A film distributor is responsible for marketing, financing, and distributing films. The distribution process involves acquiring rights to films, financing prints and advertising, organizing promotional activities, and negotiating with exhibitors to select which cinemas will show the films. The six major film distributors are Warner Bros, Walt Disney, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, and Universal, all of which have total box office values over $20 billion. Disney is considered the most powerful due to its beloved brand, record label that provides music for its films, and highest average box office value per film.

1. Film Distribution
By Jack Hopkins

2. What is film distribution?
A film distributor is responsible for the marketing of a film.
The distribution company is usually different from the production
company.
The business of film distribution may be split into three parts​.
Finance: selection of films, acquisition of rights, financing of prints
and advertising.
Promotion: choice of the release date, organisation of advertising,
partnerships,
Public relations, material sent to the exhibitors (trailers,
posters)Bookings: negotiation with exhibitors, selection of the cinemas
which will play the film.
Referenced From: http://www.fiad.eu/#!what-does-a-film-distributor-
do/c9l2 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_distributor.

3. Who are the major film distributors
There are 6 major players in the film distribution
industry, these are …
1) Warner Bros
Total Box Office $27,814,268,718
Number of films 626
2) Walt Disney
Total Box Office $26,438,999,622
Number of films 512
3) Sony Pictures
Total Box Office $23,806,532,376
Number of films 607
4) 20th Century Fox
Total Box Office $21,378,479,321
Number of films 438
5) Paramount Pictures
Total Box Office $21,237,770,314
Number of films 410
6) Universal
Total Box Office $20,991,178,030
Number of films 406

4. Facts about the distributors.
What all of these distribution companies have in
common is they all have a total box office value of
over $20,000,000,000!
The next closest to these six companies is
Lionsgate with a total box office value of
$6,438,564,019. This shows how much these 6
companies really own the market.
Although these six companies are massively ahead of
Lionsgate, it has been making some ground with
massive films such as the Hunger Games trilogy. It
is now becoming a widely known and prestigious film
distribution company.

5. The most powerful film
distributor.
• In my opinion the most powerful film distributor is
probably disney.I believe this to be the case because
they are such a loved company, not only for their films
but their many other aspects of entertainment.
• They also have their own record label so when music is
needed in films, they can source it from their own
label which boosts revenue for Disney and also cuts
back on cost because they don't have to pay for the
rights to any music.
• Also in terms of their average box office worth per
film they have the highest value at each film being
worth an average of $51,638,671. Warner Bros average
value per film is $44,431,739.