Trailer For Victoria & Abdul

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Reaction videos have already been made. This is something you will see less for Warp as they mostly work with new directors, although for their most prominent and prolific director and rising directors Paddy Considine, Richard Ayode and Chris Morris you may see this (despite the IP Submarine didn't have these videos, further proving the point)



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Working Title avoid social issues

Working Title avoided representing this side of the story due to make the romance story more marketable, it's box office wouldn't have been as big.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/01/what-the-theory-of-everything-doesnt-tell-you-about-stephen-hawking/#

This can be compared to a criticism by The Independent of a recent historical blockbuster hit Dunkirk of not representing the bravery of non-Caucasian soldiers from the Commonwealth in the British army (recent BBC film with David Oyelowo about that film didn't do at all well at the box office)

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/dunkirk-france-1940-french-soldiers-algeria-commonwealth-white-wash-a7874501.html?cmpid=facebook-post

'71 Press Coverage vs Other Working Title Films At The Time

BRITISH PRESS

The Daily Express

http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/521117/71-review-and-trailer
http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/521423/Northern-Ireland-set-thriller-71-review

The Guardian

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/71-film-review-an-extraordinary-thriller-but-lacking-in-dialogue-9785393.html

The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/71-film-review-an-extraordinary-thriller-but-lacking-in-dialogue-9785393.html

US PRESS

The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/movies/review-in-71-young-green-and-behind-enemy-lines.html?_r=0

The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/71-movie-review/2015/03/11/3a8f56bc-c36a-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html

Yardie

Three years have now nearly passed since Warp released its last full feature film, the historical action thriller '71. But now two films have been confirmed for release, the adaptation of an internationally successful (not grand in status such as Les Miserables, Phantom Of The Opera or Jesus Christ Superstar) hit play Ghost Stories and, in post-production for nearly two weeks, Idris Elba.

Both 

Idris Elba. Like Martin Freeman a recognisable and critic-liked actor, but not A-List star, has never really led a film in an IP-based franchise. Known internationally best for The Wire, in Britain more recently in Luther. Plays a minor side character in The Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Idris Elba addressing the importance of diversity on media and film

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An announcement by Wotchit Entertainment shows already how Idris Elba's involvement will give the film more media presence, however the number of views shows this is still quite limited, it's not Angelina Jolie directing a film for the first time, which is something that helped her debut Unbroken, who had cast the not at all internationally known actor from Darby Jack O'Connell, not a smart marketing move. The financial backing of $65m also would have come from this.

Where all those fans of The Wire & Luther when you need them, eh?

No sign of Idris Elba yet promoting his directorial debut, still concentrating on The Dark Tower and his music career.

Info on Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee

Details on Shane Meadow's production strategy from the man himself: 

Who or what is Le Donk?
When Paddy and I were in bands together, there were always these guys hanging around who thought they were svengalis, but were just roadies in a suit. Paddy created this persona, but we never found the right vehicle until I had the idea for Five-Day Features. 

What are the rules?
The only rule is that it has to be shot in five days. These days even an SLR camera can record hi-def video. It’s that punk mentality. It’s not about somebody putting up £2 million and putting pressure on you, it’s about smaller characters and crazy ideas. 

What are you offering?
We’re not offering any money yet, just the idea. We’ve proved that five days is long enough to make a film for £30k and get a release. The Donk DVD and website will be a working manifesto of how to do it. In the end, people are going to have to get off their arses and do it themselves. You can send a film in, and if we like it, we’ll give it our stamp, maybe build a body of likeminded films and help release them. 

Who’s it for?
There’s no demographic. You’d imagine it would be for some brand new kid putting stuff on YouTube, but it could equally be for a 75-year-old who made some shorts on super-8 in the 60s. If Steven Spielberg was making something over here and his filming got delayed, he could do it. We’ve already been contacted by filmmakers from New York. 

How do you see it developing?
Hopefully we can raise a pot of £1 million, or see if Panasonic, Sony or Apple would give us equipment, to become this titchy studio.

PRODUCTION TIMELINE
Shortly before the Arctic Monkeys/Amy Winehouse two-nighter at Old Trafford in July 2008, Shane has the idea to plant Donk backstage and film what happens. 

