Film4 Productions

For the television channel, see Film4.

Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation. 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. 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

• 127 Hours (co-production with Pathé, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Cloud Eight Films, Darlow Smithson Productions and Warner Bros. Pictures)
• 24 Hour Party People (co-production with United Artists, UK Film Council and Baby Cow Productions)
• A Month in the Country (co-production with Euston Films)
• A Room with a View (co-production with Merchant Ivory Productions and Goldcrest Films)
• A Zed and Two Noughts (co-production with British Film Institute and Artificial Eye)
• And When Did You Last See Your Father?
• Another Year
• Attack the Block (co-production with Big Talk Pictures, StudioCanal and UK Film Council)
• Beautiful Thing
• Bhaji on the Beach
• Birthday Girl
• Blue (co-production with BBC Radio 3 and Arts Council of Great Britain)
• Brassed Off (co-production with Miramax Films and Prominent Features)
• Brothers of the Head
• Buena Vista Social Club
• Buffalo Soldiers (film) (co-production with Good Machine and Miramax Films)
• Bunny and the Bull (co-production with Warp X Productions, Wild Bunch, Optimum Releasing, Screen Yorkshire and UK Film Council)
• Carla's Song
• Charlotte Gray (co-production with Ecosse Films and Warner Bros.)
• Christmas Carol: The Movie (co-production with UK Film Council)
• Dancer in the Dark
• Dead Man's Shoes
• Comrades (co-production with now-defunct National Film Finance Corporation)
• Death To Smoochy (co-production with Senator Film and Warner Bros.)
• Deep Water
• Dogma (produced by View Askew)
• East Is East
• Eat The Rich (co-production with Michael White)
• Elizabeth (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films)
• Enduring Love
• Fever Pitch
• Four Lions (co-production with Warp Films, Wild Bunch and Optimum Releasing)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (co-production with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films)
• Funny Games (co-production with Warner Independent Pictures and Tartan Films)
• Hallam Foe
• Happy-Go-Lucky (co-production with Ingenious Film Partners and Summit Entertainment)
• Hidden City
• How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
• In Bruges (co-production with Focus Features
• The Iron Lady (co-production with Pathé, UK Film Council and The Weinstein Company)

• 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, MK2, France Télévisions and Canal+)
• 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 Inbetweeners Movie (co-production with Bwark Productions, Young Films and Entertainment Film Distributors)
• 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
• Trance (co-production with Cloud Eight Films, Pathé International, Entertainment Film Distributors and The Weinstein Company)
• 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

External links

• Film4 Productions