CINEMA CITY TRIP - ANIMAL KINGDOM

UK cinema attendance history

            1948 UK Box Office admissions = 500million

            1975 Jaws released – becomes the first summer ‘blockbuster’

            1980 UK Box Office admissions = 50m

            1984 Multiplex cinemas open (Milton Keynes)
            2008 UK Box Office admissions = 164.2m

Distributors

                        Dominate 85% of the market

            Columbia

            Walt Disney

            20^th Century Fox

            Paramount

            Warner Brothers

            Universal

Independent cinemas are privately owned and profit-driven, they are non-profit making and receive public subsidy. They show films from countries such as USA, UK, France, Canada, China, Spain and Italy.

Programme Analysis

            MAINSTREAM

            CROSSOVER

            CHALLENGING

            SPECIALIST

Benefits of digital technology is the choice, quality, alternative content and spectacle.

Animal Kingdom à Australian independent movie

                                    Winner of the Sundance Award 2010

                                    Sony Pictures Classics

It was written and directed by David Michôd and had a budget of $5.2million.