Comparison Of Blockbuster And Independent Films

In chapter two of The Cultures of American Film, the main focus is the establishment of studios. As demand for films rose in the early 1900’s, production companies needed to expand; this lead to the creation of large scale studios.

This essay explores the popularity of Australian film, both locally and internationally and asks the question: Is there a crisis in the Australian Film Industry? This essay will go through the current issues the Australian Film Industry and will demonstrate examples of those problems.

As the Hollywood renaissance of the 1970s wound down, the film industry once again became a monopoly. An increased abandonment of the auteur theory coincided with a growing emphasis on the conventional blockbuster formula, which promised to return a profit and entertain the masses. By introducing a new generation of independent auteurs, and operating on modest budgets and profit projections, the independent film represented a small-scale alternative to the Hollywood blockbuster that carried the spirit of the personal auteur of 1970s Hollywood renaissance filmmaking. In order to better understand the similarities and differences of blockbuster and independent films, the portrayal of action-adventure by each approach will be examined in the following paragraphs.

An independent film is said to be a problematic term; the type of film is defined by 'a production released outside of a major company.', (Bill Nichols [4]) relating to film, this would include major production studios, such as the Big six studios, for example, Paramount, Warner Bros., and Walt Disney studios. These major companies were claiming the vast majority of the film industry profits during the 70's,

In 1995, the Federal Communications Commission’s financial interest and syndication rule expired, which had major impact on the film industry. This meant that many of the big Hollywood companies had to merge and create what’s called the megamergers. Because so many of the companies merged, the significance of the independent cinema movement increased since not many small, but great ideas would be able to come to the light. Some artists with unique film vision and ideas would be unable see their ideas in green light from megamergers.

For this essay I intend to discuss how Hollywood as an industry has used the marketing strategies of blockbuster films to significant advantage in film merchandising. Along with the use of mass merchandising as a form of marketing films, with the hope of creating awareness among the public.

Although European and American films seem to be worlds apart, filmmakers began to use the same technology and techniques; and this led to major competition between filmmakers who were worlds away from each

Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation was a popular movie rental store created Dallas, Texas in 1985 by a computer programmer named David Cook. Cook's experience allowed him to create a program to track Blockbuster's inventory and consumer preferences. This gave the business the competitive advantage of tracking customers' movie preferences and customizing inventory per location. Two years later, Wayne Huizenga, founder of Waste Management, and two of his colleagues purchased interest in the company for 18 million dollars.

As the definition of a ‘blockbuster’ can have many open-ended implications, it would be necessary to set a specific definition for the purposes of this essay. One way of defining the ‘blockbuster’ would be, as an example, ‘Something that is very large, expensive, or successful.’ This is a definition from the Merriam-Webster dictionary (Merriam-Webster’s Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 2008) and holds true to the context of this essay, and for further purposes, the term will be used interchangeably with the word ‘hit’.

If I could have helped Blockbuster I would have expanded in other types of companies like Family video bringing in a pizzeria, or real-estate- maybe an arcade or something something to generate other customers to keep the main business afloat. Maybe do video streaming like Netflix as well. But it didn’t seem like they wanted to adapt to change or innovation. That was their main downfall. So I would have pushed innovation on them to try new businesses and ideas for blockbuster

Interesting--I made a documentary about Sundance that talked a lot about this, but I've never really answered it myself. What I love about indie film is that if it's good--studio films and indie films can all be good and they can all be bad--so

The world is occupied multi billionaires. Many of them are willing to invest they're hard earned money in startups. They even dedicated multiple shows to the premise. Thousands of lucky business owners have received investments. But one still remains. The proud franchise used to play a pivotal role in the entertainment industry. Now it's dead. A series of large investments could restore it to it's former glory. Blockbuster has hope it just needs the right people.

Film studios release multiple movies a year, some will make a lot of money and some will not make as much. Simonoff and Sparrow (2000) state that final total box office revenue for one movie can decide whether or not a film studio makes an overall profit/loss in a single year. A film studio can have a situation where they have released five movies in a year and are set to release another. That box office revenue of that one movie can be the difference between an overall profit/loss for a film studio.

In recent years, the film industry has changed drastically. When I was younger, I thought independent films and documentaries were weird things that only hippies watched. Now, more and more people adore independent films. Although indie movies do not have the budget of blockbuster films, they have a unique chance to explore what lies beyond Hollywood norms. Instead of the same directors and managers deciding what should entertain the masses, regular people can become creators and reach their own targeted audience. For example, one could make a video about the harsh conditions of meat factories and share it on Facebook among vegetarian groups. A movie that narrow in audience would never reach it to the theaters. Also, independent movies explore what makes a movie “good” and defy cutter-cookie plots. One particularly great acclaimed independent movie is The Babadook. This film had a very slow build and an unsettling ending, both of which are not common in most movies.

When creating a movie to release in such a competitive industry, assurance is needed that there will be a return on investment as well as that their movie will be well-received by the public and entertaining to make it a popular hit at the box office. Using a sample of 100 motion pictures from 2005 and numerical methods of descriptive statistics, including measures of location, variability, distribution shape and the detection of outliers, the motion picture industry can be analyzed more specifically in order to learn how these variables play a part in the success of a motion picture. The main concern of management in this case would be with regard to revenue, profit, and entertainment. In this case study it was found that there was a