Show business

Show business comprises the industries and professions that finance, produce, distribute, and present entertainment such as film, television, theater, and music.

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Talent agency: A company that represents performers and negotiates professional engagements on their behalf. Agents connect performers with roles and negotiate the deals that bring productions together.
Motion picture industry: The businesses and workers involved in financing, producing, distributing, and exhibiting films. Film is one of the largest and most recognizable branches of show business.
Actor: A performer who portrays a character in theater, film, television, or another medium. Actors are among the most visible workers whose careers the industry organizes.
Independent film: Film production made outside the major studio system, often with smaller budgets or alternative financing. Independent production offers a different financing and creative structure from studio-led filmmaking.
Celebrity: A condition of widespread public recognition, often associated with performers and other public figures. Commercial promotion can turn performers into public figures whose fame itself has market value.
Talent manager: A professional who guides a client's career, image, and long-term opportunities. Managers shape careers beyond the individual bookings handled by agents.
Television industry: The organizations and workers that create, distribute, and broadcast television programming. Television has its own production, network, and distribution systems within entertainment.
Singer: A performer who uses the voice to produce musical sounds and interpret songs. Singers work across recording, touring, theater, and broadcast entertainment.
Studio system: A production model in which a small number of companies control film production, distribution, and often exhibition. The studio system concentrates decision-making that show business otherwise spreads across firms.
Copyright: A legal right that protects original works of authorship and controls certain uses of them. Copyright determines how entertainment works can be licensed, distributed, and monetized.