Can someone explain movie distribution to me? From what I gather, a production company puts up the budget for a movie, then look to sell the distribution rights to production company with a distribution arm (like Paramount) or another distributor who puts the film in cinemas and keep the BO money?

Or then you have a case like Marvel who stump up the budget and distribute the film and keep all box office gates.

Then you have a film that will be distributed by one studio who take the box office but then another company will take the dvd / blue ray / VOD money. Is this correct?

Then you have The Cloverfield Paradox. Paramount put up the 40mil budget, but made it back when Netflix paid 50 mil for “distribution” rights (apart from China and home video).

What about the start of a movie when you see five or so companies at the start before the credits.

And on a smaller scale, what about films who go to festivals like Cannes in the hope of being bought? Are they specifically looking for distributors? Would they be self funded productions and look for a bigger company to get them in cinemas?

I thought I knew all this but apparently I don’t fully understand how things work.

Submitted February 09, 2018 at 09:15AM by traveloshity http://ift.tt/2EePo9k