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The Jungle Book (1967) Who made it? Disney created the original (1967) film based on Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name How was it marketed? limited edition DVD vaulted the purchases of the film (stopped to build up the demand) vinyl soundtrack  digital downloads  theme park rides  How successful was it? box office smash  $141 million gross (29th highest grossing film in the USA) $205 million made worldwide  E.g. advert - codes & conventions  audience? how successful? The Jungle Book (2016) Who made it? based on the original by Rudyard Kipling Jon Favreau Brigham Taylor How was it marketed? fan conventions showing sneak-peak footage bloggers entertainment news sites trailers included the scarier moments from the film to widen their audience the actors appeared in many posters/billboards alongside their animated character  attached their adverts to other films like 'Star Wars: the For...

Minecraft is a game which  allows players to build with a variety of different blocks in a 3D generated  world, requiring creativity from players - making it unique due to the ownership players are able to take.  Markus Persson  began developing the game as a project; he was inspired to create  Minecraft  by several other games such as Dwarf Fortress, Dungeon Keeper, and later Infiniminer.  Infiniminer  heavily influenced the style of gameplay, including the first-person aspect of the game, the "blocky" visual style and the block-building fundamentals.  Though what made Minecraft the ' cultural phenomenon' is due to its ability to adapt to demand and changing technologies.  Originally,  Minecraft   was a pretty simple video game. The goal you’d originally have when launching   Minecraft   was to spawn in, survive, and build structures. Though a s the structures players created were getting more and more complex...