#Some biggest Film industries in the world #No. of films #box office revenue

FILM INDUSTRY 

The film industry or motion picture industry, comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution and actors, film directors and other film crew personnel.

As of 2018, the global box office is worth $41.7 billion. When including box office and home entertainment revenue, the global film industry is worth $136 billion as of 2018. Hollywood is the world's oldest national film industry, and remains the largest in terms of box office gross revenue. Indian cinema(including Bollywood) is the largest national film industry in terms of the number of films produced and the number of tickets sold, with 3.5 billion tickets sold worldwide annually (compared to Hollywood's 2.6 billion tickets sold annually) and 1,986 feature films produced annually.

UNITED STATES 

The cinema of the United States, often generally referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. The United States cinema (Hollywood) is the oldest film industry in the world which originated more than 121 years ago and also the largest film industry in terms of revenue. Hollywood is the primary nexus of the U.S. film industry with established film study facilities such as the American Film Institute, LA Film School and NYFA being established in the area.

CHINA

 

The Cinema of China is one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-languagecinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan. Cinema was introduced in China in 1896 and the first Chinese film, Dingjun Mountain, was made in 1905, with the film industry being centered on Shanghai in the first decades. China is the home of the largest film studio in the world, the Hengdian World Studios, and in 2010 it had the third largest film industry by number of feature films produced annually.

INDIA

India is the largest producer of films in the world and second oldest film industry in the world which originated around about 105 years ago. In 2009 India produced a total of 2,961 films on celluloid; this figure includes 1,288 feature films. Besides being the largest producer of films in the world, India also has the largest number of admissions. Indian film industry is multi-lingual and the largest in the world in terms of ticket sales but 3rd largest in terms of revenue mainly due to having amongst the lowest ticket prices in the world.

Largest industries by number of film productionsEdit

The following is a list of the top 15 countries by the number of feature films (fiction, animation and documentary) produced, as determined by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics as of 2015, unless otherwise noted.

Rank	Country	Films	Year
1	India	1,986	2017[4]
2	Nigeria	997	2011
3	United States	791	2015
4	China	686	2015
5	Japan	613	2018[103]
6	France	300	2015
7	United Kingdom	298	2015
8	South Korea	269	2015
9	Spain	255	2015
10	Germany	226	2015
11	Italy	185	2015
12	Argentina	182	2015
13	Mexico	176	2017[104]
14	Turkey	137	2015
15	Brazil	129	2015

Largest markets by box office revenueEdit

Rank	Country	Box office revenue (billion US$)	Year	Box office from national films[105]
N/A	World	40.6	2017[106]	N/A
1	United States	10.24	2017[107]	88.8% (2015)
2	China	8.9	2018[108]	62% (2018)[108]
3	India	2.39	2017[109]	85% (2015)
4	Japan	2.25	2017[107]	54.9% (2017)[103]
5	United Kingdom	1.73	2017[107]	44.3% (2015)
6	South Korea	1.52	2017[107]	52.2% (2015)
7	France	1.48	2017[107]	33.7% (2015)
8	Germany	1.19	2017[107]	26.3% (2017)[110]
9	Australia	0.91	2017[107]	7.2% (2015)
10	Mexico	0.86	2017[107]	5.9% (2015)
11	Canada	0.77	2015[111]	1.9% (2015)
12	Brazil	0.7	2016[112]	11.8% (2015)
13	Italy	0.7	2016[112]	20.8% (2015)
14	Russia	0.7	2016[112]	17.4% (2015)
15	Spain	0.7	2016[112]	19.4% (2015)