Formerly | Carevalley Limited (February–July 2004) [1] |
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Industry | Motion pictures |
Founded | 2005 | (London, England)
Founder | |
Headquarters | London, England, UK |
Products | Feature films Television programs |
Divisions | Blueprint Television |
Website | blueprintpictures |
Blueprint Pictures Limited is an indie 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]
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]
Year | Series title | Director | Distributor |
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2015 | The Outcast | Iain Softley | BBC One |
2016 | The Last Dragonslayer (TV film) | Jamie Magnus Stone | Sky One |
2018 | A Very English Scandal | Stephen Frears | BBC One |
2021 | A Very British Scandal | Anne Sewitsky | |
2024 | A Very Royal Scandal | Julian Jarrold | Prime Video |
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