Evaluation Question 3 by William Haines

If it was possible to do, the best companies that could distribute and/or help produce our film would be the big six. The big six release high quality mainstream films year after year. Companies like ‘Disney’ and ‘Universal’ which release films like ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ and ‘The Fast and Furious’. Both incredibly popular and profitable films. This shows that the big six are very familiar with the film business, and are good at what they do. Of course, that is in an idea world.

If we were making this project professionally, we would probably be an independent British Film Company, we most likely wouldn’t be able to have companies like ‘20^th Century’ distribute our film, only films with high budgets and predictable narratives that do well in American markets like the Romance genre, seen in independent British Films like ‘The Theory of Everything’ which was distributed by one of the big six (Produced by Working Title) do well consistently.

We would probably be in a similar situation to that of Warp Films, with low budgets they must resort to distributing the film themselves, often unsuccessfully.

In conclusion, the ideal company would by far be a company like Universal, who have had experience distributing similar films to that of ours. The ‘Fast and the Furious’ franchise is an example of the sort of films Universal distribute and produce. A company like ‘Disney’ would be less idea, as they have had less experience in the sort of narrative that our film is. They release mainly family friendly productions.