Case study 2St.Trinian’s (2007)

Genre: Comedy

St Trinian's, a school for "young ladies" with its anarchic doctrine of free expression, brings together a motley crew of ungovernable girls who, using their wit and ingenuity, save the school from bankruptcy.

Directors: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson

Tagline: School Can Be A Riot.

CastFeaturing a combination of well-known American and english actors, including Mischa Barton, Colin Firth and Russell Brand, the producers are attempting to appeal to US and UK audiences.

AUD 2,660,097 (Australia) (11 May 2008)AUD 2,676,120 (Australia) (4 May 2008)

AUD 2,650,957 (Australia) (27 April 2008)AUD 2,522,231 (Australia) (20 April 2008)AUD 2,072,478 (Australia) (13 April 2008)AUD 1,577,293 (Australia) (6 April 2008)AUD 749,180 (Australia) (30 March 2008)

$2,508,880 (Australia)NZD 543,311 (New Zealand) (25 May 2008)NZD 541,933 (New Zealand) (18 May 2008)NZD 534,920 (New Zealand) (11 May 2008)NZD 512,785 (New Zealand) (4 May 2008)

NZD 359,446 (New Zealand) (27 April 2008)NZD 118,252 (New Zealand) (20 April 2008)

$426,160 (New Zealand)

Opening Weekend£1,832,594 (UK) (23 December 2007) (378 Screens)

AUD 728,008 (Australia) (30 March 2008) (208 Screens)NZD 118,252 (New Zealand) (20 April 2008) (57 Screens)

Gross$24,487,595 (USA)

£12,280,529 (UK) (30 March 2008)£12,274,512 (UK) (23 March 2008)£12,267,108 (UK) (16 March 2008)£12,256,482 (UK) (9 March 2008)£12,251,333 (UK) (2 March 2008)

£12,241,109 (UK) (24 February 2008)£12,182,211 (UK) (17 February 2008)£12,042,854 (UK) (10 February 2008)£11,873,900 (UK) (3 February 2008)£11,353,732 (UK) (27 January 2008)£10,420,087 (UK) (20 January 2008)£9,231,413 (UK) (13 January 2008)£7,706,568 (UK) (6 January 2008)

£4,753,315 (UK) (30 December 2007)£1,832,594 (UK) (23 December 2007)

Production CompaniesEaling Studios

Entertainment Film Distributors Fragile Films

UK Film Council

DistributorsConcorde Filmverleih (2008) (Germany) (theatrical)

Entertainment Film Distributors (2008) (UK) (theatrical) NeoClassics Films (2009) (USA) (theatrical) Sony Pictures (2008) (Australia) (theatrical)

Sony Pictures (2008) (New Zealand) (theatrical) Central Partnership (2008) (Russia) (all media)

Entertainment in Video (2008) (UK) (DVD) Free Dolphin Entertainment (2010) (France) (DVD)

Paradiso Home Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD) Scanbox Entertainment (2008) (Finland) (DVD)

Shoval Film Production (2008) (Israel) (all media) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2010) (USA) (DVD)

Special EffectsMen From Mars (visual effects and animation)

Other CompaniesAnvil Post Production  sound post-production

ARRI Media  camera and grip equipment provided by Audiolink Radio Communications  walkie talkies/mobiles

CCE Film Partners  developed with the assistance of Casting Collective  extras casting

Compuhire  computer and video playback (post-production) Cool Music  composer management

DNA Music  music supervision Dennis Davidson & Associates Public Releations (DDA)  international publicity

Fatts  post-production script services Film Finances  completion guarantor

Goldcrest Post Production London  ADR Facility Investec Bank  funding

Kodak  motion picture film supplied by Production Copier Company  production equipment and services

Reelsound  sound post-production Sound Design Company, The  post-production sound services

VooDooDog  animation and titles

Production 1: Ealing Studios filmography Burke and Hare (2010)

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009) From Time to Time (2009)

Dorian Gray (2009) Easy Virtue (2008) St. Trinian's (2007)

I Want Candy (2007) Fade to Black (2006/I) Alien Autopsy (2006)

Imagine Me & You (2005) "BSTV" (2005) Valiant (2005)

Black Out (2005) (TV) ... Production Company Jimmy Carr Live (2004)

"The Great Love Swindle" (2004) The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) Nowhere to Go (1958)

Dunkirk (1958) Davy (1958)

Ealing Studios selection from back catalogue

1949 1951 1955

1956

History Ealing Studios is the oldest continuously working film studio in the world.

