United International Pictures
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Who are they?- UIP were formed in 1981 in London.-They are secularly owned by two companies, Paramount and Universal Pictures. - They have distributed over 1000 thousand films, which include over 100 academy award winners. -Most of the big budget films you see nowadays are likely to be linked to UIP.
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Who are they owned by?Universal – founded in 1912 and is an American motion picture studio, owned by Comcast who are in turn a subsidiary of NBCUniversal.
Paramount – founded in 1912 as well and is an American film/television production/distribution studio. They are a subsidiary of the U.S media conglomerate Viacom.
Overall, UIP is owned by Viacom and NBCUniversal as they own the parent companies.
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What do they do?
- They Distribute films (by Paramount and Universal Pictures) outside of North America all over the globe. -They have distribution offices in 16 countries and have Third Party Licenses in 43 other countries. -They also hold Non-Theatrical rights in all markets outside North America. - Distribution rights to features by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios.
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Success? -They are incredibly successful, mainly due to Non-Theatrical distributions of films.- Non-theatrical distributions allow audiences who may not be able to use conventional cinemas to access UIP films in another way. - They distribute Universal and Paramount titles non-theatrically all over the world. - License titles for group screenings (video, DVD and or Blu-ray) to different film clubs, schools, universities and many other institutions all over the world. - offer there films in different formats (VOD and PPV).
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Success continued…-UIP owes a lot of its success to the people they have working for them. There offices are run by local industry experts that understand the market they are dealing with. - UIP has offices in many EU countries and has committed certain undertakings to the European Commission. - UIP is almost guaranteed success due to the connections it has with large, multi-national film companies such as Paramount and Universal.
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Examples of films they have distributed!
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