Do you like to go to the movie? Do you often watch films made in your country? Do you buy them? or do you go to see them to a movie theatre? If you buy them, do you buy pirate films?
To go to a movie theatre is a different greater experience than to watch at home a film. At the big screen there are no interruptions of telephone calls, ring door, something more important to do to stop the film, and the most important your five senses are working 100%. I love to go to watch movies at the movies theatres!
The article ¡Acción! in The Economist explain me many question about the Mexican Films I always wanted to know, in particular how is their present situation. It is very interesting to understand the economical development of this Mexican industry because first,
According to the article, the number of Mexican films is increase in the last ten years with the help of the state fund, $73.3m, after a crisis. The industry is not as in “the golden age of Mexican films, between 1940-1955”, when the production was 100 films per years and it was the country’s sixth-biggest industry. The benefit is rare. Marina Stavenhagen of the Mexican Film Institute (Imcine) estimate that only very few films make profit, maybe around ten per year, in despite of Mexico has the fifth highest public in the movie theatres in the world with 4, 500 screens and it is the double than Brazil which has the double of population. There are many raisons. Mexican film benefit depend essentially on the people who go to watch the movies (90%) because of piracy in DVD and actually, the Mexican TV networks competition allow to pay very low rights for every film. The Mexican films are showed very few weeks compare with
¡Acción! More films, more subsidies, elusive profits (Nov 18th 2010) The Economist. Retrieved November 24, 2010 from
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