Case study

                               WIDOWS 

History/target audience

The director , Steve Mcqueen, and Gillian Flynn created a movie to portray the genre of crime/thriller to the audience of older individuals(R rating). Its biased on a British television series and was released in 2018. This movie is basically was made to bring may different types of people into one mission. 

Production

This film was produced by one of the big six: 20th Century Fox. The audio aspects were done by Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, and Dolby surround 1.7. Some mini  majors that were involved were regency enterprises, see-saw films, film 4 productions.

Distribution

Widows came out in theaters on November 16, 2018 and has been put on multiple streaming services after that. These include paramount plus, amazon video, youtube, vudu, amc on demand, and apple itunes. Also, it is avaliable to rent and purchase at redboxes everywhere.

Marketing

Since this movie was distributed amongst many services and places, they mad w a certain amount of money off of spreading around. However, they came out the advertisement beforehand to give everybody a peak of what the film was gonna be like. So, from DVD sales , they received $2,738,115. From home streaming (from buying and renting only) they received: $5,485,523. In theaters, they made $75,984,700 worldwide.

Cross-media convergence and synergy

When the CDs were sold, the soundtrack got some income from it. This is because it is attached to the movie, so when streaming the movie, it will be played.