course work quotes

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"Although a certain nebbishy auteur has come to stand as the paradigm of the New York director, there are arguably two other candidates well suited for that honor. Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee."

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"Martin Scorsese is known for collaborating with a tight-knit group of actors throughout his career: In his legendary run in the Seventies and Eighties, he worked frequently with Robert De Niro; in recent years, he's found acclaim directing Leonardo DiCaprio."

Item9-
"Leonardo DiCaprio will star in the long-in-development “The Devil in the White City” with Martin Scorsese directing for Paramount, sources confirm.
The project, which has been in the works for more than a decade, reunites DiCaprio with Scorsese two years after “The Wolf of Wall Street.”"

Item10-
"Yet the DiCaprio/Scorsese relationship has become enormously productive for both artists, helping to define both of their careers for over a decade and, as such, becoming a vital part of Scorsese’s development as an artist."

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"This self-described accidental collaboration has produced five distinct films so far, each with its own singular lead performance from DiCaprio: In “Gangs of New York,” he played an immigrant in a city on the cusp of self-destruction; in “The Aviator,” he was the influential and inimitable Howard Hughes; in “Shutter Island,” he was a detective looking to solve a mysterious disappearance at a psychiatric facility; in “The Departed,” he portrayed an undercover cop attempting to take down an infamous mob boss; and now, in “Wolf of Wall Street,” he plays a scumbag trying to scam money off of unsuspecting civilians. This is an impressive body of work. The fact that it was done with Martin Scorsese, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, makes it that much more remarkable."

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"They form one of Hollywood's most successful partnerships.

Now Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are preparing for a sixth collaboration together."

pessimistic, real, tense, sexist,

The characters in la haine come across as pessimistic because they are not optimistic about life improving


how far does the impact of the films you have studied for this topic depend on distinctive uses of film techniques

Could the working relationship between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio suggest an auteur tendency?

Area of investigation: Martin Scorsese

Draft title: Could the working relationship between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio suggest an auteur tendency?

Films
Item1- The Wolf of Wall Street(2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street is about a stockbroker, Jordan, who embraces the stockbroker life and gets involved in drugs, alcohol and prostitution. Jordan, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, becomes so obsessed with his new life he gets in to trouble with the FBI, but he manages to narrowly avoid arrest throughout the film. I chose this film as my focus film because it is the latest film that Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese and it is a very good example of a character that Scorsese has created who is consumed by obsession, as he is obsessed over multiple things.

Item2- Shutter Island(2010)
Shutter Island is about a patient named Andrew Laeddis (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is obsessed with this hyper reality world, where he believes his perhaps on the island is as a detective investigating the case of a missing patient from the hospital for the criminally insane. I have chosen this film as one of my focus films because it portrays another of Scorsese's characters that has a real obsession over something, to the point that it causes him to become mentally ill. These are common themes throughout many of his previous film made with Robert Di Niro, such as Taxi Driver.

Item3- The Aviator(2004)
The Aviator, is about a film director who is obsessed with planes, building them and flying them. Howard Hughes(Leonardo DiCaprio) begins to direct a film named "Hells Angles," during the filming Hughes becomes obsessed with getting it perfect. He becomes so obsessed over perfection, his already existent OCD gets predominately worse, to the point he becomes mentally ill and starts to go crazy. 

Interviews
Item4- Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese 2014 SBIFF Cinema Vanguard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJJlXWHW9diYg
In this interview featuring Martin Scorsese and Leonard DiCaprio, they talk about the films that they have worked on together and how their collaboration first came about. This interview is useful as it talks about some of the reasons as to why their collaboration came about and explain why they chose each other to work on specific films together. Therefore this interview will enable me to create valid points as to why they chose each other to develop and create the characters in films, this will therefore enable me to work out wether there is a pattern in the motive for the collaboration, thus helping me to determine weather Martin Scorsese is an auteur director.

item5- Leonardo DiCaprio on The Wolf of Wall Street After Oscar Lunch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mlgcXJVNd4
In this interview with Leonard DiCaprio he talks about The Wolf of Wall Street and why he chose Martin Scorsese to direct it. I chose this interview as Leonardo DiCaprio talks about how he approached Martin Scorsese about directing The Wolf of Wall Street, which gives an example of their partnership been driven by DiCaprio, rather than Scorsese, which may prove that their collaboration does not make Scorsese and auteur.

