Case Study: Notting Hill
UK Release: 21st may 1999
Notting Hill was a very succesful film, wih excellent reviews from the media, and was one of the highest grossing British films.
The Romantic Comedy starred Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts alongside other well-known actors such as Emma Chambers and Hugh Bonneville.
Synopsis
An ordinary bloke (Hugh Grant) who works in a book shop in Notting Hill comes face to face with an international film star (Julia Roberts). They fall in love...but the road is a steep and rocky one, coupled with ludicrous flat-mates, dinner parties, and the press on their tails. Can the most famous film star in the world fall for the man in the street?
Notting Hill Awards
.Audience award for most popular film at the BAFTAS (2000)
.Best comedy film at the British comedy awards.
.Best sountrack at the Brit awards.
.Best British Film at the Empire awards.
.Best British actor at the Empire awards.
.Roger Mitchell got the best British Director award for the film at the empire awards.
UK Release: 21st may 1999
Notting Hill was a very succesful film, wih excellent reviews from the media, and was one of the highest grossing British films.
The Romantic Comedy starred Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts alongside other well-known actors such as Emma Chambers and Hugh Bonneville.
Synopsis
An ordinary bloke (Hugh Grant) who works in a book shop in Notting Hill comes face to face with an international film star (Julia Roberts). They fall in love...but the road is a steep and rocky one, coupled with ludicrous flat-mates, dinner parties, and the press on their tails. Can the most famous film star in the world fall for the man in the street?
Production
The main companies involved were Working Title Films, Polygram Film Entertainment, Bookshop productions and Notting Hill Pictures.
The Screenplay was written by Working Title's very own in house screen writer, who had also written the hugely sucessful Four Weddings and a Funeral.Notting Hill Awards
.Audience award for most popular film at the BAFTAS (2000)
.Best comedy film at the British comedy awards.
.Best sountrack at the Brit awards.
.Best British Film at the Empire awards.
.Best British actor at the Empire awards.
.Roger Mitchell got the best British Director award for the film at the empire awards.
Distribution
Notting Hill was distributed by MCA, Universal and PolyGram film entertainment. The film i think was aimed at women of all ages, as well as young couples and married couples. The genre is a romantic comedy and follows the traditional british rom-com values in which 2 people from different backgrounds meet and fall in love.
The main poster used to distribute the film features Hugh Grant walking past a billboard poster of Julia Roberts. The image of Julia Roberts is much larger than Hugh Grants is used to show Julia Roberts character has a higher status, Aswell as being on a billboard, showing how she is famous. The colour (or lack there of) is very unusual compared to other film posters, with colour only showing on Hugh Grants clothes and the names of the actors on the top of the poster.
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