ownership films private

All Films and TV programmes need to have an owner or be funded in one way or another.
Ownership Patterns is the way that the industry is owned, either through TV studios,
newspapers, books, Film studios or even music labels.

Independents
Some Producers work outside the major companies and studies. Often British Productions are
made by smaller and not well known production companies some examples of this are Film 4 or
BBC when they release films or short dramas or even two part short programmes. This is to try
and help secure extra funding and help with distributing the film around. An Example of this is
the Film Paranormal Activity, it was made for $15,00, but the director Orin Peli needed
Paramount to distribute his film, in doing this he made over $190 million. This just goes to show
not always big budget films don't always do best. Five major distributors dominate the media
ownership of the film industry in the UK. They are United international Pictures, Warner Bros,
Buena Vista, 20th Century Fox and Sony.

Public Company

Is where people could put their own shares into. If a company is not making a profit the share
prices go down and the company is worthless, people could lose their money like this but if the
company makes profits people will make money. For example EMI is a public media company
which you can put shares into. Publicly traded companies are able to raise funds
and capital through the sale (in the primary or secondary market) of their securities, whether
debt or equity. This is the reason publicly traded corporations are important: prior to their
existence, it was very difficult to obtain large amounts of capital for private enterprises. An
example of a publicly owned company is the IMAX Corporation, therefore you or I could invest
in the IMAX company.

Privately held companies have several advantages over publicly traded companies. A privately
held company has no requirement to publicly disclose much, if any, financial information; such
information could be useful to competitors.

Public Service
Media is something like BBC, it financed by TV licence fee. They provide us by more
entertainment; they also provide us with a universal service as England has a lot of foreigners.
Public broadcasting may be nationally or locally operated, depending on the country and the
station. In some countries, public broadcasting is run by a single organization. Other countries
have multiple public broadcasting organizations operating regionally or in different languages.
Public broadcasting was once the only form of broadcasting in many countries.
In addition to the BBC, established in 1922, there is also Channel 4, a commercial public service
broadcaster, and S4C, a Welsh-language broadcaster in Wales. Furthermore, the two
commercial analogue broadcasters ITV and Channel 5 also have significant public service.
All televisions shows need to be owned and funded. Ownership patterns are the way that media
is owned. Massive multimedia companies own; film studios, television stations, record labels,
magazines, newspapers, books and internet platforms.

The TV and film industries are structured in a variety of ways. It could be a 'conglomerate' which
is a large corporation with ownership in different media interests, owning smaller companies
known as subsidiaries. An example of this could be Disney as it is a conglomerate and it owns
the Discovery Channel, which is a subsidiary. It could be an independent company, which has
no hierarchy and can be owned by a single individual or a group of people. Another way is
public or private ownership.

As with any industry the film and television industry relies on the ability to generate a source of
income for its operations. This can be through a multitude of ownership and funding options.
Ownership refers to who owns companies or groups of companies in the media industries. The
ownership can be in many forms, for example, it could be publicly or privately owned. If the
company is created for the public, created to educate and entertain then it is known as a public
service. An example of this is the BBC. Funding can also take many forms such as sponsorship
or independent funding. Without funding there is no end product or even a beginning product.
The crucial point in all production is the availability of cash, from whatever source, to pay for the
production and to ultimately make a profit for the producer so that he/she can go on to make
further productions.

Media Subsidiaries are companies that are completely or “partly owned and partly or wholly
controlled by another company that owns more than half of the subsidiary's stock. The
subsidiary can be a company, corporation, or limited liability company”-(Google). An example of
this is Sky TV which is owned by NewsCorp a conglomerate which has many other subsidiaries
like 20th Century Fox and also ITV owns both channel 4 and 5.

Private Companies are companies that are either owned by non-governmental

organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does
not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock
market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged
privately-(Google).

Independent companies are companies which work on their own; they can make decision on
their own and are free of influence by government or corporate interests. Independent
companies are different to subsidiaries as Independent companies are not owned by any
conglomerate. An advantage of an independent company is that all the money the company
makes is its own profit instead of being shared with other companies. A disadvantage of an
independent media company is that they often find it difficult to survive against competition from
bigger companies that are owned by conglomerates as they are better known, which reduces
their source of income resulting in bankruptcy.

Public service broadcasting - some media companies are owned by national, regional or
local government and their primary goal is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding
from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing. A key
example of public service broadcasting is the conglomerate, the BBC (British Broadcasting
Corporation). The reason why it is called public service is primarily because it is funded by the
public through the licence fee and it is there to serve the public’s interest. Their main job is to
inform, educate and entertain which is for the benefit of the audience.

Main ownership companies

There are five major media distribution companies that dominate the film industry in the United
Kingdom; United international pictures, Warner Bros, Buena Vista, 20th century Fox and finally
Sony.

FUNDING
The producers of The King’s Speech for example had to scrape together the approximately £10
million budget from the following companies:
Weinstein Company, The (presents)
UK Film Council (presents)
Momentum Pictures (in association with)
Aegis Film Fund (in association with)
Molinare Investment (as Molinare, London) (in association with)
FilmNation Entertainment (in association with)
See-Saw Films (as See Saw Films)
Bedlam Productions (as Bedlam)

Some of these companies, for example the American The Weinstein Company, would invest in
production in order to gain the distribution rights and therefore a larger share of the profits when
it is released.

The BFI film funding

The film fund helps to support different levelled film makers in the UK.

Production funding for established film makers - The Film Fund accepts fictional feature film
applications from filmmakers who have already had a feature film produced and theatrically
distributed or exhibited. They welcome work in both live-action and animation, in any genre and
at a range of budget levels.

First feature production funding - The Film Fund selects features from first-time directors, for
production funding at budgets of under £2,000,000. We receive a high volume of applications
from new directors, and have found it beneficial to look at these applications alongside each
other.

Completion funding - BFI accept's live-action, fictional, animated and documentary completion
applications. Applicants must have a feature-length cut in place in order for the project to be
assessed.
The documentaries will only be considered for completion funding if they have a feature-length
cut in place, and must be in talks with sales agents and distributors about their strategy.