FACT OF THE WEEK!!! (top earners)

Top 9 earners

Angelina Jolie - 33million
Robert Downey jr - 77million
Jennifer Lawrence - 50 million
Kristen Stewart - 21.5milion
Jennifer Aniston - 20million
Emma Stone - 16million
Channing tatum - 60million
Hugh Jackman - 55million
Mark Wahiberg - 51million

Prezi TV Conventions

Film Facts.

Favorite overall movie genre: 
Science Fiction and Fantasy

Favourite Movies -

The Hobbit 2: Desolation of Smaug
HungerGames 2: Catching Fire

Favourite Actors:

Martin Freeman
Ian mckellen
Robert Downey jr
Hugh Grant

Bafta awards - most awarded - 

Gravity

Top Soundtrack composers - 

Hanz Zimmer
John Williams

Top Earner Animations

Frozen - 378million in US
              579million Internationally
              957million overall

Despicable Me 2 -
970million

Toy Story 3 -
1billion

LionKng with re-release -
987million


New Films to be released:

Rise of an Empire
The Amazing SpiderMan 2
Edge Of Tomorrow
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Godzilla
Jupiter Ascending
Interstellar
X men - Days Of The Future Past
Transformers Age Of Extinction
Hunger games: Mocking jay
The Hobbit: Their And Back Again.

FACT OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!

Most pirated online movie of 2013?

Project X - 8,720,000 downloads

ISSUES RAISED BY MEDIA OWNERSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY MEDIA PRACTICE.

Working Title are funded by a Conglomerate known as Universal making them a UK/USA collaboration rather than a complete british film.


They are only allowed a certain amount of funding from universal to green light the film.


Actors must match the chosen target audience such as british actors, example Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen to promote to a british audience.

Techniques used to target audiences?

Techniques used to target audiences?
Merchandise - T shirts, posters



Motion Poster - It advertises the plot in a fun way. It's short and exciting with a feeling of suspense, catching mainstream people's eye. The target audience

Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike

Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike

• English Actress
• Born In Hammersmith, London.
• Jane Bennet in Pride And Prejudice.
• Bond Girl in Die Another Day' (Large fan-base)
• Kate Sumner in Johnny English Reborn (Important character)
• She has worked in Film, TV and on stage.

Rosamund Pike may appeal to UK audiences because she is English, also many of the films she has featured in are set within the UK with English characters and themes, for example , johnny English reborn. She may appeal to a US audience through her appearance alongside johnny Depp in 'The Libertine'. Other than this, pike may not be well known to a US audience.

Working Title

Introduction to Working Title?

The 1983 Uk company Working Title Films which is Owned by Universal tends to make movies within the Rom-Com genre using famous Actors Like Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Grant, Simon Pegg and Bill Ni this automatically tells you that the film is likely to make good profit.

Box office Success's:

Bafta Award Winning Les Miserables

Popular Films:

BEAN

Bridget Jones's Diaries 

Love Actually 

Johnny English 1 +2 

ThunderBirds?

Shaun Of The Dead

Nanny McPhee

Hot Fuzz

Atonement

Mr Beans Holiday

Elizabeth 

Paul

Les miserables

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MWVcR2Q40

Universal finances Working Title 

Allows Working Title to gain popularity in fan bases.

perm to Ok up to a Budget of £15 million on their own.

access to worldwide distribution network.

Films with american starts to appeal to international market.

Protection via Universal from disappointments.

Britain's 'Working Title' is our most famous Production company due to the fact it appeals to a larger audience through having back up support aka Budget from a larger american company 'Universal' also it uses American actors which would gain interest from Americans and English creating a Brand for itself in the International market.

It also does Mainstream films that are Marketable to the English Audience with a good example being Nanny McPhee and Shaun Of The Dead etc creating Global Distribution and Minimising Risks of unpopularity within films. They have packaged their films very well that it allows the movie to also appear like Hollywood standards.

1 risk free film each year

Les Miserables

Rush

2 Mainstream films

Les Miserables

The Worlds End

Rush

2 projects they feel passionate which have risk factors

About Time

Closed Circuit

I Give It A Year

Working on.

Q5. The importance of cross media convergence and synergy in production, distribution and marketing.

 Brand partnerships: 
 WarpFilms
 The Weinstein Company
 Film 4
 Uk film council.
Wales creative IP fund.
Film agency for wales
Optimum Releasing

Submarine and warp films.

The Hobbit Social Media.

The Hobbit Technology.