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British film industries
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British Film Industries
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Working Title
• Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London owned by Universal Studios. This film production uses universal as its distributor. Since 1992 it is the worlds leading production film company.
Films
• - Love Actually
• - Hot Fuzz
• - Les Miserable's
Love Actually• Following the lives of eight very different couples in dealing
with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England. The film received positive reviews because 63% of critics gave the film a positive review with an average score of 7.7/10. However there were negative reviews about the film as well as the website ‘rotten tomatoes’ has said. ‘This is an embarrassment, an overdrawn rom-com gone very wrong’ shows that people did not enjoy the film.
• The movie is written and directed by Richard Curtis. The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs, until at times Curtis seems to be working from a checklist of obligatory movie love situations and doesn't want to leave anything out.
Love Actually
• Country: UK I USA I France
• Language: English I Portuguese I French
• Release date: 21st November 2003
• Budget: $45,000,000 (estimated)
• Opening Weekend: $5,010,288 (Japan) (5 March 2004)
• Runtime: 135 min | 129 min | 129 min (Asian Edition)
• Sound Mix: DTS (as dts)| Dolby Digital| SDDS
• Colour: Colour
• Aspect Ratio:2.35 : 1
Hot Fuzz
• Exceptional London cop Nicholas Angel is involuntarily transferred to a quaint English village and paired with a witless new partner. While on the beat, Nicholas suspects a sinister conspiracy is afoot with the residents. The reviews of this film were positively high ‘rotten tomatoes’ giving 91% approval rating with an average rating of 7.9/10 . Edgar Wright directed and wrote this movie.
Hot Fuzz
• Country: UK I USA I France
• Language: English
• Release date: 14th February 2007
• Budget: £8,000,000 (estimated)
• Opening Weekend: $5,848,464 (USA) (20 April 2007)
• Sound mix: Dolby Digital X
• Colour: Colour
• Aspect Radio: 2.35:1
Les Miserable's
• In 19th-century France, Jean Val jean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives for ever. IMDB gave this movie a 7.7 rating. The website www.independent.co.uk have said that Tom Hooper the director ‘has made a good movie’, which shows it has got a positive review.
Les Miserable's
• Country: USA I UK
• Language: English
• Release date: 11th January 2013 (UK)
• Budget: $61,000,000 (estimated)
• Opening Weekend: $27,281,735 (USA)
• Sound mix: Dolby Digital| Datasat| SDDS
• Runtime: 158min
• Colour: Colour
• Aspect Radio: 1.85:1
Warp Pictures
• Warp films are an independent film production company based in Sheffield and London. Warp films were established by Warp records founding partners Rob Mitchell and Steve Beckett.
Films
• Dead man’s shoes
• Four Lions
• This is England
Dead man’s shoes
• A disaffected soldier (Considine) returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother (Kebbell) years ago. The website ‘rotten tomatoes’ shows that 96% of critics gave this film a positive review.
Dead man’s shoes
• Country: UK
• Language: English
• Release date: 1st October 2004
• Opening Weekend: $1,825 (USA)
• Sound mix: Dolby Digital
• Runtime: 1hr 30 min
• Colour: Black and white (flashback scenes)
• Aspect Radio: 1.85:1
Four Lions
• Four incompetent British jihadists set out to train for and commit an act of terror. Four Lions received mostly positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a ‘Certified Fresh’ score of 81% based on 110 reviews with an average rating of 7.2 out of 10.
Four Lions
• Country: UK I France
• Language: English I Urdu I Arabic
• Release date: 7th May 2010 (UK)
• Opening Weekend: $41,512 (USA)
• Runtime: 97min
• Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
• Colour: Colour
• Aspect Radio: 1.85:1
This is England
• A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadow s. The website of rotten tomatoes indicates that 93% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 82 reviews.
This is England
• Country: UK
• Language: English
• Release date: 27th April 2007
• Budget: £1,500,000 (estimated)
• Opening Weekend: $18,430 (USA)
• Runtime: 101 min
• Sound mix: Dolby Digital
• Colour: Colour
• Aspect Radio: 1.85:1