Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Task 5- Film Companies

Film4

Film4 is a British digital television channel available in the United Kingdom, owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation that screens films. It offers films in standard definition free of charge. To access the high definition version of the channel, viewers must have a paid subscription with Virgin Media or Sky.

Film4 was started in 1982 as Film4 Productions, a film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation and has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the United Kingdom, and around the world

Channel 4 is to increase the budget of Film4, the division responsible for hit movies including Slumdog Millionaire, by 50% to £15m per year.

Successful films other than Slumdog Millionaire

12 years a slave
The inbetweeners movie
Four weddings and a funeral


Since 1982 Film4 has developed and produced films including My Beautiful Laundrette, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, East is East, The Motorcycle Diaries, Touching the Void, This is England and The Last King of Scotland.

Warp Films

Warp Films is an independent film and television production company based in Sheffield & London, UK, with a further affiliated company Warp Films Australia based in Melbourne, Australia.
Warp Films was established by Warp Records founding partners Rob Mitchell and Steve Beckett. It was initially created with financial support from NESTA and had a remit to produce a number of short films.

Productions
Exhibit A
Four Lions
Swimmer
Donkey Punch

Warp Films is currently developing several television projects with Channel 4, the BBC and Sky.
Warp Films produced three 30-minute television dramas for the Sky Arts Playhouse Presents season.

Summit

Founded
1991; 25 years ago (1991)
Founder
Bernd Eichinger
Arnon Milchan
Andrew G. Vajna
  Headquarters
Universal City, California (US HQ)
London, UK (International HQ)
Products
Motion pictures
Owner
Lions Gate Entertainment
Divisions
Summit Entertainment Records

Summit Entertainment LLC (formerly Summit Entertainment LP) is an American film production company and distributor. It is a subsidiary of Lions Gate Entertainment headquartered in Universal City, California with international offices in London

On June 30, 2010 Summit Entertainment released the third film of the Twilight series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. It broke a midnight screening record of over $30 million and set a one-day Wednesday record of $68.5 million but failed to surpass the one-day tally of $72 million set by New Moon. It became the first movie in the series to cross the $300 million mark domestically.

Icon
Icon Productions LLC is an American independent production company founded in August 1989 by actor/director Mel Gibson and Australian producing partner Bruce Davey.
Films
Hamlet
Get the gringo
Buried
Edge of Darkness

Icon started when Gibson was having trouble in financing the 1990 film Hamlet.
In September 2008, Davey and Gibson sold the Icon international sales and film distribution arms along with the Majestic library to Stewart Till in a multimillion-dollar deal.

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