QUESTION 3 – WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT

DISTRIBUTE YOUR FILM AND WHY?

By Charlotte Chamberlain

SPYGLASS ENTERTAINMENT

Spyglass Entertainment is an American production company founded in 1998 by Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum. They have a 5 year distribution deal with The Walt Disney Company. It is currently owned by Cerberus Capital Management. The studio now only produces a handful of films per year due to the fact that Gary and Roger became Co-CEO’s of the holding company of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which had only recently emerged from bankruptcy. Spyglass UK distributors include Universal Pictures UK, StudioCanal UK: since 2011, Buena Vista International: 2002-2005, Optimum Releasing 2009-2011.

RECENT RELEASES

A lot of the recent releases include a variety of genres. They have engaged with well known actors and actresses. Spyglass do produce and distribute thriller/horror films but it seems they are also trying to reach out to new target audiences to increase their portfolios.

SIXTH SENSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG9AGf66tXM

Sixth Sense was produced and distributed by Spyglass

Entertainment, this film was released in 1999 starring Haley Joel

Osment. It is a psychological thriller that tests peoples minds.

I can compare my film to Sixth Sense as the main character has

the ability to see dead people. In my film my main character; the

mother has flashbacks of seeing the dead daughter therefore

Spyglass know how to handle a film with this narrative.

MARKETING

Once again, there is

only a silhouette in

the poster, this keeps

the audience

intrigued. There is

light around the boy

in a humble sort of

sense with the

number 6, which is

obviously well known

for the devils

number.

Production Budget £40,000,000

Worldwide box office £672,802,292

Prints and Advertising budgets

£25,000,000

THE INVISIBLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vKrk6hqFys

The Invisible is another film Distributed by SkyGlass

Entertainment. This film is a thriller revolved around a man who

has to unravel the reasoning for his death. Produced and

Distributed in 2007 this film is a remake of Swedish film, Den

Osynlige.

This is simular to mine as the audience would not know the

reason why the daughter died, and would have to work this out as

the film went on.

MARKETINGSpyglass Entertainment released posters to keep the audience intrigued about the film, they have a silhouette of person in the centre of the screen.

“Life, death, and

something in-between”

allows us too be

intrigued about the

storyline and what will

go

on throughout the film.

Money spent on marketing

is important as this

process is based around

attracting the target

audience to the film. By

having Spyglass

Entertainments support

this would result in more

finance for my film and the

marketing.

Domestic DVD sales £14,228,134

Worldwide Box Office £23,540,266

Domestic box office £20,568,319

WHY SPYGLASS SHOULD DISTRIBUTE GUILT R IDDEN

By looking at the films that are distributed by Spyglass Entertainment

they do distribute psychological thrillers therefore I believe because of

this my film would be successful by being distributed by Spyglass

Entertainment. I do feel like the thrillers are in a way similar to my film,

they follow some of the same conventions such as the lighting and

editing etc. In my opinion sixth sense is more similar to my film as its

more psychological and tests your mind and pushes you to the edge of

your seat. Because of this it may attract the same sort of audience

towards my film and the same fan base due to the psychological thrill of

the film.