Film industry research

Random Facts - 2012

•    In 2012, UK box office revenues exceeded £1 billion for the second year in succession, while cinema admissions rose to 172.5 million, the third highest figure in the past 40 years.

•    The box office share of UK independent films was 9%

•    The biggest film of the year was Skyfall which earned £103 million at the UK box office to become the highest earning film of all time. It topped the weekend box office charts for four weeks.

•    Fantasy, including The Hobbit: An unexpected Journey, took more money per cinema on average than other genres.

•    Films in 33 different languages (including English) were released in the UK

Film Marketing - 2013

• http://www.the-numbers.com/market/ - This website is very useful as it shows statistics of every movie released since 1995 to 2013, and they're categorised into six following attributes; Creative type (factual, contemporary, fiction etc) Source (book, play, original screenplay..) Genre (drama, horror, documentary etc.) MPAA rating, Production Method (live action, digital animation etc) and Distributor.
• http://www.magnetmediafilms.com/blog/top-social-cinema-marketing-campaigns-of-2013/#.Ut-dAI44m_U - This website is useful as it shows the top social cinema marketing campaigns of 2013. It shows statistics and the different ways the films have been promoted such as Truck commercials, online games, and gifs of the movies from Tumblr which have helped to get a widespread viral promotion.