The document provides information on four films produced and distributed by different film companies: - Vertigo Films produced Monsters (2010) and Streetdance 2 (2012) - Warner Bros Pictures produced The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and American Sniper (2015) - Warp Films produced Tyrannosaur (2011) It then gives details on the directors, actors, budgets, filming locations, distribution and box office performance of each film. Information on Ollie, Tyler and Bertie's involvement with the different films is also provided.

1. Vertigo Films: Monsters (2010) and Streetdance 2 (2012)
Warner Bros Pictures: The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and American Sniper (2015)
Warp Films: Tyrannosaur (2011)
Film Industry Research
Ollie=Monsters and Tyrannosaur
Tyler= American Sniper
Bertie= Streetdance 2 and The Dark
Knight Rises

2. Monsters (2010)
The film was written and Directed by Gareth Edwards, who
before Monsters had only directed two TV documentaries
Perfect Disasters and Heroes and Villains. However, since
he has directed a major hollywood film, Godzilla. It has also
been announced that he is directed a unnamed star wars
project (2016) and Godzilla 2 (2018).
The stars of the film are Scoot Mcnairy and Whitney Able.
Scoot Mcnairy made his turning point
in film in 2007 in ‘In search of a
Midnight Kiss’, which Gareth
Edwards spotted him, therefore he
was cast for Monsters. Since 2010,
he has been in Argo and 12 years a
slave.
Whitney Able starred in an episode of CSI NY, however since Monsters she has been in the
Kane Files, Criminal Minds, and A Walk among the Tombstones with Liam Neeson

3. Technical
Specifications
Sound mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
Music: Jon Hopkins
Edited: Colin Goudie
The entire film was filmed using a Sony EX3 (prosumer camera)

4. Special Effects
Edwards created his
special effects by using
Adobe software, 7Brush
and Autodesk 3ds Max. He
had 5 months to add
special effects to 250
shots. He averaged this at
two shots a day, however
after two months he has
still not created the right
looking Monster.

5. Budgets and revenue
• Budget for Production= “way under” $500,000
• Budget for Filming= $15,000
• Total cash made= $4.3 million
• The opening weekend made $1 million

6. • It was filmed in Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa
Rica and the USA over a period of three weeks
(often without official permission)
• Filming in these locations also have an upside as
most of them have incredibly cheap cost of living
which enabled Edwards to get ‘more bang for his
buck’

7. U.K Distributors
Vertigo Films
United International Pictures
Warner Bros
Buena Vista
Twentieth Century Fox
Sony

8. Distribution and Marketing
• SWSX Film Festival : within hours of being showed, it was
sold to Magnolia Pictures in America belonging to Wagner /
Cuban company’s for magnet releasing for North America
and Mexico.
• It premiered at the South by Southwest film festival 13th
March 2010.
• UK premier:- 64th Edinburgh International film festival 18th
June, 2010.
• Theatrical release = Russia 30th September, distributed by
Valga film.

9. Marketing
• Vertigo teamed up with digital agency, ‘Thinkjam’ to
conceive a location based campaign.
• There was a teaser press release on foursquare a
long with clips.

10.  The production budget was under – £500,000
 The film had no presold elements but it has a sequel that is
coming out in cinemas soon.
 The film was funded by vertigo films themselves .

11.  Vertigo distributed this film in the UK and in US it was done by,
magnet releasing.
 Not much went into traditional media advertising, they had
photos in magazines and posters at bus stops but not much else.
Was also promoted at film festivals such as SXSW, which seemed
to be an effective method.
 However it used the internet well, on YouTube it had featurettes,
teaser trailers, then some other trailers as well. They also used
social media to help advertise as well, eg: foursquare.
 The film was only released in one format- 35mm (anamorphic) in
a D- cinema.
 At home you can watch it on both Blu Ray and DVD, also can
get it from iTunes store and Netflix. Therefore also available on
games consoles as well.

12.  Here you can see
What special features
are included on DVD
And Blu Ray
However the film is also
Readily available to
Illegally download.

