QUESTION 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your

media product and why?

I would expect a distribution company such as New Line Cinema or New

Market Films to distribute my film because of the films that they have

taken a part in distributing in the past, New Line Cinema helped

distribute ‘Se7en’ and New Market Films distributed Memento which are

films from the same genre as mine – psychological thriller. I have chosen

New Market Films as one option because a lot of the films that they’ve

distributed have had a lot of success distributing psychological thrillers in

the past, ‘Se7en’ being an example of this. However, I feel that New

Market Films would be a more likely suitor for the distribution of my film

because a lot of the films they have distributed in the past have had quite

low budgets (under $10,000,000) and have had a lot of success which

would be a good reason to pick them, an example being the psychological

thriller ‘Memento’ which had a budget of $9,000,000 and got a total gross

profit of $25,000,000.

NEW LINE CINEMA/NEW MARKET FILMS PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS

New Line Cinema

New Market Films

New Market Films is a subsidiary of the parent company Exclusive Media Group.

New Market is aiming to ‘acquire, produce and distribute diverse films’ which

would suit mine because mine is diverse and they will be used to distributing

films from new directors with lesser known actors in it. Mine is diverse for it’s

genre because of the chosen setting, at the house instead of some of the bigger

psychological thrillers which choose asylums and prisons as their settings such as

‘The Lazarus Project’ and ‘Shutter Island’ and in cities such as in ‘The Sixth

Sense’. I also feel the story line of the job gone wrong will be intriguing to those

regular psychological thriller watchers as I feel the added element of action will

entice them into watching the film as it will maybe have a faster pace to the

psychological thrillers they are used to watching.

THE HOUSE/TOWN SETTING AGAINST CITIES AND ASYLUMS

This is the city landscape from The Sixth Sense which is a lot busier than the setting my characters are going to be in and I feel that the increased action will need to have a slower environment to compensate keeping it more conventional to a psychological thriller.

This is the asylum from Shutter Island and although it does fit the peaceful aspect of what I was aiming for with the town, I feel would be to relaxed and it’s not the place people who had just attempted a heist would choose to rendezvous afterwards and wouldn’t fit the storyline.