2. The Long Game would be a suitable film for mainstream distribution as it features a wide variety of thriller conventions. It isn't to hard to understand what is going on, whilst making the audience guess why some things in the plot are happening. Seeing as our film is aimed at 25 to 50 year olds, it would be important to market the film in many different ways such as billboards, TV adverts on popular channels such as ITV and Sky 1 as well as social media advertisement on Facebook and twitter. Seeing as our film would be distributed by Paramount Pictures, The Long Game would probably be distributed in the popular chain cinemas. The popular mainstream thriller Se7en, made over $327 million at the box office, almost 10 times the films budget ($33 million)

3. Mainstream films often have a medium to large production budget (Around £50m to £250m), as well as big name actors for example Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey (Se7en). Mainstream films are often marketed towards a wide global audience and have huge marketing campaigns to promote their film such as billboards, television trailers as well as interviews with the cast and director. These films often have large special effect spectacles which shows the large production value. Examples of mainstream films include Transformers (2007, Paramount) and Se7en (1995, New Line Cinema). Independent or Indie Films often have a small production budget (Around £500,000+), but they often have up and coming actors instead of the Hollywood Stars. Independent films are often marketed towards a very niche market as they don't have the budget for a global marketing campaign. They often use Pull advertising such as social media to market their film. more and more indie films are using CGI to make the film seem as if it has a larger budget so they can compete with the Hollywood spectacles. Examples of indie films include Monsters (2010)

4. Paramount Pictures was initially founded in 1912 as Famous Players Film Company but rebranded in 1914 to Paramount Pictures. Over the last 100 years, Paramount have released a plethora of films from a wide variety of genres. Popular films released by paramount include Indiana Jones, The Godfather and Transformers. Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912, Paramount's first film) Wings (1927, Silent film set during the Great War) Rear Window (1954, American Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock) Psycho (1960, One of Hitchcock's best and well known films) The Godfather (1972, American crime film set between 1945 and 1955) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, American action film, It is one of Harrison Ford's iconic film roles) Transformerss (2007, Directed by Michal Bay who is known for creating films with SFX spectacles Paramount Films in Brief