Item6-Leonardo DiCaprio - THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oYiq31FN9U
In this interview, Leonard DiCaprio talks about the type of character Jordan from The Wolf of Wall Street is and how he proceeded to prepare for the role. This is useful because it explains how the character is consumed by greed and becomes obsessed with money, sex and drugs and therefore this will help me create an argument, putting forward the idea that Scorsese is an auteur because he  always creates characters who are consumed by some sort of obsession.

Magazines            
Item7-  http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/martin-scorsese-shutter-island/#_
In this online magazine article, there is a short interview held between Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese, in which Spike Lee asks Scorsese about Shutter Island, which was his latest film at that time. In this article there is also a short intro, which proposes the idea that Martin Scorsese is and auteur director. Therefore, this magazine article is useful because it gives me a talking point when i comes to arguing the idea that Scorsese is an auteur director. Moreover, at the end of the interview, DiCaprio's and Scorsese's collaboration is briefly mentioned, when Lee asks who is staring in his latest film and then goes on to comment on how well their collaboration is going. This will be useful because it suggests that DiCaprio's and Scorsese's collaboration is possibly what makes Scorsese an auteur, thus enabling to argue that their relationship is has auteuristic traits.

Item8- http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/videos/martin-scorsese-reunites-robert-de-niro-leonardo-dicaprio-20150114
In this online "Rollingstone" magazine article it talks about a short film called "The Audition", directed by Martin Scorsese, staring Robert Di Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. The article also contains a clip of the trailer for the hot film, made to promote Asian casinos. This article is useful  as it talks about Martin Scorsese's collaborations with method actors, such as Robert Di Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, therefore it enables me to make a point about how Scorsese always creates collaborations with method actors, which is a demonstration of an auteur tendency.

Item9- GQ magazine June 2016
In the June 2016 edition of the British GQ magazine, within the entertainment sections there is a quadruple page spread about Leonardo DiCaprio and his life and career. Within this article he talks about what it takes to be a successful actor and how he submerges himself into his roles.
 I will use it to help explain how he is a method actor, which is useful because it is an argument as to why Martin Scorsese may always cast him. It is also useful for quotes that explain about how DiCaprio emerges himself in to a role.


Internet
Item10- http://variety.com/2015/film/news/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-reunite-for-devil-in-the-white-city-1201567113/
This online article talks purely about Scorsese's and DiCaprio's most recent collaboration "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and the Madness at the Fair that Changed America." and gives some context about it. This is useful for supporting evidence when making a point about what type of films Scorsese often makes, however other than that it is not as useful as the others.

Item11- http://www.avclub.com/article/martin-scorseses-work-dicaprio-just-vital-his-work-227782
This item is possibly the most useful item as it is an article based on Scorsese's collaborations with method actors, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Di Niro and essentially analyses  the importance of both relationships. It does this by looking at films that they've worked on together. This article is useful as it talks about all of the films that DiCaprio and Scorsese have worked on together, the plot, characters and who took the film to who. The article will help me to answer my question as it backs up the argument that Scorsese creates relationships with very successful method actors in order to successfully portray psychotic, obsessive characters.

Item12- http://www.indiewire.com/2014/02/leonardo-dicaprio-talks-his-work-with-martin-scorsese-says-he-wants-more-movies-like-wolf-of-wall-street-more-89046/
In this online article it begins by talking about The Wolf of Wall Street and how audiences responded to it and it sates that some people loved it because it was very honest in the way it portrayed stockbrokers as greedy, therefore this could be slightly useful when I go on to explain how Scorsese is an auteur because he often creates greedy type characters. Moreover, further on in the article it begins to mention DiCaprio's and Scorsese's collaboration and it stages that it is one of the most famous Hollywood relationships, therefore this is useful because it will help me to explain that their relationship is auteuristic because they are both very well known for it.

Item13- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese_and_Leonardo_DiCaprio
This Wikipedia page has been created specifically for the relationship of Martin Scorsese and contains information about everything that they have worked on together and the collaboration its self and also contains useful links to other online articles. This page is useful because it will provide me with supporting evidence when talking about their collaboration and films, which will thereofr help me to explain that their relationship is auteuristic because of the types of characters that Scorsese asks DiCaprio to play.

