The document summarizes and compares information about low and high budget films, their production institutions, and other films produced by those institutions. For the low budget film Another Earth, the main institution was Fox Searchline Pictures, which specializes in independent films. For the high budget Harry Potter film, the main institutions were Heyday Films and Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers was deemed the better institution overall as it produced higher grossing films and is a more well-known name in the industry.

1. Film Research – institutions
By libbie Sargent

2. Low vs. High budget film.
 The low Budget film that we got given was
‘Another Earth’. The film is an American
science fiction/drama film which was first
screened in 2011.
 The film with the high budget I decided to
do was ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows part 2’. This is the last film of 8
and has a very large following of fans as
the books and films have been around so
long and therefore people have grown to
love the characters and story line.

3. Main Institutions. – Low budget
 The main institution of ‘Another Earth’
is Fox searchline pictures. Fox
searchline pictures, established in
1994, is an American film division on
Fox entertainment along side the larger
Fox studio, 20th century fox.
 Fox searchline pictures specializes in
independent and British films, which
means that most films that they
produce are low budget.

4. Main Institutions – High Budget
 Harry Potter and the deathly hallows part two
has two main institutions. Heyday Films is the
institution that produced the Harry Potter film
series. Heyday films is a British film company
which was founded in 1997, the films that
Heyday films produce are all similar to Harry
Potter.
 Warner Brothers is the distribution institution
which has distributed all the Harry Potter films.
Warner Brothers is a very respected name in
the film industry and is used by many
companies. Warner Brothers is an American
producer of film, TV and music.

5. Low budget High Budget
 Production – $200,000  Production - $125million.
 Gross 1st weekend -  Gross 1st weekend -
$77,740 $169,189,427
 Played at – 4 screens  Played at - 4375 Screens
 Gross - $1,316,074  Gross - $1,328,111,219
Money -Low vs. High budget.

6. Similarities Differences
 Both films had institutions  Another Earth has one
that are specific to the institution that does the
type of film they were production and
creating. distributing whereas
Harry Potter has an
institution for each.
 Harry Potter has well
known institutions
whereas Another Earth
has an institution that
isn’t very well known.
Similarities and Differences

7. Other films by institutions – Low
 127 Hours –
budget
Budget- $18 million, Gross - $57,335,230  These are some of the films that have been
 Black Swan – produced by the institution that produced
Another Earth. Some of these films are very
Budget – $13 million, Gross - $329,398,046
well known and had quite a high budget.
 Cedar Rapids – 127 hours, Black Swan, Just Wright and The
Budget – Unknown, Gross - $6,861,102 Descendants are all films which had a large
budget therefore creating a big gross.
 Conviction –
Budget - $12.5 million, Gross - $9,710,055
 However other films like Margret, which
had a budget of $6.2 million only ended up
 Cyrus with a gross of only $46, 495.
Budget - $7 million, Gross - $9,923,855  The Genre of film that Fox Search line
 Just Wright – pictures produce are quite different, it
Budget - 12 million, Gross - $21,570,263 seems to have a wide range of genres in
films and there is no pattern on which films
 Margret –
are more successful.
Budget - $6.2 million, Gross - $46,495
 The audience of the films all seem to be
 Never Let Me Go 12A’s which means that the company
Budget - $15 million, Gross - $9,455,232 produces films mainly for teenagers and up.
 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Budget -$6 million , Gross - $1,645,327
 The Descendants –
Budget - $20,000,000 Gross - $61,237,000

8. Other films by institutions – High
 Valentine's Day
budget
Budget - $52 million, Gross -$216,485,654
 These are some of the films that have been
 Clash of the Titans produced by the institution that produced
Budget - $125 million, Gross - $493,214,993 Harry Potter. The lowest budgeted film was
$17 million and therefore had the smallest
 Sex and the City 2
gross. There seems to be a link between the
Budget - $95 million, Gross - $305,153,249 amount put into the film and then amount
 Inception the film makes.
Budget - $160 million, Gross - $825,532,764  Warner Brothers seems to make films that
 Lottery Ticket are well known and they all seem to Gross
very well, they have a big budget to make
Budget - $17 million, Gross - $24,719,879 sure that the films are well produced.
 Life as We Know It
 Like Fox Search line pictures both
Budget - $38 million, Gross - $105,648,706 companies seem to produce a lot of genres
 Due Date and not stick to one.
Budget - $65 million, Gross - $211,780,824  Warner brothers seems to have a lot of
different audiences depending on the film.
 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
There are a lot of different types and ratings
Budget - $125 million, Gross - $956,399,711 on their films and so they have a very varied
 Yogi Bear audience rather than just having a niche
Budget - $80 million, Gross - $201,584,141 one.
 Red Riding Hood
Budget - $42 million, Gross - $89,162,162

9. Which is better?
 Overall I found that Warner Brothers was the better
institution as they produced better grossing films than
Fox search line did.
 Warner brothers is also a better known name than Fox
search line which immediately tells you that they are
probably a better company as their work is high profile.
 Warner Brothers is able to put more money into the
production and distribution of films which then means
that they are more able to produce better quality films.