Small production companies
- 2. FILM 4 • Recent productions: • 127 Hours – Made $60.7 million world wide. 127 hours cost $18 million to produce. • The Inbetweeners – Made $88 million world wide. The Inbetweeneers cost only $3.5 to produce. • The Inbetweeners 2 – Made $63.8 million world wide. The production budget could not be found. • Selfish Giant – Made around $900,000 world wide. Again the production budget could not be found. The films above show clearly that Film 4 has a younger audience of mostly teens and young adults. This can also be shown by productions made by their TV partner Channel 4.
- 3. SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT • Recent productions: • Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn pt. 2 – Made $829.7 million world wide. The film cost $120 million to produce. • 12 Years a Slave – Made $187.7 million world wide. 12 Years a Slave cost $20 million to produce. • Red 2 – Made $148 million world wide. Red 2 cost $84 million to produce. • Dolphin Tale 2 – Made $57.8 million world wide. Dolphin Tale 2 cost $36 million to produce. By looking at the types of films that Summit Entertainment help either produce or distribute we can see that their target audience is both quite young, around 10-14, and also slightly older, around 25-35.
- 4. ICON FILMS • Recent productions: • The Ex – Made $5.7 million world wide. The budget for The Ex could not be found. • Drive – Made $76 million world wide. Drive cost $15 million to produce. • A Single Man – Made $24 million world wide. A Single Man cost $7 million to produce. • Paranormal Activity – Made $193.3 million world wide. Paranormal Activity cost $15,000 to produce. From the film selection above we can see that Icon Films has an older target audience ranging from 19-40. However Icon Films are mainly a distribution company.
- 5. WARP FILMS • Recent productions: • The Four Lions – Made $4.6 million world wide. The budget could not be found. • Hush – Made $64 million world wide. Cost roughly $1 million to produce. • The Last Panthers – No information could be found Warp films is a small independent film company who make their own films. As you can see from above the films are hard to find information on. This is because when smalk companies make films they do not always like to release figures.