Institutions

When researching our film genre, I found that the most popular institutions for romantic comedy's were '20th Century', 'Parmount' and 'Columbia Pictures'. These are very successful institutions and are used on romantic comedy's which have been successful in the cinema's. When doing our film we know that we have to use a big institutions to make our film successful in the industry. All the information i have found on institutions, i got off Wikipedia. 

Columbia Pictures is an amercian film production and supports both British and Amercian films helping them in producing and distributing. Columbia studio's were found in 1919 and named Columbia Pictures in 1924 as previously it was called C.B.C film sales. The production is owned by Sony pictures entertainment. The most famous films Columbia have distributed are, The Wedding Planner,  When Harry Met Sally, The Ugly Truth, The Holiday.. and have all been top grossing films. 


Parmount Pictures is the highest ranked production company which has been producing and distributing films for many years. It is film and television production and distribution. It was founded in May 1912 and was first names Famous Players Studio but was then renamed in 1914 as Parmount Pictures. It has done many romantic comendies such as, No strings attached, She's Out Of My League and How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days and these have all been very successful. 


Also known as 'Fox' and '20th', 20th century fox is one of the most well known and popular production distrubuter of all time. It was founded in May 1935 and is the biggest film franchises as they have put their name on so many different film and tv. The theme tune for 20th century fox is very remerable as it is on so many films that a lot of people can reconise it. 20th century Fox has helped distribute many romantic comendies such as, Love & other drugs, What happened in Vegas, Bride wars... and have all been extremely successful. 


From this research it has helped me find out which are the big institutions and which help make a romantic comedy successful in the film industry.