Resources / Media Industries / Hollywood Today

The sites below are links to websites, blogs etc that can be used if you are wanting to collect information about the Hollywood film industry today. They can be used as a way of updating your material every year. The themes you choose to ficus on will depend on what is happening in a particular year. It is worth doing a general search for the main Hollywood studios on something as basic as Wikipedia, but up to date information can be found elsewhere.

Link	Description
The Internet Movie Database (IMDB)	A general resource for film, with details about Hollywood films, directors, stars, etc.
Box Office Mojo	Site that gives you very detailed information about Hollywood Studios and films and the revenue from these films. Absolutely essential for this topic.
Variety Magazine	Variety will give you lots of up to date news about film productions, directors and Hollywood Industry in general.
Deadline Hollywood	A Hollywood entertainment news site.
The Hollywood Reporter	A Hollywood entertainment news site.
Hollywood Statistics	Film industry statistics from Statista.

These sites could be used to explore specific issues within the Hollywood film industry.

Link	Description
New Hollywood: How a thriving international market has changed American filmmaking.	or the past several years, we've been noticing the ramped up production of big budget films based on comics, graphic novels, and books. The American Society of Cinematographers offers an analysis as to why that is, and what role the international market, namely the fast growing Chinese market, plays in how American films are made and marketed.
Six Hollywood studio executives discuss the state of the film industry.	The Hollywood Reporter recently sat down with the major studio chiefs for an hour-long discussion of the state of the industry. Here's No Film School's three takeaway messages from the video.
Four big reasons people aren't going to the movies anymore.	A story from 2014.
Why are there so many remakes?	A YouTube video.