127 hours distributors

127 Hours is the new release from Danny Boyle, director of Slumdog millionaire, trainspotting and 28 days later. The film 127 hours was released in the UK on 7th January 2011. This film is part made from the UK due to the input of Film 4 productions.

Box Office

Budget:

$18,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$264,851 (USA) (7 November 2010) (4 Screens)

Gross:

$11,124,119 (USA) (16 January 2011)

 

The film producers and distributors

 

Production Companies

• Cloud Eight Films
• Film4 (presents)
• Everest Entertainment
• Darlow Smithson Productions
• Dune Entertainment III
• HandMade Films (as HandMade Films International) (in association with) (uncredited)
• Pathé

Distributors

• 20th Century Fox Australia (2010) (Australia) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox (2011) (Japan) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox (2010) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Fox Searchlight Pictures (2010) (USA) (theatrical)
• Monopole-Pathé (2010) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Twentieth Century Fox C.I.S. (2011) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Castello Lopes Multimédia (2011) (Portugal) (all media)
• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Special Effects

• Alterian (special prosthetics effects)
• Union Visual Effects

Other Companies

• AP  title design: main and end titles
• Air Lyndhurst Studios  music recorded at (as Air Studios)
• Anvil Post Production  foley recording (as Anvil Post Technicolor)
• BBC Motion Gallery  stock footage
• Clairmont Camera  camera equipment provided by
• Color Mill  digital post services
• Corbis  stock footage
• Craze Agency, The  extras casting agency
• De Lane Lea  ADR recording
• Dolby Laboratories  sound mix
• Eastwood (Sound and Vision)  Additional Pro Tools Systems Supplied By
• Fatts  post production script services
• Film4  funding
• Getty Images  stock footage
• HD Camera Rentals.com  camera equipment provided by
• HireWorks  Avid Nitris DX rental
• Historic Films  stock footage
• Intelligent Media  international monitoring agency
• Interscope Records  soundtrack
• Limitless Productions  mini remote hot head, dolly system provided by
• P S TECHNIK  camera equipment provided by
• Pathé  funding
• Pinewood Studios  re-recorded at
• Scales and Tails  animals
• Sound 24  sound editorial
• Sound 24  sound effects pre-recording

 

Exhibition

The best times for film releases are mainly during the school and university holidays, this is beacuse the main cinema go-ers are 16-25 year olds. So most film producers and distributors aim at this certain group of people.

These are the top ten for the first three weeks of january 2011. The charts will show gross, change, theatres, gross per theatres, total gross and days in release.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

1	(1)	Little Fockers	Universal	Comedy	$6,574,885	-42.55%	3,554	$1,850	$102,576,190	12
2	(2)	True Grit	Paramount Pictures	Western	$6,379,558	-35.37%	3,083	$2,069	$86,670,382	12
3	(3)	Tron: Legacy	Walt Disney Pictures	Drama	$5,623,638	-30.92%	3,365	$1,671	$131,304,844	17
4	(4)	Yogi Bear 3D	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$3,597,227	-24.10%	3,515	$1,023	$65,755,336	17
5	(7)	Black Swan	Fox Searchlight	Thriller/Suspense	$3,057,413	-21.28%	1,553	$1,969	$47,807,791	31
6	(5)	The Fighter	Paramount Pictures	Drama	$2,923,838	-33.90%	2,534	$1,154	$46,388,853	24
7	(6)	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$2,797,495	-31.14%	2,948	$949	$86,926,397	24
8	(9)	Tangled	Walt Disney Pictures	Adventure	$2,780,870	-25.98%	2,582	$1,077	$167,821,986	40
9	(8)	Gulliver's Travels	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$2,559,338	-32.18%	3,089	$829	$27,454,506	12
10	(10)	The King's Speech	Weinstein Co.	Drama	$2,285,554	-23.12%	700	$3,265	$22,932,401	38

