Comparing Warp and Working Titles

Warp Films
Warp Films, a sister company of Warp Records, was set up in 1999 with funding of £150 K from NESTA. It is based in Sheffield, England with a further office in London and has 14 full-time staff. This shows the true size of Warp Films, an extremely small film producing compamy. Warp films show the true society how it really is without making it seem all lovely and like nothing bad in society happens, they think it is important to raise the profile of British film making worldwide.  Their aims are to be cutting edge, innovative, interesting and independant. They don't want to have carbon copy, Hollywood blockbuster films. They create pioneering British cinema, short films and music videos. In April 2008, Australian film distributor Madman Entertainment announced a collaboration with Warp Films. Warp and Madman plan to make at least 2 films together over the next 3 years. Warp films budget to spend on a film is £1,000,000 unlike the major film companys who spend much much more on a film. This means that they are lacking in special effects etc, yet with the little budget, Warp films still make good films with the materials they do have. Warp Films are funded by British companies such as the national lottery, film 4 and the UK film council.

Some films made by Warp Films are as followed:  
This is England 86'
Four Lions
Bunny and the bull
All Tomorrows parties
Hush
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Working Title
Working Title films is a British film production company based in London UK.The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. It produces feature films and several television productions. Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan are now the co-owners of the company. Although it is British, it is partly funded by Universal films, an American film production company. Working Title films are allowed to produce any film with a budget of up to £25 million. This means that they can make films with much more special effects, the films they make are more action based and their demographic is teenage boys who like action and little dialogue.

Some films made by Working Title Films include:     
Atonement
Nanny Mcphee
Nanny Mcphee and the big bang
Burn after reading
Hot Fuzz
Johnny English
etc.

There are alot more films made by Working Titles as it is a main stream where as Warp Films is independant therefore it hasn't got the funding to make lots of films.


Comparing films from each producing companies
Working titles made the film Atonement, it cost about £30 million to make and has well known actors, Keira Knightly and James McAvoy in. In comparison to Working titles, Warp made the film This is England 86', it cost around £1.5 million to make and has unkown actors in. Atonement made $130 million worldwide, and in USA alone it made $50 million. Even though it is a UK film, it only made half of what it made in USA in England. This is because Working Titles is funded by American film companies. Unlike Atonement, This is England 86' made $8 million worldwide and in USA alone it only made $0.3 million, where as in the UK it made $3.1 million. Atonement was shown in 1335 cinemas in the UK and even though it was made by a British film producing company, it was only showed in 424 cinemas in the UK which is a big difference to how many it was shown in in the USA. Unlike Atonement, This is England 86' was shown in only 14 cinemas in USA which is a big difference to the 151 cinemas it was shown in in the UK. The genre of films made by the two film producing companies are very different. Whilst Working titles make films that are literary adaptions about love and romance, Warp films make dramas about the British society, racism and single parent families which are true events that happens worldwide.