The Kings Speech - Research

The Kings Speech Research

Brief Overview

Director - Tom Hooper
Distributors - Momentum Picture
Budget - £8 Million
Box Office - £414,211,549 Million
Studio - See-Saw Films, UK Film Council
Producers - Iain Canning
Main Actors - Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Guy Pearce

The film is the private story of a famous public man, King George VI (known in his family circle as Bertie), the woman who loved him and became his queen, and the innovative Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue, who helped him control and come to terms with the stammer that had tortured him since childhood.

hat makes a film British?

Most people would describe a 'British' film was a reference to obvious cultural elements many of these elements include: 

• A setting in the UK.

• The focus of British people abroad.

• A British cast.

• A film based on aspects of British life.

• A film based on a book by a British author.

Under The Film Act 1985 states that in order for a film to be registered as a British film it must comply with the following statements:

• The Maker Test: The film must be created by a UK company that is registered and managed in the UK or in another state of Europe.

• The Production Cost Test: 70% of the production cost of the film must be spent on film making activity in the UK. 

• Previously Filmed Material: No more than 10% of the playing time of the film should 

• comprise a sequence of visual images from a previously certified film or from a film by a 

• different maker.

• The Labour Cost Test: 70%  (minus - if desired - the cost of one person whose nationality must be non- Commonweatlth/ EU must have been paid to citizens or ordinary residents of the Commonwealth. EU/EEA or a country with which the European Community has signed a agreement with.

• 75% of the total labour cost - after deducting the cost of two persons who nationality must be non- Commonwealth, and one of whom must be a actor- must have been paid to citizens or ordinary residents of the EU with which the European Community has signed a agreement.

• Previously Filmed Material: No more than 10% of the playing time of the film should comprise a sequence of visual images from a previously certified film or a film by a different maker.

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