The King's Speech
500,086
The Three Musketeers
236,499
The Trip
121,550
This is England Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Toast Tyrannosaur
15,666 205,090 28,174 1,162
We Need to Talk About Kevin
33,632
West is West
36,000
Wuthering Heights
63,875
You Instead You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
7,250 29,351 4,248,276
UK distributors funded through the Automatic Scheme Every year distributors across Europe report to MEDIA on the cinema admissions for the non-national European films they released in the previous year. These admissions are the basis for the calculation of MEDIA Automatic Scheme grants. The funding can be used to pay minimum guarantees and distribution costs on new non-national European films. In 2011, UK distributors reported nearly two million admissions to non-national European films in 2010.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, directed by Tomas Alfredson, received MEDIA Automatic Scheme funding in 2011. © 2010 Studiocanal SA
€617,784 Total MEDIA Automatic Scheme funding awarded to UK distributors in 2011
Another Year, directed by Mike Leigh, received MEDIA Automatic and Selective schemes funding in 2011. Image courtesy of Momentum Pictures
€89,222 Total MEDIA Sales Agents funding awarded to UK sales agents in 2011
On the basis of these admissions they were allocated the following awards in 2011: Distributor
Award (€)
Artificial Eye
135,343
Metrodome Distribution
133,099
New Wave Films
12,488
Pathé Productions
48,109
Peccadillo Pictures Picturehouse Entertainment
6,001 15,939
Revolver Entertainment
41,952
Soda Pictures
40,453
Studiocanal Trinity Filmed Entertainment
166,424 17,976 617,784
Funding for UK sales agents The Sales Agents scheme allocates €1.5 million a year and is linked to an agent’s performance in selling European films. The funding awarded depends on the amount of cinema admissions generated by the films sold in the previous calendar year, and can be used for acquisitions (sales guarantees) as well as the promotion and marketing costs of non-national European films. Two UK sales companies took advantage of this scheme in 2011. Sales agent Content Media Corporation HanWay Films
Award (€) 25,637 63,585 89,222
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