The agreement allows more American exports to China of 3D, IMAX, and similar enhanced format movies on favorable commercial terms, strengthens the opportunities to distribute films through private enterprises rather than the state film monopoly, and ensures fairer compensation levels for U.S. blockbuster films distributed by Chinese state-owned enterprises. The agreement will be reviewed after 5 years to ensure that it is working as envisioned. If necessary, the United States can return to the WTO to seek relief.
From 2010 to 2018, tobacco incidents in top-grossing movies increased 57%, including a 120% increase in those rated PG-13. In 2018, biographical dramas accounted for most tobacco incidents, including 82% of those in PG-13 movies; 73% of characters who used tobacco in these biographical dramas were fictional.
The total number of tobacco incidents in top-grossing movies increased by 57%, from 1,824 in 2010 to 2,868 in 2018. The number of tobacco incidents reached a low of 1,743 in 2015 before increasing to a high of 3,163 in 2016. The total number of tobacco incidents in G- or PG-rated movies decreased from 30 in 2010 to 17 in 2018. In contrast, tobacco incidents increased from 564 to 1,241 (120%) in PG-13 movies and from 1,230 to 1,610 (31%) in R-rated movies, compared with those in 2010.
From 2010 to 2018, changes in the number of tobacco incidents in youth-rated movies varied by movie company. During this period, tobacco incidents dropped from 10 to zero in movies from Disney and from 115 to zero in Viacom movies and declined from 198 to 86 in Sony movies. Tobacco incidents increased approximately 2,900% in Comcast movies (from 19 to 573), 600% in Time Warner movies (from four to 29), 200% in Fox movies (from 96 to 327), and 60% in movies from independent companies (from 152 to 243).
The findings in this report are subject to at least two limitations. First, detailed audience composition data are not publicly available, so the number of tobacco-use impressions delivered by a particular movie to specific populations (e.g., children and adolescents) could not be determined. Second, the measure to assess tobacco exposure from movies should be interpreted cautiously because movies can be viewed through other media platforms that do not contribute to the calculation of in-theater impressions (e.g., physical discs, broadcast or cable television, and video-on-demand services).
Tobacco related incidents in youth-rated movies remained common, particularly in biographical dramas. The majority of persons using tobacco in these biographical dramas were fictional, not historical, figures. Studios could limit tobacco use in biographical dramas to real persons who actually used tobacco. Other evidence-based solutions could be implemented by producers and distributors of youth-rated entertainment to reduce the public health risk caused by exposure to on-screen tobacco imagery. For example, assigning all movies with tobacco incidents an R rating could eliminate tobacco product imagery from youth-rated films, which could further reduce initiation of tobacco product use among U.S. youths.
Kansas and The Wizard of Oz. Iowa and Field of Dreams. New York and Do the Right Thing. Some movies are synonymous with certain states, but which ones are the absolute best? We set out to pick our favorite films that take place in each U.S. state, taking into consideration cinematic value, cultural impact, and, of course, how well they represent and showcase their settings. We ended up with a list of 50 critically acclaimed movies that not only want to make us spend a day with Netflix, but take a few American road trips as well.
Moonlight is one of the best movies to come out of the past decade, so it was an easy pick for Florida. The film chronicles three chapters in the life of Chiron, a Black man growing up in Miami and coming to terms with his sexuality. Aside from showcasing a side of Miami you won't find in tourist brochures, director Barry Jenkins uses the beaches and side streets of the city as backdrops to some of the movie's most important moments. The beautiful scene where Juan (Mahershala Ali) teaches young Chiron (Alex Hibbert) to swim, for example, will stick in your mind long after the credits roll.
Most of John Hughes's most popular movies take place in Illinois, many in the fictional Chicago suburb of Shermer (including Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club). But none of the director's films depict Chicago quite as thoroughly as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the most entertaining tale of truancy ever told. Instead of dealing with monotone teachers and psychotic vice-principals, Ferris (Matthew Broderick) and his two friends decide to spend the perfect day in the Windy City, including exploring Wrigley Field, studying paintings at the Art Institute, and, most famously, joining an impromptu parade on Dearborn Street.
