My movie is an independent, extremely low-budget horror movie. This makes it the ideal candidate for distribution via an independent distribution company such as Vertigo Films, Anywhere Road and LionsGate.
Vertigo Films
This is a vertically integrated finance, production distribution company working with, predominantly, British, low-budget films. This means they have a substantial amount of imput on their client films with funds, production and distribution stemming from the company. Through their imput, a distinct identity and representation of gritty, un-glamourised British films, showing mainly horror, action or romance. These films tie in directly with my own product, a realistic, low budget, British horror movie.
The film The Children was composed by vertigo films. This film had an incredibly low budget, but managed to open at No.10 in the UK film charts, achieve a rating of 77% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed almost £100,000 - a testimony to its extremely low budget. The Children shares many characteristics with my own product, it is based in and around a secluded house, it uses real life events and female characters show traits associated with masculinity (final girl theory) as mine does with the antagonist. High use of medium shots are shown in my piece and The Children, alongside regular, working/middle class mise en scene to give a feeling of calmness in the audience, making the initial shock more terrifying. I believe my film could be similar to this with the help of a larger budget, but props and mise en scene is scarce in my film as the budget was £0.
In conclusion, i believe vertigo films is a perfect distribution company for my film as it works with similar films, leading them to excell.
LionsGate
LionsGate have produced and distributed horror movies with a low budget. Their repertoire of horror movies includes popular films such as The Descent & House of 1000 Corpses which were both extremely successful, grossing over $50 million and over $16million respectively. These films both had budgets under $7 million, meaning they are low budget as is my ownn project.
The films of LionsGate all seem to have similar a sghared marcro feature in the form of setting. Extravagent settings such as a fair ground and cave are used in their horror movies, making my project, set in an ordinary house, alienated from their stereotypical products. This could put me at a disadvantage and lead me to choose Vertigo Films rather than LionsGate.
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