Books 
Item14- "The Passion of Martin Scorsese" By Annette Wernblad- To Beat the Devil- chapter 8
This book talks about the entire cinematic works of Martin Scorsese including most of the films that he has collaborated on with Leonardo DiCaprio and it explains the characters and plot of every individual film, therefore this will be useful when I come to explain the type of characters that Scorsese creates and how DiCaprio executed them in such a successful way.

Item 15-The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro-Andrew J. Rausch
This book is about Martin Scorsese's and Robert De Niro's impressively long, artistic collaboration, this is useful because it will help explain that the artistic relationships that Scorsese forms are auteuristic because he always choses actors whom he know will be able to successfully portray characters that are often taken over with obsession, therefore this explain why he has used the same two actors on multiple occasions. the obsessive characters that Scorsese creates will be explained throughout the book and it may also contain information as to why he chooses De Niro or how successfully he portrayed these characters. However, although I will be able to apply Scorsese's reasoning for picking De Niro for certain roles, to his relationship with DiCaprio, it may not be as useful as a book about Scorsese and DiCaprio because he doesn't explain about their relationship, only his and De Niro's.

Item16- ’The Pocket Essentials Guide to Film Studies', Andrew Butler
Within this book, the auteur theory has been explained, this will therefore be useful to prove that Martin Scorsese is an auteur director because I will be able to apply the theory to the work he does and explain how he fits the description of an auteur director.

Newspapers 
Item17- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3194248/Leonardo-DiCaprio-Martin-Scorsese-reunite-sixth-time-make-film-America-s-serial-killer-H-H-Holmes.html
In this newspaper article it talks about Scorsese's and DiCaprio's latest film together "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and the Madness at the Fair that Changed America." It also talks about the plot of the film and some of the character roles. This is useful as it reveals that the main character is a serial killer, therefore has psychological issues, this will help further support the idea that Scorsese often creates characters with some kind of obsession or psychological issues and picks method actors that he knows will successfully portray the thoughts and feelings of the character. 
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3194248/Leonardo-DiCaprio-Martin-Scorsese-reunite-sixth-time-make-film-America-s-serial-killer-H-H-Holmes.html#ixzz4S2xmbEYL
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Rejected Items
A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies [1995] [DVD]
This DVD is not useful as it only talks about all of Scorsese's films rather than the specific DiCaprio films and it doesn't really contain much about the obsessive characters within them, or his relationship with DiCaprio.

Scorsese on Scorsese-book
This book is not so useful because its more about the influences and creation of his films, rather than his relationships, however there is a small section on his collaboration with Robert De Niro, but its not enough to explain how his collaboration with DiCaprio is auteuristic because it doesn't specifically talk about DiCaprio.

Scorsese by Roger Ebert
This book is not useful because it was written by the film critic Roger Ebert and the whole book is just about him critiquing Scorsese's work, there is nothing to support that he is an auteur. 

la haine

Cycle, inequality, racism, violence, diversity, class, identity, projects, unity, drugs, alcohol, crime
      
 poverty: Hubert in his house with his family
Power: Police interrogation
Conflict: when Hubert and said walk off and get mugged and vinz threatens them with a gun

coursework reflective analysis.

The main aim of our horror sequence was to create a sense of suspense, fear and to play on the common fear of the unknown. We attempted to do this through the use of common conventions used in the horror genre, such as, close up shots concealing the surroundings, high pitched music, and the use of props.

I felt like we used these common conventions effectively throughout the making of our film. However, in my opinion we could have incorporated  even more common horror conventions into the film, such as pathetic fallacy  and low-key lighting. I feel that our use of lighting techniques was poor and therefore as a result the sequence did not seem as scary as it could have. There were some elements of lighting skills portrayed at the end of our sequence where we have used low-key lighting at the death scene to make it seem more sinister and threatening, however our lighting skills were not demonstrated consistently throughout the sequence, therefore I think that out lighting techniques were poor and could have been improved on.   

