This document discusses film distribution and potential distributors. It notes that distribution companies will analyze the target audience for a film, its unique selling point, and genre. It recommends Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Releasing as potential distributors since they previously distributed a similar film, Pelham 123. The document argues that its film, like Pelham 123, has wide international appeal and not just limited to UK audiences due to similarities in genre and presentation of characters.

1. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and why?

2. What is distribution?
• Distribution companies would need to find out
why the viewer would want to see the film, who
the viewer will be and how will they see it. They
will also look at their U.S.P this is there unique
selling point for example if the actors are well
known and to look at what genre the film is. They
do this because they want to get as many people
to go if they promote well enough people will
already know what they want to see before they
go to the cinema.

3. Think about the sort of film you have produced, and the type of
films this company have released before – are they likely to be
interested in your film? Explain why
• Pelham 123 is I similar film to
ours I have looked at their
distributors for different countries
they have got different
distributors but for America it was
Columbia pictures and in the UK it
was Sony pictures releasing. I got
this information from IMDB. I feel
that I wanted to release our film
Columbia pictures would be
useful in America and Sony
pictures releasing in the UK. I
think they would be reliable as
they have done this films before
so they would have good
strategies and would

4. Is your film going to appeal to UK audiences only? Or
does it have a wider appeal? Why? Why not?
• Our film has a lot of similarities to Pelham 123
for example it is the same genre we had also
presented our film and characters the same as
there's The taking of pelham123 was
successful world wide