1. My local Cineplex is Cineworld in West India Quay. The movies featured in the cinema this week are:
· Limitless
· Battle: Los Angeles
· Submarine
· 3D and 2D – A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures
· The Lincoln Lawyer
· Faster
· The Eagle
· Hall Pass
· Fair Game
· Unknown
· Rango
· The Adjustment Bureau
· I Am Number Four
· The King’s Speech
All together there are 10 screens in Cineworld in the West India Quay.There are 10 Hollywood movies. There are 4 British movies. There are 1 foreign language movies. All movies share screens. 7 screens show 5 Hollywood movies, and 2 British movies. The other screens are shared out with different films in the day.There is an American independent movie – Limitless.
2. My local independent Cinema is Genesis in Mile End. The movies featured in the cinema this week are:
· A Turtle’s Tale 3D
· Chalet Girl
· Limitless
· Rango
· Submarine
· The Eagle
· The Lincoln Lawyer
· You Will Meet A Tall Stranger
All together there are 5 screens in Genesis in Mile End. There are 5 Hollywood films. There are 2 British films and 1 foreign language movie. The foreign language movie and British films share a screen, and the Hollywood films are shared out to the other 4 screens. The independent movie is Limitless.
3. Top 10 grossing movies at the box office in 2008 in the UK only are:
· Mamma Mia! (Universal Pictures) / £69,157,833
· Quantom Of Solace (Sony Pictures) / £50,627,578
· The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.) / £48,686,653
· Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull / (Paramount) / £40,088,636
· Sex and the City / (Entertainment) / £26,427,325
· Hancock / (Sony Pictures) / £24,718,240
· WALL-E /(Disney) / £22,772,269
· High School Musical 3 / (Disney) / £22,739,722
· Kung Fu Panda / (Paramount) (£20,044,229)
· Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa / (Paramount) / £17,958,254
4. Global Hollywood and Little of UK
1) Genre movies –
· repeated conventions
· recognisable conventions
2) Glamorous Movie Stars
3) Cutting edge technology: 3D
4) Merchandise
· Toys
· Posters etc
5) Structure: Worldwide distribution arms
6) Franchises
7) Blanket release – big issue for Hollywood movies would be pirating film.
8) Glamour attracts – UK audiences. Inspirational.
9) Big Budgets – ‘blockbuster movie’
10) Response to technology
· TV
· 3D
