We have done our research into Film distribution as its something we must consider if we were to want to distribute our movie, Who would distribute it, who would we share our release plans with, who we will need to help distribute it etc.
Heres a video to describe just how many people are involved in the distribution of a film:
Distribution is the highly competitive business of launching and sustaining films in the market place. The distributor's challenge is to bring each one to market by:
- identifying its audience
- considering why they'd go and see it
- estimating the revenue potential
- persuading cinema operators to play the film
- developing plans and partnerships to build awareness of and interest in the film
The film opening I deconstructed was Psycho, as you can see it's distributor was Universal Studios, and the places it was featured/shown to was BFI South bank and Key Cities.
As you can see it was only distributed in its basic format, being made in the 1960's after all it didn't have "Digital 2D" or "IMAX"
Salt is another Thriller movie on the Film Releases website, as you can see its distributor is 'Sony Pictures" and it had a Nationwide Release.
