The Kings Speech 
What makes a film British - Most people would define a British film in a few different ways. It needs to have some British cultural elements such as being set in the UK,having a predominantly British cast or based on work by a British author. A film may qualify as British under the films act 1985 such as Bond and Potter films. Or they could qualify by satisfying the terms of an international co-production agreement (has to be certified as British by the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, a number of tests must be met.

Exhibition Issues - Box Office in the UK - The UK's mainstream media doesn't usually pay attention to Box Office.Momentum Pictures's expectations were exceeded with £3.52 million opening weekend. It beat the likes of Slumdog Millionaire (£1.83m) and  Pride and Prejudice (£2.53m). The Kings Speech shadowed the film 127 Hours on its opening weekend as two good UK films came out at the same time.

Exhibition Issues and reviews: The Films Reception - The film got an exceptional response as it was nominated for 14 Baftas and 11 Oscars, including best picture, best director, best supporting actor and actress, best screenplay, best editing, plumiest consonants, loveliest vowels and best medicinal use of swearing (The Guardian). It got reviews such as "as attention-grabbing as plot lines go". Not all of the reviews are as kind "littered with errors" is what the telegraph wrote about the film.  

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Web 2.0 and Exchange - The film received various different opinions. The YouTube reviews from the British people I feel said they enjoyed the film more. However the Americans also enjoyed the film but preferred different actors in the film from the YouTube review I saw.

The films production issues - See-saw films was faced with a decision to cut away a production company they made a deal with in the early stages of the film when Fox Searchlight knocked on the door. However Searchlight was owned by a company that wanted international rights so See-Saw decided to go with the original plan.

The films origins and how it became a co-production - The film became a co-production because in order to get he star that the British directors wanted to play the lead role they had to post a copy of the script threw Geoffrey Rush's door. As he is an Australian actor and played the lead role this lead the film to become a co-production. Also See Saw films is an Australian and British production company.

The Finance - The Weinstein company and Prescience were the first financiers in after UK distributer Momentum. The UK film council and UK post-production company Molinare rounded out the $12 million budget with some equity.

The Production Companies - The Production companies that made the film were, Bedlamp productions, See Saw films.

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