Distribution

Distribution

Film Distribution

This means getting the film out in to the public eye and getting cinemas to show it.

Distribution companies are used

The distributors are then responsible

5 major distributors

-Warner Bros

-Walt Disney

-20th Century Fox

-Paramount

Paramount Pictures

Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille are credited as Paramount's principal founding fathers. The visionary Zukor laid the foundation for the company by acquiring the U.S. distribution rights to the silent French film Queen Elizabeth, a groundbreaking four-reel feature in a time when two reels was the norm. Its overwhelming success propelled Zukor's Famous Players Film Company to great heights, and in the process, transformed the business of entertainment forever.

Paramount works in a variety of genre’s. They have very high grossing films and high budgets and work a lot with british actors and big cinema’s.

Their big name gives the cinema’s a high likely hood of showing their films as they are high budget and wider audience.

20^th Century Fox

-It is one of six major American film studios

-Film Series they have distributed:

·      Star Wars

·      Ice Age

·      X-Men

·      Die Hard

·      Planet of the Apes

·      Fantastic Four

·      Alien

·      Predator

Television series:

·      Family Guy

·      Glee

·      The Simpsons

·      The X-Files

·      Buffy the Vampire slayer

We can see that 20^th century Fox main theme in distribution is animation or extreme special effects. Star wars and Ice Age are animations where as X-Men, Planet of the Apes, Fantastic Four and Alien & Predator are using a lot of special effects. Tends to be the Humans in them are either changed or are against a CGI character.

Legendary Pictures

Thomas Tull founded legendary pictures in 2000. by 2005 they released their first film which happened to be the brining back of batman. Their films are almost always aimed at men. their very high action and big guns kind of style. they have been proved to venture around in different styles and genre’s of comedy to high action films.

They have done such films as:

-300

-Man of Steel

-Wrath of the Titans

-Inception

-The Dark Knight

-Watchmen

-Ninja Assassin

-Jonah Hex

They do have high budgets in their films but often their films are green screened and they do not make sets that much. This saves them money on props but they do like to experiment with special effects.

We believe that legendary pictures should be used as the distributor for our film ‘raising sands’ as it is aimed at male audiences. The dark settings and hard cold characters work well with the distribution company and believe that people who follow legendary pictures films will be interested in our film.

Our opening will fit legendary’s style with the red tints in the pausing credits. many of their films use this such as watchmen and 300. it will work well with the production company and the legendary’s style.