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Brown, John Seely and Duguid, Paul: Lieberman, Al and Esgate, Pat: The Entertainment Marketing Revolution: Appleton, Dina and Yankelevits, Daniel: Negotiating Talent Agreements Allworth. Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries, , Praeger. Asher, Steven and Pincus, Edward: Clark, Barbara and Spohr, Susan: The Cinema of China is one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan.
Cinema was introduced in China in and the first Chinese film, The Battle of Dingjunshan , was made in , with the film industry being centered on Shanghai in the first decades. China is the home of the largest film studio in the world, the Hengdian World Studios , and in it had the third largest film industry by number of feature films produced annually.
For the next decade the production companies were mainly foreign-owned, and the domestic film industry was centered on Shanghai, a thriving entrepot and the largest city in the Far East. As the Sixth Generation gained international exposure, many subsequent movies were joint ventures and projects with international backers, but remained quite resolutely low-key and low budget.
It featured no star of international renown and was acted mostly by non-professionals. In the country became the second-largest market in the world by box office receipts. The country is predicted to have the largest market in the world in or India is the largest producer of films in the world and second oldest film industry in the world which originated around about years ago. Indian film industry is also the dominant source of movies and entertainment in its neighboring countries of South Asia.
The largest film and most popular industry in India is the Hindi film industry mostly concentrated in Mumbai Bombay , [24] and is commonly referred to as Bollywood , an amalgamation of Bombay and Hollywood. The other largest film industries are Tamil cinema , Telugu cinema , Kannada cinema , Malayalam cinema , and Bangla cinema cinema of West Bengal , which are located in Chennai , Hyderabad , Bengaluru , Kochi , and Kolkata.
The remaining majority portion is spread across northern, western, and southern India with Gujarati , Punjabi , Marathi , Oriya , Bhojpuri , Assamese Cinema. However, there are several smaller centers of Indian film industries in regional languages centered in the states where those languages are spoken. Indian films are made filled with musicals, action, romance, comedy, and an increasing number of special effects.
It encloses a number of several artforms like Indian classical music, folk music of different regions throughout the country, Indian classical dance, folk dance and much more. It is even the place for number of artists from the Indian subcontinent to showcase their talent. The Indian film industry produces more than films a year. The largest film studio complex in the world is Ramoji Film City located at Hyderabad , India, which opened in and measures ha 1, acres. Comprising 47 sound stages, it has permanent sets ranging from railway stations to temples.
The highest-grossing movie of India is Dangal which is also the 5th highest grossing non-English movie in the world. The cinema of Nigeria , often referred to informally as Nollywood , is the second largest film industry, in terms of output, and the third largest, in terms of overall revenues generated. The history and development of the Nigerian motion picture industry is sometimes generally classified in four main eras: Film as a medium first arrived Nigeria in the late 19th century, in the form of peephole viewing of motion picture devices.
After Nigeria's independence in , the cinema business rapidly expanded, with new cinema houses being established.
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After the decline of the Golden era, Nigerian film industry experienced a second major boom in the s, supposedly marked by the release of the direct-to-video film Living in Bondage ; the industry peaked in the mid s to become the second largest film industry in the world in terms of the number of annual film productions, placing it ahead of the United States and behind only India. The boom also led to a backlash against Nigerian films in several countries, bordering on theories such as the "Nigerialization of Africa". There has since been a resurgence in the proliferation of cinema establishments, and a steady return of the cinema culture in Nigeria.
Egyptian cinema is the flourishing cinema of North Africa. Censorship, formerly an obstacle to freedom of expression, has decreased remarkably. The Egyptian cinema has witnessed a remarkable shift in terms of the taboos it may address. It has begun to tackle boldly issues ranging from sexual issues [44] to heavy government criticism.
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The s, s and the s are generally considered the golden age of Egyptian cinema. As in the West, films responded to the popular imagination, with most falling into predictable genres happy endings being the norm , and many actors making careers out of playing strongly typed parts. In the words of one critic, "If an Egyptian film intended for popular audiences lacked any of these prerequisites, it constituted a betrayal of the unwritten contract with the spectator, the results of which would manifest themselves in the box office.
Smaller art films attract some international attention but sparse attendance at home.
Popular films, often broad comedies such as What A Lie! The cinema of Iran Persian: Iranian art films have garnered international fame and now enjoy a global following. Along with China, Iran has been lauded as one of the best exporters of cinema in the s. World-renowned Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke and German filmmaker Werner Herzog , along with many film critics from around the world, have praised Iranian cinema as one of the world's most important artistic cinemas.