Sunday, January 9, 2011

1	(1)	True Grit	Paramount Pictures	Western	$3,598,584	-45.31%	3,124	$1,152	$110,035,157	19
2	(2)	Little Fockers	Universal	Comedy	$3,031,875	-51.33%	3,675	$825	$123,687,760	19
3	(3)	Tron: Legacy	Walt Disney Pictures	Drama	$2,772,148	-40.07%	3,013	$920	$148,212,420	24
4	(4)	Season of the Witch	Relativity	Thriller/Suspense	$2,546,765	-40.82%	2,816	$904	$10,612,375	3
5	(5)	Black Swan	Fox Searchlight	Thriller/Suspense	$2,271,972	-33.27%	1,584	$1,434	$61,218,504	38
6	(6)	Yogi Bear 3D	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$2,082,789	-36.10%	3,288	$633	$75,436,771	24
7	(9)	The King's Speech	Weinstein Co.	Drama	$1,815,586	-35.97%	758	$2,395	$32,896,665	45
8	(7)	The Fighter	Paramount Pictures	Drama	$1,795,639	-41.18%	2,528	$710	$57,845,946	31
9	(8)	Country Strong	Sony Pictures	Drama	$1,731,609	-42.62%	1,424	$1,216	$7,463,454	17
10	(10)	Tangled	Walt Disney Pictures	Adventure	$1,503,786	-38.34%	2,383	$631	$175,779,496	47

Sunday, January 16, 2011

1	(1)	The Green Hornet	Sony Pictures	Action	$9,774,944	-22.76%	3,584	$2,727	$33,526,876	3
2	(2)	The Dilemma	Universal	Comedy	$4,865,700	-28.20%	2,940	$1,655	$17,816,230	3
3	(3)	True Grit	Paramount Pictures	Western	$3,144,810	-31.71%	3,459	$909	$126,216,650	26
4	(4)	The King's Speech	Weinstein Co.	Drama	$2,882,531	-25.34%	1,543	$1,868	$44,710,062	52
5	(5)	Black Swan	Fox Searchlight	Thriller/Suspense	$2,669,948	-18.42%	2,328	$1,147	$73,211,006	45
6	(6)	Little Fockers	Universal	Comedy	$2,121,250	-30.17%	3,394	$625	$134,280,890	26
7	(7)	Yogi Bear 3D	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$1,886,914	-23.13%	2,702	$698	$82,115,619	31
8	(8)	Tron: Legacy	Walt Disney Pictures	Drama	$1,877,575	-22.12%	2,439	$770	$156,918,454	31
9	(9)	The Fighter	Paramount Pictures	Drama	$1,482,394	-30.31%	2,414	$614	$65,745,804	38
10	(10)	Season of the Witch	Relativity	Thriller/Suspense	$1,448,537	-22.70%	2,827	$512	$18,104,324	10

Oscar and Blockbuster Films

Oscar films are different to the main stream Blockbuster films, these are because Oscar films are quite obviously make to get awards at the Oscars and they use the nominations as a way of getting money in at the box office.

The Blind Side is a Oscar film that won best picture 2010. It was released in November 2009 which is a regular time for Oscar films to be released. The film will have made a large amount when the nominations was released and then when the winners are revealed they would have got another gross of money.

