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FILM STUDIES - USEFUL WEBSITES
DATABASES –FACTS, FIGURES, STATISTICS Worldwide Box Office
Filmsite.org -the great movies of the last century. Detailed plot synopses, • http://www.worldwideboxoffice.com/
review commentary and film reference material are just some of the • http://www.worldwideboxoffice.com/source.html
features available on the site.
• http://www.filmsite.org/ DVD / VHS sales Charts
• http://www.leesmovieinfo.net/Video-Sales.php?y=2003&type=3
Watchmovies – History of world cinema
• http://welcome.to/watchmovies
Guide to Researching the Film Industry
Film Four
• http://www.alacrawiki.com/index.php?title=Entertainment
• http://www.channel4.com/film/index.html
The UK Film Council
Wikipedia
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page • http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/home
Internet Movie Database
UK Film Council Statistics
• http://www.us.imdb.com/a2z
Research
• http://uk.imdb.com/
• http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/research
The Numbers
Statistical Yearbooks
• http://www.the-numbers.com/index.php
• http://rsu.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/?pf=&low=&c=p_contents&y=2007&s=
Audiences
• http://rsu.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/?pf=&low=&y=2007&s=&c=14&skip=0

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UK DVD Sales and Rentals • http://www.the-numbers.com/
US DVD Sales Chart for this week
• http://rsu.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/?pf=&low=&c=10&y=2007&s=
• http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/weekly/thisweek.php
Distribution
• http://rsu.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/?pf=&low=&c=8&y=2007&s=
US DVD Releases - 1998
Exhibition
• http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/schedule1998.php
• http://rsu.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/?y=2007&c=9
The UK film market as a whole US DVD Releases - 2008
• http://rsu.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/?y=2007&c=13 • http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/schedule2008.php
Top-Selling DVDs of 2007 & 2008
Film production
• http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/annual/2007.php
• http://rsu.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/?y=2007&c=15 • http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/annual/2008.php
$100 Million+ Movie Stars
Top films in 2007
• http://www.the-numbers.com/people/records/highstart.php
• http://rsu.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/?y=2007&c=2
Weekend Box Office figures Alphabetical Star Index-shows the biggest grossing star whose last name
• http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/weekendboxoffice begins with each letter of the alphabet.
• http://www.the-numbers.com/people/
Film made by UK film production companies or using UK locations
• http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/ukfilms
Director Index- Shows number of movies and total Box office gross
UK Film Council Short Film Council catalogue –View online • http://www.the-numbers.com/people/directors/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadband/mediawrapper/consoles/shorts/bb_wm
_console.shtml?
Movie Franchises- Number of films in series and worldwide/US gross at Box
redirect=console.shtml&lang=en&nbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&ms
3=6&ms_javascript=true&bbcws=2 Office
• http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/franchises.php
The Numbers – US box Office and other industry data and statistics

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Movie Budget Records- Biggest Budgets / Movies With Lowest Budgets to
Movie Records: All Time US Top 20 / All Time US - Inflation Adjusted / Earn $1 Million at US Box Office / Most Profitable Movies, Based on
All Time Worldwide / Biggest Weekends for a Single Movie / Biggest Absolute Profit on Worldwide Gross / Most Profitable Movies, Based on
Combined Gross for All Movies in a Single Weekend / Smallest Combined Return on Investment / Biggest Money Losers, Based on Absolute Loss on
Gross for All Movies in a Single Weekend / Biggest Opening, 2nd, 3rd etc. Worldwide Gross /
Weekends / Biggest Weekend by Month / Biggest Days / Biggest Day by • http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/budgets.php
Month / Widest Opening Weekend / Fastest to $100m, $200m etc. /
Highest grossing movies never to reach number 1 / Highest grossing movies US Movie Market Summary 1995 to 2008- Annual Ticket Sales
never to play in more than 1,000 theatres / Top Movie of Each Year / Top-Grossing Distributors 1995 to 2008
• http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/ / Top-Grossing Distributors 1995 to 2008 / Top-Grossing MPAA Ratings
Animation/Live Action: Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2008 / Year by Year
1995 to 2008 / Top-Grossing Sources 1995 to 2008 / Top-Grossing
Market Share
Production Methods 1995 to 2008 / Top-Grossing Creative Types 1995 to
• http://www.the-
2008
numbers.com/market/ProductionMethods/AnimationLiveAction.php
• http://www.the-numbers.com/market/
Digital Animation: Top Grossing Movies 1977 – 2008 / Year by Year Market
US Movie Market Summary 2008
Share • http://www.the-numbers.com/market/1998.php
• http://www.the-
numbers.com/market/ProductionMethods/DigitalAnimation.php
Movie Index by Year – top grossing at Box Office
• http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/
MPAA Rating – R: Top Grossing Movies 1977 – 2008 / Year by Year Market
Share
Top-Grossing Distributors 1995 to 2008
• http://www.the-numbers.com/market/MPAARatings/Rated-R.php
• http://www.the-numbers.com/market/Distributors/

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Berkeley University - Ethnic and racial representations in the movies
Top-Grossing Movie Sources 1995 to 2008 • http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/EthnicImagesVid.html
• http://www.the-numbers.com/market/Sources/
University of Iowa - Film Studies Resources
Top-Grossing MPAA Ratings 1995 to 2008
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/film_resources.html
• http://www.the-numbers.com/market/MPAARatings/
The Film Studies EXAM BOARD
• http://www.wjec.co.uk/film.html
LINKS PAGES
Cinemaniac GLOSSARIES OF TERMS
• http://frank.mtsu.edu/%7Ejpurcell/Cinema/commentary.html • http://htmlgear.tripod.com/text/control.text?
u=antoh&i=17&a=render&style=list
The Black film Center & Archive • http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms1.html
• http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/ • http://highered.mcgraw-
hill.com/sites/0072484551/student_view0/glossary.html
The Flying Inkpot's
Incredible Movie Links Page HOLLYWOOD –Past and Present
• http://inkpot.com/movielinks/academic.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM
• http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/1film_antitrust.htm
The McGraw-Hill Screening Room, an electronic guide to film resources on
• http://www.comms.dcu.ie/flynnr/the_new_hollywood_1946_-_1977.htm
the web
• http://moderntimes.com/palace/introduction.html
• http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/art-film/index.htm

