Podcast Notes - Film Business

Podcast 2

Hollywood Producer

- 'Life and Death' - how people describe the film business

- Businesses start from the bottom

- Business is risky

- Massive conglomerates that attract businesses worldwide

- Create brands to translate into game shows - making profit

- Service providers for Hollywood - Britain

- Everything is owned by Hollywood

- Screenwriters are the basis of everything

- Some movies can take up to 9 years before Hollywood 'buy' the idea

- Development stage is the toughest - 'Development Hell', money can get lost to keep schedules open
to keep Hollywood interested. Warner Bros had to pay $20 million for one of their movies.

- Bad Script - Bad Movie

- Scripts - hard to become noticed

- Stars sell pictures

- Financial decisions play a key role in film casting

- A lot of negotiating to get big 'stars' - Actors/Actresses

- Hard to convince people to take roles in your film

- Aim to make money for every film

- Britain doesn't have a film industry

Podcast 1

- Cassian Elwiss

- Gap in the market for older audiences

- UK doesn't make sequels however franchises do well and is where the movie industry makes the money, it is the industry and what drives it.

- Original films don't do as well so they are given to individual him companies

- VOD is growing
- DVD has fallen dramatically and the film industries profit had dropped

- Distributors have the power as they are known rather than individual companies which would do exactly the same thing but may not grow as much from it.

- Women directors are discriminated