Film territory: territory in which you buy the rights to distribute the film
Windows: period of time between a film being in the cinema and a film being released on DVD
Saturated: releases films in every multiplex cinema in the world over about 36 hours
Holdover: showing a film one week to see if it is a hit, if it is a hit you show it again a week later
If a film has 'legs' it keeps on running for a long time after the first weekend
DCP: digital cinema package - how the film is shown in the cinema
Major studies in Hollywood: 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Disney, Warner Studios, Columbia, Sony
Soft money: any form of tax relief/ subsides from the government to fund a film
Soft power: Hollywood sells the American lifestyle
Cultural test in the UK: submitting your film to a British institute and they run it through a test, 16 points to be a British film out of 31. If you're British you get government funding which is why a lot of films do it!
Property: starting of the process, companies buy any property they think has the potential to be a huge blockbuster
FDA: Film Distributor Association launchingfilms.com
Representation questions to ask:
Who is in control?
Whose values and ideas are spoken in the text?
What are the values and ideas that the text 'speaks' about?
How does it engage with issues?
Are characters simply 'types' or 'rounded individuals'?
What kind of world is re-presented to the audience?
What likelihood is there that different audiences will make different readings?