Film institutions

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20th Century Fox

20th century fox is a film corporation which is one of the 6 major film studios in America. It was
founded in 1993 and has become the most recognised film institution in the world.

Some of the most successful films are: Avatar, Star Wars, Speed and The Chronicles of Narnia.

The majority of popular and successful films that 20 th century fox created are Comedy and
Family genre films for example Alvin and the Chipmunks, Doctor Do-little, Diary of a wimpy
kid.

Because I am making An independent film I have to consider if 20 th century would be a

suitable institution to produce my film.

Even though they are a major independent producer and distributor they lack independent
films.

This could be seen as a positive and a negative.

Because they havent produced many independent films it could mean that our film could be
very popular as they are becoming quite rare within the film industry.

However it could mean that 20th Century Fox are not interested in our product and not want to
produce our film.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. is another main film studio based in California and New York. Warned bros is a
global leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing forms of
creative content and their related businesses across all current and emerging media and
platforms.

The most popular films that they produced are: Harry Potter, Valentines Day, Sex and the
City, The Hangover.

They are dedicated to producing a variety of films to suit a wide variety of audience.

After researching what Independent movies Warner bros created I found that there were a lot
more than 20th Century Fox. Also in my research I have found that Warner Bros. have
produced more well known and successful independent films than 20 th Century Fox.

This would be massively beneficial for our Independent genre. Because Warner Bros. like to
produce a variety of films ours would be seen as different and rare which would make our film
hopefully become popular. Because of the variety of films that have a huge audience which
will continue to watch Warner Bros. films.

Universal Studios

Universal is a subsidiary of NBC Universal and one of the six major studios. It was founded in
1912 by Carl Laemmle, it is one of the older movie studios to still be producing films.

Recently won Academy Award winning films such as King Kong, The pianist.

Like 20th century fox they prefer to focus on certain genres. There favourite genres are Drama,
Romance and adventure. They chose these genres because they are usually the most
successful films to produce. They do not like taking risks because they dont want to fail.

Universal studios lack Independent films and like 20th century fox this could be both positive
and negative. Positive because it creates a difference in the Universal studios and this could
create advertisement as it is not in the norm. Negative because Universal Studios may not be
interested as like I said before they do not like taking risks with genres.

I think that all three could distribute my media product. But

Warner Bros. being the best as it enables variety within the
genres they produce. As we have chosen an Independent genre
we need a distributor that is willing to take a risk as Independent
films has become very rare recently. 20th Century Fox and
Universal are very biased towards the popular genres and do not
like to take risks as they want to always have a popular film and
never fail. This creates more pressure on our independent film
but if it was successful with 20th Century Fox or Universal it would
create our film to have lots of publicity as it is rare for them to
produce that type of genre.