Production and Distribution Companies

 

Production and Distribution Companies

Production Companies: A production company helps to create the film but it also assists in the budgeting, scheduling, script, casting and resources, organizes staff, the production itself, post-production, distribution and marketing. The company also looks over the film when it's just an idea and looks what will make this film sell out and what won't, they also look at what is in the film and they will see if it fits in with genre and sub-genere.

Production Companies are directly responsible for the fundraising for the production or they may complete this through partners' companies or private investors. The production companies are often either owned or under contact with a film studio or enterainment company and then they act as the production companies which are called 'Parent Companies'; this has become known as the studio system.

Distribution Companies: A Distribution company is responsible for sending the film out into the world for the waiting audiences to watch. They will decide when and where the film will come out and they also promote the film. There are steps which the distribution companies have to take before sending the films into the cinemas:

• They determine how many copies of the film they need to make
• The film will then be previewed to the prospective buyers- e.g. cinemas owners
• The film will then be sent to the cinemas shortly before it opens.

The cinema then shows the movie and after people have seen it, it will get sent back to the distributors and payment will be agreed. However in smaller budget films, more steps may be necessary.  

 Universal Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, it is one of the oldest American movie studios still in continuous production. It also owns a sizable collection of TV shows through its subsidiary NBC Universal Television Distribution. It also acquired rights to several prominent filmmakers works originally released by other studios through its subsidiaries over the years. Universal Pictures is the second-longest-lived Hollywood studio.  By the Sun’s Rays (First Film made by Universal). Films made by universal: Battleship, Land of the lost, E.T., Beethoven.

Pinewood is a major British film studio, heavily involved with the production of many of the action-thriller James Bond films. They have also helped produce and distribute thriller The Da Vinci Code. The Bourne Ultimatum, a film very similar in narrative to our own, was also produced by Pinewood Studios.