My power point on Vertigo Films//

1. By Callum Richardson

2.  According to Vertigo’s website
‘Vertigo Films is a UK Film and Distribution company founded in 2002 by Allan Niblo and James
Richardson. The following year Rupert Preston and Nick Love joined and became partners. The company’s
mission is to create and distribute commercially driven independent cinema and since inception it has produced
28 films and distributed a further 35. The Films span a range of genres and audience taste and include the box
office smash hit Street dance 3D, the biggest independent UK DVD of all time The Football Factory, the multi
award winning Monsters, Vertigo co-production Ajami (nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language
Film), smash hit family film Horrid Henry The Movie, audience favourite The Sweeney, and the hottest
director of the moment, Nicolas Winding Refn's first English-language film, Bronson.’

3. The Sweeney is a 2012 British action drama film, inspired by the 1970s The
Sweeney, the British television police drama of the same name, but set in
contemporary London. Directed and written by Nick Love, and co-written by John
Hodge, it is based on the characters created by Ian Kennedy Martin. It stars Ray
Winstone as Jack Regan, Ben Drew as George Carter and Damian Lewis as Frank
Haskins, with Hayley Atwell and Steven Mackintosh. The story focuses on two
members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police. The Squad's
purpose is to investigate commercial armed robberies, along with the prevention and
investigation of other serious armed crime.

4.  Bronson is a 2008 British fictionalised biographical film co-written
and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Tom Hardy. The
film follows the life of notorious prisoner Michael Gordon Peterson,
who was renamed Charles Bronson by his fight promoter. Born into
a respectable middle-class family, Peterson would nevertheless
become one of the United Kingdom's most dangerous criminals, and
is known for having spent almost his entire adult life in solitary
confinement. Bronson is narrated with humour, blurring the line
between comedy and horror.

5.  Vertigo is a British film production company, they have a wide reach and varied audience, their
films would be considered British due to the obvious British setting and themes and even through
some titles ( such as its all gone Pete Tong which is cockney rhyming slang for wrong and the
Sweeney, based on Sweeney Todd, rhyming slang for flying squad.), the actors and directors
and founders employed are mainly British, including names such as Ray Winstone and Tom
Hardy, These films are semi conventional as they are more stereotypical based on themes setting
and characters but less conventional seemingly in story and other aspects. They have also worked
with Syco( Simon Cowell) to produce Pudsey.