Red One Filmography

"Red Canvas" was the first ever feature film which was shot and completed on the Red One 4k. Both parts of "Che" were shot by Steven Soderbergh, the director, using only Red One camera. He later said that "Red is going to change everything," being "jaw-dropping imagery," and an amazingly light camera. Because Soderbergh enjoyed Red One so much the first time, he used it again for both "The Girlfriend Experience" and "The Informant!"
"District 9," nominated for four Academey Awards, was mostly shot using Red One cameras.
Not everyone was so pleased with Red One; Werner Herzog said "It drove me insane," due to the camera's long reboot times, calling it immature and extremely badly created. The film that he used Red One for was "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?"
Shows such as "Leverage" have used the cameras for all of their episodes, "Degrassi: The Next Generation" using them from the tenth season onwards. The first television series in North America to use the Red One camera exclusively was "Sanctuary."
At 4k resolution, the successful "The Social Network" was shot on the Red One camera in 2010, as was "Yakshiyum Njanum," being the first Malayalam film shot using it.

Disney's "Mars Needs Moms" a Flop?

A film's failure is said to be often more instructive than it being successful. Disney's "Mars Needs Moms" $175 million "flop" could be the end of the wave of 3D film making, ending expensive spending in digital technology on special effects, such as CGI. The recession could potentially get a lot worse after the summer, impacting 3D movies dramatically, particularly when there are films winning Oscars and Baftas on little budget, such as "The King's Speech" which was produced for less than $12 million.
"Mars Needs Moms" entertained most children enough, being a "far-fetched yarn about Milo, a nine-year-old who doesn't eat his broccoli and whose mother up being kidnapped by Martians." The film is in the centre of a debate on the pricing of 3D tickets, however, which threatens 3D film-making generally.
Though it cost a massive $175 million to make, "Mars Needs Moms" grossed under $7 million on it's first weekend in the US. Thus, the film was a flop.

3D Cinema

It had been assumed that 3D format would overtake theatrical distribution shortly after almost 80% of people who viewed "Avatar", did so in 3D. However, what was supposed to be a "3D explosion," doesn't seem to be happening. Since then, in fact, moviegoers are seemingly growing to be uninterested in paying the higher price, therefore 3D's box-office trajectory has been going rapidly downhill. Examples of this being Universal's "Dispicible Me" having just 40% of box-office revenue coming from the distribution of 3D, and 3D's worst gross yet being $6.9 million for "Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore." "Bulls" are awaiting releases such as Disney's "Step Up 3D" to inspect just how many ticket sales are in fact those in 3D, as they will be for the many, almost 60, 3D releases upcoming in the next two years. It is repeatedly denied that the public are losing interest, despite the fact that there is data to prove the downfall in money spent on 3D tickets.

Recently, movies have been competing for the limited amount of 3D venues which are equipped, so it has been suggested that as well as the audience growing for 3D, the "screen count" is too. To agree with this, Dan Fellman said that there will be fewer admissions drawn from movies targeted at families, than ones aimed particularly at adults, such as "Avatar."
It has also been suggested that perhaps there should not be that many movies in 3D, as this may cause people to become uninterested, whereas before, it was new and exciting. Big movies with a broad target audience will almost definitely still gross a huge amount; "Transformers 3" is still expected to be massive when it is released, but not so much the smaller movies like "Step Up 3D."
If production tools get better and filmmakers improve the embedding of 3D into their "storytelling", the percentage will continue to grow for 3D movies.
In order for 3D to be "here to stay", the movie industry has been said to have to carefully choose the films in which they either make, or convert to, 3D. 

Film Four Institution Questions

Film Four's main 'purpose' for being is to publicly provide a wide enough range of programming, particularly for people from a culturally diverse society to have interest in. A particular aim of theirs is to produce and create something new which most other channels do not cater, while still keeping the form of current programming. It is needed for Film Four's programmes to exhibit a unique style, while still having significant educational qualities as it is required for the 'licenced public service channels.'

Film Four green-lights films which have individual, often raw and controversial memorable qualities. For example, 'Trainspotting', 'Slumdog Millionaire' and 'Shallow Grave', all directed by Danny Boyle. Another is 'This Is England', a crime drama, as many of Film Four's films are, as well as thriller and romance.

Tessa Ross is regarded as "the mother of British film-making" due to ensuring that deserved talent is nutured
 and directors which are potentially feeling 'unloved' get to make the films that they want. Ross has faith in these talents and when she believes them to be something special, makes it a project to get the films made. Because of this, she is instrumental for Film Four's success, purely because she is the one who made the majority of their films happen.

Film Four's yearly budget is low, recently decided to raise to £15 million a year, which will occur at some point in 2011. ......

4. How much is Film4's yearly budget and how much of it did "Slumdog Millionaire take up? ( Be careful with this one as co-productions, UK Lottery money and deals with Pathe, etc. helps make Film4's budget stretch further!)
5. Why does Film4 form partnerships with other companies/individuals?
6. What is the future for Film4 - budget and film-wise?
7. What problems did Film Four face in the naughties?