Films that are currently in production:

• Pirates of the Caribbean-On Stranger Tides: Disney revealed that On Stranger Tides will be shot in Hawaii, Great Britain, and Los Angeles. Filming is set to begin in June with the studio targeting a May 20, 2011 release.
• Puss in Boots: Writers Ed Decter and John Strauss have signed on to write "Puss in Boots," a spin-off of "Shrek 2". According to Variety, DreamWorks is planning on releasing "Puss in Boots" direct to video.
• Transformers 3: Transformers 3 (the working title) is aiming for a July 1, 2011 release.
• X-Men: First Class: Filming is expected to begin this summer on the latest chapter in the popular film franchise based on the Marvel Comics. X-Men: First Class will be released on June 3, 2011.

Films that have been released in 2009/2010:

• Paranormal Activity 2
• The Social Network
• Saw 3D
• Inception
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: part 1
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Due Date
• How To Train Your Dragon
• Get Him to the Greek
• Easy A
• Kick-Ass
• The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
• Toy Story 3
• Knight and Day
• Grown-Ups

Films that are identfied as "heritage":
The term Heritage film refers to a movement in British cinema in the late 20th century which depicts the England of previous centuries often in a nostalgic fashion. It includes the wave of filmings of Shakespeare plays and Jane Austen novels. Typical of such films is the use of splendid scenes of the English landscape to create a feel-good factor

• Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
• Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
• Bombay Talkie (1970)
• Roseland (1977)
• Heat and Dust (1983)
• A Room with a View (1985)
• Maurice (1987)
• Howards End (1992)
• The Remains of the Day (1993)
• The Golden Bowl (2000)
• Le Divorce (2003)
  

Working Title Films

Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London, UK. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. It produces feature films and several television productions. Eric Fellner and Bevan are now the co-owners of the company.

Working Title Films was co-founded by producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. In 1992, PolyGram became the company's corporate backer. Radclyffe left Working Title, and Eric Fellner, a fellow independent film producer, joined the company. The company produced a variety of films for PolyGram's London-based production company PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. An Anglo-Dutch film studio, PolyGram Films became a major Hollywood competitor. In 1999, PolyGram was sold to Seagram and merged with MCA Music Entertainment, to form Universal Music Group. PolyGram Films was merged and sold to Universal Studios in 1999.
Although contractually allowed to produce any film with a budget of up to $25 million, on a practical basis, Bevan and Fellner consult with studio executive at Working Title's parent company NBC Universal^.] Working Title is located in Oxford Street, London, and is known for having a limited number of employees. The company also has other offices located in Los Angeles, and Ireland.

Major films:

• About a Penis
• Billy Elliott
• The Boat That Rocked
• The Borrowers
• Bridget Jones's Diary
• Drop Dead Fred
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Hot Fuzz
• Johnny English
• Love Actually
• Mr Bean's Holiday
• Nanny McPhee
• Shaun of the Dead
• Wild Child

Less well-known films:

• The Big Lebowski
• Bob Roberts
• The Calcium Kid
• Catch Fire
• Fargo
• French Kiss
• Hippie Hippie Shake
• Loch Ness
• Mickybo and Me
• My Little Eye
• Ned Kelly
• Rubin and Ed
• A World Apart

IMDb.com

Pirates of the Caribbean:
Box office: Budget - $140,000,000 (estimated)
                Opening weekend - $46,630,690 (USA) (13 July 2003) (3269 Screens)
                Gross - $305,388,685 (USA) (28 December 2003) 

Distributors: Walt Disney Company, The (2003) (worldwide) (all media)
Companies associated   Walt Disney Pictures
with the production:       Jerry Bruckheimer Films
                                    First Mate Productions Inc.
                   Buena Vista Pictures (2003) (USA) (theatrical)
                   Bandur Film (2003) (Serbia and Montenegro) (theatrical)
                   Falcon (2003) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
                  American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (2006) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
                  Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Audience and Institutions research

• Audiences: In the top 20 films in 2009 the most important age band for cinema's was with 7-34 year olds (40% of the population and 64% of the audience)

 - Total 'film viewing occasions' numbered over 4.5 billion, which means an average of 81 film viewings per person in 2009.
- The group that visit the cinema most often are 15-24 year olds.

• Download activity compares to cinema attendance because the age group (15-24) are also the group that watch the most download films.

• Films that appealed most to 15-24 year olds:

         - Bruno
         - The Hangover
         - Fast and Furious
         - The Boat That Rocked (UK)
         - New Moon
         - Transformers
         - The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus (UK)

• Films that appealed most to older age catagories (55+)

         - The Young Victioria (UK)
         - Last Chance Harvey (UK)
         - Dorian Grey (UK)
         - Slumdog Millionaire (UK)

• Films that had 'cross over' appeal to both younger and older catagories:

         - Last Chance Harvey
         - The Boat That Rocked

IMDB.com
The Boat That Rocked:
- box office success was $7,913,976 (gross)
- Companies behind their production - Universal Pictures, Studio Canal, Working Title Films
- Distributors: Alliance Films, Bontonfilm, Focus Features, Studio Canal
Universal Pictures (other films they have been involved in) :
- Get him to the Greek
- Bruno
- Drag me to hell
- Mamma Mia
- Fast and Furious
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Mr Bean's Holiday
- Nanny McPhee
- Meet the Fockers

Official website: http://www.universalpictures.com/

The Boat That Rocked:
Universal Pictures tries to market the film by making posters, trailers, interviews, using TV to market the trailer and pirate radio.
Synergy: The Boat That Rocked soundtrack was released on Mercury Records, owned by Universal. The film used spotify to create playlists for each of the 9 DJ's featured in the film.