Evaluation - Question 7 (TRANSCRIPT)

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

We chose the companies, Jerry Bruckheimer films and Blumhouse productions.

As many of Jerry Bruckheimer films are high budget Hollywood movies, where most of them are co-produced by big cooperation's such as Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures and Warner Bros, We thought that our movie could be as famous as some of the movies this company makes.

We also used this film company, as the logo is quite spooky and leering, even though it is used in many children's style movies.

We used Blumhouse Productions as all of the movies that this company makes are in the horror/thriller genre. Many of the films that this company produces are well known to be scary, and many have been made into sequels due to popular demand.

Some of these films that this company produces are seen as the most horrifying and scary of the movies that are made to this date.

We hope that our movie could be distributed by this company as it is a very well know fully horror film studio.

Films that Jerry Bruckheimer has been linked to include the likes of Top Gun, Flashdance,  Pirates of the Caribbean and other non-cartoon Disney movies, including Prince of Persia and Lone Ranger. All the movies listed contain high budget actors, and some have made a success from the release of these films, one of these is Tom Cruise from the movie Top Gun, also Johnny Depp has one of the most recognisable costumes of film history, in the Pirate of the Caribbean film series. Most of Jerry Bruckheimer’s films are a Box office success as they have some backing from big companies like Walt Disney studios, which attracts in the younger audiences.

One of the most successful producers of all time, Bruckheimer has been nicknamed "Mr. Blockbuster", due to his track record of commercially successful, high-grossing films. Overall, his films have brought in over $13 billion to Hollywood, and have launched the careers of numerous actors and directors.

In July 2003, Bruckheimer was honored by Variety magazine as the first producer in Hollywood history to produce the top two highest-grossing films of a single weekend, Bad Boys II and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Pirates of the Caribbean was a popular box office hit, it was well received by critics and filmgoers alike. After the unexpected success of the first film, Walt Disney Pictures revealed that a trilogy was in the works. The sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, proved to be very successful, breaking records worldwide the day of its premiere. In the end it acquired a total of $1,066,179,725 (£640,463,756) at the worldwide box office, becoming the third and fastest film to reach this amount. Altogether just this film franchise has grossed over £1.68 billion worldwide.

Movies that Blumhouse productions have made include the likes of Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious, they tend to produces micro and low-budget genre movies, and are one of the only companies that specialize in producing thriller movies. Many of the movies released are seen by some as the scariest movies ever made, Blumhouse’s highly profitable credits began with Paranormal Activity which was made with only £9,000. The film was released by Paramount Pictures and grossed over £11 million worldwide. Blumhouse produced the Paranormal sequels, Insidious which grossed over £58 million worldwide on a budget of $1.5m and Sinister, which so far has grossed over £52 million worldwide on a budget of £1.8 million.

These films have been distributed to the whole world and don’t single out any culture or country, Pirates of the Caribbean has been voice dubbed into languages from German to Punjabi. Paranormal Activity and Pirates of the Caribbean are both subtitled in 27 different languages.

Even though Blumhouse is a low budget film producer, it is able to be shown in large multiplex cinemas, next to the likes of the big companies like Jerry Bruckheimer.

We expect our company that we made up, ‘Blood and Bones’, to be distributed independently first, however with our large backing from major company Jerry Bruckheimer, and with the notorious horror themed filmed production, Blumhouse, we will be able to release it to big cinema companies if we are able to make a sequel.

The other outlets for our film instead of being shown in the cinema, might be on plane journeys, or even placed on TV, as a made-for-TV movie which could be shown on channels such as Universal Channel, Movies 24 owned and operated by NBCUniversal, Fox, Movies4Men or Sony Movie Channel, which all show movies that are either old or weren’t released in the cinema. We could also release it online, through Netflix, who have started producing their own original movies; or the YouTube service where customers have to pay to watch the movie.