Focus 2023: the annual reference guide for the professionals of the film industry The European Audiovisual Observatory’s Focus – World Film Market Trends publication is a one stop shop handbook on all the trends and tendencies in the global film industry. This easily readable 68-page report gives you key statistics for the global cinema market, EU28 (European Union plus the UK) as well as individual country profiles. If you want to get the cinema admission figures for Spain, the price of a cinema ticket in South Korea or the top ten films watched in Brazil, then Focus is for you! The European Audiovisual Observatory produces a new Focus report each year in May for the Cannes Marché du Film. It is distributed to all Film Market participants as a must-have information resource. And now you too can get it! This edition carries an Iberian breeze because it comes in the year of the Observatory’s Portuguese Presidency and because we brought Spain, the Country of Honour of this year’s Market, to the stage for the launch event.Get Focus 2023 and find out!

The European Audiovisual Observatory's Focus - World Film Market Trends publication is a one stop shop handbook on all the trends and tendencies in the global film industry. This easily readable 68-page report gives you key statistics for the global cinema market, EU28 (European Union plus the UK) as well as individual country profiles. If you want to get the cinema admission figures for Spain, the price of a cinema ticket in South Korea or the top ten films watched in Brazil, then Focus is for you! The European Audiovisual Observatory produces a new Focus report each year in May for the Cannes Marchâ du Film. It is distributed to all Film Market participants as a must-have information resource. And now you too can get it! This edition carries an Iberian breeze because it comes in the year of the Observatory's Portuguese Presidency and because we brought Spain, the Country of Honour of this year's Market, to the stage for the launch event

Focus 2024: the annual reference guide for the professionals of the film industry The European Audiovisual Observatory’s Focus – World Film Market Trends publication is a one stop shop handbook on all the trends and tendencies in the global film industry. This easily readable 66-page report gives you key statistics for the global cinema market, Europe 28 (European Union plus the UK) as well as individual country profiles. If you want to get the cinema admission figures for Spain, the price of a cinema ticket in South Korea or the top ten films watched in Brazil, then Focus is for you! The European Audiovisual Observatory produces a new Focus report each year in May for the Cannes Marché du Film. It is distributed to all Film Market participants as a must-have information resource. And now you too can get it! What are the latest trends in the global film markets? What films are we watching? Get Focus 2024 and find out!

[bilingual edition ENG / FRE] Focus 2022: an anniversary issue! "This FOCUS marks a double anniversary for the European Audiovisual Observatory: this year we celebrate the 25th edition of this publication and also the 30th anniversary of the Observatory itself. The fact that FOCUS goes back 25 years in our history proves that the film market is of crucial importance to our work! In 25 years, we have constantly expanded our film-related expertise and services, and in parallel the scope of our data collection. This was only possible due to our invaluable networks, especially the EFARN, which therefore deserves our sincere thanks on the occasion of these anniversaries. The FOCUS report, however, would not have developed as it did without the vision of our partner, the Marché du Film and in particular Jérôme Paillard, its longstanding Executive Director, whom we will always link to this publication even after his imminent retirement. Thank you Jérôme for all these years of wonderfully easy cooperation! We are looking forward to continuing our work with your successor Guillaume Esmiol and the exceptional staff that he “inherits” from you." Susanne Nikoltchev, Executive Director of the European Audiovisual Observatory

Already in its 23th edition the FOCUS is commissioned from the European Audiovisual Observatory by the film market organiser at the Cannes Film Festival, the Marchâ du Film. The FOCUS presents the latest trends on all the major film markets around the world regarding film production and distribution as well as admissions. Published since 1998 by the Marchâ du film (Cannes, France), FOCUS is edited by the Department for Market Information of the European Audiovisual Observatory

