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Highest grossing films The year 2011 was notable for three films grossing more than $1 billion worldwide.
Pirates of the Caribbean:
franchise and the highest
Transformers: Dark
$1,043,871,802 becoming
grossed $91,071,119 on
$1,123,746,996 and is the
On Stranger Tides grossed the eighth film to have
surpassed the billion dollar mark, the second in the
Pirates of the Caribbean series to have done so,
earning it the spot as the 8th highest-grossing film of all time.
Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows – Part 2
grossed $1,328,111,219, becoming the ninth film to have surpassed the
billion dollar mark, the 3rd
highest-grossing film of all time, the highest-grossing film in the Harry Potter
of 2011 as a whole. It
its first day of release, achieving the biggest single-day gross of
all time, also breaking
The Dark Knight’s 2008 record for the highest weekend opening in
of the Moon grossed
4th highest-grossing film of all time, the tenth film to have surpassed the
billion dollar mark and the highest grossing of the series.
the United States and
This is the first year when
with $169,189,427. In
than $1 billion worldwide:
Canada ($158,411,483), addition, the film made
$483,189,427 worldwide on opening weekend,
beating Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’s
record of $394,000,000 for highest weekend opening worldwide.
three films grossed more
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and
Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
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Awards The following films, actors. actresses and directors won major awards in 2011 (though the majority of these were released in 2010 oveseas).
Golden Globes
BAFTAs
Academy Awards
The 68th Golden Globe
The 64th British Academy
The 83rd Academy
live on January 16, 2011,
on 13 February 2011
presented by the Academy
Awards were broadcast by NBC. The host was
Ricky Gervais. Robert De Niro was presented with
the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. The
Social Network won four awards, the most of any
film, including best drama. It beat British historical
tale The King’s Speech, which had entered the
awards ceremony with
the most nominations but collected just one award.
Film Awards were held honouring the best
national and foreign
films of 2010. The King’s
Speech earned the most
nominations with fourteen. At the ceremony, it came
away with seven awards, including Best Film,
Outstanding British Film and Best Actor for Colin
Firth. Natalie Portman won the Best Actress award and David Fincher was
named Best Director for The Social Network.
Awards ceremony,
of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films
of 2010 and took place
February 27, 2011. During the ceremony, Academy Awards (commonly
referred to as Oscars) were awarded in 24
competitive categories.
Actors James Franco and
Anne Hathaway co-hosted the ceremony, marking the first time for each.
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The Oscars 83rd Academy Awards
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Golden Globes 68th Golden Globe Awards
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BAFTAs 64th British Academy Film Awards
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The Film Programme FIlm 2011 with Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh
About The Film programme
to 2010, before receiving
represented a rejection of
television programme,
introduction of Claudia
requirement for a host of
BBC One, presented by
from 2010. This saw
Danny Leigh. The title of
studio format and the
year to incorporate the
presenter, film journalist
is a British film review
a format revamp with the
broadcast weekly on
Winkleman as host
Claudia Winkleman and
the adoption of a live
the show changes each
introduction of a co-
year of broadcast, with the
Danny Leigh.
2011, but when referring
Claudia Winkleman
BBC calls it “the Film
Claudia Winkleman
was previously presented
surprise choice for the
1972 and 1998, and by
Wise of Empire feared that
current series being Film to successive series, the programme”. The show
was announced as a
by Barry Norman between
presenter’s role. Damon
Jonathan Ross from 1999
Winkleman’s appointment
film knowledge as a
the show The Guardian stated, through her
recent hosting of Sky
Television’s coverage of
The Oscars, Winkleman had “proved both a
passionate and engaging advocate of cinema”,
while her husband Kris
Thykier is a film producer with credits on several
mainstream releases. She also presents a weekly
arts show on BBC Radio
2 on Friday nights, which covers film.
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Danny Leigh
Special guests
Danny Leigh is a film critic,
Antonia Quirke is part
Her book about the film
first review was printed
and has been a film critic
BFI’s biggest-selling
a trainee reporter at the
memoir about life as a film
The Camden New Journal
overwhelming obsession
film for the Independent
movie stars - Madame
Evening Standard.
