PRODUCTION COMPANIES RESEARCH

UNIVERSAL

Universal Studios is an American film studio, owned by Comcast which is one of the Hollywood’s “Big Six” film studios. Universal Studios is also a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Universal was founded in 1912 by the german Carl Laemmle and it is the world’s third oldest major film studio. Three if the Universal Studio’s films - Jaws, E.T. Extra- Terrestrial and Jurassic Park, all of which were directed by Steven Spielberg achieve box office records and each of them became the highest grossing film ever at the time of its initial release.

Most profitable films: 

1. Jurassic World - 6521,926,50
2. E.T. the Extra - Terrestrial - 435,110,554
3. Jurassic Park - 402,453,882
4. Despicable Me 2- 368,061,265
5. Furious 7 - 352,768,830
6. Minions - 335,036,900
7. Meet the Fockers - 279,261,160
8. The Grinch - 260,044,8250
9. Jaws - 260,000,000
10. Despicable Me - 251,513,985

We decided to look at Universal Studios as we thought that it is one of the most popular production company in creating movies that involve special effects or animation such as the films that I have listed above. We thought that this way the genre of our movie would fit very well with the production company. As Universal Studios is a very large and famous production company, part of the Big Six, we thought that the audience would easily reocognise it with the specific type of genres, movies and film techniques and therefore engage them even further into watching our trailer.

We also found a YouTube video with the company logo which I think suits the theme and genre of our trailer perfectly and would help to deliver the feelings and emotions from the beginning.

PARAMOUNT PICTURES

Paramount Pictures is a film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor, consistently ranked as one of the “Big Six” film studios of Hollywood. Paramount is also a member of the MPAA and has distributed several successful film series such as:

• Transformers ( $319,246,193 )
• Star Trek ( $257,730,019 )
• Jack Ryan ( $50,577,412 )
• Jackass ( $117,229,692 )
• Paranormal Activity ( $107,918,810 )
• Friday the 13th ( $65,002,019 

Paramount Pictures appears to have similar most profitable genre movies but appears to have a larger variety of genres compared to Universal involving both sci - fi, action, comedy and horror. This suggests that this production company would be recognizable to a lot more people as it targets different types of genres thus fitting with every sub genre that our trailer fits into, making it more suitable for both the production company and audience. 

We also found a YouTube video of Paramount Pictures original logo in high quality. However, compared to Universal this logo does not suit our trailer as much as it is designed to represent different types of genre movies.