The Inbetweeners
Movie
The Inbetweeners movie (Ben Palmer) was released in 2011.
Its budget is an estimated £3.5 million and its gross in the UK was £41.8
million with the weekend opening grossing £13.2 million. However, it did not
gross as much in the US as
it only grossed $35,995 however the movie was only shown on 10 screens
therefore it didn’t have as greater impact on the US film market. The reason for the
lack of impact is that The Inbetweeners movie had only British production
companies and none of the ‘big six’ American distributors didn’t distribute the
film onto the US film market therefore the film had little chance of being
successful in the US. Also, the Inbetweeners success comes from the fact that
it was a ‘one-off- film from the highly successful TV series in the UK therefore it
inherits all of the fans from the TV show. Finally, the opening weekend of the
film was within the school holidays therefore many students would have had a
lot of time to go and see the film, instead of just usually on Fridays,
Saturdays and Sundays. The Inbetweeners movie ranks as the 6th highest grossing UK film.
The Full Monty
The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo) released in 1997. With a
budget of $3.5 million, in the opening weekend grossed just under $3 million
(this is including UK and US) and overall grossing $52.2 million for the UK
film industry including an estimated $46 million in the US which put into
context, is astonishing for a UK film to do so well within the US film market
as there hadn’t been this level of success for a British film in the US film
industry. However, even though Channel Four Films developed the film, The Full
Monty had backing from Twentieth Century Fox in the production stages as well
as in the distribution stage therefore the Fully Monty was distributed across
the US. In addition, because no other ‘big six’ contributed to the
distribution, Twentieth Century Fox was able to profit from single-handedly
distributing the Full Monty worldwide. The Full Monty is 4th on the list of highest grossing UK films.
http://thefilmreview.com/features/top-tens/top-10-grossing-british-films.html
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