Number 9 Films

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Number 9 Films
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Founded2002
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Website number9films.co.uk

Number 9 Films is a British independent film production company co-founded in 2002 by producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, after a long collaboration at both Palace Pictures and Scala Productions. [1] [2] [3] In 2018, Claudia Yusef joined the company as head of development. [4]

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Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen were jointly honoured with the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award in 2019. [5] [6]

In 2019, Number 9 Films entered into a multi-year agreement with film studio and cinema chain Shochiku for distribution of its theatrical films in Japan. The studio would also contribute funding for film development. [7] [8]

Projects

Films produced under the Number 9 Films banner include Breakfast on Pluto , directed by Neil Jordan and recipient of four Irish Film & Television Academy awards, including Best Director, Best Script, and Best Actor in a Lead Role – Film; [9] Made in Dagenham , directed by Nigel Cole and made into a West End musical in 2014; [10] Carol , directed by Todd Haynes, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, which received nine BAFTA awards nominations and six Oscar nominations, including Best Actress and Supporting Actress respectively; [11] [12] and Colette , directed by Wash Westmoreland and starring Keira Knightley as the French novelist, released in 2018.

Middle of Somewhere, a biopic written by Phyllis Nagy about British singer Dusty Springfield is in development. [13] The spec script of futuristic drama The Assessor was picked up in 2017. [14] [15] The same year, Mothering Sunday, an adaptation by Alice Birch of the Graham Swift 2016 novel, Mothering Sunday: A Romance, was acquired for development in collaboration with Film4. [16]

The first television project produced by Number 9 Films, in collaboration with Red Production Company, is an adaptation of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady . [17] [18]

Filmography

YearTitleWorldwide box officeNotes
2004 Return to Sender
2005 Mrs. Harris Nominated for twelve Emmy Awards [19]
2005 Stoned $174,758 [20]
2005 Breakfast on Pluto $3.9 million [21] Nominated for 11 Irish Film & Television Academy awards. [9]
2006 Sixty Six $1.9 million [22]
2007 And When Did You Last See Your Father? $2.7 million [23] Nominated for seven British Independent Film Awards [24]
2008 Sounds Like Teen Spirit
2008 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People $19.2 million [25] Production budget: $28 million.
2009 Perrier's Bounty $167,938 [26]
2010 Made in Dagenham $15.6 million [27] Production budget: £5 million.
Nominated for four British Academy Film Awards
Nominated for four British Independent Film Awards [28]
2012 Midnight's Children $1.6 million [29]
2012 Byzantium $92,544 [30] Production budget: €8 million.
2012 Great Expectations $920,099 [31]
2014 Hyena $89,526 [32]
2015 Carol $42.7 million [33] Production budget: $11.8 million.
Nominated for nine British Academy Film Awards
Nominated for six Academy Awards
Nominated for five Golden Globe Awards
2015 Youth $24 million [34] Nominated for two Golden Globe Awards
Nominated for one Academy Award
2016 The Limehouse Golem $2.3 million [35] Released in 2017.
2016 Their Finest $13.8 million [36]
2017 On Chesil Beach $3.4 million [37]
2018 Colette $16 million [38] Nominated for four British Independent Film Awards
Nominated for two Satellite Awards
2021 Mothering Sunday $2.1 million
2022 Living $12.1 millionNominated for nine British Independent Film Awards
Nominated for one Golden Globe Award
Nominated for three British Academy Film Awards
Nominated for four Satellite Awards
Nominated for two Academy Awards

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    2. ↑ Mitchell, Wendy (5 December 2013). "Karlsen named new chair of WFTV". Screen Daily . Retrieved 18 October 2017.
    3. ↑ Dams, Tim (16 May 2012). "The UKs top 40 film production companies". Televisual. Televisual Media UK Ltd. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
    4. ↑ Tartaglione, Nancy (29 May 2018). "Number 9 Films Hires Claudia Yusef To Head Development". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 19 May 2020.
    5. ↑ Parfitt, Orlando (17 December 2018). "Stephen Woolley, Liz Karlsen to receive Bafta for outstanding contribution to cinema". Screen Daily . Retrieved 11 July 2019.
    6. ↑ Smith, Neil (8 February 2019). "Elizabeth Karlsen & Stephen Woolley – Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema". British Academy of Film and Television Arts . Retrieved 19 May 2020.
    7. ↑ Grater, Tom (21 August 2019). "'Carol' producer Number 9 Films signs first-look deal with Japan's Shochiku (exclusive)". Screen Daily . Retrieved 19 May 2020.
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    31. ↑ "Great Expectations (2013)". The Numbers .
    32. ↑ "Hyena (2015)". The Numbers .
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    34. ↑ "Youth (2015)". The Numbers .
    35. ↑ The Limehouse Golem at Box Office Mojo
    36. ↑ "Their Finest (2017)". The Numbers .
    37. ↑ "On Chesil Beach (2018)". The Numbers .
    38. ↑ "Colette (2018)". The Numbers .
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