The Movies & Entertainment: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Movies & Entertainment industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global movies and entertainment market shrank by 0.7% in 2008 to reach a value of $110.3 billion.

In 2013, the global movies and entertainment market is forecast to have a value of $113.1 billion, an increase of 2.5% since 2008.

Home video sales proved the most lucrative for the global movies and entertainment market, generating 52.2% of the total revenues.

Americas leads the global movies and entertainment market, with 53.3% of the market's revenue.

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Market Definition

The movies and entertainment market consists of both producers and distributors of entertainment formats, such as movies, and music. The movie box office segment is valued as the revenues received by box offices from total annual admissions. The home video segment covers both sales and rental of DVDs and VHS, at end-user (retail) prices. The music segment is valued as the revenues accruing from the sale (at retail prices) of recorded music in any physical or digital format, but excludes revenues from live performances.

Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2008 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report the global figure is deemed to comprise of the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

The Americas comprises Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the US.

Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.