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| KEY NOTE THE FILM INDUSTRY : March 2002 |
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This report covers: The Film Industry,Cinema Admissions,Box-Office Revenue,Video Retail, Video Rental,Cinema Screens, Cinema Sites,Current Issues,The Global Market,Industry Background,Competitor Analysis,Markewt Size, Market Definition,
Companies/Consortiums covered include: BBC Worldwide Ltd,Carlton Communications PLC,Channel Four International Ltd, Warner Bros. Productions Ltd,National Lottery Film-Production Franchises,DNA Film Ltd,The Film Consortium,Pathé Pictures,
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The UK film industry serves both indigenous UK filmmakers and foreign companies, including those from the US, that choose for professional reasons to make films in the UK. In 2000, the total cost of making films in the UK was £804.3m. In terms of investment, this made the UK the third-largest film industry in the world, after the US and Japan. In the same year, the UK made 98 films, ranking joint ninth in the world by number of films produced.
A total of 382 films were released in cinemas in the UK in 2000. These films generated a box-office revenue of £577.3m — an increase of 7.9 percent from the previous year. UK cinema admissions have shown an almost continuous rise since 1982, reaching 142.5 million in 2000, and are expected to have continued to increase in 2001.
A major development in the UK film market has been the growth of multiplex cinemas, which increased in number by 126.5 percent between 1995 and 2000. However, the multiplex boom is now appearing to slow, and the cinema industry is entering a phase of consolidation. The number of new screens to be added by multiplex developments is, therefore, expected to be low. Odeon Cinemas and ABC Cinemas merged in 2000, and the combined chain is now the largest single owner of cinema screens in the UK.
The most interesting recent development in the UK film industry was the launch of the Film Council in April 2000. This is a government-funded body, which has been organised by the film industry. The indigenous UK film industry is regarded as fragmented, and the aim of the Film Council is to increase its integration and help to form a sustainable stand-alone industry. The Council has organised several initiatives to improve British films and the UK film industry. It will, however, be 4 or 5 years before it is known whether the Film Council has succeeded or failed.
The DVD (digital versatile disc) has been readily accepted by the British consumer, with sales almost quadrupling between 1999 and 2000. This technology is expected to continue its rapid growth in the retail and rental markets. However, Key Note believes that it is too early to announce the death of video. Video recorders have penetrated 90 percent of UK households, and it will be a long time before DVD players reach a similar level of penetration.
Key Note forecasts that the number of films made in the UK will increase to 126 by 2006, and that their production cost will rise to £1.41bn at constant 2001 prices in the same year. Admissions and box-office revenues are expected to rise continuously within the forecast period.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Executive Summary |
| 1. Market Definition |
| REPORT COVERAGE |
| MARKET SECTORS |
| MARKET TRENDS |
| MARKET POSITION |
| The UK |
| Favourite Leisure Activities |
| Table 1: Favourite Leisure Activities Among 15 to 34 Year-Olds ( percent of respondents), 2000 |
| Expenditure on Leisure Services |
| Table 2: Average Weekly Household Expenditure on Leisure Services (£ and percent), 1999/2000 |
| Overseas |
| Investment in Film |
| Table 3: The Top Ten Film-Producing Nations by Size of Investment ($m), 2000 |
| Number of Films Produced |
| Table 4: The Top Ten Film-Producing Nations by Number of Films Produced, 1999 and 2000 |
| KEY TRADE ASSOCIATIONS |
| British Film Commission |
| British Film Institute |
| Cinema Advertising Association |
| The Film Council |
| Producers’ Alliance for Cinema and Television |
| 2. Market Size |
| THE THEATRICAL MARKET |
| Cinema Admissions |
| Table 5: UK Cinema Admissions (million), 1981-2001 |
| Box-Office Revenue |
| Table 6: UK Box-Office Revenue (£m and percent), 1995-2001 |
| By Country of Origin |
| Table 7: UK Box-Office Revenue by the Films’ Country of Origin (number of titles, £m and percent), 2000 |
| Number of Films on Release |
| Table 8: Films on Release in the UK by Country of Origin (number and percent), 1960-2000 |
| THE VIDEO AND DVD MARKET |
| Table 9: UK Video Retail and Rental Sales (million units, million transactions and £m), 1990-2000 |
| Table 10: UK DVD Retail Sales (million units and £m), 1999 and 2000 |
| UK FILM PRODUCTION |
| Number of UK Films Produced |
| Table 11: The Number of UK Films Produced and Their Cost at Current and Constant 2001 Prices (£m), 1986-2001 |
| UK Investment in Films |
| Table 12: Average Investment per Film Production in the Leading European Film Industries ($m), 1999 and 2000 |
| Budgets by Source of Finance |
| Table 13: UK Film Budgets by Source of Finance — Total Cost and Average Cost Per Film (£m), 2000 |
| 3. Industry Background |
| NUMBER OF CINEMAS AND SCREENS |
| Table 14: Number of Cinema Screens in the UK, 1991-2000 |
| Table 15: Number of Cinema Sites in the UK, 1995-2000 |
