Industry Research

Film Production Companies

British film production company : Film4

 The company was set up in the 1980's.

Film 4 budget is rising, There budget is now at £15 millon a year.

Film 4 has said that they do not develop films for family audience, they also do not look at development into period pieces.

Some of the top films they have made

• The Inbetweeners Movie
• Slum Dog Millionaire
• Trainspotting
• Danny Boyle's 127 hours
• 12 Years A Slave

Film said that "We aim to fund eight feature films a year witha mix of license fee and equity and all our films are co-finaced with other financing partners.

Slum Dog Millionaire is one of Film 4's most popular production it was made on the 25th of December 2008. This film was nominated for 10 Oscars and won 8. Some of the Oscars they won was 'Best Motion Picture of the Year', 'Best Achievement in Directing' and Best writing, Adapted Screenplay. The budget for this film was $15,000,000 and the gross of the film was $141,319,195.

Another one of their popular productions is '12 Years A Slave' Their budget was $22 million and he got $187.7 million in the box office.

American Film Production Company :Paramount Pictures

The company was set up in 1914 and is one of the biggest Amrican film production companys.

They put a very high budget towards each film they make, a recent film they release is Interstellar and that film has had a budget of $165 million and the box office had around $186,000,000.

Paramount makes a range of film genres and and doesn't have a specific target auidence.

Some of the top films they have made are:

• Shutter Island
• World War Z
• Transformers
• Mission Impossible
• Forest Gump

Their budget for 'Shutter Island' was $80 million and the box office brought in 294 million. This is one of Paramounts most successful films. This film won 5 santurn awards, one of the awards they won was Best horror/thriller film. 'Shutter Island' was made on February 19th, 2010


A independent film company is Patchwork-Productions

Patchwork-Productions are a independent film company in the UK founded by producer Christine  Hartland. It was founded in 2004. They have a low budget to most of the films they make. They have some films such as 'WMD' and 'Life Just Is'. They get most of their funding from crowd funding. They don't get much funding, so they don't release many films. They don't have a target audience.

Independent film companies are more suited towards my opening sequence. They are more suited to our opening sequence because their films have low budgets and our opening sequence will not fit American company because their budget is to high