Finances

Financial information of Furious 7 is as following:

Production Budget:

$190,000,000

Domestic Box Office	$351,032,910
International Box Office	$1,162,986,161
Worldwide Box Office	$1,514,019,071
Home Market Performance
Domestic DVD Sales	$29,340,275
Domestic Blu-ray Sales	$38,576,629
Total Domestic Video Sales	$67,916,904

International Box Office Top 10 Territories

Box Office Performance Graph

Distribution Campany

Universal Studio
Universal Studios Inc. (also known as Universal Pictures) is an American film studio, owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal, and is one of Hollywood's "Big Six" film studios. Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California. Distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City. Universal Studios is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Universal was founded in 1912 by the German Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour.


It is the world's fourth oldest major film studio, after the renowned French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, and the Danish Nordisk Film company.

Domestic Gross of Universal Studio made with Furious 7 is $352,786,830, but the highest domestic gross of $651,926,506 is made with Jurassic World in 2015.

Universal Studio is a joint venture with United International Pictures and this studio has its divisions as the following:

• Universal Television
• Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
• Focus Features
• Gramercy Pictures
• Working Title Films
• Illumination Entertainment
• Universal Animation Studios

Production Companies

One Race Films

One Race Films (ORF), also known as One Race Productions, is a video production company established in 1995 in Los Angeles by actor, writer, director, and producer Vin Diesel. Tigon Studios, an interactive entertainment development and production studio established in 2002, is a wholly owned subsidiary of One Race Films.

ORF has produced high grossing multiple film franchises in the science-fiction thriller Riddick franchise, and the action genre Fast and the Furious franchise. In dramatic films, ORF developed and produced Find Me Guilty, directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker Sidney Lumet, and critically acclaimed courtroom drama based on a true story.

Original Film

Original Film is an American film production company founded by Neal H. Moritz. It was founded in 1997 and served at worldwide level. Mark LeCasse (CEO) and Jason Carves (Co-President) are the other key people of this production company other than the Founder. The oldest film they have produced is "Reason Thirteen" released in 1998 which was a short film. Later in 2003 they also started making Television Series. The First series they produced was "Tru Calling".

Media Rights Capital

Media Rights Capital (MRC) is an American independent film and television studio founded by Mordecai Wiczyk and Asif Satchu. MRC specializes in the creation of premium content. It has full in-house development, physical production, legal, finance and corporate development teams. MRC has distributed its films through many major domestic and international distributors in the industry. This was founded in 2006 and the first film they made was "Babel" which was an Oscar Award Winner. MRC has produced digital projects with many Fortune 500 companies including AT&T, Nike, Google, Procter & Gamble, Burger King, and Johnson & Johnson. MRC's longest-running digital series is the animated program titled Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, with original characters created by Seth MacFarlane, the Emmy Award-winning creator of Family Guy, The Cleveland Show and American Dad!

China Film Group Corporation

China Film Group Corporation, abbreviated as CFGC, is the largest and most influential state-owned film enterprise in China. According to Forbes it is a state monopoly that all imported films have to work with. It also runs theaters and finances, produces, and distributes films. In 2014, the company was the largest film distributor in China, with 32.8% of the market. It was Founded in 1999 with it's head quarters in Beijing, China and it's key people are Han Sanping, Zhang Qiang.

Film I selected: Furious 7

Plot of the film: After defeating Owen Shaw and his crew and securing amnesty for their past crimes, Dominic "Dom" Toretto, Brian O'Conner, and the rest of their team have returned to the United States to live normal lives again. Brian begins to accustom himself to life as a father, while Dom tries to help Letty Ortiz regain her memories. Meanwhile, Owen's older brother, Deckard Shaw, breaks into the secure hospital the comatose Owen is being held in and swears vengeance against Dom, before breaking into Luke Hobbs' DSS office to extract profiles of Dom's crew. After revealing his identity, Shaw engages Hobbs in a fight, and escapes when he detonates a bomb that severely injures Hobbs. Dom later learns from his sister Mia that she is pregnant again and convinces her to tell Brian. However, a bomb, disguised in a package sent from Tokyo, explodes and destroys the Toretto house just seconds after Han, a member of their team, is killed by Shaw in Tokyo. Dom later visits Hobbs in a hospital, where he learns that Shaw is a rogue special forces assassin seeking to avenge his brother. Dom then travels to Tokyo to claim Han's body, where he meets and races Sean Boswell, a friend of Han's, who gives him personal items found at Han's crash site.