On the other hand, I feel that we successfully addressed the fear of the unknown concept by using two cameras to film our short sequence. We used one camera as the villain’s eyes, to make it seem like the character was being followed and venerable. And the other camera we used as a kind of a prop to film the same things but from the characters view point. We incorporated the second camera into the sequence by using it as the camera that the character uses to make her daily vlogs, this enabled us to make it seem as though she was being followed.

Moreover, the use of two cameras also enabled us to use the parallel editing techniques. The use of Parallel editing builds tension because it slowly showed how the villain and the character were getting closer to each other, foreshadowing that something bad was about to happen. The parallel editing that we used in our sequence also enabled us to be able to clearly convey that the girl was being followed by someone, by using straight cuts from one camera to the other it showed the girl in one place and the villain in another place, nearby, looking at the girl.

Aims and context fm1

 

•  Target audience~ 12-18 year olds
• Genre~ psychological horror
• our sequence is about a young girl being followed by someone who is never seen by the camera, we use two cameras to create the sequence, one is operated by the girl who is filming herself running away and the other acts as the eyes of the villain watching the girl filming her self. All of the camera work is hand held to make it seem more realistic which makes people get more scared by the film because they feel like they're there. the hand held camera technique is a common convention of the horror genre, therefore we decided to incorporate it into our sequence. 

exam stuff

The Hobbit- An Unexpected Journey- US production. 

Budget;  $200-315 million



Stars; -Ian McKellen,
           -Martin Freeman
           -Richard Armitage
           -Cate Blanchett
           -Ian Holm
           -Christopher Lee
           - Elijah Wood
           -Hugo Weaving
           -Andy Serkis

Genre; High fantasy adventure film

Box office; $1,021,103,568

Production Company/companies;
 -New Line Cinema
 -Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 -WingNut Film

Certification; 12A

Marketing;  
 Offline marketing ~

Poster and billboards~

Events~
• Comic-Con (even Danny Sullivan tweeted about it), an already classic on-off marketing event;
•In addition to televised appearances and interviews, they’ve also appeared at several press conferences and conventions. For example, at ComicCon, 12 minutes of footage from the film was screened only to fans who appeared at The Hobbit’s panel.
• Following the panel there was plenty of time for a Q&A with Peter Jackson, Andy Serkis, Sir Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, and several other cast members.
• Fans events as the “Hobbit Day Fan Photos”;
• Jackson also marked milestones like Hobbit Day and the novel’s 75th anniversary.
• Fans engagement on Facebook (i.e.: the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of The Hobbit publication);


Merchandising~
•  (i.e.: maps; figures; the Lego “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” sets or video games as “The Hobbit: Armies of the Third Age”)
• Publicity included the first ever film-themed Rolling Stone magazine standalone issue.
•Brands like Funko, The Noble Collection, Weta Workshop, and especially the Warner Bros. store have a wide variety of Hobbit merchandise up for grabs.

Partnership with New Zeland~ 

• The Hobbit teamed up with Air New Zeland, they had the hobbits record the safety video that they show on the planes and they also put poster on the sides of the planes.
•  a massive Gollum sculpture was installed in the Wellington Airport in New Zealand.
•  A real life version of The Green Dragon Inn, a pub featured in The Lord of the Rings, opened in New Zealand in preparation for the film.
• The Hobbit teamed up with "Denny's" (a fast food restaurant) that made a hobbit themed menu and put a QR code that fans could scan for exclusive content. fans could also buy a pack of Hobbit trading cards that contained a coupon for there next meal at Denny's.

• And a massive word of mouth fan endorsement!



Online marketing~

 Social media~
• On Site engagement asking the fans to vote the best possible ending for the new trailer;
 • The marketing campaign began back in 2011 on Facebook with a series of video journals from Jackson’s POV, engaging fans throughout the year by taking them into the production activity leading up to the announcement trailer at the beginning of 2012.
• Jackson also marked milestones like Hobbit Day and the novel’s 75th anniversary.
• An online media blitz kicked off in early November with an advanced ticketing campaign across YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to drive early ticket sales.
• The official Facebook page of the movie started on the 15th of February of 2011 and the official blog was revamped around that time.
• Only later a YouTube channel, a Twitter profile and the official website of the movie would have been created.
 • Reinforcing a collaboration with the biggest Tolkien’s fan based site: www.theonering.net, with initiatives like this one;
 • Creation of the Twitter profile and start of the real interaction of Social Media;
• Fans engagement on Facebook (i.e.: the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of The Hobbit publication);

Trailer~
• Launch of the second trailer (2.6 million views and gazillions shares and republishing);

Games/apps~
• Wallpaper generator, plus many other fans goodies, such as Bombur Recipe Book; Dwarf Combat training game; Facebook’s ‘The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth’ game app.
• Apps for iPhone and iPad, etc. etc.

