very important to the film media production as it gives them information about the two main priorities when it comes to making a film: audience and profit. one with out the other wouldn’t be great for the film that has been made as they both give effect for the film. The more audience members, the more profit the film is going to make. Fro example going back to my research of Top grossing ratings, PG-13 was the highest because of the amount of money the films that were rated and made for that audience, under $84 trillion. See the type of audience does matter if you want your film to gain a lot of money.
It does work the other way round as well, less profit for film less audience members, less gross profit. Take example from the last table, the dark knight rises spent $275,000,000 in production but received $1,079,343,943 in gross world wide, which mean they spent the right amount of money to make the film that effective for the huge amount of audience members that came to see it and get the film production company a massive amount in box office.
UNIT 3/7 Research Techniques 2015 
