Company Pictures

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Company Pictures
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Film
Television
Founded1998;27 years ago (1998)
Founders Charles Pattinson
George Faber
Headquarters,
United Kingdom
Key people
Michele Buck (CEO)
Products Motion pictures
Television programmes
Parent All3Media (2003–present)
Website www.companypictures.co.uk

Company Pictures is a British television production company which has produced drama programming for many broadcasters. [1] It was set up in 1998 by Charles Pattinson and George Faber, colleagues at BBC Films. Their first film was Morvern Callar , which was credited as a co-production with BBC Films as they had begun developing it while still employed there. [2] In 2003 Company Pictures became part of All3Media. [3]

In 2012, founders Pattinson and Faber left Company Pictures to set up another independent production company, [4] and John Yorke became managing director until 2015. [5] He was succeeded by Michele Buck, former joint managing director of Mammoth Screen. [6]

For both artistic and fiscal reasons, when producing the TV series The White Queen , Company Pictures entered into collaboration with a Flemish production house. This enabled them to film in the medieval cities of Ghent and Bruges, while receiving tax-breaks as a European co-production and for investment in Flanders. [7]

References

  1. About Us – Company Pictures
  2. Christopher Meir, Scottish Cinema: Texts and Contexts (Manchester University Press, 2015), p. 77.
  3. All3Media buys Company Pictures, Broadcast , 14 October 2004. Accessed 25 October 2016.
  4. Jake Kanter, Company founders quit - to set up new All3 indie, Broadcast , 22 June 2012. Accessed 25 October 2016.
  5. Jake Kanter, John Yorke leaves Company Pictures, Broadcast , 27 March 2015. Accessed 25 October 2016.
  6. Michele Buck to head Company Pictures, Broadcast , 18 June 2015. Accessed 25 October 2016.
  7. J. Verheul, "British Flanders", in Screening European Heritage: Creating and Consuming History on Film, edited by Paul Cooke and Rob Stone (Springer, 2016), pp. 37-39.