k

1. Assignment 15

2. Film Production Companies, Budgets
And Genres
• Paranormal Activity- Blumhouse Productions- $15,000 (Possession Horror)
• Insidious- Blumhouse Productions- $1.5m (Possession Horror)
• The Grudge - Ghost House Pictures - $10m (Possession Horror)
• The Cabin in the Woods- Mutant Enemy Productions- $30m (Haunted
House)
• Dawn of the Dead- Laurel Group Inc. - $650,000 (Zombie Horror)
• Shaun of the Dead- StudioCanal/ Working Title/ Big Talk Productions- $6m
(Zombie Comedy Horror)
• Shrek- Pacific Data Images - $60m (Animation Comedy)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides-Jerry Bruckheimer Films/ Walt
Disney Pictures -$378.5m (Action)

3. Conclusion
• Animation films tend to have a higher budget due to
the technology they need to use.
• Major/Well Known production companies tend to have
a higher budget as they can afford to do so.
• Most of the time there is a correlation between the
budget a film has and the quality of the animation,
however films such as Paranormal Activity prove
wrong.
• Possession films (Our Subgenre) tend to have a budget
of around $1m-$6m, depending on the effects used as
well as the net worth of the film production company.

4. Film Distribution Companies, Budgets
And Genres
• Skyfall- Colombia Pictures - $150-200m (Action)
• Saw II- Lionsgate - $5m (Gore Horror)
• Chucky 2- Universal Pictures- $13m (Thriller Horror)
• Godzilla - Warner Bros. Television- $160m (Action Sci-fi)
• Exorcism of Emily Rose- Screen Gems- $19.3m (Possession Horror)

5. Conclusion
• From the statistics and results we have gathered,
you can tell the bigger films often have a higher
distribution budget for marketing such as sky fall
as oppose to Saw.
• Horror films tend to have a smaller budget than
action films as they wouldn't’t require as much
effects and Mise-en-Scene as a horror would.
• Horror films distribution budget tend to fall
around $5m-$10m, again depending on the net
worth of the distribution company used as well as
the production company used.