New Line Cinema would be the best distribution company for our slasher horror film based on their successful history distributing similar films. We researched 4 major distribution companies and found that while 20th Century Fox had success distributing some horror films, their top movies did not focus on the horror genre. New Line Cinema, as a subsidiary of Warner Brothers, has extensive experience and success distributing well-known slasher franchises like Nightmare on Elm Street and Final Destination. Their opening weekend box office totals, such as over $63 million for Nightmare on Elm Street, demonstrate their expertise in the horror and slasher genres that aligns with our film.

1. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
In order to create our film we researched various different distribution companies, which were successful in
distributing horror movies with a subgenre of slasher. We narrowed our research down to 4 companies and
produced a brief summary to decided which distribution company would be suitable for us. The companies and the
summaries are as follows:
Distribution
Companies
20th Century Fox
20TH Century Fox is a major American film studio and
Distribution Company with has achieved vast success.
20th Century Fox distributed these horror movies:
Jennifer’s Body
Wrong Turn
Devils Due
The films listed above were very successful when it came
to exhibition however we decided against using this
particular distribution company as when we looked at
their top 10 movies none of them were horror, meaning
their main specification of movies were not within our
chosen genre. We did not choose this company.
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema is a parent company to
Warner Brothers and has distributed
horror films within our subgenre, for
example:
Nightmare on Elm Street
Jason Goes To Hell
Freddy VS Jason
Jason X
The Conjuring
Final Destination
New Line Cinema has had a lot of success
with the genre of horror and the sub
genre of slashers, e.g. Nightmare on Elm
Street had a gross of $63,059,655 on its
opening weekend. This figure alone
conveys the experience New Line
Cinema has with horror – slashers. We
picked this distribution company, not
only for its success, but also for its
parent company (Warner Brothers),
which is very successful.