BBC films is a film making sidearm to the main corporation, which has produced/co produced a range of successful British hits including Jane Eyre, Billy Elliot and Nativity
It has co produced approximately 8 films a year, working with a variety of UK distributers
Since 2007, it has become a main department of the BBC, rather than an independent
The company itself has been going pre 1990s
BBC vision is now know as "Television" from the beginning of 2013
Sky -
Sky Movies is a prescription channel opened by Sky Television in 1989, which currently has around 5 million subscribers through cable, internet and satellite TV
In 2005 it launched a mobile service through Vodaphone and is said to be one of the world's largest movie services
In the late 1980s, Sky Movies released it's first film: Dirty Dancing and had signed deals with the likes of Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures
From 1991, it started to broadcast 24 hours a day
When Sky Movies collaborated with British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB), it's first film to be shown was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The launch of Sky Digital in the late 1990s saw the new release of Sky Premiere and Sky Movies Gold
More recently, in early 2013, Sky Movies Disney was released, which replaced the former Disney Cinemagic
It's original production set up was similar to BBC's and Film 4's via film funding
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