Media notes on The Kings Speech and Submarine.

The UK Film Council awarded The King's Speech £1,021,080 of Lottery funding

The UK Film Council stands to recoup 100% of its investment plus significant net profits, all of which will be reinvested in the British film industry, creating jobs and supporting UK businesses.

The UK box office gross for The King's Speech currently stands at £39.8 million, making it the highest grossing UK independent film of all time at the UK box office. The worldwide gross for The King's Speech currently stands at $245 million (£156 million).

Project/Training initiative        Recipient          Fund         Type        Award       Date         Total awarded as of 12/07/2011
The King's Speech             See-Saw films ltd  premiere fund   Lotto    £1,000,000   17/06/2009     £1,000,000
                              Bedlam Productions





Project/Training initiative     Additional awards     Recipient     Fund         Type     Award     Date       Total awarded as of 12/07/2011
The King's Speech                  ?                   See-Saw Films Development   Lotto    £21,080  22/07/2009   £21,080
                                                              ltd



See-Saw Films is an independent production company dedicated to producing internationally renowned feature films and visual media productions.
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The Kings of Mykonos



Bedlam Productions is an independent film and television production company based in Soho, London and has been in operation since 2011
Bedlam has announced two feature films currently in development. 'The Lady Who Went Too Far', is a story about Lady Hester Stanhope.
'Zaytoun' is about the unlikely alliance between a 10-year old Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot shot down over Beirut in 1982


Momentum Pictures (also known as Alliance Films UK), an Alliance Films company, is one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland and releases approximately 20 theatrical films a year, with several stv releases.
They distrubuted The King's Speech
The King's Speech was shown in 395 cinemas
Rated number 1 in the box office
The weekends gross figures were $3,523,102.
The weekend gross grew to £4,401,926, by the next week.
The number of cinemas also increased to 422.
It started to lose money by the 3rd week, but only a small loss.
By the 4th week it was down to number 2 in the box office, the place of number 1 being taken by Disney's Tangled.

The King's Speech seems to have been a big success in the box office

Submarine recieved a much smaller amount of money than The King's Speech and appears to be an 'indie' film, being created by a new company or director or a small company.

Warp films the people behind Submarine seem to work on music videos and films that are by new or less known creators.