13. Vertigo Films
•Street Dance 2
• Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini were the directors of the movie
Street dance and they both also directed the other Street Dance
films including Street Dance 3D. They both also directed Walking
on Sunshine and What If.
•The Film stared:
•George Sampson
•Sofia Boutella
•Falk Hentschel
•Flawless

14. •PRODUCTION

15. Cast
George Sampson is known for winning the
second ever series of Britain's Got Talent at
the age of 14.
Sofia Boutella is known for being in Street
Dance and Monsters.
Falk Hentschel is known for Knight and Day
and White House down.
Flawless got to the final of the the Third
Britain’s Got Talents series

16. What camera
3 different types of cameras were used
•Paradise FX 3D rigs
•Red one MX
•Silicon Imaging SI-2K (hand held steady cam)

17. Location of shooting
•Rome, Lazio, Italy
•London, England, UK
•Berlin, Germany
•Paris, France

18. PRE SOLD ELEMENTS
•Obviously there is Street dance the
original movie which helps out when
it comes to advertising for Street
Dance 2 because the name Street
Dance is already established.

19. •DISTRIBUTION
AND MARKETING

20. DISTRIBUTION COMPANY
•VERTIGO

21. Advertisement
•I have looked around on the internet to find
advertisement for street dance 2 and there doesn’t
appear to be much information, but i did find some
trailers on youtube

22. Types of cinemas
• Showed in 3D cinemas
• And in digital cinemas

23. Ways of watching it from home
• You can find it on Netflix. There is also a full
movie up on YouTube. The movie can be
downloaded from Itunes as well.
•

24. Types of dvd’s
On normal DVD
Blue ray

25. Exhibition
• The film was released in 34 different
countries around the world including
Singapore, THE UK, Portugal and
New Zealand

26. Box OFFICE
• Total Box office- $20,788,483
• Box office UK- $4,835,465
• Box office opening weekend UK-
$974,007

27. Warp Films
• Tyrannosaur (2011)
• The 2011 film was directed and written by 2nd time director/ actor Paddy
Considine, who is known for films such as, The Bourne Ultimatum (2007),
At Worlds End and Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
• Eddie Marsan starred alongside Paddy Considine in At Worlds end
• It stars Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman and Eddie Marsan.

28. Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan is an experienced
actor known for Trainspotting
(1996), War Horse (2011), Boy
A (2007), Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows, and
Tyrannosaur (2011)

29. Olivia Coleman
She is a well known
British actor, who has
come to much bigger
fame in recent years,
being known for Locke
(2013), Hot Fuzz
(2007), and The Iron
Lady (2011)
She has starred along side actors and actress’s such as Nick Frost, Simon
Pegg, Bill Nighy, Meryl Streep and Tom Hardy.

30. • This film was filmed in one location only, Leeds in
the United Kingdom. They used a small town
instead of a set and kept everything very basic and
as it was to create everything realistically.

31. Runtime: 1 hr 32 min (92 min)
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
CameraCanon: EOS 5D Mark II
Red One MX, Cooke Panchro Lenses
Laboratory Soho Images, London, UK
Negative Format: Redcode RAW
Cinematographic Process: Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format)
Redcode RAW (4.5K) (source format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema
Technical Specs

32. Opening Weekend Stats
Opening Weekend US :
$804
Budget :£750,000
Box office: £396,930

33. Cinematography: Erik Wilson
Edited by: Pia Di Ciaula
Production Company
Warp X
Inflammable Films
Film4 Productions
UK Film Council
Screen Yorkshire
EM Media
Optimum Releasing
Distributed by
StudioCanal UK (UK)
Strand Releasing (US)
Release dates
21 January 2011 (Sundance)
7 October 2011 (United Kingdom)
Country : United Kingdom
Language : English

34. Distribution
The film was a fairly small project and therefore was not marketed in
any huge way. Warp films were expecting DVD sales to be bigger
than the opening weekend.
Warp has it’s own website on which you can watch Tyrannosaur,
therefore it shows that it is still being marketed four years after it’s
initial release.

35. Downloads and Festivals
• The film is available for illegal download on websites
such as Putlocker and Sockshare.
• It has also won many awards at the Sundance film
festival, and it won a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut
for a British Writer, Producer or Director.

36. Exhibition
• The film was release in 25 countries which is a
massive figure considering the fact that Warp Films
is a small, independent film company.
• $243, 252 was the gross in just the UK for this film,
almost a third of the budget. The overall gross was
$405,454. However, the film is still making money.

37.  An American company, probably the biggest producer of films
in current time
 Founded by 4 members of the Warner family, Albert, Harry, Sam
and Jack on- April 4, 1923
 Its headquarters is in Burbank- California.
 Is part of the time Warner company.

38. THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

39. CAST
• Director- Christopher Nolan. These are the films he
directed and is known for directing.

40. ACTORS AND ACTRESSES
• Christian Bale- who is mainly known for being Bruce
Wayne/ Batman
• Tom Hardy- who is known from Christopher Nolan’s
Inception
• Anne Hathaway- Who is known for Interstellar

41. TYPES OF CAMERAS USED
• Arriflex 235, Panavision C-, E-Series and Super High Speed Lenses
• Beaumont VistaVision Camera, Panavision Primo Lenses
• IMAX MSM 9802, Hasselblad and Mamiya Lenses
• Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision C-, E-Series and Super High Speed Lenses
• Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2, Panavision C-, E-Series and Super High Speed Lenses
• Panavision Panaflex System 65 Studio, Panavision System 65 Lenses

42. LOCATION OF SHOOTING
There are 34 different filming locations including
Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India (The Pit prison)
Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK (Wayne Manor)
Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK (prologue)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (Gotham City)
La loggia bar & restaurant - Florence, Tuscany, Italy (final scene)

43. BUDGET
• The n Production Budget for the Dark Knight Rises is
$250,000,000

44. PRE SOLD ELEMENTS
The Dark Knight Rises is a franchise with 9 pre sold elements
, this will help out when it comes to advertisement because the
brand will already be out there.
Batman
Batman and Robin (1949)
Batman (1966)
Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher 2.1 Batman (1989)
Batman Returns (1992)
Batman Forever (1995)
Batman & Robin (1997)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)

45. DISTRIBUTION AND MARKETING
• Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
July 16, 2012 (New York City)
July 20, 2012 (United Kingdom)
July 20, 2012 (United States)

46. TRADITIONAL MEDIA USED TO MARKET
The Dark Knight rises raised awareness through the use of video games, advertisement on busses,
billboards, magazines and more.

47. ONLINE MARKETING
• On YouTube as well as there being a normal trailer
there is also a teaser trailer which is released before
the official trailer to give the audience something to
expect of the movie before the trailer.

48. DIFFERENT FORMATS
• IMAX (some scenes)
• Panavision (anamorphic)
• Panavision Super 70 (some scenes)
• VistaVision (some scenes)

49. FORMATS TO WATCH AT HOME
• Amazon are selling the Dark Knight Rises on DVD and on
Blue Ray

50. AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
The film is available to download, which can be
annoying for the Batman franchise as it allows people
to watch it for free, but you could also see it as a
positive thing as it makes it easier to find and watch.
This means that more people are going to watch it
It is available to download from
HD Movies Point

51. EXHIBITION
• There were 119 countries in which the film received a
theatrical release
• The New York premiere was on the 16th of July 2012
• The UK premiere in London was on the 18th of July

52. BOX OFFICE TAKINGS
• UK Box Office takings- $90,000,000
• Total Box Office world wide- $448,139,099
• UK Box Office opening weekend- $22,000,000

53. MORE ABOUT THE FILM
• The film opened to 4,404 theatres between the dates
of July 20th and July 22nd
• The film was intended for the cinema and expected
to do well at box office, this is easy to tell by looking
at their ridiculous budget.

54.  Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless
lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home
to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds
that it is the war he can't leave behind.

56.  Bradley Cooper was the main actor, already well known for
starring in many films such as:

57.  It was directed by Clint Eastwood, who is also an ex actor.

58.  The cameras that were used were: Arri Alexa XT, Panavision
Primo, C-, E- and G-Series Lenses
 The special effects were coordinated by Brendon O’Dell with
the support of his crew
 The film was shot mainly America, in California/ La. However
some of it was also shot in Morocco, interestingly other pats
were filmed on a beach in Cali.
 The production budget was approximately, just under £40,000

59.  Finally yes the film did have a pre-sold element, which was a
book written from the point of view from an ex American sniper.
It is written by Chris Kyle:
 The books called:
American Sniper: The Autobiography
of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S.
Military History

61.  In both the US and UK the film has been/ will be distributed by
Warner Bros Pictures.
 The traditional advertising used was TV advertising, magazine
and newspaper articles.
 Internet advertising was used much better, there is a Facebook
and twitter page, many trailers on YouTube, Warner Bros
website.
 The film was released in a 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383) D-Cinema

62.  As it is such a new film you are not able to purchase it in any
other way, other than buying a ticket to the cinema. However
you may be able to pre order the DVD.
 I believe that it is however readily available to be illegally
downloaded via a tormenting website called pirate bay.

64.  So far the film has been released in 32 two countries, and is
being released through out February in many others.
 Total UK box office takings have not been recorded yet
 Total world wide box office hasn’t been recorded yet either
 In its opening weekend in the US its box office takings were
£70,000,000, it opened on 3,555 screens.
 Just in its opening weekend it made all of its money back.
 It hasn’t been released into other stages of the value chain as of
yet.