Warp Film

Tyrannosaur

Synopsis:
This story follows two people who come together to help each other in their unfortunate circumstances. Jospeh is an unemployed drinker who's wife died and has a terrible, violent temper. He meets christian charity shop worker, Hannah, who helps him through the difficult time in his life.  However, what is first unknown to the audience is that Hannah's in a violent relationship and Jospeh actually provides her support and comfort as her life deteriorates.

Tyrannosaur did not have a phenomenal budget for marketing. They released trailers of the film as well as posters to help spread the word about it's release. However, with no major stars to sell the film there were no interviews or hype around the actors. There was also no budget for TV spots or featurettes. They did, however, do a lot of film festival promotion which would have been cheaper and still reached a significant number of people.

Production Budget: £1.2 million
Worldwide Profit: $22,321
Production Companies:
-Film4
-UK Film Council
-EM Media

Other films produced by Film4:
-'Suffragette' (2015)
-'Ex Machina' (2015)
-'Mr Turner' (2014)
-'12 Years a Slave' (2013)

Other films produced by UK Film Council:
-'The Woman in Black' (2012)
-'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen' (2011)
-'Submarine' (2010)
-'We need to talk about Kevin' (2011)

Other films made by EM Media:
-'Entity' (2012)
-'In the Meadow' (2010)
-'Hush' (2008)
-'The Imaginary Girl' (2007)

UK Release Date: 7/10/2011
UK Distributer: Optimum Releasing


Film4 is a subsidiary of Channel 4 television in the UK and so gets some of it's funding for their films from the parent company.
StudioCanal are horizontally integrated with Optimum Releasing (the distributor)

This film isn't likely to be shown at Ilkley Cinema because it was a very small budget film without a well known cast or large amounts of marketing and publicity. It is not in a series so does not have an established fan base and has a very specific, narrow target audience. This means it would not attract many people to the cinema and result in very little profit.

Formats Tyrannosaur is available on:
-Amazon Instant Video
-iTunes
-DVD
-Film 4 (TV channel)