| Table 16: Number of Cinema Screens per Million Population in Selected European Countries, 1999 and 2000 |
| VIDEO AND DVD RENTAL AND SALE |
| Table 17: UK Consumer Expenditure on Feature Films by Channel of Distribution (£m), 1986-2000 |
| REGIONAL VARIATIONS IN THE MARKETPLACE |
| Table 18: Distribution of UK Cinema Screens by Region (number and percent of screens), 2000 |
| HOW ROBUST IS THE MARKET? |
| LEGISLATION |
| Cinemas Act 1985 |
| Films Act 1985 |
| Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 |
| 4. Competitor Analysis |
| THE MARKETPLACE |
| LEADING COMMERCIAL FILM-PRODUCTION COMPANIES |
| Table 19: The Top Ten Film Production Companies in the UK by Turnover (£m), 1999/2000/2001 |
| Carlton Communications PLC |
| Walt Disney International Ltd |
| Time Warner Entertainment Ltd |
| Warner Bros. Productions Ltd |
| Universal Pictures Productions Ltd |
| Carnival (Films and Theatre) Ltd |
| The Moving Picture Company Ltd |
| Working Title Films Ltd |
| The Jim Henson Company Ltd |
| RSA Films Ltd |
| THE BBC AND CHANNEL FOUR |
| BBC Films |
| Channel Four Television/ FilmFour |
| NATIONAL LOTTERY FILM-PRODUCTION FRANCHISES |
| DNA Film Ltd |
| The Film Consortium |
| Pathé Pictures |
| OTHER FILM-PRODUCTION COMPANIES |
| Table 20: Selected Independent Film-Production Companies, 2002 |
| OUTSIDE SUPPLIERS |
| Studios |
| Costumes, Props and Effects |
| Special Effects |
| Sound Equipment/ Sound Providers |
| Laboratories |
| Film Manufacturers |
| Legal and Business Advisors |
| ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION |
| Table 21: Main-Media Advertising Expenditure by Film Distributors and Exhibitors (£000), Year to September 2001 |
| 5. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats |
| STRENGTHS |
| WEAKNESSES |
| OPPORTUNITIES |
| THREATS |
| 6. Buying Behaviour |
| INTRODUCTION |
| DISTRIBUTORS |
| Table 22: UK Film Distributors by Number of Films Shown and Share of Box-Office Revenue ( percent), 2000 |
| EXHIBITORS |
| Table 23: UK Cinema Operators by Number of Sites and Number of Screens, 2000 |
| Table 24: UK Cinema Operators by Market Share ( percent of gross box-office revenues), 2000 |
| CINEMAGOERS |
| Frequency of Cinemagoing |
| Table 25: Frequency of Cinemagoing by Age Group ( percent of respondents and million population), 2000 |
| Table 26: The percentage of the UK Population Who Visit the Cinema Regularly by Age Group, 1997-2000 |
| The Most Popular Films |
| Table 27: The Top 20 Films Shown in the UK and the Republic of Ireland by Country of Origin and Box-Office Revenue (£000), 2000 |
| 7. Current Issues |
| THE FILM COUNCIL |
| Initiatives of the Film Council |
| The Development Fund |
| The Premiere Fund |
| The New Cinema Fund |
| The Training Fund |
| Other Initiatives |
| Film-Production Franchises |
| Funding the Film Council |
| Table 28: Proposed Budget of the Film Council (£m), 2001 |
| The Film Council — A Comment |
| FILM FINANCE |
| Tax Relief |
| The Euro and the UK Film Industry |
| CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS |
| The Merger of Pinewood and Shepperton Studios |
| Odeon Cinemas Acquired by Cinven |
| 8. The Global Market |
| FILM EXHIBITION |
| Table 29: The Global Cinema Industry by Number of Screens, Admissions and Box-Office Revenue (number, million and $m), 1995-2000 |
| Box-Office Revenue by Country |
| Table 30: Box-Office Revenue in Selected Countries of the World ($m), 2000 |
| Visits by Country |
| Table 31: Average Number of Cinema Visits per Person per Year in Selected Countries of the World, 2000 |
| FILM PRODUCTION |
| Table 32: Number of Films Produced per Year in Selected Countries of the World, 1988/1999 |
| TRENDS BY REGION |
| The US |
| Europe |
| European Films |
| Table 33: The European Film Market by Market Share by the Films’ Country of Origin ( percent of admissions), 2000 |
| All Films |
| Table 34: Cinema Admissions in Selected EU Countries (million), 1999 and 2000 |
| The Eastern and Central European Market |
| Table 35: Box-Office Revenue in the Countries of Eastern Europe ($m), 2000 |
| Bollywood: India’s Film Industry |
| Asia-Pacific |
| Table 36: Cinema Admissions in the Countries of the Asia-Pacific Region (million), 1999 |
| Global Market Trends |
| 9. Forecasts |
| INTRODUCTION |
| FORECASTS 2002 TO 2006 |
| Cinema Admissions and Box-Office Revenue |
| Table 37: Forecast UK Cinema Admissions and Box-Office Revenue (million and £m), 2002-2006 |
| Film Production in the UK |
| Table 38: Forecast Number of Films Produced in the UK by Country of Origin, 2002-2006 |
| Cost of Films Made in the UK |
| Table 39: Forecast Cost of Films Made in the UK at Constant 2001 Prices (£m), 2002-2006 |
| The Video and DVD Market |
| Table 40: Forecast Combined UK Video and DVD Retail/Rental Sales by Value (£m), 2002-2006 |
| FUTURE TRENDS |
| Demographics |
| Cinema Improvements |
| Closer Film Ties With India |
| d-cinema |
| 10. Company Profiles |
| BBC Worldwide Ltd |
| Carlton Communications PLC |
| Channel Four International Ltd |
| Warner Bros. Productions Ltd |
| 11. Further Sources |
| Associations |
| Periodicals |
| Directories |
| General Sources |
| Bonnier Information Sources |
| Government Publications |
| Other Sources |
| Key Note Research |
| The Key Note Range of Reports |
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