Institution Case Study:

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Was a Film Distibutor who were attempting to rival hollywood, however merged with Universal Pictures instead. It was previously owned by Phillips.

The films that they created were not known films until 1994 when they created Four Weddings and A Funeral. They later went on to make Fargo.

These are all the films that they directed and made independently:

• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Backbeat (1994)
• Land and Freedom (1995)
• Home for the Holidays
  
• When We Were Kings (1996)
• Trainspotting (1996)
• The Relic (1997) (distributed )
• Spiceworld e US.)
• Hard Rain
• Barney's Great Adventure
• Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Arlington Road
  

During its run the company had made some decently high budgeted films. One of their most successfull films was Spice Girls. The film was a change as most of their previous films were aimed at adults. They made cult-hits such as Trainspotting and Lock Stock despite those films being low budgeted. During their run some of the films were unique in the way the films were edited, e.g. Trainspotting created a clostraphobic atmosphere by shooting the camera close to the heroin junkies. While producing some successfull films, Plolygram films made some great movies and some bad ones.