Ambition

When a sinister figure offers them success in exchange for murder, a group of old school friends struggle with paranoia and distrust as they turn on each other to complete the arrangement.

Production Company:
Rock Solid Entertainment

Format: 16mm digitally mastered
Year of production: 2005
Running time: 97 mins
Director: Nicolas Forzy
Producer: Nicolas Forzy
Executive/Co-Producers: Thomas Benski, Axel Beranger
Editor: Pete Mitchell
Screenwriter: Nicolas Forzy
Director of Photography: Daniel G. Cabrero
Sound: Marc Reveyron
Music: Roby Meola
Principal cast: Matthew Rutherford, Luke Robert, Alex Childs, David Rosenbauer, Marem Hernandez, John Robson, Martin T. Sherman

Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project is an American horror film released in 1999. The narrative is presented as a documentary pieced together from amateur footage, filmed in real time. The film was produced by the Haxan Films production company. The film relates the story of three young student filmmakers (Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Williams) who hike into the Black Hills of Burkittsville, Maryland to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch, and subsequently go missing. The viewer is told that the three were never found, although their video and sound equipment (along with most of the footage they shot) was discovered a year later. This "recovered footage" is presented as the film the viewer is watching.

Directed by Daniel Myrick
Eduardo Sánchez

Produced by Robin Cowie
Gregg Hale

Written by Daniel Myrick
Eduardo Sánchez
Starring Heather Donahue
Joshua Leonard
Michael C. Williams

Music by Antonio Cora
Cinematography Neal Fredericks

Editing by Daniel Myrick
Eduardo Sánchez
Studio Haxan Films
Distributed by Artisan Entertainment

Release date(s) United States
January 25, 1999
(Sundance Film Festival)
July 16, 1999
(Limited)
July 30, 1999
(Wide)
United Kingdom
October 8, 1999
(Raindance Film Festival)
October 22, 1999
(Wide)
Australia & New Zealand
December 9, 1999
Running time 86 min.
Country United States

Language English

Budget $500,000-$750,000

Gross revenue $248,639,099
Followed by Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2


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Halloween

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film set in the fictional suburban midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois, on Halloween. The original draft of the screenplay was titled The Babysitter Murders. John Carpenter directed the film, which stars Donald Pleasence as Dr. Sam Loomis, Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, and Nick Castle, Tony Moran and Tommy Lee Wallace sharing the role of Michael Myers (listed in the credits as "The Shape"). The central theme of the film is Myers' escape from a psychiatric hospital and his subsequent murder of a number of teenagers, whilst Dr. Loomis' attempts to track and stop him. Halloween is widely regarded as a classic among horror films, and as one of the most influential horror films of its era. In 2006 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Halloween was produced on a budget of $320,000 and grossed $60 million at the box office in the United States, equivalent to over $150 million as of 2008, becoming one of the most profitable independent films. Many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). The movie originated many clichés found in low-budget horror films of the 1980s and 1990s. However, the film contains little graphic violence and gore.

28 Weeks Later.

28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror/science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle. With a screenplay written by Alex Garland, the film stars Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Noah Huntley, and Christopher Eccleston. The plot depicts the breakdown of society following the accidental release of a highly contagious virus and focuses upon the struggle of four survivors to cope with the ruination of the life they once knew.
A critical and commercial success, the film is widely recognized for images of a deserted London, and was shot almost entirely on digital video. The film spawned a 2007 sequel, 28 Weeks Later and the graphic novel 28 Days Later: The Aftermath.

Directed by Danny Boyle

Produced by Andrew Macdonald
Line Producer:
Robert How
Written by Alex Garland

Starring Cillian Murphy
Naomie Harris
Noah Huntley
Christopher Eccleston
Brendan Gleeson
Megan Burns

Music by John Murphy
Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle
Editing: by Chris Gill
Studio DNA Films
British Film Council

Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures

Release date(s) United Kingdom
1 November 2002
Running time 113 min.
Country United Kingdom

Language English

Budget £5,000,000
Gross revenue $82,719,885
Followed by 28 Weeks Later

Fox Searchlight Pictures.

The institution we are looking at to produce or film is something along the lines of a British film company who work on low budgets, but still produce top quality highly recognizable films. usually british films like this are distributed by american companies. for example, Fox searchlight pictures. This company is a sister company to 20th century fox. so is of high quality, and is known for creating great movies. fox searchlight pictures specialises in producing british, indie/horror films. for example 28 days later, and 28 weeks later. so this would be a perfect production company for us to use due to it specialising in what film we are producing. it has also distributed a high number of recognized films, such as, hills have eyes, the ringer, and slumdog millionaire. so i think that this company would be a wise choice.

Warner Bros

Another production company we could use could be, Warner Bros. but we are very unlikely to be able to get our film distributed by these, as the are of a high statutre, and we will definately not be able to afford the costs of this company due to its recognition. an example of a british film distributed by these is The Shining.
so ideally the best option would be to use fox searchlight picures, due to its availability and good quality.

By Louis Percival.