Follow us on This guide covers a selection of resources where you will find film and television industry information, including box office figures and ratings. Getting started Before you start searching for information for your assignments and projects you are advised to look at Skills Plus on the University Library online. Here you will find a series of tutorials and helpguides to help you understand how to plan and carry out an effective search, evaluate the information you have found, reference your sources and also help you with study skills. Library Search Library Search provides a single search box to discover and access millions of books, journal articles, newspaper articles, audio-visual material, datasets and other scholarly resources in Northumbria's print and digital Library Collection. As part of your research you will need to read articles from academic and professional journals. After you have searched within Library Search you can tick the options under show only to refine your results to Full Text Online. If you wish, you can also filter your results further by clicking the option for Peer-reviewed Journals under the Show Only heading to ensure academic quality resources. To search the British Library Catalogue or other university library catalogues look under Subject Resources – Library Catalogues. Library Search can be widened to include resources outside Northumbria’s collection with seamless access to request resources ‘on demand’ via the Inter Library Loan service. For more help, use the Library Search Toolkit. 463_1760 / November 2019 This leaflet is available in other formats on request. A-Z databases There are several key databases which you may choose to search independently from Library Search. Some of these resources will provide full text, others will provide abstracts (description of the article) and other references you may find useful. The A-Z databases list can be accessed at http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/start Subject Resources The Subject Resources pages available through Library Search collect together subject databases relevant to specific research areas. Relevant subject headings include: Media & Journalism, Business & Management, Marketing and Information & Communication Studies. Each of these sections list a set of Core resources, plus a range of Additional resources. Film and television industry information BFI (British Film Institute) Statistical Yearbook The BFI’s Statistical Yearbooks present all of the available statistics on UK film and the UK film and television industry for each year (beginning 2002) in one downloadable PDF. As of 2015, the Yearbook’s individual chapters are also published separately for ease of access. The Yearbook covers box office, production, distribution, exhibition, audience, awards and investment information. BFI reports The BFI provides free, downloadable Research and market intelligence reports on the UK film industry and film culture. Topics include the UK film economy, audiences, theatrical performance, UK film export and international markets and policy for UK film. The Creative Industries The Creative Industries Council is a joint forum between the creative industries and UK government. Their website, The Creative Industries, provides facts, figures, infographics and analysis on a range of companies based in the UK, including those in the film and television sector. The site covers government economic data, UK independent TV production and exports, film industry companies, investment in UK film production and the international performance of UK films. The Resources section of the site offers helpful advice on setting up a creative industries company in the UK on topics such as tax planning, finance and investors, staffing and visa rules. The Hollywood Reporter The Hollywood Reporter is a digital and print magazine covering the Hollywood film, television and entertainment industries and their relationship with finance, law, technology and politics. You can access The Hollywood Reporter through the A-Z ejournals link in Library Search. 463_1760 / November 2019 This leaflet is available in other formats on request. Broadcasting & Cable Broadcasting & Cable is a US trade publication available through Library Search covering broadcasting and cable, congressional actions, licensing, ratings and people of note. UN data UN data provides international statistics on cinema attendance for more than 60 countries worldwide. Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB) The Research section of the TVB website contains comparisons, reports, analyses and US television measurements. The TV Basics page is a quick reference guide to trends and statistics offered by the website. Video Advertising Bureau (VAB) The VAB website provides free television research reports covering topics such as US audience behaviour, programming and multi-screen use. AdWeek The AdWeek website reports media and entertainment industry news as well as television viewing figures, market profiles and analytics. Nation Master Nation Master collects information from a variety of credible sources, subdivided by country. The Media section for each country includes broadcast media information, number of cable television subscribers, number of cinemas and attendance. Box office figures Box Office Mojo Box Office Mojo is a North American box office reporting service owned by IMDb. Figures are organised by daily, opening weekend, monthly, quarterly, seasonal, yearly and all time grosses. The International pages can be used to view box office figures for non-American territories in US dollars or local currency. The Numbers The Numbers publishes domestic and international box office figures by day, weekend, week and year as well as theatrical market information from 1995 –present (including ticket sales per year, average ticket price per year and annual total box office revenue adjusted for inflation). Statista Statista is a statistics company providing data for companies, researchers and academics. The Film Industry – Statistics & Facts section provides free access to industry figures including box office revenues, production budgets, actors and awards. British Film Institute (BFI) The BFI’s weekend box office reports provide figures for the top 15 films released in the UK, as well as all other British (domestic productions and co-productions) releases and newly released films. The reports also include weekend rankings (out of the last 52 weeks), the UK’s percentage share of the top 15 gross and the percentage by which the figure has increased/decreased compared with the previous week. Full reports are available as downloadable MS Excel documents from January 2007 onwards, and partial records from December 2001. Grosses are reported in pounds sterling (£) and cover the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of each week. 463_1760 / November 2019 This leaflet is available in other formats on request. Entgroup Entgroup is a Chinese market intelligence and data consultation firm specialising in the country’s media and entertainment industry. Entgroup’s website reports daily and weekly Chinese and Hong Kong box office statistics for the top ten highest grossing films. Box Office India Box Office India reports the screens and grosses for Hindi films. Figures reported are independent estimates, with entertainment and service tax deducted, cross checked with cinema collections. Television viewing figures BARB The Broadcaster’s Audience Research Board (BARB) delivers official viewing figures for UK television audiences. BARB provides figures for the top 30 and top 10 broadcasts since 1998, searchable by data and channel. The TV since 1981 section provides figures for the top 10 broadcasts by year. Nielsen The Nielsen website provides US viewing figures for the top ten broadcasts on syndicated and cable networks. USA Today The newspaper provides Nielsen viewing figures for primetime broadcasts on the American ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC UPN and WB networks. You can access USA Today through the A-Z ejournals link in Library Search. TV By The Numbers TV By The Numbers provides daily and weekly viewing figures for US broadcasts beginning in 1997 as well as US television industry news. The World Almanac and Book of Facts The World Almanac and Book of Facts’ ‘Personalities, Arts and Media’ section contains information on the highest rated broadcasts for the previous year. 463_1760 / November 2019 This leaflet is available in other formats on request. .