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.
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A general resource for film, with details about Hollywood films, directors, stars, etc. |
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Site that gives you very detailed information about Hollywood Studios and films and the revenue from these films. Absolutely essential for this topic. |
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Variety will give you lots of up to date news about film productions, directors and Hollywood Industry in general. |
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A Hollywood entertainment news site. |
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A Hollywood entertainment news site. |
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Film industry statistics from Statista. |
These sites could be used to explore specific issues within the Hollywood film industry.
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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. |
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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. |
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A story from 2014. |
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A YouTube video. |