Film production companies would support the developing and stages of production for my film.They would be the main people associated with provididng the money for the production process and the distributing of the film.Within the industry there are iether independent film compainies like Warp film, caravan films ect or the companies are mainstream like warner bros or twisted pictures. With these distinc companies comes a distinc style of film which maily occurs within the independent film companies. For instance all of warm films distributions seem to be set in unknown locations or lanmarks, showing their audience what life is like for people living outside of the city. Also warp films seem to produce films that are to do with social realism or real life situations, like “This is England”. Unlike for instance twisted pictures. You can clearly tell from the name that they would distribute dark thilleresque or horror films such as “Saw”
Our film “I See You” would be produced by warp films based on their thier success with films such as “This is England” taking two bafta awardsand their what creativity and uniquenessfor producing films like “trash humpers” and other products like “rubber johnny”, with financial support from national lottery funding and the UK film council.
Warp film is a British film company that first started out as a record shop, and producer of music videos, however through sheer success have expanded their tools and now become very diverse in their innovative films. They launched in 2001 and ever since have worked with iconic name such as director Shane Meadows and director and actor Chris Morris.
This is England is one of the most successful films that warp film have produced and worked with Shane meadows on. It worked with a budget of 1.5 million pounds that was contributed by Film 4 and the UK film council. They used actors that they took from workshops apart from a few known names such as Stephen Graham. It made £207,676 in the UK on its opening weekend, and a gross of $327,919 in the USA. Overall it made a total gross of £5,154,493 in the UK and $8,176,544 in the States.
Other successful/ recognisable projects that warp film have been a part of are:
· Dead man’s shoes
· Submarine
· Four lions
· Donkey punch
Even though however these British films are very successful it is still apparent that Hollywood stills makes the most profit which arguably is based on the amount of money they have to spend. And us as a UK audience are a huge part of that. I think it’s because of the type of films that they seem to display. Most of the films that make the most money are feel good family features , or they contain some new high technology or special effects that catch an audience eye. Just the effects and a complex storyline alone can make a movie millions in a short time before even thinking about use purchasing of DVD’s. For example:
This is England | Inception |
Budget- 1.5 million | Budget -160 million |
Opening weekend - £207,676 | Opening weekend - $62,785,337 |
Gross - $327,919 (USA) | Gross - $820,186,685 |
Awards - 4 wins & 13 nominations | Awards - Won 4 Oscars. Another 45 wins & 81 nominations |
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