Economic:
- Jaws was the first film ever to gross over 100million dollars at the box office
- FIlm was released at different times in different places making it an event release allowing more money to be made
- Product tie-ins and merchandising became prominent
- People became attracted to blockbusters for these event films so that they could appreciate the big budget special effects films in a cinema with good lines of sight but also the quality of sound and projection that they had now come to expect and could no longer be achieved in small independent cinemas


Technology:
- Mechanical shark
- Star Wars kick starts go-motion animation, lead to character morphing, led to real time compositing which led to high tech camera systems and digital smoke + pyrotechnics



Social:
- Jaws appeals to peoples fear of the unknown
- Became attracted to the large blockbusters in the multiplex' as they were event films
- Event films became a social event

Comprehension Homework Questions

8.) Describe the rise of Cineplex and the resulting changes to film distribution

- The rise of the Cineplex came when types of films such as slashers, slapticks comedies and youth films started to take over from the past favourite films such as ‘the disaster film,’ and ‘the vigilante film’/ The trends of films started to closely follow the trends of shows on television making the films more heavy action and superhero based. With this change in genre of films more effects and ‘bigger’ sounds were needed. The average independent cinema could no longer handle this type of production which caused this raise in Cineplex’s as they were able not only to play more films at once but they were also able to cope with the greater needs that the type of film requires. This greater influx in the genre of film also led to the need for multiplex’ so that they could show multiple films at once satisfying a greater audience. This rose it over independent theatres as they now had a too wide audience to satisfy.

9.) Discuss the phenomenon as a contributing factor in the rise of the blockbuster 

- The cineplex were a major contributing factor in the rise of the blockbuster as the new multiscreen system and the new quality of these cinemas allowed people to go to the cinema and appreciate these blockbusters with all their new sound and special effects etc in the highest quality.

- This aided the blockbuster to rise because it allowed people to appreciate them in a special way that was more attractive and of better quality than any home videos or little independent cinemas

- The cineplex' allowed the more mainstream films to be shown and also allowed higher prices to be charged meaning that the blockbusters could afford to advertise more and therefor attract more people to the blockbusters

- The system of multiple screens meant that people had more opportunity to see the films and therefore the blockbusters became more popular and widely viewed

Blockbuster Preparation

Film: Men in Black 3
Production Budget: $215,000000
Director: Barry Sonenfield
Starring:
- Will Smith (I Am Legend, iRobot, Independence Day)
Box Office: $624,026,776
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 70%

Film: Avengers Assemble
Production Budget: $220,000000
Director: Joss Whedon
Starring:
- Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man, Sherlock Holmes, Due Date)
- Chris Hemsworth (Thor, The Cabin in The Woods, Snow White and The Huntsman)
- Scarlet Johannson (Lost in Translation, The Prestige, Iron Man 2)
- Jeremy Renner (The Bourne Legacy, 28 Weeks Later, Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters)
- Samuel L Jackson (Django Unchained, Pulp Fiction, Snakes on a Plane)
Box Office: $1,511,757,910
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92%

Film: The Bourne Legacy
Production Budget: $125,000000
Director: Tony Gilroy
Starring:
- Jeremy Renner (Avengers Assemble, 28 Weeks Later, Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters)
Box Office: $276,144,750
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56%

Film: The Amazing Spider-Man
Production Budget: $230,000000
Director: Marc Webb
Starring:
- Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Never Let Me Go)
- Emma Stone (Easy-A, Superbad, Zombieland)
Box Office: $752,216,557
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 73%

Film: The Dark Knight Rises
Production Budget: $250,000000
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring:
- Christian Bale (Public Enemies, American Psycho, The Prestige)
- Tom Hardy (Inception, Warrior, Lawless)
- Michael Caine (Thunderbirds, Children of Men, Harry Brown)
- Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables, The Devil Wears Prada, Rachel Getting Married)
- Morgan Freeman (Wanted, The Shawshank Redemption, Se7en)
Box Office: $1,081,041,287
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 87%

Film: The Expendables 2
Production Budget: $100,000000
Director: Simon West
Starring:
- Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Bullet to The Head, Rambo)
- Jason Statham (The Mechanic, Snatch, The Bank Job)
- Chuck Norris (The Delta Force, The Way of The Dragon, Lone Wolf McQuade)
- Bruce Willis (Looper, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator, Predator, Total Recall)
Box Office: $312,500,000
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 65%

Film: Total Recall
Production Budget: $125,000000
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring:
- Colin Ferrell (Fright Night, Phonebooth, Seven Psychopaths)
- Kate Beckinsale (Underworld, The Aviator, Pearl Harbor)
Box Office: $198,467,168
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 31%

Film: Looper
Production Budget: $30,000000
Director: Rian Johnson
Starring:
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises, 500 Days of Summer, Mysterious Skin)
- Bruce Willis (The Expendables 2, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction)
Box Office: $166,521,588
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93%