Task 10

What is film distribution?

 This is everything that happens in between production (making the film) and exhibition  (watching the film).

What is the distributors role?

A film distributor is responsible for the marketing of a film. The distribution company is usually different from the production company.

What is a distribution plan?

What is a P&A budget?

Production budget of Prints and Advertising (P&A)

What is the average cost of marketing for a big six film?

 From around $100 million to $200 million

What is a simultaneous film release?

Simultaneous release is the name given to an experimental new method of making movies available to consumers.

Traditionally, movies are released first in cinemas. A DVD release follows some months later.

Simultaneous releasing of a movie removes these windows: the movie is released to cinemas and other channels such as DVD, internet and television on or around the same date.

What are some main distribution companies 

•       Antidote Films.

•       Madman Entertainment.

•       Roadshow Films.

•       Paramount Pictures/Universal Pictures.

•       Lionsgate Australia.

•       20th Century Fox/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

•       Titan View.

•       Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

What is a target market audience? What is audience positioning?

A target market is a select group of potential or current consumers, which a business decides to aim its marketing and advertising strategies at in order to sell a product or service

All media text have a series of encoded signs and messages The audience decode these messages. Different audiences will decode them differently/Media texts and the industries are acutely aware of their audiences.

What is self distribution?

When you distribute the film yourself

Task 6

Genesis

Arthouse cinema showing blockbuster and independent films in a renovated 19th-century building.

• Logan 
• Kong: Skull Island
• Hidden figures
• A clockwork orange 

The Rex

The cinema is a fully operational independent cinema, screening films 362 days of the year. The programme ranges from vintage classic films to modern blockbusters which often attract large box office queues

• Jackie
• The Eagle Huntress

The Electric

The Electric Cinema is a movie theatre in Notting Hill, London, and is one of the oldest working cinemas in the country

• Kong : skull island

The Orion

Cinema with art deco facade and 2 screens

• Kong : skull island
• Logan 

Zeffirellis

Zeffirellis is an independent cinema that supports new and emerging talents within the world of cinema and the arts.

• Viceroy's House
• Kong : skull island
• Logan 

Prince Charles

A fantastic blend of new-ish blockbusters and arthouse titles with heaps of horror, sci-fi and teen-flick all-nighters, double bills and short seasons

• Train spotting 
• La La Land 

 

The Phoenix

 

The Phoenix Cinema is an independent single screen community cinema in East Finchley, London, England. It was built in 1910 and opened in 1912 as the East Finchley Picture drome.

 

• Elle
• A Simple Life
• Certain Woman

Watershed

Watershed is a social enterprise and a registered charity. As the leading film culture and digital media centre in the South West, they advance education, skills, appreciation and understanding of the arts with a particular focus on film, media and digital technologies.

• Hidden figures 
• Elle
• Certain Woman

 

BFI Southbank

 

A four-screen cinema venue showing a huge selection of classic and contemporary films each year, with new and re-releases, film seasons, and director and actor retrospectives.

• The Whole
• Casque D'or

Task 5

Independent film Task 4

Blockbuster Task 3

Task 2

Sony	Warner Bros	20th century fox	Paramount	Disney	Universal
Ghostbusters	Suicide squad	X-men	Star Trek	Finding dory	The secret life of pets
Inferno	Batman Vs Superman	Deadpool	Silence	Rouge one	Sing
The shallows	The Legend Of Tarzan	Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children	10 Cloverfeild lane	Captain America	Jason bourne
The angry birds movie	Lights out	Trolls	Zoolander	The jungle book	Ride along 2
Passengers	Storks	The Inferno	Edie the eagle	Zootopia	The purge
The 5th wave	How to be single	Ice age	Transformers 7	Doctor strange	The girl on the train

Task 1

What are the big 6 film companies?

• Warner Bros. Pictures. Warner Bros. ...

• 20th Century Fox.

• Paramount Pictures. 

• Universal Pictures.

• Sony Pictures Entertainment 

• Walt Disney Studios

What films are on general release?

• The lego movie
• Sing
• Fifty shades darker
• Moana
• Hidden figures
• Train spotting 2

What different genre of films are there?

• animation
• romance
• drama

How many are sequels?

• Train spotting 2 

Moana is aimed at a younger audience and is made by disney