Thursday, January 1, 2009
Conglomeration and the Blockbuster Mentality
Other than MGM, each of the major is a part of a large conglomerate. Blockbuster mentality is a filmmaking characterized by reduced risk taking and more formulaic movies. Business concerns are said to be dominate artistic considerations as accountants and financiers make more decisions once made by creative people.
Concept Movies
The marketing and publicity departments of big companies love concept films - movies that can be described in one lone.
Television, Comic Book, and Videogame Remakes
Nothing succeeds like success. That, and the fact that teens and preteens make up the largest proportion of the movie audience, is the reason of many movies are adaptations of television shows, comic books, and video games.
Convergence Reshape the Movie Business
So intertwined are today’s movie and television industries that it is often meaningless to discuss them separately. But the growing relationship between theatrical films – those produced originally for theatre exhibition – and television is the result technological changes in the latter. The convergence of film with satellite, cable, pay-per-view, digital videodiscs (DVD), and videocassettes has provided immense distribution and exhibition opportunities for the movies.
Other than MGM, each of the major is a part of a large conglomerate. Blockbuster mentality is a filmmaking characterized by reduced risk taking and more formulaic movies. Business concerns are said to be dominate artistic considerations as accountants and financiers make more decisions once made by creative people.
Concept Movies
The marketing and publicity departments of big companies love concept films - movies that can be described in one lone.
Television, Comic Book, and Videogame Remakes
Nothing succeeds like success. That, and the fact that teens and preteens make up the largest proportion of the movie audience, is the reason of many movies are adaptations of television shows, comic books, and video games.
Convergence Reshape the Movie Business
So intertwined are today’s movie and television industries that it is often meaningless to discuss them separately. But the growing relationship between theatrical films – those produced originally for theatre exhibition – and television is the result technological changes in the latter. The convergence of film with satellite, cable, pay-per-view, digital videodiscs (DVD), and videocassettes has provided immense distribution and exhibition opportunities for the movies.
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