Institiutional Research

There are many major distribution companies that I could use for my teaser trailer. I have picked a few that have been popular to distribute the horror genre, these include Warner Bros. Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Dreamworks and Lions gate.

Warner Bros was founded in 1918 by Jewish immigrants from Poland. It is the third oldest American movie studio in continuous operation. Warner Bros is involved in every aspect of the entertainment industry. these include film, TV, home entertainment production, worldwide distribution, DVD, digital distribution, animation, comic books, licensing, international cinemas and broadcasting.

As Warner Bros. pictures is a mainstream production company. The company does not have a specific genre of film which is chooses to produce. these genres range from family films, children films, sci-fi and horror. Films that have been produced range from Harry potter, Looney Tunes: back in action, Exorcist: The beginning, Jeepers Creepers, House of Wax and Orphan.

I have decided to research a mainstream company, Warner.Bro. due to the fact that my teaser trailer has aspects of a mainstream production, within the genre horror.

20th Century Fox is one of the six major American Film Studios. It is located in Century City, area of Los Anegles, just west of Beverly Hills. The studio is a subsidiary of news corporation, the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch. The company was founded on December 28th 1934, as the results of merger of two entities, Fox film corporation founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures begun in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck, Raymond Griffith and William Goetz. distributed films that I have looked at by 20th century fox are hide and seek and mirrors.

DreamWorks, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks Studio or DW Studios, LLC is an American film studio.DreamWorks was founded in 1994, by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. the headquarters are places in Universal City, California, United States. It develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming. It has produced or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses totalling more than $100 million each. one of DreamWorks successful and remembered film if Sherk 2, which is a family film targeting a wide audience.

DreamWorks is also known for there animation distributions. a few of these successful films include, Antz, Shrek (1,2,3) Madagascar, Over the Hedge, Bee Movie and Kung Fu Panda.

Even though DreamWork may be successful in its animation distribution, they also distribute many other films of different genres from horror to thrillers, family films, romance and comedy.

I feel that dreamworks may be the best company to distribute my film. This due to the fact they have distributed a wide range of film from different genres, making it a well known distributor. I believe that it will be one of the best ways to help promote the film. On the other hand dreamworks is well-known for its animation films. Therefore this would be an example of a company that is not suitable to distribute my film, as it is a horror film.

Lions gate is an independent film and television distribution company in North America. since 2007 it has been the most commercially successful independent distributor. Lions gate is an American entertainment company that originated in Vancouver, British Columbia and later based in Los Angeles, and is now headquartered in Santa Monica, California, USA. I have looked at Lions gate as part of my institutional research due to the fact that my teaser trailer has aspects of an independent production within the genre horror.

A few of there best selling films include, Open water, Hotel Rwanda, Saw (all), Hostel, The Descent, Good Luck Chuck, Rambo, The Lucky Ones.

Overall I feel that Lions gate and 20th Century Fox will the two from which I will make a decision on which one will be best to distribute my film.