2. Description
• An entertainment industry that involves producing and
distributing movies. The film industry compromises the
technological and commercial proccesses of film making.
Including Film studios, cinematography, film
production, screenwriting, actors and other film crew
personnel.
3. Size, shape and structure
• They are over 400 registered companies in the film industry. In 2006 The
United kingdom film industry contributed 4.3 billion to the UK economy.
516 Films were released Across the UK in 2007, 58% increase over the
decade which is incredible.
4. Some companies in this sector
• Universal studios. A American motion picture studio that are owned by
Comcast through its owned sub diary NBC universal. They are one of the
six major movie studios. The official production studio is in California, 100
universal city plaza drive in universal city. They are other offices in new
York that deal with distribution. It was founded at April 30th, 1912 as
universal film and manufacturing company by Carl Laemmle, Mark
dittenfass, Charles baumann, Adam Kessell, Pat power, William
Swanson, David horsely, and Jules Brulatour.
5. Some companies in this sector
• Warner bros. Founded at 1918.The founders were Albert Warner, Sam
Warner, Harry Warner, Jack Warner. It’s a American production company
that involves Film, television and music entertainment. The company is a
member of the motion picture association of America (MPAA) and has a
massive revenue of over $12 billion as of 2012. They are subsidiary with
Time Warner which is a multinational media corporation. They currently
own New line cinema, DC comics, Cartoon network, boomerang and CNN.
At one point they were the second largest media and entertainment
company in the world in terms of revenue, just behind The Warner Bros.