The stages and offices are steeped in history having survived the onset of the talkies, two world wars and the more recent technological advances in film and TV. The Ealing Comedies of the 1950s are considered a high point of British cinema.

The spirits of Alec Guiness, Alastair Sim and Peter Sellars pervade the stages, which are constantly in demand to shoot films like Dorian Gray, Nowhere Boy, and both St Trinians films. BBC broadcast Let’s Dance live from Studio 2 as part of Sports Relief and the BBC’s Cranford, Woody Allen and Gurinder Chadha recently based productions on the lot.

Will Barker, a pioneer of British cinema, originally acquired the site in 1902. Basil Dean, owner of Associated Talking Pictures took over from Barker in the early 1930s and Ealing Studios was established. In 1938, Michael Balcon joined Dean as Head of Production. The golden era of Ealing Studios had begun.

This fabulous period of creativity began with a series of real life dramas, such as Went The Day Well and Nine Men,  that sustained Britain during the war. As Britain laboured under post war rationing, Balcon and his close-knit team produced a series of classic comedies that captured the spirit of the age. The audience saw themselves in films like The Ladykillers, The Lavender Hill Mob, Passport to Pimlico and Kind Hearts and Coronets, and they thronged to see them.

These pictures contained recurring themes which resonated with the social upheaval that followed the war: the little people up against the establishment; an anarchic whimsy that was born often out of real events; a cast of characters drawn from the confusion and moral ambiguity of the times: a soft spot for raffish charm.

Production 2:Entertainment distributorsHugo Cabret (2011) ... Distributor (2011) (UK) (theatrical) Anonymous (2011) ... Distributor (2011) (UK) (theatrical)

Something Borrowed (2011) ... Distributor (2010) (UK) (all media) Apollo 18 (2011) ... Distributor (2011) (UK) (theatrical) Scream 4 (2011) ... Distributor (2011) (UK) (theatrical)

The Rum Diary (2011) ... Distributor (2010) (UK) (all media) The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) ... Distributor (2011) (UK) (theatrical)

A Little Bit of Heaven (2011) ... Distributor (2011) (UK) (theatrical) The Killer Elite (2011) ... Distributor (2010) (UK) (all media)

The Warrior's Way (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (UK) (all media) London Boulevard (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (UK) (theatrical) Burke and Hare (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (UK) (theatrical)

Piranha (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (UK) (theatrical) Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (UK) (theatrical)

The Book of Eli (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (UK) (theatrical) Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (UK) (theatrical)

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009) ... Distributor (2009) (UK) (theatrical) Nine (2009) ... Distributor (2009) (UK) (theatrical)

Planet 51 (2009) ... Distributor (2009) (UK) (theatrical) Fame (2009) ... Distributor (2009) (UK) (theatrical)

Burke and Hare (2010) ... Production Company St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009) ... Production Company

From Time to Time (2009) ... Production Company Dorian Gray (2009) ... Production Company Easy Virtue (2008) ... Production Company St. Trinian's (2007) ... Production Company

I Want Candy (2007) ... Production Company (as Fragile Film) Fade to Black (2006/I) ... Production Company Alien Autopsy (2006) ... Production Company

Imagine Me & You (2005) ... Production Company Fragile (2004/II) ... Production Company

Hope Springs (2003) ... Production Company The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) ... Production Company

Lucky Break (2001) ... Production Company High Heels and Low Lifes (2001) ... Production Company

Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000) ... Production Company (in association with) An Ideal Husband (1999) ... Production Company

Scrapbook (1999) ... Production Company Spice World (1997) ... Production Company

Production 3: Fragile films

Production 4: UK film councilA Boy and His Shoe (2013) ... Production Company

Cross My Mind (2012) ... Production Company The Lady (2011) ... Production Company

Wuthering Heights (2011) ... Production Company Self Made (2011) ... Production Company Gee Gee (2011) ... Production Company

My Week with Marilyn (2011) ... Production Company Sunny Boy (2011) ... Production Company

The Deep Blue Sea (2011) ... Production Company Upside Down (2011/I) ...

