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Showcase films 08.05.13 ( May 8th)

21 and over: Mandeville Films: Indie

All stars: Vertigo Films: Indie

Chimpanzee: Documentary

Dead man down: Mainstream, IM global

Evil dead: FilmDistrict Indie

Iron man 3: Marvel/ Paramount. Mainstream

Oblivivion: Universal Pictures, main stream

Olympus has fallen: Millennium films. Independent

The Croods: Dreamworks animation

The look of Love: Film Four,  mainstream

The place beyond the pines: Focus Features, mainstream

To what extent does the Internet piracy pose a threat to the film industry

Piracy has always been always been a issue for the film industry, but now in our contemporary society, Internet piracy is the biggest the industry has ever seen.

The way morden technology is evolving means that any thing the film industry are doing to prevent piracy such as putting the films in stereoscopic 3D are not working, as the technology Is being developers that allows people to pirate them still. People can still pirate the film from torrent websites such as pirate bay and torrent hound, these websites are seen as organised crime so they get shut down occasionally by the FBI. But it is not long before the websites are up and running again.

Piracy also make it easier for people to watch films from home, so they can watch it with there friends and family. Piracy is most common with people of younger generation. The reasons behind this is due to fact they are to young to see the films in the cinema, so they resort to piracy to watch them and they can have there friends round and make an event of it.

As piracy is organised crime, the criminals make money from this, this is one of the biggest threats for the industry, as people are making money from the pirated films the industry are not making any money's from these film, this means people stop paying to see the film, this means a decline in film profit so this is why you can only see blockbusters at cinemas now a they know they are defiantly going to make money from then, they also release the films in 3D as well to body there revenues.

Internet piracy, has become a big problem to the industry, this mean they are losing money, and the problem with piracy is worse than it has ever been, just because of the Internet.

Video nasties mock

The biggest fear in the 1980's was the video nasties and the fact people could more openly get these film at home. The fact people could get unregulated and uncensored films from home struck fear in to the government.

1980 saw a rose in home video with rises in sales in the VHS and the beta max. This drove the attendance of cinemas to an all time low. This was due to the fact people wanted to stay in at home and watch the films with friends and family, this made watching films more of a social event, at this time they could get any film they wanted due to the increase of video piracy. Piracy drove down the sales of beta max, as VHS was easier for people to copy and spreading the copies around.

Unregulated/video nasties films also arose at this point, this meant that people could get any film they wanted at home even if they had been banned from the cinemas, this meant that anyone of any age, any social status could watch these films, the four big video nasties of the time period were, evil dead, I spit on your grave, last house in the left and driller killer.

These video nasties gave the government a life line to have something to blame on the way the people were reacting to thatchers policies and the miners strikes, the government blamed this on the fact they could see anything and the video nasties were corrupting the nation.

The 80's saw the arrival of the BBFC. The British board of film classification, they started to protested about the video nasties and eventually started to get regulation on home videos.

In the end, the ban in the video nasties has not effected us to this day, I believe that films should not be censored as no a days we have be come de-sensitised, to the thing we see in films. As no we can see anything we want though the Internet.

The phenomenon as a contributing factor in the rise of block buster

The contributing factors to the rise of the blockbusters would have the been the cineplex phenomenon, that rose at the same time. Also the rise in technology and the special effects. All the blockbusters seem to come under the same genre. Space opera, slapstick comedy's remakes, slashers and films from people's youths and films that always have Heros. This brought a rise of Cop tv shows int the 80,s telly another thing it sported was a series of movie such as dance films