Evaluation Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

What do distributers do?

A film distributor is a company or individual responsible for releasing films to the public either theatrically or for home viewing (DVD, Video-On-Demand, Download, Television etc).

A distribution company that might distribute our media product are '20th century Fox' who are a huge distribution company, especially for action movies.

 '20th Century Fox' have distributed some of my favorite action films such as Die Hard. Which is a great example for a successful action film. Its budget was around the figure of $110,000,000 which is average for this type of genre. 

On its opening weekend it was shown in:

- USA (3,408 screens) making $33,369,559

- UK (458 screens) making £5,004,916

- Russia (562 screens) making RUR 90,472,831

- Brazil (367 screens) making BRL 3,033,794 

- Other (275 screens)

If given the scenario, we would want to make the same amount as 'Die Hard' did through the distribution of our film. Screens USA, UK & Russia were the big spenders for this film therefore we would want to get our movie out to these countries. 

The vue cinema is the largest theatrical cinema company in england, this is a prime example of who the distributing companies would aim to target, in order to promote the film to a wider audience. This will result in bigger bucks.