Distributor/ institution

These are the people with money. They are often the large studios: Universal, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Brothers, Lionsgate. They are often part of huge media conglomerates: Vivendi Universal, News Corporation and AOL Time Warner. They are wealthy and own much of the world’s media. Once a film has been produced (made) then the distributors start marketing the film by posters, interviews with stars, merchandise, soundtrack, trailers in order to gain their audience…Seeing as the distributor lent most of the money for the movie then they scoop up the majority of the film’s profit. The distributors are often American, hence this is why the American Film Industry dominates our screens.

We have choosen the insitituiton Lionsgate to distribute our movie as they have produced a number of good movies. Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation is an American entertainment company that originated in Vancouver, British Columbia and now has headquarters in Santa Monica. It is the most commercially successful independent film and television distribution company in North America. It has produced a number of films but from its first big hit being American Psycho, to its most famous trilogy, Saw.