* Day One (Thursday)
Shooting Donk’s domestic life in Nottingham. Retired rapper Scorzayzee plays his lodger. Donk and Scorz head for Manchester in a clapped-out minibus. Shane winds Paddy up by telling him to sleep in the van and pay for his own meals.
Shooting Donk’s domestic life in Nottingham. Retired rapper Scorzayzee plays his lodger. Donk and Scorz head for Manchester in a clapped-out minibus. Shane winds Paddy up by telling him to sleep in the van and pay for his own meals. 

* Day Two (Friday)
Donk meets the roadies. Scorz sent off with camera to improvise his storyline. It’s better than the Donk stuff. An idea emerges to blag them onstage as a double act on Sunday. 

* Day Three (Saturday)
The first gig. Shots of Donk and Scorz rehearsing backstage. Lights blow, sound fails. Everyone tired and pissed off. 

* Day Four (Sunday)
The sun shines. Producer Mark begs and bribes for Donk and Scorz to open tonight’s gig. It works! Donk sings, Scorz raps. The audience don’t know what’s hit them. 

* Day Five (shot a few months later)
The journey home in triumph. Scorz has a towel inexplicably wrapped around his head. Comedy genius. Really he’s hiding the fact he shaved his skull in the intervening months. Gentlemen, we have a movie. 

How to make a 5 Day Feature:
- Shoot in story order to avoid reshoots.
- Use a small cast, base the story around the performances.
- Spend time finding the right location so you don’t have to change and dress it.
- Don’t force a big idea into a small budget. Avoid effects, keep the crew small, cut all the offscreen costs that you can, set yourself rules and stick to them. 

How profitable are Warp's TV series?

Problem with series such as This Is England '86/'88/'90 and Southcliffe is that they are available through VoD (video-on-demand). 

This Is England has been bought on DVD, I have met people who have bought it, but it is actually redundant if you can watch it free both through illegal/grey-zone (YouTube) streaming as well as the distributor providing it (however there are a number of adverts, that can lead to less enjoyment).

About Time set in Cornwall

Due to Cornwall becoming more popular

https://www.newsroom24.co.uk/2017/02/20/cottages-lodges-cornwall-rise-high-end-holiday-accommodation/

Baby Driver - Marketing by the audience

Marketing is now not only extending beyond the reach of distributors and into production companies, an aspect of convergence., but also audiences can also market the film through sharing trailers on social media, but also in this case this Spotify playlist will help market the film

The marketing has even worked on me, I don't hold the song to be of brilliant quality, but it has a catchy tune and I like listening to it occasionally, so I've added it to my playlist of favourite songs.

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WARP: Ghost Stories

Warp's last feature film release was the action thriller '71, their most expensive product to date with a budget of £8.1m . Despite having an extensive marketing campaign with multiple interviews including the mainstream channel the LAD Bible, the film flopped with a box office of only $3.2m, which has been surpassed before by Four Lions, with achieving a box office of £6.9m of £2.5m.

This was definitely nonetheless a departure for Warp, for example this trailer shows it was trying to market it as a typical action film, despite the protagonist being very un-hero like with him being very passive and not stereotypically saving the day, rather more being the damsel in distress saved just before being killed.

Since then Warp have not been very present with promoting plans for feature films, instead working on TV, with continuing E4's musical comedy The Midnight Beast (watching Working Title's Les Miserables, you wouldn't the thought then that Warp would ever do something like that , and on a more ambitious level the CANAL+ (France) /Sky Atlantic (UK) /Sundance TV (US) distributed The Last Panthers 


IMDb is a useful resource for checking up on planned film releases, with offering a huge amount of information on Warp's productions wikipedia doesn't provide.

A co-production with vertically integrated company Altitude (founded by Will Clarke, the founder of Optimum Releasing)From screen daily in February 2016 one of the first major announcements of the film.

EXCLUSIVE: Warp Films and Altitude Film Sales team on Jeremy Dyson-Andy Nyman thriller.

