2. Production Companies
What is a production company?
•A production company provides the physical basis for
works in the realms of the performing arts, new media
art, film, television, radio, and video.
Famous production companies are:
•DreamWorks, Warner Bros., Pixar, Lionsgate, 20th
centenary fox, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Columbia,
Universal, Paramount, New Line Cinema and Walt
Disney pictures.
3. Warner Bros.
Who are Warner Bros?
•The Warner bros are four brothers who are Polish born
American Film, TV and music producers.
•All of the four brothers, bounded together and created the
company on 4th
April 1923 in Hollywood, California – USA.
Jack. L Warner Albert Warner Harry WarnerSam Warner
4. What Thriller films have Warner Bros produced?
•The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
•Lethal Weapon
•Lethal Weapon 2
•Lethal Weapon 3
•Lethal Weapon 4
•Oceans Twelve (2005)
•Gravity (2013)
Warner Bros.
Film Franchise
1987 -1992
5. • Universal was founded on the 10th
June 1912.
• Universal was founded by Carl Laemmle, Pat Powers, Mark
Dintenfass, William Swanson, David Horsley, Charles
Baumann, Adam Kessel, Jules Brulatour.
• Universal studios is the fourth oldest major film studio.
Universal studios
Carl Laemmle
First founder of
universal film studios.
Mark Dintenfass
Co-founder of
Universal film
studios.
6. What Thriller films have Universal studios produced.
•Jaws(1975)
•Furious 7 (2015)
•Fast and Furious 6 (2013)
•Fast 5 (2011)
•2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
•The Fast and the Furious(2001)
•The Boy Next Door (2015)
•The Bourne Identity (2002)
•The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Universal Studios
Film franchise
(The 3rd
and 4th
film is
not in the thriller
genre)
Film franchise
7. Distribution companies
What is a Distribution Company?
•Distribution is the process of making a product. The other
three parts of the marketing mix are product, pricing, and
promotion.
Famous distribution companies:
•DreamWorks, Warner Bros., Pixar, 20th centenary fox, Metro
Goldwyn Mayer, Columbia, Universal, Paramount, Miramax
and Summit.
•Production and distribution are very similar to each other,
and the companies do both production and distribution.
8. • 20TH
Century fox was founded on the 31st
May 1935 by Joseph
M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck.
• The initial title for this company was ‘Twentieth century-fox
film corporation’, only in 1985 they changed the title slightly
to ‘20th
century fox’.
Twentieth Century-fox film
corporation.
Joseph M. Schenck
Founder of;
20th
Century Fox
Darryl F. Zanuck
Founder of;
20th
century fox
9. Films in the Thriller genre which 20th
century fox have
distributed:
• The Revenant (2015)
• Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
• Maze Runner: The Scorch Trails (2015)
• Die Hard (1988)
• Die Hard 2 (1990)
Film franchise
10. • Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation , otherwise known as
Lionsgate, is a Canadian-American entertainment company.
• The company was formed on July 3, 1997 in Vancouver,
British Columbia, and is headquartered in Santa Monica,
California. Frank Giustra and Avi Federgreen founded this
company in 1977.
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation
Frank Giustra
Co-founder of
Lionsgate
Avi Federgreen
Co-founder of
Lionsgate
11. Films in the Thriller genre which Lionsgate have distributed:
•Texas chainsaw 3D (2013)
•Rambo (2008)
•Abduction (2011)
•The Vatican Tapes (2015)
•Jessabelle (2014)
•The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
•See No Evil (2006)
•Crank (2006)
•The Condemned (2007)
•My Bloody Valentine (2009)
•Lord of War (2005)
•The Bank Job (2008)
