2. Skyfall
• Director: Sam Mendes
• Writers: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan
• Budget: $200,000,000
• Opening weekend:
$88,364,714 (USA) (11th November 2012) (3,505 Screens)
£20,180,369 (UK) (28 October 2012)(587 Screens)
• Domestic Gross: $289.600,000
• Production companies: Eon Productions and Danjaq.
• Distributors:Andes Films, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment,Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
and much more.
• Main Characters of the cast:
Daniel Craig
Judi Dench
Javier Bardem
Ralph Fiennes
3. Promotion of Skyfall
• Promotional video: A new advert for Sony, stars Daniel Craig as a
James Bond-esque character. Dates of the showing of the film are
revealed.
• International trailer.
• Skyfall bonds with Coke, to become the appearance of the can.
• Berenice Marlohe (Severine) covers GQ magazine.The august issue
also included an interview with the new 007 director Sam Mendes.
• Sony previews 4 minutes of ‘Skyfall’ at CineEurope.
4. Poster.
This is one of many Skyfall posters placed around
world wide.This poster is eye-catching with it’s bright
white background against the darker text and
content.Too make this poster more eye-catching, the
main character who plays ‘James Bond’ is shown at
the bottom of the poster.This main character is
recognizable from ‘Bond’ movies across the world,
making the viewer instantly realize what the film may
be based upon from previous makings of ‘Bond’ films.
With the positioning of the actual actor at the bottom
of the poster, not a lot of information is actually
shown about the movie which leads the viewer into
questioning the plot of this new film, but also what
other characters can be involved. By having most of
the context in a silver writing which is bunched up
and small, the audience are still able to read the
information but can now mainly focus on the name of
the film but also the release date in their local
cinema.
5. Merchandise
• Merchandising can be a main factor in promoting a new film. As well as
promoting a new film for the audience, the merchandise brings in extra
money for the company but also can be long lasting for many of the
fans.This means there are no time restrictions on when they can or
cannot actually show the merchandise unlike trailers. Skyfall has also
got a collection of merchandise for the audiences, these include:
James Bond 007 Fragrance
James Bond’s 007 Special blend.
USB Flash Drive 007 Limited edition
S.T. Dupont Bullet Keyring with Push Button Lamp
6. EON Productions.
Eon productions (Everything Or Nothing) is a film
production company known for producting the James
Bond Film Series. In 2008, EON productions signed a
deal with Columbia pictures to develop fifteen thrillers
and family films outside the Bond franchise, with
budgets up to $80 million.The company then hoped that
this move would allow more British writers to establish
themselves in the United States.
7. EON Productions.
• Founded in 1961
• The founders of Eon Productions are Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli and Harry Saltzman.
• The Headquarters is located in London, United Kingdom.
• The ‘Parent’ of this production company is Danjaq and LLC.
• Operates from Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom.
• Closely held private and family corporation.
• In 1975, after the nine Bond films were created, Harry Saltzman sold his shares of Danjaq to United
Artists. Eon Productions is still owned by the Broccoli family.
• Eon Productions is also shown to revealed on a social networking site called ‘Facebook’ by having
it’s on ‘Page’ in which to promote films but also reveal old promoted films and ideas.
8. Films created by Eon Productions
23 Bond films were actually made by Eon
productions for the film series. Eon are
well known for specialising in the ‘Bond
film series’ but have also created well
known films un-related to ‘Bond’ such as
‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, ‘The Ipcress
file’ and ‘Battle of Britain’.
9. Harry Brown
• Director: Daniel Barber
• Writer: GaryYoung
• Budget: $7,300,000
• Opening weekend:
$173,353 (USA) (2nd May 2010) (19 Screens)
£1,271,814 (UK) (15th November 2009) (351 Screens)
• DomesticGross: $1,818,681
• Production Companies: Marv films, UK Film Council, HanWay
Films, Prescience Film Fund, Framestore, Prescience.
• Distributers included:A-Film distribution, Icon Film
distribution, Lionsgate and many more.
• Cast:
Michael Caine
Emily Mortimer
David Bradley
Charlie Creed-Miles
10. Promotion of Harry Brown.
• Trailer
• Newspaper article
• Posters
• Social networking sites e.g. Facebook,Twitter
11. Poster.
For a thriller, this poster for Harry Brown shows it all for the
audience. Even though many posters have been made for
Harry Brown, this poster has to be an all time favourite for
myself and the audience.The reasoning of the favourism, is
because this poster shows the elderly in a non-stereotypical
view which actually intrigues the audiences. By having all
the neutral colours of brown and cremes and yellow, this
poster automatically screams that the film is based in an
urban location which can a more interesting story with the
old man.The text on this poster is kept neautral as well
except from the title, so the audience can ponder on the
main character resembled as an eldery man with a gun but
also the title, so they remember the actual film.
12. Marv Films production
Marv Films is a UK based film production
company owned by MatthewVaughn. Marv
films are mainly known for the motion pictures:
Layer Cake, Stardust and Kick-Ass.
This was all founded in 2004 in the United
Kingdom by MatthewVaughan and Kris
Thykier.
13. Films created by Marv Films
production
• Layer Cake
• Stardust
• Harry Brown
• Kick-Ass
• The Debt
• Kick-Ass 2
• The Secret Service.
