Thriller Production Companies

In this post i'm going to take a look at some of the production companies that specialise in the thriller genre. This will help my group and I in the production of our own thriller because we can see what methods are effective in creating an entertaining thriller opening sequence.

Hammer

The first production company I am going to look at is "Hammer." Hammer is a British production company that was founded in 1983. Hammer once dominated the horror film market, specialising in the gothic genre and thriller. It is in multiple partnerships with various other production companies including Warner Bros. While Hammer takes credit for modern horrors such as "The Woman In Black," but some more honourable mentions are their productions of "Dracula" and "Frankenstein." They were also responsible for a mini-series named "Mini-Hitchcocks," a series of black and white low budget films.

Warner Bros

While the broad-based, fully-intergrated film production company that is Warner Bros is widely recgonised for it's varaiation of genre in film, through a deeper look into their work I have found that some iconic action thrillers have been produced by them. These include "Inception," "The Dark Knight" and "The Shining," all highly recognised movies. These productions further stress the flexibilty of Warner Bros in terms of genre. The American company is headquartered in Burbank, Calafornia, and is one of the "Big Six" American film studios, and a member of MPAA (Motion Picture Assosiation of America).


Dimension Films

Dimension Films is an American production company and distribution studio, which was owned by The Walt Disney Company, however is now owned by The Weinstein Company, and is one of America's "Mini-Majors" in terms of production companies. The studio's franchises include "Children Of The Corn," "Scream," "Spy-Kids," "Sin City," and "Scary Movie," clearly taking an interest in comedy-thriller with the production of "Scary Movie." The company is currently producing the "Scream" series for MTV. Founded in 1992, Dimension Films is headquartered in New York.


In terms of thriller production companies, our opening would be most suited to "Dimension Films" as our genre is more horror-thriller rather than action-thriller which is popular with Warner Bros.