Bad Night for the Blues (2010) ... Production Company Cocoa (2010) ... Production Company

Assessment (2010) ... Production Company The Hardest Part (2010) ... Production Company

The First Grader (2010) ... Production Company (funding) Made in Dagenham (2010) ... Production Company

Thomas (2010) ... Production Company In the Meadow (2010) ... Production Company 'Tamara Drewe' (2010) ... Production Company

Another Year (2010) ... Production Company (support)

Distribution 1/5: Concorde Filmverleih (Germany)On the Road (2011) ... Distributor (2011) (Austria) (all media), Distributor (2011) (Germany) (all media), Distributor (2011) (Liechtenstein) (all media), Distributor (2011) (Switzerland) (all media) (German-speaking) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011) ... Distributor (2011) (Austria) (theatrical), Distributor (2011) (Germany) (theatrical) Melancholia (2011) ... Distributor (2011) (Austria) (theatrical), Distributor (2011) (Germany) (theatrical) The Tree of Life (2011) ... Distributor (2011) (Germany) (all media) Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland (2011) ... Distributor (2011) (Germany) (theatrical) The Eagle (2011) ... Distributor (2011) (Germany) (theatrical) Area 51 (2011) ... Distributor (2010) (Germany) (theatrical) Faust (2011) ... Distributor (2010) (Germany) (theatrical) The Killer Elite (2011) ... Distributor (2010) (Germany) (all media) Red (2010/I) ... Distributor (2010) (Germany) (theatrical) The Ward (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (Germany) (theatrical) Eclipse (2010/I) ... Distributor (2010) (Austria) (all media), Distributor (2010) (Germany) (all media) You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (Germany) (theatrical) My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010) ... Distributor (2011) (Germany) (all media) Iron Man 2 (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (Germany) (theatrical) The Back-up Plan (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (Germany) (theatrical) Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (Germany) (theatrical) Shutter Island (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (Austria) (theatrical), Distributor (2010) (Germany) (theatrical) New Moon (2009) ... Distributor (2009) (Austria) (all media), Distributor (2009) (Germany) (all media)

Distributor 3/5: Neoclassics (USA)

Sinking Sands (2011) ... Distributor (2010) (Non-USA) (theatrical) Cleveland vs. Wall Street (2010) ... Distributor (2010) (USA) (theatrical) Farewell (2009) ... Distributor (2010) (USA) (theatrical) The Over the Hill Band (2009) ... Distributor (2010) (USA) (all media) The Misfortunates (2009) ... Distributor (2009) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled) The Black Balloon (2008) ... Distributor (2008) (USA) (theatrical) Moscow, Belgium (2008) ... Distributor (2008) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled) Surviving Crooked Lake (2008) ... Distributor (2008) (USA) (theatrical) Captain Abu Raed (2007) ... Distributor (2009) (Australia) (theatrical), Distributor (2009) (South Africa) (theatrical), Distributor (2009) (UK) (theatrical), Distributor (2009) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled) St. Trinian's (2007) ... Distributor (2009) (USA) (theatrical) The Outcasts (2001) ... Distributor (2008) (worldwide) (all media)

Distributor 4,5/5: Sony Pictures (AUS/NZ)

Gabriel: Behind the Madness (2008) (V) Distributor (2008) (worldwide) (DVD) St. Trinian's (2007) ... Distributor (2008) (Australia) (theatrical) Casino Royale (2006) ... Distributor (2006) (Australia) (theatrical) The Wicker Man (2006) ... Distributor (2007) (Australia) (theatrical) Stealth (2005) ... Distributor (2005) (Australia) (theatrical) Don't Come Knocking (2005) ... Distributor (2005) (Australia) (all media) The Proposition (2005) ... Distributor (2006) (Australia) (DVD) Are We There Yet? (2005) ... Distributor (2005) (Australia) (theatrical) Being Julia (2004) ... Distributor (2005) (Australia) (theatrical) Wings of Courage (1995) ... Distributor (1998) (Australia) (theatrical) L.A. Story (1991) ... Distributor (2007) (Australia) (DVD)

Task: Make your own version of this case study in as much depth as possible. In your study you must include:

• Evidence you have viewed the whole film• Thorough research about the production and distribution institutions• Extensive reviews summarised in your own Words• Write your own review, giving your opinions And experience• Evidence that you understand the legacy of Ealing studios and why there was such a big break in production (1959-2002)