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- 2. I would like‘Sony’ and ‘Screen Gems’ who are an American film production company and subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment to distribute my media product. They largely distribute middle-budgeted Romance films such as “Think Like A Man” which was $96,070,507. “Prom Night” which was $57,197,876 and “Fired Up” which was $18,598,852. As a subsidiary of Sony, they try exercise relative independence in what they do yet they rely on Sony to also release their films in multiplex cinemas intentionally. Both the companies have distributed “Friends with Benefits” and that show has been successful as it made $149,542,2 worldwide and only $18,622,150 in the US in the first weekend and it came out on 2,926 screens on that weekend; showing how popular it has become before it came out in other countries, it has been a success with the audience as more and more people went to the cinemas to watch it.
- 3. “Friends with Benefits”was a Blockbuster and it was a wide release that got released internationally, for example in Italy and in Philippines on the opening weekend after a couple of months after the release in US. It made €1,022,427 and was shown in 248 screens in Italy. 6,410,319 were made in Philippines and were shown in 65 screens. Which means that it was popular in other countries too. I would like my own film to be released internationally, which means other people can see it too and for it to be more popular with a wide release. The reason why I would like my film to be a Blockbuster so it can dominate the mainstream cinemas, for example, Vue, Cineworld, Odeon, etc. It was also released on DVD and Blu-Ray discs in the US and UK and they have also been successful as many people bought them even after it has been released in the cinema.
- 4. “Friends with Benefits”had a simple yet effective poster where they are merely next to each other but separated by a vertical bar for advertising. He is looking at her even though they are not supposed to be in the same image and she is smiling, this instantly shows that there is a connection and a link between the two characters and something romantic- wise could blossom. In the international promotional poster they have a picture of the characters making sexually suggestive hand gestures. This yet again shows the sexual connection between the both. Seeing as our opening sequence is very much alike to the sequence to the opening of this film it goes very well to show the characters then meeting at some point. They have 15 ratings rather than say for example, ‘13’. This is because this contains adult humor and sexual scenes which young teenagers would not be suitable for. For my film, I think 13 would be suitable because it is a love-story and no sexual scenes are shown. This age would be perfect because the issues that are faced in my film are of which teenagers from 13 and above could face so they would understand.
- 5. Will Gluck hassigned to Sony Pictures and has other successful movies that he wrote and directed, for example, “Fired Up” and “Easy A” which have movies that are targeted for teenagers, this is the same target audience we have for our film. Moreover, he is the director to “Friends with Benefits” and our film has been mostly based on that film. We would like him to be the director because he shows understanding of how to target both genders to be interested in this film not only females, even though it is mostly based on Romance. He has succeeded this by using “cross-cutting” to show both sides of the protagonist’s situations before them meeting each other, which is exactly what we have tried to recreate in our own film. Richard Curtis has also directed many Rom-Coms such as “Bridget Jones’s Diary, Notting Hill and Love Actually” which I have researched in my research tasks. Seeing as these Rom-Coms have been successful with the similar target audience with the similar storyline, he could also direct our film.