Warp Films and Working Titles

By Lucy Clarke

Warp Films• Warp Films is an independent film production

company based in Sheffield & London, UK, with a further affiliated company Warp Films Australia based in Melbourne, Australia.

• This company is smaller than Working Titles making less films and their films are low budget.

• Films from this company that have been released

are: Four Lions, Dead Mans Shoes and This Is England.

Warp Films: This Is England

• an E Warp films worked alongside FilmFour Productions

• Released 12th September 2006• Distributed by Optimum Releasing • Running time: 102 minutes • Budget: £1,472,500• Box office: £5,058,600• Includes actors Thomas Turgoose, Joe Gilgun and

Stephen Graham.• Includes actresses Vicky McClure, Rosamund Hanson

and Jo Hartley

Working titles

• Was funded in 1983 by Tim Bevan• A British Film company, based in London. Also located

in Ireland and the US • Owner=Comcast corporation• Parents=Universal Studios and NBCUniversal• This company is bigger than warp pictures and their

films are shown I popular cinema chains instead of independent cinemas. Meaning that working titles have a higher budget and lots of investments.

• Produced films like Johnny English, Paul, Nanny McPhee and The Theory Of Everything which explores the life of Stephen Hawking

Working Titles About A Boy • An American film Including actors Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult

and actresses Toni Collette and Victoria Smurfit.

• Budget was $30 million

• Was released in United Kingdom, United States and France because of this it had Universal backing

• Box office=$130,549,455

• Was released on 26th of April 2006

• Worked with StudioCanal and TriBeCa Productions and was distributed by Universal Pictures

• Is successful because it shows problems within families that normally go un noticed e.g. debt, depression and bullying.