Introduction to the Film Industries

Running Head: INTRODUCTION TO THE FILM INDUSTRIES 0
Introduction to the film Industries

INTRODUCTION TO THE FILM INDUSTRIES 1
In the past few decades, Hollywood has dominated over cinema industry and has thrown out the
foreign language cinema out of the business not even from the Hollywood however from the
nation of the origin too. According to a study foreign films cannot even make one percent of the
box office in the U.S (McDonald and Wasko, 2008). In countries like Brazil, Japan, China there
is a huge spurt in cinematic production but still Hollywood dominates everywhere and this is a
huge setback for cinematic world as this creates a barrier for other foreign cinematic content and
people are choosing Hollywood over them. Due to their big budget and media corporatization,
Hollywood is trying to steal the show and therefore it becomes difficult for the foreign language
cinema to attract a bigger crowd or to spend too much amount to appeal to masses.
Hollywood has a major production value in respect to other foreign films and the budget of
American films can be more than $250 million which is a very huge amount that a foreign film
has invested in its production and even after a foreign film crosses all these barriers successfully
it becomes almost impossible to attract a large number of audience without spending a huge
amount for advertising purposes. Another reason behind the unsuccessfulness of foreign films in
Hollywood might be because of the people who dislike using subtitles or watching dubbed
movies (Turner, 2002).
Hollywood has killed a lot of foreign cinema industry and invaded them and the local industry
has to fight against the situation. With regards to the contribution from the investors, they do not
hesitate to put their money in Hollywood for the advertising and production but it is not same in
the case of foreign films due to the pre-assumption that the foreign movies will not do any good
in the cinemas (Mossig, 2017). It might be a negative investment same case scenario is when it
comes to television broadcasting, the TV broadcasting, the transmission arrange don't purchase
any outside dialect substance or program even while on discharging day or after the outside