film distribution explained

1. FILM DISTRIBUTION
By glen ayres

2. KEY TERMS
• Distribution
• Legal rights (to be shown)
• Box office
• British cinema
• Hollywood
• Ownership
• Marketing
• Synergy
• Local distribution
• Cinema release

3. WHAT IS DISTRIBUTION?
• Film distribution describes everything that happens in between production (making the film)
and exhibition (people watching the film in cinema, DVD, television, via the internet, a phone
or anywhere else.)
• When I film is produced it is then distributed to cinemas as a feature film to show audiences.
However in present day, lots are just shown as paid advertisements before another film has
been shown, these can also be known as trailers.
• Distribution involves all the promotion and advertising.
Involves
Legal rights to show a film
Distribution of the film
Marketing and releasing the film
Distributing DVDs and blue rays to stores

4. THIS IS THE PROCESS OF FILM
DISTRIBUTION

5. KEY PLAYERS WITH IN FILM
DISTRIBUTION
• United international pictures
• Warner brothers
• Buena vista
• Twentieth century fox
• Sony
• Lionsgate
• Walt Disney
• Paramount
• eOne films
• Universal
Who is most dominant
In the year 2013, this is what film distributors
were the most in the UK and Ireland

6. FILM DISTRIBUTORS
• In most cases these distributors have direct links to Hollywood production
companies that make the films.
• Usually the blockbuster films we are familiar with are distributed via ‘blanket release’
so even if a small uk independent company manages to get its product into cinemas
it is usually competing for attention with one or more films that take on the status
of an ‘event’
• One of the outcomes of the distribution arrangement outlined above is that half of
the films released in Britain do not reach the whole country

7. MARKETING AND PROMOTION
• To make return (money back which was invested for production of the film)
• To make more profit at box office and from merchandise
• Make money from synergy with games and other things

8. ADVERTISING
• Posters
• Adverts
• Trailers
• Previews of the film
• Film premieres
• Film website
• Synergies
• Prerelease campaigns