Institutions producing thrillers

Other than Universal and Warner Bros, there aren't many big institutions that have produced thriller films.

Universal are a well-known institution that produce a very wide variety of films that become successful. The thriller films that were produced by them include Angels and Demons, The Bourne Ultimatum, Psycho and Beautiful Mind. Universal often make very big budget films that are extremely popular and have a lot of success because they can afford to, being one of the most important institutions in film-making.

We decided that our film would not be made with a big budget, because the theme is like that involved in the film Layer Cake and that had a small budget of just £4 million. Therefore we would need a small institution to produce our film such as Miramax Films which is involved with Film 4. Layer Cake was still a successful thriller despite this small budget and although films with bigger budgets, such as Angels and Demons, stay out in cinemas for longer and make a lot more money, films with lower budgets would not need to make as much money to get a profit out of it.

Film 4 also has a television channel on which they show films produced by them and films produced by other institutions. These films are of many different genres and appeal to a wide variety of audiences.