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BRITISH CINEMA • http://www.wheredidtheyfilmthat.co.uk/
Screenrush.co.uk
• http://www.screenrush.co.uk/ • http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/gateway/categories/directories/filmlo
c/
BBC2 – Summer of British Film (2007) – Genres, films, directors, stars
BFI –Lists of British successes in the Oscars
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/britishfilm/ • http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/oscars/
BFI – Research sources and links for film (and TV)
Britmovie
• http://www.britmovie.co.uk/
• http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/
Hammer Film Productions
The UK Film Council • http://www.hammerfilms.com/
• http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/
Toonhound - Guide to British animated/cartoon features
The BFI – British Film Institute • http://www.toonhound.com/movietoons3.htm
http://www.bfi.org.uk/index.html
Screenonline – History of British film industry, including clips of films FILM PRODUCTION - STAGE BY STAGE
• http://www.screenonline.org.uk/index.html
• http://www.learner.org/exhibits/cinema/
Britfilm.com
• http://www.britfilms.com/
PRE-PRODUCTION STAGE
Definitions of British Film Screenwriting websites
• http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/20060643.htm
• http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/culturaltest • http://www.scriptmag.com/earticles/articles.php
• http://www.wordplayer.com/welcome.html
UK Film Locations
• http://www.locations-uk.com/test.html
Drew’s Scriptorama – Transcripts of actual film scripts

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• http://www.script-o-rama.com/ The BAFTAs (Britsh Academy Award for Film and Television Arts)
http://www.bafta.org/
Production Design
• http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/MultimediaStudentProjects/98-99/9500 Advertising and Marketing
131l/project/html/frame.htm Film Posters
• http://www.nostalgia.com/nf_search.html?cart=113213333669296648
POST- PRODUCTION • http://www.posteritati.com/
Filmsound - Sound effects, music and sound recording • http://www.allposters.co.uk/gallery.asp?aid=153210&item=96441
• http://www.filmsound.org/
• http://www.filmsound.org/marshall/index.htm Trailers
• http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/MultimediaStudentProjects/99-00/9606
Editing 389f/mmcourse/project/html/default.htm
Filmsite’s ‘Best Film Editing Sequences of All-Time: From the Silents to the • http://www.filmsound.org/marshall/index.htm
Present’ EXHIBITION
• http://www.filmsite.org/bestfilmediting.html Find Any Film available in the UK - in any format
• http://www.findanyfilm.com/search
DISTRIBUTION BBFC (British Board of Film Classification)
The UK Film Distributor’s Association • http://www.bbfc.co.uk/
• http://www.launchingfilms.com Local Art house / Independent
FACT / Picturehouse Liverpool
PUBLICITY • http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema_home_date.aspx?venueId=fact
The Oscars website Cornerhouse Manchester
• http://www.oscar.com/ • http://www.cornerhouse.org/

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Local Multiplex / Mainstream • http://www.mjyoung.net/time/
Odeon
• http://www.odeon.co.uk/ NARRATIVE
Cineworld • http://www.mediaknowall.com/Propp.html
• http://www.cineworld.co.uk/ • http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Hero.htm
National Museum of Film and Television Broadford STARS
• http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/ Channel 4 100 Greatest Stars
• http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/M/moviestars/i
ndex.jsp
GENRES
The Oscars
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_fiction
• http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/CrimeFilms-5.html
• http://www.oscar.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film
Stars in The Studio System era
• http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/film/
• http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/classics/cl0902/lgc
• http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/infocus.htm
l14c.htm
• http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Scififilm.html#sf
http://www.sciflicks.com/
AUDIENCES- Fan reviews, critics, audience responses
Film Four’s Greatest War Films poll BFI
• http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/W/greatest_w The top 100 most popular British films ever at Box Office
arfilms/results/5-1.html • http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/intro.html
Journalists’ views of the BFI top 100 films poll
Errors in Science Fiction films • http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/coverage/index.html

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Scope - Institute of Film & Television Studies, University of Nottingham
The BFI / Sight and Sound poll of top 10 and 100 favourite films – Articles and essays
• http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/bfi100/ • http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/
• http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/
Online supplements for Bordwell and Thompson’s’ Film Art –An
Nitpicker.com – Movie mistakes and errors Introduction
• http://www.nitpickers.com/ • http://highered.mcgraw-
hill.com/sites/0072484551/student_view0/index.html
SOVIET CINEMA FREE SOUND EFFECTS
• http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/MultimediaStudentProjects/00-01/0002 • http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html
591o/mmcourse/project/DEFAULT%20PAGE.htm • http://amazingsounds.iespana.es/en/
• http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/MultimediaStudentProjects/98-99/9505
060m/html/title.htm GENERAL WEBSITES
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
FREE RESOURCES
• Film Viewers Guides – Viewing and writing about film
• http://highered.mcgraw-
hill.com/sites/0072484551/student_view0/film_viewers_guide.html
Film Education resources
• http://www.filmeducation.org/resources.html
This online resource will be updated on a regular basis. If you find any links that
you feel are too good to keep to yourself, please let me know and we will add
them to the list.

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This list was last updated 08:53 Tuesday, 19 June 2012