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Film 4: Fact file:Facts about their films include:Films:

East is East is aimed at older, mature audiences as it contains offensive and rudecontent.

This is England is the same due to its association with the theme of violence. Another year has mixed content between older and younger audience influence. All comedy is sadistic and extreme. Sometimes these films relate to culture and stereotypes. Realistic issues such as gang warfare are explored more. In general, Film4 targets older and more understanding audiences.

The company:Historical events:

Film4 was created in the 90s as part of a subsidiary to Channel 4. In 2006, Film4 moved from Pay TV to free-to-air. 2002 financial issues lead to a need to boost annual investments through third party

partnerships.

Because of this, Film4 announced it would no longer distribute its own films, it nowbroadcasts alternatives.

Has won 5 Oscars in 4 years and 3 Baftas in 2007 alone. Reaches 8.3 million ABC1s a month. (ABC1 = Professional educated classes.) Has an upmarket of 42% and a male profile of 55%.

Other facts: No owner, but controlled by Tessa Ross. Broadcasts alternative films. The philosophy of film 4: committed to enhancing the British film making industry by

nurturing and funding new talent. It offers a distinctive range of mainstream and

independent films.

Film4 budget risen in in 2011 by 50% from 10 million to 15M a year. This budget is guaranteed for the next 5 years. This increased budget will provide the domestic film industry with a financial boost

following the governments decision to close the UK film council.

Film4 makes approximately 6 films a year. A subsidiary company to film4 is Warp X. this is a tiny yet still successful company. Latest/key directors: Danny Boyles. Martin McDonough. Steve McQueen. And more Film4 releases include: The inbetweeners movie, The Eagle, Kill list, The iron lady

and Shame.

Some of the movies Film4 are associated with have actually very little input fromthem.

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The companys first project was Walter, released in 1982. It was directed by StephenFrears.

Facts based on issues: Film4 did not always focus on broadcasting blockbusters, it originally tried other

things. However, these days it broadcasts many mainstream Hollywood movies. Thechannel frequently has themed seasons/nights in which a number of films based on

one genre, director or actor are shown. As Channel 4 owns Film4 Productions, it

shows many of its in-house productions.

The slogan for Film4 is Great films for free and whereas this is partially true for justwatching them on TV, a lot of the involvement with Film4, such as subscription,

actually costs money. And the price went up. Although, this was only until 2002, when

the subscription only principle to Film4 was abandoned due to the financial worry.

The slogan may either have only been thought of recently or maybe it only counts for

pure viewership of the films.

Random statistics: Audience share is 1.5 for the main channel. The +1 edition has a 0.2 in this share. The cost for the subscription only system was 5.99, then 6.00, then finally 7. In 2005 and 2006, the audience viewership went up from 0.1 to 1.3 on average. This

was when the channel really started to grow.

Other stuff: Before 1998, the company was identified as Channel Four Films or FilmFour

International. Later, the outfit was re-branded as FilmFour, to coincide with the

launch of a new Digital TV channel of the same name. The company cut its budget

and staff significantly in 2002, due to mounting losses, and was re-integrated into the

drama department of Channel 4.

In 2004, Tessa Ross became head of both Film4 and Channel 4 drama. The name"Film4 Productions" was introduced in 2006 to tie in with the relaunch of the FilmFour

broadcast channel as Film4.

Class television network, business, organisation, commercial object or area DBPedia URIhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Film4 Rare Terms"film4 +1", "the film4+1", "the filmfour extreme", "filmfour extreme",

"the filmfour world",

"Filmfour world", "the Film Four", "the FilmFour", "the FilmFour weekly", "FilmFourweekly"

Related Websiteshttp://www.film4.com Freebase Primary MID"/m/02wdqf" Film4 is soon to have a feature called Film4.0 which relates to the online market a lot

more.

Film4.0 is to include Anna Higgs.

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