Use Les Misérables to discuss:
Tom Hooper won best director Acadamy Award in 2010 for The Kings Speech, but missed out on awards and nominations in this catagory for Les Miserables. Before 2009 Hooper mainly focused on TV movies and shows up untill he directed The Damned United.
Anne Hathaway sweeped up awards season with the Golden Globe, Oscar and Bafta for best supporting actress accumulating huge amounts of advertising for the film, other awards include:
Nominated for 8 Oscars (Won 3)
Nominated for 4 Golden Globes (Won 3)
nominated for 9 baftas (Won 4)
Famous britsh director as well as known british star Helena Bonham Carter, also more upcoming performances from Eddie Redmayne and Samantha Barks.
Released Christmas day in USA, January 11 for UK. Faced competition at UK box office of other accolaided films including, Zero Dark Thirty as well as quartet and Ganster Squad.In the US it faced Tom Cruises, Jack Reacher released Days before and Django Unchained released on the same day. In the US the film took a Christmas Day record of $18.2 million
Achieved high sucess and has made it to the second best selling album of 2013 so far.
Started out as a highly accliamed book by Victor Hugo in the 1860's. Was adapted for the west end stage and overcame bad reviews by word of mouth turning into one of the best selling stage musicals ever. The film already had it's market avaliable and audience who would be willing to go and see the film when it was released.
Released UK promos and trailers around early november time in order to create a "hype" around the film. Character posters were released of about 6 of the major stars within the film, appealing to a vast audience. Posters shown on buses throughout its release, as well as up to the time of DVD release. "The Making Of" DVD was given out freely along with the daily mail on the day of the films release, creates an extra "hype" and acts as a tie in.
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