Dark Castle Entertainment would be an ideal distribution partner because it specializes in psychological horror films like the student filmmakers' project. It has had success distributing similar inspiration films like "Orphan" and is known for only releasing one or two horror films per year, allowing for high promotion and profitability. The student filmmakers chose Dark Castle specifically because of its genre focus and track record distributing comparable films like their inspiration "Orphan."

1. . EVALUATION QUESTION 3 -WHAT
KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION
MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT AND WHY
Zahra Malik

2. OUR FILM
Our film is a psychological horror,
our storyline is based on the
protagonist, ‘Leena Wilkes’, she is
a university student, and has
unfortunately lost her mum in a
tragic car accident, but now that
she has died, ‘Leena Wilkes’ is
now having Hallucinations of
someone always watching over
her and gets freaked out every
time she’s alone. “Young, happy
and full of life, but not for long. In
her last year of university, Leena
Wilkes loses an important part of
her life. She now thinks she's
alone…. But is she?”

3. INSPIRATION
The film “Orphan” which is distributed by
Dark Castle Entertainment is a psychological
horror movie, it is about a girl called "Esther",
she has been adopted from an orphanage
home after a couple has a miscarriage and
sees no hope but to adopt a child .But the
couple are unknown of what "Esther" has
been through and what problems are
awaiting with her presence in the family .“A
husband and wife who recently lost their
baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly
as innocent as she claims to be.”The
“Orphan” was also an inspiration for our own
film poster and storyline. We decided to use
a simple picture for our main image on our
film poster like the “orphan”. And on our
main task storyline we decided to use a
university student rather than a younger child
because we thought our target market will be
more wider. We also thought that instead of
using a typical orphanage child we decided to
make a contradicting unusual opening
sequence by our protagonist already having
recently lost her mum but she is old enough
to live on her own, so the opening would be
the after life o fthis consequence for her, this
would make it more interesting and scary

4. MORE
INSPIRATION
Our film was also inspired by “Dark
Water”, which was distributed by
Touchstone Pictures. This is a story
about a mother and daughter who
move into a new apartment and get
haunted and see signs of distress. “A
mother and daughter, still wounded
from a bitter custody dispute, hole up
in a run-down apartment building.
Adding further drama to their plight,
they are targeted by the ghost of
former resident.” This film was also
inspirational to us because it was
based upon a mother who had split up
with her husband and because of her
daughters school problems they have
moved into a new apartment and are
facing consequences of someone
always taunting them. Another way it
helped us was, to get the exact picture
we wanted for our own film poster.

5. LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Lions Gate Entertainment is a North
American entertainment company.
The company was founded and
formed in Vancouver, British
Columbia, on July 3, 1997. Lions
Gate Entertainment have released
many films since their recognition
for e.g. America Psycho, High
Tension and even The Hunger
Games and Twilight Saga: The
Breaking Dawn. Lions Gate
Entertainment is the most
commercially successful
independent film distribution
company , and is the seventh most
profitable movie studio.

6. COLUMBIA PICTURES
Columbia Pictures, is an American Film
production and distribution studio. It is
one of the leading film studios in the
world. The studio, founded in 1918 as
Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by
brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe
Brandt. Columbia Picture has released
many films since 1918, films include:
Misery, Buried and have recently
release Texas Chainsaw in 3D and also
Evil Dead.

7. OUR PRODUCTION COMPANY -DARK
CASTLE ENTERTAINMENT
Dark Castle Entertainment was
formed in 1999. Dark Castle
Entertainments name pays homage to
William Castle, a horror filmmaker
from the 1950s and 1960s. Dark Castle
Entertainment has made a total of
$708,965,912 since they have started
releasing horror movies. They have
released many horror films. Films
Include: House on Haunted Hill, Ghost
Ship and Orphan.

8. WHY WE CHOSE DARK CASTLE
ENTERTAINMENT
• The main reason we chose Dark Castle Entertainment to be our
production company was because they specialise in the genre of horror
and also they are well known in their sub genre of psychological horror
films, for example they have released “Unknown” and “Orphan” which
made a total of $78,337,373 for the company. Instead of choosing a well
known production company like e.g. Warner Bros Entertainment, which
produces a varied genre of film, we decided to choose a more complex
one. Dark Castle Entertainment doesn’t release too many films a year but
they release one or two a year, because of this Dark Castle Entertainment
makes more money because people wait for a year to see the finished
film, but on top of this, the film gets promoted and advertised on a high
scale. I think this fits in really well with our film production because it
would mean that our film will be known to be a horror film because Dark
Castle Entertainment only releases horror genre film’s. Also Dark Castle
Entertainment released the film “Orphan” in 2009, this was an
inspirational film for us because it helped us to form a storyline for our
own piece of work, this was another reason we chose this particular
company.