Sherlock co-star Martin Freeman (The Hobbit franchise), George MacKay (Pride) and Andy Nyman (Death At A Funeral) are to star in a feature version of well-received supernatural stage production Ghost Stories, co-written and directed by Jeremy Dyson (The League of Gentlemen) and Nyman, who will reprise his role as professor Goodman.
Principal photography is due to get underway in September with Claire Jones (Sightseers) producing alongside Warp Films’ Robin Gutch (’71). Altitude Films has boarded sales on the thriller and will introduce buyers to the project at the EFM.
In Ghost Stories, Phillip Goodman, professor of psychology and arch-skeptic has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave.
His mentor Charles Cameron, the ‘original’ TV parapsychologist went missing fifteen years before, presumed dead and yet now he writes to Goodman saying that the pair must meet.
Cameron, it seems, is still very much alive. And he needs Goodman to find a rational explanation for three unsolved cases that have shaken Cameron to his core.
As Goodman investigates, he meets three haunted people, each with a tale more frightening, uncanny and inexplicable than the last. Gradually, Goodman unearths a hidden truth more terrifying still, that will pull his life apart.
The stage production of Ghost Stories, compared by critics to The Woman In Black for its scare factor, was a critical and commercial hit when it opened at the Liverpool Playhouse and Lyric Hammersmith before transferring to the West End’s Duke of York’s theatre and later playing in Toronto, Moscow, Sydney, Shanghai and Lima, Peru.
Dyson is best known as a member of sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen along with Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. He also co-wrote and directed Sky Arts hit series Psychobitches which won the 2015 Rose D’or for Best Comedy.
Nyman’s acting career has included roles in Kick Ass 2 and Severance and voice roles in Shaun The Sheep and Minions. He is a co-writer and director of magician and illusionist Derren Brown’s TV and stage shows including Russian Roulette, Séance, and Messiah.
Genre aficionado Mike Runagall, managing director of Altitude Film Sales, said: “Having been totally captivated by the original stage show’s devilish plot and unique thrills, we are beyond excited to team-up with the filmmakers to bring this unforgettable, haunting and one of a kind supernatural thriller to audiences worldwide.”
Freeman will next be seen in Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War and alongside Tina Fey in comedy Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.BAFTA Rising Star nominee and Screen Star of Tomorrow MacKay, who broke out in 2013 musical-comedy Sunshine On Leith, is currently filming anticipated Bad Robot-Hulu TV series 11.22.63.

An early mention of the film in a Variety article mainly focusing a film with Daniel Radcliffe

Neurauter and Marino’s previous producing credits include Corin Hardy’s “The Hallow,” “Better Living Through Chemistry” and “All the Boys Love Mandy Lane.” Altitude’s recent credits include “The Girl With All the Gifts” and “Ghost Stories.”

Warp announcing the principal photography on their website

This is what you get when you click on the link for the press release of Ghost Stories on Warp's website.

No mention of it yet on the Warp YouTube Channel

Altitude's entry on their website

Martin Freeman isn't an A-List star, but is capable of attracting an international audience, known in Sherlock and The Hobbit.

British Film Industry In US Cinema

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Major fight scene filmed in Greenwich
World premiere at Odeon Leicester Square

Elstree Studios

Hitchcock filmed his early silent films, and his first one with sound.

George Lucas filmed there. 

Warp's US distribution

IFC FILMS

- This Is England

- Berberian Sound Studio

Neither IMDb or Box Office Mojo have Hush on IFC's list of distributed films, but this article from Deadline states they did handle the US distribution:

EXCLUSIVE:WME has signed Mark Tonderai, who directed House At The End Of The Street, the romantic thriller that stars Jennifer Lawrence, Max Theriot and Elisabeth Shue and just got picked up for 2012 release by Relativity Media. The film is Tonderai’s follow-up to his directing debut Hush, which created buzz in the UK, was nominated for a British Independent Film Award, and made the courtship of the director a competitive one among Hollywood agencies. WME will rep him for film and TV. Hush was acquired for U.S. distribution by IFC. Tonderai has started Shona Films with partner Zoe Stewart, and they are developing several projects including an adaptation of the Roger Smith book Wake Up Dead, and they are also working on The Kill Team, a drama about the attempted siege of Sierra Leone in 2002. Tonderai is managed by Brian Lutz and repped in the UK by Josh Varney. 

MAGNOLIA

- Dead Man's Shoes

- Donkey Punch

STRAND RELEASING

- Tyrannosaur

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typically distributes LGBT+ films 

DRAFTHOUSE

- Four Lions

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WEINSTEIN COMPANY

- Submarine

Has been behind films with big names such as The King's Speech and The Imitation Game

ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS

- '71 

British actors as exports to US Cinema

Christian Bale (American Psycho, The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Prestige)

David Oyelowo: Selma

Vicky McClure

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jul/17/vicky-mcclure-nothing-i-do-will-ever-top-working-with-shane-meadows

Distribution Costs

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British films for British audience?

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https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/sep/02/kill-list-ben-wheatley-film-industry

Also could you call this slightly too patriotic for The Guardian's centre left stance?