Evaluation Question 3

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

For the production of our thriller product, I would use Spyglass Entertainment, an American Film Production company founded in 1998, based in Los Angeles. They are close to Hollywood, the world centre for films, this would make it easy for us to get good distribution and a large audience on the release date. They have worked on an assortment of different thriller and crime films, including The Sixth Sense, The Lookout and The Happening. This experience in thriller and crime films would be useful to us for producing our crime-thriller. The sixth sense had a very small budget compared to other films, only $40 million, but made over $670 million, our thriller would also only have a small budget, so hopefully they will be able to turn the small budget into a financial success.

I would look to New Line Cinema for the distribution of our thriller product; they worked as the Distribution Company for Seven in 1995, and Bullet the following year. New Line Cinemas distribution company, New Line Home Entertainment, don’t specialise in distributing any type of film genre, but in recent years have distributed a variety of thriller, horror and crime, including many Final Destination films, the remake of The Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13^th, and an assortment of crime and thriller-genre films including Fracture and The Number 23.

New Line Cinema is an American Film Studio founded in 1967, again situated in Los Angeles, therefore being next to Hollywood, we would have the resources they have to offer at hand. New Line Home Entertainment was founded in 1990, before this New Line Entertainment distributed its films using various other distribution companies. New Line Cinema worked on their own until 1993, releasing a wide variety of films of different genres, but their first commercial success was A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984, and its sequel in 1985 which was also a financial success. In 1993 they merged with Turner Broadcasting System, which became a part of Time Warner in 1996. In 2008, New Line Cinema merged with Warner Brothers Entertainment Inc. this was blamed on the financial failure of The Golden Compass.