For the television channel, see
Film4.
Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel 4. The company has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the United Kingdom. The company's first production was Walter, directed by Stephen Frears, which was released in 1982.
History
Before 1998, the company was identified as Channel Four Films or FilmFour International. Later, the outfit was re-branded as FilmFour, to coincide with the launch of a new Digital TV channel of the same name. The company cut its budget and staff significantly in 2002, due to mounting losses, and was re-integrated into the drama department of Channel 4.
In 2004, Tessa Ross became head of both Film4 and Channel 4 drama.[1] The name "Film4 Productions" was introduced in 2006 to tie in with the relaunch of the FilmFour broadcast channel as Film4.
Selected list of productions
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- Kill List (co-production with UK Film Council, Warp X, Screen Yorkshire and Rook Films)
- Late Night Shopping
- Lucky Break (co-production with Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films)
- Me and You and Everyone We Know
- My Beautiful Laundrette (co-production with SAF Productions and Working Title Films)
- Never Let Me Go (co-production with DNA Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- Nowhere Boy (co-production with UK Film Council, Ecosse Films and The Weinstein Company)
- On The Road (co-production with American Zoetrope and MK2)
- P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
- Red Monarch
- Series 7: The Contenders
- Sexy Beast (Co-production with Kanzaman, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Recorded Picture Company)
- Slumdog Millionaire (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Pathé and Celador Films)
- Shaun of the Dead (co-production with Big Talk Productions, Working Title Films, StudioCanal, Universal Studios and Rogue Pictures)
- Submarine (co-production with Red Hour Films and Warp Films)
- The Crying Game (co-production with British Screen, Eurotrustees, Nippon Film Development and Finance and Palace Pictures)
- The Eagle (co-production with Focus Features)
- The Future is Unwritten: Joe Strummer
- The Last King of Scotland (co-production with DNA Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (Co-production with Universal Pictures and Tiger Aspect)
- The Lovely Bones (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures)
- The Madness of King George (co-production with The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- The Pope Must Die (co production with Miramax Films, Palace Pictures and Michael White)
- The Sightseers (co-production with Big Talk Pictures)
- The Straight Story (co-production with StudioCanal and Walt Disney Pictures)
- This Is England
- Touching the Void
- Trainspotting
- Tyrannosaur (co-production with Warp X, Inflammable Films, UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media, and Optimum Releasing (as StudioCanal UK)
- Venus (co-production with UK Film Council and Miramax Films)
- Wish You Were Here
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References
- ^ I mostly think I'm wrong 6 February 2006 Guardian Unlimited interview
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