High Budget Film vs Low Budget

Brick (2005)

Main Institution: Focus features and Bergman Lustig Productions  

Budget: $475,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $83,574 (USA) (2 April 2006)

Gross: $2,060,589 (USA) (9 July 2006)



 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Main Institution: Focus features and Studio Canal 

Budget: £20,000,000(estimated)

Opening Weekend: £2,814,860 (UK) (18 September 2011) (382 Screens)

Gross: $39,694,989 (Worldwide) (14 January 2011)

Focus Features

Focus features as an institution has dealt in a wide range of films from high budget films such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on a budget of £20,000,000 and Atonement on a budget of $30,000,000 to lower budget films such as The Ground Truth:After the killing ends at a budget of $12,207 and On a clear day at a budget of $17,303. In Both High and Low budget films focus have become popular and thrived earning many awards for both high and low budget films.

Bergman Lustig Productions

Bergman Lustig Productions have only ever made one film which is Brick, at a low budget of $475,000.

Studio Canal

Studio Canal has been involved with a large variety of films ranging from high to low budget. But as an older company they don't produce many new films but when they do they are hight budget such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with a massive buget of £20,000,000 and has won many awards.

Similarities and differences 

Differences:

• Brick has two institutions working on it, one very sucessful (Focus Features) and the other (Bergman Lustig Productions) which is much less sucessful.
• TTSS has two very large scale institution working whith it (Focus Features and Studio canal)
• TTSS was advertised much more due to the large budget and gross, making it a more popular film.
• Brick is very low bughet and didn't even hit cinemas
• The difference in buget between TTSS and Brick is huge.

Similarities:

• Both films are non-fiction
• With both films the gross out-weighs the budget
• Both are co-produced by Focus Features

The three institutions Focus Features, Studio Canal and Burgman Lustig Productions the main genre of films made are non-fiction or historical.