Film industry
The terms film industry and film industry call those industry that deals with the production, duplication and distribution of cinema, television and other films. This includes companies such as film production companies and film distributors with a.
Production
Film production is very expensive and busy in the manipulator rotat - and post dozens of contributors. During the filming of between five ( junior or report production) and hundreds of people are ( narrative cinema ) at work. Significantly, therefore, the question of film financing. Worldwide 2005 4603 feature films were produced in the year, most of them in India, followed by the United States.
Film and television program distribution
In the industrialized nations and the Western world is the film distribution and sales mostly dominated by U.S. companies. This could build from the First World War with the help of the large American market a winning structure from manufacturing to sales and marketing. The split in many countries and languages , as well as two world wars by shaking European market other hand, has a small-scale structure from numerous companies in manufacturing and distribution. Therefore, European film productions are mostly dependent on government funding, while the aligned to mass taste U.S. companies can import the production costs already on the home market.
Cinemas and visits
In the EU in 2004 approximately 1 billion movie tickets were sold. Most admissions France recorded with around 195 million visits. The richest inhabitants European country, Germany, recorded the second highest number of visitors with 156.7 million visits. 2005, however, the number of visitors went back.
Depending on state subsidies and laws recorded national productions in Europe between 1.7% (Belgium ) and 38.4 % ( France) of visits. Seen across Europe accounts for about 25% of all admissions to European film productions, 60 % to American. In 2006, German films in their own country had a market share of 25.8 %.