The Making of A Successful Hollywood Movie Starts With You

By Burch Colon

Hollywood spends a lot of money to make a blockbuster movie hit. The costs to bring in top performers combined with special cinematic effects teams makes producing top rated movies extremely expensive. It is a gamble but it is a risk that Hollywood is willing to take.

If a movie really takes off at the box office, producers, directors and movie cast will more than make up the cost of producing a movie hit. Some big movies have generated well over 100 million dollars in sales. When a film flops that is a different story.

The key to big ticket sales is for producers and directors is to create a film that spawns a lot of media attention before the movie is released. This media buzz creates anticipation for movie goers and causes a ticket sell-out on opening day. This is how they can tell if a movie is going to be a smash hit. Once a movie is released, it is then statistically trended to see how well it is going to perform over time.

Today, it is so much easier for producers and directors to plan a blockbuster hit movie. They have learned a lot about what America and the rest of the world wants in movie entertainment in the last 30 years. This data helps them target the interest of the broadest movie audience with a potential big hit before the movie is ever made.

There are plenty of ways that Hollywood makes money. Aside from releasing new movies each summer and fall, they also, enjoy handsome profits for the sales of DVD rentals and purchases. This makes up for a big portion of their annual revenues as older classics are transformed into DVD and Blu-Ray discs.

Besides new movie releases, Hollywood also generates hefty revenues from older classics too and popular television shows too. The sales of DVD rentals and purchases continually produce added revenues as people build their movie libraries over time. Many popular television series have been transformed into DVD's for public purchase.

In the past movies that were once very popular such as King Kong and Godzilla have be reproduced in sequels with better special effects and plots to lure fans to the big screen. Throughout the years this has paid off big for Hollywood. Jurassic Park is one such classic that entertained movie goes with two sequels. It is one of my favorites.

During the past ten years Hollywood has created a new kind of fictional movie taken from the pages of Marvel Comic books. Batman, Superman, and Cat Woman are all examples of how special effects have made it possible to bring anything to life on the big screen. If it can be imagined, then they will find a way to bring it to life in a new and entertaining way. - 30542

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