This is the weekly chart for the blind side

Date	Rank		Gross	% Change	Theaters	Per Theater	Total Gross	Days
11/20/2009	2		$34,119,372		3,110	$10,971	$34,119,372	3
11/27/2009	2		$40,111,364	+17.56%	3,140	$12,774	$100,238,841	10
12/4/2009	1		$20,043,181	-50.03%	3,326	$6,026	$128,867,559	17
12/11/2009	2		$15,055,258	-24.89%	3,388	$4,444	$149,816,797	24
12/18/2009	3		$10,021,280	-33.44%	3,407	$2,941	$164,725,525	31
12/25/2009	5		$11,519,345	+14.95%	2,766	$4,165	$184,195,981	38
1/1/2010	5		$11,912,749	+3.42%	2,926	$4,071	$208,476,067	45
1/8/2010	7		$7,531,467	-36.78%	2,880	$2,615	$218,978,376	52
1/15/2010	9		$5,557,274	-26.21%	2,408	$2,308	$226,766,539	59
1/22/2010	11		$4,166,136	-25.03%	1,932	$2,156	$233,678,402	66
1/29/2010	11		$3,021,317	-27.48%	1,751	$1,725	$237,914,805	73
2/5/2010	11		$2,503,224	-17.15%	1,740	$1,439	$241,529,593	80
2/12/2010	12		$2,261,787	-9.65%	1,175	$1,925	$244,728,128	87
2/19/2010	13		$1,451,100	-35.84%	1,060	$1,369	$245,619,952	94
2/26/2010	11		$1,238,477	-14.65%	945	$1,311	$248,755,981	101
3/5/2010	14		$1,257,186	+1.51%	822	$1,529	$250,467,047	108
3/12/2010	13		$1,604,096	+27.59%	803	$1,998	$252,736,267	115
3/19/2010	17		$877,736	-45.28%	602	$1,458	$254,273,981	122
3/26/2010	21		$475,105	-45.87%	445	$1,068	$255,071,943	129
4/2/2010	25		$229,421	-51.71%	316	$726	$255,492,549	136
4/9/2010	29		$136,403	-40.54%	204	$669	$255,740,350	143
4/16/2010	39		$68,122	-50.06%	123	$554	$255,846,167	150
4/23/2010	49		$31,948	-53.10%	77	$415	$255,899,261	157
4/30/2010	60		$19,504	-38.95%	46	$424	$255,929,947	164
5/7/2010	70		$9,807	-49.72%	25	$392	$255,944,818	171
5/14/2010	95		$2,385	-75.68%	11	$217	$255,950,375	178

Harry Potter and the half-blood prince is a blockbuster film that was also released in 2009, but it was in the summer of 2009 (15th July 2009). This film was brought out in the summer because Warner Bros knew for a fact it would be the best time to release the film due to school holidays happening and this was harry potter's main target audience.

This is the weekly for Harry Potter and the half-blood prince

Date	Rank		Gross	% Change	Theaters	Per Theater	Total Gross	Days
7/17/2009	1		$77,835,727		4,325	$17,997	$158,022,354	5
7/24/2009	2		$29,462,187	-62.15%	4,325	$6,812	$221,295,818	12
7/31/2009	2		$17,909,385	-39.21%	4,393	$4,077	$255,672,245	19
8/7/2009	4		$8,928,349	-50.15%	3,455	$2,584	$273,848,633	26
8/14/2009	7		$5,141,072	-42.42%	2,771	$1,855	$283,879,025	33
8/21/2009	8		$3,478,149	-32.35%	1,936	$1,797	$290,238,524	40
8/28/2009	11		$2,466,423	-29.09%	1,508	$1,636	$294,258,075	47
9/4/2009	14		$1,828,140	-25.88%	1,091	$1,676	$296,940,258	54
9/11/2009	18		$908,482	-50.31%	744	$1,221	$298,844,700	61
9/18/2009	22		$426,987	-53.00%	415	$1,029	$299,576,295	68
9/25/2009	30		$271,830	-36.34%	301	$903	$299,967,829	75
10/2/2009	36		$175,378	-35.48%	190	$923	$300,232,058	82
10/9/2009	26		$408,437	+132.89%	505	$809	$300,699,217	89
10/16/2009	25		$273,341	-33.08%	356	$768	$301,153,382	96
10/23/2009	29		$181,802	-33.49%	285	$638	$301,420,102	103
10/30/2009	34		$102,465	-43.64%	201	$510	$301,577,469	110
11/6/2009	38		$84,726	-17.31%	135	$628	$301,707,444	117
11/13/2009	40		$61,910	-26.93%	95	$652	$301,809,058	124
11/20/2009	45		$35,134	-43.25%	72	$488	$301,865,854	131
11/27/2009	51		$34,824	-0.88%	44	$791	$301,920,409	138
12/4/2009	57		$18,047	-48.18%	36	$501	$301,948,049	145
12/11/2009	69		$5,150	-71.46%	23	$224	$301,956,980	152