Tuesday 24 November 2015

Case studies

Legend (UK production,financed within the UK) 

Budget: $25 million
Director: Brian Helgeland
Producer:
Stars:  Tom Hardy people would go and see it just to see his attractive face.
           Emily Browning
           Taron Egerton
           Christoper Ecclestone
           Colin Morgan
Genre: Crime thriller
Box Office: £3.70m plus £1.49m in Wednesday/Thursday previews, for a five-day total of £5.19m
Production company:    
Certificate: 18 Can restrict the number of people going to see the film and could put people off with violence.
Marketing: In the poster they hid a 2 star review within a myriad of 5 and 4 star reviews. They made it seem like there were more stars than there really was.
Good trailer with catchy and upbeat music to make people want to go and see it. 
Tom hardy playing both characters. He is a really good actor so people wanted it go see it for his performance 
The alan carr show, something a lot of people watch so there is a lot of publicity now that they would not have had before. More people are aware of it now. 
Release Date: 9th September 2015,
Review: 2 Star review that the guardian gave it which the hid on their poster. Others were 4 and 5 stars.
60% on rotten tomatoes
Empire magazine gave it 4 stars.

The Avengers: Age of Ultron (USA blockbuster)
Budget: $279.9 million
Director: Josh Whedon, Hes's the original fanboy, Buffy the vampire slayer, Firefox
Producer: Robert Doweny JR
                Chris Evans
                Scarlett Johanssen
                Chris Hemsworth
                James Spader
               Samuel L Jackson
               Basically a lot of attractive stars with plenty of successful films.
Genre: Comic book movie, has a reputation of doing well
Box Office: $191,271,109 - opening weekend, $458,991,599 - Gross
Production company: Marvel Studios
Certificate: 12A means a wide demographic, many types of people can go and see the film.
Marketing: The fact that there were so many stars in this film was good for marketing. Also the first film was so successful already made people want to go and see the second one. Young girls are attracted to the male leads and they make scarlet johannsen attractive to young males. The fact that the marvel films are a whole collection of films that are all interlink means that to fully understand all of the films you cant really miss one. They all reference each other
The cast all appeared on various chat shows to promote the film and it was longley anticipated.
The trailer was good and showed all the best bits of the film. Funny and entertaining The trailer its self was long awaited.
San Diego Comic con Big media coverage all the stars there to promote the film Also lots of pranks and cool stuff. Robert Downey JR himself is good and he is the best casting to pay Iron man. The casting is good.
Reviews: In the was of reviews many critics thing that it didnt stand up against the first avengers and that it didnt have as good a plot as maybe The winter soldier.
The Independant - pop culture sugar rush
MORE STUFF ON XMEN, like how it was the birth of comic book genres
There's gonna be 25 comic book movies released by 2020

Another Earth (low budget film)

Budget: $100000
Director: Mike Cahill, former documentary maker
Stars: There was not really and stars in this film.
Genre: sci-f, but subtle like it could be a drama but theres another earth in the sky.









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