CINEMA OF THE U.S.A

The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a

profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century.

Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods:

THE SILENT FILM ERA

CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA

NEW HOLLYWOOD

CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

Since the 1920s, the American film industry has grossed more money every

year than that of any other country.

GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOODDuring the so-called Golden Age of

Hollywood, which lasted from the end of the silent era in American cinema in the late 1920s to the early 1960s, thousands of movies were issued from the Hollywood studios.

The start of the Golden Age was arguably when The Jazz Singer was released in 1927, ending the silent era and increasing box-office profits for films as sound was introduced to feature films. Most Hollywood pictures adhered closely to a formula - Western, slapstic comedy, musical, animate cartoon, biopic (biographical picture) - and the same creative teams often worked on films made by the same studio.

Hollywood produced a lot of very famous and important movies through all this years, much of these movies have been of the best of all the times, we’re going to see four important films of the North American cinema:

Gone With The Wind (1939)It was the Winner

of 10 Academy Awards.

The film featured an incredible budget

which reached US $ 4.25 million. it

became the longest and most expensive

movie.

Star Wars (1977)The film series began with Star Wars, released on May 25, 1977. This was followed by two sequels: The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21, 1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25, 1983. The opening crawl of the sequels disclosed that they were numbered as "Episode V" and "Episode VI" respectively, though the films were generally advertised solely under their subtitles. Though the first film in the series was simply titled Star Wars, it later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels.

More than two decades after the release of the original film, the series continued with the long-awaited prequel trilogy, consisting of Episode I: The Phantom Menace, released on May 19, 1999; Episode II: Attack of the Clones, released on May 16, 2002; and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, released on May 19, 2005.Box office performance, the complete Star Wars film series grossed about $4,537,905,950 in worldwide the six films together were nominated for 25 Academy Awards, of which they won ten. Three of these were Special Achievement Awards.

E.T. The Extra – Terrestrial (1982)

Released by Universal Pictures, E.T. was a blockbuster, surpassing Star

Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time, a record it held for 11

years. Critics acclaimed it as a timeless story of friendship, and it ranks as the greatest science fiction film ever made.

The film was rereleased in 1985, and then again in 2002 with altered special

effects and additional scenes.This movie grossed $792,910,554 in

worldwideThe film was nominated for nine

Oscars at the 55th Academy Awards, including Best Picture

Titanic (1997)The film garnered fourteen Academy Awards nominations, and won eleven, including the Best Picture and Best Director. It also picked up the awards for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Film Editing, Best Original Song, and Best Art Direction.The film earned $8,658,814 on its opening day and $28,638,131 over the opening weekend from 2,674 theaters, averaging to about $10,710 per venue, and ranking number one at the box office. By New Year's Day, Titanic had made over $120 million