FACT SHEET

BEDLAM PRODUCTIONS:

Started up in 2009.

Focus on documentaries + dramas

Budget for King’s speech $15,000,000

UK FILM COUNCIL

GROSSED: $427,374,139

King’s speech, nominated for 12 oscars. Won 4

·         Best Film,

·         Best director,

·         Best original screenplay,

·          Best actor

King’s speech advertised differently, posters, newspapers etc. As according to target audience.

‘we needed to partner up with someone with experience in international sales.’ - Simon Egan. This was See-Saw Films.

'The Weinsteins had a release strategy, because we can’t compete with the likes of Transformers with their huge budget. They decided that the film would be ‘discovered’; whereas some blockbusters would be released on about 3,500 screens in the US, ‘The KS’ was released on two. So what you have is word-of-mouth, so the audience feel they are discovering something for the first time'

King’s Speech- filled stadium with dummies (cheaper than hiring hundreds of actors and using expensive editing techniques/CGI)