Vertigo Films is a UK Film and Distribution company founded in 2002 by Allan Nibble and James Richardson. The following year Rupert Preston and Nick Love joined and became partners. The company’s mission is to create and distribute commercially driven independent cinema and since inception it has produced 28 films and distributed a further 35. The Films span a range of genres and audience taste and include the box office smash hit Street dance 3D, the biggest independent UK DVD of all time The Football Factory, the multi award winning Monsters, Vertigo co-production Ajani (nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film), smash hit family film Horrid Henry The Movie, audience favourite The Sweeney, and the hottest director of the moment, Nicolas Winding Rein's first English-language film, Bronson.In 2013 Vertigo has eight films in production including Pudsey The Movie – a co-production with Simon Cowell’s company Sysco, Walking on Sunshine – a feel good musical in partnership with IM Global and Monsters: The Dark Continent from hot new director Tom Green.
Championing new talent has been key to Vertigo Film’s production strategy and it continues to pride itself on being at the forefront of breaking new talent, including Tom Hardy (Bronson), Scoot McNairy (Monsters), Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist), Gareth Edwards (Monsters), Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton), Ben Gregory (All Stars) and Nicolas Winding Rein (Bronson).
Vertigo also owns a successful post production company in Berlin, The Post Republic and is a partner in sales company Protagonist Pictures along with Film 4 and Ingenious.
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ReplyDeleteI feel that you understand film production in both the UK and the US. This evident in the blog entries you have made. The question that you need to address is which type of film company would produce your film - and explain why. You have provided good detail to the research of the film production companies, but please do revise the questions that were set on this task. It is good practice to relate your research into real media and link this to your own planned production. Which studio would produce your film and why - bear in mind it is a new film which needs to be sold to the audience.