Media Institutions

Vertigo Films Vertigo Films are a successful British film and distribution

company that has produced 28 films and distributed 35 films. They aim to produce and distribute 4 films each year. Founded by Allan Niblo and James Richardson, Vertigo Films range between a wide genre of films such as the successful StreetDance3D and The Football Factory. They have also produced films such as Monsters, which is a multi award winning film as well as Horrid Henry which was extremely popular for families. Vertigo Films is perhaps our most reasonable distribution company we would want to work with because of it’s previous and current success.

Street Dance3D was released in 2010 and starred Britain Got Talent stars such as dance group Diversity, George Sampson and Flawless. The sound track included well established British artists such as Chipmunk, Tinie Tempah and N-Dubz. It had a £3.5m budget and produced £11m in the box office. The success of this caused Street Dance 2 to occur in 2012.

Another Vertigo Film is Monsters which was released in 2010 with a budget of less than £500,000. With such a low budget it managed to produced a staggering $4.2m in the box office. It was directed and written by Gareth Edwards and due to the success of the film, the sequel was released in May 2015.

Independent Specialising in distributing, financing, development

and production of Independent feature films, Independent Films has produced successful films such as We Need To Talk About Kevin which was released in 2011. CEO owner Luc Roeg provides the company with 20 years of experience with motivated professionals that are advanced in project development, production, finance, distribution and sales and marketing. Saying this, it will be unlikely for Independent films to cooperate with us.

We Need To Talk About Kevin was produced by Jennifer Fox and was released in 2011 after ongoing work of the film since 2005. Regardless of it being a well established film, it had a $7m budget and produced only $9.2m in the box office.

Another film by Independent is The Falling, which was directed by Carol Morley. Releasing in 2014, The Falling had a $750,000 budget and produced an awful £468,762 in the box office.

Hammer Films My ideal distributor for my film ‘Bird Call’ would be

Hammer Film Productions as they are an English based production company that specifically produces horror films. A lot of their success however has been due to partnering with Warner Bros, which gave Hammer Films reasonable financial success. Hammer Films Productions was discovered in 1934 and have distributed classic horror films such as the Frankenstein and Dracula films produced. We would want to join Hammer Films due to it’s recent transition, producing films such as The Women in Black. Hammer Films in the past were famous for their gothic horror films in the period of 1950 to the 1970’s. However, this success dropped when in the late 1970’s the genre of horror films developed and changed. In May 2007 Hammer Films were reborn and re-established as the company were bought by John De Mol who founded Production Company Endemol and Talpa Media. This decision to buy the company revived the company as it went on to produce films such as Let Me In, The Resident, and The Women In Black. The Women In Black made $127,730,736 worldwide and became the highest grossing British horror film in 20 years. This recent lift of success from the company has persuaded us to want Hammer Films to distribute our films, as we have a British Horror film that could make a huge income if they can provide us with distribution.