Captain Phillips was released on the 11th October 2013 in 3,020 cinemas in America, it made $25 million on opening week and came in second place behind Gravity. It was then made available in 3123 cinemas after 3 weeks of release and domestically it has taken $101 million, with $76 million takings worldwide. It has a budget of $55 million and was distributed by Sony/Columbia, with a PG 13 rating (12A) as it features swearing and violence. It has received positive reviews from the critics often praising Tom Hanks' performance, the film features a high profile Hollywood actor being Hanks, but generally containing lesser known actors and actresses - the film however does have an acting role from boxer Mohammed Ali. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass who is famous for directing The Bourne franchise, the writer of the film being Billy Ray who has had writing credits for films like Flightplan and internationally known, The Hunger Games. The running time for the film is 2 hours and 14 minutes and is shown in multiplex films as it is a Hollywood blockbuster film.
The short film that our group filmed was a film noir styled sequence which has a non dialogue storyline. Our group worked as a team in order to complete the clip and everyone's ideas were shared and listened too. Each individual took on a role and we worked together for the final outcome in which we were all pleased about. The difficulties we faced were mainly down to the weather as we envisioned for the film to have rain, however we had to deal with a dry and cold day. Another issue we faced was that we had to constantly keep starting and stopping filming as people were constantly walking in shot, therefore we had to film again as we wanted to created an isolated vibe of the main protagonist - being a typical convention of film noir. The film was edited to be in black and white in order to again emphasise the film noir genre but also to show the contrast between black and white. We put a choir style audio over the top of the clip to again emphasise the haunting aspect of the clip but then it eliminates any chance of audio taking away the mysterious aspect of the sequence. We made sure we stuck to the original task criteria therefore we ensured that all the shots required were shot and as it is a film noir sequence, we featured a mysterious male - acting as the detective, But also a female character acting as the femme fatale.
