2. Who are they?
- UIP were formed in 1981 in London.
-They are secularly owned by two companies, Paramount and Universal
Pictures.
- They have distributed over 1000 thousand films, which include over 100
academy award winners.
-Most of the big budget films you see nowadays are likely to be linked to UIP.
3. Who are they owned by?
Universal – founded in 1912 and is an American motion picture studio,
owned by Comcast who are in turn a subsidiary of NBCUniversal.
Paramount – founded in 1912 as well and is an American film/television
production/distribution studio. They are a subsidiary of the U.S media
conglomerate Viacom.
Overall, UIP is owned by Viacom and NBCUniversal as they own the parent
companies.
4. What do they do?
- They Distribute films (by Paramount and Universal Pictures) outside of
North America all over the globe.
-They have distribution offices in 16 countries and have Third Party
Licenses in 43 other countries.
-They also hold Non-Theatrical rights in all markets outside North
America.
- Distribution rights to features by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios.
5. Success?
-They are incredibly successful, mainly due to Non-Theatrical distributions of
films.
- Non-theatrical distributions allow audiences who may not be able to use
conventional cinemas to access UIP films in another way.
- They distribute Universal and Paramount titles non-theatrically all over the
world.
- License titles for group screenings (video, DVD and or Blu-ray) to different
film clubs, schools, universities and many other institutions all over the world.
- offer there films in different formats (VOD and PPV).
6. Success continued…
-UIP owes a lot of its success to the people they have working for them. There
offices are run by local industry experts that understand the market they are
dealing with.
- UIP has offices in many EU countries and has committed certain undertakings
to the European Commission.
- UIP is almost guaranteed success due to the connections it has with large,
multi-national film companies such as Paramount and Universal.
