St Trinian's Case Study

Writers: Piers Ashworth (screenplay), Jamie Minoprio (additional material), Nick Moorcroft (screenplay), Ronald Searle (cartoons), Jonathan M. Stern (additional material).

Produced by: Rupert Everett (executive producer), Nigel Green (executive producer), Mark Hubbard (co-producer), Sophie Meyer (associate producer), Oliver Parker (producer), James Spring (executive producer), Barnaby Thompson (producer).

Cast:

Rupert Everett: Stardust, Shrek, My best friend’s wedding, The Chronicles of Narnia.

Gemma Arterton: Tamara Drewe, Prince of Persia, Clash of the Titans, The boat that rocked, quantum of solace.

Colin Firth: The King’s speech, Dorian Gray, Mamma Mia!, Nanny McPhee, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually, Shakespeare in love.

Production 2: Entertainment Film Distributors

Entertainment is the UK’s leading independent distributor. The company was founded in 1978 and has showed continuing growth and success since that time distributing a wide range of product and building a significant film library. Highlights for the company have been the release of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, one of the most thrilling epic adventures in motion picture history, which at its culmination garnered a fantastic seventeen Academy Awards. In fact, since the millennium the company’s releases have totalled a remarkable thirty-eight Oscar wins and twenty-two BAFTAs, encompassing a diverse range of genres, including Traffic, Gosford Park, Million Dollar Baby, Brokeback Mountain, and The Departed, which earned Martin Scorsese his first Oscar for Achievement in Direction, and The Reader, which won Kate Winslet an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. 

Entertainment has had further success with other big box office hits such as Gangs of New York, Hairspray, Sex and the City, Saw, 17 Again and The Final Destination franchise and British films such as Stormbreaker, Run Fat Boy Run and St Trinian’s 1 & 2.  Future films from the company include Martin Scorsese’s first family film, Hugo Cabret, which also marks the first time the director has shot a film in 3D, the comic book adaptation Dredd and the untitled Freddie Mercury project starring Sacha Baron Cohen. 

Entertainment Film Distributors operates both in the UK and the Republic of Ireland and distributes in theatrical, DVD rental and retail fields as well as licensing a substantial catalogue in both Pay-TV and Free-TV sectors.

Quel maledetto treno blindato (1978) ... Distributor (1978) (UK) (theatrical)

Production 4: UK Film Council

The UK Film Council is the Government-backed lead agency for film in the UK ensuring that the economic, cultural and educational aspects of film are effectively represented at home and abroad.

Since its creation (2000) the UK Film Council has been the cornerstone of the British film industry and the funder of most of the big cultural film initiatives – we have backed more than 900 films, shorts and features, entertained more than 200 million people and helped to generate approximately £700 million at the box-office worldwide.  For every £1 of Lottery money we have invested, £5 has been generated at the box office, allowing us to reinvest that recoupment straight back into new British films. 

Tim Bevan, co-founder and co-chairman of Working Title Films, is our Chairman, Tim Cagney our Managing Director.

Home Ground (2000) ... Production Company