Evaluating the role institutions play in producing films using Inception and (case study) whiplash?
Inception and Whiplash are produced by different films production companies but follow a similar a path in terms of how institution affects them.Whiplash is produced by Blumhouse productions and Inception is produced by Legendary Pictures. The Legendary Pictures is a division of Legendary Ent. while the Blumhouse Production is private company. Universal has a 10 year first look deal with the Blumhouse production.Legendary Ent. is a subsidiary and is owned by the Wanda group (Chinese conglomerate) controlled by Jianlin Wang. Universal Pictures is also considered as a subsidiary and is owned Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.
Comcast is then owned by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Comcast corporation,Brian L. Roberts.In the end you kind of get the idea in terms of this similarity between the importance of institutions in media/producing films and how power are actually controlled from the upper person if you follow the paths of ownership.Profits could be distributed around but
Firms in higher rank which owns the production company might be the ones that earns most.This suggests the idea that several films may be created by different directors and in different genres,However, the money will still be passed on to the same group of people.Consumers may feel like they have a choice but actually there may not be that many.