British Independent Film: Submarine

Plot Summary: 15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.

Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance/Coming of Age

Director: Richard Ayoade

Release Date: March 2011

Marketing: A distinctive marketing campaign was set along side the soundtrack written and performed by Arctic Monkey's Alex Turner.

Certificate: 15

Box Office: $4,581,397

Budget: $1,900,000
                                                       

British Blockbuster: The Hobbit- The Desolation of Smaug

Release Date: 13th December
Genre: Fantasy
Production Budget: $560000
Box Office: $299.634,000 (estimated)
Certificate: 12A
Marketing: The first trailer was released in the ad break of the X Factor, the marketers obviously knew millions of people would be watching and it would be the perfect time to premier a film they know will be majorly successful. Posters were on buses, bus shelters, billboards etc and lots of merchandise was released such as posters, t-shirts, figurines and jewellery .
Plot Summary: The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug.
                                                               

Foreign Film: Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth is a dark-fantasy written and directed by Spanish director Guillermo del Toro.




Plot summary: In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

Production: $13, 500, 000

Box office: $37, 623, 143

Certificate: 15

2006 release January

Genre: Dark-fantasy
                                                    
             

American Independent Film: Donnie Darko (2001)

Donnie Darko deals with the controversial issue of mental illnesses. He suffers from schizophrenia and there is a deeper meaning to this as the schizophrenia is made apparent to the viewers in that the viewers are very involved in the multiple personality.
There are 4 production companies involved with this film- Pandora Cinema, Flower Films, Adam Fields Productions and Gaylord Films. All of these production companies have only produced independent films.

It had a budget of $6 million and had a box office of $1, 270, 522.
Director: Richard Kelly
Release Date: 26 October 2001 (Halloween time)
Certificate: 15

Awards:
Best film to not receive a proper release in Canada-Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Best Feature- Sweden Fanatic Film Festival
Best Film- Catalonian International Film Festival
Best Screenplay- San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Premiere Award- Geredmer Film Festival
Audience Awards- Cineygma Luxemburg International Film Festival
Best Screenplay
                                                  -Chlotrudis Awards
Best Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal)
Silver Screen Awards- Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival
Young Filmmaker's Showcase- Academy of Science Fiction etc