Lionsgate Films would be well-suited to produce my film. Lionsgate is a major mini-studio known for producing films like The Hunger Games franchise, The Divergent series, and Now You See Me. They specialize in genres like science fiction, action, and thrillers - genres that my film would fit into. Lionsgate also targets their films at teenagers and young adults, which aligns with the target audience of my film. Their marketing strategy of posters, online campaigns and generating buzz on social media would help promote my film effectively despite a relatively small budget.

1. Evaluation Question 3: What
Institution would make your film?

2. History of Lionsgate Films:
∗Canadian-American production/ distribution company, which is a division of
Lionsgate Entertainment. It is one of the largest and most successful mini-major
studios in North America. (formerly known as Cinépix Film Properties, CFP).
∗Founded in 1962 by John Dunning and Andre Link, based in Montreal, CFP was a
leadiing independent company, releasing English and French-language films.
∗They produced 12 modestly budgeted films annually.
Which institution would make your film, based on
your film as a whole if it were a high budget film?

3. ∗ The Hunger Games films
∗ The Divergent Series
∗ Twilight: Breaking Dawn
∗ Now You See Me
∗ The Day After Tomorrow
What other films have they made?

4. ∗ Films they have previously made, including The
Hunger Games, have a target audience of teenagers,
and this would be appropriate for our film as our
target audience is teenagers, predominantly aged
between 17 and 24.
∗ Our film is a simple concept, so the budget doesn’t
need to be massive.
∗ It is the seventh most profitable studio.
Why would they make our film?

5. Examples of marketing they have done before:
∗Posters
∗Online marketing campaign
∗Newspaper and magazine articles
∗Trailer
∗Twitter hype
Lionsgate had a small marketing budget of $45 with 21 staff working on the
marketing, and still managed to produce such high level interest. They have
innovative ways of creating excitement, such as the “twitter puzzle” and the
tumblr blog about the costumes and fashion.
How would they market our film?

6. ∗ Lionsgate Films predominantly specialize in science
fiction, action and thriller films, where their most
successful ones were The Hunger Games films, which
in the thriller genre, like our film would be.
Specialized genres

7. ∗ The target audiences for both The Hunger Games and
Twilight: Breaking Dawn were mainly teenagers, and
our thriller would also suit this audience.
∗ Now You See Me is another example of a Lionsgate
film which interests younger people.
∗ I think the concept of our film would appeal to a
similar audience, like the rest of Lionsgate’s films.
Target Audience