1. The wolf of wall street (2013)
Case study background to the films
production.
2. Institutions and audieences
• A us film aimed at n intentional audience
• Had a large budget! $100,000,000 (estimated)
3. • Budget:$100 million (estimated)
• Gross:$90 million (estimated)
• Director- Martin Scorsese
• Previous films that he has directed: The Departed
(2006), Gangs of New York (2002), Ranging bull (1980).
• In The Wolf of Wall Street DiCaprio plays Belfort, a
Long ISIand penny stockbroker who served 36 months
in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s
securities scam that involved widespread corruption on
Wall Street nd in the corporate banking world,
including shoe designer steve madden.
4. • Te wolf on wall street ws mainly filmed in new
York, as well as in the Bahamas.
• This film didn’t use IMAX camerato film any of
the sequences.
• It hasn’t came out yet but I think it will ave
box office sucsess and will get a high grossing
release.
5. Important fctors in the success of the
film?
• Marketing campaign
• Viral marketing
• Wall street- the history and the connection
with the audience
• Casting
• Directors portfolio
• Distribution – most cinemas to date
• Online ticket sales
6. Sample exam question:
• How do studios each their audience nationally
and internationally?
• Answer- Through marketing and distribution
8. Wolf of wall street history
• Based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir of the same
name . It was relesed on december 25, 2013.
The screenplay was written by Terence Winter
, and the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as
Belfort , a New York stockbroker who runs a
firm that engages in securities fraud and
corruption on Wall Street in the 1990s.
9. Distribution
• It is historically significant as the first major
film to be distributed entirely digitally. Three –
hour 18-certificate comedy might be
considered a distribution challenge. But
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street
stormed past any such concerns, posting a
sensational UK opening of $4.66m. That’s the
third- biggestdebut for an 18-certificate films.
10. Distributer
• One distributor that distributed the word of
Wall Street was universal pictures.
• Universal pictures creates and distributes
theatrical and non-theatrical filmed
entertainment. Universal’s theatrical slate
includes films developed internally, along with
co-production, acquisitions, and films
developed by outside partners and distributed
by the studio.
