Moon

The film ‘moon’ is a British science-fiction drama directed by Duncan jones in 2009. The film was produced by Trudie Snyder who also has films like snatch and lock stock and liberty films. Stage 6 films was the studio who was responsible for making the project straight to DVD, which cost less than $10m dollars. Sonny pictures had the right to release the film and proceed with it.

The budget was $5m. He took stages to minimise the cost of the film by keeping cast small by using Sam Rockwell who played Sam Bell and filming in a studio. The film ‘moon’ was produced at shepperton studios, London, England, where it was filmed in 33days. He preferred to use models instead of digital animation. He worked with Bill Pearson and supervised model maker on ‘alien’ to help him design the ‘lunar rover’ and other parts to his film. The base was a full 360-degree set, being 85–90 feet long and approximately 70 feet wide. The robot films were designed to bound overhead rail within the mining base since its mechanical tether was critical to the story’s plot. The visual effects were made by Cinesite, which has sought cut price deals. Jones past experience created special effects within a small budget. Creating the ping pong scene he had Rockwell mime to the sound being played, then using CGI adding the ball. The budget was so tight that Sony refused to send copies to the Oscar panel judges, they wanted to avoid the film being pirated and knew it would cost too much. Kevin Spacey waited until the film was done to add his voice as the character Gerty as he knew they budget of the film.

All sales are handled by the independent sales company for the film moon. Sony worldwide acquisitions group enabled the rights for the English-speaking territories; they consider making the film moon straight to video releases. But the film premiered in 2009 at Sundance film festival in January 2009, Sony pictures classics decided to handle the films release for Sony pictures worldwide acquisitions group. They also distributed the film in cinemas in the United States and began to screen it in selected cinemas in New York and Los Angeles in 12 June. The premier in Britain was held on the 20^th of June 2009 at Cameo cinema in Edinburgh, at the international film festival as part of the 63^rd Edinburgh. Jones was presented at the screening of the film with the main crew members. The UK release was on the 17^th of July and the Australian was released on the 8^th of October. Moon took $1,813,302 in the UK for a total of $9,747,108 at the box office and worldwide came to $4,736,945. Despite of all this jones stated “ The business sides crazy and the film was out in Germany now, Switzerland, and also other smaller territories it has to be released in. it earned $9.5M worldwide do far and it only cost $5m to make but they are still having to pay back the investors of the film. It was the biggest priority to him and the most frustrating part about the apparent success. In film school they don’t tell you that if you make back everything you spent on a film you are still not half way to making a profit.