Netflix and kill: Is streaming hurting movie theaters?
by: Alexandra Gibbs Having transformed how we watch TV, online streaming giants like Netflix have begun to put other parts of the entertainment industry to [more…]
Introduction: film policy in a globalised cultural economy
by: John Hill This special issue on ‘Film Policy in a Globalised Cultural Economy’ is devoted to the changing economic and technological context in which [more…]
2016 Is on Track to Be Hollywood’s Worst Year for Ticket Sales in a Century
BY JULIE MILLER This past April, movie studios and the country’s cinema suits convened in Las Vegas to wage verbal warfare on Sean Parker’s Screening [more…]
New Film Industry Law Sets Industry on Good Path
By Larry Sussman, Matthew Erramouspe and Wei Qian China is now on track to overtake the US as the world’s largest film market in the [more…]
3 Trends That Will Shape the Movie Industry in 2016
By Keith Noonan Will this year set another record at the global box office? Source: Fernando de Sousa via Flickr The movie industry is going [more…]
7 Advances in Technology that have Revolutionized the Film Industry
by: Ángela Bernardo The history of film is full of advances that have changed the seventh art ever since, both in the way it is [more…]
How the 2016 Oscars Weekend Revealed The Real Problem With the Film Industry (Analysis)
by Eric Kohn An hour after the Oscars ended, I stood next to a man who wouldn’t have won an award even the movie he [more…]
Inside Nigeria’s Prolific Film Industry
By Deidre McPhillips It’s a classic love story: girl loves boy, boy hurts girl, another boy saves the day. But in the movie “Flower Girl,” [more…]
Lack of diversity in film industry costs Hollywood big money, report finds
by: Edward Helmore Films with higher rates of diversity tend to have higher box office numbers and that analysts consistently underestimate black audiences Straight Outta [more…]