Introduction to Film Industry in 2024

It’s 2024 and until 2020 viewing numbers were falling. Declining ticket sales, a reliance on tired franchises and the departure of major filmmakers were all seen as pointers of an industry in decline. But to their audiences and to themselves, it didn’t feel like that. Films were being released in record numbers, even bigger numbers than were recording 20 years ago. Bollywood was still producing 1600–2000 films a year and South Korea over 700. And the visitor levels to cinemas worldwide kept rising, despite the decline in actual tickets sales. But when the pandemic hit more people stayed at home and more and more of them viewed film from an arm chair rather than a seat in a cinema. Thanks to a growing appetite among streamers, the supply of films, short and long, continued to be a seller’s market. But the sensible investors spotted the industry’s Achilles heel, certainly before viewing numbers returned in 2022 and conglomerates and streaming platforms have spent heavily in processing many more territories to try and maintain their market share.

The trends that have shored up the business in 2023–24 have been two or three years or even longer in the making, such as the continuing interest in art world crime and in puzzle picture romance; but this is no return to the 2013 phenomenon of topical news thrillers. Some previous trajectories-cape and sword, time-kernels and decade-craft; familial horror – have disappeared but ninety years of on-screen space horror rolls on; and the adult delight in carefully branded juvenile narratives like J.K Rowling’s. We have an egg theme – spiritual enlightenment through avian obsessions such as penguins and Fraser’s penguin brother; and we have a stem-to-stern abhijection to all things biographic. In the chat room environment, the tactical thumbs down are the “Go veronica” frats rather than the “I loathe this concept for an evening hanging don’t you?” It’s a strategy Miranda July talks about when she defends herself against showing falling numbers for her fierce ‘Save the Children’ work by saying she was making people uncomfortable on purpose – who wants those guys anyway?

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Key Trends in Film Production and Distribution

In the past year, how films are made and presented to audiences has changed significantly. Film production in 2024 involved numerous technological changes and a few new methods. Some of the most popular types of films produced in 2024 include romantic-comedy dramas and period gangster films. The most successful studios and production companies of last year tended to avoid the use of minor characters in favor of character-driven narratives through complex, thematic storylines. Several of the films from last year appear focused on culture, social issues, or lived experiences. Escapist filmmaking has sometimes given way to films that engage with what’s happening in the world.

There is significant information available regarding consumer trends and recent data from the box office for films that continue to perform well. 2024’s films are diverse across genres, budgetary expense, and visual style. Many recent films hail from China, the US, Japan, South Korea, and France. In the early days of 2024, we have also seen the global spread of multiple experimental films from countries like Romania, Sweden, Australia, and the UK. Film production and four-walling have increased during the past year. But an overarching theme around six of the major markets has been the steady increase and adoption of online distribution platforms, with a healthy box office consumption of movies as counter-programming, escapist fare.

Exploring Themes and Narratives in Popular Films of 2024

In the realm of Academy Award-nominated films, there are a number of noticeable themes and narratives for the past year in film. First of all, we might notice three different ways that films in 2024 engage with temporal distance from the present. Some of these films take place in imagined futures. Others undertake a “retroactive continuity,” revising historical narratives on screen and adding new details. A number of Oscar-favorite films travel back to 1968, particularly to New York City. As historians such as Tom Sugrue, Alice Echols, and Hugh Ryan have pointed out, people living at the time experienced 1968 in a wide variety of ways; it was a confusing, contested, and chaotic year. Yet many others look back at 1968 as an almost guiding myth that still has deep resonance.

Many films engage with history but are resolutely set in the present day. A certain theme within the multiplexes throughout the past year is the same as in years past: Films about heroes and villains continue to draw huge audiences, and moviegoers continue to support long-established intellectual property, including “The Batman” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” We might be grateful that, however cynical, rich, powerful, and creatively bankrupt studio executives may pitch their superhero guts, they inadvertently find themselves subjected. While it is apparent why multinational conglomerates might introduce these films in order to reactivate dormant copyrights and sell toys and increase profits, it is still difficult to address the global appeal of narratives about singular, supernaturally-powered individuals who regularly intervene in the lives of ordinary citizens. Given that these films are almost always hyperexpensive and likely to result in diminished returns after the collapse of industrial civilization, it behooves us to consider why they remain indelibly etched in our collective experience.