A production company is a company that is responsible for the development and physical production of new media, film, radio or a television programme. The company may also be directly respnsible for the raisig of funding for the production.
A well known and popular prouction company is Warner Bros. It is a media conglomerate and the type of company that has wolrdwide distribution.
A distirbution company will make sure that the film gets out to as many cinemas as possible, and will try and distribute it to the biggest cinema chains as possible such as Odeon and Showcase. However, the smaller distributor companies will try and get the film out to the smalle cinemas.
Pathe is a major distribution company, and Optimum Releasing is one of the smaller British Distributors.
Dimension Films are another distributor and they released Scream, they are owned by The Walt Disney Company and Weinstein Company and based in New York.
Lionsgate who distributed Saw II, they are an American company that originated from Vancouver, British Columbia, now however they are located in Santa Monica, California. They are also the most successful film and television company in North America. Other famous releases by Lionsgate include Captivity.
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