Wednesday, 13 September 2017

Pretty Woman Case study: Budgeting

Release date: 23rd March 1990
Director: Gary Marshall
Writer: J.F Lawton

Actors and cast:
Julia Roberts
Richard Gere
Jason Alexander
Ralph Bellamy
Pretty women also has around 55-60 extras

The fact there are very big actors in this production it will make the film make a lot more money.

Synopsis -
A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events and he hires a beautiful prostitute that he meets, only to fall in love with her.

Genre- Romance, comedy

Production manager: Roger Joseph Pugliese
Executive producer: EMI soundtrack album - Ron Fair
First assistant director - Ellen H. Schwartz
Second assistant director - Bettiann Fishman
Production companies - Touchstone pictures

Wardrobes: Cerruti 1881 Paris

Crew - 
Production companies - Touchstone pictures - silver screen partners TV
Associate producer/second unit director - Walter Von Huene
Art director - David Haber
Set decorator - Garrett Lewis
Costume supervisor - Dan Lester
Key costumer - Eleanor Bardah
Makeup - Bob Mills
Hairstylist - Carol o' Connell

Other roles: 
Camera operators
Script supervisors
Sound mixer
Boom operators
Cable man
Film editor
first and second assistant cameras
Assistant editors
Music editor
Sound editor
ADR editor
Post-production supervisor
Set designer

Film locations - 
  • Georgio Beverley hills 
  • North rodeo drive 
  • Beverley hills, California 
Box office - 
Budget - $14,000,000 (estimated)
Gross - $178,280,591 (USA)

Domestic Box office - $178,406,268
International Box office - $254,239,604
World wide Box office - $432, 645, 872

Opening weekend - $11,280,591 (1,325 screens)
1,325 theatres, $8,513

Pretty Women often gets compared too Notting Hill and other Rom coms that have similar types of budgets. 



2 comments:

  1. You've conducted some good research!

    Is there anything you can find out about the script, legal constraints locations?

    Please includes some images/consider using a Web 2.0 tool.

    Miss Crader

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  2. As above, and can you find any pre-production anecdotes? Thanks. Mrs E

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