Task 3: What Institution Would Make My Thriller?

What Institution Would Make My Film?

I have conducted some research into what film company I thought would like to distribute our thriller. I firstly had a look at ‘Fox Searchlight Pictures ©’ and saw that they had a wide range of produced films. Some weren’t recognizable such as “Best Laid Plans”, released on September 10^th 1999, which cost $7M but only made $27,000. However, they also had some world famous titles such as “Slumdog Millionaire” released on November 12^th 2008 costing $15M but making a worldwide grossing of $377,910,544.

I therefore knew that ‘Fox Searchlight Pictures’ wouldn’t look into our minor project to produce. I continued my research into other smaller companies such as ‘Vertigo Films’, ‘Warp Films’, ‘LionsGate’ and ‘Summit Entertainment’. I found that the best company to produce my film would be, ‘Warp Films’ because they’re a relatively small and unheard of company, which doesn’t attract big name actors or directors and therefore doesn’t produce high budget films.

I believe that ‘Warp Films’ would want to produce and publish our thriller because of a number of factors; it has a great storyline, is full of tension and suspense, and is likely to attract a fair sized audience because of its ‘technological sci-fi’ aspect. The kind of audience this film would be likely to attract would be age ranged between 16 - 26 I believe. They would also want to produce it for more obvious beneficial reasons for themselves, being that if the film was to be a huge success, their producing name would be ‘up in lights’ with the film itself. Therefore attracting more business for itself and becoming a bigger company.

In terms of production Warp Films doesn't create massive budget films. Because our thriller group isn't made up of huge name directors with years of experience and with only a very limited budget Warp Films I fell would be the most likely to produce our film. It would be very unlikely that Warner Bros. would produce our thriller.

Distribution of our thriller would also be spread to cinema companies in miniscule amounts because there are no big name producing companies, actors or directors. A small theatre company would be the most likely to exhibit our thriller to as they look to break even in their first few years of business.

Warp Films have made other films similar to my own such as, Snowtown and Kill List. The targeted audience is typically male but female audiences may also be likely to enjoy these types of films.

After the film has had it’s allowed time in the cinema, Warp Films may then decide to distribute DVDs and BluRays of the film into stores such as HMV to gain extra profit off the film. They may also decide to do a deal with other well-known companies such as Toy/Action Figure distributors and producers. This would help the film to generate more post-release profit.