1. American and UK film industry's are very different from one another. If we take a look at American
film industry we can see that more American film companies get their films into cinemas then
English film companies do. An example of an American film company is 20th Century Fox which has
produced many big budget films such as X-men, The Simpsons and family guy. 20th century fox is a
example of vertical integration due to the fact Greater New York Film Rental and Fox were both
merged together and made in 20th century fox. Both the originally companies were both owned by
William Fox. It is now one of the biggest film companies in America.
Film4 Productions is a British film production company and has made films such as The inbetweeners
movie which is a very successful film. Film4 productions is an independent company which means
its works mainly on its own however many of its films are also made and funded by a second
company such as Shaun of the dead which was also made by Big Talk Productions, Working Title
Films, StudioCanal, Universal Studios and Rogue Pictures and Big talk productions. Film4 production
films are usually funded by many other independent companies due to the fact they all cant afford
to fund the film by themselves.
If we compare American films to English films we can see many differences such as X-man included a
lot of CGI and had a budget of $75,000,000 which is a huge sum of money however the
inbetweeners movie only had a budget off £3.5 million which is massive difference from X-men.
Both films are very different from one another along with many other British films made which don’t
tend to have very big budgets and don’t tend to include a lot of CGI and special effects. However as a
total sum X-men made a staggering $296,339,527 which is a very big profit and the Inbetweeners
movie made £55 million which is a lot of money for a British film.
Many of American film production company’s own smaller companies such as 20th century fox owns
Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox Atomic, Fox Interactive, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fox
Television Studios, Blue Sky Studios, 20th Television/20th Century Fox Television and Fox Star
Studios. This is a massive company which we don’t tend to have in British cinema. Film4 productions
however dose not own any other companies.