2. History
 Film4 was launched on the 1st November 1998. It was originally
called filmfour. The second of channel fours channels ( after
channel 4 itself). Originally a subscription based program for
sky network via itv digital (before itv digital went into
administration). The first film to be broadcast on this was
“what’s eating gilbert grape”. Additional channels were added
at a later date (filmfour world and filmfour extreme) and
filmfour+1 . Filmfour world and filmfour extreme were
discontinued in 2003 and replaced by filmfour weekly. Filmfour
weekly was discontinued in 2006 when the service stopped
becoming a subscription company. On the 19 july 2006 the
channel ended its subscription based business model and on
the 23rd july it started it’s free to watch business model as part
of the freeview brand which increased it’s availability from
300,000 (subscribers) to 18 million households. The first film it
aired on it’s free subscription model was the british premier of
“lost in translation”.

3. About Film 4
 Film 4 show a wide range of films including British
films, US independent films, Hollywood
blockbusters, mainstream drama and comedy,
foreign films and cult cinema.
 They also show interviews about films with the
actors and directors.
 As well as just showing films they make them,
films such as trainspotting and academy award
winning ‘slum dog millionaire’.

4. Filmography
 Since 2004 film 4 have been involved in
the production of 52 films.
 They have helped finance 42 films since
2003.

5. Trainspotting
 Trainspotting was not a huge blockbuster.
However it helped expand the film4 reputation, its
controversial theme and morals were never going
to sell out to the ,millions but the film was a huge
success in the market it was aimed at and it gave
film4 the reputation of a top quality film producer.
 It made 16 million, and they spent 3.5million on
the film production.
 In the opening weekend it made $ 200,000.
 However it was most successful when it was sold
on DVD.