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The Kings Speech -

It's the yearbook which helps UK film increase importance to the economy with a direct contribution of 3.3 billion to the UK GDP and a healthy trade surplus of 1.5 billion.
Ed Vaizey who is the Minister for Culture, Communications & the Creative Industries quotes: “The UK is home to a lot of the most talented and creative people in the global film industry, as shown by the 30 major film awards that we won last year. With a record £1.27 billion spent on UK-based film productions last year, this dynamic industry continues to create jobs and attract significant overseas investment and the Government is committed to ensuring this sector continues to flourish and thrive.”


The King's speech is distributed by Momentum Pictures a UK company. They are one of the leading independent picture motion distributors in the UK and Ireland and have released 20 theatrical films a year. On the 9th January 2013 Entertainment One acquired the parent company of Momentum, Alliance Films.

The King's Speech in the year 2011 was second in the top 20 films released in that year and is made in the UK and earned £45.69 million from Box office's showings. It was also shown in 395 cinema's in the UK. It was below Harry Potter's Deathly Hallows part 2. The film was mostly watched on weekday's and weekend accounted for 58% of the total UK box office the lowest in the last eight years. Considering the King's Speech is more appealing to older audience's it was viewed more in the week than weekends and aged over 55's made up for 45% of the films audience.
Other film distributions such as Universal seem to bring out more action films such as Fast and Furious 5 and Johnny English Reborn. They both ranked 12th and 14th. Warner Bro's seems to be the most popular as they brought out Harry Potter and The Hangover part II which came 1st and 5th which are high rankings.

Submarine -
It is a coming of age comedy drama film which was adapted from the novel of 2008 by Joe Dunthorne. The film was written and directed by Richard Ayoade. It was producted by Warp Films, Film4 Productions, UK Film Council, Wales Creative IP Fund, Film Agency for Wales, Protagonist Pictures and Red Hour Films. From the Box office it had a gross income of $864,659.
Warp Films is an independent film company based in Sheffield & London in the UK and Film 4 Productions is a British Film company owned by Channel Four Television Coorporation. The company is responsible for backing quite a lot of larger number films made in the UK.