Blueprint Pictures

Blueprint Pictures Limited is an independent film and television production company founded in 2005 by producers Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin. Sony Pictures Television has owned a small stake in Blueprint Television since 2016.^[2]

In 2008, Blueprint Pictures produced Martin McDonagh’s film In Bruges, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, in conjunction with Film4 Productions.^[3] Blueprint also produced McDonagh's second feature Seven Psychopaths, starring Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, and Sam Rockwell.^[4]

In 2017, Blueprint produced Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with Film4 Productions,^[5] starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, and Peter Dinklage. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, won two,^[6] and won 5 BAFTAs^[7] as well as 4 Golden Globes.^[8]

2018 saw the release of Mike Newell’s The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society^[9] starring Lily James and Michiel Huisman, and the BBC television show A Very English Scandal, starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw and directed by Stephen Frears.^[10]

Other Blueprint productions include The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel starring Judi Dench and Bill Nighy,^[11] The Riot Club starring Sam Claflin, Max Irons, and Douglas Booth and directed by Lone Scherfig,^[12] and Becoming Jane starring Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy.^[13] Blueprint's first television drama, The Outcast, was shown on BBC1 in 2015.^[14]