Film Production Company Research

In the modern day, there are a lot of common film production companies but there are specific oligopolies that dominate the market thus meaning that they tend to have the majority of the market power. Most of the famous film companies are are historic and so are well established. The film company I will be focusing on today is 20th century fox.

     It was officially founded in May of 1935 when two film companies merged and made one huge company. The two companies that merged were Fox Films and 20th century pictures. The founders of this massive company were Joseph Schenck, Darryl F Zanuck, Raymond Griffith and William Goetz.

    20th Century Fox has produced an enormous amount famous films. Some of these are:

• Home Alone
• Ice Age
• Star Wars
• Simpson's
• Family Guy

   As you can see, 20th Century Fox not only produces movies but also well known T.V. programmes. Moreover, they have their own channel in America which is well recognisable and dominates the channel listings. As they are 77 years old, you would assume they have done a huge amount for the film industry as they are still one of the main players in the film market.

    Despite this, I wouldn't like to put 20th Century Fox on my movie as I believe that a film production company such as this one doesn't really specialise in my chosen genre which is urban but focuses on boxing and thus isn't really recognised with this genre.

The Logo For 20th Century Fox.

                                        





    Warner Brothers was found in 1918 known as Warner brothers studios which later changed in 1923 to Warner Brother pictures. The founders were Albert, Harry, Sam and Jack; who were the Warner Brothers. 1966 was the year that the Warner Brothers sold their company but the name of the film production company has still remained.

     Warner Bros have made a gargantuan amount of well established and recognised films; some of them being:

• Lord of the Rings
• Rush Hour
• Austin Powers
• A nightmare on Elm Street
• Harold and Kumar.

As you can see, Warner Bros has produced films of different genres and they have also established themselves through television producing such hits like Pokemon and loony Tunes which both later on became successful movies.

    As I'm looking at what film production company I would like to include in my movie, I would have thought that a film production company as big as Warner Brothers won't be appropriate for a small, British Boxing film such as mine until I found that Green Street was produced by DeeGee entertainment which is funded and owned by Warner Brothers, thus showing that Warner bros will be an appropriate film production company to use at the front of my movie.

 

                                           

                                     

    

Universal pictures was founded in 1912 and is one of the oldest movie studios in the United states. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, and Jules Brulatour, and its headquarters is in universal city in Orlando.

Universal has made its fair share of famous movies, some of these being:

• Bridesmaids
• Fast and Furious 5
• Tower Heist
• Paul 
• Bruno

As you can see, Universal pictures does movies that relate to mine. For example, the cast of Paul consists of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Both are English actors and we'll be having an English based theme. Fast 5 has some incredible action scenes and tower heist also has some action scenes as well. 

This was the universal 100th anniversary for universal which was this year (2012)