This book explores how audiences in contemporary Europe engage with films from other European countries. It draws on admissions data, surveys, and focus group discussions from across the continent to explain why viewers are attracted to particular European films, nationalities, and genres, including action-adventures, family films, animations, biopics, period dramas, thrillers, comedies, contemporary drama, and romance. It also examines how these films are financed, produced, and distributed, how they represent Europe and other Europeans, and how they affect audiences. Case-studies range from mainstream movies like Skyfall, Taken, Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia, and Sammy’s Adventures: A Turtle’s Tale to more middlebrow and arthouse titles, such as The Lives of Others, Volver, Coco Before Chanel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Intouchables, The Angels’ Share, Ida, The Hunt, and Blue Is the Warmest Colour. The study shows that watching European films can sometimes improve people’s understandings of other countries and make them feel more European. However, this is limited by the strong preference for Anglo-American action-adventures that offer few insights into the realities of European life. While some popular European arthouse films explore a wider range of nationalities, social issues, and historical events, these mainly appeal to urban-dwelling graduates. They can also sometimes accentuate tensions between Europeans instead of bringing them together. The book discusses what these findings mean for the European film industry, audiovisual policy, and scholarship on transnational and European cinema. It also considers how surveys, focus groups, databases and other methods that go beyond traditional textual analysis can offer new insights into our understanding of film.

The book offers an interdisciplinary overview of the film and place relationship from an intercultural perspective. It explores the complex domain of place and space in cinema and the film industry's role in establishing cultural connections and economic cooperation between India and Europe. With contributions from leading international scholars, various case studies scrutinise European and Indian contexts, exploring both the established and emerging locations. The book extends the dominantly Britain-oriented focus on India’s cinema presence in Europe to European countries such as Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Slovenia, Finland, and Sweden, where the Indian film industry progressively expands its presence. The chapters of this book look at Indian film production in Europe as a cultural bridge between India and Europe, fostering mutual understanding of the culture and society of the two regions. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to researchers in film studies, cultural anthropology, cultural geography, tourism, economics, sociology, and cultural studies. It will also be interest to practitioners working in local authorities, destination management, tourism, and creative business, all of whom see the value of film production in attracting visitors, investment, and creating new networks with local economic actors. The book offers much-needed data and tools to translate their professional goals and potentials into effective regional strategies and activities.

The Digital Single Market (DSM) comprised numerous Directives, Regulations, and other instruments aimed at facilitating cross-border digital services, including access to banking, shopping, streaming, and satellite television across European Union borders without restrictions. With one-fifth of service exports stemming from the digital sector, the DSM was vital for the UK, with the EU representing its largest digital services export market. Brexit and the Digital Single Market examines the important historical role of the UK in DSM development, the consequences of Brexit for the UK's digital sector, and future EU and UK policy trajectories. The book illuminates how the UK continues to innovate in the digital sector but also how it is constrained by external factors both at EU and global levels. It considers how EU policy is taking a new direction in its 2020 Digital Strategy programme which leans towards greater protection of European champions and digital sovereignty, a tightening of its data protection regime, and greater regulatory intervention in digital markets. Timely and unprecedented, Brexit and the Digital Single Market is the first volume to comprehensively cover the implications of Brexit on the EU's DSM. This is an essential read for students and academics in political science and law, as well as civil servants, regulators, and policy makers working within the digital sector.

At a time when the traditional media have been reshaped by digital technologies and audiences have fragmented, people are using mediated forms of communication to manage all aspects of their daily lives as well as for news and entertainment. The Media and Communications in Australia offers a systematic introduction to this dynamic field. Fully updated and expanded, this fifth edition outlines the key media industries – from print, sound and television to film, gaming and public relations – and explains how communications technologies have changed the ways in which they now operate. It offers an overview of the key approaches to the field, including a consideration of Indigenous communication, and features a ‘hot topics’ section with contributions on issues including diversity, misinformation, algorithms, COVID-19, web series and national security. With chapters from Australia’s leading researchers and teachers in the field, The Media and Communications in Australia remains the most comprehensive and reliable introduction to media and communications from an Australian perspective. It is an ideal student text and a key resource for teachers, lecturers, media practitioners and anyone interested in understanding these influential industries.