Institutions

INSTITUTIONS

What is a film institution?
- A film institution is any company or organisation that distributes, produces and exhibits films. Each institution has a specific genre for films that they will produce, for example Disney would never produce a horror or thriller movie however, Twisted Pictures would never produce a cartoon about a princess.

What type of film institution would represent out film opening?
- The genre of our opening scene is a thriller therefore we need a film institution that represents existing thriller movies. Below are the film institutions that I have researched that could be appropriate for our opening scene.

Twisted Pictures:
Twisted Pictures is an American independent production company, mainly creating films of the horror genre. The company was founded in 2004 by Evolution Entertainment's Mark Burg, Oren Koules and Gregg Hoffman. They are known for producing the Saw and Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series. Twisted Pictures was formed after the box office success of Saw in 2004, which led to a nine-picture distribution deal with Lionsgate. The company went on to produce six sequels in the Saw film series. Carl Mazzocone served as president for four years.

Filmography

Lionsgate Films:
Lionsgate Films (formerly known as Cinépix Film Properties) is an American film production/distribution studio and a division of Lions Gate Entertainment founded in 1962. It is the largest and most successful mini-major film studio in North America. It focuses on foreign and independent films and has distributed various commercially successful film series, including The Twilight Saga (partially, via the firm's 2012 acquisition of Twilight distributor Summit Entertainment), The Hunger Games, The Divergent Series, La La Land, Saw, Madea, and The Expendables.

Horror Filmography

Warner Brothers:
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.—colloquially known as Warner Bros. or Warner Bros. Pictures, and for a time trading as Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.is an American entertainment company, film studio and film distributor that is a division of Time Warner and is headquartered in Burbank, California. It is one of the "Big Six" major American film studios.

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Legendary Pictures:
Legendary Entertainment (also known as Legendary Pictures or Legendary) is an American media company based in Burbank, California. The company was founded by Thomas Tull in 2000 and in 2005, concluded an agreement to co-produce and co-finance films with Warner Bros., and began a similar arrangement with Universal Studios in 2014. Since 2016, Legendary has been a subsidiary of the Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group.





Filmography

Jerry Bruckheimer:
Jerome Leon "Jerry" Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1943) is an American film and television producer. He has been active in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known television series are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Without a Trace, Cold Case, and the U.S. version of The Amazing Race. At one point, three of his TV series ranked among the top 10 in the U.S. ratings—a unique feat in television.
Some of his best-known films include Beverly Hills Cop, Flashdance, Top Gun, The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, Bad Boys, Kangaroo Jack, Enemy of the State, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the National Treasure franchise. He also serves as a Director at ZeniMax Media. Many of his films have been produced by Disney and Paramount, while many of his television series have been co-produced by Warner Bros. and CBS Television Studios. In July 2003, Bruckheimer was honored by Variety magazine as the first producer in Hollywood history to produce the top two highest-grossing films of a single weekend, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Bad Boys II.

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