Institutional Research

We wanted ideas as to which institution might be suitable to produce and distribute our film.We decided to research the production company and distributor for 'St Trinians', 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' and 'Wild Child' as they are typical, girly, British films and appeal to the same audience as we intend to attract.

St Trinians

Production Companies:

·         Ealing Studios

·         Entertainment Film Distributors

·         Fragile Films

·         UK Film Council

Distributors:

·         Entertainment Film Distributors (2008) (UK) (theatrical)

·         NeoClassics Films (2009) (USA) (theatrical)

·         Sony Pictures (2008) (Australia) (theatrical)

·         Sony Pictures (2008) (New Zealand) (theatrical)

·         Central Partnership (2008) (Russia) (all media)

·         Entertainment in Video (2008) (UK) (DVD)

·         Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2010) (USA) (DVD)

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Production Companies:

·         Goldcrest Pictures (in association with)

·         Internationale Filmproduktion Stella-del-Süd

·         Nickelodeon Movies

·         Paramount Pictures

Distributors:

·         Paramount Japan (2008) (Japan) (theatrical) (as Paramount Pictures Japan)

·         Paramount Pictures International (2008) (non-USA) (theatrical)

·         Paramount Pictures (2008) (UK) (theatrical)

·         United International Pictures (UIP) (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)

·         Universal Pictures International (UPI) (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)

·         Paramount Home Entertainment (2009) (USA/Germany/Netherlands/Brazil) (DVD)

Wild Child

Production Companies:

·         Universal Pictures (presents)

·         Studio Canal (in association with)

·         Relativity Media (in association with)

·         Working Title Films

Distributors:

·         Universal Studios (2008) (worldwide) (all media)

·         Universal Pictures International (UPI) (2008) (UK/Australia/Netherlands/Germany) (theatrical)

·         United International Pictures (UIP) (2008) (Norway/Singapore) (theatrical)

·         Universal Pictures (2009) (USA) (theatrical)

·         Universal Studios Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD)

·         Walt Disney Pictures (2009) (USA) (all media) (in association with)

We decided to focus our research towards the 'St Trinians' institutions as has the closest similarity to our film idea.


Entertainment Film Distributors

Entertainment is the UK's leading independent distributor. The company was founded in 1978 and has showed continuing growth and success since that time distributing a wide range of product and building a significant film library. Highlights for the company have been the release of The Lord of the Ring Trilogy. Since the millennium, the company's releases have totaled a remarkable 38 Oscar wins and 22 BAFTAs. Entertainment has had further success with big box office hits such as Hairspray, Sex and the City and 17 Again and British films such as Stormbreaker, Run Fat Boy Run and St Trinian's. Entertainment Film Distributors operates both in the UK and the Republic of Ireland and distributes in theatrical, DVD rental and retail films as well as licensing a substancial catalogue in both Pay-TV and Free0TV sectors.

UK Film Council

Our Film Fund is a new unified production and development fund dedicated to British filmmaking.
We will support filmmakers in the UK who are emerging or world-class and are capable of creating distinctive and entertaining work. We have £15 million a year to invest across the development, production and completion of feature films. Being supported by the BFI means more than just being given funding. It means that your project can be assisted at every step of the journey by our team, who can offer advice and practical help with many aspects of developing and producing your film.
We welcome applications for all kinds of film - from commercial mainstream to experimental, from genre movies to personal stories, from documentaries to animation to live-action fiction.


FINAL DECISIONS

We decided our film should be a co-production as it is very national. The Lottery Funding from the UK Film Council would be a likely source of funding for our film. We thought that Entertainment Film Distributors would also be a good production company as well as distributor for our film. We then had to decide on a final company to add to our co-producers list. From a rather large selection, we narrowed it down to our top 10, from which we came down to these 4:
- Ealing Studios (Dorian Gray, St Trinians)
- PeaPie Films (Stardust, Harry Brown, Kick-ass)
- Ruby Films (Jane Eyre, Tamara Drewe, The Other Boleyn Girl)
- Working Title ( Atonement, Hot Fuzz, Nanny McPhee, Bridget Jones' Diary)

We concluded that Ruby Films specialised in very girly and British films, which would be perfect for us. They have not, however, done anything too similar to our film so it would be a new branch-out for them, yet still staying true to their style.