PRODUCTION COMPANIES

Production company research x3 – which company would you decide to

make your film and why?

• Focus Features is a subsidiary of NBC’s Universal Pictures, and is the art house division. It is both producer as well as distributor for its own films (such as the successful Brokeback Mountain, and also distributes foreign films. Formed in 2002, its headquarters are in Universal City, California, U.S. Some of the thriller like films it has produced that would be in the spirit of our own short for coursework are: Eastern Promises, 21 Grams and The American.

Focus Features

• New Line Cinema was founded in 1967 in America by Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne – only later did it become an independent film studio. In 1996 the studio became a subsidiary of Time Warner before later merged with Warner Bros. in 2008. The original idea behind the studio was to provide art house and foreign films to students on college campuses in the U.S. Some of its notable thriller and horror films are: Se7en, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Final Destination and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

New Line Cinema

• Miramax Films is another art house (and independent) film production company which has produced and distributed its own as well as foreign films over 31 years. Founded in 1979 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, it was bought in 1993 by the Walt Disney Company. Its headquarters are in New York, and was recently sold in 2010 by Disney to Filmyard Holdings LLC. It was originally founded with the intention of producing those independent films which otherwise may not have gained funding or aid by the major studios who had denied them because they considered their ideas not very commercial and more difficult to cater to a wider audience. Some of its well known thriller films are: Kill Bill, There Will Be Blood, and Halloween.

Miramax Films

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