Exam Blog: February 2017

Sony

Smurfs: The Lost Village
Passengers
Inferno
The Magnificent Seven
Sausage Party
Ghostbusters
The Shallows
Angry Birds
Money Monster
The Broters Grimsby

Warner Bros.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Suicide Squad
Batman vs. Superman
Storks
Sully
The Accountant
The Conjuring
The Legend of Tarzan
Light Out
Live by Night

20th Century Fox

Deadpool
Trolls
X-Men: Apocalypse
A Cure for Wellness
Assassin's Creed
Independence Day: Resurgence
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Mike and Dave need wedding dates
Kung-Fu Panda 3
Why Him?
Ice Age: Collision Course

Paramount

Star Trek Beyond
Allied
Be-Hur
Arrival
Fences
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Silence
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Monster Trucks
Florence Foster Jenkins

Disney

Moana
Finding Dory
Zootopia
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Pete's Dragon
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The BFG
The Jungle Book
The Finest Hours
Queen of Katwe

Universal

Secret Life of Pets
Warcraft
The Purge: Election Year
The Huntsman: Winters War
Hail, Caeser!
Bridget Jones' Baby
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Ride Along 2
The Boss
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Lionsgate

LaLa Land
Deep Water Horizon
Patriots Day
The Choice
Now You See Me 2
Nerve
Boo! A Madea Halloween
Dirty Grandpa
Gods of Egypt
Norm of the North

MGM

Me Before You
Ben-Hur
How to be Single
Barbershop: The Next Cut
The Belko Experiment
The Magnificent Seven

The top 5 grossing films of 2016 are :

Finding Dory with a gross profit of $486,295,561, it was released 6/7/2017 and its distributor is Walt Disney Studios
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with a gross profit of $424,987,707 it was released 12/16/2016 and its distributor is Walt Disney Studios
Captain America: Civil War with a gross profit of $408,084,349, it was released 5/6/2016 and its distributor is Walt Disney Studios
The Secret Life of Pets with a gross profit of $368,384,330 it was released 7/8/2016 and its distributor is Universal Studios
The Jungle Book with a gross profit of $364,001,1237 it was released 4/15/2016 and its distributor is Walt Disney Studios

The big six are all of the mainstream film companies which distribute the expensive and well advertised films. The companies within the big 6 are: Warner Bros. Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures and Walt Disney Studios. There are many genres for films such as: western, horror, thriller, romance, comedy, action, animation, fiction etc which all appeal to different audiences.

The Secret Life of Pets and Finding Dory were both created with children as their target audience and were released during the school summer holidays so children had time to go to the cinema and watch the films. All of the films listed are produced by companies within the big 6, which shows that Indie distributors do not produce high budget films that gain high profits. This is very different to Blockbuster films which produce high budget films with a very large profit. Two of the top five films are sequels from other films which shows that they have control over a specific audience who are fans of the original films or are interested in the narrative that runs throughout.

Release Date Schedule:
DECEMBER 2016

December 2 (Friday)

Incarnate
Jackie (Limited)
Things to Come (Limited)