British film company compared to a American film company

Comparison of a British film company

to a American film company

 

 

Film Four is a British company and was created(set-up) on the 1st of November 1980's, they're owned by 'Channel Four Television Co-corporation'. They are based in The United. Kingdom, they know have a £15million  budget a year.

 

 

These are some of the film's that were released in 2011

• you might know;

• The Eagle

• Attack The Block

• Deep Blue Sea

2012;

The Iron Lady

 Shame

 The Woman Of The Fifth

2013;

• Cuban Fury
• Under The Skin
• A Field In England

2014;

• The Inbetweeners 2

   Film four is one of the rising film channels of the last few years, they said this about the company "We aim to fund eight feature films a year with a mix of license fee and equity and all our films are co-financed with other financing partners"

Slum Dog Millionaire is one of Film Fours most popular productions they made it on Christmas day(25th December) 2008. This film was nominated for 10 'Oscars' and won 8 of them that is great achievement. Some of the 'Oscars' that they have achieved were 'Best Motion Picture of the Year', 'Best Achievement in Directing' and 'Best writing, Adapted Screenplay'. The gross of the film was $141,319,195.

American film company; Paramount Pictures 

Paramount Pictures was set up in 1914, 'Paramount' put a big budget towards every film they make, here's some you may have heard of;

• Transformers
• World War Z
• Indiana Jones-The Last Crusade
• G.I Joe
• Iron Man 1,2,3

The budget for "World War Z" was $190 million, it was quite successful in the 'Saturn Awards' they won "Bet Thriller Film" and "Visual Effects" I chose this film because it won best thriller film and the film that I am doing will be a thriller.