1. Case Study 1:
Hollywood Blockbuster
Case Study 2:
IndependentBritish
Film
Produced by Charles Roven
Richard Suckle
Ed Guiney
David Gross
Type of Ownership Conglomerate Independent
Other films by
Producers
Scooby Doo, Batman
Begins, American Hustle
The Lobster
Main Cast and Crew David Ayer, Will Smith,
Margot Robbie and
Jared Leto
Lenny Abrahamson, Brie
Larson, Jacob Tremblay,
Joan Allen, Sean Bridges
and Will H. Macy
Locations Toronto and Chicago Pinewood Studio
Toronto
Budget $175 million $13 million
Distributor Warner Brothers Elevation Pictures, A24
and Film4 is one of the
production companies
Release Date August1st
2016 at
Beacon Theatre and
August5th
2016 USA
4th
September 2015 (at
a festival), London Film
Festival October 11th
2015
Type of Release Wide, 4255 theatres Limited on 16th
October
2015, Wide22nd
January
2016 and UK release
January 15th
2016 by
studio canal
Weeks at Box Office
Money made at Box
Office
$745.6 million $36.2 million
Formats Available Blu Ray, Imax, 3D and
2D
Blu Ray
Merchandise Harley Quinn jacketand
bat, phone case,
funkopop, bags, DVDs,
action figures
The book
Advertising and
marketing
Posters, trailers, comic
con san Diego, MTV
movie awards, the
actors, soundtrack
Trailers, posters
2. Examples of Synergy DC comics and Warner
Brothers, Dolby Digital
music
Author, Film4, A24,
Elevation Pictures
Examples of cross-
media convergence
Use of technology in the
production of this film
Arriflex 435 ES,
Panvision G series
lenses, Panavision
Panaflex millennium
XL2, Panavison E- and
G-, Phantom Flex 4K
Panavison Primos lenses
on a Red Epic Dragon
camera
Type of Audience Global, 78 countries National, 800 theatres
in US and Canada
Home entertainment
release
December 13th
2016
and Sky and Virgin
movies
US 1st
march 2016,
Ireland May 2016
Awards Won Best Soundtrack
Hollywood Music
awards, most
anticipated movie and
best actress Teen
Choice awards
Oscars BestActress,
best film British
Independentfilm
awards