The document provides information about the film The Lovely Bones. It describes the film as centering on a young girl who is murdered and watches over her family and killer from purgatory, weighing her desire for vengeance against her family healing. It details the film's $65 million production budget and sale to DreamWorks for $70 million. Paramount Pictures received worldwide distribution rights, releasing the film in countries like the US, UK, Australia, and Japan.

1. The Lovely Bones

2. Brief synopsis
The Lovely Bones centres on a young girl
who has been murdered and watches
over her family and her killer from
purgatory. She must weigh her desire
for vengeance against her desire for her
family to heal.

3. Marketing material
• The Lovely Bones trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQZq0d1vzOE
• The Lovely Bones cast interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z6sMmojZng
• There is also an official website for The Lovely Bones
movie: http://www.lovelybones.com/#home

4. Marketing material
• This is one of the
many posters The
Lovely Bones has
used to market
their movie.

5. Production
The Lovely Bones’ production budget
was $65 million. Four main studios were
interested in the Lovely Bones:
DreamWorks, Warner Brothers, Sony and
Universal. The Lovely Bones was then
sold to DreamWorks for $70 million.
United Artists were contacted as the
producers were seeking a studio partner
to finance the film adaptation.

6. Distribution
Paramount Pictures received the rights
to distribute the film worldwide. The film
has been distributed in USA, UK, New
Zealand, Australia, Canada, Japan and
many more countries. This movie is
known and shown worldwide. A home
distributor is BBFC which stands for British
Board of Film Classification.

7. Exhibition
• The film’s box office takings on the
opening weekend (in February) were
£1,637,579 but the gross (calculated in
March) was £6,193,167.
• The film is available on DVD and Blu-
Ray and it is also available to purchase
on iTunes which means people can
view it on their phones and iPads.