The entertainment industry consists of a large number of sub-industries devoted to entertainment. However, the term is often used in the mass media to describe the mass media companies that control the distribution and manufacture of mass media entertainment.

The traditional live entertainment industry

The theater

• playwrights
• actors and theater directors

The music industry:

• composers and songwriters
• singers and musicians
• orchestras
• concert halls and opera houses

The publishing industry:

• authors
• journalists
• publishers
• printers
• booksellers

The 20th century mass media industry

• cinema
  • film studios
  • movie theater
• broadcasting
  • television
  • radio
• record industry
• theme parks
• discotheques

See also:

• Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
• Content is Not King
• Entertainment law
• List of movie-related topics