Will the Movie Industry Contract in 2017?
by: Adam Leipzig Movies are going gangbusters, and one studio—Disney—achieved a record-breaking $7 billion global box office last year. What could possibly go wrong? According [more…]
AP: Too quiet on the set; filming accidents often go untold
BY ANTHONY McCARTNEY LOS ANGELES (AP) — As hundreds of names scrolled up the screen after 2012′s “The Avengers,” moviegoers who remained glued to their [more…]
Cinematic Sympathy with a Storytelling Attitude
by Maziar Sheibanifar In Eternal Children (2006), Pouran Derakhshandeh has a sympathetic attitude towards children with Down syndrome, although the storytelling is not very strong.This [more…]
The Film Industry’s Problem Of Gender Inequality Is Worse Than You Think
By Martha T.S. Laham, Contributor Most people would be surprised to learn that gender segregation plays out at different levels of the film industry, where [more…]
Sexism in the Film Industry: Blockbusters vs. Indies
By Sophie Bennett, Contributing Writer Between the amorphous concept of Hollywood and the innumerable independent producers of television and movies, the film and TV industries [more…]
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…]