Research into Institution

A company that produce films that are similar to the one I planed to make is Summit Entertainment. They are an independent film studio in California though they have offices in London as well. They were found in 1991 by film producers Bernd Eichinger, Arnon Milchan and Andrew G.Vajna. But it was not officially start till 1999 and they began using the name of Summit Entertainment LP as a production, distribution and sale organization. Outside the US they have distribution agreements with Entertainment One. This allows them within the UK to produced products and gives them a partner who will aggressively support Summits products in the UK. Along with this they have agreements around the globe with SND/M6 in France, Nordisk films in Scandinavia and with Tele-Muenchen in Germany and Austria.   

In 2008 they were ranked 8^th amongst other studios with a gross of $226.5 million this was partly because of the release of the film ‘Twilight’ and then in 2009 they were 7^th with a gross of $482.5 million. When the sequel to ‘Twilight’ was released it broke box office records in its first weekend, grossing $142,839,137 million. 

Other films that they have product or distributed were in 1998 ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’. Then in 2000 they co-produced ‘Memento’ with Team Todd, they also co-production ‘Step up’ with Touchstone Pictures in 2006. Then in 2006 they did ‘Twilight’, ‘Penelope’, ‘Nim’s Island’, ‘Never Back Down’ along with these they co-product ‘Step Up 2:The Streets’ and ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’ with with Miramax Films, Ingenious Film Partners and Film4. In 2009 they co-produced ‘Push’ with Icon Production and the ‘Knowning’ with Escape Artists also ‘Astro Boy’ with Imagi Animation Studios and Tezuka Productions. Then along with these they prouced ‘The Hurt Locker’, ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’, ‘Sorority Row’.  In 2009 they did ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ and‘Letters to Juliet’. Also ‘Red’ co-production with DC Entertainment and Di Bonaventura Pictures,‘Furry Vengeance’ co-production with Participant Media, ‘Remember Me’ co-production with Underground Films and ‘Step Up 3-D’ co-production with Touchstone Pictures. Along with these they have produced other films, also played a big part in co-producing films.