5 facts about the film industry

5 facts about the film industry!

• Only 7% of UK films made between 2003-10 were profitable. (The BFI estimate profitability by “using an international box office to budget ratio of 2 or more”).

• London has 55% of the film industry as a whole but only 30% of the distribution companies.

•  “Jaws” and “Titanic” looked destined to be disastersThe biggest box office hits of their time – “Jaws” in the 1970s and “Titanic” in the 1990s — were a nightmare to shoot, went massively over budget and their directors honestly thought that they would never work again. Instead, “Jaws” and “Titanic” catapulted Steven Spielberg and James Cameron to the rarefied heights where no one questions their financial and artistic judgement.

• SPIELBERG FOUND OUT ABOUT JURASSIC PARK WHILE WORKING ON ER.When director Steven Spielberg and author Michael Crichton were working on a screenplay that would eventually become the television series ER, Spielberg asked the writer about the plans for his next book. Crichton told him about Jurassic Park, and Spielberg immediately tapped Universal to buy the film rights in May 1990—before the book was even published. He was so excited that he began storyboarding scenes from the book, even though there was no screenplay written yet.

• More Pixar Creativity
   To further justify the creative genius of Pixar, there is a great little story from when “Monster’s Inc” was being made. The voice of Boo was a toddler named Mary Gibbs and being a toddler, the makers found it hard to get her to sit down and record all the lines. So instead what they did was follow her around with a microphone while she was playing and pieced all her dialogue from that. So what you hear from Boo in the actual film is the final version of those recordings.