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Demographic:  Frozen: box office Budget: $150,000,000 (estimated) Opening weekend USA: $243,390, 24 November 201, limited release Gross USA: $400,738,009 Cumulative worldwide gross: $1,276,480,335 Frozen Audiences Frozen, Disney's latest animated feature, broke box office records upon its release.  With a $93 million opening, it is the highest grossing Thanksgiving debut of all time. And surprisingly enough, it wasn't only families with young children flocking to the theater. With 81% of the audience composed of families , Disney predictably reeled in its target audience with ease. But that number also means that almost 20% of the audience were non-families . That's almost $18 million in ticket sales .  This trend is not limited to Frozen. The 2011 re-release of The Lion King in 3D opened with $29.3 million and only 74% of the audience was comprised of families (18% of non-families were couples, because apparently The Lion King m...

Vladamir Propp was a Russian and soviet formalist scholar. He analysed the plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their basic narrative elements. He looked at one hundred folk tales and came to the conclusion that they were all made up of 31 plot elements, which he called functions.  He also found that despite the large number of characters which appeared in the folk tales, there were only 7 character types. 7 character types:  The villain  The helper  The princess or prize Her father The donor  The hero  The false hero  The dispatcher  Todorov's Equilibrium Theory: Order of events in every disaster movie: 1. Equilibrium  2. Disruption of equilibrium by an event 3. A realisation that the disruption has happened  4. An attempt to repair the damage or disruption  5. A restoration of equilibrium Tzvetan Todorov proposed a basic structure for all narratives. He stat...

Independent film:  is a feature  film  or short  film  that is produced outside the major  film  studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by  independent  entertainment companies.  the major Hollywood film studios are often referred to as "The Big Six". These command a significant market share, and the budgets tend to be much bigger than those of an independent film: The Big Six are: Paramount Warner Brothers 20th Century Fox Universal Columbia Walt Disney  Top 10 independent films: 1. mean streets 2.Reservoir Dogs 3. The Terminator 4.Blood Simple 5.Donnie Darko 6.Evil Dead II 7.Lost In Translation 8. The Blair Witch Project 9.She's gotta have it  10.Shadows Get Out (2017) Director: Jordan Peele Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams Production Companies: Blumhouse, QC, Monkeypaw Distributed by Universal Budget: $4.5 million  Box office: $...