8/6/2019 King's Speech Mindmap

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Production

See Saw Production company (indepedent)

15m budget

Weinstein - main investor

Other financers include Prescience and

Paramount (equity deal)

UK Film Council granted 1m

All investor will be paid off before any profit ismade

Star cast - recieve precentage of gross revenue

Film was rejected by BBC and Film 4

BBC later made a docume ntary 'The Real Ki ng's

Speech'

Tom Hooper - Austrialian lives in UK

300m to date

Distributionand

Marketing

Marketing stratregies mirrored that of 'The Queen'

Expected to make same profit (97m)

Release date - same as 127 hours (less successful)

Momentum Pictures (only dist 20 film per year )Digitally distributed in the US

Official website

Twitter/Facebook links

"Buy Tickets"

Educational resources

Won lots of awards - increased viewings

Fim Posters - social networking and war poster

Exhibition

Knighthood?Plans to change rating to PG13 in US to w iden target

audience (family film)

Opening Weekend - highest ever independent film(3.53m) Slumdog - 1.83 (ind) Pride and Prej 2.5 ( cong)

Proliferation of youtube parodies, fan sites, followings ontwitter and facebook

Plans for another of the same genre?

Piracy

Increase popularity for the royal family

Interest in genre- more TV costume/period dramas12m in first week of DVD sales