Film Studios

Film Studios 

Aims: To be able to indicate how Films are produced and distributed.

        : To research and decide, on the film studio that will produce/distribute our film.

A Film Studio is a company that produces and or distributes motion pictures. 

As a class we listed around 30 Film Studios.

 

• Fox 
• Pixar 
• Paramount 
• Dream works 
• Lions gate 
• Miramax 
• Touchstone 
• MGM
• Sony 
• Studio C
• Film Four 
• Disney 
• Universal 
• Orion 
• Fox searchlight 
• Marvel
• Nickelodeon 
• Columbia

 

 

There are Six main Studios operating today.

1. Walt Disney 
2. Universal 
3. Warner Bros 
4. Sony/Columbia 
5. Fox  
6. Paramount 

Each of these will own Subdivisions which specialise in niche films. This is based on genre and budget.

This is the order in which the money is spilt in. 

 

A distribution company is in charge of getting the film out to audiences, this involves organising for the film to receive an age certificate by regulation bodies such as the BBFC and MPPA arranging exhibitions. 

In the second part of our lesson we the went away in a groups to research which film studio would produce/distribute our films. In our group we decided that Lionsgate would produce/distribute Inherited Empire because