Screen Gems film budgets

Budgets


The budget for Screen Gems movies are considerably higher than the budgets for Warp Films; for obvious reasons. The following movies have the higher budgets of Screen Gems movies;

Underworld: Awakening - Had a Budget of $70 Million dollars and returned over $130 Million dollars.

Underworld: Evolution - Having a budget of $50 Million, over $111 Million was returned from box office.

Resident Evil: Extinction and Resident Evil: Apocalypse had budgets of $45 Million; with Extinction returning $147.7 Million at box office, with Apocalypse returning $129.3 Million.

Warp Films film budgets

Budgets


This is England had a budget of around £2,380, 00

Tyrannosaur had a budget of £750, 000

Submarine had a budget of £1.2 million

Donkey Punch had a budget had a budget of £500,000

History of Screen Gems

Screen Gems

Screen Gems originally started out in the year 1940 as an animation studio, which then changed in 1946. Screen Gems then became a television subsidiary in 1948 to 1974 which helped in TV shows such as; Dennis the menace, Top Cat and The Jetsons. It then became the speciality film studio of the modern day in 1999 to present.


On September 16, 2002, Columbia TriStar Television became Sony Pictures Television, while three years earlier, in 1999, Screen Gems was resurrected as a fourth specialty film producing arm of Sony's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, after Sony Pictures Classics, Triumph Films and Destination Films. Screen Gems produces and releases "films that fall between the wide-release movies traditionally developed and distributed by Columbia Pictures and those released by Sony Pictures Classics." Many of its releases are of the horror, thriller, action, comedy and urban genres.


The most-successful Screen Gems film commercially as of November 2010 was "Resident Evil: Afterlife" which grossed $296,221,566 in international box office receipts.

History of Warp Films

Warp Films

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 was established by Warp Records founding partners Rob Mitchell & Steve Beckett. After the unfortunate death of Rob Mitchell in 2001, Beckett decided to continue with Warp Films and enlisted the expertise of Sheffield friend Mark Herbert (who had just produced the critically acclaimed first series of Peter Kay's "Phoenix Nights" for Channel 4) to run the company.

The first film Chris Morris' "My Wrongs #8245-8249 & 117" was shot in 2002.
It won the award for Best Short Film at the 2003 BAFTA’s and became the first short film DVD single in the UK market.

Warp Films biggest success to date came with Shane Meadows’ This Is England; the story of Shaun, a boy who is adopted by a local skinhead gang after his father is killed in the Falklands war. Since its release in early 2007 it has gained many awards including the Best Film at the British Independent Films Awards, the Special Jury Prize at the Rome Film Festival and Best British Film at the BAFTAs.

Screen Gems basic information

The screen Gems Logo

Screen Gems is an American movie production company and subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation.


List of films byScreen Gems; 


.Resident Evil
.Underworld
.Boogeyman
.The exorcism of Emily Rose
.Prom Night
.Quarantine


Resident Evil: Afterlife

Director - Paul W.S Anderson
Produced by - Paul W.S Anderson
Written by - Paul W.S Anderson
Based on the popular video game series "Resident Evil"
Distributed by - Screen Gems
Budget - Around 60 million dollars
Box office - 296.2 million dollars

The two previous Resident evil movies were also very successful. "Resident Evil" - The first in the series, with a budget of $33,000,000 (estimated) made $17,707,106 (USA) in it's opening weekend. With "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" with a budget of $45,000,000 (estimated) made $23,036,273 (USA) in it's opening weekend.

Warp Films basic information

The Warp Films logo

Warp Films started of as a shop and record label in 1989 and is now one of the most respected and respected creative independent companies as of now. Its huge success spurted from its more recent and quite successful movies, such as; Four Lions and This is England.

List of films by Warp Films;
. Trash Humpers
. This is England
. Hush
. Four Lions
. Grow your own
. Exhibit A
. Cinema 16

Four Lions

Director - Chris Morris
Studios - Film4Productions, Wild bunch, Optimum Releasing and Warp Films
Distributor - Optimum Releasing
Grossing Box Office - $301,527 (USA) £608,608 (UK)


Four Lions gained huge success even from it's opening weekend in both UK and the USA, being looked at positively from most critics globally; making a large amount of money even in it's opening weekend, making $41,512 (USA) and £608,608 (UK)


Time Magazine rated the film as among Top 10 movies of the year 2010.



At the BAFTAs 2011, Chris Morris won the award for 'Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer'.



Warp Films was initially created with financial support from NESTA (The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is an independent endowment in the United Kingdom established by an Act of Parliament in 1998.) and had a remit to produce a number of short films. Warp Films was established by Warp Records founding partners Rob Mitchell & Steve Beckett.