Films for Initial Analysis

Goon

 L4yer Cak3

Visioneers 

 Mean Girls 

The Mexican

 The Notebook

Apocalypse Now 

The Wicker Man 

Baby Driver

Submarine

These are films I will partially deconstruct for my research into general film conventions, The ones I will mainly look at are Baby Driver and Submarine.

Baby Driver poster

Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017) 

prod: Media Rights Capital/ Big Talk Productions/ Working Title Films

dist: TriStar Pictures/ Sony Pictures Releasing

BOX OFFICE: UK$17m    US$108m     GLOBAL$227m

BUDGET:$34m

CRITICS: Rotten Tomatoes 93%; IMDB 7.6

Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2011) 

prod: Warp Films/ Film4 Productions/ UK Film Council/ Red Hour Filmsdist: Studio Canal/ The Weinstein CompanyBOX OFFICE: UK$2.4m    US$470k CRITICS: Rotten Tomatoes 87%; IMDB 7.3

Goon (Michael Dowse, 2011) 

prod: No Trace Camping; dist: Alliance Films/Magnet Releasing

BOX OFFICE: UK£2.8m    US$6m   GLOBAL$7m

BUDGET: $12m

CRITICS: Rotten Tomatoes 82%; IMDB 6.8 

Submarine poster

 L4yer Cak3 (Matthew Vaughn, 2004) 

prod: Marv Films; dist: Columbia/Sony 

BOX OFFICE: UK£8m    US$9m   GLOBAL$11.8m

BUDGET: $6.5m

CRITICS: Rotten Tomatoes 80%; IMDB 7.4

Visioneers (Jared Drake, 2008) 

prod/dist: Fireside/Mayfly

CRITICS: Rotten Tomatoes 70%; IMDB 6.1

 Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004) 

prod: MG/Broadway; dist: Paramount

BOX OFFICE: UK$10m    US$86m  GLOBAL$129m

BUDGET: $17m

CRITICS: Rotten Tomatoes 83%; IMDB 7

The Mexican (Gore Verbinski, 2001)

prod: Newmarket Films; dist: DreamWorks

BOX OFFICE: UK$5m   US$67m    GLOBAL$67m

BUDGET: $57m

CRITICS: Rotten Tomatoes 55%; IMDB 6.1

 The Notebook  (Nick Cassavetes, 2004)

prod: Avery Pix; dist: New Line Cinema

BOX OFFICE: UK£2.1m    US$81m    GLOBAL$115.6

BUDGET: $29m

CRITICS: Rotten Tomatoes 52%; IMDB 7.9

Apocalypse Now  (Francis Coppola, 1979) 

prod: Omni Zoetrope; dist:United Artists

BOX OFFICE: US$79m 

CRITICS: Rotten Tomatoes 96%; IMDB 8.5

The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973) 

prod/dist: British Lion Films

BOX OFFICE: US$60k

CRITICS: Rotten Tomatoes 90%; IMDB 7.6

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