![]() ![]() Archer Street was launched after the success of producer Paterson and director Tucker’s 1998 hit Hilary and Jackie. Now in post, the long gestating adaptation stars Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman in the true story of a Scottish prisoner of war and his journey to confront his Japanese captors. There’s lots of good buzz about perennial production outfit Archer Street’s next film, The Railway Man. Altitude is working The Woman in Black director James Watkins on a big budget new feature, and is said to be readying a number of new projects, including Kill Your Friends – an adaptation of John Niven’s music industry satire. So there’s lots of anticipation that Altitude will succeed too. Clarke had great success in founding and then selling Optimum to StudioCanal in a multi-million pound deal. Will Clarke, the founder of Optimum Releasing, launched production-led Altitude Films last year with partners Andy Mayson and Mike Runagall. Credits: Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Flushed Away, Arthur Christmas, ThePirates! Aardman is a fully integrated company, with successful TV, commercials and digital divisions too. Aardman has won four Oscars, and over the past 40 years has established itself as a world leader in model animation. It’s a departure for the company, which recently delivered films such as The Pirates! and Arthur Christmas for Hollywood studio Sony. Aardman has teamed up with European backer StudioCanal for the movie. Self-contained and quintessentially English, Bristol-based animation pioneer Aardman is now making a theatrical feature based on its hit Shaun the Sheep TV series. Set up in 2005 to make films, ads and music videos, Between the Eyes’ first film was the Bafta-nominated Shifty. Its most recent film project, the glossy action thriller Welcome to the Punch, didn’t set the box office alight but won industry respect for its scale and ambition. Actors represented by 42 include Michael Caine and John Hurt. Those companies are: Aardman, Blueprint, Big Talk Pictures, Cloud Eight, DNA, Ealing Studios, Eon, Ecosse Films, Heyday, Hammer, Number 9, Recorded Picture Company, Revolution, Ruby Films, See-Saw, Sixteen, Slate/Potboiler, Vertigo and Warp.īen Pugh, Rory Aitken, Josh Varney, Kate BuckleyĤ2 is a new name in the Film 40, a production and management company set up by Pugh and Aitken of indie Between the Eyes and former Independent Talent Group agents Varney and Buckley. They are companies that make one or two films a year – some of which, like The King’s Speech or Skyfall, become global phenomena. The top-tier of film production companies would then comprise about 20 other outfits. But if we did try to rank them, Working Title would sit at the very top of the list. We’ve chosen to list the companies alphabetically. Missing from the list are companies that are owned by broadcasters (like Film4 and BBC Films) as well as outfits that are predominantly distributors (Lionsgate, Pathe) or financiers (Ingenious, Prescience). ![]() We’ve also tried to pick companies that are capable of making a broad slate of films rather than those that are best known simply as the production vehicles for particular directorial talent. They are not just producers for hire – rather they are producers who look for and develop scripts, attach talent to projects, raise finance and risk their own money in films that they believe in. The companies selected are those that have a track record of making films that attract box office, critical acclaim and/or awards. So we have chosen the following companies based on their reputation within the industry. Projects take years to develop, produce and release – meaning that a film producer’s revenues and output can vary tremendously from year to year. That’s because the film industry is very different from other creative sectors. Unlike Televisual’s other industry surveys – such as the Production 100 or Facilities 50 – the Film 40 does not rank companies by revenues, awards or size. But the choice of companies is Televisual’s alone. The Film 40 survey of indie producers has been compiled with off the record guidance and input from leading film producers, agents, financiers and independent film PR consultants. ![]() The list comes from Televisual’s Film 40 survey, published in our May issue, which rounds up the top film production companies in the UK and also profiles the UK’s leading DoPs and studios and investigates trends in sound production and film grading. The Cannes Film Festival opens today, and to mark the event here’s Televisual’s exclusive report on the top 40 film producers in the UK. ![]()
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