film distributor

Cinema supply company

A film distributor is a company that acquires rights to movies and arranges their release to theaters, streaming platforms, or home video markets.

Distributors handle marketing, negotiate with exhibitors, and determine release schedules and territories.

Major studios often have their own distribution arms, while independent films rely on separate distribution companies: The documentary struggled to find a distributor.

Related

limited release · first run · opening weekend · rights · licensing · Hollywood · prints · exhibition · premiere · art house · multiplex · marketing · box office · reels · territory · acquisition · indie · blockbuster

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Opposites
supply chain role

film distributorfilm producer

Movie business overseer

film studio · production company · filmmaker · content creator · movie studio

market direction

film distributormoviegoer

One who attends films

viewer · consumer · audience · streaming subscriber · end user

access control

film distributorrights holder

Owner of legal entitlements

film vault · archive

Family

film, distributor, films, filmed, filming, filmy, filmier, filmiest, filmmaker

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G