Revolver Entertainment

Sarah Byard.

• Founded in 1997.• Operations in London and Los Angeles.• Revolver Entertainment is a company that distributes films

to the UK, but they also have Revolver Entertainment US who distribute to the US (shockingly).

• They are the fastest growing distribution company in the UK.

• They have international reach, “groundbreaking” directors and “world-class” films.

• They’ve won many awards. • They consider themselves experts on youth entertainment

(although one of their clips involves Danny Dyer, so I’m thinking their expertise isn’t as great as they think).

• They had the first ever live action 3D release.

They work with loads of companies.

They get their films shown on/available to buy/rent from:

• iTunes• Sky Box Office• Sainsbury’s• Wal-Mart• Play.com (BOO PLAY.COM, BOO)• Asda• Blockbuster• Amazon.com• Vue Cinemas• LoveFilm.com• Cineworld• Tesco• Target (what even is Target?)• The font’s getting too small to read but there’s loads.

They have a production arm.

• I’m guessing this means they produce films also, not that they have an actual arm that produces things.

• This means that they are vertically integrated.• I think.• In their highly pretentious video on their about me

page, they say they do: finance, development, pre-production, production and post production as well as distribution.

• They also have 357 Records under their “umbrella”, so they get their music.

Awards they’ve won:• 2010 SIA - WINNER FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

2010 SIA - WINNER UK PREMIERE OF THE YEAR

2010 BVA - WINNER MARKETING INITIATIVE

2008 BVA - WINNER MARKETING INITIATIVE

2008 BVA - WINNER CREATIVE INITIATIVE

2007 HEW - WINNER BEST OVERALL CAMPAIGN

2007 BVA - WINNER MARKETING INITIATIVE FOR FILM

2006 BVA - WINNER INDUSTRY INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR

2005 HEW - WINNER MARKETING INNOVATION

2005 BVA - WINNER MARKETING INITIATIVE

2004 HEW - WINNER BRAND DEVELOPMENT

2004 BVA - WINNER MARKETING INITIATIVE

2004 HEW - WINNER MARKETING INNOVATION

They’ve won most of their awards for ‘marketing initiative’ and overall their creative skills, showing that they are very creative in their marketing techniques. For example:• To promote Kidulthood, they replaced the cast

on the poster with members of the labour cabinet.

• To promote The Zombie Diaries, they organised a zombie walk around Leicester Square.

Films they’ve made:

• Encounters At The End Of The World• Exit Through The Gift Shop (which they’re really

proud of for some reason)• Shank• Kidulthood• Anuvahood• The Limits Of Control• The Infidel• Heartbreaker