Unit 40

British Film Case Studies

Task1

Working Title Films

Products

Billy Elliot (2000)
Ali G Indahouse (2002)
Johnny English (2003)
Love Actually (2003)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
The World's End (2013)
Everest (2015)
Legend (2015)

Directed by: Edgar Wright

Written by: Edgar Wright
                     Simon Pegg

Distributed by: Universal Pictures (International)

                            Focus Features (USA)

Produced by: Relativity Media (USA)

                        StudioCanal (French)

                        Working Title Films (British)

                         Big Talk Pictures (British)

Cast: Simon Pegg (British)

          Nick Frost (British)

          Paddy Considine (British)

          Martin Freeman (British)

          Eddie Marsan (British)

          Rosamund Pike (British)

Music: Steven Price (British)
Production: All twelve pubs in the film use identical signage on menus and walls, reflecting what Wright called "that fake hand-written chalk" common to modern British pubs.

Working Title Films (WTF) is a British film production company and is vertically integrated with Universal Studios. WTF was founded in 1983 by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe. PolyGram became the company's corporate backer in 1992.Universal Pictures is an American film studio founded in 1912. It is owned by NBCUniversal which is a daughter company to Comcast.To get the word out about the film a video was released with a narrator saying that people should visit the place in the film and take part in the "Golden Mile" which is what the characters do in the the film.

The film company produces a lot of similar films so they would have an audience of people aged 15 and upwards for most of their films.

The film was distributed by Universal Pictures and they are owned by Comcast, Comcast is an American provider of entertainment and they are the biggest cable operator in addition to being one of the largest mass medias.

Even though the company don't release a lot of films each year they release a lot of very successful ones over a few years which more than makes up for them not releasing as many as their competitors.

Task 2

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