exhibition on avatar

Avatar is budgeted at $237 million, $280-310 to produce and $1150 million marketing.

Avatar premiered in london on december 2009 and was released 18th december in us and canada. Avatar grossed 27 million on its opening day and 77 million on opening weekend,$1232 world wide in its first 5 days of international release. It grossed to $1 billion in 3 weeks. It's the 2nd highest grossing film of all time world wide its exceeded by Cameron's film titanic.

Production

Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy wrote slum dog millionaire. by 2006, british production companies Celador Films and film 4 productions invited director Danny Boyle to read the script of slum dog millionaire, and at first Danny Boyle didn't want to make a film about who wants to be a millionaire, but learnt that Beaufoy wrote one of his favourite brittish films, the full monty (1997). This film was projected to cost $15 million. Warner Independent Pictures made a $5 million offer to win rights to the picture. It was a low budget film.

Produced by Christian Colson and Tessa Ross executive producer,
Composed by A.R Rhaman

The production studio was film 4.

Gail Stevens and Danny boyle have worked with eact other through out there careers and are well know for finding new talent. The film makers went to mumbai in september 2007, and began to higher local cast and crew from production in Karjat. The film had 10% of the dialogue in Hindi. The locations included shooting in Mumbai's megaslum in shantytown and parts of Juhu. Filming began on 5th november 2007.

Simon Beaufoy wrote Slum dog millionaire based on the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.
In Q & A, the quiz show is called Who Will Win a Billion? offering a top prize of one billion rupees. In Slumdog Millionaire, the show is Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and the top prize is 20 million rupees.


Cast
Dev Pate - Jamal Malil : The protagonist, He is as boy born and raised in poverty in the slums of Mumbai. Boyle looked at hundreds of male actors, His daughter suggested Dev Patel out from his role in the british drama programe skins.

Freida pinto- Litika : she is Jamal's love intrest. Pinto was an indian model who had not starred in a film before

The rest of the cast was just oridinary people from mumbai, Many people thought that because there was no A list stars it wouldn't be successful but it was. The good thing about having unknown stars is that they don't cost as much to higher so more money can be spent on location, crops.

Distribution/Marketing

Analysis

The USP ( unique selling point) I think the most important thing's for this film that make it sell it the name of the director (danny Boyle) brittish people recongise his name and no his good at making films so they will go and see it because the know who he is, also another unique selling point is that it's set in india and its a unusual place for a film to be set so people will be intrested to what india is like. Also people will see its based on the UK show who wants to be a millionaire and many people like the programme and will be intrested to see another version of it.
Other unique selling points are things such as posters, news paper reviews, websites such as youtube, facebook, and blogger.

Slum dog millionaire was distributed by:
United Kingdom
Pathe Pictures
United States/Canada
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures Australia
Icon Film Distrubution (2009 release)

Release and box office performance
warner Bros and Fox searchlight pictures made a pact to share the distribution of the film.In australia, 2009 the release of slumdog millionaire was produced By icon Film Distribution.

Dvd and Tv release



Distribution

Slum dog millionaire poster

The colours

The colours used are bright reds,purples,blues and greens,yellows. The red suggests passion and love, and the purple is a warm colour which would suggest wealth. Green and blue suggest nature and healthy life style.

The colours are important to the poster because it shows there is love, passion and determination to the film. The purple shows wealth, and the film is about a game show and a man who wins it and gets money so it helps the audience know what the film will be about. The colours are bold and attracts the audience because they stand out and makes the film seem interesting.

Exhibition

Slum dog millionare was nominated for ten academy awards in 2009 and won 8 of them, it also got best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay. The buget for making slum dog millonaire was $15.1 million, and over all the money made from the film was Gross $360,032,690. Following the films success at the 81st Academy awards the film topped the world wide box office. It grossed $16 million form 34 markets in the week following the Academy awards. Worldwide, the film has grossed over 377 million.

In north America, the first weekend the film grossed $360,018 in 10 theaters, and average of $36,002 per theater. In its second weekend it expanded to 32 theaters making $947,795 and average of $29,619 per theater. Its only a 10% drop to its first weekend of opening. Slum dog millionaire expanded into wide release on 25th december 2008 at 614 theaters and earned $5,647007. It made an increase by 43% from its success and the 81st academy awards. from 27th february to 1st of march the film made its widest release at 2,943 theaters. It grossed over $140 million at North America box office.

In india, the premiere of slumdog millionaire was on 22 january 2009. Fox searchlight released 351 prints of the film across india for the full release on 23rd january 2009. It earned 2,35,45,665 Rs in its first week at the indian box office ($2,2 million).

In the second week the film grossed to 3,04,70,752 Rs at the indian box office. 

In Europe the film was released in the UK on the 9th of january 2009, it opened second at the Uk box office, and reached number 1 in its second week, and set a UK box office record. The films taking increased by 47%, this beat billy Elliot's. Slumdog millionaire grossed 6.1 million in its first 11 days in the UK, in the following week it increased by another 7%. The film grossed up to 10.24 million in its first 17 days in the UK, and up t0 14.2 million in its 3rd week.

Avatar - case study

Avatar is a 2009 America science fiction epic film, it was written and directed by James cameron. The film is set in the year 2154 on pandora. The development of Avatar began in 1994 and was planned for release in 1999 but Cameron didn't think the technology was not ready for his film. He started writing the script in 2006.

Slum dog millionaire UK trailer

Analysis

The USP ( unique selling point) I think the most important thing's for this film that make it sell it the name of the director (danny Boyle) brittish people recongise his name and no his good at making films so they will go and see it because the know who he is, also another unique selling point is that it's set in india and its a unusual place for a film to be set so people will be intrested to what india is like. Also people will see its based on the UK show who wants to be a millionaire and many people like the programme and will be intrested to see another version of it.

My case study for film 4 is Slum Dog Millionaire

My case study will be on slum dog millionaire

slum dog millionaire is a British film made in 2008 and was directed by Danny Boyle, and written by Simon beaufoy and co directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. The film was set in India and is based on a true story about a boy from mubia who is ill educated and is illierate. He goes on the indian version of who wants to be a millionaire and wins it, the people dont believe him and think he has cheated but he actually done it.
Slum Dig Millionaire is an adaptation of the novel Q & A written in 2005 by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup.