Evaluation Task 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

The distribution stage is when the finished film is distributed and screened in cinemas and released to home video. For my Thriller I would imagine it being an independent Hollywood film as it has little action and is a dark little story line. I couldn't imagine this being distributed by a company like Warner Brothers Pictures as they go for the more out there, action filled films. Because we didn't have the budget of a major film we couldn't really go for a big hit Hollywood film anyway.

Donny Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller drama film, written and directed by Richard Kelly. The film Is about a teenager, seeking the meaning and significance behind his Doomsday-related visions. This could well relate to our film as ours is just on the journey of one boy in psychological film. The made a worldwide box office profit of $7,301,393 and had a budget of 4.5 million dollars. This is quite a large budget but nothing compared to films released by Warner Bros. Richard Kelly could be used to direct our film as he has directed other films such as Domino, Southland Tales and The Box. They all seem to be some sort of psychological thrillers therefore he would be experienced in this film. The actors in these films are pretty well known and in my thriller I would consider having main actors as this would boost the distribution and marketing stage. However this would mean our budget would be raised significantly.

Newmarket Films was an American film production and distribution company. It was found in 1994. They released Donny Darko and could imagine them releasing ours and may be interested as they have released films of a similar budget and story line to ours. 

Our thriller naturally leans towards the Hollywood way as it has the typical setting a boy in a garage, anything could happen, he could get trapped, you can imagine the typical sliding doors etc. Therefore we tried to steer away from this concept as much as possible as we clearly don't have the huge budget sufficient for this type of film. This included removing the whole drug concept, the entrapment and all the typical factors a Hollywood film company would like to distribute.

If we were to go down the British film company route I think that the film Irreversible would be a good one to base our ideas on as it has the elements of crime our thriller has; based on Alex, the protagonist, who is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. It made a worldwide profit of $792,200 and had a budget of 4.61 million Euros. This is a very similar budget to my previous researched films. Irreversible was distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment and I think they would be interested in distributing our product. The other films in which they have distributed are similar to ours budget wise and structure.