Dredd research

• Producer- Pete Travis
• Distributor- Entertainment Film Distributors, a brittish distributor., whos deal was 7 million dollars
• The film was also released in north america and the distributors for what was Lions Gate Entertainment.
• Script writer- Alex Garland, who began writing in 2006
• Budget- $45 million
• Box office gross- Just over $36 million
• Directors & Actors-
• Karl Urban- Judge Dredd.  Who has also been in Star Trek, Lord of the Rings & The cronicles of Riddick
• Olivia Thirlby- Judge Cassandra Anderson. Who has also been in Juno
• Wood Harris- Kay (hostage). Who is normally a TV star, staring in The Wire and Hawaii Five-0.  
• Lena Headey- Ma-Ma (madeline madrigal). Who has also been in St Trinian's, The Purge and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
• Donhall Gleeson- "clan techie". Who has also been in Harry Potter as Bill Weasley in Deathly Hallows
• Marketing-  Dredd Report was opened for the film, a website features news about the film. A comic book was also published with the same story line as the film. Film posters http://www.judgmentiscoming.net/motionposter/dreddposter.swf 
• Critical reception- Dredd got a very good critical reception, scoring a 78% from Rotten Tomatoes, a popular film critic website. They also said that 73% of the audience liked the film.
• Whereas Metacritic, another well know film critic website said differently. They gave Dredd a 59 out of 100, this can be seen as more accurate as it is a mixed score of 29 different critics.
• Reasons for lack of success-
• Marketing- The film didn't put much money into the Marketing of the film, which has been picked up by critics and said to be the main reason that the film didn't succeed.
• The R rating- Many critics believe that the reason Dredd shouldn't have had an R rating because they have the wrong target audience and that they didn't believe it deserved an R rating as the swearing within the play was not needed.
• Awards- The film won an Empire award for Best 3D and was nominated for Empire awards in Best british film and best science-fiction/fantasy. Surpirisingly, the trailer was nominated for 6 awards and won a Golder trailer award for Best thriller TV spot.
• Technology used- Judge Dredd's weapon 'Lawgiver' was a real gun, which was made specifically for the film out of a 9mm firing system, this was the same for Dredd's motorcycle 'Lawmaster', which was a real motorbike which had machine guns and an extended wheel base added onto it to make it look like the comic version, Karl Urban would actually drive the motorbike top stop use special effects people having to use Chroma key visual effects. The Slo-Mo scenes when killing people was made using blood bags and prosthetics, but what made them so special was the use of real bullets and compressed air to give the slow motion scenes their edge.
• Tie-ins- a tie-in comic book was made, which carries on the story and shows the story before it, showing Ma-Ma's life as a prostitute, controlled by her pimp Lester Grimes. No childrens toy was ever made from the Dredd film.

Personal opinion-
I think that the film is very good, even though I don't normally watch this type of Gory style film. The film effects are well excecuted and are a real credit to the film. Whereas the constant fighting within the film is not. I think that there should have been more of a story line within the film and that should have developed at the same time as all of the shooting, instead of monotonous violent scenes. The reason I feel that this film did not succeed is that they have picked the wrong target audience. A fim filled with violent scenes and guns should be aimed at a target audience of teenage boys, which it typically is. Whereas this film is an 18 which makes it unable to be seen by what should have been their target audience. The only other thing wrong with the film is the lack of a well known character. I think that it would have been nice if I had heard of one of the actors before watching Dredd as it would make the film more interesting and may have helped the marketing of the film, I don't think that an A-list star would have fitted in with this film but atleast a known actor.