Back at Han's funeral in Los Angeles, Dom notices a car observing and chases after the vehicle, driven by Shaw. Both prepare to fight, but Shaw slips away when a covert ops team arrives, led by a guy who calls himself Mr. Nobody. He says that he will assist Dom in stopping Shaw if he helps him obtain the God's Eye, a computer program that uses digital devices to track down a person, and save its creator, a hacker named Ramsey, from a mercenary named Mose Jakande. Dom, Brian, Letty, Roman Pearce, and Tej Parker then airdrop their cars over the Caucasus Mountains in Azerbaijan, ambush Jakande's convoy, and rescue Ramsey. The team then heads to Abu Dhabi, where a billionaire has acquired the flash drive containing the God's Eye, and manages to steal it from the owner's Lykan HyperSport. With the God's Eye near telecommunications repeaters, the team manages to track down Shaw, who is waiting at a remote factory. Dom, Brian, Mr. Nobody and his team attempt to capture Shaw, but are ambushed by Jakande and his militants, and they are forced to flee while Jakande obtains the God's Eye. At his own request, Mr. Nobody is then left to be evacuated by helicopter. Left with no other choice, the team decides to return to Los Angeles to fight Shaw, Jakande and his men on their home turf. Meanwhile, Brian promises Mia that once they deal with Shaw, he'll dedicate himself to their family full-time.
While Jakande pursues Brian and the rest of the team with a stealth helicopter and a drone, Ramsey attempts to hack into the God's Eye while sharing her mobile between their vehicles. Hobbs, seeing the team in trouble, breaks out of hospital and destroys the drone. Ramsey then regains control of the God's Eye and shuts it down. Meanwhile, Dom and Shaw engage in a one-on-one brawl on a parking garage, before Jakande intervenes and attacks them both, and Shaw is defeated when part of the parking garage collapses beneath him. Dom then launches his vehicle at Jakande's helicopter, tossing Shaw's bag of grenades onto its skids, before injuring himself when his car lands and crashes. Hobbs then shoots the bag of grenades from ground level, destroying the helicopter and killing Jakande. When Dom remains unconscious, the team fears that he is dead. As Letty cradles Dom's body in her arms, she reveals that she has regained her memories, and that she remembers their wedding. Dom regains consciousness soon after, remarking, "It's about time".
Later, Shaw is taken into custody by Hobbs and locked away in a secret, high-security prison. Meanwhile, at a beach, Brian and Mia play with their son while Dom, Letty, Roman, Tej and Ramsey observe, acknowledging that Brian is better off retired with his family. Dom silently leaves, but Brian catches up with him at a crossroad. As Dom remembers the times that he had with Brian, they bid each other farewell and drive off in separate directions.

Institutions:

Production company	Original Film One Race Films Media Rights Capital China Film Relativity Media
Distributed by	Universal Pictures

Cast:

Starring	Vin Diesel Paul Walker Dwayne Johnson Michelle Rodriguez Tyrese Gibson Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges Jordana Brewster Djimon Hounsou Kurt Russell Jason Statham

Locations:

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Bloor St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Woodland Park, Colorado, USA

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Social Circle, Georgia, USA

Teller County, Aspen Ranch, Colorado, USA

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Clayton County, Georgia, USA

Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA

Los Angeles, California, USA

Norcross, Georgia, USA

Montecristi, Dominican Republic

(Beach Scenes)

Stage 18, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Santa Clarita Studios, 25135 Anza Drive, Santa Clarita, California, USA

Mann Biomedical Park, Santa Clarita, California, USA

Rykoff Building, 741 Terminal St, Los Angeles, California, USA

Stage 28, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Stage 44, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Willow Springs International Motorsports Park, Rosamond, California, USA

