Distribution Companies Research

Now that my production is made I need to find the right company to distribution or make my film. In the selection process of company, I will need to research a number of different companies then selecting the one that is the best for me. I analysed the facts and figures, genre and box office hits of each of the following companies: 

20th century fox film Co. Ltd- Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio, distributor (founded in May 31st 1935 by Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck) and one of the six major American film studios. It's headquarters is Fox Plaza, Century City based in, Los Angeles, California, U.S. This company distributes worldwide, allowing a mass target audience.

Paramount Pictures -Paramount pictures corporation is a film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor. This company is also ranked one of the, 'Big six' film studios of hollywood, connoting that is has a mass target audience. Founded in 1912 as Famous players film company, with it's headquarters in Hollywood, California, U.S is distributed worldwide. 

Universal Pictures-Universal pictures is an American film studio and is one of Hollywood's 'Big six' film studios.  This company serves worldwide, motion pictures and was founded in April 10th 1912 as Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Not only is Universal Pictures one of the, 'big six' film studios, it is also the world's fourth oldest major film studio.

The walt disney company-The walt disney company, commonly known as, 'Disney', is an American mass media entertainment company. With it's headquarters at the Walk Disney Studios in Burbank, California, it is the world's second largest media in terms of revenue, after Comcast. Disney was founded on October 16th, 1923 by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney.  The company has a worldwide demographic.

Columbia Pictures -Columbia pictures Industries, is an American film production and distribution studio of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group. It is one of the leading film studios in the world, a member of the Big six and is also one of the so-called Little three among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. Founded on January 10th, 1924 in Los Angeles, California U.S, the Columbia pictures company distributes worldwide.

Sony pictures- Sony Pictures entertainment Inc. is an American entertainment. With a worldwide target audience, this company was founded on December 21st 1987 as Columbia Pictures entertainment, Inc (later renamed Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. on August 7th 1991). Sony pictures Entertainment is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America.

New line cinema- New line cinema productions Inc (normally referred to as, 'New line cinema') is an American film studio founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye as a film distribution company, later becoming an independent studio.

Warner Bros.- Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. is an American entertainment company that produces film, television and music entertainment and is one of the major film studios.  Warner bros. have a worldwide mass media target audience, and was founded on April 4th 1923 by Albert, Harry, Sam and Jack L. Warner.

The genre, is based of the average genre of the films their produced or distribute. The type of production company they are signifies if it is a smaller company of a bigger production. For example, inferring if the company is mainstream or independent.
Subsidiary Company- is a company that is owned over controlled by another company.

My research of the average genre, infers that new line cinema should be the production i want to use for my project as it is the only one (out of 8) that's average/iconography genre is thriller.After researching the basic background and genre/type of all 8 of my companies, i started to look into box office views, and looking at the total gross.
Box office- is a used to refer to the success of a film, play or actor in terms of their audience size in the theatres/cinemas.

Total Gross- is the total amount of sales, salary, profit, etc, without deductions. For example before taking off the expenses of taxes or even gross earnings and gross sales.

The resource that i used to get my information is from, Box Office Mojo.

Purely based the total gross of their all time top 5 of their box office views. The best company to produce and/or distribute my project would be, 20th century fox, with a amazing figure of, $749,766,139 in an overall of 3,461 theatres. The worst company production to be involved with my production is, columbia pictures with an poor, $229,242,989 in 1,506 theatres. By working with 20th century fox i would ensure to have a mass target audience, whereas working with columbia pictures would get me a niche audience. However, looking into the average genre of production  (action-adventure) the demographic would be expecting a completely different movie, causing into a failure of my production. 

Next during my research, i decided to make a case study on the movie, 'Se7en' as my production is most similar to this psychological thriller. I looked into the ratings and the production  that produced/ distributed this film. 

The resource i used to get my information for, Se7en's ratings is IMDb.comn and Box Office mojo-se7en.

Conclusion

To conclude, i believe due to my research that, 'New line cinema' is the production to produce/distribute my project. One reason being the similarity in the case study of, 'se7en', this similarity could connote a similarity in the ratings that were given. However the domestic total gross, doesn't look that impressive, in competition with fox century or paramount pictures. This difference in the narrative and production style of my project compared to se7en's could infer a greater profit made. As New line cinema is a subsidiary of Warner Bros, a company which is well-known to it's world-wide audience ensuring a wide demographic. Warner Bros. would also be able to provide help to the smaller company, 'New line cinema' with their, $553,345,358 total gross success.