Task 3: Who Will Distribute Our Thriller?

Task 3
Who Will Distribute Our Thriller?
We have decided as a group that the most suitable film production company/institution to produce our film would be ‘Between The Eyes'.



This company has recently produced films of the same genre to ours, such as: ‘Welcome to the Punch’, an action Thriller production made from a mediocre budget, similar to ours. This also shows that this production company would be more likely to pick our film due to the genre. Another film that ‘Between The Eyes’ have produced is the British film, ‘Shifty’, also being an action Thriller, however has the involvement of gangsters instead of mercenaries.



Failing this however, we could take our film to a film festival and hope that it will be picked up by an American film company or privately bought, sold and distributed.

The main way that our film will generate revenue is primarily based upon DVD sales, as this is not the type of film that will hit the large popular cinemas first time. As our film is a low budget British film it would not be a huge success in Hollywood, although the rights may be bought by an American film company so that down the line they can make a remake with a bigger budget and more famous actors. Our type of film however, would be popular in the gaming world due to the violence and action, which would appeal to gamers, which is a huge market in the US, bigger than the film industry. We would then hope an American gaming distributor, such as ‘Magnolia’ would not distribute it to the cinema, but to Gaming consoles, such as: Xbox LIVE, PS3 & PC to get ‘pay per view’. Also, an effort would be made to distribute it to the television market, such as selling the rights to Television stations, such as: BBC, ITV & Channel 4 and also film channels like ‘Movies4Men’ located on Sky Movies, ‘Film 4’ etc. The production company, ‘Between The Eyes’ specialize in action Thrillers as mentioned above and from research they seem to be successful, despite being low budget, being made by non-famous film companies & using first time film directors. The film production company, ‘Between The Eyes’ has a target audience of males between the ages of, 16 – 25 year olds and a secondary audience of 30+. We know this due to their history of films produced (as mentioned above) obviously appeal to younger men. If our film turned out to be a huge success in Britain then we might try to promote it to US. However, before even aiming for the US market, we would set our sights on Europe, and to do so we would try to sell the rights to our movie to a EU distributor such as 'Artificial Eye'. Because the company making our film is very low budget, to offset the costs of making the film we might sell the European distribution rights in advance, this would help us make some money to finish the film properly however it would mean we were left with only North American and British rights. As first time film makers this film would be about us building up a portfolio of work rather than making money and building up our reputation and making bigger films. In order for us to promote our film on an international scale we will take our film to film festivals in order to hopefully be picked up by a US distributor, such as the ‘Weinstein Brother’ who are known for picking up successful British films like ‘The Kings Speech’ and distributing them to them Worldwide to a greater market.