The term " cinema of Korea " or " Korean cinema " encompasses the motion picture industries of North and South Korea. As with all aspects of Korean life during the past century, the film industry has often been at the mercy of political events, from the late Joseon dynasty to the Korean War to domestic governmental interference. While both countries have relatively robust film industries today, only South Korean films have achieved wide international acclaim.
North Korean films tend to portray their communist or revolutionary themes. South Korean films enjoyed a "Golden age" during the late s, and s, but by the s had become generally considered to be of low quality. Nonetheless, by South Korea had become one of few nations to watch more domestic than imported films in theatres [51] due largely to laws placing limits on the number of foreign films able to be shown per theatre per year.
Hong Kong is a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world including the worldwide diaspora and East Asia in general. For decades it was the third largest motion picture industry in the world after Bollywood and Hollywood and the second largest exporter of films. Unlike many film industries, Hong Kong has enjoyed little to no direct government support, through either subsidies or import quotas.
It has always been a thoroughly commercial cinema, concentrating on crowd-pleasing genres , like comedy and action, and heavily reliant on formulas, sequels and remakes. Typically of commercial cinemas, its heart is a highly developed star system , which in this case also features substantial overlap with the pop music industry. The Turkish film market also stands out in the pan-European landscape as the only market where national films regularly outperform US films. This is the third lowest share among the 30 European markets for which such data are available and clearly illustrates the strong dependence of Turkish films on the domestic market, a feature which is shared by Polish and Russian films.
In a cinema ticket cost on average EUR 4. Because of devaluation of the Turkish Lira against the Euro, average ticket prices measured in Euro remained fairly stable over the past 10 years. The cinema of Pakistan , or simply, Pakistani cinema Urdu: Most of the feature films shot in Pakistan are in Urdu , the national language, but may also include films in English, the official language, and regional languages such as Punjabi , Pashto , Balochi , and Sindhi. Before the separation of Bangladesh, Pakistan had three main film production centres: Lahore , Karachi and Dhaka.
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The regime of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , VCRs , film piracy , the introduction of entertainment taxes, strict laws based upon ultra-conservative jurisprudence, was an obstacle to the industry's growth. The cinema of Bangladesh is the Bengali language film industry based in Dhaka , Bangladesh. The industry often has been a significant film industry since the early s.
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The word "Dhallywood" is a portmanteau of the words Dhaka and Hollywood. The dominant style of Bangladeshi cinema is Melodramatic cinema , which developed from to and characterizes most films to this day. Cinema was introduced in Bangladesh in by Bradford Bioscope Company, credited to have arranged the first film release in Bangladesh. Between and , the first production company named Picture House was opened.
A short silent film titled Sukumari The Good Girl was the first produced film in the region during The first full-length film The Last Kiss , was released in From the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan, Dhaka is the center of Bangladeshi film industry, and generated the majority share of revenue, production and audiences.
The s, s, s and the first half of the s were the golden years for Bangladeshi films as the industry produced many successful films. The Face and the Mask , the first Bengali language Bangladeshi full-length feature film was produced in The biggest film studios in Southeast Asia has been soft opened on 5 November on 10 hectares of land in Nongsa , Batam Island , Indonesia. Infinite Frameworks IFW is a Singapore -based company closed to Batam Island which easy to approach or be approached by international clients and is owned by a consortium with 90 percent of it hold by Indonesian businessman and movie producer, Mike Wiluan.
Foreign films include major box offices from the west, and other major film producers of the world. This has caused a massive ripple effect on the country's economy. It is assumed that this increases the purchase of unlicensed DVDs. However, even copyright violating DVDs now take longer to obtain. The minimum cost to view a foreign film not screened locally, is 1 million Rupiah.
The screenplay was written by the Trinidadian playwright, Freddie Kissoon. The Trinidad and Tobago Film Company is the national agency that was established in to further development of the film industry. Trinidad and Tobago puts on a number of film festivals which are organized by different committees and organizations. There is also an annual Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival which runs for two weeks in the latter half of September. Nepali film does not have a very long movie history, but the industry has its own place in the cultural heritage of the country.
It is often referred to as 'Nepali Chalchitra' which translates to "Nepali movies" in English. The terms Kollywood and Kallywood are also used, as a portmanteau of "Kathmandu" and "Hollywood"; "Kollywood" however is more frequently used to refer to Tamil cinema.
Nepali movies has recently begun receiving international acclaim with films such as The Black Hen , Kagbeni and others. The Board is a liaison to facilitate the conceptualization, making, distribution and exhibition of Nepali films nationally. The Board attempts to bridge the gap between film entrepreneurship and government bureaucracy.