(Race Wars)

Coachella Valley, California, USA

(Windmills)

Malibu, California, USA

Budget

190 Million USD

Box Office Returns

Total Lifetime Grosses

Domestic:	$353,007,020	23.3%
+ Foreign:	$1,163,038,891	76.7%
= Worldwide:	$1,516,045,911

Domestic Summary

Opening Weekend:	$147,187,040
(#1 rank, 4,004 theaters, $36,760 average)
% of Total Gross:	41.7%

Widest Release:

4,022 theaters

Close Date:

July 24, 2015

Research Task (Definitions)

1. Film Production
   Film making (or in an academic context, film production) is the process of making a film. Film making involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through script writing, casting, shooting, sound recording and reproduction, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition. Film making takes place in many places around the world in a range of economic, social, and political contexts, and using a variety of technologies and cinematic techniques. Typically, it involves a large number of people, and can take from a few months to several years to complete.
2. Distribution
   Film distribution is the process of making a movie available for viewing by an audience. This is normally the task of a professional film distributor, who would determine the marketing strategy for the film, the media by which a film is to be exhibited or made available for viewing, and who may set the release date and other matters. The film may be exhibited directly to the public either through a movie theater or television, or personal home viewing. For commercial projects, film distribution is usually accompanied by film promotion.
3. Marketing
   Film promotion/marketing is the practice of promotion specifically in the film industry, and usually occurs in coordination with the process of film distribution. Sometimes called the press junket or film junket, film promotion generally includes press releases, advertising campaigns, merchandising and media, and interviews with the key people involved with the making of the film, like actors and directors. As with all business it is an important part of any release because of the inherent high financial risk; film studios will invest in expensive marketing campaigns to maximize revenue early in the release cycle. Marketing budgets tend to equal about half the production budget. Publicity is generally handled by the distributor and exhibitors.
4. Exhibition
   Exhibition is the retail branch of the film industry. It involves not the production or the distribution of motion pictures, but their public screening, usually for paying customers in a site devoted to such screenings, the movie theater. What the exhibitor sells is the experience of a film (and, frequently, concessions like soft drinks and popcorn). Because exhibitors to some extent control how films are programmed, promoted, and presented to the public, they have considerable influence over the box-office success and, more importantly, the reception of films.
5. Audience
   A particular group at which a product such as a film is aimed:his stated target audience is childrenI realize that I am not the intended target audience for the film
6. Institution
   When we use the term institutions in Media Studies, we usually mean the people who have a role in the production of media texts. That covers a huge amount of ground, as you can imagine. A brief list might include:
   Companies/organisations
   Producers
   Distributors
   Marketing.
   So we're talking editors, directors, producers, scriptwriters, screenwriters and so on and so on.
7. Digital
   Digital media is digitized content that can be transmitted over the internet or computer networks. This can include text, audio, video, and graphics. This means that news from a TV network, newspaper, magazine, etc. that is presented on a Web site or blog can fall into this category.
8. Ownership
   A Media Owner is a person, enterprise or organisation that controls, either through personal ownership or a dominant position, any media enterprise.
9. Convergence
   Media convergence is the merging of mass communication outlets – print, television, radio, the Internet along with portable and interactive technologies through various digital media platforms.
10. Synergy
    Synergy (pronounced SIN-ur-jee , from Greek sunergia ,meaning "cooperation," and also sunergos , meaning "working together") is the combined working together of two or more parts of a system so that the combined effect is greater than the sum of the efforts of the parts.
11. New Technologies
    Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia[3]) is the collection of techniques, skills, methods and processes used in the production of goods or servicesor in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation. Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, etc. or it can be embedded in machines, computers, devices and factories, which can be operated by individuals without detailed knowledge of the workings of such things.
12. Hardware
    In information technology, hardware is the physical aspect of computers, telecommunications, and other devices. The term arose as a way to distinguish the "box" and the electronic circuitry and components of a computer from the program you put in it to make it do things. The program came to be known as the software.