The document evaluates several potential film distributors for a low-budget paranormal horror film called "The Hellion". It analyzes each distributor's experience distributing similar films, both high and low budget. It determines that Netflix is the best option given its success distributing low-budget films directly online to a large audience at low cost, allowing the film to find an audience despite its limited resources. Warner Bros is a second choice but it has less experience with low-budget films.

1. What kind of media
institutions might
distribute your media
product and why?

2. Possible options for
distribution….

3. Who was
responsible for the
distribution of
similar films?

4. Paramount Pictures
Paramount pictures is responsible for the
distribution of a similar paranormal horror
film; Paranormal activity.
Paramount pictures is also
responsible for the distribution of
other horror films such as:
Paramount pictures has also
distributed other successful films
such as:

5. Is Paramount pictures the best
distributor for my film?
Paramount pictures had distributed many highly successful
films. Including many successful paranormal horror films
such as ‘Paranormal activity’.
This experience with paranormal horror films could be helpful
in distributing my film as the company is familiar with the
target audience and has clearly been successful in marketing
towards them.
However the films that have been previously distributed by
paranormal activity have been quite high budget films. For
example, ‘Paranormal Activity: The marked ones’ had a
budget of £5 million.

6. Warner Bros.
Warner Bros: is also responsible
for the distribution of other horror
films such as:
Warner Bros has also
distributed other successful
films such as:
Warner Bros was responsible
for the distribution of the 2014
paranormal horror film ‘The
Conjuring’.

7. Is Warner Bros. the best
distributor for my film?
Warner Bros. has again distributed many highly successful
films, including the Paranormal horror film ‘The Conjuring’.
However, Warner Bros has not produced a very large
number of paranormal horror films but focuses more on other
genres of film.
Also similarly to Paramount pictures the distributor again has
not had much experience in distributing successful low
budget films, as the majority of films distributed by them are
of high budget and often have a ‘big name’ cast.
This distributor may therefore not be the best distributor for
my film, as I have created a low budget film with an unknown
cast.

8. Lionsgate
Lionsgate is also responsible for
the distribution of other horror
films such as:
Lionsgate has also distributed
other successful films such as:
Lionsgate is responsible for the
distribution of the successful
paranormal horror film ‘The quite
ones’.

9. Is Lionsgate the best
distributor for my film?
Lionsgate has successfully produced and distributed a
number of films. These films have been both of high and low
budget and of many different genres including paranormal
horror.
However, although the distributor has worked with low
budget film makers, they have not necessarily worked with
films that have a budget as low as mine. The distributor may
therefore still struggle to distribute a film with my budget.

10. 20th Century Fox
2oth Century fox is responsible for
the distribution of films such as ‘the
Devils due’ (A paranormal horror
film).
20th Century Fox is also responsible for
the distribution of other horror films such
as:
20th Century Fox has also distributed
other successful films such as:

11. Is 20th Century fox the best
distributor for my film?
This distributor has been successful in the distribution of
many films. However, very few of these films have been
paranormal horror.
Having had little experience with the distribution of
Paranormal horror films, they may find it difficult to target the
film to the chosen audience. Because of this I feel my film
would be better distributed by a company with more
experience in my chosen genre of film.

12. Universal pictures
Universal pictures is also responsible for
the distribution of other horror films such
as:
Universal studios is responsible for the
distribution of other successful films such
as:
Universal pictures is responsible for
the distribution of the highly
successful film Ouija. This film also
touches on similar things to that of
my film ‘The Hellion’

13. Is Universal Pictures the best
distributor for my film?
Universal pictures has again distributed a number of hugely
successful films including the film ‘Ouija’ which is a
paranormal horror film.
The film Ouija has a similar target audience to my film
‘Hellion’ and therefore the company has had experience in
distributing similar films to my own which could prove to be
helpful when distributing my film.
However, films distributed by Universal Pictures tend to be
that of a higher budget with a well known cast list.

14. Netflix
Netflix is a subscription website in which you can watch TV series
and films all for a fixed monthly rate. As Netflix has become more and
more popular, there are larger amounts of films and TV shows being
released exclusively to the website.
Netflix has successfully distributed
films such as:
And TV programs such as:
This Netflix original film
was the first Netflix film to
be nominated for an
academy award.

15. Other films distributed by
Netflix
As well as Netflix original films and programs, Netflix has distributed a
number of other very successful films such as:
Most of these films have been pre released to DVD or cinema but after
were also distributed by Netflix.

16. Who will distribute my film?
Due to the low budget and cast of my film I feel that my film would benefit most
if it were to be distributed by the online film website ‘Netflix’.
My research into this site shows that ‘Netflix’ has been highly successful in
distributing many other films and has a large viewing audience who enjoy
watching horror films. The site has also successfully distributed many low
budget films.
Netflix also allows my film to be distributed to a very large viewing audience for
a low cost, this is useful as my film has a low budget and therefore may not be
a successful if distributed to cinemas.
If I had chosen to distribute my film with another distributor my second choice
would most likely be Warner Bros. This company has been successful in
distributing many films and has also has experience in distributing paranormal
horror films much like my own.
I chose not to have this as my first option however, as the company has had
little experience in distributing low budget films.