Working Title Rom-Com Genre Semiotics Analysis

17/03/16

Which genre is most associated with Working Title?
Rom-com

Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Working Title
Music is instrumental/classical and non-diegetic.
Lots of stars Hue Grant was almost unknown in this movie. Andy McDownell,  Rewan Atkinson, etc.
Archetype is an early example which becomes a stereotype/ and original stereotype which then becomes a stereotype.  Posh Southern English accents. Non-cocasian characters which follows up Richard Curtis's idea of Working Title films.
This is an american trailer and they cut out the key gay character. The american distributors were not comfortable with gay characters in the movie. As well as swearing words with was in the movie.
The movie had also a low budget of £2.8

We Are Your Friends 2015

Production Companies: Working Title Films and StudioCanal
Budget:$6m
Distributor: Warner Bros. IMDb BoxOffice Mojo
Worldwide Box-office: $ 9,417,474
US: 3.5m.
UK: 819k.

Distributors

• Diamond Films (2015) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) (2015) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Kinepolis Film Distribution (KFD) (2015) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• NOS Audiovisuais (2015) (Portugal) (theatrical)
• Odeon (2015) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Shaw Organisation (2015) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Studio Canal (2015) (Australia) (theatrical)
• StudioCanal (2015) (Germany) (theatrical)
• StudioCanal (2015) (France) (theatrical)
• Viva International Pictures (2015) (Philippines) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2015) (USA) (theatrical)
• IPA Asia Pacific (2015) (Thailand) (all media)
• King Power (2015) (Myanmar) (all media)
• StudioCanal (2015) (Germany) (DVD)
• StudioCanal (2015) (Germany) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
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This movie was distributed in 38 countries: this information was taken from BoxOfficeMojo
The movie was not a success as the highest box-office was in Germany and it reached $1,061,769
The reason for this failure maybe that the target audience are females however, the movie is R rated for very string language, sex references and drug uses, which means that it is 15 rated in UK.  BBFC . Secondary audience were the ones who are into EMD music, however after seeing the movie audience were disappointed as there were barely any proper EDM and mostly nudity.

Country (click to view weekend breakdown) Dist. Release Date Opening Wknd % of Total Total Gross / As Of FOREIGN TOTAL - N/A n/a - n/a N/A Argentina - 10/15/15 - - $60,209 11/8/15 Australia Studio Canal 8/27/15 $164,590 100% $164,590 8/30/15 Austria Constantin 8/28/15 $45,625 25.3% $180,267 9/20/15 Belgium Kinepolis 8/26/15 $110,628 37.1% $297,983 9/27/15 Brazil - 10/15/15 $6,175 76.3% $8,095 11/8/15 Croatia - 8/27/15 $14,256 35.4% $40,255 9/20/15 Czech Republic Freeman 9/3/15 $26,099 43.4% $60,108 9/20/15 Denmark Filmcompagniet 9/3/15 $12,944 65% $19,924 9/13/15 Ecuador Venus 11/6/15 - - $26,992 11/29/15 Estonia ACME 8/28/15 $9,557 100% $9,559 8/30/15 Finland SF Film 8/28/15 - - $42,957 9/6/15 France Studio Canal 8/26/15 $494,076 62.1% $795,318 9/6/15 Germany Studio Canal 8/27/15 $373,671 35.2% $1,061,802 11/1/15 Hong Kong - 9/24/15 - - $7,401 10/18/15 Hungary - 9/3/15 $27,880 100% $27,880 9/6/15 Iceland Myndform 9/11/15 $2,076 48.8% $4,251 9/20/15 Italy - 9/17/15 $331,800 64% $518,086 9/27/15 Jordan - 8/27/15 $11,500 45.9% $25,040 9/13/15 Kenya - 9/4/15 $3,805 60.1% $6,333 9/27/15 Latvia ACME 8/28/15 $6,806 37% $18,371 9/13/15 Lebanon - 8/27/15 $25,569 40.9% $62,522 9/13/15 Mexico - 10/9/15 - - $34,278 10/25/15 Netherlands DFW 8/26/15 $130,757 38.3% $341,417 9/13/15 New Zealand Studio Canal 8/27/15 $41,572 51.3% $80,965 9/20/15 Norway Svensk 8/28/15 $27,385 53.5% $51,152 9/13/15 Philippines - 8/26/15 $31,374 100% $31,374 8/30/15 Poland Monolith 8/28/15 $94,717 31.3% $302,659 9/13/15 Portugal Lusomundo 8/27/15 $45,870 39.2% $117,161 9/20/15 Romania - N/A - - $38,780 10/11/15 Singapore Shaw 9/24/15 $18,507 48.5% $38,175 10/25/15 South Africa - 9/18/15 $17,685 40.4% $43,811 11/22/15 South Korea - 11/12/15 $69,740 32.2% $216,349 11/15/15 Switzerland (German-speaking) - 8/27/15 $24,558 100% $24,558 8/30/15 Thailand - 10/8/15 $8,723 59.4% $14,684 10/18/15 Turkey - 8/28/15 - - $32,885 9/6/15 Ukraine - 8/27/15 $21,110 39.7% $53,229 9/20/15 United Arab Emirates - 8/27/15 $40,230 52.9% $76,041 9/13/15 United Kingdom Studio Canal 8/28/15 $401,378 100% $401,378 8/30/15

Total Lifetime Grosses Domestic:  $3,591,417    100.0% + Foreign:  n/a    0.0% = Worldwide:  $3,591,417 Domestic Summary Opening Weekend:  $1,767,308 (#14 rank, 2,333 theaters, $758 average) % of Total Gross:  49.2% > View All 4 Weekends Widest Release:  2,333 theaters Close Date:  September 24, 2015 In Release:  28 days / 4 weeks

The Players Actors: Zac Efron Emily Ratajkowski Wes Bentley Jon Bernthal Producers: Tim Bevan Eric Fellner

Marketing: This movie released a trailer in the cinemas and social media. News went were published thought magazines, TV shows, Twitter, Facebook.

Looking at the movie we can tell that this is a good example of Working Title films. It is well distributed, includes rich and wealthy people, does not have any fragments of social realism and has a starring Zac Efron. This movies target audience are females so having Zac Efron as their main character will attract female audience more. The secondary audience were the ones who are fans of music EDM. However, looking at the setting, characters and plot. This is an american movie about american characters which is not quite typical of Working Title films. This movie has nothing to do with England except the production company.