Thr Brazilian Film Industry

Australia’s film and television industry has experienced drastic changes since the rise of national cinema. Leading the world film industry, Australia was home to the first film studio and feature film at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) toured England from 1908 as the longest film ever made, popularising a new genre of bushranger movies and epitomising the Ned Kelly legend as a significant aspect in Australian cultural identity (Juddery, 2008). The beginning of Australia’s film industry built itself on bushranger films, with the focus being local audiences rather than foreign, as stated by Judder. However, power struggles within the industry and banning of the bushranger genre saw to the quick demise of the film industry in 1912. Another aspect contributing to the demise is the emergence of competition with Britain and the US releasing two feature films each to Australia’s eight, later decreasing to three against the US’ 212 in 1914. Soon thereafter, the industry was dominated by foreign productions. This is evidenced in the 1994 documentary Celluloid Heroes, which states that “during one week in 1959, 1500 fine dramatic actors appeared on Melbourne television, and only 5 Australians”, resulting in the 1960 Postmaster-General Charles Davidson to implement local content requirements, beginning with TV stations required to broadcast 40 per cent Australian content every 28 days with four hours in peak time, which was

Ch.2 #1 - The motion picture industry is a competitive industry. Each year, more than 50 studios produce a total of 300 to 400 new motion pictures. This managerial report is based on data collected for a sample of 100 motion pictures produced in 2005 and will evaluate the financial success of these motion pictures by using 4 major variables – (A) Opening Gross Sales, (B) Total Gross Sales, (C) Number of Theaters, and (D) Weeks in Top 60.

The poor distribution of Australian films has made it difficult for the public to view these said films, due to the lack of theatres screening the actual pictures. This contributes to the community of the Australian public to collectively be unaware of these films and leads to the small number of tickets sold in cinemas. With this lack of money being spent on Australian films, the industry suffers due to with no return going into the

The film industry in Louisiana has seen tremendous growth in the last decade due to a generous film tax credit program. The big motion picture companies seem to be bringing more pictures to be filmed in “Hollywood South” claiming the films create jobs and spur economic growth. Louisiana residents are wowed by the chance to potentially see movies filmed in their neighborhoods, the chance to meet stars and perhaps be an extra in a scene. Though many in the state are claiming that the film tax credit program is too costly to maintain.

Fascism, communism, corporatism, nationalism and other current matters of the time were deeply discussed among Brazilian elites. There were also, however, pressing national issues to be worked out, which related in one way or another to the larger Western debates of the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1930s, the major issues debated by Brazilian elites were related to the building of a national identity, to the role of the State as an agent for that building and to safeguard the traditional order and the need for economic development in order to modernize Brazil.

This paper analyzes aspects of Brazil’s colonial history that has influenced contemporary societies. It also describes and critiques measures that have recently been implemented by the Brazilian government in attempt to curb the further deterioration of society.

The 1980s where a time of great social and political change in the United States of America. These changes go hand in hand because the political change in the United States, as well as the rest of the world, shaped how society changed. When it comes to films, during this decade, the political change in the county that came with Ronald Reagan, film success of the 70s, and developing technology heavy influenced the movie industry. The movie industry began the practice of trying to make a movie that would become a huge blockbuster, created more unique story’s, and the practice of creating a movie franchise became popular.

Brazil is a 1985 science fiction satire film set in a dysfunctional and demanding dystopian society from the perspective of a spineless bureaucrat working for a overbearing government body called the Ministry of Information who dreams of an escape. Directed by Terry Gilliam, the film is social satire that depicts a dull demanding civilization that has grown apathetic towards one another heavily through the overbearing government oversight that affects everyone’s lives. With this in mind, it is clear that Gilliam heavily incorporates surreal and symbolic imagery surrounding the issues of government faultiness and the lack of creative expression and independent freedom to convey the apathetic nature of the dystopia he created for the film.

The film pulled away profit from movies like BFG and Tarzan. Domestically, the movie made $485,203,581. Internationally, the movie has made $526,300,000 and worldwide $1,011,503,581.  The production budget for the film was 200 Million.

Brazil and Rio in particular, experiences pervasive and institutionalized forms of violence: police corruption, gang warfare, and military brutality. Despite its rich natural resources and tourism developing in recent years, Brazil represents one of the most economically divided countries in the world; a very small wealthy class exists above the majority - poor and underclass so that the social status has more to do with wealth than with colour. Brazil’s contemporary national cinema “reveal[s] a continuity of concerns with local themes, stories and traditions, including a recurrent focus on emblematic spaces of national identity such as the impoverished sertão and the favelas (Heise 63).” As Teresa Caldeira notes, ‘democratic’ Brazil is known for its high level of tolerance for police abuses (Caldeira 235).

Adolfo explained that until early 2005 the cine industry was really small; the official sector of the cinema industry was and is narrowly linked to the government as this one is the one that provide funds for the realization of cinema projects. Meanwhile there is not even legal independent film company in Cuba at the moment.

Brazil has a population of 202 million people, distributed in a geographic area of 8,515,767.049 sq Km. From 1964 to 1988, the country were under a military regime, after promulgation of the first Constitution in 1988, the dictatorship was banned. Afterwards, it faced with several economic plans to control meteoric inflation rates, finally about 2000, during the mandate of Sr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, population experienced economic stability and controlled inflation rate. The currency, Real, had turned equivalent to dollar and population started to consume a diversity of products, nationals or internationals.

Hollywood today spends more money on movies than ever before, with an average budget of $140 million per movie. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; the most expensive movie ever made; cost approximately $378.5 million and that was five years ago. This isn’t surprising since history is witness to a rising trend in money spent on movies, even after adjusting for inflation, however, their impact on the industry isn’t as large as their budgets. Over the years, lower cost productions like B-Movies have played a major role in carrying the industry forward by keeping it stable, moving and profitable in times of trouble. B-Movies came to be the need of the hour after The Great Depression and World War II. Money was tight everywhere and Hollywood could not continue making extravagant movies therefore they turned to low budget commercial films. These movies not only have an economical significance in Hollywood, they have made more than one contribution to the industry. These low risk movies provided directors, writers and producers with a wide scope for experimentation and led to the creation of many a genres and sub-genres. The origins of B-Movies are humble but over the years that they grew in Hollywood, they became more significant and successful, yet their progress from “Rags to Riches” remains more a behind-the-scenes heroic act than a superhero effort.

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Hollywood today spends more money on movies than ever before, with an average budget of $140 million per movie. ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’; the most expensive movie ever made; cost approximately $378.5 million and that was five years ago. This isn’t surprising since history is witness to a rising trend in money spent on movies, however, even after adjusting for inflation, their impact on the industry isn’t as large as their budgets. Over the years, lower cost productions like B-Movies have played a major role in carrying the industry forward by keeping it stable, moving and profitable in times of trouble. B-Movies came to be the need of the hour after The Great Depression and World War II. Money was tight everywhere and Hollywood could not continue making extravagant movies therefore they turned to low budget commercial films. These movies not only have an economical significance in Hollywood, they have made more than one contribution to the industry. These low risk movies provided directors, writers and producers with a wide scope for experimentation and led to the creation of many genres and sub-genres. The origins of B-Movies are humble but over the years that they grew in Hollywood, they became more significant and successful, yet their progress from “Rags to Riches” remains more a behind-the-scenes heroic act than a superhero