Grand BudaPest Hotel

TASK 1 

What is Indian Paintbrush and who owns it?
Indian paint brush is a company owned by Steven M. Rales and the company gives money to production companies to help fund films (a lot of the films which it funds are Wes Anderson films Which company 

What is Fox Searchlight a subsiduary of?
20th century fox

Which type of films do Fox Searchlight distribute?   

They are all typically independent and british films.
  

Which two countries financed the film?
Britain and germany 

What did Anderson use instead of CGI (computer generated imagery)?

he used stop start Moudling instead of special effects to make everything looking more real

Where did the inspiration for the Hotel come from?
inspired by the writings of Stefan Zweig.

Which film festival opened with The Grand Budapest Hotel?
64 th Berlin film festival international  

Alexanre Desplat wrote the score, which major Hollywood films has he worked on? 

Godzila
Harry potter 

How many awards has the film won?
5

Initially how many cinemas did the film open on in the US?
4

How much did it average per cinema? 
200,000$

The film was released on Ultraviolet BluRay, what does this enable consumers to do?
You can watch it on a series of different platforms, So you can watch it on blu ray players as well as normal dvd players. 

Which two countries financed the

Which companies do not support Ultraviolet?
Walt Disney 
Apple 
Amazon 

What complaints did Ultraviolet encounter when it launched? 
It can not be played on iOS, amazon instant
limited content 
Restriction on use 
Black market 
Confusing process

Task 2 - comprehension

Edward Norton - Henckles 
Owen wilsion - M.Chuck 
Ralph Feinnes - M.gustav H 
Tony Revolori - Zero 
Jeff Goldbloom - deputy kovacs
Tilda Swinton - Madam D
Adrien Bordy - Dimitri 
Saoirse Ronan - Agatha
Jason schwarzman - M jean 
Willem dafoe - jopling 
Harvey Keiitel - Ludwig
Bill murray - M.ivan 
mattieu amalric - serge X
F.Murray Abraham - Mr Moustafa 
Lee Seydoux - clotilde  
Tom wilkison - Author 
Bob Balaban - M.Martin 

Where did scouting for a hotel take place?
Central Europe
Which location did the production team eventually use?
Gorlitz
Did they film on location or on a sound stage?
on location
Where were the production offices located?
Top floor of the hotel 
Top floor of the setHow did they film the 60's and 30's hotel?
They made the 60's sets first and they pealed it away to reveal the 30's set
Where did inspiration for the hotel's interior come from?
He was inspired by what he saw in the library of congress and the european hotels 
it was a inspearation was from european hotelsHow many extras did it take to fill the loby?
150

Task 3 
5 secretes to the films success 

1) selling merchandise on ebay , products such as fake moustaches, wax and bow ties 

2)  Unique Promotions - they toured a large scale model of the hotel to theatres around the world

3) they made videos and recipes so people that had watched the film can bake their own mendls cakes  

4) due to the success of moon rise kingdom younger audiences were attracted to the idea of the grand buda pest hotel 

5)The film is asscesible to audiences