a history of British film - part 4

WHAT ARE THE MAIN GENRES PRODUCED BY THE UK FILM INDUSTRY IN THE LAST 25 YEARS? WHO GOES TO SEE THESE FILMS?

The main genres produced by the UK film industry are social realism including films such as 'The Full Monty' in 1997 and 'Brassed Off' in 1996, and romantic comedy with films such as Notting Hill and Love Actually. Films produced in the UK clearly are generally about real lives and real problems affecting the country represented in different ways, such as the 1996 film 'Brassed Off' actually has quite a dark undertone while it stresses and attacks the Tory government at the time very directly. An example of a British film produced in 1997 was 'Sliding Doors', though it starred the US actress Gwyneth Paltrow, she played the part of a London girl who becomes part of a rather tragic story. Many older British people would favor these British people over any Hollywood film so the people who go to see British films the most are aged 30+, where as the younger people generally would rather go to see a Hollywood blockbuster with more action.

DNA FILMS LAST 2 PRODUCTIONS WERE DREDD 3D (2012) AND NEVER LET ME GO (2010). WHAT KIND OF FILMS ARE THEY? HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM EARLIER FILMS? HAVE THEY BEEN A BOX OFFICE SUCCESS?

DNA Films has previously produced films such as ‘The Last King of Scotland’ and ‘The History Boys’, types of films which focus on British cultural issues. These films found audiences both domestically and internationally and were both relatively successful. More recent films produced by DNA Films include ‘Dredd 3D’, an action/adventure film and ‘Never Let Me Go’, a drama/thriller. ‘Dredd’s domestic gross box office figures were $13,414,714 and worldwide this figure was almost $31,000,000. ‘Never Let Me Go’ on the other hand had a worldwide gross box office figure of almost $10,000,000, but, had a budget of $15 million compared to ‘Dredd’s 

$50 million.

SUMMARISE IN YOUR OWN WORDS WHAT KINDS OF FILMS MOMENTUM PICTURES LOOK TO DISTRIBUTE AND WHY?

Momentum Pictures distributes high budget Hollywood style films, such as ‘Seven Psychopaths’ which is in cinemas at the moment. This film is an action comedy which had a production budget of $15 million and included some extremely well known and highly regarded Hollywood talent, for example Christopher Walken. Momentum Pictures has also previously distributed many horrors such as ‘A Night in the Woods’ and ‘Apartment 143’, these were also high budget films and were filmed and produced in the Hollywood style and scale rather than on the small scale that an independent company many produce on.