The main distributor of Scream is Dimension Films, which is a major American film production, which was owned by The Walt Disney Company but it now owned by The Weinstein Company.
The marketing tools used to distribute the film was mainly: Facebook, posters and website. The film scream was screened twice in cinemas/theatres, at different times, therefore the poster was distributed in cinemas to inform viewers. The website and Facebook page was also created online to connect to a wider audience.
The role of social media was to promote 'Scream' and to get viewers to watch the film. Facebook is a good way in promoting and informing many people about their film as millions of people have a Facebook account. Also a website is also a good idea because if people want to find out more information about the film, their own website would be a good way to inform them about it.
Scream had a wide release in 1,413 cinemas/theatres nationally.
The different formats the film is available in are: DVD, ITunes, Amazon (DVD), YouTube.
The budget for the film was very large consisting of $15million and the box office was $173million.
On the Scream website the distributer Miramax, which is a large American company, runs the website and distributes scream on their website. Miramax also distributes other films and TV shows on their website.
Also the original release of the scream soundtrack was by TVT record and not the film distributer Dimension Films.
I think that the distributer would likely distribute our film as it is the same genre but also because they have a similar plot meaning that our film will appeal to screams target audience. Furthermore, they will know that their is already an audience publicly therefore the film is more likely to be watched by the viewers of scream.
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