manchester film industry seminar

ROY STAFFORD - LECTURER
4 stages: preparation, production, distribution, exhibition

KEY TERMS
1. film territory
A territory where you can buy the rights to distribute a film

2. windows
the period between a film's cinema release and DVD release amongst other periods between releases. for example, the period of time between a DVD release and a TV release

3. saturated film release
releases films in every multiplex cinema in the world over about 36 hours

4. holdover
showing a hit film again and again in cinemas

5. a film with 'legs'
literally a successful film that keeps running

6. DCP
digital cinema package - films are no longer on film


THE BIG 6
paramount (102 years)
columbia (96 years)
warner bros (91 years)
20th century fox (79 years)
disney (64 years)
sony (27 years)
- longest running, biggest distributors


cultural test (in the uk, to qualify as a 'british' film)
- submit your film
- different things are taken into consideration: are the directors/writers/actors british? was the film made in britain?
- 31 points taken into consideration; 16 of these qualify as a british film
- why? because the british get funded for their movies (soft money)


property: the rights to develop a story e.g. a novel
the hunger games
harry potter
the wolf of wall street
twilight
50 shades of grey

the wolf of wall street- every day advertising

the wolf of wall street marketing team used billboards, buses and bus stops in the street to their advantage:

 before the oscars they asked oscar voters to consider their movie by adding four billboards around america with its signature big, yellow font over memorable pictures of the movie, calling it 'his best performance ever', saying that it was 'the movie of our time' and 'bold brave classic' -

- and a joke from the movie. dicaprio states "I use Xanax to stay focused, Ambien to sleep, pot to mellow out, cocaine to wake up and morphine … because it's awesome."

the wolf of wall street- marketing

each poster that got released in turn gave a little bit more information about the upcoming movie:

theme: money

director: martin scorsese

main actor/star appeal: leonardo dicaprio

theme: money, crime

director: martin scorsese

screenplay: terence winter

main actor/star appeal: leonardo dicaprio

supporting actor/star appeal: jonah hill

supporting actor/star appeal: matthew mcconaughey

supporting actress/sex appeal: margot robbie

theme: debauchery, work

director: martin scorsese

main actor/star appeal: leonardo dicaprio

based on: the story of jordan belfort

screenplay: terence winter

coming soon

theme: debauchery

director: martin scorsese

main actor/star appeal: leonardo dicaprio

based on: the story of jordan belfort

screenplay: terence winter

release date: december 25th

website: thewolfofwallstreet.com

'the big 6' - top grossing films

walt disney pictures:

1. the avengers - $1.46 billion

2.       pirates of the carribean: dead man’s chest - $1.07 billion

3.       pirates of the carribean: on stranger tides – $1.04 billion

20^th century fox:

1.       avatar - $749,766,139

2.       star wars: episode I - $431,088,295

3.       stars wars: episode III - $380,270,577

paramount:

1.       titanic - $600,788,188

2.       transformers: revenge of the fallen - $402,111,870

3.       transformers: dark of the moon - $352,390,543

warner bros:

1.       the dark knight - $533,345,358

2.       the dark knight rises - $488,139,099

3.       harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2 - $381,011,219

sony/columbia:

1.       spider-man - $403,706,375

2.       spider-man 2 - $373,585,825

3.       spider-man 3 - $336,530,303

universal:

1.       despicable me 2 - $368,061,265

2.       e.t.: extra-terrestrial - $359,197,037

3.       jurassic park - $357,067,947

british film

british films are known for:


- comedy
the cornetto trilogy (sean of the dead, hot fuzz, the world's end)
monty python
the inbetweeners
paul









- gritty dramas or 'grit flicks'
kill list
ill manors
this is england
tony
the selfish giant