Blueprint Pictures

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Blueprint Pictures Limited
FormerlyCarevalley Limited (February–July 2004) [1]
IndustryMotion pictures
Founded2005;19 years ago (2005) (London, England)
Founder
HeadquartersLondon,
England, UK
ProductsFeature films
Television programs
Divisions Blueprint Television
Website blueprintpictures.com

Blueprint Pictures Limited is an independent film and television production company founded in 2005 by producers Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin. Sony Pictures Television has owned a small stake in Blueprint Television since 2016. [2]

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In 2008, Blueprint Pictures produced Martin McDonagh’s film In Bruges, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, in conjunction with Film4 Productions. [3] Blueprint also produced McDonagh's second feature Seven Psychopaths , starring Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, and Sam Rockwell. [4]

In 2017, Blueprint produced Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with Film4 Productions, [5] starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, and Peter Dinklage. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, won two, [6] and won 5 BAFTAs [7] as well as 4 Golden Globes. [8]

2018 saw the release of Mike Newell’s The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society [9] starring Lily James and Michiel Huisman, and the BBC television show A Very English Scandal, starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw and directed by Stephen Frears. [10]

Other Blueprint productions include The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel starring Judi Dench and Bill Nighy, [11] The Riot Club starring Sam Claflin, Max Irons, and Douglas Booth and directed by Lone Scherfig, [12] and Becoming Jane starring Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy. [13] Blueprint's first television drama, The Outcast , was shown on BBC1 in 2015. [14]

Filmography

Film

YearFilm titleDirectorDistributor
2007 Wind Chill Gregory Jacobs TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing
2007 Becoming Jane Julian Jarrold Buena Vista International, Miramax Films
2008 In Bruges Martin McDonagh Universal Studios, Focus Features
2011 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel John Madden Fox Searchlight Pictures
2012 Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh CBS Films, Momentum Pictures
2012 Now Is Good Ol Parker Warner Bros. Pictures
2014 The Riot Club Lone Scherfig Universal Pictures, IFC Films
2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel John Madden Fox Searchlight Pictures
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Martin McDonagh Fox Searchlight Pictures
2017 The Mercy James Marsh StudioCanal
2018 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mike Newell
2020 Emma. Autumn de Wilde Focus Features
2021 The Last Letter from Your Lover Augustine Frizzell Netflix, StudioCanal
A Boy Called Christmas Gil Kenan
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh Searchlight Pictures
2023 All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh
2024 The Beautiful Game Thea Sharrock Netflix

Television

YearSeries titleDirectorDistributor
2015 The Outcast Iain Softley BBC
2016 The Last Dragonslayer (TV movie) Jamie Magnus Stone Sony Pictures Television
2018 A Very English Scandal Stephen Frears
2021 A Very British Scandal Anne Sewitsky

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