1. Y200 Politics and Film
April 19, 2011

2. Film Industry Data From student data projects Elliott Gensler
Lexi Lessaris
Parker Mantell
Raymond Raff
Jake Stineker

3. Data from Gene Brown’s Movie Time

4. Box Office Revenues Clear increase in box office revenue over time
In the 70’s the revenues began to rise greatly
The average growth rate per year is 104% (median is the same as well, so mean was not influenced by outliers)
Average growth rate per decade is 143%
Highest growth rate from : 237%
Sources: Data before 2000:
Data after 2000:
* See excel file “Box Office Revenue” for table, graphs, mean and median calculation, Growth rate graph and table on sheet “Growth Rate”

5. Data from MPAA.com

6. Rise of Theater Ticket Prices2
Rise of Theater Ticket Prices
The most recent figure indicates an average of over $7.00

7. Data from Gene Brown’s Movie Time and MPAA.com

8. Data from Gene Brown’s Movie Time and www.census.gov

9. Effect of TV Ownership on Movie Theatre Attendance
Data from Gene Brown’s Movie Time

10. Data from www.the-numbers.com

14. Top 5 Grossing Distributors (1995-2011)4
Top 5 Grossing Distributors ( )
Studio Name
Movie Count
Total Gross
Average Gross
Marker Share
Warner Bros.
489
$25,862,943,704
$52,889,455
14.34%
Walt Disney
432
$25,819,313,401
$59,766,929
14.32%
Sony Pictures
508
$23,576,817,238
$46,411,058
13.07%
Paramount
329
$21,149,601,523
$64,284,503
11.73%
20th Century Fox
342
$20,117,861,634
$58,824,157
11.16%
An interesting aspect to note is the movie count versus to average gross count. Although Sony distributed more movies than did Warner Brothers, their average gross was significantly lower
With only 77 movies distributed, Dreamworks SKG was able to edge Miramax's 377 films and MGM’s 229

15. DVD vs. VHS Sales Trends
Circa 2002 percent of home videos being VHS vs. DVDs were equal
DVDs now currently account for almost %100 of home video sales,
(opposite in 1997)
DVDs (in units sold) have begun to decrease slowly in 2006, perhaps due to other ways of watching film at home
VHS Sales have fallen dramatically since In 2007 sales were at 300,000 units
Sources:
*Please see excel file “Sales” for the data and graph of DVD vs. VHS Units sold
(other graph was copied and pasted from online

16. DVD vs. VHS Sales Trends Continued
See excel sheet “DVD Vs. VHS”
Source: (page 67)

17. Movie Rental Business Trends
Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010 because of poor business decisions
More consumers enjoy the convenience of Netflix and online downloads.

18. How Netflix Won the Market
The Pareto rule says that 80% of your revenue will come from 20% of your products.
Blockbuster would only stock the most popular 20% of movies because of limited shelf space.

19. How Netflix Won the Market
Netflix did not have shelf space issues and could stock 100% of the movies capitalizing on the 20% that Blockbuster could not.
Offered convenience of downloadable movies.
Netflix attracted customers with their unlimited monthly rental program.

20. 11
Home Video Market (2009)
Although DVD sales have not been thriving, they still continue to dominate the home video market, as it accounts for 63% of it

21. Top 5 All Time Grossing Films7
Top 5 All Time Grossing Films
Film
Total Gross (in millions)
Avatar
$759,563
Titanic
$600,788
The Dark Knight
$533,184
Star Wars
$460,998
Shrek 2
$437,212

22. Hollywood’s Top Earners (2009)
Name
Total Earned (in millions)
Michael Bay
$125
Steven Spielberg
$85
Roland Emmerich
$70
James Cameron
$50
Todd Phillips
$44
All gained 2009 revenue as directors from feature films except Steven Spielberg
Spielberg gained his tremendous 2009 income from Universal theme- park royalties and consulting
For his work in Harry Potter,, Daniel Radcliffe was the top earner among actors with $41 million