By Adan Shaikh (AS-F)

INTRODUCTION

▪ American film industry is commonly referred as “Hollywood” because of it’s famous symbol situated upon the hills have become a widely accepted representation of American movie studios and movie stars.

▪ Hollywood film industry has created a great impact in worldwide cinema. Now Hollywood film industry proves to be an example for other industries by producing massive hits.

▪ Without any doubt American cinema soon became the most dominant force in an emerging industry.

How Hollywood Evolved?▪ The origins and development of the American film industry

lies between the period from 1895 to 1920.▪ Hollywood introduced its first talking film “The Jazz Singer”

in 1927. This was an important evolution and since then Hollywood saw a continuous rise.

▪ During this time the emerging industry developed into an important popular medium, organised into clearly defined exhibition, production, and distribution elements.

▪ The period from 1930 to 1949 in American film industry was ruled by five big studios known as the “Big Five”

▪ RKO’S “Becky Sharp (1937) was the first feature-length Technicolor film.

▪ Major hits from the “Big Five” studios such as Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Silly Symphonies, The Old Mill.

▪ After massive success by “Big Five” studios, in 1949 the major studios were forced to sell off the cinema chains that they owned by the US government, after a court ruling that their practices were monopolistic.

▪ The American film industry rapidly declined during the period of 1950 because people choose television over cinema.

▪ It wasn’t until the late 1980s that Hollywood studios fully recovered.

▪ After 1980s again Hollwood film industry saw a high rise in cinema business as new film studios begin to emerge.

▪ Now by the end of 1980s there were six big studios ruling over The American film industry.

▪ All of these companies are subsidiaries of major media conglomerates

▪ Until this date these big companies rule over Hollywood, however there are small studios as well that are contributing their effort in American film industry.

▪ These major film studios have given us a lot of hit movies such as Gone with the Wind (1939), Star Wars (1977), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009). At present, American film studios collectively generate several hundred movies per year.

▪ Hollywood has given recognition to many remarkable directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Copolla, James Cameron, Martin Scorcese, Roman Polanski, Tim Burton, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan and the list goes on.

▪ The list below shows those genres that are mostly ppreffered by the major studios of Hollywood. – Action/Adventure – Comedy – Crime/Thriller– Drama – Fantasy/Sci-fi – Romance

▪ Most highest grossing film of 2014 was Jurassic World produced by Amblin Entertainment and Legendary Pictures. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.

▪ Jurassic World falls into science fiction adventure genre directed by Colin Trevorrow. It is the fourth installment of the Jurassic Park series.

▪ Production▪ Production began on April 10, 2014, at the Honolulu Zoo in Hawaii. ▪ In an interview, Trevorrow confirmed that the production had

hired Legacy Effects, an effects company to create animatronic dinosaurs for the film, as they had done in the previous three films.

▪ Marketing▪ A video game based on the film, Lego Jurassic World. ▪ An Apple application produced by Ludia, Jurassic World: The

Game, were released in 2015.▪ On June 14, 2015, the Italian amusement park Mirabilandia,

in collaboration with Universal Pictures, opened a new area to promote Jurassic World, called Dinoland.

▪ It featured 54 reproductions of dinosaurs and six attractions.

▪ Distribution ▪ The film was released on June 12, 2015, in North America. ▪ First public premiere held on may 29th, 2015.▪ Jurassic World was released across 809 IMAX theaters

worldwide hence making it the largest day-and-date IMAX release ever.

▪  Universal re-launched the film in IMAX 3D in theaters on August 28, 2015, for one week in the United States and Canada.

▪ Universal spent a total of $34.9 million on TV advertisements for the film.

▪ Jurassic World is set to be released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D on October 20, 2015.

References

▪ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States

▪ https://cinephilefix.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/film-history-the-story-of-hollywood/

▪ http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Big-Six---Top-6-Major-Film-Studios-in-the-Movie-Business&id=1750590

▪ http://www.the-numbers.com/market/2015/top-grossing-movies

▪ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World ▪ http://www.jurassicworld.org/