Production companies are responsible for creating films and ensuring they appeal to target audiences. They handle budgeting, scheduling, scripting and production. Film distribution companies market and distribute films after production to wider audiences. Their role is to maximize profits by appealing to target audiences through marketing and distribution. Major distributors like Universal, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros have distributed profitable horror, vampire and zombie films through appealing to genre fans.
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2. Production companies
A production company provides the physical basis for works
in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film,
television, radio, and video.
They are responsible for creating the film and making sure
that it looks good and that its content appeals to its target
audience.
Here are some examples of production companies…
3. Twisted pictures
It’s an American independent production company that
mainly creates horror films.
It was founded in 2004.
Film Genre Budget Box Office
Mother’s day
(2010)
Horror,
psychological
$11,000,000 $862,000
Saw (1) (2004) Horror, slasher $1,200,000 $103,900,000
Texas Chainsaw
3D (2013)
Horror, slasher $20,000,000 $47,000,000
4. Hammer film productions
It’s a British production company that has produced several
films, a lot of them being horror.
It was founded in 1934.
Film Genre Budget Box Office
Dracula: Prince of
darkness (1966)
Horror, gothic
vampires
£100,000 $300,000
One million years
B.C. (1966)
Adventure/Fantas
y
£400,000 $8,000,000
The plague of
zombies (1966)
Horror, Zombie £100,000 $400,000
5. Studio Canal
Is a French-based production and distribution company.
It was founded in 1988.
Film Genre Budget Box Office
Shaun of the
Dead (2005)
Comedy horror,
zombie
$6 million $30 million
Long Time Dead
(2002)
Horror,
supernatural
$4 million $13 million
Vampire Academy
(2014
Satirical fantasy
horror, vampires
$30 million $15 million
6. Conclusion about film production
companies
I learned that film production companies play a vital role in
getting the film produced so that they can later be distributed
by other companies (or by themselves if they are distributers
themselves).
Production companies are needed in order for the film to be
made.
The production company handles the budgeting, scheduling,
scripting and the production itself.
7. Distribution companies
A film distributor is a company or individual responsible for
the marketing of a film. They are also responsible for
preparing the film; everything that is done after the
production stage to the exhibition stage (showing the film to
its audience, e.g. DVD).
Their responsibility is to make sure that the film looks good
and that its marketing appeals to the films’ target audience,
so that more of them will go and see the movie, so that the
company can potentially create a profit (usually a good one
for the major distribution companies).
Here are some examples…
8. Universal studios inc.
Its an American conglomerate film studio and distributer that
has distributed many genres of films - including horror.
It’s owned by mass-media company Comcast.
It was founded in 1912.
Film Genre Budget Box Office
Bordello of Blood
(1996)
Comedy/Horror,
Vampire
$15 million $5 million
Dawn of the Dead
(2004)
Zombie horror film $28 million $102 million
Land of the Dead Post-apocalyptic
zombie horror
$15 million $46 million
9. 20th
Century Fox
It’s an American conglomerate film studio and distributer and
is one of the largest film companies in the world.
It was founded in 1935.
Film Genre Budget Box Office
Vampires suck
(2010)
Spoof comedy
based on the
Twilight films
$20 million $80 million
Abraham Lincoln
Vampire Hunter
(2012)
Dark fantasy
action horror
$69 million $116 million
The Pyramid
(2014)
Supernatural
horror
$6 million $12 million
10. Warner Bros Entertainment
It’s an American conglomerate media company that makes
film, TV and music entertainment.
Its headquarters are located in California.
It was founded in 1923.
Film Genre Budget Box Office
Interview with the
Vampire: The
Vampire
Chronicles (1994)
Romantic horror
based around
vampires
$60 million $223 million
Queen of the
Damned (2002)
Vampire horror film $35 million $45 million
Twilight (2008) Vampire romance
film.
$37 million $392 million
11. Conclusion about film
distribution companies.
I learned that film distribution companies are that the large ones
listed above can make the film a lot of profit (from box office),
showing that the distribution of the film is important in order for
the other stages involved, including the production company, for
making a potentially large profit.
I also learned that distribution companies make the film look
good (from marketing) in order to appeal its target audience, so
more members of that target audience will watch the film, so
that the company can maximize their profits.
The role of the distribution company is to make sure that the film
is financially successful through the use of marketing,
distributing, and exhibition, all of which being made to look
appealing to their target audience so that they will enjoy the film,
which will increase the amounts of recommendations the film
will get, so that more people will see it, which will ultimately
maximize their profits.
