Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Task A - Research into Industry


The Dark Knight (2008)

The Dark Knight is the top US grossing thriller film thus far and the 10th grossing film of all time, with the estimated budget for The Dark Knight being recorded as $185million. The thriller took a gross of $533.3m in the USA, £48.7m in the UK and got a staggering gross of $1billion worldwide. The production companies behind the film were Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Syncopy and DC Comics. It had one of the top distributors in the film industry, Warner Brothers. The Dark Knight had a blanket release of 4,366 screens in the USA and 502 screens in the UK with the weekend gross $158.4m in USA and £11.2m in the UK. The film was released in 19 countries 13 of which Warner Bros distributed to. The film was accredited with a vast number of awards with their winning total tallying at 85. It won the Saturn Award for the Best Action/Adventure/Thriller film and the AFI Movie of the year.

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