1. Film Production
Companies Case Study
20th Century Fox & Bwark
By Tina Hartnell

3. 20th Century Fox
20th Century fox is owned by chain pioneer
William Fox.
He begun the corporation in 1915 and it was a
merging company from two companies he had
established in 1913 ‘The Greater New York Film
Rental and Fox Office Attraction Company.
20th Century Pictures was an independent
Hollywood motion picture production company
created by Joseph Scheneck in 1933.

4. The company introduced Cinemascope in 1953.
The company is notable for its westerns such as
My Darling Clementine.
Other films the company is famous for include
The Grapes of Wrath, How Green was my Valley,
The song of Bernadette.
Famous spectaculars of the company include The
King and I, The longest Day, Cleopatra, Those
magnificent Men in their Flying Machines and
The sound of Music.

5. Home Alone
The film was released in
16th November 1990 in
the USA.
The film was followed
with the successful
sequel ‘Lost in New York’
The film had a film
trailer to advertise the
film.

6. • Budget - $15,000,000
• Gross - $285,761,243
• Profit - $270,761,243
• Director – Chris Columbus
• Writer – John Hughes
• Starring – Macaulay
Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel
Stern.

7. Some other Companies involved in
the film…Production:
Hugh entertainment
Twentieth century sox film corporation
Distributors:
Twentieth century sox film corporation
20TH Century fox
20th century fox Australia, Netherlands, Sweden, de Chile, Argentina etc.
Fox film
Centox film
SF Home Entertainment
Fox video
Gativideo
National broadcasting company

8. Home Alone Merchandise
You can buy t-shirts, wristbands,
voice recorders, dolls, ornaments
and much much more.

9. The film is available on…
DVD
Blu ray
Video on Demand - Netflix
YouTube video (22,588 views)

10. Home Alone and Social media
sites…
The Facebook page for the film has
12,000,000 likes.
An unofficial Home Alone Twitter page has
1,022 followers

14. Bwark Productions
This is a small UK based film
production company.
It was founded in 2004 by Iain Morris
and Damon Beesley.
Their credits include Jimmy Carr live
performances, The big fat quiz of the
year and The inbetweeners.

15. The Inbetweeners Movie
The film was released
on August 17th 2011 in
the UK.
The films sequel
Inbetweeners 2 is due
in cinemas on 6th
august 2014 in the UK
and Ireland.

16. Budget - $3,500,000
Gross - $86,051,320
Profit - $82551320
Director – Ben Palmer
Writers – Iain Morris, Damon
Beesley
Starring – James Buckley, Blake
Harrison, Joe Thomas, Simon Bird.

17. Some other Companies involved in
the film…Production:
Bwark Productions
Film4
Young Films
Distributors:
Bir Film
ARP Selection
Aurum
Belga Films
Entertainment Film distributors
Entertainment One Benelux
French Connection films
Golden village Pictures
Kino Swiat
Mvp Entertainment
Maple Pictures
Square on entertainment
Village Roadshow
Wrekin Hill Entertainment
Channel 4 DVD
Entertainment One Benelux
Film1
Front Row Filmed
Entertainment
Noori Pictures
Tanweer Films
Universum Film

18. The film is available on…
DVD
Blu ray
Video on Demand
YouTube

19. The Inbetweeners movie and Social
media sites…
The Facebook page for the film has 151,000
likes.
An unofficial Home Alone Twitter page has
45.5k followers.

22. The film was marketed to a the British public through
teaser trailers and film posters to create hype and create
and enigma to entice the audience.
The film was marketed all around the UK through many
different platforms such as Cinema, Television, Radio,
posters and Magazines.
The movie has released a soundtrack.
The Movie is a spin off from the popular television series.
Marketing

23. Audiences
The primary audience for the film were those
who watched the TV series who were mostly 15-
25 years who would have just started or finished
sixth form and who would be moving onto or
leaving university.
The film was released in the summer holidays as
this allowed the intended audience to go and see
the film. The DVD was released at Christmas
time so was available to buy as a Christmas
present.

24. Suburban cinemas such as Kent and
Crawley featured in the top ten cinemas
that showed this film.
The film set a new record for the most
successful opening weekend ever achieved
by a comedy film in the UK overtaking
Bridget Jones and The hangover Part 2.