Research into film distribution companies

Marvel films is a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment. They are responcible for funding and supervising the production of film adaptations of thier popular comic book characters including Spiderman, The X-men & The Avengers. As of 2009 they are owned by The Walt Disney Cooperation. Marvel usually produce mainstream comic book action films, which are usually more light hearted and humorus than the films of thier main comic book/film rivals DC (Batman, Superman). For example, one of Marvel's most popular character's is Tony Stark AKA Iron Man. In the 4 films he is featured in so far (Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Avengers Assemble and the upcoming, creatively titled Iron Man 3), he is not only a fantastic superhero who attacks bad guys and causes shoot ups and explosions, but also a very funny character, often doing what he wants and cracking joke after joke. This light-hearted take ont the superhero genre have resulted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (The six most recent films produced by the company; From Iron Man to Avengers Assemble) the fifth highest-grossing film franchise of all time. But even before this Marvel have been selling thier films to the masses with such classics as the X-men franchise and the Blade trilogy. They have also had a few flops, like Elektra & Howard the Duck, but for most of thier cinematic career, Marvel Comics have made some fantastic and very successful films.

Vertigo Films is a British company based in London. Because the company is London based, most of thier films are made in Britain by British people. Vertigo was created in 2002 by  Allan Niblo, James Richardson, Nick Love(who also directed the company's first feture film The Football Factory) and current managing director of Vertigo Rupert Preston. Many of thier films present realistic versions of British issues(The Football Factory & The Firm are about football hooligans,The Buissnes is about the drugs trade and Bronson is about the real life British criminal Michael Gordon Peterson AKA Charles Bronson). Vertigo's filmography spans a wide range of genres including Crime Drama(Bronson, The Sweeny), Horror(Shrooms, Wake Wood) and science fiction (Monsters). All of thier films are produced on very modest budgets, so despite a few of thier productions being made oversees (Streetdance 2 in Paris, Monstes in Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Texas), most of thier projects are shot in the UK.

20th Century Fox is one of the "big six" American film companies (Fox, Paramount, Columbia, Universal & Disney). As one of the most succsessful companies of all time, Fox produce a wide range of films in many different genres. They colaborate alot with Marvel on the X-men films.