Research: Institutional context research into film companies and Youtube

We looked at modern film companies and which genre they specialise in today.

Working Title

Working Title is a British film company, based in London, UK. Films was co-founded by producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. Working title is an extremely successful film company, showed here by previous box office hits dating back to 1986.

Due to the extreme success that Working Title have with British films we decided to use them as the production company for our media product.


BBC Films

BBC Films is at the forefront of British independent filmmaking, and co-produces around eight films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors. Recent titles include Nigel Cole's BAFTA-nominated Made in Dagenham, Stephen Frears’ Tamara Drewe, Debs Gardner-Paterson’s Africa United, Max and Dania’s StreetDance, which was Britain’s first-ever 3-D movie. BBC Films has an impressive back catalogue, which includes titles such as Lone Scherfig’s Academy Award®-nominated and BAFTA award-winning An Education.



Universal studios

Universal studios is one of the leading film companies in the world. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle it is one of the oldest American movie studios still in continuous production.

Box office hits such as ET,Jurassic Park and Jaws have given Universal the reputation for being one of the greatest film companies of all time.



DreamWorks

DreamWorks is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming. It has produced or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses totalling more than $100 million each.
DreamWorks began in 1994 as an ambitious attempt by media moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen (forming the SKG present on the bottom of the DreamWorks logo) to create a new Hollywood studio of which they own 72%.

20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox's most popular film franchises include Avatar, Star Wars, Ice Age, Garfield, Alvin and the Chipmunks, X-Men, Die Hard, Alien, Speed, Revenge of the Nerds, Planet of the Apes, Home Alone, Dr. Dolittle, Night at the Museum, Predator, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and The Chronicles of Narnia (which was previously distributed by Walt Disney Pictures), The Beach, plus famous TV shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad!. Some of the most famous actors to come out of this studio were Shirley Temple, who was 20th Century Fox's first film star, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. The studio also contracted the first African-American cinema star Dorothy Dandridge.




Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount is consistently ranked as one of the top-grossing movie studios.