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Thrillers been released:'Chappie' (Blomcamp, 2015) March 6th
Certificate: 15
Audience Figures: Rated 6.9/10 on IMDb, 41% on Metacritic, 31% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Success: Budget was $49 million and had a box office figure of $102.1 million. This is very successful in terms of profit because they received over double their budget from box office!
'Brothers' (Sheridan, 2010) Jan 22nd
Certificate: 15
Audience Figures: 7/10 on IMDb, 63% on Rotten Tomatoes and 58% on Metacritic
Success: Budget was $26 million with a box office figure of $43.3 million
Thrillers on release:'Hateful Eight' (Tarantino, 2016) Jan 8th
Certificate: 18
Audience Figures: Rated 8/10 on IMDb, 68% on Metacritic, 3/5 on The Guardian.
Success: Budget $44 million with a gross total of $4 million on the opening weekend in UK and Domestic Total of $53,178,994 in the month of February 2016. It is still increasing!
'Spotlight' (McCarthy, 2015) Nov 6th
Certificate: 15
Audience Figures: 8.2/10 on IMDb, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
Success: With a $20 million budget, it only received $1.5 million on the opening weekend in UK and a box office of $37.9 millionThrillers due to release:
'10 Cloverfield Lane' (Trachtenberg, 2016) March 11th
'Now You See Me 2' (Chu. 2016) June 10th
These two films have not yet been released so have no specific information about box office or budget etc. yet.
Audience?
From this research, I have found out a lot about thriller films' successes and their audience. There are many thriller films that have been released and are out right now/due to be but the main thing I found out is that some are more successful, in different ways, than others. For example, 'Hateful Eight' (Tarantino, 2016) had a budget of $44 million and a $53.2 million domestic total whereas 'Spotlight' (McCarthy, 2015) had a box office total of $37.9 million domestic total with a budget of $20 million. In terms of earnings, 'Spotlight' would have been more successful as despite the fact that it had a lower budget, it still made over 17 million more the budget, but, 'Hateful Eight' only made 9 million more.
'Spotlight' has a certificate of 15 but 'Hateful Eight' is an 18 film. This means a large majority of the people who are under 18 cannot watch 'Hateful Eight', therefore it restricts a lot of the young generation population to watch it. Nowadays, the majority of the cinema-goers are the young generation, so the age classification may have brought some profit problems. However, it is an 18 because it contains things that younger people may find disturbing. This means Tarantino had already made an audience by the choice of the certificate before it had came out on the big screen.
Thrillers that had previously been released have had great success. Chappie' (Blomcamp, 2015) - an action/sci-fi thriller, was successful as it had a box office of $102.1 million from a budget of only $49 million. This helped me understand that that thrillers with extraordinary narratives can also be as successful as those with simple plots. I think because it had such a non-cliché plot, the audience had an eye for it and was intrigued to watch it to see what it was about - like what a conventional thriller aims to do.
'Spotlight' has a certificate of 15 but 'Hateful Eight' is an 18 film. This means a large majority of the people who are under 18 cannot watch 'Hateful Eight', therefore it restricts a lot of the young generation population to watch it. Nowadays, the majority of the cinema-goers are the young generation, so the age classification may have brought some profit problems. However, it is an 18 because it contains things that younger people may find disturbing. This means Tarantino had already made an audience by the choice of the certificate before it had came out on the big screen.
Thrillers that had previously been released have had great success. Chappie' (Blomcamp, 2015) - an action/sci-fi thriller, was successful as it had a box office of $102.1 million from a budget of only $49 million. This helped me understand that that thrillers with extraordinary narratives can also be as successful as those with simple plots. I think because it had such a non-cliché plot, the audience had an eye for it and was intrigued to watch it to see what it was about - like what a conventional thriller aims to do.
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