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Pause. What studio would distribute (sell) our sequence if it was a feature film. If you search on the internet for distributing company’s it lists thousands of options. We need to first narrow down, what we are looking for? Our Media product is a Film. Most of the big Film studios have their own distributing company’s. The Walt Disney company for example distributes most of their products through a company called ‘Disney Media distribution’ (DMD).  Sony releases their productions through Sony Picture releasing. But there are also companies that distribute media products produced by different Studios.  Netflix has distributed a vast variety of media products. Netflix not only licences media products in order to present them on their website but they also produce in house and acquire exclusive streaming rights to content.

 

I started looking at similar media products mood and genre wise like e.g. Hot fuzz and Scary movie as our Film would likely be categorized as a horror action comedy. Scary movie a horror comedy movie from 2000 was distributed (to theatres in the us) by Dimension Films, who amongst other things released the Scream films. But they are focused on American markets and products and our film is set in a little British village and is likely to be more appealing to a UK audience. Hot fuzz a British action comedy from 2007 was distributed in the UK by Universal Pictures International (UPI) who have amongst other things released Inglorious Basterds. While UPI certainly are experts in their field they might be to big of a company and are likely to focus on products with large names attached to them. Therefore, looking at company’s who also publish Indi films is probably smarter. Kaleidoscope have distributed a wide variety of feature films of all genres and branded documentary’s world wide and in the UK and seem to be a suitable distribution company. Bulldog Film Distribution is a completely independent company that focuses on releasing films in the UK and Ireland they seem to mostly be releasing low to mid budget films. In comparison Bulldog Film Distribution (BFD) to Kaleidoscope BFD is likely to be the more effective in the UK due to their focus on the area but this might lead to more complications if we wanted to release our film world wide because we would need to find another company. Another note worthy distributing opportunity would be brit box, a video subscription service created by BBC and itv, as a local British feature would suit their niece programming. 

 

In the end BFD would most likely be most appropriate for a traditional distribution due to their experience in the UK and with Indi productions of all genres. But being acquired by Netflix for the exclusive rights would offer a lot of exposure for our picture to a large diverse audience in the UK and world-wide. Netflix is famous for their wide variety of original content form reality shows like the kissing booth to the critically acclaimed and Oscar front runner The power of the dog, and how they are able to find a audience for their products. A niche product in the great sceam of content like ours with no pre soled elements could profit from Netflix.