Production Company Research
A production company is responsible for funding a movie and helps with the budgeting, scripting, scheduling, casting, distribution and marketing. Its also responsible for find a director, actors and to promote the movie. They have a very important role because without funding and publicity they wouldn't have a movie or a audience.
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Blumhouse Productions
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Blumhouse productions is an american movie production company. Blumhouse produces micro and low budget genre movies like paranormal activity, insidious and sinister franchises. Blumhouse productions had a first look deal with universal pictures. The Blumhouse productions have an highly profitable credits beginning with paranormal activity, which was made for $15,00. The film was then released by paramount pictures and grossed over $193 million worldwide. Blumhouse has worked with directors like Scott Derrickson, James DeMonaco, Oren Peli, Scott Stewart and James Wan. Blumhouse has also opened a Blumhouse of Horrors, which is an interactive haunted house experience in downtown L.A.
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Twisted Pictures
Twisted Pictures is mainly know for the successful Saw films, Twisted pictures is an American independent production company that was founded in 2004. After the first saw film, Twisted Pictures went on to make 6 sequels in the series, the Saw franchise is one of the most successful franchise in Horror. Twisted pictures then went onto make several other Horror films: Dead Silence (2007), The Tortured (2009), Chain Letter (2010) and Texas Chainsaw (2013). Twisted Pictures was founded Evolution Entertainment's Mark Burg, Oren Koules and Gregg Hoffman. Twisted Pictures productions exhibits its a horror by using a dark background, a sharp dagger that draws your attention to the middle of the screen, barbedwire twisting itself around the title and leaving scars. This is a good thing to incorporate in are opening sequence because it sets the scene and instantly you get the feeling of horror, also it gives anticipation for the film to come.
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Hammer Productions
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Hammer Film Productions is best known for a series of gothic 'Hammer Horror' films, but has also produced science-fiction, thrillers, film noir and comedies. It is a British company that was founded in 1934. Hammer Film Productions most famous films are The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), which they continued to make six sequels. Dracula (1958), and eight sequels that followed after. The Mummy (1959) and the three sequels of the movie. The series 'Hammer House of Horror' was also produced by Hammer and was extremely popular. Recently, Hammer has produced Let Me In (2007), The Resident (2010) and The Woman In Black (2012). The production video is very similar to 'Marvel', having multiple images of monsters and killers in the letters of 'Hammer'.
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Dark Castle Entertainment
Dark Castle Entertainment was formed in 1999. The name Dark Castle Entertainment pays homage to a horror filmmaker from the 1950-60's , William Castle. Some recent films they have are 'A Bullet To The Head' and 'Getaway' (2013). In Dark Castle Entertainment's logo video there are flashes of lightning and the camera wides from a close up of a gargoyle to a dark castle surrounded be clouds and backed by a yellow moon.
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