Beautiful Strangers - is
She’s presented movie
film by the team behind
introduced film seasons
and BAFTA-winning An
journalist and novelist. His in the late, lamented
Neon magazine in 1997.
Since 1999 he has written most regularly for The
Guardian, for which he
now produces a weekly
online film column. He is
the author of two novels,
and is working on a third. His favourite film would be a toss-up between Mulholland Drive and
Night of the Hunter. Or
Stalker. Or The Shining.
of the team on Film 2011
JAWS was one of the
for 15 years. Starting as
titles, and her comic
radical London freesheet
critic suffering from an
she went on to write about
with various male
on Sunday and the
Depardieu And The
being developed into a
reviews for ITV and
the Oscar-nominated
- anything from the
Education.
Surrealists to Alien flicks on BBC Four.
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Catherine Bray has been
Cronenberg, Lynch and
West Coast Editor which
since getting her first job
directors who aren’t
Ireland native to Los
working as a journalist aged 21 as staff writer on cult film magazine Hotdog.
She has since worked for
Channel 4 and Channel 5, written for The Telegraph and Heat magazine, and
published a paper on the
early work of John Milton,
in the Milton Quarterly last year.
Catherine is a huge fan of the work of David
Fincher, and some other called David as well, like John Carpenter. She will
watch any movie where a 50 foot woman, monster or whatever attacks something.
Chris Hewitt is part of the team on Film 2011 and
he is the News Editor at EMPIRE magazine.
During his time at Empire, he’s held a variety of
posts, including a stint as
brought the Northern
Angeles, and Co-Editor of
the award-winning Empire Online.
He also writes and
presents award-losing video diaries from the Cannes Film Festival, Comic-Con and the
London Film Festival, with various on-set specials along the way. Chris
calls these video diaries
‘videblogisodes’, although no-one else does.
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Rotten Tomatoes Review aggregator
Rotten Tomatoes is
associations. To become
The website keeps track of
reviews, information, and
original reviews as an
(which can approach
a website devoted to
news of films—widely
known as a film review aggregator. Its name
derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other
vegetables at a poor
stage performance. The company is currently
owned by Flixster, itself owned by Warner Bros since May 2011.
Rotten Tomatoes staff first
collect online reviews from authors that are certified members of various
writing guilds or film critic
a critic at the site, a critic’s must to garner a specific amount of “likes”. Top
Critics are generally ones that write for a notable
newspaper. The staff then
determine for each review whether it is positive
(“fresh”, marked by a
small icon of a red tomato) or negative (“rotten”,
marked by a small icon of a green splattered
tomato). At the end of the year one film will receive the “Golden Tomato”,
meaning it is the highest rated film that year.
all of the reviews counted 270 for major, recently
released films) and the percentage of positive
reviews is tabulated. If
the positive reviews make up 60% or more, the film is considered “fresh” in
that a substantial majority of the reviewers approve of the film. If the positive
reviews are less than 60%, then the film is considered “rotten”.
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LoveFilm Provider of rental DVDs
LoveFilm (official typeset
titles, and over 4 million
online viewing is available
based provider of home
five countries. Through
have opted for one of their
LOVEFiLM) is a UK-
video and video game rental through DVD-
by-mail and streaming video on demand
in the UK, Germany
and Scandinavia. It is
currently an Amazon.com
rentals per month across a series of mergers and acquisitions, LoveFilm has, in a few years,
become the leading online
DVD rental outlet in the UK and across Europe.
subsidiary, and operates
The company previously
as well as providing
service alongside postal
the LoveFilm website,
outsourced website and
delivery infrastructure for other British companies. At the end of 2011,
LoveFilm claimed to
have over 1,500,000
members, over 70,000
offered a download
delivery, but this ceased
(at least temporarily) on 23 February 2009. Instead,
the company has started a “watch online� service which offers over 4,700
films available to watch as part of subscription. This
free for subscribers who unlimited monthly rental
plans; there is also some pay-per-view content available to all.