Institutional ResearchResearch into the Romantic Tragedy

Genre

Top 20 films between 1989 - 2012From this table, we can see that in the last twenty years one of the most successful films has been a Romantic Tragedy which is Titanic and falls third on the table.

This shows the Romantic Tragedy Genre has a variety of audience members because Titanic was released in 1997 and has continued to be successful ever since especially as it had made £80.1million.

Romantic Tragedies Released This Year

• The most recent Romance film to released in ‘About Time’. This has become successful and topped the box office of the weekend the 6th to the 8th with a gross of £1,761,079 for that weekend.

• Although the following weekend it slipped down to 4th place on the box office table it till made a total gross of over £1million for that weekend showing that it is still as successful genre. As well as this, the total gross for ‘About Time’ is £3,895,293 which is more than the rest of the films that are above it for the weekend of the 13th to the 15th.

Romantic Tragedies ReleasedLast Year

• In the 2012 there were more Romantic Comedies released on the weekend 14th to the 16th however they were not as successful.

• For example the film ‘Hope Springs’ only came 5th on the box office list for that particular weekend and only had a total gross of £728, 689.

• Another example is the film ‘To Rome With Love’ and this film had only made £141,008 to date.

• This shows that the Romance genre has become more popular in film and is more likely to make a higher gross this year than previous years.

Production by GenreThis table shows the a breakdown in the production of genre in the UK.

The Table shows that the Romance genre only made up just under 5% of the total films made in the UK. However there was a budget of £102.6miliion showing that the films must have been promising and successful.