Wednesday 26 October 2016

Mini - Major movie studios research



Mini - major movie studios research:

Lionsgate Entertainment:

Lionsgate entertainment was
founded in 1997 in Vancouver, Canada however its current headquarters is within
Santa Monica, California. It has many subsidiaries including 'Lionsgate films'
and 'Summit Entertainment'. They are known to produce and distribute films
which are believed to be controversial and follow the genre of gory, horror.
There first major success was 'American Psycho' which produced a total of $34.3
million dollars at the box office and only cost $7 dollars to produce. However
when they work with 'Summit entertainment' they produce/ distribute
predominately science fiction films for example 'Divergent' and 'Twilight'.

DreamWorks animation:

DreamWorks animation is an American animation studio based in Glendale, California that creates animated feature
films, television programs and online virtual worlds. It was founded by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg in 2004. There main genre is
animation/ cartoon some successful distributed and produced films include 'Shrek', 'Madagascar' and 'Kung Fu Panda'. However the film that produced the most grossing profit worldwide was 'Shrek 2' which bought in a total of
$441,226,247.
Metro- Goldwyn Mayer:
Metro- Goldwyn Mayer is an American media company involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs. It was founded by Marcus Leow in 1924 however its headquarters are currently in Beverly Hills, California. They mainly produce and distribute films like comedies and action films examples are '22 Jump Street', 'Skyfall' and 'the hobbit'. However the most successful film was a horror film called 'Hannibal' which bought in a total of $165,092,266 in 2001.




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