Evaluation Q3 Distribution

Distribution is one of the three main areas in the film business:

1. Production
2. Distribution
3. Exhibition

Distribution is when a film is made available to watch by the public after it has been distributed by a film distributor. This can be accomplished in many ways; firstly there is theatrical releasing where the film is able to be viewed in a cinema, next there is home entertainment releasing in which the movie is placed onto a DVD and is made available to purchase in stores or online via streaming sights such as Love Film and Netflix. Finally there is releasing on television programs such as Film 4 etc.

Distributing films for some film companies is relatively easy, for example, major film companies such as Universal and Paramount as they are conglomerate companies meaning that they have subsidiaries which help distribute their movies for them. However smaller film companies such as the two that we are looking at as part of our media coursework Working Title and Warp find it some what harder to distribute their movies, and some end up not being able to make it to cinema listings and are placed directly onto DVD's. This generally tends to happen to smaller film companies (indie companies  which do not have a lot of money to make high end movies.