Main British Film Companies

East is East 127 hours Another year Slumdog Millionaire

How I live now Snitch The women in black Area 51

Contraband The worlds end I give it a year Rush

Enemy Outlaw What Just Happened Safari

The world turns Paper Hearts The last man on earth Droom

To qualify as a British film, it needs to meet three of the following six criteria:

A British Director A British Producer A predominantly British cast A British production company A subject matter that informs on the British experience

Dredd does in fact qualify for this criteria . This is firstly due to its predominantly British director and writer Pete Travis ( Director ) , Alex Garland ( Producer ) . Dredd does not have a British cast . Judge dredd was a co production between an American and a British company therefore it qualifies .

How do British films attract audiences ? To attract and global audiences ,British films tend to use a classic posh setting or a medieval setting where the British had monarchs etc . as this is how the rest of the world stereotypically see Britain .

I think that the audience types that went to see dredd would have been : Mainstream: unlikely ever to view anything other than major Hollywood style blockbusters.

Mainstream plus: generally mainstream, but apt to see less mainstream films on a few occasions.

Film Buffs1: eschew mainstream films in favour of more extreme, esoteric, challenging and difficult subject matter (specialised) films. Dredd would attract these audiences because it was a blockbuster so it will definitely be mainstream as lots of people will see it , and also it will appeal to film buffs of violent action movies .