The list of movies set in North Dakota may be limited, but The Overnighters still stands out as an excellent example of documentary filmmaking. The movie depicts the lives of people flocking to North Dakota during an oil boom, just to discover that the price of housing is too high to afford. Enter Jay Reinke, a local pastor who let 1,000 people stay at his church for several years. It's a thoughtful examination of the modern American dream, and is filled with so many twists and surprises, you could swear it was fiction.
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century. The dominant style of American cinema is classical Hollywood cinema, which developed from 1910 to 1962 and is still typical of most films made there to this day. While Frenchmen Auguste and Louis Lumière are generally credited with the birth of modern cinema,[5] American cinema soon came to be a dominant force in the emerging industry. As of 2017[update], it produced the third-largest number of films of any national cinema, after India and China, with more than 600 English-language films released on average every year.[6] While the national cinemas of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand also produce films in the same language, they are not part of the Hollywood system. Because of this, Hollywood has also been considered a transnational cinema,[7] and has produced multiple language versions of some titles, often in Spanish or French. Contemporary Hollywood often outsources production to the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The major film studios of Hollywood are the primary source of the most commercially successful and most ticket-selling movies in the world.[8][9]
Many of Hollywood's highest-grossing movies have generated more box-office revenue and ticket sales outside the United States than films made elsewhere. The United States is a leading pioneer in motion picture engineering and technology.
Classical Hollywood cinema, or the Golden Age of Hollywood, is defined as a technical and narrative style characteristic of American cinema from 1913 to 1962, during which thousands of movies were issued from the Hollywood studios. The Classical style began to emerge in 1913, was accelerated in 1917 after the U.S. entered World War I, and finally solidified when the film The Jazz Singer was released in 1927, ending the silent film era and increasing box-office profits for film industry by introducing sound to feature films.
Martin Scorsese has warned that cinema as an art form is "being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced" to "content" and called blockbusters' overemphasis on box-office returns "repulsive".[92][93] Quentin Tarantino opined that the 2020s were one of the "worst" eras "in Hollywood history" on a podcast interview.[94][95] During a masterclass at the 2023 Sarajevo Film Festival, Charlie Kaufman criticized mainstream blockbusters, stating that "[a]t this point, the only thing that makes money is garbage" and encouraged industry professionals to "make movies outside of the studio system as much as possible".[96][97] James Gray noted in an interview with Deadline, "When you make movies that only make a ton of money and only one kind of movie, you begin to get a large segment of the population out of the habit of going to the movies", which causes viewership to decrease, though clarified that he has "no problem with a comic book movie". As a solution to the lack of "investment in the broad-based engagement with the product", he suggests that studios "be willing to lose money for a couple of years on art film divisions, and in the end they will be happier."[98]
Hollywood producers generally seek to comply with the Chinese government's censorship requirements in a bid to access the country's restricted and lucrative cinema market,[108] with the second-largest box office in the world as of 2016. This includes prioritizing sympathetic portrayals of Chinese characters in movies, such as changing the villains in Red Dawn from Chinese to North Koreans.[108] Due to many topics forbidden in China, such as Dalai Lama and Winnie-the-Pooh being involved in the South Park's episode "Band in China", South Park was entirely banned in China after the episode's broadcast.[109] The 2018 film Christopher Robin, the new Winnie-the-Pooh movie, was denied a Chinese release.[109]
With globalization, movie production has been clustered in Hollywood for several reasons: the United States has the largest single home market in dollar terms, entertaining and highly visible Hollywood movies have global appeal, and the role of English as a universal language contributes to compensating for higher fixed costs of production.
Hollywood has moved more deeply into Chinese markets, although influenced by China's censorship. Films made in China are censored, strictly avoiding themes like "ghosts, violence, murder, horror, and demons." Such plot elements risk being cut. Hollywood has had to make "approved" films, corresponding to official Chinese standards, but with aesthetic standards sacrificed to box office profits. Even Chinese audiences found it boring to wait for the release of great American movies dubbed in their native language.[122]
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