Youtube/videos/TV~
• Viral videos, as the “An Unexpected Briefing” with Air New Zealand;
• a week of late night US television programming on The Colbert Report.
• The Hobbit also received major treatment from Autumn and Holiday previews.
• An online media blitz kicked off in early November with an advanced ticketing campaign across YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to drive early ticket sales.
• Warner Bros live-streamed the world premiere from Wellington, New Zealand, to a record-setting audience of a million views.
• Only later a YouTube channel, a Twitter profile and the official website of the movie would have been created.
• The Hobbit Production Diaries and Video series, started first on the blog then.
• The Director’s personal Peter Jackson YouTube account the one that most success had in promoting the two series: with over 4 million direct views.
•The cast and crew of the Hobbit of course partook in the typical TV appearance tour. They’ve appeared in interviews both on TV and online with VH1, MTV, Nerdist, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, and many other shows and sites.

Release dates~

• 12th December 2012~New Zeland
• 14th December2012~US
• 28th November 2012~Wellington Premier

Reviews~

• Empire~ 4/5
• Cinemablend~ 8/10
• The Telegraph~ 3/5
• Rotten Tomatoes~3/4
• IMDB~4/5

Spectre~ UK production~

Budget~
$250 million, one of the most expensive films made. Part of a franchise. The most expensive Bond film made, high budget meant they could get the best actors in Hollywood.

Stars~
-Daniel Craig
-Christoph Waltz
-Lea Seydoux
-Ben Whishaw
-Dave Bautista
-Naomie Harris
-Monica Bellucci
-Ralph Fiennes

Genre~
Spy Film

Box Office~
$795.4 million

Production company/companies~
Eon Productions

Certification~
12A

Marketing~

Posters and billboards~

Offline marketing~

Partnerships with brands~

• Spectre teamed up with many different brads to try and promote the film. The main brands that they teamed up with clothing, watch and cars brands.
• They also scraped the usual jumper that he wears and is seen wearing in earlier bond film for a pole neck top.
• Some of the main brands that they teamed up with were: Heineken, Aston Martin and Walther PPK. 
• They also teamed up with: Range Rover, Jaguar C-X75, Omega.
• Sony has renewed its association with Bond, and 007 can be expected to be using an Xperia mobile to make calls and do smartphone stuff. 
• Williams F1 carried the 007 logo on their cars at the 2015 Mexican Grand Prix

Events~

• On 13 March 2015, several members of the cast and crew, including Craig, Whishaw, Wilson and Mendes, as well as previous James Bond actor, Sir Roger Moore, appeared in a sketch written by David Walliams and the Dawson Brothers for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on BBC One. In the sketch, they film a behind-the-scenes mockumentary on the filming of Spectre.

online marketing~

social media~

• To promote the film, production continued the trend established during Skyfall's production of releasing still images of clapperboards and video blogs on Eon's official social media accounts

Trailer~

• The first teaser trailer for Spectre was released worldwide in March 2015, followed by the theatrical trailer in July and the final trailer in October.

release dates~

• 26th October 2015~UK
• 6th November 2015~US

Reviews~

• The Guardian~ 5/5
• Cinemablend~8/10
• Empire~4/5
• Rotten Tomatoes~64%
• Metacritic~60%

Independent film~ The Imbetweeners Movie~

Budget~
£3.5 million

Stars~

• Alex Macqueen
• Greg Davies
• Theo James
• Simon Bird
• James Buckley
• Blake Harrison
• Joe Thomas

Genre~
Comedy



Box office~
The films total box office gross was 45,o28,695, the film set a record for having the most successful opening weekend for a comedy.



