PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES

 

Production and Distribution Companies

There are many distribution companies in the industry, there job is to distribute the movie depending on its size, type and what kind of a movie it is. The distribution company is different from the production company. It is one of the most important things for financing a film. The distributor set a date for the film when it will be released and the methods of how they are going to be exhibited. For example, directly to the audience or make available the viewer for viewing. They can also do this directly if they own the company themselves.

The production companies are directly responsible for funding the production. All the budgeting, scheduling, scripting, is done by the production companies. Many production companies also come together to work as co-productions. These companies provide the physical basis for the works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video. They specialise in producing in-house films.

One of the examples for production companies is the paramount pictures corporation; it’s one of the famous television production companies. It’s ranked as one of the six main studios of Hollywood. Another production company is WARNER BROS. they have made many high rated films which are classic Shakespeare novel such as Othello. This company does not stick to one genre it has also made sub genres for thriller such as horror and misery. The company is best known for its famous thrillers such as The Shaw shank redemption.

The companies like time warner, twentieth century fox, and united international pictures (paramount) do both production and distribution. All the work is done by the company of scheduling, deciding the date for the release and when to exhibit the movie.

 

Distribution is in between the audience and the producers before the film is sent to the audience for viewing from the production the distributors see it and decide if it is eligible to go to the audience. Distribution companies are the source for the production to transfer their production to the audience. There are specifically three key stages: production, distribution and exhibition, these are all linked together with each other. UK system has more focus on the marketing and sustaining of a film in the local market whereas, the independent studios don’t do that. Distribution companies also decide how many copies of a film to make. The big distribution companies are: Viacom, paramount, time warner, fox entertainment. The films are financed by the distributors, they give out the copyrights to the movies.