The King's Speech

• Momentum Pictures distributed the King's Speech
• Slumdog Millionaire was a massive British Film Industry hit having an opening gross of £1.3 million. Overall Slumdog Millionaire grossed £32 million.
• The King's Speech made £3.5 million in it's opening gross.
• On it's opening night it made £40,000 at London's Chelsea cinema, and breaking house records at the capital's Curzon Renoir and Richmond. The top six sites were all in London, led by Odeon Leicester Square (£106,000), Vue Westfield (£51,000) and Vue Islington (£45,000). Top regional site was Odeon Guildford, with £28,000 (a middle class british, target audience)
• The UK Film Council has been axed. BBC Films and Film 4 wouldn't fund the film; so if the UK Film Council didn't exist, the highest grossing British Film if all time would not have been made.
• 3 ways to guarantee success: Marathon Publicity effort, strong critical support and positioning by the distributor.
• The UK gross of a film in sterling will usually be around a 10th of the US figure in dollars.
• The Guardian's Blog
• The King's Speech was funded by 6 independent production companies.

5 Extra Facts:

• It had a budget of £9,232,500.
• It won 21 awards and 112 nominations.
• There are 2 versions in the US; Restricted & PG-13
• Writing for the film started in 2002.
• The UK Film Council offered £1million in production costs