Film Institutions

Film Institutions

Paramount

Paramount Pictures was founded in 1912 by the 'Famous Players Film Company' and it was only 2 years later in 1914 when it was opened by Jesse Lasky, Adolph Zukor and William Wadsworth Hodkinson. Paramound Pictures is known as one of the 'Big Six' film studios of Hollywood. Turning 100 in 2012 had made Paramound Pictures one of the five longest living film studios. Paramount Pictures is known to have some of the best films of all time and holds very popular films - e.g. Titanic, The Godfather, Wolf of Wall Street, Transformers and Iron Man. The main genre of films in Paramount Pictures is Action - Adventure.

20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox was founded in 1935 by Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck. 20th Century Fox is one of the six major American film studios and is situated in Century City in Los Angeles. The two founders Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck left United Artists over a dispute and created the company Twentieth Century Pictures. They then soon went on to join/merge with FOX Films and went on to create 20th Century Fox. Films that 20th Century Fox make tend to be more family friendly, examples of these films are: Ice Age, The Simpsons Movie, Avatar, however they are also known for some classic films that are less family friendly like Alien and Independence Day.

LIONSGATE

Lions Gate Entertainment is an American/Canadian entertainment corporation, situated in Santa Monica in California. Lions Gate was founded in 1997 by Frank Giustra however, Avi Federgreen was also an important input to the company as he helped fund the start up of Lions Gate. Lions Gate Entertainment is famous mainly for their action, thriller and adventure film genres. Examples of these films would be Divergent, Day After Tomorrow and The Hunger Games.

WHITEHORN (Our Own Institute)

Whitehorn Productions is our own film institute that our group had decided on, we wanted our logo to look similar to Lions Gate and Paramount as our films will be focused around the same genre which they are most famously known for - e.g. Action, Thriller, Adventure.