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

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