FILM PRODUCTION AND STUDIOS

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS  For 100 years, Universal Pictures has created and distributed theatrical and non- theatrical filmed entertainment. They have produced a very large amount of films such as E.T.: Jurassic Park series, and Mamma Mia!; comedies like Bruce Almighty, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Knocked Up; and franchises such as Back to the Future, Meet the Parents, Fast and Furious, and Bourne.

HISTORY OF UNIVERSAL STUDIOS  Universal Studios, American motion-picture studio that was one of the leading producers of film serials in the 1920s and of popular horror films in the ’30s. Carl Laemmle, a film exhibitor turned producer, formed the company in In its early days it was a top producer of popular low-budget serials and also presented many of the films of Erich von Stroheim (1885–1957), who was a pioneer in realistic film direction.  For many years after the award-winning film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), the studio presented its characteristic low-budget films, which included the well- known horror films Frankenstein (1931) and Dracula (1931). In the 1960s it regained much box-office success through the comedies of Doris Day and Rock Hudson. It was known as Universal-International for a time and in the early 1970s it was purchased by the Music Corporation of America, which turned it into the largest and most profitable packager of films for television in the world. Universal was subsequently involved in a series of acquisitions, and in 2004 the company (as part of Vivendi Universal Entertainment) merged with the National Broadcasting Co., Inc., to form NBC Universal.

WARP FILMS  Warp Films was established by Warp Records founding partners Rob Mitchell & Steve Beckett  Warp Films was initially created with financial support from NESTA and had a remit to produce a number of short films. Through the star of My Wrongs, Paddy Considine, Herbert met director Shane Meadows and asked them to generate an idea for a film. Herbert raised the funding and the result was Warp Films debut feature, Dead Man's Shoes, directed by Shane Meadows in Warp Films was first launched in 2001, leads it way into great independent British filmmaking. The company has been given successes throughout the years, some of these films gained several Bafta’s. Warp is one of the foremost and most respected creative independent companies, now composed of Warp Records, Warp Films and Warp Music Videos & Commercials. It is based in London, England and Sheffield, with a further office now in Melbourne, Australia  Since its inception as a shop and record label in 1989, it has been a platform for innovative and boundary-breaking talent.  Warp films production includes, Dead Man Shoes, This Is England, Rubber Jonny and Four Lions, and these are some of warp films most acclaimed and award winning films.