The Inbetweeners Movie- Section B Research

The Inbetweeners Movie was released in the Summer of 2010 and is about a group of friends who go on holiday together in the summer to celebrate the end of school. It is a coming of age teen comedy based on the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners. The movie was directed by Ben Palmer and written by the series creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris. Below is the official trailer for The Inbetweeners Movie.


On its first day of release The Inbetweeners movie grossed over £2.5 million and set a new record for the most successful opening weekend ever achieved by a comedy film in the UK over taking The Hangover Part II and it was number 1 in the UK film charts for 4 weeks. The films total box office gross is £45,028,695.


70% of critics gave this film a positive review and considered it to be highly entertaining and extremely funny. Where as other critics such as Margaret Pomeranz called the characters 'gormless' and said she gave the movie 1 star generously. I think this movie was so successful due to the fans of the comedy series and it gained most of its viewers because of this and they may have recommended it to others. 


 

Film 4 Productions- Section B Research

Film 4 Productions is a British film company owned by Channel 4 and is responsible for backing a large number of films in the UK. Their first production was Walter and was directed by Stephen Frears and was released in 1982.

Before 1998 the company was called Channel 4 Films but changed to Film 4 Productions when the digital tv channel was launched. In 2002 the company had to cut its staff as well as its budget due to a huge loss. In 2004 Tessa Ross became head of the company.

DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp

Despite making $18,115,724 in the worldwide box office this film failed to make a huge profit for Walt Disney. They waited 15 years from the release of the movie on VHS to release it on DVD and it is now only available at Disney Clubs because it is so unpopular. 

This movie was released on 3rd August 1990 and was directed by Bob Hathcock. Disney do not think it was as successful as they hoped it would have been because it had to face other large scale family movies that were in cinemas at the time and caused all Ducktale films to be shelved as well as cancelling any possibel future releases. It was also released under a label called Movietoon which was unknown at the time and it was one of only  two disney movies ever made to be released under that name. Critics disliked this movie and there were no merchandise or technical games released with this film which could be why it failed to sell as well as other disney movies and is not recognised today. 

Netflix

Netflix is a US version of Lovefilm, It is reported to have streaming ventures with film and TV companies including: Sony, Disney, Paramount, Channel 4, ITV, BBC, Miramax, Lionsgate and MGM. The company has more than 20 million subscribers in the US and Canada. It will be able to stream TV shows and films from the internet straight to your TV for only £5.99 and Reed Hastings the chief executive says it will be facing rivals such as Youtube, Tesco's Blinkbox service and Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB. Below is a link to the full article.
http://gu.com/p/34gmp

Tangled-Section B Research

Here is the official trailer for Disney's movie Tangled.

It is a computer animated fantasy remake of the classic story of Rapunzel with a twist. It is the 50th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The film was originally marketed as Rapunzel but it was changed to Tangled shortly before its release in the UK because Disney didn't want to place emphasis on princesses as they think this had discouraged boys from seeing a previous film called The Princess And The Frog. However the movie was released as Rapunzel in parts of Europe and Asia. Below is the dutch trailer titled Rapunzel.

Tangled was highly successful overseas as well as in the UK, the movie was in development for 6 years and cost more than $260 million to produce which makes it the most expensive animated film ever and the second most expensive movie of all time. Tangled was directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard and although it was extremely expensive to produce it was incredibly successful as it made $590,721,936 in the box office alone. 90% of critics have given Tangled a positive review and it is the second highest grossing film worldwide behind The Lion King.

Above is the official advertising poster for Tangled snd below merchandising is shown.

Tangled is supported by a line of toys and other merchandise like all other Disney movies. Many Rapunzel dolls have hair clip on hair to make it longer and many come with sound clips from the film. Toys based on other characters have been released as well as video games based on the film released on Nintendo and the Nintendo DS and the WII as well as for the PC by Disney Interactive Studios which helps to make even more money from the film and promote it further.

Walt Disney Pictures- Section B Research

The Walt Disney company is the largest media corporation in the world with the highest annual income with $36 billion made in 2010.

It was founded on October 16th 1923 by Walt Disney and his brother Roy with the name 'Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio'. Walt Disney Animations established itself as a leader in the American cartoon industry before they started producing live action films, tv and travel.

In 1986 they changed the name of the company to Walt Disney Animations and expanded their existing companies as well as starting divisions focusing on theatre, radio, publishing and online media. Walt Disney is considered to be one of the largest and best known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the american TV network ABC, Disney Channel, ESPN and ABC Family. In addition they own and license 14 theme parks around the world.

Walt Disney himself was the first of 7 presidents of the company and the current president is Robert Iger who is also the cheif executive officer. Walt Disney have produced several successful movies for children and have used other products such as their tv programmes to advertise their new films and sold lots of merchandise which makes an even bigger profit for the company.

Here is  the official logo and mascot of Walt Disney Pictures.

iTV- Sixth Vlog

Recently in Miss Fosters lesson we were talking about technological convergence for institutions and audiences within the area of film and how technological convergence benefits people in film institutions such as film makers and how the marketing of films and different types of media used to advertise them can gain more publicity and encourage more people to watch the films. Here is the link to an article I recently saw which talks about technological convergence and the convergence of a new tv created by Apple called itv. http://gu.com/p/34g7y

Below is a vlog i recently recorded...