Formerly | BBC Films (1990–2020) |
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Industry | Film |
Founded | 18 June 1990 |
Founders | David M. Thompson |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | United Kingdom |
Key people | Rose Garnett Eva Yates |
Products | Motion pictures |
Services | Film |
Owner | BBC |
Parent | BBC |
Subsidiaries |
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Website | www |
BBC Film (formerly BBC Films) is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It was founded on 18 June 1990,[5] and has produced or co-produced some of the most successful British films of recent years, including Truly, Madly, Deeply, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Quartet, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Saving Mr. Banks, My Week with Marilyn, Eastern Promises, Match Point, Jane Eyre, In the Loop, An Education, StreetDance 3D, Fish Tank, The History Boys, Nativity!, Iris, Notes on a Scandal, Philomena, Stan & Ollie, Man Up, Billy Elliot and Brooklyn.
BBC Film co-produces around eight films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors. Eva Yates is head of BBC Film, responsible for the development and production slate, strategy and business operations.[6]
The company was founded in 1990 by David M. Thompson as a wholly owned but independent film-making company, based in offices in Mortimer Street, London. A restructuring in 2007 integrated it into the main BBC Fiction department of BBC Vision. As a result, it moved out of its independent offices into BBC Television Centre, and Thompson left to start his own film production company.[7] BBC Film has been based at Broadcasting House in London since 2013.[8] The company changed its name to BBC Film in 2020.[9][10]
Productions
1990s
- 1990
- 1992
- 1993
- 1994
- Captives (with Miramax Films & Distant Horizon)
- The Hour of the Pig
- 1997
- 1998
2000s
Early
- 2000
- Wonder Boys
- Wild About Harry
- Saltwater
- Maybe Baby
- Billy Elliot (with Working Title Films)
- Shadow of the Vampire (with Saturn Films)
- Isn't She Great
- Last Resort
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- Undone (short)
- The Accidental Perfectionist
- Bullet Boy
- Millions
- Red Dust
- My Summer of Love
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (with Company Pictures)
- Stage Beauty (with Qwerty Films and Tribeca Film)
- Trauma
Late
- 2005
- The Undertaker (short)
- Opal Dream
- Imagine Me & You
- Mrs Henderson Presents
- A Cock and Bull Story
- Match Point
- Shooting Dogs (co-production with UK Film Council)
- Love + Hate
- The Mighty Celt
- 2006
- Notes on a Scandal
- Starter for Ten
- Scoop
- Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
- Fast Food Nation
- The History Boys
- Confetti
- Shoot the Messenger
- Miss Potter
- As You Like It (in association with HBO Films)
- Glastonbury
- Snow Cake
- Life and Lyrics
- 2007
- Joe's Palace
- The Restraint of Beasts
- Four Last Songs
- Capturing Mary
- Eastern Promises (distributed and co-presented by Focus Features)
- Becoming Jane
- Earth (co-production with Disneynature)
- Grow Your Own
- 2008
- 2009
- Nativity!
- The Men Who Stare at Goats
- Tormented
- Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
- The Damned United (co-production with Columbia Pictures)
- In the Loop
- Bright Star (co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Pathé, Film Finance Corporation Australia, Pathé, UK Film Council, and Screen Australia)
- The Boys Are Back (co-production with Miramax Films, Film Finance Corporation Australia, Tiger Aspect Pictures, and Screen Australia)
- An Education
- Fish Tank
- Creation
- Glorious 39
2010s
Early
- 2010
- The First Grader (co-production with National Geographic Entertainment, Videovision Entertainment, & UK Film Council)
- Made in Dagenham
- Tamara Drewe
- Edge of Darkness (co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures and Icon Productions)
- StreetDance 3D (co-production with Phase 4 Films, Vertigo Films, & British Film Institute)
- Freestyle (co-production with Phase 4 Films, Revolver Entertainment, Film London Microwave, B19 Media, and UK Film Council)
- Africa United
- 2011
- 2012
- Quartet
- Shadow Dancer
- Spike Island
- Blood
- Good Vibrations
- Great Expectations
- In the Dark Half
- A Running Jump
- StreetDance 2
- Strawberry Fields (co-production with Soda Pictures, Film London Microwave, Kent County Council Film Office, Screen South, Met Film Post, and UK Film Council)
- Perfect Sense
- 2013
- Philomena
- Saving Mr. Banks[12] (co-production with Walt Disney Pictures)
- Dom Hemingway
- Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
- Walking with Dinosaurs: The Movie (as BBC Earth Films)
- Broken
- Exhibition
- Flying Blind (co-production with Soda Pictures, iFeatures, Matador Pictures, Southwest Screen, Cinema Six, Regent Capital, The City of Bristol and Ignition Films)
- Borrowed Time (co-production with Film London Microwave, UK Film Council and Parkville Pictures)
- The Challenger Disaster
- Big Men
- Ginger & Rosa
- Now Is Good
- London: The Modern Babylon (co-production with Cinedigm, British Film Institute and Nitrate Film)
- The Summit
- The Sea
- Kiss the Water (co-production with Virgil Films, Easy There Tiger, Slate Films, and Creative Scotland)
- 2014
- Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie
- A Little Chaos
- A Long Way Down
- The Invisible Woman
- What We Did on Our Holiday
- Enchanted Kingdom (as BBC Earth Films, co-production with Reliance Entertainment, IM Global, & Evergreen Studios)
- Pride
- My Old Lady
- Lilting
Late
- 2015
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- The Falling
- Woman in Gold
- Suite Française
- Testament of Youth
- Mr. Holmes
- X+Y
- Bill
- Brooklyn
- The Lady in the Van
- Man Up
- London Road
- Being AP (co-production with Entertainment One, Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Screen, and Moneyglass Films)
- The Face of an Angel
- 2016
- David Brent: Life on the Road
- Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- Swallows and Amazons
- Denial
- My Scientology Movie[13]
- A United Kingdom[14]
- The Lovers and the Despot (as BBC Storyville)
- The Levelling
- Notes on Blindness
- I, Daniel Blake
- The Library Suicides (co-production with Soda Pictures, Edicis Films, S4C, Ffilm Cymru Wales and British Film Institute)
- The Lighthouse
- The Goob (co-production with Soda Pictures, iFeatures, Creative England, British Film Institute, and EMU Films)
- 2017
- Their Finest
- Lady Macbeth
- Victoria & Abdul
- Mindhorn
- Breathe
- Earth: One Amazing Day (as BBC Earth Films, co-production with Goldcrest Films International & SMG Pictures)
- Apostasy
- Spaceship (co-production with Breaking Glass Pictures, iFeatures, Creative England, British Film Institute, Belly Productions, Parkville Pictures, and Trinity)
- 2018
- 2019
- Blue Story
- Dirty God
- Little Joe
- Stan & Ollie[16]
- Sorry We Missed You
- Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans
- The Aftermath
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
- The Souvenir
- The White Crow
- Monsoon
- Judy
- Be Still My Beating Heart (co-production with Creative Scotland, Scottish Film Talent Network, & barry crerar)
2020s
- 2020
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- The Nest
- Surge
- His House
- Mogul Mowgli
- Misbehaviour
- The Roads Not Taken
- Ammonite
- Supernova
- Lynn + Lucy
- Aisha and Abhaya (co-production with Royal Opera House, Rambert Dance Company, Arts Council England, & Robin Saunders)
- 2021
- After Love
- The Mauritanian
- Can't Get You Out of My Head (TV series)
- People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan
- Ear for Eye
- The Power of the Dog
- Pirates
- The Souvenir Part II
- The Phantom of the Open
- Cow
- Body of Water (co-production with Verve Pictures, Film London Microwave, British Film Institute, Lions Den Films, Bright Shadow Films, and Boudica Films)
- Here Before
- 2022
Forthcoming
See also
References
- ↑ "BBC Documentary Arm Storyville moves under BBC Film remit". Screen Daily. 26 October 2020.
- ↑ "IFeatures".
- 1 2 "A bold new vision for BBC Films".
- ↑ "Film London, BFI, and BBC's Microwave Commissions Films from Female & Non-Binary Directors".
- ↑ "BBC Films: Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema in 2015". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/eva-yates-appointed-new-director-of-bbc-film:.
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(help) - ↑ "David Thompson to leave Head of BBC Films role to launch new company". BBC. 14 September 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ↑ "BBC News' television output moves to new studios at Broadcasting House". BBC. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ↑ "BBC Films becomes BBC Film - but the dodgy BBC logo remains". Clean Feed. 4 November 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
- ↑ Wiseman, Andreas (3 December 2020). "'Harriet' Actress Cynthia Erivo To Star In & Produce Story Of Princess "Gifted" To Queen Victoria; BBC Film, Benedict Cumberbatch's SunnyMarch & So So Producing". Deadline. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
- ↑ "BBC – The Other Boleyn Girl – BBC Films".
- ↑ "BBC Films unveils upcoming slate at Cannes". BBC. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
- ↑ "BBC - My Scientology Movie - BBC Films". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016.
- ↑ "BBC – A United Kingdom – BBC Films".
- ↑ "Upcoming Films".
- ↑ Lodderhose, Diana (17 February 2016). "eOne Boards Steve Coogan-John C. Reilly's Laurel and Hardy Biopic 'Stan & Ollie'".