Major film studios like Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, and Disney produce big-budget blockbuster films targeting mass audiences around the world in popular genres like action, sci-fi, and adventure. These films often have large production budgets in the hundreds of millions but can gross billions globally. Smaller niche studios in Britain like Warp Films sometimes work with organizations like Film 4 to independently produce lower-budget films in genres like social drama that may struggle to find large audiences but can still be financially successful if their budgets are low enough.

1. Film Institutions
Mass and Niche Film Production
Companies

2. Mass Institutions
Film Conglomerates:
• Time warner
• Viacom
• News corporation
• Sony
• The Walt Disney corporation
• General electric

4. Universal Studio’s
• Universal studios is known for high budget films
which have major actors/actresses names on it.
They serve worldwide films targeting all people
due to the genres and sfx they produce covering
from action and adventures to thrillers and
horrors.

5. Mass Institution Overview
• Successful US Blockbuster Film: ‘The Fast and the
Furious’ 2001
Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller
Studio: Universal: Budget $38m, Gross $200m+.
• Successful US Blockbuster Film: ‘Avatar’ 2009
Genre: Science Fiction / Action / Romance
Studio: 20th Century Fox: Budget $300m, Gross
$2.7bn.

6. Niche Institutions
• Producers can often work outside major film
studios, these are often British productions in
smaller studios like Warp films, working with
Film 4 to try and raise finance to help with the
production of the film. Films made this way
often struggle to make much money.

7. Niche Institution Overview
• Successful UK Studio: Working Title
Genre: Rom-Coms:
‘Four Weddings & a Funeral’ Budget $6m, Gross $244m
• Small Independent Low Budget British Film:
Genre: Social Realist Drama - ‘This is England’
Budget £1.5m, Gross £1.5m.
Institutions: Warp Films + Film 4