WARP FILMS
Warp is one of the foremost and most respected creative independent companies, now composed of Warp Records, Warp Films and Warp Music Videos & Commercials. It is based in London, England and Sheffield, with a further office now in Melbourne, austrailia. Since it's inception as a shop and record label in 1989, it has been a platform for innovative and boundary breaking talent.
A little bit of History...Launched in 2001, Warp Films leads the way in exciting and original British Filmmaking. The company has been behind an array of critically acclaimed and award winning films, including several BAFTAs. Warp Film productions include Rubber Johnny, Dead Man's Shoes, This Is England, Donkey Punch, A Complete History of My Sexual Failures and Four Lions.
The Warp logo goes by the simplistic colours of balck and white. 'Warp Films' is written in amoungst a lightning bolt shape, which could be used to incidacte power, this is housed by a spherical shape, which looks like the earth or globe, with what looks like to me longitudinal and lattitude lines on a map, this could indicate a global company. The word warp its self is not a commonly used or heard of word and means cause to be come abnormal or strange or it can mean relating to ordenoting (fictional or hypothetical) space travel by means ofdistorting space-time. THis could mean they are a really 'out there' film distributor and could imply their films are going to challenge typical mainstream films both in popularity and storyline.
VERTIGO FILMS
Vertigo Films is a UK Media company founded in 2002 to create and distribute commercially driven independent cinema.
Studio Canal (a.k.a. Le Studio Canal+, Canal Plus, Canal+ Distribution, Canal+ Production, and Canal+ Image) is a French-based production (as Studio Canal S.A.) and distribution (as Studio Canal Images S.A.) company that owns the third-largest film library in the world. The company is part of the Canal+ Group, owned by Vivendi SA.
Momentum Pictures (also known as Alliance Films UK), an Alliance Films company, is one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland and releases approximately 20 theatrical films a year, with several stv releases.
MOMENTUM PICTURES
Vertigo Films is a UK Media company founded in 2002 to create and distribute commercially driven independent cinema.
2010 was a sensational year for Vertigo with Europe's first 3D live action movie, STREETDANCE 3D, entering the UK Box Office charts at No.1 beating Disney's Prince of Persia and becoming one of the most successful UK independent films of all time as it opened around the world. In addition, Vertigo's co-production AJAMI was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film and our genre busting MONSTERS received exceptional buzz, acclaim and a host of awards including three British Independent Film Awards.
In 2011 Vertigo produced and released a 3D feature film of the children's franchise HORRID HENRY which became a box office hit taking £6.5M and teamed up with HAMMER Films to produce WAKEWOOD which became one of the best reviewed horror films in years.
Films in production in 2011 include a big screen adaptation of the much anticipated THE SWEENEY, written and directed by Nick Love and starring Ray Winstone and Plan B as the infamous Regan and Carter. STREETDANCE 2 from the same team that brought you the original with glitzy European locations and the best dancers in the world. And an English language re-make of Nicolas Winding Refn's seminal PUSHER film.
In addition to its production and distribution activity, Vertigo also owns The Post Republic, a state of the art post production company based in Berlin and is a partner in Protagonist Pictures, the international sales company joint venture with Film Four and Ingenious Media. Earlier this year, with LA based 3D experts Paradise FX, Vertigo set up PFXE, Europe's most experienced 3D facilities company.
STUDIO CANAL
In 2011 Vertigo produced and released a 3D feature film of the children's franchise HORRID HENRY which became a box office hit taking £6.5M and teamed up with HAMMER Films to produce WAKEWOOD which became one of the best reviewed horror films in years.
Films in production in 2011 include a big screen adaptation of the much anticipated THE SWEENEY, written and directed by Nick Love and starring Ray Winstone and Plan B as the infamous Regan and Carter. STREETDANCE 2 from the same team that brought you the original with glitzy European locations and the best dancers in the world. And an English language re-make of Nicolas Winding Refn's seminal PUSHER film.
In addition to its production and distribution activity, Vertigo also owns The Post Republic, a state of the art post production company based in Berlin and is a partner in Protagonist Pictures, the international sales company joint venture with Film Four and Ingenious Media. Earlier this year, with LA based 3D experts Paradise FX, Vertigo set up PFXE, Europe's most experienced 3D facilities company.
STUDIO CANAL
Studio Canal (a.k.a. Le Studio Canal+, Canal Plus, Canal+ Distribution, Canal+ Production, and Canal+ Image) is a French-based production (as Studio Canal S.A.) and distribution (as Studio Canal Images S.A.) company that owns the third-largest film library in the world. The company is part of the Canal+ Group, owned by Vivendi SA.
Momentum Pictures (also known as Alliance Films UK), an Alliance Films company, is one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland and releases approximately 20 theatrical films a year, with several stv releases.
In February 2011, Momentum Pictures won 8 BAFTA awards, more than any other UK distributor. 7 awards went to The King's Speech, including Best Film and Best Actor and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo won Best Film Not in the English Language.
Momentum's most successful theatrical releases include the Oscar, BAFTA and BIFA-winning The King's Speech, Amélie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, Control, Downfall, The Young Victoria, Defiance, Milk, Let the Right One In, The Illusionist, Just Friends, District B13 Ultimatum, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Law Abiding Citizen, Glorious 39 and P.S. I Love You.MOMENTUM PICTURES
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