3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Our film is part of the noir genre and as 'Sin City: A Dame To Kill For' is a Noir film, we thought we should choose the same institution that distributed it - The Weinstein Company. Last year, it made $6,317,683 on it's opening weekend and it total it made $13,757,804. This shows that the distributors that get films into cinemas are successful and make a lot of money for their film. We would choose this company because they would back our production company. Our own production company would not be able to afford to market the film or get it into cinemas, therefore it we would want a larger company with more money distributing our film. As they distributed films like 'Sin City', 'The Imitation Game' and 'Big Eyes', all quite big films with big stars. Our film is also the correct kind of film for the production company as it is Noir and most of the films they seem to distribute are neo-noirs of some kind.
Our original plan was to have Warner Bros. distribute our film because of it's history with Noir films as it was one of the first companies to make noir films in the 1920s. When Warner Bros. first started, they didn't have a big budget they made noir films that were dark and didn't have very good lighting. However as they went on they made more money and were able to make better films. For example, they made the first film with speaking in called 'The Jazz Man'. Even today, they are distributing films with noir films like 'The Dark Knight' which is seen as a neo-noir.
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