Film 3: Limitless

Media Research, Film 3: Limitless
GENERAL STATISTICS
Director:
Neil Burger
Film Studio:
Virgin Produced
Box Office Figures:

$161,849,455 - £99,142,016

Budget:
$27 Million Estimated
Distributor(s):
Relativity (US)
Momentum (UK & IRL)
Age Rating:
15- Contains strong bloody violence


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General Statistic Summary

The Director (Neil Burger) does not have the strongest standing filmography to date, of his other films none have reached massive critical acclaim. In terms of the studio chosen for this film, the choice was surpisingly the subsidiary of Virgin known as Virgin Produced, what this strikes me as odd is that up to this point I have seen these titles pick up big name studios like Warner Brothers or Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer. As it stands, it is actuallly a fairly successful film, the ROI for this is incredibly high given the $27 Million budget. Once again we see something of a niche Distributor, Both Relativity and Momentum stand as Independant companies and what this says to me is that the formula for a thriller is simple, a higher budget seems nice but it isnt required.

Intro Sequence

The actual video for this is insanely difficult to retrieve as almost all focus of the film online comes from the fractal zoom sequence in the titles and not the opening that follows. But I can still say what I have learned from it.

The interesting thing about the film is its effects with the camera, mainly as I said before, the fractal zoom. It also uses a wide range of interesting lens effects.

The interesting thing however here is the contrast between the first scenes of the movie, to those after he has taken the pill, Things tend to be much brighter and quicker to really reinforce the idea the idea of change. Sadly this film hasn't taught me much but what I can take from this are some really interesting ideas for title sequences and ideas for interesting camera effects.