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Get the inside track
Ever wondered how movies get released in cinemas? Or how audiences get informed about movies coming up?
When a film is finished and the cast and crew move on to other projects, a whole new chapter in the film's life begins. Want to know the whole story? Here's a website, www.launchingfilms.tv, where you can discover more about the real business of film distribution.
And here's a few other film industry websites that you may find informative and useful:
www.launchingfilms.com
www.skillset.org
www.filmeducation.org
In between issues of Focus, there's a couple of great movie
magazines to check out online:
www.empireonline.com
www.totalfilm.com
www.visimag.com/filmreview
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A fistful of facts
- In 2007, 525 films were released in UK cinemas, attracting 162,427,016 admissions (up 3.7% from 2006). Top 5 films of the year, all released during the fantastic summer months, were: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Shrek the Third, The Simpsons Movie, Spider-Man 3.
- There are 659 cinemas with 3,357 screens in the UK.
Three-quarters of the screens are in multiplexes.
- The UK's first multiplex, in Central Milton Keynes,
opened in 1985.
- London has 16% of the UK's cinema screens but accounts
for 25% of cinema admissions.
- The UK's top grossing film of all time is Titanic (1998),
which took £69 million at the box-office.
- In 2006, a total of 156,560,402 cinema tickets were bought
in the UK, to see 505 different film releases. Top 5 films of
the year were: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest,
Casino Royale, The Da Vinci Code, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
and Borat.
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