TV Drama and Film Industry

The top 5 grossing films of 2016 are :

1. Finding Dory with a gross profit of $486,295,561, it was released 6/7/2017 and its distributor is Walt Disney Studios
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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)

December 9 (Friday)

Office Christmas Party
Burn Country (Limited)
La La Land (Limited)
Sugar Mountain (Limited)

December 16 (Friday)

Collateral Beauty
La La Land (Expands)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Fences (Limited)
A Kind of Murder (Limited)
Neruda (Limited)
Solace (Limited)

December 21 (Wednesday - Christmas Week)

Assassin's Creed
Passengers
Sing
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (Limited)
Barry (Limited)
Julieta (Limited)
Patriots Day (Limited)

December 23 (Friday)

Why Him?
I, Daniel Blake (Limited)
A Monster Calls (Limited)
Silence (Limited)

December 25 (Sunday - Christmas Day)

Fences (Expands)
20th Century Women (Limited)
Gold (Limited)
Hidden Figures (Limited)
Live By Night (Limited)
Toni Erdmann (Limited)

December 28 (Wednesday)

Paterson (Limited)

JANUARY 2017

January 6 (Friday)

Hidden Figures (Expands)
A Monster Calls (Expands)
Underworld: Blood Wars
Railroad Tigers (Limited)

January 13 (Friday)

The Bye Bye Man
Live By Night (Expands)
Monster Trucks
Sleepless
Alone in Berlin (Limited)
The Book of Love (Limited)
The Crash (Limited)
Go North (Limited)

January 20 (Friday)

The Founder
Split
xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
Detour (Limited)
The Red Turtle (Limited)

January 27 (Friday)

A Dog's Purpose
Gold (Expands)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
The Salesman (Limited)

FEBRUARY 2017

February 1 (Wednesday)

The Lure (Limited)

February 3 (Friday)

Rings
The Space Between Us
The Comedian (Limited)
I Am Not Your Negro (Limited)
Wheeler (Limited)
Youth in Oregon (Limited)

February 10 (Friday)

Fifty Shades Darker
John Wick: Chapter Two
The LEGO Batman Movie
Kedi (Limited)
A United Kingdom (Limited)

February 17 (Friday)

A Cure for Wellness
Fist Fight
The Great Wall
Everybody Loves Somebody (Limited)
Lovesong (Limited)

February 24 (Friday)

Collide
Get Out
Rock Dog
Bitter Harvest (Limited)
My Life as a Zucchini (Limited)
Tulip Fever (Limited)