Primary distribution
- 1. Primary Distribution For many years if you wanted to see a movie then you would have to go to cinemas and watch it there but as time progresses so do the methods of how films can be accessed. When the descent was released in the year 2005 6th of July at the dead by dawn horror film and it was a premiere. Then the initial release was 8th July 2005. On the opening weekend what it had made was 570,850 pounds and that was limited release. On the cumulative worldwide gross were $31,005,153 and they done this on a budget of 3.5m pounds. If we compare this to Avengers what we can see is that it had a budget of $220m on the opening weekend it had made $207,438,708m and that was wide release but on the cumulative worldwide gross it had made $1,519,557,910b. The reason why the Descent works in the cinema is because of the tone it sets and the reason for this is because when it’s in the cinema then there is darkness all around you and its pointing towards one screen and the machinery/equipment in the cinemas is very good and the reason why it works is because there are no distractions in cinemas talking is not allowed and mobile phones use are not permitted in the halls. The quality that this provides is the quality that you would find in any cinema hall across the country.
- 2. Secondary distribution This would be the second best quality and that would mean it would be on DVD/Blu-Ray. So in cinemas you would have to pay roughly 9 pounds for a ticket and once you have seen it then that’s it you have to buy another ticket if you wanted to watch it again where as if you bought it on DVD for say roughly 10-11 pound or where as on Blu-Ray it can cost around 15- 17 pounds but then that DVD is yours forever or until it no longer works but the quality wont be as good as Blu-Ray’s which wont be near the perfection of the cinemas. If you are a member already of certain cinemas then you can get a discounted price and pay that instead of the full price where as the DVD/Blu-Ray you can get it as part of a special collection for 12.99 or you can buy it when it reaches half price or when its on sale for a festive holiday e.g. Christmas, Easter, Eid etc. This may be presented to you in most corner shops or newsagents but ultimately they will be placed in big stores such as Asda, Sainsbury, or Tesco’s. The only problem is that if you want to own it on DVD and it’s just been released in cinemas the there will be a wait of 6 months You can also find it on various online sites such as Netflix, which if you pay a monthly fee of say of 6 pounds you can have almost any movie at your disposal but if the movie has just been released in cinema then it may take about 9 months for it to be appear on the sites but some sites or stores take
- 3. longer like sky movies it would take 9/12 months, where as for it to air on TV it would take more than a year. Its even worse when it comes to piracy because the quality could be worse or it could be a knockoff version of the movie, but back when this was first released there wasn’t much worry about piracy and it because back the internet and all these sites were just being discovered and there wasn’t much back then mostly it was but the piracy sites could be torrents or pirate bay but back then it was mostly sold by people in vans. It would also not wok back then because the internet was slow.