Reasearch: Production Houses

• Production houses involved.
• Are they part of a conglomerate?
• How they raise funds?
• Examples of conglomerates.
• What else does your conglomerate do and how it benefits the company
• History.
• Primary audience .
• Financing ( independent company or part of a bigger conglomerate) ( pre-sales {often dependent on key features like a well known actor} , govt grants, tax scheme/shelter).
• Who distributes their films.
• How successful have they been (in terms of critics and the box office success: how much did the movie make.)
• Did they release world wide?
• House style and branding ( what kind of films they make? use of actors? over the years)
• Ideology of the production house.(eg. Disney promotes family values etc)
• Look at the history of your movie's production house.
• Look up the dates the conglomerate formed.
• Some key films and the budget and the box office 
• Notable films they made that were successful and won awards
• What the studio owners say and believe (brand/house ideology) 
• Revenue/ profit ( Gross Ancillary sales, Merchandising, Product Placement)
• Demographic of the media product.