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

1. What kind of media institution may distribute your product and why? Lionsgate Films

2. Distribution and Institution • The distribution of a film is the process of which a movie is made available to an audience by a film distributor. This may be done in a variety of ways; for example, with a theatrical release, a home entertainment release or a television program for broadcast syndication and may include digital distribution. • Institution is any company or organization that produces, distributes or  exhibits films. The BBC makes films with their BBC Films arm; Channel4's Film Four produces films, Working Title also produce films, as does Vertigo Films.

3. Lionsgate films • Lionsgate Films is a North American film production-distribution company, a subsidiary of Lions Gate Entertainment. It is the biggest and most successful independent film distributor-studio in North America. Its main focus is on foreign and independent films, and is perhaps best known for distributing films that are too controversial for the large American companies like Fahrenheit 9/11 and American Psycho. Lionsgate has its own record label and music publishing company in the form of Lionsgate Music and Publishing. Lionsgate Music established a joint venture with music publishing company Sony Music Australia. Lionsgate Television produced series like The Dead Zone, Five Days to Midnight, Weeds, Nurse Jackie, Boss, Tyler Perry's House of Payne and the Emmy Award-winning Mad Men. • The fact that they’re independent means they can distribute various types of films with different production companies and target audiences. This means they could be an ideal distributor for our thriller film. Lionsagte have a reputation for distributing quite a few horror films such as American Psycho and Saw. In addition to this they don’t really distribute many British films or low budget niche films. Our film is a low budget British thriller film for a general mainstream market. Lionsgate films can be quite niche, but generally have a larger audience than we expect for our film. That’s why we decided that Lionsgate, being an American distributor for larger scale films than ours, were the right institution for our media product.

4. The Hunger Games. • The story takes place in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future in the nation of Panem, where certain boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 18 must participate in the Hunger Games, a televised annual event in which the "tributes" are required to fight to the death until there is one remaining victor. • Lionsgate has released thriller films like The Hunger Games. It had a PG-13 for intense violent thematic material and disturbing images - all involving teens. • Domestic Box Office: $408,010,692 • International Box Office: $276,500,000 • Worldwide Box Office: $684,510,692 • www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9a5V9ODuY

5. Frailty • A man enters the Dallas, Texas FBI office one night and introduces himself as Fenton Meiks. He wants to speak to Agent Wesley Doyle about his belief that his brother Adam is the "God's Hand" serial killer that the FBI have been hunting. • it was rated R for violence and some language • Domestic Box Office: $13,110,448 • International Box Office: $4,312,582 • Worldwide Box Office: $17,423,030 • www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKFi3owPUmg

6. All the little animals • The story is about an emotionally challenged man named Bobby He runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather nicknamed "The Fat", who had killed Bobby's pet mouse and, as Bobby puts it, screamed at his mother until she died as a result. He finds himself in woodlands near Cornwall in England, eventually meeting an old man after being involved in a car accident. Mr. Summers, as the man calls himself, spends his time traveling and giving burials to animals that have been killed by cars, a task he refers to as "The Work". Bobby, also having an affinity for animals, becomes friends with the old man and aids him in his task. • It was released in September 3rd, 1999 by Lionsgate and rated R for some violence. • Domestic Box Office: $23,349 • www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPAIMBtgae0

7. Godsend • PG-13 for violence including frightening images, a scene of sexuality and some thematic material. • Paul and Jessie Duncan are a happily married couple who have an eight-year-old son named Adam The day after his eighth birthday, when fetching a basketball he was given into the street, Adam is killed in a collision. While leaving a church, Jessie and Paul are confronted by Dr. Richard Wells, an old professor of Jessie's. Dr. Wells offers to clone Adam, an illegal procedure which would require a change of location and identity, to which the Duncan's reluctantly agree. Everything appears to be fine with the new Adam until he reaches his eighth birthday. • Domestic Box Office $14,334,645 • International Box Office $2,576,063 • Worldwide Box Office $16,910,708 • www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhpOC62ZKjw