This document compares a low budget film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, to a high budget film, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. It discusses their production companies, budgets, box office grosses, target audiences, and genres. The production company for the low budget film, Summit Entertainment Lionsgate, has significantly lower annual revenue, income, assets, and equity than the high budget film's production company, Walt Disney. Walt Disney is also a much larger and more successful company overall, having produced hundreds more films.

1. Low budget vs High budget
Bethany Braine

2. FILM ONE (low budget film): The Perks of Being a
Wallflower
FILM TWO (high budget film): Pirates of the
Caribbean: At World’s End
Films

3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – distributed by
Summit Entertainment Lionsgate.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End – distributed
by Buena Vista Pictures, Walt Disney.
What are the main institutions used
for each of the films?

4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower –
Budget: $13 million
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End –
Budget: $300 million
How much money was used to
produce each film? (The budget)

5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower –
World wide gross: $33,384,127 million
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End –
World wide gross: $963,420,425 million
How much money was made from
each of the films?

6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower –
Summit Entertainment Lionsgate:
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End –
Walt Disney:
How well known are the production
companies for both the high-budget
and low-budget film?
Revenue $2.078 billion
Operating Income $273.1 million
Net Income $232.1 million
Total assets $2.761 billion
Total equity $53.559 million
Revenue $42.278 billion
Operating Income $9.260 billion
Net income $5.682 billion
Total assets $74.898 billion
Total equity $39.759 billion

7. Walt Disney has a much higher operating income and
net income.
Compared to Summit Entertainment Lionsgate, Walt
Disney has 72.137 billion dollars more total assets.
Also, Walt Disney has39.705 billon dollars more total
equity than Summit Entertainment Lionsgate.
Walt Disney has made 517 movies and Summit
Entertainment Lionsgate has only made 80.
Differences (in terms of institutions)

8. Both Walt Disney and Summit Entertainment
Lionsgate have very similar target audiences
(teens, adults and senior citizens, minus the children
for Summit Entertainment Lionsgate.)
Both are highly successful distributions and make big
profits on their films.
Similarities (in terms of institutions)

9. Summit Entertainment Lionsgate: The Twilight Saga:
Breaking Dawn – Part 2.
Was this successful? Very, its’ budget was $120 millionand
the worldwide grossing was $829,685,377.
Walt Disney: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Strangers’ Tides
Was this successful? Yes, its’ budget was $150-250 million
and the worldwide grossing was $1,043,871,802.
What other films has the production
company made?

10. Summit Entertainment Lionsgate: adventure, drama, fantasy and
romance.
Walt Disney: animation, family, fantasy, musical and romance.
Is this important when considering who could produce your film?
I would probably choose Walt Disney out of the two companies to
produce my film. The genres that they usually produce are ones
that I like and feel interested to research. Although Summit
Entertainment Lionsgate produce fantasies and romanctics as
well, overall Walt Disney seem more successful and have made
more films, as well as having a higher total asset budget and making
bigger profits.
What genre of films does the
company usually produce?

11. Walt Disney: targets all ages including adults, teens and children as
well as the senior citizens, but especially children. This is definitely
reflected through their film choice, all ages do watch Disney films
and most enjoy them. However the films vary from Beauty and the
Beast to Mary Poppins and all are still successful.
Summit Entertainment Lionsgate: summit entertainment is highly
similar. However it targets more of the older generation, for
example teens, adults and senior citizens rather than mostly
children. This is also reflected through their film choice, and also
through their BBFC Certificates (12, 12A, 15.)
Is this reflected through their film choice, or does this vary?
This varies for Summit Entertainment Lionsgate as their BBFC
Certificate varies depending on the film, however Walt Disney
targets mainly children, but make films adults enjoy too.
What audiences do each of the
institutions aim to appeal to?

12. I feel that Walt Disney outperforms the other and
could claim to be more successful for the following
reasons:
They tend to make more of a profit and have a higher
revenue, operating Income, net income, total assets
and total equity.
They have made many more films (in fact, 437 more!)
The genre and target audience for this distribution is
very clear.
Which outperforms the other?