MOVIE INSTITUTIONS

Warner Brothers

Warner Brothers was founded on April 4, 1923. Since then it had become a major American film production company. It produces and distributes 18-22 films a year.

It produces and distributes a range of movies from fantasy to romance to comedy.

One of the most successful Warner Brothers productions is the Harry Potter series. Which happens to be a fantasy series with some action in it. Another successful film produced by Warner Brother is The Dark Knight. This film is purely action on the other hand.

This makes the production house a perfect candidate for funding a action fantasy film.

20th Century Fox

The production house was founded on May 31, 1935. It is located in America and it’s one of America’s 6 major film studios.

It produces a more broader range of movies, most are family movies and always have action elements in them.

It’s most successful movies are the Star Wars series, Night at the Museum, Avatar and Titanic.

Out of those only Night at the Museum is fantasy(ish). Most are aimed at families and have a lot of action in them. Both Avatar and Star Wars are Sci-fi.

Therefore it is highly improbable 20th Century Fox would fund an action fantasy movie, which makes 20th Century fox an unlikely production house for my movie.

Universal Studios

Universal Studios was founded in April 30, 1912 and is also American.

It is mostly well know for producing comedies and for it’s classic movies such as Jurassic Park and E.T.

One of the most recent films produced by the institution is Despicable Me 2 which is surprisingly an animation. However it is also a comedy which is a standard for this production house.

Both of the famous classic, Jurassic Park and E.T., are sci-fi movies. However Jurassic Park is more for older audiences (teens or older)

DreamWorks

DreamWorks was founded in October 12, 1994 and is another American institution.

It is the main institution behind major animation films such as Shrek and How to Train your Dragon. It specialises in family oriented movies, hence why the greater majority of the films produced are animations. They even have a separate studio called DreamWorks Animations especially for those movies.

DreamWorks movies often have a fantasy or a sci-fi element, however they are unlikely to fund ,y action fantasy movie as it’s neither an animation nor is it suitable for all audiences/ for families.

Fun Fact: In the DreamWorks original logo the model for the little boy with the fishing rob was actually the founder’s son.

Lord of the Rings

Lord of the Rings was the main movie inspiration for our opening sequence. Therefore since we wanted to make a movie similar to it I decided to look at what production house decided to distribute it.

I found out it was New Line Cinema,

which wasn’t too surprising considering

the fact that during that time New Line

Cinema was subsidiary of Warner Bros.

And as Warner Bros. likes producing

quite a lot of fantasy type movies this

wasn't exactly surprising.

What institution might distribute my movie?

From all the institutions Warner Bros. Seems like the most likely candidate. They produce and distribute many fantasy, action and action fantasy movies so my film would match their profile.

They are also a very successful company which means if my films made by them it should receive a large enough founding to make the film look good visually at least.

Another option would be to make my own production house to film my movie. However independent production often don’t get more than £15,000 of budget and often don’t get much distribution to make any profit.

However some independent production succeed. For example the horror movie called Paranormal Activity was produced solely by Oren Peli. He only had $15,000 of budget and yet he managed to make $193.4 million.

Our Decision

We decided to include the Warner Bros. Logo in our opening as realistically if we did make a full movie about a conflict between the elves we would need a big budget to make it work.

However we also included our own logo as after we did produce it or were part of producing it and the original idea of the movie belong to us.