Production company/companies~

• Bwark Productions
• Film4 Productions
• Young Films

Certification~
18

Marketing~

• Was marketed to the British public through teaser trailers, in order to generate a hype and create and enigma the would entice the target audience.
• Film poster were created to create excitement that her integrated into the audiences lifestyle e.g. busstops.
• they used various forms of media to make the film well known.
• The movie uses consistent fonts and colours to show community in their products e.g. in the trailer they used the same font as on the poster and in parts of the film the same colours are used that were used on the poster suggesting that the film is generating the same meaning of energy and fun throughout its products.
• By suing the same fonts it reminds the audience of the poster when the watch the trailer or vica versa which triggers the same feeling that they had when they first saw the poster.

Release dates~
17th August 2011

• They released the film in the summer holidays so that their main target audience (15-25 yr olds) could go and see it.

Reviews~

• Won the Empire Award for best comedy
• Rotten Tomatoes~ 54%
• IMDB~ 6.8/10
• The Telegraph~ 3/5
• The Guardian ~3/5
• Empire ~4/5
• Set a new record for the most successful opening weekend for a comedy film in the UK

Worldwide production~ The Heartbreaker~

Budget~
€ 8,000,000


Stars~

• Romain Duris
• Vanessa Paradis
• Julie Ferrier
• François Damiens
• Andrew Lincoln
• Klaus Badelt

Genre~
French Romantic Comedy




Box Office~
€ 42,026,450




Production company/companies~
IFC




Certification~
15




Marketing~

Poster~

• There’s not much to the poster. He is walking toward the camera, looking scruffy yet handsome and charming while she is in a photo behind him in front of a beautiful French coastal scene.

Trailer~

• The trailer starts off with a bit of plot exposition – a wealthy business man doesn’t like the guy his daughter is about to marry – but then we get a bit of background on Alex, the titular Heartbreaker, including some scenes of him on previous assignments. But then he gets this gig and we see the cat and mouse game the two play as he attempts to learn everything he can about her and follow her as closely as possible and she resists the imposition. As the two continue though, things change and, as the voiceover says, he winds up breaking his only rule: Actually falling in love with his target.
• It’s a light and bouncy trailer, a feeling that’s aided by the fact that it features not just “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” from Dirty Dancing (this is actually a plot point) but also Wham’s “Wake Me Up.” So the amusing actions of those on screen are complimented by a lightweight soundtrack, all of which add up to an interesting trailer.

Online~

• The movie’s official website is a collage of photos, sticky notes and push pins on a map like the kind you’d see as part of a planning session.
• In the upper left hand corner is a widget that has a rotating stream of (presumably curated) Twitter updates about the movie.
• The “Photos” section has about 14 stills from the movie and you can download a high-quality version of the movie’s banner by clicking on that image just below the “Photos” area.
• The “Are You a Heartbreaker?” section is a quiz for women to take so they can see if their man is really as bad as they might suspect he is. Similarly, the “One of your friends…” section is something for women to use to warn a friend that they’re going out with or married to a complete twit.
• Moving over to the left, the “Events” section has information on the movie’s appearance at a couple film festivals as well as Q&As the cast and crew has appeared at in advance of the film’s European release, which was a couple months prior to its appearance in the U.S.
• “Interviews” has video interviews with the movie’s cast and “The Team” has information on the characters in the story and background on who they are and what role they play in this adventure.
• The Assignment” then is a synopsis of the movie’s story.
• The video player at the bottom opens what amounts to the Video section of the site, with the trailer, a teaser (that is nowhere else in the movie’s American marketing) and a coupled of extended clips from the film.
• The movie’s Facebook page has plenty of updates on various promotional activity, photos from the movie and various events related to it and more.

Media and publicity~

• The film made a couple of festival appearances on this side of the Atlantic, one at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and one at the City of Lights, City of Angels film series in Los Angeles.
• Other than that there wasn’t much. About the only other discussion in the press of the movie was the announcement, right around the time of Tribeca, that the movie would be Americanized in the near future.
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Release dates~

• 17th march 2010 (france)
• 2nd July 2010(UK)

Reviews~

• Rotten Tomatoes~ 70%
• IMDB~ 6.8/10
• Time out~ 3.8/5