Malevolent Phantom
Institution Research
Twentieth Century Fox Film is one of the six major American
film studios. The company was formed on 31 1935. Twentieth Century Fox
distributes various commercially successful films such as Avatar, Stars Wars.
The majority of popular films that they have created are comedy and family for
example Alvin the Chipmunks, Diary of the Wimpy Kid. They prefer to make these
film genre as it’s most profitable however when it comes to horror movies they
distribute it rather than producing them because they’re not specialized. They have also created some horror movies
such as The Omen and Jennifer’s Body. As they are a large corporation they have
made a worldwide gross of $31,556,061 by distributing Jennifer’s Body, the film
was particularly males aged 17 however it earned a disappointing $2.8 million
on its opening Friday and $6.8 million on the opening weekend at North American
box office. As we’re producing an opening scene to a horror film, the 20th
Century Fox is suitable institution which can distribute the film however as
they’re only good at distributing the
film, we may look elsewhere.
Lionsgate is a Canadian-American film production and
distribution studio and a division of Lions Gate Entertainment. It’s the
largest and most successful mini-major film studio in North America. They
produce and distribute motion pictures, TV programming, home entertainment and
family entertainment. Majority of their films are similar genre and the genres
they produce/distribute are Drama, Action and Thriller. Liongate has some of
the best horror films in the decade; these include Saw, The Last Exorcism, and
My Bloody Valentine. Its first major box office was American Psycho; it earned
$4,961,015 (USA) and £749,526 (UK) in the opening weekend. After researching
horror films from Lionsgate I have found that they are not specialized on the
horror genre because they mainly focus on Drama, Thriller and Action.
Hammer Film Productions is a company founded in 1934 which
based in the UK. It is known for a series of gothic horror films produced in
the mid-1950s until 1970s. During the late 1960s and 1970s there was intense
competition in the horror film market which causes the institution closing down
in 1980s. The company then in 2000 announced plans to being making film again
but they weren’t produced until 2007. Their well knows films are The Curse of
Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and The Phantom of the Opera. They have also
produced the feature film Let Me In and The Woman in Black. During the opening
weekend, the Woman in Black earned $20 million which was the biggest US opening
for the production in their history. It was put second place in the box office
behind Chronicle; the film became the highest grossing British horror film in
20 years earning $127,730,736. I think
that Hammer Films suitable intuition for our film because they have the best
experience with creating horror films. They are an independent film company so
it would be cheaper to produce the film as they’re specialised in this area. 
Blumhouse Productions is an
American movie production company, founder and run by Jason Blum. It produces
micro and low-budget genre movies like the Paranormal Activity, Insidious and
Sinister franchises. The company produces these movies independently and
release them through the studio system. Blumhouse has a first-look deal with
Universal Pictures. Paranormal Activity grossed over $193 million worldwide
when Paramount Picture released it. The partnership with Universal Studies
allows Blumhouse Production gain more profit when their budget was only
$15,000. The Blumhouse production makes different film genres and their horror
film is popular however I don’t think this institution is great because they
haven’t released many horror film and the theme of their films aren’t very
broad; paranormal activities has similar plot line in their prequels.
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