Momentum Pictures: Momentum Pictures is one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland and releases approximately 20 theatrical films a year. Momentums most successful film releases include: The King's Speech, Milk and Amelie. See-Saw films had a first look deal with Momentum in the UK. A first look deal is an arrangement, where a company or in some cases an individual enters into a commercial agreement with a studio under which they must allow the studio the right of first refusal in relation to developing or producing a project the individual or company is promoting.
Paramount Pictures: Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, in Hollywood. Paramount is consistently ranked as one of the top-grossing movie studios. See-Saw Pictures made a film finance/equity deal with Paramount Pictures. Meaning that Paramount invested a certain amount of money into the film in return for a percentage of gross profit.
Ed Price AS Media
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Submarine
Facebook: Submarine
Warp Films Official Website
YouTube trailers
Internet auditions
Interviews with Empire magazine
Pirates of The Caribbean - On Stranger Times
YouTube trailers
Facebook: Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides
IMDB offical website
Twitter: @jhonny_depp and other Teaser Trailer accounts
Teaser trailers
http://www.pirates-of-the-caribbean-4-trailer.blogspot.com/
http://www.themovieblog.com/
Paul:
Paul The Movie Trailer - sold on iTunes
Paul has it's own Apple website
Twitter: @simonpegg @nickfrost
Facebook: Paul The Movie UK, My Name Is Paul, Paul The Movie, Paul Movie
Teaser Posters
Distribution Research
What is distribution?
Distribution focuses mainly on how a film is marketed and sold either countrywide or worldwide; they focus on cinemas and advertising first and then follow on to DVDs and Blu-Rays once the film has been released. The same system takes place in Hollywood and general industrial cinema, the three stages are: licensing, marketing and logistics.
What is licensing?
During distribution, licensing is the first stage; it can take place in an international level or on a local level. The distributor has to pay a fee to license a film; after this has been sorted this distributor has the responsibility of launching the film.
What is marketing?
There are two key questions ‘When?’ and ‘How?’ This stage of distribution focuses on when the film will be released, and how the audience will react to it. They usually choose to release films on Fridays as this means people will view it over the weekend, however this would probably fluctuate depending on the age restriction.
Marketing: Prints and Advertising:
Prints and Advertising make sure that the film is well known and the word gets around about it. The most common forms of advertising are buses, billboards, trailers, emails, texts, leaflets and then more discrete ones such as having your Bluetooth or Infer-Red switched on near a cinema would cause you to receive a message from the cinema advertising the film.
The Logistics of Distribution:
The distributor arranges to have specific ‘play-dates’ with a cinema; logistics also consists of circulating copies of the video to DVDs and tapes to be sold in shops and video rental stores. There are differing laws from selling DVDs in shops and allowing them for rental use. Prints are generally broken down into sections of about 20 minutes each at 24 frames per second.
Case Study: Bullet Boy
Bullet Boy is an independent film with a first time director, it has a low budget because of this and stars a UK rapper from So Solid Crew. Linking to printing, the film opened on 75 prints worldwide; however it was screened mainly in London.
Digital Distribution:
The main change was from 35mm prints to digital film, this meant that technology could move forward by a considerable amount. High Definition is also involved in the digital side of the distribution, the film is put into high definition if it is being sold as a Blu-Ray rather than DVD. The change to digital distribution only began to occur in 2005, this means that now digital projection increasingly uses digital formats, and also digital sound systems.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
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