What kind of media institution might distribute your media project?

After looking at different institutions me and Amir decided that the best institution to distribute our film was Columbia Picture. Columbia Pictures are considered one of the big six within the world of film production and doing extremely well financially, the company has released high blockbuster films like 'Panic Room' 'Men In Black' 'Stuart Little' 'Spiderman' and many more. Even though Columbia Pictures don't necessarily focus strongly on horrors or horror comedies, the company does produce lots of high grossing films which have been timeless classics played over and over again without becoming boring. In 1982 Columbia Pictures was bought by Coca-Cola, the same year it launched TriStar Pictures as a joint venture with HBO and CBS, due to this still applying today if Columbia did distribute our film they would be advertised not just in the UK but in US as well, as by having a join venture with HBO and CBS our film would be advertised and viewed on these channels. Five years later, Coca-Cola spun off Columbia and was acquired by Sony in 1989, because of this this would mean that the film would be global as Sony is a huge company. But despite its high grossing films and huge finances, me and Amir mainly chose Columbia Pictures to be our distributor because of its two hugely successful films which are 'Ghostbusters' and 'Zombieland'.

Horror films distrubuted:

• 30 Days of night
• Zombieland
• Ghostbusters
• Anaconda
• Fright night
• The bride

Ghostbusters - Box Office

• On June 8 1984 Ghostbusters was released in 1339 theaters and grossed $13.6 million within its first opening weekend and earned $23 million in its first week.
•  Ghostbuster then went on to gross $229.2 million at the box office, making it the second highest-grossing film of 1984, which in its time, these figures put it within the top ten highest-grossing films of all-time.
• A re-release in 1985 gave the film a total gross of $238.6 million and making Ghostbusters the most successful comedy of the 1980s.

Zombieland - Box Office

• Zombieland was released in October 2009
• instantly received positive critical reviews as it was grossing more than $60.8 million in 17 days.
• The film debuted at No. 1 at the box office in North America, with ticket sales of $24,733,155 on the opening weekend, matching its production budget.
• As of October 29, 2009, the film grossed $75,590,286 domestically and $102,133,700 worldwide.
• Critics and fans of the film said that this is "the first [American] horror comedy in recent memory to find significant theatrical success".

The facts and figures on box office information was from Wikipedia  :)