Unit 1: Case Study - Pride

Pride was made by an independent British film company called Calamity Films. It was hugely popular bringing over £12 million at the box office.

Calamity Films had to work with bigger production and distribution companies to get the audience it needed to be successful.

Pride was produced by Calamity films with Pathe (one of the biggest production companies in the world), BBC Films (a British household name), proud films and many more. This shows how smaller, independent film companies have to get support by larger companies so they can get obtain a budget big enough and be able to secure reputable actors etc.

CBS Films and Sony Pictures (conglomerates) distributed the film to the United States and Pathe (a huge household name) and 20th Century Fox (conglomerate) distributed the film to the UK and Europe. There not any links between these companies but because they are separate, huge companies then they are actually reaching an even larger audiences then of they were combined.

Having these partners is a huge benefit for calamity films as they will be able to reach a much larger audience then they would if they were alone as these conglomerates have huge advertising networks and budgets.