Film Companies

By George Ring

Film Production Companies• DreamWorks Animation (US)• 20th Century Fox (US)• Blue Sky Studios (US)• MGM (US)• Universal Studios (US)• Eon Productions (UK)• Paramount Pictures (US)• Columbia (US)• TriStar (US)• Twisted Pictures (US)• Working Title Films (UK)• Sony Pictures Animation (US)• Warner Bros. Pictures (US)• New Line Cinema (US)• Walt Disney Pictures (US)• Pixar (US)• Blumhouse Productions (US)• Marvel Studios (US)• Film4 Productions (UK)• Lions Gate Entertainment (US)• Dimension Films (US)

The three from the list that I have chosen to expand on are ones that focus on horror film genre more than others. These are:

• Dimension Films• Twisted Pictures• Blumhouse Productions

Dimension Films• Dimension Films is a production company that makes more

films in the horror genre. Although formerly owned by Walt Disney Studios, the company as of 1992 focus mainly on horror. While they also look at films in the action and comedy genre. They are based in the USA and many of their films have turned into franchises following their success.

• Some films that Dimension have produced include:• Scream – a series of American Slasher films. They have made

4 films and have grossed over $600 million in worldwide receipts. The first series entry, Scream is the highest grossing slasher film in the United States.

• Halloween – the later part of the franchise was produced by Dimension.

• Scary Movie – bringing comedy and horror together, Scary Movie have collectively grossed over $818 million at the box-office worldwide.

Twisted Pictures

• Twisted Pictures is an American independent production company, mainly creating films based in the horror genre. They are best known for producing the Saw film series. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in the United States. It was formed after the box office success of Saw in 2004, which lead to a nine-picture distribution deal with Lionsgate.

• The list of films that have led to the success of Twisted Pictures include:

• Saw• Saw II – VI • Saw 3D• Dead Silence• Texas Chainsaw 3D

SawSaw – grossed $18.2million in its opening weekend and had become Lionsgate's second best opening. Saw went on to gross $103 million and is the second lowest grossing film in the series after Saw VI. At the time, it became the most profitable horror film after Scream.

What makes it so successful is how the sequels that follow became increasingly popular and the storyline did not fade.

Saw was voted by the Guinness Book of Records as the best horror franchise of all time.

Blumhouse ProductionsBlumhouse Productions is an American movie production company founded and run by Jason Blum. They produce micro and low budget horror genre movies. They have a deal with Universal Pictures, in which they produce independently and then release them wide through his studio system.

Blumhouse’ most profitable credits began with Paranormal Activity which was made for $15,000. It was released by Paramount Pictures and grossed over $193mllion worldwide.

Blumhouse produced Insidious which was another low budget success, grossing $97 million worldwide on a budget of only $1.5 million and Sinister which grossed $87 million on a budget of $3 million.

Sequels to Paranormal Activity bought in 5 new films, Insidious with 2 and after signing a deal with Universal, The Purge has signed a deal for 2 more movies.