2. Introduction
For my institutional research I will be covering the following
sections;
• How man crime thriller films were released in 2012
• How profitable the crime thriller genre
• Which films are the most successful and why
• What are the main characteristics of the audiences for
crime thriller genre’s (age, gender, social class)
This is an important part of my research as it will allow me to
gather vital information on my target audience which will help
me produce the best possible film that I can, I will be looking
at the main positive and negative aspects of crime thriller
films and also things that I will incorporate into my own film.
3. List of Thrillers released in 2012
• The Woman in Black (3rd February)
• Gone (24th February)
• Fury (3rd March)
• The Raven (9th March)
• Sinister (11th March)
• The Hunger Games (12th March)
• The Cold Light of Day (6th April)
• Keyhole (6th April)
• In Their Skin (21st April)
• Deadfall (22nd April)
• Knife Fight (25th April)
4. Continued List of Thrillers released in
2012
• Antiviral (19th May)
• Chernobyl Diaries (25th May)
• 7 Boxes (8th August)
• The Bourne Legacy (10th August)
• The Possession (30th August)
• Taken 2 (7th September)
• House at the End of the Street (21st September)
• Zero Dark Thirty (19th December)
• Jack Reacher (21st December)
5. Which film was the most successful?
2012
The Hunger Games (12th March)-There are many reasons why this film was
one of the most successful films of 2012, one reason would be that a large
amount of money was spend on the advertisement of the film, therefore the
film would be advertised everywhere and would encourage more and more
people to go and watch it. Also as a first of the series this film would also
make people want to watch it, as it was a book before it was a people it
already had a large number of fans all ready. Another reason why it was so
successful was due to the fact that it had very established and good actors in
them, for example Jennifer Lawrence was the main actor along with Josh
Hutchersonm who are both well known actors and have a very high success
rate in films already.
7. Continued…
As your are able to see from the table on the
page before, the gross amount of profit for
thriller films was $1512690447 in 2012 which an
approximate sale of 1911671131 tickets in
cinemas, this is worldwide. This is more than
other genre’s, for example horror, musical, black
comedy, documentaries or romantic comedyies
however it is also less profitable that adventure,
comedy drama or action films
8. Characteristics of viewer
A thriller can be either a film or a book that is normally
designed to keep the reader/viewer on edge with
suspense and action, therefore the audience age
ranges normal range between 15-18 however this can
be due to the age restrictions of the specific film.
Thrillers normally attract young males as they tend to
have a lot of action in them and the gender that
specifically enjoys action is typically the male genre.