The British Film Industry

Case Study: Notting Hill directed by Simon Michell.

Working Titles produced a romcom starring famous British actor - Hugh Grant and famous American actress Julia Roberts. It was going to be the next big Rom-Com. They used a huge budget of $43 million. It was distributed to a huge number of cinemas and it made a huge budget of $363,889,678 worldwide. In it's first week in the box office it made a total of $27.7 million. In 1999 it was the highest grossing romcom. It was then overtaken by 'Runaway Bride' which also starred Julia Roberts. The film was released on the 21st of May and released on DVD on the 15th of November, in the present day, a film is released on DVD very soon after it is released in the cinema so it is still popular.

Working Title was established in 1983. It was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyff. They are now opening a TV division of the company so they can Produce film and TV.

The film is British, the people working on it were British, however it had many American Investors so they could have enough budget to create the film. This could mean they sacrificed their vision in order to get investments from many different companies.

This is a major dilemma for the British Film Industry as they have to resort to American companies in order to get enough capital for the film, whether that is American Distributors or American Investors.