MBO Cinema Case Study

Get Out (2017) is a horror film directed and written by Jordan Peele. The film is about a black male named Chris, performed by Daniel Kaluuya, who is going out of town with his girlfriend Rose, performed by Allison Williams. The purpose of this trip is to meet her parents for the first time at their estate located deep into the woods. Little does Chris know Rose’s parents do not really care to meet him but are more interested in auctioning off his body. Chris figures this out towards the end of the film and he barley figures out a way to escape.

In the Modern Lens of Cinematic Attractions: What Dreams May Come (1998) A1: The Afterlife of Chris Nielsen (What Dreams May Come, Vincent Ward, 1998) For decades, film critics and theorists have undermined films for their lack of narrative and over-the-top visuals, rebuking others, often the average film viewer, for perceiving these films with contrasting opinions. Appraising all films under the "hegemony of narration" (Gunning 381) subverts the milestones of early and modern cinema. For example, the release of What Dreams May Come (1998) directed by Vincent Ward endured backlash despite taking home the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design.

There comes a time when a nation needs to realize that when a world crisis such as the “War on Drugs” persists in our society -- change is necessary. In the film Traffic directed by Steven Soderbergh, the “War on Drugs” is represented in different perspectives to illustrate the issue at diverse levels. Played by Michael Douglas, Robert Wakefield is an Ohio judge who’s appointed do the head drug position in the government. Through his point of view, it’s clear he holds the typical opinions and views of majority of people who are pro-criminalization of drugs. His daughter, an honor student, and your “perfect citizen” type character, is Caroline Wakefield played by Erika Christensen.

At Cineplex, exhibition remains a core business, however, to reduce dependency to Hollywood products, Cineplex continues to invest in some other areas such as: Cineplex Media, Cineplex Digital Media, Digital

The studio system within the film industry consisted of long term contracts for actors which gave more control to studios and less control to directors. Over time, Warner Bro’s, Famous Players, RKO Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Fox Film Corporation became known as “The Big Five”. These film studios were so successful because of vertical integration, which meant combining stages of production, distribution, and exhibition under one company instead of several companies. Each of these studios also owned smaller, local theaters. Together, they were responsible for forty-five percent of film-rental revenue.

BLOCKBUSTER ACQUIRES MOVIELINK: A GROWTH STRATEGY? Blockbuster Inc. was founded in 1985 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas and is a leading global provider of in-home movie and game entertainment with over 8,000 stores throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Blockbuster was one of the strongest and most recognizable entertainment brands in the world to offer movies, video games, and other forms media entertainment on a subscription basis.

Strengths Cineplex Inc. is a Canadian entertainment company that operates from one of the busiest cities in the world Toronto, Ontario. Cineplex currently has 162 theatres within Canada under numerous brands such as, Cineplex Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon, SilverCity, Galaxy Cinemas, Cinema City, Famous Players, Scotiabank Theatres and Cineplex VIP Cinemas. With the company's history going back more than a century it is not unusual that the previous decades have been full of mergers, acquisitions and growth that has brought about one of the biggest movie theatres today. Cineplex is a good experience as the movies is a place where people go to enjoy a film together and along with the brand owning a lot of the theatres in Canada, it is fair to conclude

Since the Wall Street stock market crash in 1929, millions of business went bankrupt and millions of people felt there was no hope for live and would like to give up the life. However, the economic crisis drove people to seek for higher living standard like the popularity of big band and jazz music was increase, as well as photographing, listing to video, watching films and many kinds of entertainment activities. In fact, in the 1940s, it was the golden age of American films. Due to Griffith and Charlie Chaplin and other professional won the world reputation for American films, as well as the Wall Street meddling in the movie industry, Hollywood movie grew rapidly and called for part of the profits. The raised of capital has led to the film

The documentary Moguls and Movie Stars (2010) highlights the struggles movie theatre owners went through after world war II. After the war, people were no longer in urban areas, which means they were further from movie theatres. After the rise of the drive-in movie theatre, “the studios were losing control over when and where moviegoers saw their movies” (Haber, 2010). The movie moguls had to change way they connect with the viewers. The moguls tried to compete with television by introducing cinemascope¬— “a wide-screen process using anamorphic lenses in photographing and projecting the film” (Dictonary.com, 2018).

The cinema theatres earn their revenue through the three big cinemas in the UK market (Grater, 2016). Odeon Cinema gain a competitive advantage through obtaining the right screen first-run films with the lower average cost per screening and then re-equip their cinema with the 3-D viewing, Odeon also offer 40% off returns to their customers in a particular month, they also offer limitless which make their customers capable to see the films they want as often as they like, the cinema also offers the sound technology along with stadium seating to provide the best experience for customer to watch the movie as their competitive strategy (Company website, 2018). Odeon cinema has a capability regarding their prices for the ticket which include the facilities, location near with customers and even try to compete themselves with the local cinema (Company website,

The reason Blockbuster failed because of two reasons. One: Blockbusters was a too successful business that could not adapt to the market changes and technological development. And two: Blockbuster change in CEO 's that eventually lost sight of the company's purpose which lead to a serious of bad decisions that killed the company. Bad decisions such as pulling Blockbuster’s internet effort which made them loss 85% of the company's capital value within 18 months .Blockbuster

Through movies’ ability to stay grounded in some truths, yet also push social boundaries, it is clear that films shape culture, and culture shapes film, making more important now than ever that filmmakers are aware of what they are putting out and the implications they will have. Not every movie producer

AMC tries to create a good experience for its customer through one of a king services which is different from their competitors. As AMC declares in is 2016 annual report, “our ongoing focus to improve the quality of the movie-going experience, legacy AMC theatres continue to maintain leading top-box customer satisfaction scores of greater than 60% and industry leading theatre productivity metrics” (AMC, 2016). Moreover, Customers not only have easy access to order tickets, but also, they can preorder food and beverages. AMC has updated many of their locations with a lounge and full-service bar called MacGuffins. “132 out of AMC’s current 346 US locations have a bar available, which means AMC has nearly as many MacGuffins as the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Part A. The primary externals influences to Starbucks PESTEL describes a framework of macro-environmental factors used in the environmental factors component of strategic management. PESTEL analysis includes some several factors: political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors. This report analyzes the factors which have main impact on Starbucks. 1.

Film tourism is a blooming sector among the tourism industry. It describes the effects that film and TV-productions can have on our travel decisions as they inspire people to experience the screened places firsthand. Not only is film tourism an excellent vehicle for destination marketing, it also presents new product development opportunities, such as location tours, film museums, exhibitions and the theming of existing tourist attractions with a film connection. (Film-tourism.com, 2014) Following with the prevalence of Korean dramas and soaps, many people are long for the romantic scenes and actors shown in the television.