Distributor

For a comedy teen film like ours, it was quite easy to find a few distributors that distribute films like ours. Our two choices were Lionsgate and The Walt Disney company

Lionsgate

Lionsgate is the leading next generation studio with a major presence in production and distribution of motion pictures, television programming, home entertainment, family entertainment, video-on-demand and delivered content.
The Company is an industry market share leader at North America theatrical box office. Films that Lionsgate have done are: Day breakers, Kick-ass, the spy next door, Saw v11 3D, Saw v, the lucky ones, precious, from Paris with love, the eye and Bratz: the movie.Lionsgate was one of our choices since it had alot of family films and in particular comedies and teen films.
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The Walt Disney Company

It is the worlds largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world. Founded in 1923 by the Disney brothers.The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses eleven theme parks around the world. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.

Disney was our next choice as it has released many teen films, such as Alice in wonderland 2010, Prince of Persia, High school musical and many more films targeted towards a family and teenage audience.

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For our film Translation Check, we decided to not go with The Walt Disney Company but Lionsgate, though Disney has a very good family friendly reputation and it has distributed many successful films that all age groups have enjoyed.

The only thing about having Disney distribute our film 'Translation check' is that it would be alot more expensive and if the film is not likely to receive good reception from their own target audience and won't be successful in appealing to them either, the film won't be distributed by them.

Also, with Disney as a distributor, we would have to apply our film to their terms a lot, especially in cases involving censorship and age rating and we won't be as flexible in our original conception as Disney would have scenes, scripting and many more things changed to suit their image, even though our film does suit in well to the typical disney teen film, it still appeals to a much younger audience.

We decided to go with Lionsgate as they have films that appeal to a much older audience between 12 and 18. They have a good range of films that are comedies and teen films and in comparison to Disney it would be a lot more cheaper.