This document discusses several films produced by Working Title Films and compares British and American films. It provides details on the budgets, box office performances, directors, and target audiences for films like Rush, Thunderbirds, Paul, '71, Four Lions, and This Is England. Overall, it finds that British films focus more on realism and portraying everyday life accurately, while American films emphasize fantasy, humor, and visual effects to broaden their appeal.

2. WORKING TITLE FILMS
Director: Ron Howard Director: Jonathan Frakes Director: Greg Mottola

3. RUSH (2013)
Director: Ron Howard
Production Budget: $38 million
Limited Opening Weekend: $187,289
Wide Opening Weekend: $10,014,920
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $26,947,624
+ Foreign: $63,300,000
This film appealed to the UK audience because it is
about British driver who fights to win a championship. It
made the most amount of money outside of the US in
the UK.
United Kingdom- $16,131,221

4. THUNDERBIRDS
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Domestic Total Gross: $6,880,917
Distributor: Universal Release Date
MPAA Rating: PG Production Budget: $57
million
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $6,880,917 24.3%
+ Foreign: $21,402,720 75.7%
= Worldwide: $28,283,637
Appeals to a younger audience, because at the time of the films release
Busted was a popular and widely known band by teenagers and other
groups but mainly teenagers.

5. PAUL
$Budget:
40,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend:
$13,043,310 (USA) (18 March 2011)
Gross:
$37,371,385 (USA) (13 May 2011)
Paul is a film who has been a huge success for Working titles
because they used Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, these two movie
celebrities are known both by the US and UK audience, it has
something American audience can appeal to, especially people who
have an interest in sci-fi movies or just in general like films produced
by Simon Pegg.

7. ‘71
Release Date: 10 October 2014 (UK)
Production Co: Crab Apple Films,
Protagonist Pictures, Warp Films
Budget-£5 million
Box office-£1,036,232
‘71 a movie about a soldier who gets separated from his
unit during a riot in Belfast. This only appeals to the UK
audience because it’s realistic and something that did
happen. The US audience only watch humorous comedies
and something not likely to happen and alien invasion. The
BFI is all about realism and things that are likely to happen
in someone's day to day life.

8. FOUR LIONS
Release dates
23 January 2010 (Sundance Film Festival)
7 May 2010
Budget-£2.5 million
Box office-£6.9 million
Production companies
Film4 Productions
Wild Bunch
Warp Films
Four incompetent British jihadists set out to train for and
commit an act of terror. This film surprisingly went viral
across Europe and went to the states, mainly because of
it’s humorous acting and stereotypes.

9. THIS IS ENGLAND
Production company
Warp Films
FilmFour Productions
Budget--£1,472,500[2]
Box office-£5,058,600
Release dates-12 September 2006
27 April 2007 (United Kingdom)
This is a British film about life in England in 1983 , the
film illustrates how life in Birmingham was like and how
kids at young ages were influenced and brought into the
rough gang culture.

10. EVALUATION
British films are about realism and society in day to day life, THIS IS ENGLAND
is a perfect example because it shows how life really would have been like in
the early 1980’s , it clearly shows how kids at young ages got influenced by
the gang culture, the main character Sean influenced by a group he meets
and over time he becomes a kid who is acting above his age.
American Hollywood films are not realistic they tend to play on the idea of
fantasy and make belief, films such as PAUL play on the myth of aliens who
come down to earth, but they writers and producers mix it with humour and
make it appeal to US audience, they also used actors which are known by the
US audience.
Hollywood films have millions of $’s budget and they get the money from big
production companies such as Warner Bros’ Working Title Films, whereas
British films have very small budgets and don’t have enough money to
spend after paying the actor, British films rarely have CGI effects in their
films unless it’s backed by a big production company. Hollywood directors
are now mostly known for their effects e.g. Michael Bay is known for the
visual effects he’s used to create his films e.g. Transformers and the
explosions he has to make it unique and appealing to action enthusiasts.