Distribution and production companies

Distribution companies are vital in the success or failure of a movie. Distributors are normally an organisation although you can get individuals. Their aim is to sell your film or to make sure it is has theatrical successful release. They may help with marketing. Distributors will make sure the film is heard about, depending on how much money they have to work with. For example if they have a lot of money to work with then the advertising campaign will be bigger and you may see ad's on buses, billboards and in the newspaper.

An  example is momentum pictures. a well known distributing company known for films such as "The women in black" "Law abiding citizen" & "The kings speech".

Production companies are responsible for producing the film. This includes scheduling, scripting, marketing and post production. A successful production company would be the BBC. They usually work within the UK. They are responsible for some successful British films such as Fish Tank, Bullet boy, The boy in the striped pajamas's and others.

As a group we had a task to create a film cast actors and choose who would produce our movie. We had the concept that our film would be a British gangster movie and would star actors such as Daniel Craig and Michael Caine who are well known, we said that we would use revolver to distribute our company as they're a well known British distributing company.


This relates to our opening sequence because if we were to carry this further onto a film or short film we know where we could look for production and distributing companies. For example i thought we would be more like to work with BBC FILMS than momentum pictures. I thought this due to the fact BBC FILMS usually works within the UK whereas momentum pictures would most definitely be out of our price range.
We also thought of Revolver entertainment as a possible distributor as they are also known for distributing British movies.