Working Title & Warp Films Research

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Production Practices to appeal to audiences
Distribution and Marketing strategies to raise audience awareness
New technologies to help target specific audiences
Audience and how they challenge institutions

1. Working title are a British film company that produce feature films and some television productions. Warp films is a sister company to Warps Records which is based in Sheffield. Working title is independent and Warp films is part of a conglomerate with Madman entertainment and they have agreed to make at least two films together in the next three years.
2. The ownership of the company affects the budget of the film because if two companies are working on one film, they can make it a higher budget film or if a company is rich. If the company is not so successful on it’s own then it will have to use a lower budget.
3. Working Title has produced films such as; About A Boy, Atonement, Billy Elliot, The Boat That Rocked, the Bridget Jones movies, Dead Man Walking, Hot Fuzz, Love Actually, Nanny McPhee, Pride & Prejudice, Shaun Of The Dead & Thunderbirds. Warp Films have produced films such as; My Wrongs, Dead Man’s Shoes, Rubber Johnny & This Is England.
4. The film Bridget Jones Diary was produced by Working Title and had an estimated budget of $26 million and made £282 million. The film This Is England was produced by Warp Films and had a budget of £1.5 million and it made £315,000 profit.
5. The production budget of Back To The Future had a production budget was $19 million and the film profit was $381.11 million
6. Working Title get their funds from C4 and BBC and Warp Films were funded by NESTA in their early stages and went on to be funded by the UK Film Council, the National Lottery, FilmFour and regional funding bodies.
7. Because Warp Films budget is quite low, they make short films like music videos etc and they only produce English films.
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9. The target audience of both film companies are British young adults.
10. The main genre of Working Title films are comedies and family films.