After a film is fully completed, it is then time to distribute the film and draw in an audience, it may be released into a multiplex cinema or small cinema, or it might go straight to DVD, depending on what kind of a company made the film. Most of the time big companies such as Disney and universal studios will take their film to multiplex cinemas, whereas films made by less known film companies will go straight to DVD.
The differences between the distribution of British films and Hollywood (American) films
British films:
-Exhibition practices in Britain can be divided between mainstream cinemas
-A British film is unlikely to take over £500,000 at the box office
-There is no studio system, which was a means of film production and distribution dominant in Hollywood from the early 1920's through the 1950's
-1985 proved to be a key year for British cinema exhibition with 70.7 million cinema tickets being purchased
-Independent chains are more likely to show non-mainstream films
- Many British films are low budget, but they can still do very well which means gaining a lot of profit
-British films have a budget of £1.6m
Hollywood films:
-Independent individual cinemas mainly show Hollywood films
-Mainstream cinemas show Hollywood product 90% of the time
-Hollywood can be working on 10-20 films all at one time
-American companies have invested heavily in multiplex cinemas based on the U.S model, offering a large number of screens and appropriately large portions of fast food
-Hollywood has a budget of $19.48m
Who would we want to distribute our film?
A media institution such as Warp Films might help with distribution of our film, they are a British media institution and our film is a British film, and also Warp Films has made some horrors and thrillers. A website that helped us to decide what media institution we would have to distribute our film was http://www.launchingfilms.com/ . this website is good for knowing what films are being distributed and by who and the website includes some links to specific film distributors. Warp films are a good choice to go to distribute our film in particular because we are a new production company who are first timers in making films, and warp films help create pioneering British cinema, and short films. it would be wrong to go to a big production company for distribution such as Universal studios or 20th Century fox, as they wouldn't be interested in distributing and putting funding into what we would have to offer, as we have no other films for them to see and evaluate to find out if we are a good production company that would be worth thier time and money. so choosing a smaller but growing media institution such as Warp Films, is a sensible place to go to for distribution.
Warp films have made films such as:
-This is England '86
-Four lions
-Dead mans shoes
-Submarine
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