Warpfilms

1. Background/history of the company. What box office successes has the company had?

• Warpfilms is based in Sheffield and London
• Independent film company
• Office In Melbourne, Australia
• Established by Warp Records founding partners Rob Mitchell and Steve Beckett
• Initially created with financial support from NESTA (national endowment for science, technology and arts)
• First film- Chris Norris-My Wrongs shot in 2002 won the award for best short film at the 2003 BAFTA awards, it also won the southbank award for best film.
• Nominated for 8 British Independent film awards
• Four Lions was a critical and box office success achieving impressive numbers on its first opening weekend. 
• Four Lions generated the highest site average of all the new releases. 
• Made a total of £609,000
• 8 August 2010 Four Lions grossed £2,932,366.

How the company is structured?

• Warp films is a parent company to Warp X and so Warp X is a subsidiary.
• Warp X films:Tyrannosaur, For those in Peril, She,A Chinese. 
• Warp X has budgets between £400,000 and £800,000.
• synergy with warp records
• collaboration with Pathe

What genre of films does it produce? How are these targeting a British audience?

• Genre-comedy, drama
• Warpfilms:Bunny and the Bull, Donkey Punch, This is England 86, Paradise Lost, Hush, Four Lions. 
• They target a British audience by using British actors in British settings.
• Warp films targets a range of audiences through its films.