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- 1. Evaluation What kind ofmedia institution might distribute your media product and why? To distribute our film we looked at many distribution companies, such as: • Universal studios • Paramount Pictures Corporation • 20th Century Fox • New Line Cinema As our film is a horror with a sub genre of a slasher, we wanted a production company who was experienced and successful in the distribution of our genre. We therefore did further research into these distribution companies. Here are brief summaries of each of the distribution companies with our decision and reasoning for using New Line Cinema distribution company. Universal Studios Is an American production company, creating films such as Jaws1975, Jurassic park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park which are they’re most successful horror films. In the table below you can see the ranking compared to other films. They are one of the oldest and constant film studios with successful films, this is one of the reasons we was thinking of using them. After more research into this distribution company we realised that they have distributed sci-fi and thriller horrors and a lot of comedies and family films that are successful, they have not distributed many horror slasher films so we came to the conclusion that this was not the right distribution company for us. Paramount Pictures Corporation This distribution company is one of the largest top grossing film studios. It has distributed films like Paranormal Activity that has become very successful which is a supernatural horror followed by a lot more Paranormal Activity films, the first Paranormal Activity had a worldwide gross of $193,355,800 on a production budget of $15,000. It does a lot of digital distribution with the availability to watch films through Xbox 360 and play station consoles, digital sites like iTunes gives apps for gaming with film content on mobile phones and Paramount-inspired videogames. As a group we felt that they had not distributed our type of film, of a slasher film, this is something we are looking for.
- 2. The statistical information isfrom http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio 20th Century Fox Is one of the major American film studios, this is the reason we wanted to use them as they are one of the most recognizable film distributors with lots of successful films. When we did further research into this distribution company we found the horror films they had distributed were Devil’s Due a supernatural horror, Jennifer’s Body a dark horror comedy, and Wrong Turn all of which where very successful. Looking at the rank below we can see that they have no horror movies in their top 10 movies, this again was the reason we didn’t choose them. New Line Cinema Is an American Studio founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye, and its parent company is Warner Bros since March 2008. They have made horror films like A Night Mare on Elm Street films, Freddy vs Jason, Jason X and Jason Goes to Hell, which are all horror slasher films, which is the genre of our film. They have also done Final Destination and The Conjuring so they are well recognized as a distributor of horror films. As seen from the picture on the right, the ranking of the Warner Bro’s is at the top, as they are the parent company of New Line Cinemas this should bring more success to our film is we was to use them. A Night Mare on Elm Street 2010 had a gross of $63,059,655 and on the opening weekend had $63,059,655 this is on the budget of $63,059,655 this is why we have chosen to use New Line Cinema to distribute our film as they have experience in distributing horrors with a sub genre of slasher, not only they have done this multiple times but they have been successful. Another reason is that the parent company of New Line Cinema is Warner Bros is the most successful distributor.