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THE BUSINESS OF FILM
First studio- Nestor
Sunset Blvd , Hollywood, CA
1911
Al Christie
First Academy Awards
May 16, 1929
Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, CA
Tickets $10.00/each 250 attended
Golden Age of Hollywood
1927-1948
Paramount, RKO, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros,
Metro-Goldwyn Meyers
Some feel that film is a representation of the
current cultural norms…
Do you feel film is a representative of what are
norms are or plays a role in shaping them?
The world's $583 million obsession with ''The Da
Vinci Code'' proves it: We're fascinated by what
shocks, disgusts, and divides us
Film as a Marketing Opportunity
How has the development of film been pushed forward
by cultural surroundings?
• World War Propaganda
• Concerns about threats to national security
• Civil Rights
• Documentary Trend
What regulations are there in the film business?
1948 Court Decision
Studios cannot own theaters that only play their
movies with their actors
1957 Roth v. United States, the
Supreme Court defined obscenity
“The dominant theme of the work
as a whole must appeal to
prurient interest in sex.
The work must be patently
offensive to contemporary
community standards.
The work must be without serious
literary, artistic, political, or
scientific value.”
1987 People vs. Freeman, the California
Supreme Court stated that the First
Amendment protect adult film production under
free speech.
How do these represent the
interests or stakeholders of the
movie studios?
Direct-to-Video
Documentary
Most Controversial Films
1. Passion of the Christ (2004)
2. Clockwork Orange (1971)
3. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
5. JFK (1991)
7. Birth of a Nation (1915)
8. Natural Born Killers (1994)
10. Baby Doll (1956)
13. Da Vinci Code (2006)
16. United 93 (2006)
19. Basic Instinct (1992)
21. Bonnie and Clyde (1969)
22. Do the Right Thing (1989)
25. Aladdin (1992)
Issues
Religion
Obscenity
Racial Prejudice
Politics
http://listverse.com/2007/09/04/top-10-most-controversial-movies/
Top Grossing Films of All Time
1. Avatar (2009)
$760,505,847
2. Titanic (1997)
$600,779,824
3. The Dark Knight (2008)
$533,316,061
4.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A
New Hope (1977)
5. Shrek 2 (2004)
$460,935,665
$436,471,036
Spiderman
$272.6 million
Worldwide Box Office:
$890,871,626
Titanic
$272 million
$1,842,879,955
Superman Returns
$295 million
$391,081,192
Cleopatra
$314.6 million
$185,900,0008
Pirates of the Caribbean
$316 million
$960,996,492