This document discusses several prominent gangster films and their production companies. The Godfather had a low initial budget of $2.5 million from Paramount Pictures that increased to $6.5 million. Seven was distributed by New Line Cinema for $33 million. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was produced by Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures, and Wigram Productions for Warner Bros. for $125 million. The Departed was produced by several companies including Warner Bros. for $90 million based on the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. Warner Bros. is highlighted as a major producer and distributor of gangster films such as Goodfellas and many films by Martin Scorsese.

1. Producers Of Gangster
Films

2. The Godfather
• Production company Paramount Pictures
Alfran Productions
• Distributed by Paramount Pictures
• Budget $6.5 million, Box office $245–286 million
Coppola and Paramount
• Originally paramount believed Coppola would work within their small budget of
$2.5 million; Coppola turned him down because he was put off by the novel, but
with his American Zoetrope studio in debt and his personal financial position
weak, he took the advice of family and friends and reversed himself.Paramount
announced the signing of Coppola as director on September 28, 1970.
• Paramount wanted the movie set in modern-day Kansas City and shot in their
studio back lot to keep the budget down. Coppola preferred the 1940s, as in the
novel. The popularity of the book eventually changed minds at the studio about
the requests. they relented on a $6.5 million budget and approved period filming
on location in New York and Sicily.

3. Paramount pictures
Paramount was founded in 1912, is the fifth
oldest production company in the world and
the oldest to still be based in Hollywood.
Paramount do not tend to stick with just one
genre of film, they have also produced films
within the action/ superhero and comedy
genre.

4. Seven
• Distributed by New Line Cinema
• Budget $33 million, Box office$327,311,859
• The ending of the screenplay, with the head in the box, was originally part
of an earlier draft that New Line had rejected, instead opting for an ending
that involved more traditional elements of a detective thriller film with
more action-oriented elements. But when New Line sent David Fincher
the screenplay to review for his interest in the project, they accidentally
sent him the original screenplay with the head-in-the-box ending.

5. New Line Cinema
• New Line Film Productions Inc., often called
New Line Cinema, is an American studio. It
was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye and
Michael Lynne. It became a subsidiary of Time
Warner in 1996. In 2008 It was merged into
the bigger studio Warner Bros.

6. Sherlock Holmes: a game of shadows
• Production company Village Roadshow Pictures
Silver Pictures
Wigram Productions
• Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
• Budget $125 million, Box office $545,448,418
• After the success of the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes, a sequel
was fast-tracked by Warner Bros. with director Guy Ritchie
dropping out of an adaptation of Lobo and Robert Downey, Jr.
leaving Cowboys & Aliens.

7. Village Roadshow Pictures
• Village Roadshow Pictures is a leading Australian co-producer
and co-financier of major Hollywood motion pictures, they
have released over 70 films since they were established in
1997 , the ones they have co-produced with Warner Bros
include, The Great Gatsby, The Matrix Trilogy, The Sherlock
Holmes franchise, I Am Legend, the Ocean’s series, and The
Lego Movie just to name a few.
• After looking at the films they have produced I have noticed
that almost all of them were co-produced or distributed by
Warner Bros. They also work with some very well known
actors.

8. The departed
• Production company Warner Bros.
• Plan B Entertainment
• Initial Entertainment Group
• Vertigo Entertainment
• Media Asia Films
• Distributed by Warner Bros.
• Budget $90 million, Box office $289,847,354
• In January 2003, Warner Bros., producer Brad Grey, and
actor/producer Brad Pitt bought the rights to remake the Hong
Kong film Infernal Affairs (2002) from Media Asia for $1.75 million.
William Monahan was secured as screenwriter, and later Martin
Scorsese, who admired Monahan's Boston-set, Irish-Catholic
gangster script, came on board as director.

9. Warner Bros.
• Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly referred to as Warner Bros.)
is an American producer of film, television, and music entertainment. It is
one of the major film studios. it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its
headquarters in Burbank, California and New York. Warner Bros. has
several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner
Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros.
Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock
Entertainment, and DC Entertainment.
• Warner bros. Is widely regarded as one of the biggest producers and
distributers of films in the gangster genre. They produced Goodfellas,
which is one of most famous gangster film ever made.
• Martin Scorsese directed Goofellas too. He has worked on many films with
them suggesting that the gangster genre is dominated by Warner Bros.

10. Conclusion
• I noticed that most of these films had a rather high
budget which makes me think that an authentic film
opening might be quite hard to create as I do not have
access to the same equipment that they did, however
the godfather (which is possibly one of the biggest
gangster films of all time) had a very low budget so I
think it might be worth me going back and having a
closer look at that film.
• In my opening I think I will use New line cinema as they
produced Seven which is the closest to the sort of thing
that I want to create. It is also linked to Warner Bros. so
it is part of a production company that is renowned for
their films in the gangster genre.