Film Industry

 25% of the class last movie at cinema was from a franchise or sequel. 100% went to multiplex cinemas like Odean, Cineworld or Vue

  1. Disney
  2. Columbia (Sony)
  3. Warner Bros
  4. Paramount
  5. universal
Industry dominated by America and Hollywood. Movies used to be filmed on rolls of film which were relocated and had to to be manually cut and pasted onto other rolls of film if they had footage they wanted to remove. With the addition of digital cameras not only could you 

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